I have no artistic taste. I’d be the first to admit it. My fondness for some truly awful movies, songs, and whatnot is inexplicable, but true.
While it puts my credibility as a riffer at risk, I think you have a right to know: I enjoy some certifiably dopey things.
But confession is good for the soul. So here and there, as time permits, I’ll share some of my many, many lapses in taste, past and present. And I invite you to do likewise. You may blush, but you’ll feel… lighter, somehow. (Or maybe your stomach will cramp from the humiliation. I fear it too, believe me. But let’s be brave…)
I’ll start with decades past, as I can pretend that I’ve learned better since then. (Hint: I haven’t.)
Let me start with two:
1) I used to* love the movie BILLY JACK.
It’s really a silly movie. A half-breed Indian Vietnam vet tries to protect a bunch of annoying pacifist hippies by… kicking everyone else’s ass. But it had karate! And he had a cool hat — a kind of English bowler / cowboy hat hybrid. Plus it was deep, politically, spiritually, and…
Did I mention there was karate?
2) I used to* like this song, and thought the video was neat too:
Yup, nothing like Norwegian romantic rock, with an incoherent comic book fantasy subplot. Why were those 1920s-era race car drivers trying to bludgeon the cute Norskie guy? Did he steal some cod from them? Were they just objecting to his feathered hair? I can sympathize with that.
Never noticed that Jemaine from FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS was in the video, though — at roughly 1:00, for roughly 1 second. Looked old for his age, since I’d guess he was around six when this video was shot.
(*And… I still love them both.)
[Sobs. Dashes away.]
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1 Bill Corbett on Dec 15, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Take on me, One Tin Soldier.
Take me on.
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Reply from customcartoons on December 17, 2007:
Hey that Ah-Ha (sp?) video is a one-of-a-kind classic! Trying to do another one like it would just fall flat, and think of how many times it’s been referenced in sketches and sit-coms, etc.
Now, if you were skipping down the street, humming the song, I guess that would be embarrassing…
Reply from Bill Corbett on December 17, 2007:
“Now, if you were skipping down the street, humming the song, I guess that would be embarrassing…
Yeah, that… would be silly.
(makes note: Try to cut down on the skipping and humming.)
2 Tim on Dec 15, 2007 at 10:11 pm
I know more about professional wrestling than any decent, respectable human being should (the amount of professional wrestling knowledge for decent, respectable human beings measures out to “no knowledge at all”). I refrain from giving out my home address to avoid having you all hunt me down and beat me with a sock full of pennies.
Despite my professional wrestling knowledge, I will tesify under oath that I have NEVER owned, nor have I ever worn, a pair of Zubaz pants.
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Reply from “STICKS” on December 15, 2007:
Unfortunately, I both owned and wore Zubaz pants as a youngster. I feel sufficiently shamed.
Reply from Queen Bee on December 16, 2007:
I don’t know how to break this to everyone, but…
http://www.zubaz.com/
They’re back.
Reply from Jamie McLargeHuge on December 16, 2007:
Oh sweet lord, they’re still tapered too!
OH! The Humanity!
3 Eddie Colton on Dec 15, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Uh, I owned the soundtrack to Breakin’.
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Reply from Bill Corbett on December 15, 2007:
You are strong, sir. Your integrity is great.
4 chris on Dec 15, 2007 at 11:00 pm
It may have been due to a then recent head injury, but I used to like the movie Xanadu when I was younger, It may had the fact that I related to the main character, who was an “artist” or the fact that part of it was shot at the Pan Pacific auditorium, but honestly, I had a bit of a crush on Olivia Newton-John.
Whew! My secrets out ! I feel better!
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Reply from Bill Corbett on December 16, 2007:
And now a hit Broadway show! Look:
http://xanaduonbroadway.com/index2.html
Reply from chris on December 16, 2007:
WOW! Was that ever disturbing! Thanks Bill!
Reply from Nerf on December 16, 2007:
I would score so many points with my wife if I took her to that show. She’s got a very unhealthy relationship with that movie.
5 Courtney on Dec 15, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Look, um… I don’t know how to say this. … But I … I like Grease 2. Better than the first one… I hate myself.
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Reply from Bill Corbett on December 16, 2007:
How can you not like the movie that catapulted Maxwell Caulfield into supertstardom?
Reply from Courtney on December 16, 2007:
Not to mention the film that gave us the gift of one Adrian Zmed!
