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rman was Hilarious!!
seriously, i thought it'd be just another ha-ha funny type of film where i laugh during a couple scenes, get ill from eating too much popcorn and m&m's simultaneously (i love that sweet and salty combo, mmm boy) and don't watch twice. usually most SNL alumni try and fail when they make the move from primetime into film these days, (still haven't seen Old School) but this i highly recommend seeing! besides the fact that Will Ferrell was in it and he doesn't ever have to much as it is but just stand around and look funny, the soundtrack was great! if you like the cheesy tunes of the '70's, that is, (as i do) and those polyester '70's films (Smokey & The Bandit, etc).
there was one part with Brick Tamland, who was by far the funniest character of all, that i won't quote so as not to be a spoiler, that jan and i literally burst out laughing and began crying at. and we couldn't stop! we'd stop laughing, then one of us would think about it again and begin giggling and shaking, which would cause both of us back to laughing all over again. and when January gets to laughing really hard she's got this insanely funny sounding laugh, so just hearing that alone makes me start to giggle as it is. ten minutes later we were still laughing about it!! we had tears pouring down our cheeks, man!
Will had all these super funny characteristic quips he'd pull out whenever he'd exclaim something ("Great grandfathers corncob pipe!" "Hot pot of coffee!") and it was chock full of obscure '70's references, even one that i caught as a reference to Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here album cover, unless it was just me? Ben Stiller had a great cameo as a mexican anchorman from a rival newsteam, ayayay! and even Tim Robbins had one as a beatnik with the most ridiculous 70's hair i've ever seen. and also Jack Black, whom i love, as an angry motorcycler with one of the funniest scenes ever. (stay in the theater during the end credits for the bloopers, he's got a good one!) and tons of good quotes ala Goldmember style. just totally random nonsense, which i love.
a sweet example of dialogue:
Ron Burgundy: Boy, that escalated quickly... I mean, that really got out of hand fast!
Champ Kind: It jumped up a notch!
Ron Burgundy: It did, didn't it?
Brick Tamland: Yeah, I stabbed a man in the heart!
Ron Burgundy: I saw that! Brick killed a guy! Did you throw a trident?
Brick Tamland: Yeah, there were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a trident!
Ron Burgundy: Brick, I've been meaning to talk to you about that. You should find yourself a safehouse or a relative close by. Lay low for a while, because you're probably wanted for murder.
go see it!
in other news. Prince was FANTASTIC! whoa. let me tell y'all a little something. he is a very funky man! >:O don't you forget that!
definitely a concert i would recommend to anyone, regardles of musical taste. it was just one of those concerts i'm glad i got to see once in this lifetime. the Hartford Civic Center is a kick ass venue, and i hadn't been there since i saw Poison in 7th grade (yes, Poison. got a problem with that!?) - what was great about it is that the stage is in the center of the arena with a sort of crosswalk all through the middle and sides, so he could prance around and sing and dance to all sides of the audience. no craning your neck to the right the entire time like in some of those venues where the stage is on one side of the place. and we had floor seats, though they were the next to last row, the place was so open and the floor spacing so roomy that the stage was still literally about 20 feet in front of us, i couldn't believe how close we were!
we were wondering just how Prince was going to actually get onstage seeing as the stage itself was just sorta floating there in the middle of the floor and not connected to any backstage area. i kept thinking there was a secret passageway underneath that he would pop up from, like a magical tiny elven Harry Potter, except, the funkier version, but no! everyone kept looking back at a floor exit that was right behind us and being guarded with cops and security, and one guy told us Prince would be coming out of there. and he did! his band members started filing out one by one, so close if we wanted to we could have just reached out and touched them, and these two guys came rushing out carrying what looked like a large black box, the kind that would hold stage and instrument equipment.
"rhahahah i think HE'S IN THAT BOX!@$#" i whispered to kelly while pinching her arm.
"no way dude. he's in there? but it's so small!....RHSAHAH WAIT I THINK HE IS!!" she said.
(yes, they carried him out concealed in a large black box. haha!)
and lo and behold suddenly he was onstage in the middle of a puff of smoke wearing a toight little outfit and strumming a purple guitar! *schmelts* he was right there! shaking his little behind on stage and dancing like the devil got into him. at one point he changed his outfit for the 4th time and wore huge white boots with heels higher than any woman's in the crowd and diamonds going up the back of them. hahah they were just so. damn. funky! and his microphone was shaped just like a gun! it looked just like one of those black semiautomatic Magnum type of deals. with his finger on the trigger to hold it and the mic hidden somewhere inside so he'd sing into the barrel of it. how damn cool is that!? (of course Kelly, who fully exercises her Second Amendment rights, noticed that immediately and turned to me and said, "I wonder if he's a Republican?" hahahahahhahaahaahahaha, i just thought the thing looked neat, it's a different idea, never seen that before!)
i of course could not deny the groove that soul and funk music gets into me and shook it like a polaroid picture the entire night. Little Red Corvette and Cream on acoustic - so good! and one of my favorites, Take Me With U. He picked this one very voluptuous black soulsy type of momma to come dance with him on stage and she was groovin her ass off having the time of her life! i loooove seeing that type of stuff! i got so excited for her i screamed out, "YOU GO GIRL!@#!" and it got me dancing even more! *fingersnapper*
He launched into a rendition of Parliaments "Give Up The Funk" and another of Soul Man. While Prince went back to primp and change costumes a jazzy old sax player guy did a nice melty version of "It's a wonderful world" and yes, he had two hott ass chicks playing bass and sax! i went to get beer and Prince was right there in front of me onstage, it was so surreal! and he was so tiny!
