LAST EDITED ON Apr-05-13 AT 08:29 PM (EDT)
 
but I'm posting it anyway because it made me laugh.

INT. DAY. SOUL FOOD RESTAURANT KITCHEN. MATT "GUITAR" MURPHY is working at the grill. As he works, MRS. MURPHY enters.

Both of them are ELCOR.

MRS. MURPHY
Annoyed: We've got two jive-ass honkeys out here dressed like they're Hasidic diamond merchants.

MATT "GUITAR" MURPHY
Puzzled: What?

MRS. MURPHY
Exasperated: They look like they're with the CIA or something.

MATT "GUITAR" MURPHY
Thoughtful: What do they want?

MRS. MURPHY
Incredulous: The human wants a piece of white toast. Dry. With nothing on it.

MATT "GUITAR" MURPHY
With dawning realization: Shepard.

MRS. MURPHY
Even more incredulous: And the asari wants four whole fried chickens and a Coke.

MATT "GUITAR" MURPHY
Delighted: And Liara.

MRS. MURPHY
Disgusted: Shit. They still owe you money, fool.

In the interest of full disclosure, the best part about this image may in fact not be the image itself (although I wouldn't bet against it, because elcor are always worth it), but the fact that it leads inevitably to the thought of Shepard and Liara marauding their way through the fancy restaurant where Garrus "Mr. Fabulous" Vakarian now works as maître d', trying to get him fired so that he'll rejoin the band.

LIARA
How much for the women?

BANKER
Wh-what?!

LIARA
The women. Your wife, the little girl. How much? (She leers at him.) Sell me your children.

GARRUS
(pleading)
Come on, you guys, you can't eat here. The soup is fucking ten credits. And it'll probably kill you.

SHEPARD
We're putting the band back together, Garrus. We're on a mission from God.

--G.
"I mean look at yourselves in those candy-ass monkey suits. Wrex and the Royaltones?"
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Worth it just for the notion of an elcor saying "jive-ass honkeys"

Polychrome

SHEPARD
Federation Nazis.

LIARA
I hate Federation Nazis.

Michael C. Fortner
"Maxim 37: There is no such thing as "overkill".
There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload".

It wasn't until about ten minutes after reading this that the mental image of an Elcor guitarist hit me.

"The new Makos are in early this year."
"This mall has EVERYTHING."

--
-Pasha
What was that feeling again?
Oh yes.
-Rage-

>SHEPARD
>We're putting the band back together, Garrus. We're on a mission from
>God.

Well done for making me read this in FemShepard's Voice Doing Dan Aykroyd.

Mystery Woman: You miserable slug! You think you can talk your way out of this? You betrayed me.

Liara: No, I didn't. Honest... I ran out of dilithium. I... I had hyperdrive malfunction. I didn't have enough money for the jump gate. My space suit didn't come back from the cleaners. The Lovely Angels came in from out of town. Someone stole my starship. There was an earthquake. A Ragnarok. Tribbles! IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!

>Mystery Woman: You miserable slug! You think you can talk your way out
>of this? You betrayed me.
>
>Liara: No, I didn't. Honest... I ran out of dilithium. I... I had
>hyperdrive malfunction. I didn't have enough money for the jump gate.
>My space suit didn't come back from the cleaners. The Lovely Angels
>came in from out of town. Someone stole my starship. There was an
>earthquake. A Ragnarok. Tribbles! IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!

DAVID ANDERSON
Girls, you got to learn not to talk to Matriarchs that way.

--G.
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LAST EDITED ON Apr-09-13 AT 09:47 PM (EDT)
 
>but I'm posting it anyway because it made me laugh.
>
>INT. DAY. SOUL FOOD RESTAURANT KITCHEN. MATT "GUITAR" MURPHY
>is working at the grill. As he works, MRS. MURPHY enters.
>
>Both of them are ELCOR.

Please tell me this goes on to a musical number.

Slider Da Feral (NYAR!)
"Insincere endorsement: You have not heard Aretha Franklin until you have heard her in the voice of Elcor."

Huh.

So, Aretha Franklin died the other day, and it suddenly occurred to me that, out of all the speaking-role Blues Brothers cast members in this scene, the only one left now is Dan Aykroyd. (Lou Marini is still alive, but I can't remember if he had any actual lines in the movie.)

And that, in turn, prompted me to go and look for the post I could have sworn existed from when Matt "Guitar" Murphy died back in June, so that I could make note of it; but this thread was the only search result from his name.

--G.
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>Huh.
>
>So, Aretha Franklin died the other day, and it suddenly occurred to me
>that, out of all the speaking-role Blues Brothers cast members
>in this scene, the only one left now is
>Dan Aykroyd.

*wipes away a tear*

*goes to youtube to put on the Blues Brothers albums*

You know, for what was, in essence, an export of an SNL skit? That movie had some -incredible- talent and long-lasting cultural importance to it, and it's held up far better than something of its' nature has any business doing.

And yeah, Aretha Franklin was a -wonder- in it, and while I'm sad she's gone, I'm glad I got to live in a time when she existed.

>You know, for what was, in essence, an export of an SNL skit? That
>movie had some -incredible- talent and long-lasting cultural
>importance to it, and it's held up far better than something of its'
>nature has any business doing.
>
>And yeah, Aretha Franklin was a -wonder- in it, and while I'm sad
>she's gone, I'm glad I got to live in a time when she existed.

Her, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway, John Lee Hooker...

They wanted to cut all of them, because the producers were saying they hadn't had hits in years. And then the movie revived the careers. It did okay in original release (having to compete with a little SF movie called "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" may have messed things up a little), but hell, even the Vatican likes it.

The Blues Brothers has something for just about everyone, even if it will also piss off a majority of the same people in different ways. But more than anything else it demonstrated that given enough recognizable names, you really can turn goat piss into gasoline...

I mean really - the story has to be one of the most ridiculous ones out there, and yet it's really an amazing movie when taken as a whole.

[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
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>Lou Marini is still alive, but I can't remember if he had any actual lines in >the movie.

"Blue Lou" comments on the light of "Bob's Country Bar" being turned off, and that's, to the best of my knowledge, the one single line he utters in the movie. In the Soul Food Cafe scene, he says nothing.

...!
Stoke Mandeville, Esq & The Victorian Ballsmiths
"Nobody Want Verdigris-Covered Balls!"

This is a Public Service Announcement!

Snarfing hot oatmeal through your nose, while effective at clearing your sinuses like NOTHING else, is not advised.

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