Reply from Bill Corbett on December 16, 2007:
And a gift it was.
Though “one Adrian Zmed” is probably all the world could handle.
Reply from Courtney on December 16, 2007:
True story. What if there existed, in some bunker somewhere, an army of Adrian Zmeds, created by a madman and ready to attack at any time?
I think I’ve got an idea for my next screenplay…
6 Libby on Dec 16, 2007 at 12:49 am
The Golden Girls.
If I knew why I enjoyed the show, I’d tell you.
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7 Chaos on Dec 16, 2007 at 3:16 am
As a teenager, I had an inappropriate amount of love for “Beauty and the Beast.” That in itself is perhaps not shameful, but when I found out the Broadway show was coming to Los Angeles, I BEGGED my parents to take us to see it, and when they agreed, I rushed out to buy the soundtrack to the musical, which I then proceeded to listen to roughly 400 times in the month leading up to our trip to see the show.
I still have that soundtrack, which I pull out and listen to every now and then, to my shame. Because I still think it is completely awesome.
– chaos
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Reply from Thom_Serveaux on December 16, 2007:
I can do you one better Chaos. I had a deep and abiding affection for the CBS television series Beauty and the Beast. At one point, I even purchased a ‘Vincent’ latex mask, complete with flowing fur, er hair and all. I also purchased a t-shirt, a graphic novel, and a cassette of the soundtrack. I still have the shirt, but the mask, graphic novel, and cassette are lost to the ages. Last, and certainly not least I purchased another copy of the soundtrack, tyhis time on CD, last year..
Reply from customcartoons on December 17, 2007:
Have you ever been exposed to any of the Vincent-plus-Whatshername erotic art that popped up around sci-fi convention art shows during the show’s heyday?
I have.
Yeeegh. Woo. Yeah.
Still, I thought it was a pretty good show all around.
Reply from Thom_Serveaux on December 17, 2007:
Fortunate;y, no, as conventions around here are few and far between. I think we’ve had a grand total of 1 Star Trek con, and maybe 5 or 6 comic/trading card cons in the past say, oh, 20 years.
8 el gaucho on Dec 16, 2007 at 6:50 am
Sledge Hammer! (before you ask — both.)
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Reply from Josh P on December 17, 2007:
Include me in on this one too! But I was too young at the time to understand it was a comedy. I thought it was a serious police/crime drama… seriously.
9 Ariel on Dec 16, 2007 at 7:11 am
Um? I’m hopelessly in love with Bryan Adams- really not cool these days. 15 years ago he was awesome but now? I thought those adolescent crushes were supposed to fade after a decade and a half…
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Reply from Bill Corbett on December 16, 2007:
Cuts like a knife, doesn’t it?
Reply from Geena on January 19, 2008:
Oh, but it feels SO RIGHT.
10 Onil on Dec 16, 2007 at 7:23 am
I loved how in the first Billy Jack movie BillyJack was constantly getting his ass handed to him. He became known for his karate fighting but he never won a single fight in that first one unless he had a gun.
My personal confession from the past:
I watched The Hogan Family. Loved that Mrs. Poole. Thought that Jason Bateman had the makings to be a newer and better Kirk Cameron.
My personal confession for the present:
I recently watched Ang Lee’s Incredible Hulk again and I no longer hate it. I think having to sit through all 30 hours of it the first time had something to do with my initial reaction. Watching it in installments helped me see some of the movie’s better attributes.
You are not alone in your bad taste. Bring your shame into the light and unburden your soul.
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Reply from wurwolf on December 16, 2007:
He also loves the Christmas Shoes song, everyone.
11 Macgyver on Dec 16, 2007 at 7:34 am
Hey, I still like that song.
I also………liked Toxic by Britney Spears when it came out. Not for the video, the actual song….
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Reply from Minnesota on December 17, 2007:
Local H does a great Rock cover of that song.
12 Hammock on Dec 16, 2007 at 8:19 am
I was waching Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers appropriately in 1993 when it premiered, and I was 7 years old. I continued to watch it as it went through the new seasons; Power Rangers Zeo, Power Rangers Turbo, Power Rangers In Space, and maybe one season afterwards, too. I kept watching until I was in 8th grade or so, but couldn’t dare tell my friends. I still remember many of the episodes and characters pretty well. Ah, that’s a load off my chest.
