The Best Stuff

[lawyerdad]

Sweet Jane (both the Velvet Underground and Cowboy Junkies studio versions)
I'm Going Home, Ten Years After at Woodstock
Claire Torry's vocals on The Great Gig In The Sky
The scene in Saroyan's The Human Comedy where the sick kid wants oatmeal raisin cookies
William Vollman, An Afghanistan Picture Show
Norman MacLean's Young Men and Fire
The "conspiracy of cartographers" bit from Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern
Caravan (both Van Morrison on The Last Waltz and Counting Crows)
Casals' recording of the Bach Cello Suites
Terry Gilliam's Brazil
Maggie Smith in Murder By Death
Jackie Robinson
The "dodge a wrench" scene in Dodgeball
Just My Imagination (both the Stones and the Temptations)
The first Gormenghast book
The St. Crispin's Day speech from Henry V
The Inferno
William Carlos Williams' everything depends . . .
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The I Have A Dream speech
Tom Waits' Downtown Train and Anywhere I Lay My Head
The Tiny Dancer scene from Almost Famous
The Great Escape
London Calling
Kind of Blue
Buster Keaton's The Cameraman

 

[Baron]

Did you mean to omit Vin Scully?

 

[lawyerdad]

Originally Posted by Baron

Did you mean to omit Vin Scully?
shhh

 

[tagutcow]

I'm not aware of most of this ****, how the **** am I supposed to render a verdict? Poal fail. I want everyone to see that I'm not entitled to an opinion. edit: But the "dodge a wrench" scene was pretty awesome.

 

[spudnik99]

What? No mention of Harry Dean Stanton's "Repo Code".

 

[lawyerdad]

Originally Posted by tagutcow

I'm not aware of most of this ****, how the **** am I supposed to render a verdict?

Poal fail. I want everyone to see that I'm not entitled to an opinion.

edit: But the "dodge a wrench" scene was pretty awesome.

If you're not aware of it, you lose.

You're right about the poal, tho.

 

[Mr. Checks]

Ditto London Calling -
Beethoven 5, ORR/John Eliot Gardiner -
Lee J. Cobb as Willie Loman -
Only in the Dream, Richard Eberhardt -
The Chrysler Building -
Beethoven Late Quartets, Yale Q -
New York strip, salt, pepper, Viking broiler -
The Waking, Theodore Roethke -
The Greek vases at the Met -
Gundula Janowitz - 4 Last Songs -
Vass Budapests -
Size 45 at Brooks Bros -
American legal formalism

 

[Mr. Checks]

Originally Posted by lawyerdad

Sweet Jane (both the Velvet Underground and Cowboy Junkies studio versions)
I'm Going Home, Ten Years After at Woodstock
Claire Torry's vocals on The Great Gig In The Sky
The scene in Saroyan's The Human Comedy where the sick kid wants oatmeal raisin cookies
William Vollman, An Afghanistan Picture Show
Norman MacLean's Young Men and Fire
The "conspiracy of cartographers" bit from Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern
Caravan (both Van Morrison on The Last Waltz and Counting Crows)
Casals' recording of the Bach Cello Suites
Terry Gilliam's Brazil
Maggie Smith in Murder By Death
Jackie Robinson
The "dodge a wrench" scene in Dodgeball
Just My Imagination (both the Stones and the Temptations)
The first Gormenghast book
The St. Crispin's Day speech from Henry V
The Inferno
William Carlos Williams' everything depends . . .
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The I Have A Dream speech
Tom Waits' Downtown Train and Anywhere I Lay My Head
The Tiny Dancer scene from Almost Famous
The Great Escape
London Calling
Kind of Blue
Buster Keaton's The Cameraman


Oh, the Last Waltz version! "and the CARAVAN! is on its way"

 

[Thomas]

I agree with most of the list, and the rest - I'm willing to take your word on.

 

[lawyerdad]

Originally Posted by Mr. Checks

Oh, the Last Waltz version! "and the CARAVAN! is on its way"

The first time I saw that movie I was probably 14 years old or something and didn't really know who Van Morrison was. He walks onstage and I'm thinking: "Who is this pudgy, balding doofus in the lavender disco jumpsuit? This is going to suck." Then:

 

[lawyerdad]

Originally Posted by Thomas

I agree with most of the list, and the rest - I'm willing to take your word on.

Probation.

 

[Teacher]

Originally Posted by tagutcow

I'm not aware of most of this ****, how the **** am I supposed to render a verdict?

Poal fail. I want everyone to see that I'm not entitled to an opinion.

edit: But the "dodge a wrench" scene was pretty awesome.

You're about as useful as a poopy-flavored lollipop!

 

[Thomas]

Originally Posted by Teacher

You're about as useful as a poopy-flavored lollipop!

What, you mean THIS thread was the first time you got that impression?

(note: I also considered inserting a (marital aid-shaped) ed joke in there, but decided to go with my first instinkt.)

 

[Connemara]

Originally Posted by lawyerdad

The first time I saw that movie I was probably 14 years old or something and didn't really know who Van Morrison was. He walks onstage and I'm thinking: "Who is this pudgy, balding doofus in the lavender disco jumpsuit? This is going to suck." Then:

I think that was my exact reaction. I knew Van Morrison but I didn't realize it was the man himself at first. Checks, I am forever indebted to you for mentioning Janowitz's Vier Letzte Lieder. It is the most sublime classical vocal I've ever heard, and I'm serious.

 

[Mr. Checks]

Ah, I see now that it was a poll, and not an invitation to introduce you to the depths and whims of a life of solitary pursuits.