The Jackal

One of my all-time favorite TV shows is The West Wing.  Might be #1 on the list really, well...the first 3 years at least.  And Press Secretary CJ Cregg as played by Allisson Janney is my favorite character on the show.  Especially when she is acting the fool, like when she lip-synced her way through The Jackal.   Click on that link to see the magic.

Or just take a listen to the full version by Ronny Jordan and Dana Bryant.  This is one of the tunes that we listened to around the fire the other night.  Not sure why that is important, but there you go.  Enjoy!

The Jackal

by Ronny Brown and Dana Bryant

Did I ever tell you about the man who changed my life?

The one I thought, ohhh. Lord, when I saw him walkin' back in that bar, all tall and

lean with them broad shoulders, sweeeet lips, I knew that I had died and gone to. . .

Chocolate Heaven. . .

He had a real deep voice, white pearly teeth, his shoe was always shiny.

Long slender fingers manicured perfectly.

The man wore 800-dollar Italian suit, straight from, I dunno, what would they call it,

Milan or Rome or someplace like that?

I knew it wasn't local.

I said, I got to get next to that.

I haven't seen him in a long time.

The man was so fine, he could get any good girl into trouble. . .

Can you guess what his name was?. . .

Well. . . 'The Jackal'. . . 'The Jackal'. Say. 'The Jackal'. . .

He was fat back cat cool like a Friday afternoon martini, chillin' at a quarter after 5.

Twist of lime, Coke on the side.

The brother loved the high life.

Had a Ph.D. in street stride.

They called him 'The Jackal'.

He was big Mack daddy super black stylin' a diamonds in the back Cadillac.

Fur-lined boards, white wall wheels, cruise control, built for speed, chrome on evray-thang.

And stereophonic speakers, though he really didn't need them.

When they called him. . . 'The Jackal'. Say. 'The Jackal'. . .

Fly boy was in the buttermilk, hard, livin' fast, livin' large, 6 foot 4 and not an ounce of fat!

When women asked, 'is you a Cat?' He said 'I did more that that.

I'm the firmest of the firm

And in case you, hadn't known, they call me 'The Jackal'.

Served the 18-year bid first Riker's Island then they hid him in the state

penitentiary. Said the charge was Grand Larceny.

That was 1975, and today, if he's still alive, he'd be living in the park.

Hm. The brother whose claim to fame was that they called him 'The Jackal'. 'The Jackal'. . ."

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Note: Remember to play the Bug-Eyed Trivia Challenge every day. CJ Cregg IS the Jackal!

Hot, tasty bullet action!

Just a few, quick hits today. Blam-blam! Bullet-style.

• More meaty goodness over at MovieGrenade! today. Enjoy, or not. Whatever. We don't get paid either way. Aha...and I see that the badgerdaddy has also posted a new review. That's 2, 2, 2 reviews for the low, low price of, eh...you know what I mean.
  
• So, against my better judgement, I watched the first 2 episodes of the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles on Fox. Well, I missed the first episode on Sunday night, but I was able to watch it online. Way to go, Fox-TV! I am also slightly upset to report that I love it. Fuck! Another crappy TV show for me to get all wrapped up with. I think I would have been fine, but Summer Glau (from Serenity) stars as a good Terminator (they need to come up with a name for those) and I'm a fan. So here we go again.
• Haven't finished my book yet, but it's getting really good. I may stay up tonight to finish it.
  
• Gia remains thoroughly obsessed with The West Wing. Rather than wait a couple of days for Season 2 to start appearing in the mail via NetFlix, we went out last night to buy it on DVD because she couldn't wait. I have the rest of the seasons reserved at our library, so that foolishness will stop. UPDATE - just found out that friends of ours have all 7 seasons on DVD. Happy, happy...joy, joy!
• Still waiting for Winter to actually occur here. It's been above freezing for quite a while. We were supposed to wake up yesterday to 3-6 inches of snow, but it never quite got cold enough. Ah, but wait...snow Saturday? Maybe?
• I don't know why, but I was reading about the actor John Lurie yesterday, and I found the weirdest Internet related, um, things that I've seen in quite a long time. Those wacky Russians! PREVED!!!
• And I will leave you with exactly what I promised in the title of this post. Hot, tasty bullet action!
  

Last post of 2007

No talk of resolutions. No year-end recap of the prior 12 months. Nothing but The West Wing.
I love/loved that show! It's funny because my two all-time favorite television shows have to be Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The West Wing. The funny part is that I largely ignored them both when they were first aired I became a fan of both shows in syndication.

Buffy became a part of my life after it was all said and done. The series had been cancelled and it was airing in syndication on the FX Network a couple of times a day. I happened upon an episode one day and got hooked. Then I found out that the entire 7 seasons were going to run in sequence starting that very week. At the time I was DVR-less, so I ran out to the store and bought a whole shitload of videotapes. I would spend a few minutes each week programming my VCR to tape the entire series in order for some reason or another. Still got those tapes too! Just ask Slyde. He borrowed my bag o' Buffy, as I like to call the shopping bag that I keep all the tapes in, a little over a year ago and he enjoyed some low-def hi-quality TV over the next few months.

It was a similar story with The West Wing. I didn't actually keep all the tapes, but I would record the 5 or 10 (I can't remember) episodes that Bravo would air during the week for pure weekend viewing pleasure. I got into this one during Season 5 of 7, so I wasn't able to watch the entire series as quickly as I did with Buffy, but it was close.

Honestly, I think I may have loved The West Wing even more than, gasp, Buffy. Sacrilege, I know. But I really got into the former in a weird way. I've watched episodes over and over in replays and I just love them each and every time. The writing is incredible, especially in the Aaron Sorkin years. And the story arch over the seven years was just fantastic. Made me want to work at the White House. Well, not the current White House.

Anyway, I bring this up because I was talking to Gia about this show just last week. She was interested in seeing it, so we rented the first season from NetFlix. Tonight we sat down and watched the entire first DVD which contains the first 8 episodes from the first season. ALL IN A ROW!

It was awesome! Gia is hooked. I can't wait for the next DVD to come in the mail. I'm becoming a fan all over again! Good times.

That being said, I want to wish all of you out there a Very Happy New Year! Enjoy!