UCLA Commencement Speaker
This is too funny. At my graduation we had Lucas and Speilberg. I guess the bruins have to settle for the likes of Franco.
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Hysterical
The write is quite funny.
What about Villagaigosa? No chance on Jim Morrison, they’ve gotta pick someone who isn’t dead. Or. . . .dead in the water. AntonioV might just be the man? Hell! We got The Terminator (of LAUSD summer classes 2009), and although he’s the Governator, getting El Mayor isn’t such a step down. Tellin’ you, it’s a step UP from the Green Goblin’s son!
Comer4tide to Nico2.0: "How come I've never heard of any of your random songs?"
Todd to Comer: "Because if you had, he wouldn't listen to it. BOOM. Roasted."
Nico to Todd: "Shouldn't you be off voguing somewhere?"
That would be a great choice!
Although, I’m not too familiar with Francis (do people call him, Psycho? . . . .‘member that dude in “Stripes”?)- I love the man’s movies, almost too many to mention. I also happen to think that the “Rumble Fish” soundtrack by Stewart Copeland/Police is one of the TOP 5 MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS EVER (that’s not a musical). Incredible composition and solid sequencing.
Back in 1987, I got to go to a pre-release screening of Nicolas Cage’s “The Vampire’s Kiss” at San Francisco State University. August Coppola (Psycho’s brother) emceed a screening of his son’s unreleased film with 3 differing endings. August was a total hoot. He had a death-valley-dry sense of humor and as he commented and asked for feedback from the student/audience, he had a way with words that was utterly harsh towards his son’s major “over-acting” in the movie. He was not in any way lenient nor impressed with any of the 3 endings. Get this, Nicolas Cage drives up to the campus auditorium in a hellaciously-loudass Triumph chopper wearing a Tiger-suede motorcyle jacket, Creepers that had Gene Simmons 8-inch lifts, and this unbef_ckinglievably beautamous Asian-babe in a Catwoman skinsuit. My date, an older woman by the name of Cintra Wilson, almost got into a girl-fight with these 4 co-eds sitting in front of us who were incessantly chatty throughout, and to top it all off. . . .by 11:00 pm, I was shooting pool, drinking Ouzo, and trying to lose a game of pool to Cintra, Nick, his date, a dude named Chris Brophy, and a DJ friend of mine Jeno at the only bar in West Portal – called Philosopher’s Club.
Short of the long of it, the August side of the Coppola’s are top-notch, highly stimulating people. Very outgoing, conversive, and highly intellectual. (Comic book chitter-chatter, Kafka, Wittgenstein, Franz Boaz, Joseph Campbell and Hera’s troubles with Zeus took an epic 3.5 hours of discussion. All this from- “Who scares you (or me) more, Bram Stoker or Dante?” Straight up, that’s how we got to drinking. That and the fact that Nick couldn’t kick start that chopper. It was dead as a windshield-fly. Cintra split her skimpy Hot-Pants trying to help push start the damn beast. La Poderosa, it wasn’t. (or was, depending on semantics). Hence, Ouzo with Balvenie chasers and Export “33” top-offs. (I truly lost to Nina- Nick’s girl. She cross-banked her 8, and it was tits. I had 4 balls on the table. But I was seeing 12???)
At the time Poincare’, Teo Kaluza, Dante, Kato, Neruda, and the Golden State Warriors ruled my day. I was young and impressionable, August Coppola, his son Nick, and Cintra remarkably tolerated me and felt humbled by their kindness.
Hopefully Francis keeps that crowd entertained. It’s in his blood. May they be vampires of success, and regale in places where “Charlie DON’T SURF!”
(i’m a vampire. i’m a vampire. i’m a vampire! . . . . . . .you understand? do you? GOOD. ;- ) -stupid quotes from the vampire’s kiss movie. the above “charlie” is a quote from robert duvall in Apocalypse Now)
Comer4tide to Nico2.0: "How come I've never heard of any of your random songs?"
Todd to Comer: "Because if you had, he wouldn't listen to it. BOOM. Roasted."
Nico to Todd: "Shouldn't you be off voguing somewhere?"
by BixBeiderbecke on Jun 5, 2009 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Change of plans
Though Franco was originally going to be the speaker, it will now be Brad Delson (lead guitar for Linkin Park). Just thought you should know. I don’t think anyone graduating this quarter (including myself) was happy about Franco, but I like the idea of Brad being the keynote speaker. I met him when our drumline played with them at the KROQ concert last year, and he was a very nice guy.
Here is the link that discusses it if you are interested…
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/linkin-park-s-brad-delson-to-keynote-93860.aspx
That there is a solid choice
Brad Delson is a great musician, and decent humanitarian. Linkin’ Park was, is still, and I hope continue to be one of the better LA-bands in music. (notice I didn’t define LP’s genre’? their music crosses many boundaries and can’t be defined singularly by genre’, IMHO)
Way to go Bruins.
May your graduates still, become vampires of success and (humbly) regale in places where Charlie don’t surf. (i mean that. go forth and become the men/women your parents always hoped you would become, and be safe/have fun along the way)
Comer4tide to Nico2.0: "How come I've never heard of any of your random songs?"
Todd to Comer: "Because if you had, he wouldn't listen to it. BOOM. Roasted."
Nico to Todd: "Shouldn't you be off voguing somewhere?"
by BixBeiderbecke on Jun 6, 2009 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions
BOOM!
Bix has been Roasted! (Hell’s yeah ParaSC! You ain’t lying ‘bout that. I’m not kidding you when I tell you this, “Women and Children First” totally helped me to speak English- I sang those songs and wore-out that record to the max! I had a heavy-Spanish accent at the time, and all of the sudden- with the help of David Lee, Billy Squire, Freddie Mercury, Geddy Lee, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Fleetwood Mac, Police, and Genesis- I became the baddest air-vocalist in the amusing totality of my delusional mind. Oh, and I was a major hit with centerfolds. . . .that was prolly TMI on the WTF did I say that)
As you were men.
Comer4tide to Nico2.0: "How come I've never heard of any of your random songs?"
Todd to Comer: "Because if you had, he wouldn't listen to it. BOOM. Roasted."
Nico to Todd: "Shouldn't you be off voguing somewhere?"
by BixBeiderbecke on Jun 6, 2009 3:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Gazarri's on the unset Strip
1977…before they got their break. They opened for Black Sabbath in ’78 at the Long Beach Arena and history was made…they blew Ozzy and the boys OFF THE STAGE!
Blew Ozzie (pre-Ronnie James Dio days?)
Man though, a young Van Halen is a HARD BAND TO BEAT OUT LIVE!
I have never seen Van live. Nor Sabbath.
Lucky. . . . .!
Comer4tide to Nico2.0: "How come I've never heard of any of your random songs?"
Todd to Comer: "Because if you had, he wouldn't listen to it. BOOM. Roasted."
Nico to Todd: "Shouldn't you be off voguing somewhere?"
by BixBeiderbecke on Jun 7, 2009 8:47 AM PDT up reply actions
I still think that UCLA can draw someone a little more prominent, but I likes Linkin Park and it’s not my gradumitation! (spelling intended)
Too bad Conan couldn’t make it :-)
I met her a lil' over a month ago at a LLS charity event
That is one smokin’ 47 year old.
by insomniacslounge on Jun 7, 2009 4:56 PM PDT up reply actions
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