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tinhuvielartanis) wrote2008-03-07 04:32 pm
tinhuvielartanis) wrote2008-03-07 04:32 pm
LIVE WITH Flflflfghghghflflfll....
Once again I was lauding the praises of the Farrelly Brothers to Aunt Tudi, this time setting my sights on Shallow Hal. Unlike many of my overweight sisters and brothers, I really loved this movie. Sure there were insulting fat jokes, but the thing about the Farrelly Brothers is that they insult everyone and include everyone as a big glorious, ugly human family. Anyone who includes albinos, weirdos, conjoined twins, sperm-do'd doctors, "schizos," idiots on mopeds, and everyone from Rhode Island has every right and would be remiss if they did not include we fat folks in the mix. If the good brothers hadn't, I'm sure a lot of overweight people would have bitched about being left out because of their weight.
Don't get me wrong. I get pissed off about fat discrimination, but I get pissed off about discrimination of any sort. If the Farrelly Brothers want to maintain their "Nothing Is Sacred" tradition, Shallow Hal had to be made, just like Stuck on You (which I haven't seen, but would love to). But this isn't really about the Farrelly Brothers or Shallow Hal, well, not directly. This is about Tony Robbins.
See, Tony Robbins is responsible for Hal's "beauty goggles," for lack of a better term. He's the one who kinda put a spell on Hal to allow him to see people's inner beauty instead of their outer appearance. It's what got me to actually watching the movie in the first place because Mr. Robbins and I have a history of sorts. In 1993,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ealdthryth made a copy of the Personal Power tapes for our Crossroads Cabal (also lovingly known as Cobblestone Cobble, which comprised ealdthryth, scbearmike, My Friend Todd, and myself, all of whom were refugees from Temple Hecate Triskele at that particular time) to listen to. At the end of each lecture, Tony would sign off with "LIVE WITH PASSION!" You could hear the all-capital words in his voice when he said it, it was that...passionate.
One night, about halfway through our program, Todd called me up just screaming with laughter. Turns out that one of the tapes had a glitch in it right at the end of the lecture. Instead of the blood-boiling "LIVE WITH PASSION," Todd received the alternate message "LIVE WITH Flflflfghghghgflflflfl..." and the tape came to an unceremonious and anti-climactic conclusion. Being the irreverent rebels that we were lo those many years ago, Todd and I chose the garbled message. That's probably why we utterly failed the Tony Robbins school of success because we opted to live with flflflflgghghghghflflflfl instead of passion. Of course, it's never too late to rectify that.
So, the first thing I heard in my mind when I saw Tony Robbins in Shallow Hal was "LIVE WITH Flflfllghghghflflflfl..." and I had to stop and watch because it tickled me so. And that's how I ended up seeing what turned out to be a most excellent movie. But what Farrelly Brothers movie isn't excellent?
Don't get me wrong. I get pissed off about fat discrimination, but I get pissed off about discrimination of any sort. If the Farrelly Brothers want to maintain their "Nothing Is Sacred" tradition, Shallow Hal had to be made, just like Stuck on You (which I haven't seen, but would love to). But this isn't really about the Farrelly Brothers or Shallow Hal, well, not directly. This is about Tony Robbins.
See, Tony Robbins is responsible for Hal's "beauty goggles," for lack of a better term. He's the one who kinda put a spell on Hal to allow him to see people's inner beauty instead of their outer appearance. It's what got me to actually watching the movie in the first place because Mr. Robbins and I have a history of sorts. In 1993,
ealdthryth made a copy of the Personal Power tapes for our Crossroads Cabal (also lovingly known as Cobblestone Cobble, which comprised ealdthryth, scbearmike, My Friend Todd, and myself, all of whom were refugees from Temple Hecate Triskele at that particular time) to listen to. At the end of each lecture, Tony would sign off with "LIVE WITH PASSION!" You could hear the all-capital words in his voice when he said it, it was that...passionate. One night, about halfway through our program, Todd called me up just screaming with laughter. Turns out that one of the tapes had a glitch in it right at the end of the lecture. Instead of the blood-boiling "LIVE WITH PASSION," Todd received the alternate message "LIVE WITH Flflflfghghghgflflflfl..." and the tape came to an unceremonious and anti-climactic conclusion. Being the irreverent rebels that we were lo those many years ago, Todd and I chose the garbled message. That's probably why we utterly failed the Tony Robbins school of success because we opted to live with flflflflgghghghghflflflfl instead of passion. Of course, it's never too late to rectify that.
So, the first thing I heard in my mind when I saw Tony Robbins in Shallow Hal was "LIVE WITH Flflfllghghghflflflfl..." and I had to stop and watch because it tickled me so. And that's how I ended up seeing what turned out to be a most excellent movie. But what Farrelly Brothers movie isn't excellent?
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