Thursday, October 14, 2010

How to pick up trashy women

Morning, everyone! I’m gonna get right to it today. Growing up, my favorite actor was Taylor Negron. I know, I know. Who the fuck is Taylor Negron? Well, he’s most famous as the pizza guy in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and the mailman in Better off Dead, and that’s pretty much the only kind of role he ever played until kind of recently when I think he became some sort of hairdresser character on some late era Olsen twins Nickelodeon show or something, but that’s not the point. The point is, this dude was vaguely pervy, pretty strange looking and completely awesome at being someone that knocks on doors and brings shit to the people who the movie is, in fact, about. That was his gig. He was the best bit player ever, and I picked up on it and him really early in my movie watching career.

Now, call it a preternatural knack for irony or just a weird fetishized love for recognizing small recurring details, but I’m not shitting you when I say that as a kid Taylor Negron was my favorite actor. I remember being in gradeschool and Chris and I just cracking up about him doing his lazy and (again) pervy takes and the way that he was always vaguely bored and vaguely too good for whatever totally shitty job the director and the script had him in. His career and acting choices were, and remain something I love for reasons that I don’t fully comprehend, but I tell you what: over the course of the past three decades I’ve spent a lot of time saying “Taylor Negron…he’s the delivery guy from Johnny Dangerously. You know him, right? Yeah, I love that dude.”

SO, fast forward to yesterday when I’m waiting for my kids to wake up from their naps and idly surfing around the internet. A friend of mine, on facebook, posts something approximately like this:

“Taylor Negron is on my plane and he’s drinking a martini”

And I fucking lost my mind. I responded to this post with something that can be summed up as:

“holyfuckholyfuckholyfuck!!!!!! Oh man! Are you serious?!?!?! Tell him I love him in fast times and better off dead and one crazy summer and Young Doctors in love (this last one I’ve never seen, but Chris and I used to joke about how good it’s gotta be all the time) and uh….really? Really? Really? I’m so fucking jealous!”

And the response to that (which came quickly, thank you internet plane technology!) was, again, approximately:

“Brendan, you’re such a sarcastic dick all the time I can’t tell if you really like him or if you’re just being an asshole”

Now, I have a couple of problems with this response. Firstly, let’s say that I, like most people out there, didn’t know who Taylor Negron was…What in the world kind of lame life and time on my hands would I be in the midst of to have nothing better to do than look him up on IMDB and feign excitement solely for the purpose of making a lame joke that no one would even really get? Pretty exceedingly lame and a ton of time is the answer. Secondly, if I knew who Taylor Negron was and wasn’t all that impressed I think I’d be more prone just to ignore the post than to just jump on it. I mean, if, in the course of my social networking I came across someone saying that they ran into Jake Busey in a Denny’s, I’d hardly even notice, much less give a fuck and I definitely wouldn’t waste my time pretending to be enamored with Jake Busey (a total dork, by the way. Eh, just kidding. I can’t even picture him [I know, PCU and all that…spare me]). But the third reason why this is so vexing is the vastly most unacceptable:

This friend and I used to date. In fact, we used to live together. FOR TWO YEARS! And yes, fine, she knows about some cool shit, but let me tell you something, Dogs of War: you know why she knows who Taylor Fucking Negron is? OF COURSE! Nobody gives two shits about that dude like I do. The revisionist history that goes into asking me if I’m actually a True Taylor Negron fan is appalling. Of course I am! I’m the one who shouted the breakfast clubber’s name, bro! If it wasn’t for me, you would have no fucking idea who Taylor Negron even was!!!

Now, I don’t know if she reads this, but it’s a safe bet that if she does, right now she’s shaking her head and so pissed and completely convinced that I’m wrong and that she has always known about Taylor Negron and blah blah blah. But you know what ladies and gentlemen? That’s bullshit. I know this woman and if there’s one thing I’m POSITIVE of, it’s that she had no fucking idea who Tay Neeg was before she met me. I’m fucking positive.

But I’m sure that if she even knows I have a blog, much less is reading this, that that’s falling on deaf ears (eyes. Deaf eyes? No, uh…unbelieving eyes. Yes. Much better) and she’s convinced that I’m an egomaniac and narcissist, which, let me tell you slaves, couldn’t be further from the truth. I’m not making everything about me here. I’m just calling a spade a spade. Just reporting the news, not making it, folks.

As a rebuttal I’d ask her (and everyone) to look at some of the recent tests that have been done on how fallible the human memory is. It involves fabricated childhood trips to Disneyland. Seen em? Shit’s wild. Makes you question everything. Oh! And before you all go and say that I could stand to read that shit myself…um, I’m not talking about a specific memory here. I honestly don’t remember turning just one of the hundreds of people on to Taylor Negron’s awesomeness that I’ve turned on over the years. I’m talking about a deep and enduring passion for the work of a creepy bit player that started when I was a wee sapling and has endured to this day, so suck it naysayers!