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Reply from Hammock on December 16, 2007:
Also, in 2004, I popped in an Ace of Base CD and was addicted to it for a few weeks. Something about it was hypnotizing and soothing. Needless to say, those around me were amused and worried.
13 The Professor on Dec 16, 2007 at 8:49 am
In high school in the late ’70s I was very vocal in my dislike of disco music. I still can’t stand it. However, my dark secret is that I bought some Donna Summers albums because I loved her voice so much. I listened to them when no one was around and I never told a soul. Thanks for letting me unburden myself.
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14 Rufus T. on Dec 16, 2007 at 9:01 am
I used to own Batman and Robin. Forgive me!
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15 Rufus T. on Dec 16, 2007 at 9:04 am
I also think that the movie Demolition Man is quite brilliant in a Road House kind of way.
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16 Nerf on Dec 16, 2007 at 9:47 am
Although I completely abhor the majority of popular music, I’m a big fan of the Spice Girl’s song “Wannabe”. But I promise, that’s their only song that I like. No, I’m serious. I don’t even like that other song “Say You’ll Be There”. Or the other song, “Two Become One”. And I most definitely didn’t see their movie.
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17 jsg on Dec 16, 2007 at 9:49 am
I listen to Weird Al CDs … for the music! My secret shame…
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Reply from Josh P on December 17, 2007:
Check out the burgeoning Weird Al thread on the Music forum. You are not alone my friend. There are dozens of us! Dozens!
18 Queen Bee on Dec 16, 2007 at 10:25 am
I enjoy glitter in all forms but the movie.
When I became engaged last year and my husband and I were struggling for mortgage approval, my CPA sister announced that my parents had a savings bond in my name, to which I was now welcome.
I was, of course, profoundly grateful, moved, and relieved, but asked why I was never told of the bond’s existence until I was 30 years old. “Because,” she explained, “we were afraid you’d just blow it all on glitter.”
Perhaps I can finance the glitter habit with the eBay sale of my “New Kids On the Block: Hangin’ Tough Live” VHS tape.
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Reply from Jamie McLargeHuge on December 16, 2007:
I used to play that tape and practice all the dances with my best friend and then perform them in the kitchen for my Mom.
She was saddened by it all and gave me a copy of “Atlas Shrugged” to read and then I was better.
Reply from Queen Bee on December 17, 2007:
Yet another appreciation of literature to lay at the doorstep of the New Kids!
Thanks to horrendous student loan debt and the aforementioned mortgage, our only entertainment consists of Rifftrax. Perhaps I should burnish my “Right Stuff” dance skeelz.
19 MontyServo on Dec 16, 2007 at 11:55 am
That’s nothing, I still own a vinyl copy of the Billy Jack soundtrack.
Besides the aforementioned One Tin Soldier, it includes several pieces of the instrumental Indian mystical snake music from the movie. And perhaps the most depressing song ever, sung by Tom Laughlin’s daughter who was also in the movie as one of the hippie children.
And of course, I have the DVD box set.
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Reply from Bill Corbett on December 16, 2007:
And perhaps the most depressing song ever, sung by Tom Laughlin’s daughter who was also in the movie as one of the hippie children.
The whole thing was a family affair. The original movie credits said
“Directed by T.C. Frank
Written by Frank and Theresa Christina”
Actually, it was Tom Laughlin (a.k.a. Billy Jack) and his wife who did all of it. Frank, Theresa, and Christina are the names of their kids… who were also IN the movies.
(/knows too much)
Reply from MontyServo on December 16, 2007:
I knew that TC Frank was Tom Laughlin, but never knew that he used his kids names for his writer’s credit.
And of course Tom used the name Don Henderson when he directed the MST3K classic, The Touch Of Satan.
Nowadays Tom and Dolores spend most of their time as radical political nutjobs. Although he is still trying to get another Billy Jack film made, which would be the most awesome movie of all time if ever made.
Reply from Bill Corbett on December 16, 2007:
Guessing you’ve seen this already, but if not…
http://www.billyjack.com/
Reply from MontyServo on December 16, 2007:
Ah yes. I’ve seen that site. Billy Jack’s right wing ramblings (or is it left wing? I always forget which one is which.)
Billy Jack tells you how he will end the Iraq war… if only you will elect him president.
Reply from killeroo on December 16, 2007:
Billy Jack fans are going to turn the tide at the next election. Just wait and see.
