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These are things that are guaranteed to make me smile, cheer me up, and brighten my day.
Harold and Maude
11 people recommended this item
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I cannot believe I forgot to include 'Harold and Maude' in my list of all time favorites.. This is one of the most charming and eccentric movie I've ever seen. (via Andrea)
Updated Mar 5, 2007
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Special Edition)
6 people recommended this item
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"Supposedly Cousteau and his cronies invented the idea of putting walkie-talkies into the helmet. But we made ours with a special rabbit ear on the top so we could pipe in some music."
"I've never seen a bond company stooge stick his neck out like that."
Updated Jan 12, 2009
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Rushmore
3 people recommended this item
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"I like your nurse's uniform, guy."
"These are O.R. scrubs."
"O, R they?"
Updated Jan 12, 2009
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Martin & Orloff
First to recommend
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"I called the loony bin, they said you got out today. Sorry how you tried to kill yourself. Anyhow, I expect you back at work tomorrow morning. We'll discuss how to ease you back into things."
Updated Jan 12, 2009
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True Romance
3 people recommended this item
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I can watch this a bazillion times and it never ever gets old. EVER. This is Tony Scott directing a Quentin Tarantino script, much in the vain of Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, with an amazing all-star cast, including Val Kilmer as Elvis.
"I look back and am amazed that my thoughts were so clear and true, that three words went through my mind endlessly, repeating themselves like a broken record: you're so cool, you're so cool, you're so cool."
My favorite scene? Check out pre-Soprano Gandolfini in a knock down drag out with Patricia Arquette. Three words: homemade flame thrower.
Updated Jan 12, 2009
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Sin City
First to recommend
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"The Valkyrie at my side is shouting and laughing with the pure, hateful, bloodthirsty joy of the slaughter... and so am I."
"She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him."
Updated Jan 9, 2009
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Pulp Fiction (Collector's Edition)
7 people recommended this item
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"There's a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you. I been sayin' that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your ass. I never really questioned what it meant. I thought it was just a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before you popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice. Now I'm thinkin': it could mean you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could be you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be a shepherd."
Updated Jan 9, 2009
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Poolhall Junkies
2 people recommended this item
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"Bet twenty thousand! Oh, did I stutter? Everybody gone all quiet and shit? About a minute ago it was like an evening at the Apollo up in this motherfucker, now all of a sudden it's quiet as a church. That's all right, Chico, I don't blame you. I've been beatin' this Jimmy Walker lookin' motherfucker all goddamn night, he can't win."
"You'd better watch your mouth, Johnny!"
"You watch my mouth, Chico. 'Cause you sure as hell don't wanna watch me play pool. Unless, of course, I'm blind folded and hand cuffed with a pool cue stickin' out of my ass. Or maybe you'd bet the twenty thousand then?"
Updated Jan 9, 2009
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy: Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson
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"You never disappoint me." Hagbard said. "If they ever hang you, you'll be arguing about whether the rope really exists until the last minute."
"That was a simple riddle used by Zen Masters in the training of monks, Joe remembered. You take a newborn gosling and slip it through the neck of a bottle. Month after month you keep it in there and feed it, until it is a fullgrown goose and can no longer be passed through the bottles neck. The question is: Without breaking the bottle, how do you get the goose out?"
"Objectivity is presumably the opposite of schizophrenia. Which means that it is nothing but acceptance of everybody elses notion of reality. But nobody's perception of reality is the same as everybody's notion of it, which means that the most objective person is the real schizophrenic. It is hard to get beyond the accepted beliefs of one's own age. The first man to think a new thought advances it very tentatively. New ideas have to be around a while before anyone will promote them hard. In their first form, the are like tiny, imperceptible mutations that may eventually lead to new species. That's why cultural cross-fertilization is so important. It increases the gene-pool of the imagination. The Arabs, say, have one part of the puzzle. The Franks another. So, when the Knight Templar meet the Hashishin, something new is born. The human race has always lived more or less happily in the kingdom of the blind. But there is an elephant among us. A one-eyed elephant."
Updated Jan 9, 2009
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: Tom Robbins
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"I believe in everything; nothing is sacred, I believe in nothing; everything is sacred."
"Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy."
"There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for."
"A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book may create an illusion of reality as a clock creates an illusion of time; a book may be real, just as a clock is real (both more real, perhaps, than those ideas to which they allude); but let's not kid ourselves - all a clock contains is wheels and springs and all a book contains is sentences."
Updated Jan 9, 2009
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