"A refrigerator friend is someone who unhesitatingly can walk into your house and open the refrigerator without asking, even saying, What do you have to eat? I’m starving." [i didnt write this or come up with it...found it on someone's blog...but it's super awesomely true]
..Cheating death................Blurring the lines between Sarcasm and Sincerity.
...but juuuust barely.
Seven Simple Rules of Going Into Hiding:
1. never trust a cop in a raincoat.
2. beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and quick to sway.
3. if asked if you care about the world's problems, look deep into the eyes of he who asks, he will never ask you again.
4. never give your real name.
5. if ever asked to look at yourself, dont.
6. never do anything the person standing in front of you cannot understand.
And finlly 7. never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.
a "trigeminal schwannoma" in person...like to give him a piece of my mind. That's called "funny".
And, as always, 'your mom'.
THE PERENNIALS : Pavement (get the 'Crooked Rain' reissue. Now.), Kind of Like Spitting, Lemonheads, Ida, Braid, Jawbreaker, Superchunk, The Who, The Police, Spoon, Queen, Death Cab, Archers of Loaf, Radiohead, Rilo Kiley, Decemberists, Secession Movement, Built to Spill, Elvis (Costello), Tim Recuber, Brian Meitz, Dave Damm, Steven Poponi the IV, Sunny Day, Chisel, Wilco, Pedro, Pinback, matt pond PA, Owen, The Shins, Tom Waits, Blur, Thin Lizzy, Wheat, Ben Folds (and his Five), Ol' Blue Eyes, the voice of Jasmine Bella, and - of course - those four guys from Liverpool.
THE NEWBIES : Volcano I'm Still Excited, Bloc Party, Fruit Bats, Maria Taylor, Crystal Skulls, Troubled Hubble, The Futureheads, Regina Spektor, Neko Case; The Spinto Band, Mew; Hockey Night;
I have to give JAWS its proper due as the greatest american piece of pop culture of all time (and my nostalgic favorite).
Also, how many of us have mentioned GARDEN STATE, AMELIE, ROYAL TANNENBAUMS, DONNIE DARKO? Oh, I'm the first one? Great. Good to make history... Hey, just embrace anything from the 1970's and read EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS to fill in the gaps.
And ETERNAL SUNSHINE will go on to be the movie of this decade.
but, seriously, some other 'chestnuts': TANNER '88, CITY OF LOST CHILDREN, MONSTER SQUAD, THREE KINGS, I HEART HUCKABEES, BLOW UP, REAR WINDOW, THE CONVERSATION, SUPERMAN II, PUNCH DRUNK LOVE, 400 BLOWS, HARD DAY'S NIGHT, HIS GIRL FRIDAY, TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN, VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT, FAT GIRL, DANCER IN THE DARK, WAITING FOR GUFFMAN, GHOSTBUSTERS, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, THE GREAT DICTATOR, IN THE COMPANY OF MEN, CATCH-22, ED WOOD, WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, TRAINSPOTTING, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, IGBY GOES DOWN
If you haven't bought that FREAKS AND GEEKS box set after it's been out the past couple years - what are you thinking?! It's like an 18 hour-long best high school movie ever! I should really put this in the damn movie column...
FAVES THAT ARE STILL ON THE AIR : THE SIMPSONS (seriously, it's still good...screw all y'all morons who think otherwise);TIM & ERIC; 30 ROCK; SUNNY IN PHILLY; PUSHING DAISIES; BONES; CHUCK; SAMANTHA WHO; SARAH SILVERMAN PROGRAM; SCRUBS; THE OFFICE; FRISKY DINGO; BEST WEEK EVER; SMALLVILLE; MYTHBUSTERS; HEROES; ER; AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL................................ and of course, LOST
Anything DAVE EGGERS .
..STEWART and COLBERT . (and CARRELL )