Guilty pleasures.

[bertha katzenengel]

Mine:

a violent, sexist movie: "The Long Kiss Goodnight"

a sexist, dick-joke-slinging comedian: Robert Schimmel

super-light, fluffy, mystery series involving animals that talk: the "Mrs. Murphy Mysteries" by Rita Mae Brown (these books' existence probably insult uber-intellectuals -- of which I am NOT one)

Yours?

[mainegreen]

1. Peanut butter pie

So good going down, but seriously at 5000 calories a slice!

[flvegan]

2. Mine:

A recent voice mail from another DUer. Okay, guess...

The Devil's Rejects

Pro wrestling

Singletrack Copper Ale/Sierra Nevada IPA

Knowing that, no matter what, I've got a great lawyer (snip, snip)

Lots of praise from lots of people for shit I'd be doing anyway, regardless

Kisses on my face, every day, from dogs that'd been put down for their alleged viciousnesss.

[khashka]

3. Ok, I'll go with Mrs. Murphy Mysteries

Absolute fluff. Silly beyond belief. And yet....


Wait wait wait, Bertha. You as a lesbian are required to like them! For me as a gay man it becomes a guilty pleasure!


Sheesh! Girls just don't know their place any more!


(Ever met Rita Mae Brown? She's a laugh riot and uber sweet. When I got High Hearts signed, she grabbed me by the collar and kissed me. Being gay is so great, she said, but have you considered being a lesbian, instead? I was a little stunned. But if she'd kiss me again I'd surely consider it.......)


Khash.

[bertha katzenengel]

30. I believe Rita Mae Brown truly writes what she knows.

I think she's bisexual. If not, she certainly has absolutely no rigid standards for sexuality or gender identity -- she's one of a kind. She lets people be exactly who they are, without expecting them to conform to her own impressions.

At least, that's the sense I get from her books, and I have read them all.

You lucky god damned devil, Khash. Oh, for a kiss from Rita Mae . . . :blush:

:loveya: Khash

[leftofthedial]

4. hip hop

[TroubleMan]

11. Why guilty? Are you just talking about the stuff they play on the radio?

Most rap on the radio is horrible and is a diluted form of hip hop. Real hip hop is intelligent, thought provoking, and both musically and lyrically innovative (like Mos Def, Talib Kweli, The Roots, The Coup, ect). And it's nothing to be ashamed of.

[leftofthedial]

13. oh, but I am ashamed

considering I posted a major flamebait semi-anti-hip-hop thread last night

and I still feel guilty

In truth, I believe that not all hip hop sucks. Especially not the stuff that's "intelligent, thought provoking, and both musically and lyrically innovative (like Mos Def, Talib Kweli, The Roots, The Coup, ect)."

[TroubleMan]

14. I missed the big debates (except for one thread).

Most people frame the debate on hip hop, because they believe that the radio rap is what hip hop is. It's not - it's a pop version of hip hop. Any time you take a genre, dumb it down, and mass produce it for mass consumption, it's gonna suck. I won't judge country by Brooks & Dun or Billy Ray Cyrus, and I won't judge rock by Nelson or Warrant. However, people will readily judge hip hop by looking at Lil' Jon or Nelly, who are some of the worst examples.

[leftofthedial]

16. thanks for some good examples

:thumbsup:

[mvd]

26. That's actually not my complaint

I prefer more traditional vocals and more melody than flow. Just becasuse something is on the radio doesn't mean it's dumbed down. I think Kanye West and Eminem are good at hip hop. Brooks And Dunn are good at country. You have more of a point with Billy Ray IMO, though some of his early songs were enjoyable.

[bigwillq]

5. Hi Bertha!

Long time no see! :hug:

Is Long Kiss Goodnight with Geena Davis?? :shrug:

[bertha katzenengel]

31. Hey, Big Will

Yep, Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson.

My favorite quote from that movie, Jackson to Davis:

"When I first met you, you were all like, 'Oh, phooey, I burned the darned muffins.' Now, you walk into a bar, ten minutes later sailors come runnin' out. What up with that?"

:rofl:

What a fun movie.

Oh yeah, and: "Suck my dick. Every one of you." :rofl:

:loveya:

[DanCa]

6. A freshly baked peanut butter cookie, and an ice cold glass of 2% milk.

Add a superman comic on that and I am a happy pappy.

[LeftyMom]

7. The Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter books (sex *and* violence! wheeeeeee!)

cookies
vampire movies
leaving perverted messages on flvegan's voice mail

[SiobhanClancy]

8. I LOVE Mrs. Murphy...

and Pewter,Tucker etc. I also love the Anne Perry victorian mysteries. I've really got lots of guilty pleasures,literary and otherwise. I read Stephen King,sometimes eat popcorn for breakfast,at times watch "The Apprentice",buy marshmallows for cocoa and they never seem to last long enough for the cocoa,read message boards about European royalty(although I'm a firm anti-monarchist)...just to name a few.

[bertha katzenengel]

32. Siobhan, who is that in your sig line photo?

At the risk of being smacked, it looks a little like Kenneth Branagh.

Michael Collins maybe? (shows you what a stereotypical American I am -- so ignorant)

:hi:

I like Simon, the possum. We have a lot of possums around here. They're so ugly, except the little ones. ;)

[SiobhanClancy]

41. You are quite right..

It is Michael Collins,the "Big Fella":)

Simon is quite cool.....grumpy little munchkin. I like Mrs. Murphy's "ex-husband",Paddy..who must have tomcatted off somewhere,because he was missing in the last couple of books I read.

