While I’m not going to reveal what my first podcast will feature as far as segments are concerned right now, I was doing some research for it this morning and decided to jot some things related to my findings here.
I was searching to see if I could find a specific sound bite online of a quote from one of my favorite movies of all time, The Warriors. It was a 1979 gang movie that I have probably watched 40 times. Suffice it to say that I just love it and can’t really tell you why.
Well I guess I can say one reason why is because I have this thing for quoting odd movie quotes at strange times.
For example, one of my favorites is from Sixteen Candles with Molly Ringwald where Gedde Wantanabe, Asian comedy master, says, “No more yanky my wanky, the Donger need food!”
If you are ever standing in a food line with me where there is some sort of long wait, you will hear me say that.
If you are ever standing in a food line with me where there is some sort of long wait, you will hear me say that.
Here are some great quotes from The Warriors, some of which you will also hear me quote in certain appropriate circumstances. I'll leave it up to you to figure out which of these I might use, and when I would use them.
One of these characters,Ajax
Luther is David Patrick Kelly who has been in all sorts of movies and TV shows as a bad guy. He might be one of the best villains of all time.
Pick up the movie someday though. It has some great fight scenes and some real cheesy lines, some of which follow.
One of these characters,
Luther is David Patrick Kelly who has been in all sorts of movies and TV shows as a bad guy. He might be one of the best villains of all time.
Pick up the movie someday though. It has some great fight scenes and some real cheesy lines, some of which follow.
Ajax: [to Swan] Since when are you a fuckin' diplomat?
Cowboy: [winded, running from the Baseball Furies] I can't make it.
Ajax: Are you sure?
Cowboy: Yes, I'm sure...
Ajax: Well, good! I'm sick of runnin' from these wimps!
Ajax: Are you sure?
Cowboy: Yes, I'm sure...
Ajax: Well, good! I'm sick of runnin' from these wimps!
Swan: Did you see him get busted?
Cochise: I seen him, then he wasn't there no more... I was haulin ass!
Cochise: I seen him, then he wasn't there no more... I was haulin ass!
Ajax: Maybe you're all just goin' faggot.
Luther: Warriors, come out to play-i-ay.
Ajax: I'll shove that bat up your ass and turn you into a popsicle.
Swan: Why'd you do it? Why'd you waste Cyrus?
Luther: No reason. I just... like doing things like that!
Luther: No reason. I just... like doing things like that!
[the Warriors finally return to Coney Island at daybreak]
Swan: This is what we fought all night to get back to?
Swan: This is what we fought all night to get back to?
Swan: You recognize them?
Fox: Orphans. So far down they're not even on the map. Real low class.
Swan: Numbers?
Fox: Full strength: maybe 30?
Vermin: Thirty. A lot more than eight.
Ajax: Not if they're wimps!... and I'm sick of this running crap.
Fox: Orphans. So far down they're not even on the map. Real low class.
Swan: Numbers?
Fox: Full strength: maybe 30?
Vermin: Thirty. A lot more than eight.
Ajax: Not if they're wimps!... and I'm sick of this running crap.
Cochise: When you're president of the biggest gang in the city, you don't have to take any shit.
Ajax: Ah, fuck him!
Ajax: Ah, fuck him!
[as they all observe the subway station]
Ajax: Come on, what kind of chickenshit crap is this.
Cochise: Yeah, come on? We're here, what are we waiting for?
Fox: The train would help! Unless you wanna go up there and get jacked on an open platform.
Cochese: Bullshit man, there ain't nobody in the street.
Ajax: He's right! We're acting like faggots!
Ajax: Come on, what kind of chickenshit crap is this.
Cochise: Yeah, come on? We're here, what are we waiting for?
Fox: The train would help! Unless you wanna go up there and get jacked on an open platform.
Cochese: Bullshit man, there ain't nobody in the street.
Ajax: He's right! We're acting like faggots!
Snow: It's the Turnbull A.C.'s.
Cowboy: Think they forgot about the truce?
Vermin: No shit!
Ajax: Those lousy skinhead fucks!
Cowboy: Think they forgot about the truce?
Vermin: No shit!
Ajax: Those lousy skinhead fucks!
Cyrus: Can you count, suckahs?
Rembrandt: Shit! The chicks are packed! The chicks are packed!