20 wurwolf on Dec 16, 2007 at 12:14 pm
I love cheesy 70s music. Is that so wrong?
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21 GregMcduck on Dec 16, 2007 at 12:28 pm
You know, I always imagined One Tin Soldier would work great in the final episode of a court drama…
Ok, so the main character is a handsome, but aging, defense attorney, who’s always fought for justice these past seven seasons. Then he finds himself in a case corrupt with politics, and despite all his efforts over a two-part episode, despite the fact that he’s proved his client’s innocence, his client is still found guilty.
Now disgusted with the court system, he declares his retirement in front of a full court room and storms out. The moment he walks outside the court house, the chorus of One Tin Soldier kicks in. Our hero stands at the stop of the court house steps. A single tear rolls down his cheek.
After the line, “on the bloody morning after,” the music pauses. Our hero takes out his attorney badge, and in slow motion, tosses it to the ground ala Gary Cooper in High Noon. When the badge hits the ground, finally the last line of the song, “one tin soldier rides away” is heard. Our man begins to walk down the steps, the credits role, fan protest that the later seasons weren’t as good as the earlier ones but they still buy the DVDs anyway.
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Reply from GregMcduck on December 16, 2007:
My main problem is that I spend my time coming up with this stuff.
Reply from customcartoons on December 17, 2007:
Hey it’s a gift!
22 Edgewriter on Dec 16, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Now you guys have to Riff Billy Jack.
While you are at it, you can go after one of my childhood favorites, Labyrinth.
“I saw my baby. Cryin’ hard as babes could cry. What could I do?” (a segment of film responsible for more dropped babies than any other in the history of film making)
I still love Crash Test Dummie’s first album to my own chagrin and humiliation.
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Reply from MontyServo on December 16, 2007:
I would love for them to riff Billy Jack. Except that there is a rape scene in the movie that would be difficult, and in bad taste, to riff through. Other than that, the movie is certainly ripe for it.
23 Gary on Dec 16, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Three’s Company, it was the 70’s, it was on tv and I was high alot.I honestly love you, I was in love,poor excuses I know. Riffclown you got one more nickname in you? Hit me please.
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Reply from customcartoons on December 17, 2007:
Gaah! … guilty! Tho I was watching it in the 80’s at about age 8 or so. Caught a rerun recently, and was completely pissed off at what a chauvanist Jack was! Guess more of it was over my head than I thought!
Reply from Bill Corbett on December 17, 2007:
You are
ROPER.
(you can pretend it’s because you’re a rodeo star, but we all know the real origin…)
Reply from Chaos on December 17, 2007:
My wife STILL watches Three’s Company sometimes when they show it on TV Tropolis. Did you know that BOTH Blast Hardcheese and Santa’s grandma-daughter from Space Mutiny “fame” were once guest stars on the show?
5 Nerd Loser points to anyone who can tell me which episodes, and in what capacity.
They also got married…
Reply from ROPER on December 17, 2007:
ROPER? Cheap, impotent…I love it! Thanks Mr. C. {still in 70’s mode I guess}. Oh and Chaos, Chrissys boyfriend and a cooking contest contestant repectively. Roper and nerd loser points in one day ,truly this is the season of miracles!
24 Jamie McLargeHuge on Dec 16, 2007 at 5:56 pm
I uh…watch Ghost Hunters in the dark and get all scared even though I know it’s fake. I make my husband sit with me and watch it too.
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Reply from Jamie McLargeHuge on December 16, 2007:
I’m also a big fan of that movie “The Room”.
If you haven’t seen it, go purchase it. It’s worth every cent!
25 torgosPizza on Dec 16, 2007 at 8:19 pm
I gotta say, I love COPS. As craptacular a show as it is, it’s definitely one of life’s great guilty pleasures. (Plus, seeing a wife beater-wearing crackhead get wrestled to the ground never gets old.)
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26 Natureboy on Dec 16, 2007 at 10:43 pm
I was the only person in America that liked the movie Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band……I saw it again recently and I now believe the surviving members of the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton hunted down and put on trial for the out right butchery of those classic Beatles tunes.
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27 Dallas on Dec 16, 2007 at 10:58 pm
The thing I’ve always wondered about that song is, how did their relationship work out? Did he move in with her? Did she have to support him, since he couldn’t get a job, what with being a fictional character with no work history in this dimension? What if they broke up? Did he ever resent the fact that she basically willed him into existence to be her boyfriend? Why can’t I do that?
