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RETROSPECT: CHRIS FARLEY

New York Magazine reviews new biography of Chris Farley starting with this hysterical summary of his childhood and young adult antics. Unfortunately these traits would later, the book suggest, result in his tragic but predictable death.

Farley grew up in a wealthy suburb of Madison, Wisconsin, where he was a local legend from childhood. In church once, on the way to communion, he filled his mouth with white Tic Tacs, fell face-first into a pew, and pretended to spit out all his teeth. In math class he crawled on his belly to the front of the lecture hall, hid behind a curtain, and—just as his teacher, a retired Air Force colonel, was delivering his customary terrible joke to end the session—mooned the class. (Farley’s parents were called in, but he wasn’t punished because the authorities laughed too hard every time they tried to talk about it.) In college he was famous for his naked beer slides down the bar and for his filthy room, which other students would visit just to marvel at the squalor.  But even early on he exhibited the fatal Farley flaw: a tendency to seek approval at all costs.

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DJ MROD: IS IT OKAY I LIKE THIS SONG?

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=c8YP5pJOdhI] You know how whenever some fem-anthem is played in a bar or club the girls go nuts.  I mean they start screaming, jj's are raised in the air and and the memorized lyrics are shouted.  It's adorable to see that.  This song by Rihanna, "Don't stop the music" is one of those songs.  Except that when bahm-bham-bham beat starts blasting through the speakers I too start freaking out--not spastically (big diff)--and attempt my best SNL Roxbury head nod.  Head to the left, to the left, to the left, and...to the right, to the right, to the right.  And now hump, hump, hump.  Hump, hump, hump. 

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=FNkOm3RJ4AM]

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