We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth. ~Henry Beston, The Outermost House
Friends and co-workers who like to talk about anything besides politics..give it a rest, already. Acquaintances who don't ask me when I'm having kids/suggest it's time to start a family (also applies to friends and family, come to think of it); people who don't rush into the elevator as I attempt to exit; grocery shoppers who don't use the self-checkout register as a place to put their shit while they compose text messages, and while I'm at it, I'd like to meet those grocery shoppers who leave their carts in parking spots instead of in designated cart collection areas so I could call them lazy asshats to their stupid faces; the Dog Whisperer; a generous dentist.
I'm picky, but not a snob. If I don't like your favorite band, it's not because I'm on some kind of cultural high horse (exception: your favorite band is Puddle of Mudd).
Secretary
The Hills Have Eyes I and II
Lord Of The Rings trilogy
Clerks
Mallrats
Driving Miss Daisy
American History X
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill I and II
Jackie Brown
Planet Terror
Death Proof
Fight Club
Star Wars
Urban Cowboy
Escape From Alcatraz
Casino
Anchorman
Borat
40 Year-Old Virgin
Resident Evil
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Blood Salvage
Motel Hell
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Napoleon Dynamite
Office Space
Little Miss Sunshine
The Holy Grail
Kingpin
The Big Lebowski
Pooty Tang
Sling Blade
The Illusionist
Babel
Scotland PA
Halloween
The Devil's Rejects
House of 1000 Corpses
Fargo
Zoolander
Shawshank Redemption
Hostel I and II
Girl 6
UHF
The Jerk
The Ice Storm
Happiness
Sideways
Shallow Grave
Trainspotting
Chocolat
Oleanna
Little Buddha
The Pick of Destiny
Boogie Nights
Broken Flowers
Lost in Translation
Eddie Murphy 'Raw'
Singles
No Country For Old Men
Hot Fuzz
Beerfest
Schmelevision
Currently reading Naked Lunch.
The Nina-V's, Charlie Macks, and Vagabonds of the world.