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Current mood:disconnected Category: Sports
While the parade of corn-fed, whip-raised, beer drinking fat men and their husky voiced women in oversized jerseys goes by outside.... I am neatly tucked away - curled up on my couch with Lola, under an antique 10-point elk head listening to Tommy Dorsey's (swinging) Hawaiian War Chant on the record player while watching Charles Bronson in the original Death Wish on AMC.
I don't know if I'm supposed to care about the Super Bowl just by default, but the idea of getting excited about a bunch of guys who don't (and couldn't) give a shit about you, throw around a pigskin and wrestle each other for fame and a fucking ugly ring doesn't get me all riled up. I'm sorry if it's your team playing today, or if you are a huge sports fanatic (this is my blog, so again - fuck the Super Bowl).
Remember what Sonny told a young and impressionable Calogero in Deniro's A Bronx Tale about what Yankee great Mickey Mantle thought about C's old man driving a bus?
*cue screenplay*Mickey Mantle? That's what you're upset about? Mantle makes $________ a year. How much does your father make? - I don't know. - You don't know? If your dad needs money, go ask Mickey Mantle. See what happens. Mickey Mantle don't care about you. Why care about him? Nobody cares. ---------------------
Meanwhile you're asking: "and Charles Bronson and his antique mustache shooting off his gun (forgive me I've forgotten her name) in the name of judge, jury, and executioner does get your blood pumping?"
Me: Why yes, he does. In fact it tickles me pink that in the third Death Wish movie, the gangsters were running amock all over the city before Bronson got his gat mailed to him in a wooden box - some of the "gangsters" using plungers as their weapon of choice... can you pick them out in the crowd?
So in closing, The Superbowl can blow me... I could go on about the bullshit phenomena that is the parallel between the world of "professional" sports these days and what has become of hip-hop and fake rap "stars" as of late, but no thanks.
Ps - this tripped me out: www.myspace.com/deathwishseries (added/favorited)
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