Oh, and I enjoy the song “We Built This City”, by Starship; recently voted the least hip song ever by Blender magazine, arbitrators of all that is hip.
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28 Josh P on Dec 17, 2007 at 1:43 am
I still listen to Ace of Base. I know all their albums (and B-sides) and consider their 2nd album a masterpiece. I am so ashamed. *runs off crying; puts on “Don’t Turn Around” for comfort*
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29 Pak-Man, AKA Tron on Dec 17, 2007 at 2:36 am
I’ll admit it right here:
I love the movie Suburban Commando, with Hulk Hogan and Christopher Lloyd. It makes me laugh.
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Reply from ern2150 on December 17, 2007:
such a nice place to live
but i wouldn’t wanna visit
30 customcartoons on Dec 17, 2007 at 4:03 am
I want to be a filmmaker someday, but the secret that could ruin my Hollywood career before it even starts is that I loved … I mean LOVED … Hudson Hawk! More than Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. More than the Cohen Bros’ Hudsucker Proxy. More than Apocolypse Now, and that’s just wrong. My DH (Dear Hubby) and I ran across a 3-DVD set of Bruce Willis flicks for $15 at WalMart: Hudson Hawk, Fifth Element, and Tears of the Sun (5th Elem, another favorite!), so we skip buying milk for the kids to get it. When are you gonna find Hudson Hawk again? After watching it, I think I may have finally put it in its place. I see what I used to love in it, but it’s still delightful in its over-the-topness. And I think that’s much healthier now.
Now I’m ashamed to admit I’m searching for a copy of North with Elijah Wood, aged 10 or so. The way he delivers the line: “So they can be closer to my CRACK??!” still makes us laugh till we cry.
Oh, and some other shameful movies I shamelessly love:
Wild World of Batwoman (tyvm, MST3k)
Yahoo s Serious’s Young Einstein
and
The Young Sherlock Holmes (but that’s just cuz he was FIIIINE!)
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31 Nanner on Dec 17, 2007 at 7:27 am
Austrian and now Norwegian music video, I completely respect that. I also eat herring on pumpernickel.
I used to watch all manner of cheesy films when I was younger (and still manage to sneak them in every now and then), but the only one I can think of at the moment is Krull. The main character had such earnestness, I almost feel sorry for him. He poured his heart out into that role, and for such cheesiness! Which is of course why I love it.
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32 Minnesota on Dec 17, 2007 at 7:36 am
I enjoy America’s Funniest Homevideos
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Reply from Edgewriter on December 17, 2007:
Ah, but Sagat or post Sagat?
To be really humiliating it must be during the Sagat years. And you also must have laughed at his jokes.
I watch that show thinking, “Was that joke Trace”s?”
33 Edgewriter on Dec 17, 2007 at 7:51 am
To my utter regret and humiligration, I found myself singing along to the only man on man christmas song I know of.
“last christmas I gave you my heart, but the very next day, you gave it away. This year to save me from tears, I’ll give it to someone special.”
Damn that George Michaels.
Sadly, somewhere in LA or New York, Tim Gunn is probably singing along to that song and crying . . . .
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34 Sampo on Dec 17, 2007 at 10:25 am
I run a Web site devoted to a cable TV show that has been cancelled for eight years. Oh, wait…
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Reply from Bill Corbett on December 17, 2007:
I run a Web site devoted to a cable TV show that has been cancelled for eight years. Oh, wait…
Now that’s just… sad.
(Happy holidays to you and yours, Chris.)
35 Johnny B on Dec 17, 2007 at 11:07 am
I confess I’m thoroughly hooked on Lifetime Movie Network. Ahh, so many beloved television cast-offs, it’s like the thrift store of cable tv.
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Reply from Tim on December 17, 2007:
“…it’s like the thrift store of cable tv.”
Does that mean you feel compelled to take a shower after visiting the site?
36 killeroo on Dec 17, 2007 at 1:31 pm
I’ve got a degree in Psychodrama with a minor in barrel racing from Billy Jack University.
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Reply from killeroo on December 17, 2007:
Unfortunately, this hasn’t made me as competitive in the job industry as one might think.
37 Ortega on Dec 17, 2007 at 2:31 pm
The Apple.
so bad its entertaining to watch. It personifies all my problems with musicals in a thick coat of 70’s glitz.
