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*CAUTION: REALLY LONG POST CAUSE BRODIE GOT OFF ON ANOTHER LIGHT-HEARTED "KINDA LIKE DENNIS MILLER...ON WEED" RANT REVEALING TO YOU LUCKY PEOPLE A FEW OF THE JOYS OF HIS CHILDHOOD. READ AT YOUR OWN PERIL, OR, YOU KNOW...WHATEVER* yay! my keyboard's alive again. by that i mean the plug was somehow pulled fom the tower, and i had to fix it. i know, real hard job. on the subject of keyboards, i was able to and did use an Imac at the home of our quasi compatriot, Lei two, shit, no three is that right i'll just say two, nights ago. while i'll admit it was no windows beast, i found myself pulled in by the simplicity and charm of that machine. I know know that it's a machine for people with two left feet where there hands should be, as evidenced on the commercials, but for a moment, just one fleeting moment...it had a hold on me, and i was tempted to one day purchase such a thing. then i realized that mac-users have a pension for ganga and unwashedness, and decided that the hippie life was not for me. the commercials. god, who cant fucking understand windows? there are windows. you open them. maybe then there will by more windows. you can open them too, if you choose. anyway, the thing that pulled me back from my apple trip was the keyboard. it sucked. while i made only slighly more errors than i do on my own machine, they were a BITCH to correct. PC keyboards are nice enough to contain both a delete, and a backspace. The I-mac, however, only deletes in one direction, and never the one that i want. to delete the stuff that i wanted you first have to go down to the directional arrows put where the right hand crtl/shft keys would be, which when you push them dont even give you the satisfaction of going down, and then the delete key will delete in that direction, wasting just about enough time for you to completely forget what it was you were typing in the first place. Yeah, the keyboard sucks, as Ru stated about three times while i was TRYING to talk to her on IM. awwww, my wonderful backspace. *kisskisskiss*. anyway, i was planning on writing two sentences about keyboards and macs, but as usual i have gotten off on a rant. i tend to do that. anyway *wonderfulbackspace*, not to in any way diminish the reported triumphantness of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", but i am wondering if Benja was aware that the most smart allecy prankster(reportedly) greek inlaw was played by non other than tough-guy pop diety Joey Fatone, of that ever hated group N*sync. just thought i'd throw that out there, as wel as to ask if Pantsjamon has ever seen The Lion King. but who hasn't, i guess. The key to disney is that they hook the kids in the 5-12 demographic, before they become all jaded and shit and immediately hate everything like we do. I personally love all disney movies up to and including mulan, except maybe Hercules which i didn't see in theaters, and i'm not sure when tarzan came out but i'm pretty sure i was already a moody teen and thus blew it off. I have watched ten consecutive minutes of the Tarzan tv show, cartoon, but it's one of those shows where the bad guy is the most interesting and cool character, then the wooden post of a 'hero' wins at the end for some reason. But The Lion King man...greatness. Same with Aladdin(kick-ass tv show), pochahontis, beauty and the beast, the little mermaid, and a whole shitload of movies i have forgotten but are no less cool. If anything the newer Disneys movies have not been so great(Not saying that Lilo and Stitch isn't a great movie, just that it PROBABLY isn't great in the tradishional "kiddy-fun ultra-sappy musical" disney sense). You know what, Fuck the Lion King. It may have been the highest grossing disney movie of all time, but Aladdin could kick it's ass up and down the street. It had better action, better songs, and a really great cast, plus a more inspirational and entertaining plot. As for cast, Robin Williams as the delectable genie, and Kirk Camron (for those that dont remember/know/care, Kirk Camron played Mike on the most enjoyable show "Growing Pains", that my family used to watch way back when, and the only thing i remembered was the title and intro until it got syndicated on The DIsney Channel and i began to watch it daily. Much fun,that wacky Mike, great show.) And just the stuff that made up Aladdin was wonderful. Guards in turbans who's sash-belts were prone to severing when a troublesome mokey cuts them with their own sword, exposing none too authentic pink poka-dot boxers. Genies who get all huffy sometimes, but are so blue and jolly that you cant help but laugh. Talking parrots for godsake, who couldn't love a wisecracking motormouth parrot voiced by gilbert godfreid? And then there's beautiful princesses, and common boys who miraculously become princes in order to bang said smokin' princess, only to have this taken away in the end in order for their inner princeliness to shine through, thus enabling them to legitimately bang said hottie. and who could forget the scheming sorcerer, who tried to become more and more powerful till in the end Aladdin reminds him that nomatter how powerful he gets the Genie is always stronger, thus tricking him into wishing himself to be a Genie, realizing too late that Genie's power is not unlimited because he's a servant tied to a lamp so he's then defeated by being sucked screaming into a lamp to be flicked out far into the desert by the Genie never to be seen again or at least until they decide that they need to make a sequel. *breath*. All that great stuff, which spawned a wonderful TV show which i spent many an afternoon enjoying. I wonder if disney makes a boxed video set of all the episodes. assuming that they dont, i wonder if they would consider doing so if i threatened them at knife-point. anyway, I guess the moral is, the best way to remember movies is through the eyes of a 5-12 year old. Captain Ron may not have been a great movie, but it'll always have a place in my heart because i saw it back when they could show the woman's tits in the shower from an above shot for a good three seconds and me not knowing that i was supposed to care. Benja does not really love these movies reportedly, but my advice is to get a d-aging machine, go back about ten years then watch them all. if anything you'll at least come out with some really catchy songs stuck in your head. maybe i'm obsessive. fuck da police.