Slowly Going Bald

"Look, we're gonna spend half the night driving around the Hills looking for this one party, and you're gonna say it sucks, and we're all gonna leave and we're gonna go look for this other party. But all the parties and all the bars, they all suck. I spend half the night talking to some girl who's looking around the room to see if there's someone who's more important she should be talking to, and it's like I'm supposed to be all happy 'cause she's wearing a backpack."

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Things That Are Overrated; Mainly, Although Not Always, In Regards To Movies

The Purpose-Driven Life

The Lord of the Rings movies

Dead Poets' Society

Braveheart, Gladiator, and every other stupid movie aimed at 19-year-old guys

Jamie Foxx

Getting up early

Shaving daily

Self-respect

The DaVinci Code

Staying late at the office in hopes of garnering more than the standard 3%-4% raise when evaluations come around in January

Wine

Coffee

California Mexican food

Pretty much everything Robin Williams has ever done, except for Good Will Hunting, and he barely toes the line in that one

M. Night Shyamalan

Working for a living

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Don't talk about my boy M. Night that way. He rocks my socks.

By Master Baron Von Tuckenstein the First Esquire, at 11:11 AM, April 07, 2005

Yeah, The Village was fantastic. And by fantastic, I mean really, really dumb.

By Dan Carlson, at 11:16 AM, April 07, 2005

man im with you on the daily shaving thing.

By Greg Allen, at 3:46 PM, April 08, 2005

california mexican food is not overrated, at least if you're in san diego, or somewhere else relatively close to the border/with a lot of people who know how to make authentic mexican food.

There is nothing like a good burrito, and i've never been able to find it outside of california. Though granted, i've never looked for it in another border state.

By Jo, at 9:13 PM, April 08, 2005

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...a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; of a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces....

O waste of loss, in the hot mazes, lost, among bright stars on this most weary unbright cinder, lost! Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When?

O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again.

--Look Homeward, Angel

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

--John Stuart Mill

We have all read in scientific books, and indeed, in all romances, the story of the man who has forgotten his name. This man walks about the streets and can see and appreciate everything; only he cannot remember who he is. Well, every man is that man in the story. Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God; but thou shalt not know thyself. We are all under the same mental calamity; we have all forgotten our names. We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.

--G.K. Chesterton

We were, for the briefest of moments, something greater than the sum of our uncertain parts; we were youth itself, in all its painful glory and sharp joy.

--August Van Zorn

There is a time in the lives of most writers when they are vulnerable, when the vivid dreams and ambitions of childhood seem to pale in the harsh sunlight of what we call the real world. In short, there's a time when things can go either way.

--Stephen King

Film lovers are sick people.

--Francois Truffaut

Slowly Going Bald

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Things That Are Overrated; Mainly, Although Not Always, In Regards To Movies

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