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38 Kei on Dec 17, 2007 at 10:44 pm
There was a brief period in my life when I watched The Music Man once a day, every day.
I REGRET NOTHING!
Maybe.
Also, would you be so kind as to bestow upon me a nickname? I… got here late. Does it help my case if I say that the day you made that post was my birthday? Which means I was probably just really tired after all the partying and the killing of braincells. And by “partying,” I mean “watching massive amounts of YouTube videos and then falling asleep with my face plastered against the keyboard.” I’m sure the killing braincells thing still stands, though.
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39 Virginia Corbett on Dec 18, 2007 at 9:19 pm
There was a brief period in my life when I watched The Music Man once a day, every day.
I hear ya.
Movies I have, for periods of my life, obsessively watched once a day, every day:
The Sting II (not the good one with Paul Newman Robert Redford, the second one with Mac Davis, Jackie Gleason and Teri Garr)
Stand By Me
Poltergeist
The Lost Boys
The Natural
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (but my video tape was missing the first 20 minutes - I never knew the whole golden ticket thing til I was an adult)
Back to the Future
Disney’s Robin Hood (I had a crush on the fox)
The obligatory Brat Pack movies (Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo’s Fire, Breakfast Club)
AHHhhhh
I’m pretty sure I’m missing some, but that feels better. Thanks for the outlet, Bill. Hope you still want to be married to me.
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40 Bob Jackass on Dec 19, 2007 at 9:52 am
Good eye Mr. Corbett!
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Reply from Bob Jackass on December 19, 2007:
Oops… there was supposed to be an “then & now” image of Jemaine associated with my comment, but it didn’t appear.
I guess I’ll try linking to it…
http://a875.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/92/l_f90888f0303c8d117f4223670851974a.jpg
41 Robert Taylor on Dec 20, 2007 at 11:58 pm
I own well over 50,000 comics. I went to see Pootie Tang 3 times in the theater. I have gotten into arguments on which superhero would make the best hockey goaltender. I am a veritable encyclopedia of Pro-wrestling.
I also think Scandal’s “The Warrior” is probably the greatest song of my generation.
I do not apologize.
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42 spap ooP on Dec 21, 2007 at 10:53 pm
gawd if you want to read some true billy jack fans go to badmovies.org.
anyway, billy jack, where to begin…i saw the billy jack movies at the drive in despite being way too young for an R movie. i think my sister and her bf took me.everyone thought the movies were So Cool. i was a preteen, whats everyone elses excuse?
so…me and my cousin were making flavor-ade in the kitchen-hey it was the 70’s and we couldnt afford koolaid that week-and my brother comes in and dumps the powder all over me and my cousins heads like in the soda fountain scene. he then dons a cowboy hat and me and my cousin go from the hippy indians and into the rednecks and my brother goes from the rednecks and into billjack. my brother does the “i get so angry speech” and starts wailing on me and my cousin. a melee ensues and we break the kitchen table leg right off. my brother ducks out and me and my cousin have to fix the table-which we did.
Good Times.
When i see the movie nowadays im embarresed to watch the stereo types and bad acting.
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43 Dave-o on Dec 27, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Ok, as was revealed at my job (starbucks) a few days ago, i know the Aqua s0ng “barbie girl” by heart…i gave the excuse “it was on punk goes pop and thats where i learned it…but its not true…and im a totally straight male…really.
Also i sit around with friends at work and discuss “has beens” literally spending hours at a time discussing Pia Zadora or John Agar…thanks for the outlet man…it feels good to let that go
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Reply from Dave-o on December 27, 2007:
also, o wise riffclown, hit me with a nickname
44 Lars Tk. on Dec 31, 2007 at 4:38 am
I’m a norwegian and I think a lot of people in Norway thinks Take on me by aha is a classic. I liked it as a kid because it had some animation in the video and when this musicvideo was released Norway had just one tv-channel that mostly showed finnish tv theatre shows and programs about boring things like plants, potatoes and other things that kids don’t wanna see on TV. The lead singer from aha is still making music today.
My bad taste is related to computer games, I just played Leisure suit Larry for the 10th time this week.
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45 Geena on Jan 19, 2008 at 5:20 pm
I love Billy Jack SO MUCH (I’ve thrown parties dedicated to riffing it). What’s scarier is my brother, who is an actual kung-fu type, loves it without even a trace of snark or irony.
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