AND the craziest part was when he suddenly burst out a very familiar and well known guitar riff - Whole Lotta Love!! of course Prince already has this very sexual persona about him, as did Robert Plant back in the day, him with his onstage gyrations and obscure little lyrics (i mean, come on. "Shake for me, girl, I wanna be your backdoor man..."? hahah...if that's not metaphore for giving it in the ass, then i don't know what is. and if it is, then that's a hot as hell way to put it. the wording, i mean. well, getting it done that way isn't too bad either. i mean. i have no idea what i'm talking about. *cries* ) and he passionately began screaming out the lyrics so well that even Robert himself must have been doing a chair dance from...wherever he is these days. kelly and i, being the oldies music lovers that we are, went nuts and started clapping and wolf whistling. He moved from that into a bunch of psychedelic guitar licks a la Dazed and Confused style (you know, that one part towards the end of the song, before it gets all crazy with that drum solo? yeah.) Kelly said, "please tell me he's about to do some Hendrix on top of it!#!$" because it was almost Jimi style when he laid his guitar on the floor of the stage and put a white sheet over it, made some swirly funkadelic motions with his hands, and disappeared. not to play any Jimi Hendrix, but to go pick 20 whores out of the audience to dance onstage!!@#!
they were all so cute though doing their little dances all around the stage, except he tried handing the mic to one of them to sing during Kiss and she shook her head and mouthed to him "i don't know it!!" oh Prince, you should have picked me! i know the lyrics! and i am a backup dancer deep down inside! and baby i can shake my ass! >:O
"This ain't no MTV," he purred at one point with such attitude that i thought he was going to start fingersnapping on the spot,"this is real music, with real musicians. give it up, people, come on and just give it up to the funk," and the crowd went wild. i was like, "yeah!# i'll give it up!! yeah!! i'll be your backdoor woman!! you just let me know and i'll shake it for you anytime! i'll do a backbend for you the likes of which you've never seen before! yeah! i mean. no! wait! don't take that seriously or anything!!"
the whole thing was just so out of this world. the encore, of course, was Purple Rain. ("do you need an extra lighter for when they play Purple Rain at the end?" joked Artie to Kelly and i before we left, hahah) At the "ooooo ooo oo oo! wooo ooo ooo" part at the end of the song, the crowd was singing so loudly along with it - even i was like, "whoa! that's one big collective chorus we've got here!" - he stopped and said all cute and shyly, "i heard y'all singin'...let's do it again!" and repeated it. twice! then he said, "one more time. pleeeease?" and he proceeded to close his eyes and jam in sweaty orgasmic ecstasy on his guitar while we all screamed. thanks to prince, i no longer have a voice right now! and i paid kelly back for the ticket in ways by spending an obscene amount of money on beer that i don't want to talk about right now.
to wait out the awful Hartford traffic we stopped at the nearest bar, some Irish pub with a band playing celtic fusion. we wanted to go into the hip hop club across the street to dance since they sounded like they were playing the most awesome oldschool stuff, but apparently it was super popular since the line was down the street. but the celtic band was actually pretty good - the keyboard player was a cute little girl, and man was she tearing it up! and the way she was jammin on that big ole keyboard reminded me of Cindee. the music itself was different of course, a mix of celtic and jazz, but it was very soulsy, funnily enough, and this dude was rocking a set of bagpipes, no less. hahah... i dont think i have ever seen bagpipes live and in mah face before! i think i went deaf at one point though, my hearing is, how you say? not so good in my right ear, and the speaker was right there and i had to move because it was blaring something awful in it. at the concert, they had dropped purple ribbon and confetti from the ceiling, so kelly and i had this shiny purple ribbon tied all around our necks like crazy scarves, and these guys yelled, "Prince sucks!!" as we walked in, and we just laughed at them. one guy that was wearing a Trogdor (!) t shirt with the Burninator on it even came up to me outside and said, "can i PLEASE have a piece of your purple ribbon!!!!!" and i said, "yes! i'll give you a piece just because you're wearing a t shirt that has Trodgor on it!!" and he said, "omg she knows who trogdor is!! thank you! i'll love you forever!! well, for the next 20 seconds, at least...bye!" hahahah.
i just told frankie that the Prince concert was awesome. and he goes, "my concert was pretty good, too" and i say, "what concert?" and he says, "this one" and farted near me! >:O now that's just crazy talk, man. leave it to brothers, i tell you.
hmm. the end! (for now)