Pretty stoked he was drinking a martini on a plane, though. That’s tough stuff. Oh Hollywood, you beautiful bitch.

Okay, I gotta go make a waffle for a guy with shit in his pants, so uh, later.

30 comments:

Gregory said...

man that guy's best role was totally Russell in BioDome. unreal.

YeahYeahNo said...
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James said...

Gregory, you’re such a sarcastic dick all the time I can’t tell if you really like him or if you’re just being an asshole

Anonymous said...

This post and the talk of memories in the human mind made me think of a book I just read. "You Lost Me There" by Rosecrans Baldwin. Pretty solid work of fiction. Deals a lot with the idea that the more we recall specific memories the more skewed they become. Interesting.

Scott said...

i work with this douche who thinks BioDome is one of the greatest movies ever made. He also listens to NSYNC and Justin Bieber so yeah, reason number #1472 i hate it here

Donnie said...

Wasn't he in an episode of Seinfeld?

Anonymous said...

Donnie : yeah, as a hairdresser on that episode with the valet with really bad B.O .

Maggie said...
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Anonymous said...

BETTER OFF DEAD!!!! no joke, I don't think I've met more than four people in my life who've seen that movie. It's fucking perfect!

Hamilton Martin said...

Taylor's the man, my friend went to a wedding several years back and met him there and ended up spending all night getting trashed with him. He's definitely enamored with him now, perhaps in an inappropriate way. & its awesome how the character in Biodome is like the climax to his 'delivery man' career. Mr. purple sticky punch brahs.

Anonymous said...

Carl Sagan's book Demon Haunted World had a chapter on "implanted memories." Bottom line? Bitch is crazy.

Crooks said...

I think the peak TN appearance is Stoned Age. Nice Roxbury drop BK.

Unknown said...

Yes! Love that guy! His best role was as the the bad guy in the Bruce Willis classic The Last Boyscout. Plus he used to be in some weird commercials for E (the channel) when is first came on air in the early 90's.

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Sean said...

Scott, you’re such a sarcastic dick all the time I can’t tell if you really hate him or if you’re just being an asshole

Robb said...

Ok so that's a face I'd never really put a name to. I remember that Seinfeld episode - wasn't it actually a smelly car that George had bought from a guy with terrible BO, and nothing would get rid of it? Better Off Dead def underrated, Biodome def sucks.

Donnie said...

robb: the valet had BO. George bought Jon Voight's car but that was later.

Andrew said...

I told you - I hurt my bladder rollerblading.

limited nobility said...

So we get a caveat accompanying a standard child rearing post but not on a strange rant about the "nacho bitch" from the angels in the outfield remake?He gets points for being the only person in that abysmal aristocrats documentary to clearly become aroused during his riff.well,no points really but it happened so check it out but listen too closely and ya might get hearing A.I.D.S......really gay stuff folks

Robb said...

Yeah you're right Donnie, I was confusing two separate episodes there. The Aristocrats, oh man

limited nobility said...

@@@@@@@@robb,you watch negron's bit yet?its on youtube

Robb said...

Naaah dawg, I'll get to that. I saw it a couple years ago and I just remember it making me hate Bob Saget even more, which I didn't think possible. Wasn't carrot top even in it? Jesus

Francis McAvoy: Pendulum Breasts said...
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Francis McAvoy: Pendulum Breasts said...

Taylor Negron? Pssssh. Ya know "Beex", I can totally see you getting behind a jackass like that. How about a REAL creepster character actor who has never gotten his due, like that Peter Greene greaseball, or the superbly alien-like Patrick Fischler? Heard the new Canibus record, "C of Tranquility"?--I love to crank i up and really just let my "faggot breasts" roar as I meander down the poorly-paved sidewalk. Heeey--maybe if you bump THAT in your ipod instead of that POS clown (if I can hear it, yes it's too loud) maybe you won't look like quite as much of a handsome, lusty asshole the next time I catch you making painfully conspicuous glances my way from across the street and mumbling "...fuckin walking advert for gynecomastia surgery over here" into your smart phone.
...It's genetics, NOT simple carbs at 4AM ok?? See if you took the time to know me you'd know this. I--I have a dog too ya know. Little Boscoe. We could..watch a C. Thomas Howell double feature of 'Secret Admirer' and 'Soul Man' some time. ..would that be SO BAD??? jesus FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! Just FUCKING forget I said ANYTHING GOD

EmilMuzz said...

i was really hoping that this post was going to be about the kid from better off dead who got the book, how to pick up trashy women. anybody been following his career? Just found out his name was scooter stevens. lulz.

TheMEATBOSS said...

haha I always wondered who that dude was. he's that guy in movies that you only know by referencing other movies you remember seeing him in. Glad to know his name finally.

Sean said...

Francis McAvoy is hilariously ridiculous... love his posts...

limited nobility said...

I had francis pegged as more of a michael jeter guy....

limited nobility said...

I mean there's a chance that francis is actually character actor mark holton

kylewagoner said...

I want my two dollars!


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