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| Wow.
It's been so long that it took me a few seconds to figure out the layout of this new place. *sigh* Alas, I'm sort of sad I'm posting. My goal was to find the way to delete my account. I was almost there...until it started asking me questions...a littl quiz before I delete my account. I am unsure whether or not xanga deletes my account/old posts or if it's merely closed. I want it all deleted if I'm not going to have access to it. I'll have to look into it.
On that note, I started to delete posts manually but I haven't found an efficient manner to do so. Thus, I'm going to have to wait on this one. Plus, in manually deleted I started reading and reminiscing and well....all the stuff I didn't want to do. So...yes...farewell.
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| "What your mind doesn't know, your heart fills in." Narim to Samantha Carter on SG-1, episode: Enigma
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| Have you seen the new Kia commercial where the people in cars play a version of "Musical Chairs" where parking spots act as chairs?
How much fun would that be with BUMPER CARS?!?!
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| I haven't been here in a while, and boy have things changed!
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| An Interview with Chris Rock [clips]
(for full interview see article at life.com)
LIFE: When did you know you had made it as a comedian?
ROCK:
I still don’t know. I could still go down the tubes at any moment. . .
. But who's to say I wouldn't have had a more fulfilling life driving a
truck? I love my life, but I don't think I'm any happier than my
younger brother Andre, who drives a garbage truck.
LIFE: Are you different from your stand-up persona?
ROCK:
I’m like the Hulk onstage. It's way over the top. That's Bizarro Chris.
Sometimes I get off stage and go "What did I say?!" I’ll watch one of
my [stand-up] specials a year later and go "Eww, that was mean."
LIFE: In the first movie you directed, Head of State, you were president of the United States. Is this country ready for an African American president?
ROCK: It's ready for a retarded president, why wouldn't it be ready for an African American president?
LIFE: So, of the current presidential contenders, who do you like best?
ROCK:
I like Al Gore, actually. (A) He’s more qualified than everyone that's
running on the Democratic side. (B) If he won or didn’t win, he has an
agenda to help people and make this a better world. . . . Maybe Barack
will win, but I probably won’t see a black president. There’s real
equality when you don't notice [race], you don't even talk about it. I
probably won’t live to see that.
LIFE: If kids aren’t born with hate . . .
ROCK:
All people naturally hate. My kid bites people now. I didn't teach my
kid to bite anybody. Kids say mean stuff. Only through love do we get
this evil out of them. Only through love and structure and discipline
do they not hate. The kids that hate didn't learn anything, that's the
problem.
LIFE: Your new movie examines a marriage
that’s in a slump. Do you think it’s possible to have a happy, loyal marriage?
ROCK:
Yes, yes, yes. Definitely. It's one of those things you notice later.
I'm talking about happiness in general. While you're in it, it's hard,
but look back, and it's like, "Wow, that was great." I don't know if
you can walk around every day and say "Being married is so great." But
after you put in enough time, you can look back and go "This was worth
it."
LIFE: Your parents had a strong marriage. How were they good role models for you?
ROCK:
If you live with a single parent, you don’t see compromise. You witness
a grown person living in a world where they do what they want to do.
When you are raised by two parents, you are constantly watching
compromise take place. Just by observing that, it made me a better
person.
LIFE: How do you stay grounded in the maelstrom of celebrity?
ROCK:
Seinfeld always says you have to be in harm's way. You can’t have a
wall up between you and the people. You gotta just walk. I have friends
that don’t associate with regular people. They get in their
chauffeur-driven car. [They'll] close off the back of a restaurant. I
don't really do that. I go out and walk around, and people come up to
me.
LIFE: What's your most prized possession?
ROCK: When you’re a kid, you're like, "Ooh,
my Porsche, my house." But when you get older, you realize none of it
is really your possession. You’re renting everything. The only thing
that's yours is your family. That was very Deepak of me.
LIFE: So how would you define happiness?
ROCK:
I'm happy if everybody else is. I'm a big brother, the oldest. If
you're happy and I'm not, I'm cool with that. If I'm happy and you’re
not, I’m sad.
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