Thread: Guilty Pleasures

LMFAO ever since I heard "sexy and I know it" I had to check out some more of their tunes, I'm embarrassed to say party rock anthem has been stuck in my head for days, and I just don't care.

I imagine most people here "despise" rap.

Fuck that. I love it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmP7TYtDVUU&ob=av3e

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U2846xnMV8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26c4o...feature=relmfu

The Secret to My Success

I'm not sure I'm ashamed I like that movie. Besides, Helen Slater was super cute.

I'm with Chuck:

Originally Posted by Chuck Klosterman

In and of itself, the phrase "guilty pleasure" seems like a reasonable way to describe certain activities. For example, it is pleasurable to snort cocaine in public restrooms, and it always makes you feel guilty; as such, lavatory cocaine fits perfectly into this category. Drinking more than five glasses of gin before (or during) work generally qualifies as a guilty pleasure. So does having sex with people you barely know, having sex with people you actively hate, and/or having sex with people you barely know but whom your girlfriend used to live with during college (and will now consequently hate). These are all guilty pleasures in a technical sense. However, almost no one who uses the term "guilty pleasure" is referring to activities like these. People who use this term are usually talking about why they like Joan of Arcadia, or the music of Nelly, or Patrick Swayze's Road House. This troubles me for two reasons: Labeling things like Patrick Swayze movies a guilty pleasure implies that a) people should feel bad for liking things they sincerely enjoy, and b) if these same people were not somehow coerced into watching Road House every time it's on TBS, they'd probably be reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Both of these assumptions are wrong.

I suspect that Entertainment Weekly semiaccidentally started all this way back in the twentieth century with its "Guilty Pleasures" issue. Initially, this was a charming idea. It allowed the magazine to cover things that would normally be nonsensical to write about, and it dovetailed nicely with the primary cultural obsession of all people born between 1968 and 1980 (i.e., profound nostalgia for the extremely recent past). EW still publishes this annual feature, although now it just picks crazy shit to confuse soccer moms in Omaha. (I question whether any contemporary person derives pleasure from—or feels guilty about—Mr. Rogers's puppet-saturated Neighborhood of Make-Believe, which EW inexplicably included in its 2004 installment.)

What's more troubling is the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures: 1,001 Things You Hate to Love (Quirk Books). Ostensibly a reference guide for those who want to feel embarrassed about being engaged with life, The EGP is a compilation of everything that's been popular over the past fifty years, augmented by short essays about why we can't help but adore these terrible, terrible things. These are things like Michael Jackson's Thriller, an album that 1) was produced by Quincy Jones, 2) features guitar playing by Eddie Van Halen, 3) includes at least three singles that are undeniably awesome, and 4) has the single-best bass line from the entire 1980s (the opening of "Billie Jean"). It is a guilty pleasure, presumably, because forty-five million people liked it, and because Jackson is quite possibly a pedophile, and because two dancers had a really unfair knife fight in the "Beat It" video. This is akin to considering Thomas Jefferson a guilty pleasure because he briefly owned two pet bears. I mean, he still wrote the fucking Declaration of Independence, you know?

Riding around in my Jeep with my 4 year old, blasting pop crap music that she loves. Totally embarrassing and fun at the same time. She knows every word to every top ten song. Some of them are pretty catchy.

Also, I know enough to know that Adele did not sing American Boy, that was Estelle.

How I met your mother. Especially the Robin Glitter episodes
Justin Timberlake, his SNL skits are great.
White Castle burgers. Sooo goooood
Ben & Jerrys, they are single serving containers
When Harry met Sally, great flick
Don Juan DeMarco, will get you laid every time
The Lion King, gets me out of a mental slump when ever I watch it.

Circus Peanuts
Taylor Swift
Waterworld

Originally Posted by doughboyshredder

I like how one girl grabbed her tit as she was walking down the stairs, then turned to her friend and held up her hand...

I think the first two are super legit regardless of eyewear,







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