Well gang, time to unburden your souls. It's time to list those things that you enjoy that others don't know, or worse, wouldn't understand.
I'll go first...
This is so difficult for me...
I like japanese Samurai movies from the '60's & '70's, Lone Wolf and Cub and Nemuri Kyshiro are favorites and I'll watch anything with Katsu Shintaro in it, especially Zatoichi (if you want to see a blind character done right this is the baby for you).
And I also like ... choke ... 'Lord of the Dance'.
This message has been edited by bluto_v on Mar 24, 2004 5:05 PM
Ummm...a very laughably cheesey movie from 1982 called Megaforce. It is so horribly bad I have to watch it a few times a year. The over-acting is quite humorous. I honestly find it more entertaining than most "legitimate" movies that end up just being another movie.
I have a hard time admitting to my male friends that I watch and enjoy "Gilmore Girls". I usually have to couch the admission with a healthy "That Lauren Graham is one hot piece of tail!". Not the only reason I watch, of course, but it is an added bonus.
The problem is that I am incapable of harassing someone who enjoys "The OC" if they know I enjoy "GG".
I also have an unabashed appreciation for 1970's Rock and Roll. I'm not exactly guilty over that one, but it's a taste I find not many in my generation share. I can't imagine why more people don't realize rock music reached it's apex in 1976.
I keep one of my toenails painted year round. It is often quite a shock to friends when they see me barefoot or in sandals. "What happended to your toe?" is the usual response.
I get cool polishes with metal flakes, colored chrome finishes, and one bottle changes from clear (indoors) to deep purple metal flake when exposed to direct sunlight!
GILMORE GIRLS has long been my favorite show on television. Lorelai and Rory are two of the smartest, funniest, best-written characters on the tube, and I don't know which one I am more attracted to.
I think Hanson's "Mmmbop" is one of the best pop songs ever written, and lags behind only "Smells Like Teen Spirit" as the best single of the '90s. Some of Hanson's other songs are top-notch power-pop too, even though the boys are goofy-looking Oklahomans.
I get a lot of crap for still liking Def Leppard.
I love GILLIGAN'S ISLAND, and it's not just because Dawn Wells was a hottie.
Liberty Meadows is a guilty pleasure? Hrm... I don't feel guilty enjoying it. But I do enjoy it.
Everquest
Hooters restaurants
Building newer more powerful computers
Denver Broncos cheerleaders (umm... just guilty because they won't come over to my place for dinner)
And yet, I don't really feel guilty about any of those.
Along the lines of all you guys who love GILMORE GIRLS, my current TV guilty pleasure obsession is JOAN OF ARCADIA. Great show, fantastic supporting cast, and Amber Tamblyn shines in the lead role.
I have plenty of ACTUAL guilty pleasures, but of course I'm not going to mention those on a family board. Let me just direct you to my "Go to hell" results...
But for guilty pleasures in the sense that we're sharing here, I like to listen to that old French Metal Boogie band, TRUST. I think they're from the 70s or 80s, I picked up a best of in Paris a couple of years ago.
I just love the sound of aggressive heavy music sung in French, it's so deliciously wrong. English, sure, German, yeah but French? It's so soft and sexy that when it's growled it's really hilarious...
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You are a god among insects. Never let anyone tell you different.
I have plenty of ACTUAL guilty pleasures, but of course I'm not going to mention those on a family board. Let me just direct you to my "Go to hell" results... Melissa
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My favorite quote from the description of your level of Hell is "Sodomites writhe in pain." Not being one, I can only imagine and say "Well, duh!"
It is, of course, an indication of how morals, perceptions, and words change, that a person who read the story of Sodom and Gommorah in the "first edition" would have understood that a "sodomite" was someone who was inhospitable!
I'm reminded of the old Lenny Bruce routine about a word which he got arrested for using, and so in subsequent shows used "blahblahblah" as a substitute. He made the point that while people tended to use "blahblahblah" as if it was a prejorative, no man would want to date a woman who was not a "blahblahblah", and, as he put it, if you disagree "I hope you never get your blah blahhed!"
I take great pleasure from placing the occupants of my friends well maintained and sacrascant DC direct action figure shelf in 'comedy' sexual poses.
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I had a friend who used to do that with her Barbies. Every week when she came home from work after her cleaning lady had been in, she would find them decorously rearranged.
