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Okay, I'll start with Waterworld. Sure, it's not exactly Casablanca, but after years of hearing that it was one of the worst movies of all time, I was pleasantly surprised when I finally watched it.
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Yeah, its not that bad. The "Postman" also isn't as horrible as its made out to be. Certainly worth a watch.
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Tofu and tempeh. Like most things, if you take the time and energy to learn how they're meant to be prepared, they're quite delicious-- and I don't mean merely as "meat substitutes." There used to be a Balinese restaurant downtown that made a tempeh-peanut stir-fry that I still dream about from time to time.
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I'll add: Metallica's "Load" and "Reload" albums. When I was 9th Grade (after years of being a diehard Metallica fan), they released Load and many of us diehard Metallica fans in our preteen and early teen years HATED it. It just wasn't what we expected. I happened, on the other hand, to love those albums, and still do. Very bluesy, and I think they stand the test of time.
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Not much between despair and ecstacy
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The movie "Roadhouse," starring Patrick Swayze. It's an updated Western and a rather obvious story about a stoic good guy defeating a bad guy. Yet I can't help enjoying it every time I watch it. Part of the reason is that Swayze represents the hero we would all like to be: He's tough, caring, and has all the right answers. He can handle himself in a fight. Another reason is Ben Gazzara, who is compelling to watch. He seethes with anger as the villain. There are also a number of supporting characters (Red, Emmett, the waitress who becomes a singer, the bouncers) who round out the world of the story and make it seem real or at least inviting.
The movie is very obviously an updated Western with a rather stereotypical view of Missouri/Kansas (where I live). Yet, in spite of all that, I find myself enjoying it.
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Don't Stop Peelieving
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The smell of crushed Skunk Cabbage. Walking along the streams and wetlands on my Gram's property, I'd purposely stomp 'em. 
"Anytime a good book like this is cancelled, I hope another Teen Titan is murdered." --Cobalt
"Anytime an awesome book like S6 is cancelled, I hope EVERY Titan is murdered." --Me
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Sketchy, I think they're actually prestigious now. Perfectly respectable restaurants serve them and everything.
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Bottled "French" dressing. The more disgustingly viscous, overly sweet and blindingly traffic-cone orange it is, the better. 
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Terrifyingly On-Topic.
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Airplane food -- not that there's much of that around these days
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Originally posted by Sketch Lad:
Brussel sprouts! LOVE them!
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Long live the Legion!
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OMG, I thought I was the only person in the world that loved Brussel sprouts!
I'm not real sure what I'm supposed to hate, but I love bad dance music. C&C Music Factory? Lady Marmalade? Dead or Alive? Oh yeah, I wait until no one is looking and spaz out to unbelievably cheesy music.
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More Polyanna than Poison Ivy
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The third season of Transformers. I swear, it's the 5YL of kids action cartoons. Part of the reason I've recently softened my views on 5YL is because I realized how similar they are -- jumping ahead to a darker and more violent future. And the argument that the animation didn't cut it doesn't hold up to me. Several Season 3 episodes had top-notch animation, and Season 2 had just as many well-written but badly-animated episodes as Season 3. Originally posted by Set:
Dead or Alive? "Youthquake" is one of my favorite albums. 
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Sixties and Seventies C&W music. I have entirely the wrong politics/pedigree for it, but sometimes I just can't help myself.
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DEAD OR ALIVE kicks freakin' ASS.
Great Space! My collection of 70s country would mortify ANYone!
I still love Zella Lehr to this day!
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Touch the magic...
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Originally posted by He Who Wanders:
The movie "Roadhouse," starring Patrick Swayze. It's an updated Western and a rather obvious story about a stoic good guy defeating a bad guy. Yet I can't help enjoying it every time I watch it. Part of the reason is that Swayze represents the hero we would all like to be: He's tough, caring, and has all the right answers. He can handle himself in a fight. Another reason is Ben Gazzara, who is compelling to watch. He seethes with anger as the villain. There are also a number of supporting characters (Red, Emmett, the waitress who becomes a singer, the bouncers) who round out the world of the story and make it seem real or at least inviting.
The movie is very obviously an updated Western with a rather stereotypical view of Missouri/Kansas (where I live). Yet, in spite of all that, I find myself enjoying it. Love that movie. Sam Elliot is awesome in it and the music is second to none. The Jeff Healey stuff that is.
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musicals- i bitch moan and complain like no tomorrow about them, but in reality i would like nothing more for the world to brake out in both sound and dance. and when no one is around i play a song i like and dance to it as if i could really dance and sing
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The one problem with musicals is that no one ever thinks it's weird that people have suddenly broken into song, and they all seem to know the lyrics.
The only time they ever broke that was in the Hairspray remake when Trudy is singing in the school and everyone's giving her weird looks.
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Originally posted by Dev Em: Originally posted by He Who Wanders:
[b]The movie "Roadhouse," starring Patrick Swayze. It's an updated Western and a rather obvious story about a stoic good guy defeating a bad guy. Yet I can't help enjoying it every time I watch it. Part of the reason is that Swayze represents the hero we would all like to be: He's tough, caring, and has all the right answers. He can handle himself in a fight. Another reason is Ben Gazzara, who is compelling to watch. He seethes with anger as the villain. There are also a number of supporting characters (Red, Emmett, the waitress who becomes a singer, the bouncers) who round out the world of the story and make it seem real or at least inviting.
The movie is very obviously an updated Western with a rather stereotypical view of Missouri/Kansas (where I live). Yet, in spite of all that, I find myself enjoying it. Sam Elliott can really put feeling into a line such as "Hurts, don't it?"  I think "Roadhouse" is the only movie in which I've liked Elliott. He plays essentially the same character in every movie he's in: the wizened and grisled mentor. But here it works because the movie is full of broadly drawn archetypes and also because of his chemistry with Swayze.
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Jury duty!
I'm thrilled when that envelope arrives in the mail.
I love sitting in the jury pool waiting to get called becaused I'm just facinated by the cross-section of people sitting there with me. Everything from eccentric shut-ins who look like they haven't been out of their houses in years, to high-end professionals in fancy suits who can't believe their precious time is being wasted.
Once I'm picked and in a courtroom, watching the lawyers going through their song and dance is more entertaining than any TV show or movie version of it.
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Hitler moustaches!
Seriously, it was a pretty rocking li'l style of moustache in the early twentieth century, but now no one will wear them because it's associated with Hitler!
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Two comic creators I don't care for are Robert Crumb and Harvey Pekar-- except when they're working together. I don't know why. They just have a awesome vibe when they collaborate. And while I don't own much of American Splendor, the comic book, American Splendor the movie is pure joy on nearly every level possible. I love it madly.
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Active LMB character is still Beast Boy.
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