"obscure gray" and "dark hard red". yep. that about sums it up.
Viva the NEW, LEAN Past Headlines Hall of Near Fame:
"I'm popping these little homeopathic things like candy and NOTHING'S HAPPENING!"
"I was going for hyper-bitch, but it just came off as my normal self."
"I reject your reality and substitute my own!"
"I want to talk a lot of words to you."
"You don't laugh at a man for screaming at a chicken! They're pre-historic, for God's sake!"
"You are making me feel shaky in the parts of myself I have not dealt with."
"We don't have our apocalyptic scenarios straight..."
"Live every week like it's shark week!"
"I didn't consider myself depressed so much as paralyzed by hope."
"I understand you're grieving, but where's the pesto?"
"Hockey puck, rattlesnake, monkey, monkey, underpants."
"My policy: No stone-throwing regardless of housing situation."
"Some words are disturbing. Take the word, "ick". It sounds a lot worse than just a fish disease."
"Please! No pill could even *touch* the depth of your weirdness."
"Where do I select 'Friends for the Most Part'?"
"That robot never gets angry."
"I mean.... I'll get in my spaceship, and I'll fly by for a visit every once in a while..."
"It's like putting a bow tie on a salt shaker."
"Your hippie music is cutting in and out on my damn dial up."
"Most people seem to be more flawed than I would say is necessary."
"When I feel sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead...... True story."
"Do you want to win or do you just want to try stuff?"
"You wanna wipe that look off your face? It's this or the Mexican pharmacy."
"Let's settle this like men, Ruby."
"Do you know me? ... Then how do you know I won't CUT you?"
"Let us attune ourselves to the mysterious ether."
"Never trust a big butt and a smile."
"Don't shoot the mosquitos - It wastes ammunition."
"I used my best stickers."
"You know what?...and sugar."
"I never have the sense to carry rubber gloves."
expert ceramic makers
Toad the Wet Sprocket, CAKE, Snow Patrol, INXS, Lazlo Bane, Better Than Ezra (ah, 'Porcelain'), Collective Soul, Live, Stone Temple Pilots, Cracker, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, Goo Goo Dolls (just kidding), Counting Crows (not kidding), Guns N' Roses, Jon Bon Jovi, Sarah McLachlan, Prince, Glen Phillips, ABBA, Neil Diamond, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Aimee Mann, Damien Rice, Fatboy Slim, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, Van Morrison, Eminem, Weird Al Yankovic
Rushmore, the AandE version of Pride and Prejudice, Harvey, Steel Magnolias, The Royal Tenenbaums, Diehard, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Sense and Sensibility, Young Guns, Dead Poets Society, Rebecca, Tombstone, Hope Floats, blah, blah, blah
Really, the only ones worth mentioning here: Law and Order, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Millenium, Veronica Mars
JD Salinger, Jane Austen, TS Eliot (shouldn't this section be called "Literature"?), Janet Evanovich, Katherine Neville, Ray Bradbury, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, F Scott Fitzgerald, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Emily Bronte, Dante Gabriel Rossetti