Sunday, February 12, 2006

Top 14 Quotes I Used as Away Messages in 2005

(Make sure you follow the links on numbers 4 & 14!)

1.
JHS girl: I'll be damned if I let a seventh-grader ruin my reputation.
--8th Ave. playground
(from Overheard in NY 2/23)

2.
Some pull-quotes from the NYT's Where Are We Now article. Oh-- and congrats, Class of 2005:
"...but I'm staying calm and thinking happy thoughts, reassuring myself that the right opportunity will show itself eventually."
"I know many people who have fallen into a depressive malaise this year."
"But our jobs are providing us with skills, money and knowledge. [my guess is that Chrissie Akwari is not a Broadway usher]"

3.
Best Thing On Television This Week:
"Mack, you are the first female president. If Moses had been a woman leading the Jews in the desert, she would have stopped and asked for directions. They'd have been in Israel in a week."
(Commander in Chief)

4.
I declare March 9 Kevin Guilfoile Day. Here's why.

5.
"...today is Mozart's birthday, but you're getting the gift! We'll be playing The Marriage of Figaro in its entirety...and it's just a delicious night of radio..." NPR, 1:02 am

6.
i was mentioned (collectively) on gawker stalker! scroll down (don't get distracted the sexy badass catherine deneuve entry) to the andrew mccarthy bit!

7.
McSweeneys Recommends:Rachael Ray, from The Food Network
Oftentimes spunkiness is just straight irritating. But in this case it's endearing. And in this case we forgo skepticism of false TV-personality genuineness and believe that she'd be equally joyful playing Scrabble or a character in an Ionesco play. Verve is good, right? She's got verve. She's a clear star on the rise. She makes great salads.

8.
"...but since I've met you and moved to Sydney, I haven't listened to one ABBA song, and it's because my life's as good as an ABBA song. It's as good as 'Dancing Queen.'"

9.
how's this for freakin weird: yesterday, i was thinking about putting up "when you're tired you take a nap-a; you don't move to Napa" as my away message. and the Big-moves-to-Napa episode is on RIGHT NOW.

10.
" It's like when you walk into Diesel and there's pieces of t-shirts stapled onto other t-shirts and first you think, "Björk made this!" and then you think "Oh. I could make this." "
www.televisionwithoutpity.com

11.
"crushes come and go but jake ryan is forever"
--WE on sixteen candles

12.
selected entries from The Onion's "Irish Heritage Timeline":
7500 BC - The first humans arrive in Ireland. Prior to this, only the Irish lived there.
456 - The last giant Irish panda dies.
1807 - Famine strikes
1817 - Famine and typhus strike
1836 - Famine and cholera strike
1845 - Famine and meteor showers strike
1895 - The Irish Stone Age ends
1985 - The hilariously titled "Anglo-Irish Agreement" signed
2004 - U2 special edition iPod released

13.
"I heard Tom DeLay's blood was in the water and the sharks were circling him, but unfortunately, it turned out to be a metaphor."
--Colleen Bowers, Systems Analyst

14.
i have a new favorite person, and he is CHRIS GAVALER . with one click he will no doubt become yours as well.

posted by Matt the Great @ 2/12/2006 1 comments

Saturday, February 04, 2006

Best songs never to be sung by Corey Feldman

(15) "Any Way You Want It"- JourneyOhhhhhhhhhhh myyyyyyyyyyyyyyy gooooooooooooooooooooood I love Journey!! August 28th at Jones Beach. I'm not going. It breaks me. This is the best song to never be sung by Corey Feldman.

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Do you guys know Kevin? If you don't, you will. He's on the verge of being huge. Kevin shares this "sexy, bad-ass blog" with his girlfriend--despite her living in DC, and despite his being gay--Leigh. I get down with them regularly, and when I got down on July 23, 2005, I learned that Journey's " 'Any Way You Want It' is the best song never to be sung by Corey Feldman." And the first thing I thought when I read that was, duh, blog feature! So I had to ask him why he thought "Any Way You Want It" is the best song never to be sung by Corey Feldman. Here's what he gmailed:

Corey wanted to sing in the show, so Kate asked for my input. Her idea was "Any Way You Want It" and mine was "Every Rose Has Its Thorn," but he ended up
with the worst choice of all- "Babe" by Styx.

And since I, like, really care about the Mattketeers, I gmailed:

i needed quotable text for the old blog. you didn't give me much to work with--i'm probably going to have to go back and beef it up for you. you should read nick's sandra lee essay, which i published in its entirety. *there's* feedback.

So then, this is what Kevin pulled up:

Bitch, I will KILL you. You want something better?? FINE.

During this summer's 10-week suckfest known as 'Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy,' New York audiences were subjected to not only some of the best acting and writing of the season, but to the cataclysmic performance of 80s teen hack Corey Feldman. Channeling equal parts Michael Douglas (or some hideous approximation thereof) and a crazy bag lady, Mr. Feldman also insisted on showing off his (pause for comic effect) vocal gifts with a musical number. But what would he sing? "Any Way You Want It"? Too tuneful. "Every Rose Has Its Thorn"? Too
decade-appropriate. No, he settled on Styx's "Babe," much to the detriment of
everyone within earshot. And so, "Any Way You Want It" has indeed come to be
hallowed as 'The Best Song Never Sung By Corey Feldman.'

And now www.mattthegreat.blogspot.com has a music feature.
So here's the thing: despite seven years of tuba-playing, I don't know a thing about music. My tastes generally line up with a fortysomething of today who was mainstreamly cool twenty years ago. So the idea here is going to be that I come up with a song that I care enough about to write on for whatever reason, but I'm challenged by choosing only those songs that Corey Feldman has never sung.

posted by Matt the Great @ 2/04/2006 0 comments