[bertha katzenengel]

44. I am addicted to those books.

But I make myself wait for paperback. "When I have a little money, I buy books. If I have any left over, I buy food and clothes." Can't remember who said it, but I like it. :hi:

[elshiva]

9. Santa Claus vs. The Martians (movie)

The song "Santa Claus is a Black Man." Santa Claus IS A BLACK MAN!

The Beatles "You Know My Name, Look Up My Number."

Naiad Lesbian romances...

[TroubleMan]

10. "Drawn Together" (the TV show) - "Jam On It" and "Apache" (old rap songs)

Apache is like the dumbest song Sugarhill ever did, but I can't help liking it.

If you understand the genres it makes fun of, "Drawn Together" is often brilliant and extremely intelligent (though it's mostly just dumb fun).

[ghostsofgiants]

18. Jam On It has one of the best beats ever.

Mos Def did a cool remake of that a few years ago.

[TroubleMan]

19. You just reminded me that I need to get that song.

One of the few Mos Def songs I don't have on mp3.

Thanks.

[tuvor]

12. Oh, let's see. There's Lawrence Welk...

VIP (Pamela Anderson's show), Sweet Valley High...

Oh, crap, I think I've said too much already.

[MrScorpio]

15. One and two are on my list!

:hug:

You da bomb!

[bertha katzenengel]

33. Hey, Mr. S.!

Isn't Robert Schimmel hilarious? Anyone who can beat cancer and still be funny can have all my guilty laughter at all the gross dick jokes on the planet.

:hug:

[Kali]

17. reading

garbage


in bed

with potato chips or :popcorn: and a coke


:blush:

[ghostsofgiants]

20. Dude, Where's My Car?

So bad, but so hilarious.

[Jean Louise Finch]

21. I'm with you!

Oh, I love that you put this on the list. The reason I saw it in the first place was that I heard from someone that they were making a sequel, to be called "Dude, Seriously, Where's My Car?" That's just comedy genius. I think it's hilarious.

You may enjoy the similarly stupid/hilarious "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle".

[SeattleGirl]

22. Lightweight mystery books such as those written by

J.A. Jance, Fay Kellerman, Johnathan Kellerman and Ridley Pierson.

Plastic surgery shows on the Discovery Health Channel.

Porn, especially lesbian porn.

[Katherine Brengle]

23. The Left Behind Series...

I know, it's awful, but I loved it--I read all of the books in less than 2 weeks.

:blush:

As fiction, it was deliciously entertaining!

[Skittles]

24. that hidiously bad movie VALLEY OF THE DOLLS

it is absolute TRASH but I catch it every time it is on TV.....yes INDEED !!!

[bertha katzenengel]

34. Oh. My. God.

That is hilarious, Skittles: My mother LOVED that movie. :rofl: I never saw it. I mean, not that you're old enough . . . I know you are nowhere near her age (if she were with us) . . . . oh, shit.*

But when that book was first published in paperback... I remember seeing it around the house. It was covered with pills, the cover. And I thought, "no wonder mom likes that book." :rofl:

:hi:

* Bertha plants foot in mouth. Film at eleven.

[jonnyblitz]

38. NEEEEELY OOOOOHAAARAAAAA

YES INDEED! :thumbsup:

[Katherine Brengle]

46. I am such a loser--I've read the book 5 or 6 times!!!

I know, it's like a really long, overdone soap opera, but I love it!

[Treclo]

25. Besides the DU Lounge, you mean?

The song "Good Vibrations", by Marky Mark & the funky bunch; People magazine; and Kareoking "Baby got Back" when I'm really hammered. Guilty pleasures, indeed- shouldn't I really be reading the Progressive, or something? Or at least the Latest Breaking News?

[bertha katzenengel]

35. Hi, Treclo...

When I think "shouldn't I be reading. . . ." it's usually one of the hundred and twelve history books I've got laying around here, or at least the latest issue of "The Nation." Instead it's usually a fluffy paperback mystery. "Because they're easier to hold in bed..." :eyes:

:hi:

[mvd]

27. Mine include

- Big Brother (the TV show)

- Deal or No Deal (though it's getting tiring)

- Jim Carrey comedies

- a few Britney Spears songs and some other music (though I'm very picky about what I call a guilty pleasure with music)

[LSK]

28. sports

[enigmatic]

29. "Ready To Rumble"

I will RULE YOU!!"

[bertha katzenengel]

36. Oliver Platt is a professional wrestler??

Who knew?

[mitchum]

37. Pornography, AC/DC, little white donuts, shrimp cocktails...

[Generator]

39. Cookie dough bites and the National Enquirer

It just says Saturday in bed.

[tallahasseedem]

40. Coyote Ugly, the time I spend reading tabloids...

any form of chocolate.

[AlCzervik]

42. The McLaughlin Group, mallomars and gangster movies

[swag]

43. The Dandy Warhols

Here they are in one of my own favorite picnic spots, the nature viewing area outside the defunct Trojan Nuclear Power Plant.

Most people tell me I should loathe this band because they do.

I love this awful band.

[Spider Jerusalem]

45. Schadenfreude

(usually when some particularly annoying/loathsome celebrity or political figure has a spot of misfortune)

[TheMightyFavog]

47. Bad 80s action flicks.

Even thought the innacuracies made me scream (You don't need frickin radar locks for aerial comabt invloving the cannons, firing an AGM-65 Maverick while parked on a runway at at targen about 500 ft away). Iron Eagle was fun in its own way.

[TheMightyFavog]

48. Army Surplus

The smell alone... Pure heaven!