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I wonder if I’ve ever used ‘Pants’ for a title before…
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Well, anyhow.
Nothing much to say here; I guess today is Ivan’s birthday, although I wasn’t quite sure if I just dreamed that this morning or if I could just hear him and Lance and that other guy talking about it in my room while I was asleep.
Watched School of Rock last night at Dusty and Aaron’s, it was most excellent. After that, Dusty showed Urn and Bretterson how to sound like a master blues guitarist in thirty seconds, which was absolutely hillarious. Dusty was wearing his (normally cool) cargo sweatpants and this horrendous yellow t-shirt with its sleeves ripped off, and it reminded me of that bit from Family Guy, where, after discovering how to play the banjo, Stewie exclaims, “I feel so delightfully white trash! Mommy, I want a mullet!”
Also, oddly enough, I watched a segment about the Trapper Keeper on that omnipresent televized junk-food-equivalent I Love the ’80s Strikes Back. The celebrity in the primary interview clip for the segment went on about the trapper keeper specifically and keeping track of papers in general, mentioning how in the first few weeks of school, one would be all enthused about keeping everything organized and folderized and collated and such, but by the time one reached into one’s backpack and “pulled out that crumpled worksheet on the War of 1812, it was like ‘Well, there’s always next year to be organized.’”
That’s a fairly accurate description of me in, say, every grade I did worksheets. And who, you may or may not be asking, was this celebrity interviewee?
John Mayer.
Nothing much to say here; I guess today is Ivan’s birthday, although I wasn’t quite sure if I just dreamed that this morning or if I could just hear him and Lance and that other guy talking about it in my room while I was asleep.
Watched School of Rock last night at Dusty and Aaron’s, it was most excellent. After that, Dusty showed Urn and Bretterson how to sound like a master blues guitarist in thirty seconds, which was absolutely hillarious. Dusty was wearing his (normally cool) cargo sweatpants and this horrendous yellow t-shirt with its sleeves ripped off, and it reminded me of that bit from Family Guy, where, after discovering how to play the banjo, Stewie exclaims, “I feel so delightfully white trash! Mommy, I want a mullet!”
Also, oddly enough, I watched a segment about the Trapper Keeper on that omnipresent televized junk-food-equivalent I Love the ’80s Strikes Back. The celebrity in the primary interview clip for the segment went on about the trapper keeper specifically and keeping track of papers in general, mentioning how in the first few weeks of school, one would be all enthused about keeping everything organized and folderized and collated and such, but by the time one reached into one’s backpack and “pulled out that crumpled worksheet on the War of 1812, it was like ‘Well, there’s always next year to be organized.’”
That’s a fairly accurate description of me in, say, every grade I did worksheets. And who, you may or may not be asking, was this celebrity interviewee?
John Mayer.
12 Comments
EST 07:39:35 0403.4 (Thu)
No, Ben, the quote is: “I got blista’s on me finga’s!”. Elliott says so, and so do I. And yes, he is here right next to me. So, effectively, we can quote just about the whole of Family Guy. BAM.
EST 16:35:09 0403.4 (Thu)
No, this is immediately after the old man shows him how a banjo is played. “I’VE GOT BLISTERS ON ME FINGERS” is an homage to what John Lennon says at the end of a song on the White Album. Eat that.
EST 10:43:56 0403.5 (Fri)
I don’t remember him saying anything after “I’ve got blista’s on me finga’s… but, ok.
EST 12:05:01 0403.5 (Fri)
Violence begets violence. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Let the slaughter cease; spare the lamb’s blood from the Earth, for she has seen enough tears already.
(Yeah, the last bit was mine to tie into the fact that two Lambs are duking it out. Whatever.)
EST 12:15:35 0403.5 (Fri)
MTA, vide (yes, vide) Revolution 1 on White Album… at the very end
EST 15:59:18 0403.5 (Fri)
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The quotation is listed here. It happens immediately after the man-in-cardboard-box ATM scene; an old man sitting on the front porch of the General STore instructs Stewie in the playing of a banjo. THIS IS NOT the scene where Stewie plays the banjo with a band on the front porch of the General Store, which ends with Stewie saying the John Lennon phrase.
On another note, I find it interesting that Nazz brings up that “‘an eye for an eye’ makes the world blind” axiom, since I thoroughly despise it (I’m not critiquing him, or even his use thereof, but the thing itself). Nobody of any historical import has ever been credited with it, it’s flagrantly Captain-Planet-style multicutural, and is completely incorrect in its understanding of the concept of Lex Talonis which doesn’t make ‘the world’ blind. The point of the use of Lex Talonis in the Ancient Near East was to mitigate incessant vengance-killing, not to be cruel and harsh.
EST 08:51:44 0403.7 (Sun)
IIRC I think Gandhi said it…
EST 17:20:40 0403.7 (Sun)
I never did like Gandhi too much…
EST 15:40:34 0403.8 (Mon)
Yeah, those guys who liberate entire nations from the oppressive rule of empirical tyranny really chap my ass.
EST 17:41:07 0403.8 (Mon)
“Yeah, those guys who liberate entire nations from the oppressive rule of empirical tyranny really chap my ass.”
Hehe, you said empirical, but I’ll assume you meant imperial…
So, you mean like this guy? Or perhaps this one? Maybe you meant him. Yeah I’m not too fond of them either.
EST 17:42:05 0403.8 (Mon)
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EST 20:49:22 0403.9 (Tue)
Gandhi didn’t free India from Britain. He just happened to precipitate something that was already in the air. Anyhow, I’m not saying he was a terrible, terrible person, but I don’t really think he was particularly spectacular, or anything. MLK did a lot better job of nonviolent protestation in my mind.
Also, there will be no mention of the misdeeds of Our Friend Fidel on this website! DA COMRADE