Fashion Board 1-08-04 through 02-03-04

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by evenodds
iTunes lists several "celebrity playlists." It's fascinating stuff. Artists -- Wynton Marsalis, Burt Bachrach, Herbie Hancock, rock bands of which I've not heard -- list some of their favorite songs or a special playlist and explain why they picked certain songs.

This is Avril Lavigne's comment about "Ironic":

"I love how this song was written with all of the different examples Alanis uses of things being ironic . . . this song is just really good lyrically."

Makes one proud to be a Canadian. Doubly so. Good old Avril.
Piece of Avril trivia; a Hollywood studio purchased the movie rights to her song "sk8er boi." Rumor is they got it cheap. Hope so.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Piece of Avril trivia; a Hollywood studio purchased the movie rights to her song "sk8er boi." Rumor is they got it cheap. Hope so.

str8, can you use your Canadian/Hollywood contacts to advise Ms. Lavigne that "complicated" does not, in fact, rhyme with "frustrated," notwithstanding the fact that the last four letters match? You'd think they'd know about meter up there, being metric and all.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
str8, can you use your Canadian/Hollywood contacts to advise Ms. Lavigne that "complicated" does not, in fact, rhyme with "frustrated," notwithstanding the fact that the last four letters match? You'd think they'd know about meter up there, being metric and all.

Actually it does rhyme.

"rhyme also rime
n.
Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse.

A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines.
Poetry or verse of this kind.
A word that corresponds with another in terminal sound, as behold and cold. "

But it's still a stupid song.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
So I saw Chris Rock's Black Ambition show last night. Very funny. Not as funny as some of his other stuff, but he had a lot of new material. Bilmore would love his segment on rap music. Good stuff. Check it out when it rolls into your town. (He even had Dougie Fresh and Slick Rick open for him.)

So, here's a poll.

Who is the funniest person (stand up comedian or comedic actor) you've ever watched?

Although, he is no longer very funny (and how does that happen?), I have to go with Eddie Murphy. Richard Pryor was definitely more gifted as a comedian and Eddie Murphy straight up stole a lot of his bits, but I was at the right age for Eddie Murphy's Delirious and it just blew me away. I probably appreciate Pryor more now than I do Eddie, because Richard was never not funny. But, for a few years, Eddie was king. During that time, he dominated SNL, all his movies were funny and his standup was just ridiculous.

If I had to pick someone today, it would be either Chris Rock or Dave Chappelle. Rock belongs on the stage (and not in movies -- please God, make him stop). But Chappelle is the type of funny that makes you want to just hang out with him, spark a blunt and laugh all fucking day. The Niggars bit (white family with the last name, "Niggar") was some funny shit on his last show.*

TM

* Mother of another family to father: "Little Susie is going out with that Niggar boy from school tonight."

Father: Please God No!

Susie: No, daddy. Frankie Niggar from down the block.
________

Maitre'd at nice restaurant: Niggar party of two.

Black couple: Hey man. That's not necessary.

Niggar couple: I think he means us.

Black couple: Oh. I bet you get the best table a Niggar's ever got at this establishment.

1. That Chappelle skit was outrageous; I made my wife watch it, though I'm not sure she was as amused as I was. "I know better than to get between a Niggar and his pork. Get your fingers bit."

2. I suspect Eddie Murphy's transformation from funny to not funny has to do with the accumulation of insane amounts of wealth.

2b. I learned yesterday that the guy who uttered the line "In Philadelphia it's worth $50" is . . . well, let's make it a google-free trivia question. First person to answer correctly gets 10 points.

3. As much as I loathe him, one of Robin Williams' specials where he was on a lot of coke was as funny as anything I've ever seen. As far as live stand-up goes, I'll go with Jay Mohr, but I haven't seen a lot of the greats. I'm seeing Chris Rock next weekend.

[SlaveNoMore]

bold_n_brazen
But it's still a stupid song.

Don't F with Avril.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
So, here's a poll.

Who is the funniest person (stand up comedian or comedic actor) you've ever watched?

TM

Bob Newhart. He started out in the business doing standup in Chicago, and after he got big on tv, he'd do an occasional spot in one of the comedy clubs here in town. A very close second would be Bonnie Hunt when she was in Second City. She's never been as good at anything since, but she used to have me rolling in the aisles.

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
2b. I learned yesterday that the guy who uttered the line "In Philadelphia it's worth $50" is . . . well, let's make it a google-free trivia question. First person to answer correctly gets 10 points.

Str8, please. It's Bo Diddley.

Obviously, like Bo Jackson back in the day, you don't know Diddley...

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Two seemingly unrelated things tied together. So I went to the store the other day looking for cough drops. My favorite, and the only thing that works for me are the ones with dextromethorphan. Went to several drug stores and could not find. Bought Halls or something. So I'm reading the People mag, and there is a story about how the youth of today are abusing dextromethorphan for its hallucinogenic qualities - however, many kids are dying from it. It talks about abusing cough syrup and cold tablets. It's called robotrippin.

Anyone ever hear of this?

The parents of these kids want this DXM (which you can buy over the internet apparently) to be put "behind the counter" or to be made a controlled substance. Cough drops? Really?

How many kids? As many as have died from, say, X?* Seems to me that everything should be made over the counter and children should be placed into giant plastic bubbles until they are 18 years old, at which time they will be allowed to go to college and kill themselves on alcohol binges. WTF.


*all four of them

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys

2b. I learned yesterday that the guy who uttered the line "In Philadelphia it's worth $50" is . . . well, let's make it a google-free trivia question. First person to answer correctly gets 10 points.

Haven't we been over that Bo Diddley knows that watch is so hot it's smokin'?

ETA: Yes, apparently as recently as 6 minutes ago.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Don't F with Avril.

I'm simply floored that you want to. She has nothing to offer.

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
How many kids? As many as have died from, say, X?*

*all four of them

I don't think that ecstasy is really a children's drug. It's kind of expensive. Maybe 16 year olds and up. And there are plenty of people who have all sorts o long-term effects from ecstasy, but aren't dead. It's that kind of drug. So I heard. I think that you will all agree that it's mainly incorrect for a lawyer to be looking for concert tickets these days.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys

2b. I learned yesterday that the guy who uttered the line "In Philadelphia it's worth $50" is . . . well, let's make it a google-free trivia question. First person to answer correctly gets 10 points.

Whoever it was stole the line from "I saw that once in New Orleans; cost me forty bucks." The N'awlins line is so old it may well have been coined by Shakespeare.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by mmm3587
I don't think that ecstasy is really a children's drug. It's kind of expensive. Maybe 16 year olds and up. And there are plenty of people who have all sorts o long-term effects from ecstasy, but aren't dead. It's that kind of drug. So I heard. I think that you will all agree that it's mainly incorrect for a lawyer to be looking for concert tickets these days.

I'd debate you on this, but I don't find any amusement in debating you (after the wonderful "why don't I get a mentor" experience), so suffice it to say you are not mainly correct.

[SlaveNoMore]

ABBAKiss
I'm simply floored that you want to. She has nothing to offer.

She's younger than you, Muffin.

[pony_trekker]

BOSTON — Thousands of New England Patriots fans swarmed into the streets after the team's white-knuckle Super Bowl win, and some turned rowdy, overturning cars and lighting small fires. One person was killed when an SUV backed into a group of revelers.

I know Boston sports fans? Fighting? Getting rowdy? Who'd