12.27.2003
against pretention
i hope you all had a wonderful x-mas, etc.
last night i was accused by my sister katie of willfully hating things because of their popularity. i hear this a lot, i guess, being opinionated and a bit of a pain in the ass. anyway, in the opposite spirit, here are two lists:
ten totally mainstream things that i'm 100% into
(in no particular order)
1. christmas
2. every U2 album barring the most recent (including "pop," which is uneven, but not entirely bad)
3. cameron crowe's almost famous
4. buffy spin-off series "angel"
5. non-"nebraska"-era springsteen ("rosalita," for example)
6. "hardball" with chris matthews
7. "seinfeld" re-runs (with the exception of the really late ones, which get a bit tiresome)
8. REGIS PHILBIN
9. french fries
10. street hockey
ten artsy fartsy things that i'm not into
1. pavement
2. last tango in paris
3. katherine dunn's geek love (sorry folks, couldn't make it through)
4. the talking heads (i don't really dislike them, but i greet them with a very un-hip indifference)
5. sushi
6. dave hickey, though he is, admittedly, pretty funny
7. pretty much any movie about junkies, with a specifically icy place in my heart for darren aronofsky's miserable requiem for a dream
8. john kennedy toole's a confederacy of dunces
9. art openings
10. hippie-bashing (you know, where all your cool friends poo poo some poor white guy with dreadlocks-- i find this secretly conservative)
last night i was accused by my sister katie of willfully hating things because of their popularity. i hear this a lot, i guess, being opinionated and a bit of a pain in the ass. anyway, in the opposite spirit, here are two lists:
ten totally mainstream things that i'm 100% into
(in no particular order)
1. christmas
2. every U2 album barring the most recent (including "pop," which is uneven, but not entirely bad)
3. cameron crowe's almost famous
4. buffy spin-off series "angel"
5. non-"nebraska"-era springsteen ("rosalita," for example)
6. "hardball" with chris matthews
7. "seinfeld" re-runs (with the exception of the really late ones, which get a bit tiresome)
8. REGIS PHILBIN
9. french fries
10. street hockey
ten artsy fartsy things that i'm not into
1. pavement
2. last tango in paris
3. katherine dunn's geek love (sorry folks, couldn't make it through)
4. the talking heads (i don't really dislike them, but i greet them with a very un-hip indifference)
5. sushi
6. dave hickey, though he is, admittedly, pretty funny
7. pretty much any movie about junkies, with a specifically icy place in my heart for darren aronofsky's miserable requiem for a dream
8. john kennedy toole's a confederacy of dunces
9. art openings
10. hippie-bashing (you know, where all your cool friends poo poo some poor white guy with dreadlocks-- i find this secretly conservative)
