A Couple Things X

--- first off. As some of you may have already noticed, my mother posted three random blog comments this past Friday. One telling me I drank too much. Another calling me "my lively one" and ending it with, "Miss your smile". And another one -- my personal favorite -- where she expressed some amazement about the amount of blogs I posted recently. Only, she didn't express her amazement with something like, "Woa" or "Wow" or "Geesh"...she used a Linda Joyce Thomas special, "Shuuuwee man!" Moms is priceless, I can't stress that enough. One day I'll introduce you to her in a novel-blog.

--- Did anyone see this "straight to DVD" Carlito's Way prequel with Puff in it? Why? Why do a Carlito's way prequel, like 88 years after the first one came out. And what is Puff doin in it? And how embarrassed must Puff be that it didn't even get released in theaters? I mean, it has to be really bad if it's a prequel to a well known film, with a big star like Puff in it...and it STILL cant get into a couple theaters. But that's what yopu get when you subtract Pacino and De Palma and insert Jay Hernandez as a yopung Carlito and replace De Palma with Michael Scott Bregman...I don't care if he was the producer of the first Carlito -- he's no DePalma. His last movie was a blockbuster though. We all remember the Adventures of Pluto Nash don't we? I can just remember watchin that movie when I had a the lil dudes in my congregation over my crib for a sleepover (no MJ jokes) and me and my mna Big Mike tried to rent some wack kids movie's for them. So we kopped Pluto Nash, which even they hated, Ice Age, which was a hit, and it was my duty to pass Willow onto a new generation...they clowned me at first, but were hooked by the Megosh got shot in the calf by bow-n-arrow wielding Brownie.

Back-on-track, I'm checkin for the Carlito prequel, because I'm sure it'll be so bad that it's good. And I'd never miss a chance to watch Luis Guzman in action. He played Pachanga in the first Carlito...but in this prequel his character's name is...get this...Nacho Reyes. What?! Yes!

--- I went grocery shopping yesterday and spent a little less than $100. Crazy. But after I recognized that I easily spend $100 on eating out in about a week and I had just brought breakfast, lunch and dinner to last me close to two weeks; I also remembered that I'd routinely spend this much on myself back when I used to live alone. Grocery shopping for one, is quite expensive, since you're never really to get any true value for anything...value directly correlates with quantity, usually, when it comes to grocery shopping.

But I did get some good healthy food. Brough fresh fruit for the first time in a long while. and the fresh fruit down here is the bi-domb. I made a tropical fruit salad with kiwi, mago, papya and plaintain. Made a greek summer salad with brocoli, colliflower, tomatoe, shallot, gorgonzola (instead of feta), olives and some chicken I threw on the grill. Yes, the grill is in full-effect like 1988 hiphop. And I was out in my back yard in some some tight shorts, and extra small T-shirt and flip flops and a doo-rag, grilling my meat and sippin on some vodka. If it weren't Football Sunday, I'd have had on some tunes too...don't know if I'd have hiphopped my neighbors to death, so I'd have thrown on some neutral but still nasty enough for grilling-music, like some Cannonball Black Messiah or somethin.

--- You all may remember that ghetto black broad at the Orlando Hollywood Video that was always clownin my movie selections. The one that I said, "probably stood in front of her mirror butt naked and did the butterfly". Well I have a new movie-rental bane. She works at the Spring hill Blockbuster on Mariner Blvd.

I went in there this past Saturday to catch up on some films I missed during my too-broke-for-even-a-matinee days in DC a couple months ago. So I kopped Spanglish (I can't believe Tea Leoni wasn't an Oscar nominee last year. I guarantee you that if Annette Benning, Paltrow or any other darling played that role as wild, off-the-wall and dead-on as Leoni, they'd have been nominated. No one was gonna beat Swank's Million Dollar performance, but Leoni got the stiff shaft, she was just straight up entertaining and interesting)...and I kopped the Bill Murray/Wes Anderson joint, Life Aquatic.

So the young know-it-all white girl looks at me and says,

"Oh no. You won't like that. It's not what you think it is." What?! You know what I think it is? She obviously thought I was expecting it to be What About Bob or Stripes.

I said, "Why not. I love Wes Anderson films."

"Wes Anderson? Who is that?"

My point exactly you little Florida suburb hick. no your role. I mean granted, I was unshaven, dressed like I couldnt even get a gig pumping gas and I also asked her if she had "Cop and a Half" on DVD...but still, don't judge me baby. Leave that stuff up to me.

Anyways, I went on to tell her that I'm picking up this movie more for Anderson than I was Murray, since I loved Tennebaums and Rushmore. She understood. I'ma eff her head up when I come back and rent Notebook. ha.

--- Music Dude on Lil Brother comin soon. Maybe tonight. So hold tight Vino an aybody else. You'll know what to think soon.

--- Speakin of Lil Bro, they're comin to the Social in Orlando Oct. 4. Don't even ask if I'm attending or not.