chickenhead
07-03-2009, 11:07 PM
Other than being two of the cooler names you're likely to come across, what do they have in common?
Sometimes I notice small things that are totally inconsequential, not something most people at all would care about or notice, but discovering these tiny little cultural linkages tickle me to no end.
I've always liked the movie "The Usual Suspects", a lot of little tidbits from it have worked their way into pop culture. Benicio Del Toro's character Finster has a phrase and gesture I've always liked, where, under interrogation -- where he's describing someone to the cops, he says "He'll flip you. He'll flip you for real." while making a gesture of flipping someone with his hands. He has a cool character in that movie, and that line has always stuck in my head.
In "Straight, No Chaser", a documentary featuring uber character Jazz pianist Thelonius Monk, pieced together from archival B&W footage from the 60's...Monk says at one point that if you understood what he was saying.."You'd flip. You'd flip for real." while making much the same gesture.
For no reason in particular, other than perhaps a few too many glasses of Chianti at dinner tonight, I thought I'd share that little bit of pop culture heritage with the internets tonight...
FLcWMGCLHa0
Sometimes I notice small things that are totally inconsequential, not something most people at all would care about or notice, but discovering these tiny little cultural linkages tickle me to no end.
I've always liked the movie "The Usual Suspects", a lot of little tidbits from it have worked their way into pop culture. Benicio Del Toro's character Finster has a phrase and gesture I've always liked, where, under interrogation -- where he's describing someone to the cops, he says "He'll flip you. He'll flip you for real." while making a gesture of flipping someone with his hands. He has a cool character in that movie, and that line has always stuck in my head.
In "Straight, No Chaser", a documentary featuring uber character Jazz pianist Thelonius Monk, pieced together from archival B&W footage from the 60's...Monk says at one point that if you understood what he was saying.."You'd flip. You'd flip for real." while making much the same gesture.
For no reason in particular, other than perhaps a few too many glasses of Chianti at dinner tonight, I thought I'd share that little bit of pop culture heritage with the internets tonight...
FLcWMGCLHa0