Fox: We're not going to change who we are just because some whore shakes her ass.
Ajax: Well, right about now, Cleon's most likely got a nightstick shoved halfway up his ass!
Great lines, aren’t they? No need to give me any credit when you decide to bust out one of these classics later on today.
Wow, this blog is really mutating now isn’t it?
I forgot to mention something about American Idol the other day. Paul McDonald, on the surface a fan favorite, iand someone who I don’t believe should have made the finals on this show.
Well, he is a fan favorite at www.votefortheworst.com as I also mentioned.
But what I wanted to say the other day was that even his performance was decent that evening. He played his guitar when he sang his song (whichever song that was) and sounded decent. What is awful about Paul is the way that he “dances” around the stage.
With the guitar in his hands he couldn’t really get those mitts swingin around like he was churning butter but his feet so wanted to come out from underneath him and do that spastic swagger that I thought he might break a leg out there.
I forgot to mention something about American Idol the other day. Paul McDonald, on the surface a fan favorite, iand someone who I don’t believe should have made the finals on this show.
Well, he is a fan favorite at www.votefortheworst.com as I also mentioned.
But what I wanted to say the other day was that even his performance was decent that evening. He played his guitar when he sang his song (whichever song that was) and sounded decent. What is awful about Paul is the way that he “dances” around the stage.
With the guitar in his hands he couldn’t really get those mitts swingin around like he was churning butter but his feet so wanted to come out from underneath him and do that spastic swagger that I thought he might break a leg out there.
Which would have made for one of the most classic cases of irony in show business history since entertainers wish for each other to “break a leg” as a superstitious good-luck wish prior to heading out on stage.
Ok, I have to get some baseball in here since Opening Day is slowly approaching. I guess it’s quickly approaching if you’re someone who believes that time flies, but for baseball fans these days move like molasses.
We can tell that the season is close because there was a spring training bench-clearer in a Dodgers-Padres game yesterday. A couple of bean balls had been tossed back and forth but what set off the Dodgers was Padre’s catcher Nick Hundley taunting the Dodgers after throwing out Rafael Furcal trying to steal second base off him.
Ex-Met Rod Barajas took exception to the taunting and quoted himself as saying, “Get back in the dugout. There's no reason to gesture to us.”
This quote sounds a little fishy to me. I’m just going to take a leap here and suggest that Rod may have left something out of what he said to the Padre. He went on to say that he didn’t hold a grudge against Hundley when asked if this would carry out into the season. That was disappointing. I would rather have heard that he said, “Next time he steps up to hit, we are going to hit him in his balls.”
One of my baseball heroes, LA manager Don Mattingly, did have a great quote after the rumble which didn’t lead to any significant injury or punch and was therefore boring. Mattingly said of the brew-ha-ha, "I don't mind our boys stepping up. I don't mind the spirit."
And I certainly don’t mind that attitude either, my hero. I’d love to see baseball be a little more like hockey sometimes. Full-contact baseball for me!
The Padres and Dodgers meet in the regular season early in an April 8-10 series inSan Diego
We can tell that the season is close because there was a spring training bench-clearer in a Dodgers-Padres game yesterday. A couple of bean balls had been tossed back and forth but what set off the Dodgers was Padre’s catcher Nick Hundley taunting the Dodgers after throwing out Rafael Furcal trying to steal second base off him.
Ex-Met Rod Barajas took exception to the taunting and quoted himself as saying, “Get back in the dugout. There's no reason to gesture to us.”
This quote sounds a little fishy to me. I’m just going to take a leap here and suggest that Rod may have left something out of what he said to the Padre. He went on to say that he didn’t hold a grudge against Hundley when asked if this would carry out into the season. That was disappointing. I would rather have heard that he said, “Next time he steps up to hit, we are going to hit him in his balls.”
One of my baseball heroes, LA manager Don Mattingly, did have a great quote after the rumble which didn’t lead to any significant injury or punch and was therefore boring. Mattingly said of the brew-ha-ha, "I don't mind our boys stepping up. I don't mind the spirit."
And I certainly don’t mind that attitude either, my hero. I’d love to see baseball be a little more like hockey sometimes. Full-contact baseball for me!
The Padres and Dodgers meet in the regular season early in an April 8-10 series in
Done.
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