Friday, July 17, 2009

"Philosophy of Farful"

In order to live a happy and meaningful life, one must distinguish between what is chicken soup for the soul, and what is chicken soup for the bowl. They're both nourishing in their own way, and they both, conceivably, could fit into a bowl. But only one belongs in a bowl.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

"Janitor 7: Let's Rock!"

Movie begins with a majestic shot of of the janitor on the beach looking out upon the ocean. Then he leaves his fighting-bad-guys days behind; he just can't do it anymore: "I've seen too much blood that isn't mine," he says. From there, he starts a hardcore punk band called Street Knife and they eventually go nowhere and fizzle out -- and it's at this point that we find out that the whole forming-a-band thing was just a ploy to infiltrate the punk rock underground. Why? you ask. Becuz the head crime lord of the underground punk scene is the illegitimate son of the head drug dealer from Janitor 1, and the guy also made some disparaging remarks about his commanding officer slash mentor, whom he saved in Janitor 2. And he left the military becuz this guy he's trying to take down is a real bastard, and he's not playing by anyone's rules but his own. The film's really an example of how, when you run out of new ideas, you can combine some of your old ones and come up with something that sucks.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

"Something To Think About"

Lee Iacocca, former president of Ford Motor Company and former president, CEO, and chairman of the Chrysler Corporation, once wrote in his song “The Best That Money Can’t Buy,” off his 1994 rap record, “Uncle Lee Gets Ill”:

I made a lot a money sellin’ cars/
Jumped behind the wheel and it took me very far/
But success isn’t measured in dollar billz/
Although sometimes it is, so I still got the skillz.