Pink elephants and lemonade
Dear Jessie, hear the laughter running through the love parade
Counterpoint: I still vividly remember a guy ripping a fart in class more than 20 years ago. Maybe because we've been writing a test and, up until that point, the classroom had been deadly silent before bursting into laughter.
Or maybe because he did it again, a couple of days later.
Marty would go back to 1994 and play smells like teen spirit at the high school dance
That surely would have made for a different vibe...
The late Jim Shepard would have been my recommendation, bit I might be biased.
I've not bought anything from Amazon for close to 3 years when I was handed a gift card out of the blue. It took me no less than three hours to shop for 5 pretty standard items because on every page I clicked, my screen was entirely filled with ridiculously trashy products, annoyingly unrelated products, upselling BS and useless AI-generated reviews. And then I had to uncheck the fucking subscriptions they snuck in. How does anyone bear with this, I wonder?
♫ It's true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through
being dealers every time you gave them shelter
I know that kind of man, it's hard to hold the hand of anyone
who's reaching for the sky just to surrender ♪
(originally by Leonard Cohen, of course)
I have a feeling that a few steps are missing between trololo and Monty Python... right? guys? Geez, I'm getting old.
That's just the way it is.
When Reddit was new, it mentioned Digg a lot.
When Digg was new, it mentioned /. a lot.
When /. was new (yes, I was there, too), it mentioned Usenet a lot.
At some points in time, the likes of The WELL, the Facepunch forums and Metafilter got their own mentions, prompting me to check them out.
The Weather Man... Cobra Verde... Even though the latter could have hardly ever been called mainstream.
Yeah, the 90s were a good time for movies that could not have been mainstream in any other decade. I'd place Judge Dredd, Demolition Man and Total Recall in the same "corny, but excellent" league as the 5th Element.
Then you had unofficial double features of sorts: Smoke/ Blue In The Face, Casino/ Goodfellas.
12 Monkeys needs to be mentioned as well, it's probably the most palatable movie on my list.
In the "disconcerting, but unforgettable" league, I'd place As Good As It Gets, The Crossing Guard and, of course, the grisly "8 mm."