This is an excerpt from an interview that Kevin Conley did with Shia LaBeouf in the June 2008 issue of GQ. It has to be the best thing I ever read in the magazine. Ever.
“So what parts of your life are you keeping to yourself?” I ask, playing along. “Usually you seem so, you know, uncensored.”
He thinks for a minute and then looks up with a ‘eureka!’ grin. “I used to sh*t on myself until I was 12 years old. I didn’t stop until I got a job.”
“Are you serious?”
“I promise you. We could call my mother right now. You got your cell phone?”
LaBeouf puts her on speaker:
“Hello, Ma?”
“Yes, honey?”
“Hey, Ma, you’ll never believe what I’m talking about right now.”
“Where are you at?”
“Well, I’m at the range, but I’m talking to Kevin, and we were deciding how to be the most uncensored. Like, what’s the one thing I never told nobody? And I was telling him how I used to sh*t on myself. You remember that Ma?”
“You shared that secret, huh?”
“Tell him what I did with the boxers, Ma.”
“Well, I don’t know. The times you did it, Shia, you thought you were going to get away with it. But you’d always get busted. The boxers would fall down on my head from the towel rack, or I’d find them under the bed.”
“Ma, Ma, tell him about the karate class at the YMCA.”
“Oh yeah. Karate class was very sweet, because you were all strong in your karate suit, and then all of a sudden a little brown ball would fall out of your clothes on the floor.”
“Ma, Ma, you remember when I was doing those kicking exercises in the gi [karate uniform]? You remember what happened with the kick that I did? My last kick in karate class?”
“What? The piece that flew?”
“Yeah, the piece that flew and hit the wall. Remember that piece?”
Interscope, my U.S. label asked me if I wanted to do something with a rapper. And I said, “Only if it’s a cool rapper.” No Akon or some bulls*** like that. It had to be Snoop. He sent me an e-mail that said it was “retarded.”
- said in the May 2008 issue of Details by Swede musician Robyn when asked about her remix of Snoop Dogg’s “Sensual Seduction.”
It’s really sad that if I didn’t win Project Runway, I probably wouldn’t have the sponsors I have now. I would have never been able to do what they have done because they all have disposable income, and yet their work still isn’t that great! I mean, it’s fun and flirty and young, but they’re not innovators. None of them will ever be an innovative designer. Buyers and editors are looking for longevity, and hopefully they will see that in me.
- said in Life & Style Weekly by Christian Siriano, winner of Project Runway Season 4, about the fashion collections from The Hills stars Lauren Conrad and Whitney Port.
That is what Madonna will always be to us. The shot in the ass when we really need it.
- Justin Timberlake, said while inducting Madonna into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame after telling a story about how she injected his booty with a B12 shot while they were working on her new album, Hard Candy
Besides still being consumed by The Kite Runner (I’m already giving it a second read), I recently got Little Brother’s (consisiting of the ingenious lyricists Phonte and Big Pooh) latest album, “Get Back” (available at Amazon.com for $12.99) and I can’t stop listening to it.
I am devouring the newest album from the indie hip-hop denizens. It’s smart, it’s witty, it’s that kind of hip-hop that no one is really listening to anymore. I absolutely loved their first album, “The Listening” and their sophomore album, “The Minstrel Show” was one of the greatest social commentaries on hip-hop today. With “Get Back,” they are just improving on their one-of-a-kind knack for beats and rhymes.
One of my top choices of the album is “Good Clothes” (and yes, it is a enjoyably stinging commentary on fashion and clothes):
I couldn’t stop laughing when I heard these lyrics spoken by Phonte:
Y’all lookin good tonight, but some of ya’ll thats in the room
I can’t front, like you at the bar,
It’s hot in this club man so why you got that leather coat on, dawg?
Come on (Take that coat off, n****)
And you, the big girl with the low-rise jeans on,
Got the fat hangin over the sides (Better go to Lane Bryant)
Girl, you got your gut bustin over the side of your jeans
It look like a muffin
You like it how I work my spine
Got you feeling all hypnotized (hypnotized)
I gotta body like a CL5
Make a **** wanna test drive but I’m so on fire
Flyer than a pelican/find another chick better than/I don’t see her
Cause my swag is serious
Something heavy like a first day period
- from Janet Jackson’s new song Feedback from her upcoming album Discipline slated for release Feb. 26, 2008.
I only like that word when it comes between “meat” and “pizza.”
- said by Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) when Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) uses the word “lovers” to describe the relationship of C.C. (Edie Falco) and him in the “Secrets and Lies” episode of 30 Rock.
Besides still being consumed by The Kite Runner (I’m already giving it a second read), I recently got Little Brother’s (consisiting of the ingenious lyricists Phonte and Big Pooh) latest album, “Get Back” (