Re: Lady GaGa
 

I've seen the hair bow. Impressive. I have also sampled her YouTube offerings. It turns out that she is pretty much the most popular artist in spin class these days. I will not rush out to buy her album, but her stuff is some of the less offensive music I hear in certain classes.

Re: Lady GaGa
 

For awhile you could bet on this at Paddy Power:

What is Lady GaGa?

1/3 – All Lady
9/4 - Hermaphrodite
5/1 – All Man
1,000/1 – Robot
10,000/1 – Alien

Re: Lady GaGa
 

He wore pants more often than she does.

Re: Lady GaGa
 

What paid out?

Re: Lady GaGa
 

He didn't wear enough pants, though.

Re: Lady GaGa
 

I suspect the action is still open.

Re: Lady GaGa
 

the Chuck's nearest your home, serves beer or not?

Re: Lady GaGa
 

Every woman in the Beautiful video is just ridiculous. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70g1Hpnzai8

TM

Re: Lady GaGa
 

the reason most of us think your lying is that you're not making sense. we've all been in spin classes where half the songs the instructor plays are things we've never heard of- I'm with you that far- but to buy your whole story, we have to believe you asked the instructor something like, "that one sprint song, with the driving bass, I didn't like it much, but can you tell me the artist's name?"

not. plausible.

meanwhile, you don't ask the CEC waitress for the wine list?

Re: Lady GaGa
 

I'm not really sure what you are talking about, as usual, but maybe I can set you straight nonetheless. Here is how this fascinating scenario plays out. I go to many spin clases, and hear the same songs over and over. Something about riding a disco stick. Something about red wine. I go to YouTube today and watch the Lady GaGa videos and, hey, it turns out I recognize these songs. They are the songs from sping class. Every single one of these videos contains a song I have heard in spin class. I know it's getting to that hazy part of the day for you but can you follow this?

Re: Lady GaGa
 

my post reads like obama's health care speech and yours like the guy yelling "you lie.""

The Top 10 White Trash Heroes of Cinema
 

http://www.spike.com/blog/top-10-whi...530?spike=6504

No. 1 is brilliant.

Re: The Top 10 White Trash Heroes of Cinema
 

luke skywalker was actually black.

Re: The Top 10 White Trash Heroes of Cinema
 

I'm sorry, we're missing old skool here.

No Tennessee Williams? No Elvis? No Cool Hand Luke. No one - absolutely no one - in a mullet? Cheese us fucking christ.

Re: The Top 10 White Trash Heroes of Cinema
 

You're thinking of Luke Skyywalker.

Re: The Top 10 White Trash Heroes of Cinema
 

I think you forget the definition of mullet.

http://img3.ifilmpro.com/blog//1/8/7...2713846945.jpg

Re: The Top 10 White Trash Heroes of Cinema
 

Yeh, breezed by that one. Bit long on top but still a mullet. I stand corrected.

But I think any respectible list needs to include David Lynch's Wild at Heart and maybe Blue Velvet, too. I mean, Lumberton is what White Trash is all about.

Then there's Paris, Texas. German White Trash. Yummmy.

Edited to add: Smooth Talk is another great white trash film with Laura Dern. Basically her whole 1980s uv-rah. Then there's Jodie...

Re: The Top 10 White Trash Heroes of Cinema
 

White trash hero, not white trash movie.

Now it seems your dancing shoes are always on my couch.
 

All of Janet's videos were fine, though I prefer "Love Will Never Do Without You" .

Apropos of nothing, "Control" and "Rhythm Nation 1814" showed that you didn't have to be a pretentious prog rock stoner Tolkein freak from the UK to make a concept album.

Re: Lady GaGa
 

According to PLF, it does not.

Re: The Top 10 White Trash Heroes of Cinema
 

Each of those is a white trash movie, in the tradition of Tennessee Williams. It's all about the kindness of strangers.

We aren't shallow. We understand that incest, clannishness, distorted psychotic behavior and drinking beer from a bucket on the old sofa on the porch all say something profound about the human condition.

Re: Lady GaGa
 

That flying skull rules.

Re: The Top 10 White Trash Heroes of Cinema
 

But No. 2 is my fave. I love that movie. It may be heresy, but I like it better than Lebowski.

http://img4.ifilmpro.com/resize/imag...2711833890.jpg

Re: Lady GaGa
 

I know of her only because the GoFugYourself girls routinely feature her in their column.

P&P On YouTube
 

Perhaps not everyone will find this as funny as I did, but it combines two of my favorite artists!! Jane Austen and Mitchell/Webb!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1hNaiy83P0

The Informant
 

I like it much better than Lebowski, which always seemed extremely forced.

I went to a screening of the new Soderbergh movie last night. I enjoyed it, but my escort did not.

It is more of a cult piece, than mass appeal. Matt Damon is amazing.

Re: The Informant
 

Having read the book and being somewht familiar with the case, I am a bity confused about how/why they made it into a comedy.

Re: The Informant
 

what do you like better, fat oprah or slim oprah?

Re: The Informant
 

The tone of the marketing seems off, as it's not a comedy. It is light in places and farcical at times, but it's not a comedy in the modern sense.

As a viewer, I prefer to walk in with no expectations and, in this case, I was rewarded for my lack of knowledge.

Re: P&P On YouTube
 

Mr. Darcy dancing freestyle disco to harpsichord music was pretty funny in a P&P geek kind of way!

Re: P&P On YouTube
 

You know, you've always had some white trash cred, and, what with the shotgun wedding and hanging with the hicks in the country, dtb had been rapidly gathering cred, and I was starting to think of the two of you as sorta Laura Dern and Jodie Foster from the 80s, and then the two of you go and do this.

Come on. Austen. Harpsichords. Uggh.

Re: P&P On YouTube
 

You've got me all wrong. I'm farm girl not simple white trash. Farm girls can get edumacated and learn to appreciate Austen and harpsichords.

Re: The Top 10 White Trash Heroes of Cinema
 

Not heresy at all. It's a fantastic movie. I like Lebowski better, but not by much.

"Pain don't hurt." - Dalton
 

So, we all know that Swayze's character in Roadhouse had a PhD from NYU in Philosophy. That's what makes the line in the title so much more profound.

RIP, mijo.

"Nobody ever wins a fight."

Re: P&P On YouTube
 

Are you saying white trash can't appreciate a good harpie?

And this farm girl thing, help me get it right, are you talking Blanche Dubois, Laurel Sommersby, or Rebecca of Donnybrook Farm?

Re: The Top 10 White Trash Heroes of Cinema
 

Me too. Way better.

And it's not just Nick Cage's finest moment, but one of Holly Hunter's (not The Piano, but still.)

Re: "Pain don't hurt." - Dalton
 

Two of my favorite characters basically have the same philosophy:

"Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies — 'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'" - Eliot Rosewater, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.

***

"All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary. And three, be nice."

"If somebody gets in your face and calls you a cocksucker, I want you to be nice. Ask him to walk. Be nice. If he won't walk, walk him. But be nice. If you can't walk him, one of the others will help you, and you'll both be nice. I want you to remember that it's a job. It's nothing personal." - Dalton, Roadhouse

Re: The Top 10 White Trash Heroes of Cinema
 

10 years ago, people would have put Leaving Las Vegas above it. I don't think that's true anymore.

Re: The Informant
 

The moon grows to full
Wanes, before growing again
Kind of like Oprah.

Still the best haiku I've ever written.

Colon and Semi-colon
 

Why is semi-colon the default on the keyboard? I shouldn't have to push 'Shift' for a colon. Aren't colons used more often than semi-colons?