Veronica tagged me for this hilarious meme. And she was right to tag me because I am such a poser.
Movies I rented because the cool people liked them, but I never could finish:
- anything by Robert Altman
- anything by Tim Burton
- Young Frankenstein
Movies I watched with the cool people but secretly hated:
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Brazil (yep, me too!)
- Room with a View
Movies I secretly like but might deny in front of the cool people:
- Tremors
- Joe vs. The Volcano
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Books I started because the cool people like them, but I could never finish:
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (yep, me too!)
- The Magic Mountain (sorry, Dad)
- Pride and Prejudice (sorry, Mom)
Music I tried to like because the cool people like it, but really it makes me want to puncture my own eardrums to escape the pain of the irritating, cat-mating howling:
- Thelonius Monk, Coltrane, etc.
- Yes
- Ravi Shankar
Music I secretly sometimes like, but don’t want the cool people to know:
- The Kingston Trio (”sometimes like” is a ridiculous understatement; I love these guys to death)
- Gilbert & Sullivan
- The Who
Foods I secretly like, even though the cool people sneer at them:
- KFC (extra crispy, and don’t forget the biscuit)
- all baked goods that have pink frosting and/or colored sprinkles
- popsicles
And I’m adding another food category: “Cool” foods I hate:
- bleu cheese
- cilantro
- white wine
I won’t tag anyone in particular, but if you feel like exposing yourself this way, please leave a link in the comments so we can laugh at you too! :)
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I would so sit around and listen to your uncool music with you, but probably I would bring my own snacks. You can have all my KFC (I got really sick once eating KFC and have never been the same). I love bleu cheese, cilantro and white wine. Ok, I like any color wine.
Great list, Julie. I’m with you all the way on KFC. Unfortunately, I’ve read a lot about trans fats, so I know that every time I eat half a bucket, my heart starts to gag.
I love it. I agree absolutely about Tim Burton. Yes, yes, I know his cinematography is great, but could he make a movie that doesn’t make me feel like I need to bathe afterward?
And now I will always envision you with a tiny bit of pink frosting in the corner of your mouth.
I love A Room with a View, Pride and Prejudice, and cilantro. I must be cool! I had no idea.
I think you are pretty cool and I could not, could not get through Pride and Prejudice- even the A&E miniseries with the dreamy Colin Firth was not for me. Cool meme, I’ll consider myself tagged.
I’d love to talk books with you over a bucket o’ chicken sometime- no white wine and we’ll have store-bought sugar cookies with a big schmear of pink frosting on them for dessert. Yum.
I LOVE “Tremors”. I will come sit with you in the Uncool Corner on that.
Joe Vs. the Volcano is like, my family’s favorite movie of all time. We used to use it as a test for prospective family members–we’d bring home a date; if they laughed, they were in. Strangely, though, none of the three people who actually got in did like it . . . but they pretended to at the time! (Because, of course, they wanted to be as cool as we were, snicker snicker!)
We can listen to the Kingston Trio together - I have them on CD and I even have some vinyl! And I must introduce you to Popeye’s - their fried chicken puts KFC to shame. They are a Southern fast food chicken chain - out of New Orleans.
It’s been a while since this came out, but on the movies that I tried to get into but couldn’t–”The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and her Lover”.
I’m with Julie on the
“Joe vs. The Volcano” and
“Tremors”,
I’d add as two personal favorites:
“Real Men” and
“Big Trouble In Little China.
But I have to say, I was ‘into’ these when I was in a frat — I’m not sure they’d still tickle my funny bone.
I made it through “The Cook, the Thief…” and I *really* wish I hadn’t. I learned my lesson and shut off “Prospero’s Books” after just a few minutes of ridiculous nakedness. Ugh.
Hmmm. You realize that your bracketed apologies in the section about the books the cool people read suggest that your parents are the cool people. I don’t doubt that they are. But it’s sufficiently unusual to look to one’s parents as the standard-bearers of cool that I feel compelled to remark on it! Of course, today’s ice cream story provides ample confirmation of your dad’s coolness.
Kate, I think it’s probably just more evidence of how uncool I really am. :)
My total uncool for years was Barry Manilow. But I’ve been recenly informed that he’s cool again. Go figure.
I hate KFC, but that’s only because I worked there for four years and wore it (the smell wouldn’t come out of the uniform).
And movies: Galaxy Quest. The Last Starfighter. And probably loads of others my movie snob husband (who actually likes Robert Altman) would sneer at. :)
1) I love 2001: A Space Odyssey and Brazil and Room With a View. Was I one of the cool people you watched them with? I hope I didn’t rag on you (too hard) afterwards.
2) Never deny that you like Tremors. That’s total, one hundred percent, Kevin-Bacon-with-an-80s-mullet, it-even-features-Reba-McIntyre, corn-fed, gun-totin’, B-movie cool. The people who look down on that movie probably even look down on Godzilla. Losers.
3) As Melissa can testify, once every two or three years, I develop an insatiable desire for KFC chicken. I just water at the mouth every time I see one of their restaurants. I start dropping broad hints that we need to go and get some of that succulent Original Recipe chicken. Eventually, Melissa gives in, and we go. I hungerily gobble down one piece, then another. Then, usually as I’m working on my third piece of chicken, I think, “This is the most disgusting thing I’ve ever tasted in my life,” and promptly get sick. This cures me for a few years, after which the cycle begins again.
I think we all have these “problems” from time to time, trying to please other people. I LOVE Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and I really like Young Frankenstein. I like Yes, WHO gets annoying and I suffered through Tommy. I love Pride and Prejudice and anything Austen, books or movies.
It is a wonderful world with a lot of people with a lot of different likes and dislikes and we all need to respect each others opinions and not try to be so “cool”. Thank you for sharing!
Robert Altman = BOOOOOOORRRRRRIIIIIINNNNNGG.
E actually said, “What? They’re making a movie about Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion? All they need is for Robert Altman to direct it, and it’ll have everything I hate.”
Heeheehee. Forgive us NPR, we can only hadnle so much.
Oh, I was with you on Tremors, but Seven Brides for Seven Brothers? I’m just not sure I can continue reading this blog…
But now I find your blog roll, and realize that I live only about seven miles from you, and that you also love to read Patrick O’Brian and Joan Aiken, and I realize I’ll just have to try to forget about the Seven Brides for Seven Brothers…