Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Feeling trite?

Ten things that say your very existence is a cliche:
  1. Once you break the ice with people, you start talking about how much fun it is to have "deep" conversations with them.

  2. You go to Jamaica for a vacation, because you're going to be old in a few years, and even though you missed out on your 20's, you can still milk a few stories out of said trip, even if the stories aren't technically yours. (It's the whole 13 31 tattoo thing.)

  3. You are not a large black woman, and yet follow all of your lame comebacks with: "Oh, SNAP."

  4. You own a shirt with any of the following: CBGB, Che Guevarra (Mumia is still ok.), Ramones, "Everyone Loves an Asian Girl," or the Texas Village Idiot shirt even though you aren't from Texas.

  5. When you're playing a song that you think makes you seem unique, you turn the volume up so that everyone thinks you're unique.

  6. Your stock question is, "What's your favorite movie?" so you can subsequently embark on a boring conversation that demonstrates your superior knowledge of B-list celebrities, directors, and, ah yes, screenwriters from the 80's. If that doesn't impress, your fallback is defend the merits of Citizen Kane, unprovoked.

  7. Even though you actually liked the band, you publicly began to disparage Green Day in 6th grade when they started getting criticized "for only using 4 chords" in their song (It's pop music, people, there are only like 6 to choose from).

  8. You somehow find it appropriate to lather each and every conversation with vapid quotations from any of the following: The Big Lebowski, South Park, The Simpsons, or Dumb & Dumber.

  9. Your two heroes in life are MTV bigshot Guideon Yago and emo superstar Rivers Cuomo. On that note, if there's any emo bullshit in your system, you're cliche.

  10. When you owe people a debt of thanks, you add them to your mental list of people to thank in your Oscar speech. And sometimes, if you're feeling giddy, you even practice it out loud.

8 Comments:

Blogger dunadan67 said...

my existence is not a cliche.

10:59 PM  
Blogger NY Observer said...

which one are you?

3:50 AM  
Blogger dunadan67 said...

which what?

11:19 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

you forgot Family Guy and Monty Python for (8), so i narrowly avoid personality pigeon-holing on a technicality.

oh SNAP!

you keep a mental list of people to thank when you get your Oscar? What the hell are you going to get an Oscar in? "And the winner this year for most scathing sarcasm in an unused screen-play goes to..... DEVDOOT!"

4:08 PM  
Blogger devdoot said...

saying i'm any of the above says a bit too much about me. let's just say (d) none of the above.

4:14 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

whoops, forgot to sign

~ak

maybe i should actually sign in when i post a comment, but that would take from the glory of pseudo-anonymous passing shots

4:20 PM  
Blogger dunadan67 said...

I despise people who say "OH SNAP"

4:43 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I THINK IT'S "DEEP STUFF" not just "deep" conversation. stupid cliched people.

10:38 PM  

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