Guilty Pleasures

[no bounce no play]

This response is so perfect, I'm hesitant to even point it out ... and yet ...

It's a different reference ... but if you need the way Tina sings Proud Mary (nice & rough), then you might remember Arlo Guthrie talking about how, if you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing LOUD !!!

When I was an actual kid (instead of a grown-up, pretending to be a kid), we used to joke roughly thus:

"Who is Roland, and why is he on the river?"

That joke is even funnier to me now ... and here ...

Funny (or poignant) is where you find it.

I think maybe that's why some folks get the wrong idea about what "guilty" pleasure is.

Or again ...

... maybe that's just me.

"Who is Roland, and why is he on the river?" Somewhere around here is a misheard lyrics thread which is hilarious

Pucker - where ya been? Good to see you!
muskrat - yes, DISCO!!!

1.) Bee Gees
2.) Joe Dirt - I grew up in a town like that, with people like that. It was just like that.
3.) V.C. Andrews - all those early ones - I think I went through the Heaven series.
4.) Arthur - I still record Arthur. I catch my 13 year old watching too.

@ All Y'all: please remember my troubling "liking things". I feel so bad when I can't like things - it's not you, or me even, it's my computer. Apparently I drag my thumb pad and when I try to like things my entire screen does weird stuff - bigger, too tiny, takes me forever to get back to where I was. And by then I've forgotten what I wanted to like or say. I have lazy hands. I must rest the thumb pads.

well... since you had the courage to admit you sing along with the Bee Gees lol, I guess I should admit I sing along with I'm So Excited by the Pointer Sisters

 

[Jason ML]

1. Beyond the Sea - Bobby Darin (only a guilty pleasure insofar as singing because of my criminal butchering of that voice).
2. Armageddon. Nonsensical plot, yet still manages to give me some feels.
3. The Tales For the Midnight Hour books. I can still kill 5 minutes or so reading children's horror stories. John Saul horror novels. There's not a lot of substance there, nor ever really anything above the most generic of characterizations, but they're generally quick reads, kill some time, and its quite easy to read about characters dying off left and right who rarely resonate, ha.
4. Days of Our Lives and Charmed.

 

[Blake]

guilty pleasures , my cookey cat hat me. so I'm vicking.

 

[Blake]

guilty pleasures , my cookey cat hat me. so I'm vicking.

and now she rubs against the leg. She loves me. What's her name?

 

[Blake]

and now she rubs against the leg. She loves me. What's her name?

She's the smartest girl, I call her 'Cook-a-nut-' she's jumping around right now. A black cat with a slight wigt, She loves me.

 

[not_nadine]

"Who is Roland, and why is he on the river?"

That's awesome. I'm singing it in my head now.

 

[ghost19]

Airwolf had one the BEST theme music intros of any show, and that's saying a lot considering the 80s were filled with great themes (something sorely lacking in today's shows).

I never missed this show when it was on CBS back in the day. Even when the show became almost unbearable when Hawk's brother "Sinjin" stepped in for him for the last couple of seasons I still watched it

 

[danie]

1) Song: I'm Your Man by Wham. You just can't beat George Michael's vocals. It's the best driving song.
2) Movie: Return to Me. Couldn't be more cheesy or romantic, but I'll watch it all the way through every time. Something about David Duchovny and Minnie Driver and Carroll O'Connor and Jim Belushi and Bonnie Hunt and David Alan Grier and that damn dog.
3) Book: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. It's a middle school book that I used to teach as a novel study. I have read that book so many times over the years that I taught it that I still think in the wording of the sentences that he wrote. It's a really great book, but I guess a guilty pleasure because I'm not 12 years old (though not_nadine would argue that point).
4) TV show: Definitely Chopped. Someone always forgets a basket ingredient, cuts his finger and tells a story to make us all cry.

 

[Sundrop]

1.) Knock Three Times by Tony Orlando & Dawn
2.) Road House
3.) Rubber Legs & White Tail Hairs by Patrick F. McManus
4.) Snapped

 

[not_nadine]

Testing.

 

[danie]

Testing.

 

[not_nadine]

I'm back in, Thanks Mods.

Now I want to listen to Abba, and knock three times - Get all snapped.
(dontcha love that serious yet snarky voice?)

And tell a tragic life happening while cooking with ginger bread crumbs and fish sparkles on 'Chopped'

 

[Out of Order]

What guilty pleasures (although reluctant to admit) would you answer to the following topics:

1.) Song you have to sing along to in the car.
2.) Movie
3.) Book
4.) Tv show

Man, I Feel Like A Woman
Titanic
Any of the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Books
Grey's Anatomy

 

[no bounce no play]

1. Beyond the Sea - Bobby Darin (only a guilty pleasure insofar as singing because of my criminal butchering of that voice).
2. Armageddon. Nonsensical plot, yet still manages to give me some feels.
3. The Tales For the Midnight Hour books. I can still kill 5 minutes or so reading children's horror stories. John Saul horror novels. There's not a lot of substance there, nor ever really anything above the most generic of characterizations, but they're generally quick reads, kill some time, and its quite easy to read about characters dying off left and right who rarely resonate, ha.
4. Days of Our Lives and Charmed.

lol, there's another song from that era I gots to sing along with - Sea of Love (the original recorded by Phil Phillips in 1959). What's embarrassing is that I can't listen to it without getting up and doing the stroll

 

[Lily Sawyer]

Songs - most everything by Abba; "Shake It Off"; "Lips Are Movin'"; and some of the dumber Olivia Newton-John, Katy Perry, and Goldfrapp stuff. Yep.
Movies - trashiest guilty pleasure is Wild Things, by a Hollywood mile. Runner-up: Consenting Adults. It's astonishing that Kevin Spacey and Kevin Kline said yes to such vile garbage, but it works.Oh, and Con Air. So craptacular it's not to be believed, but that's the whole point of it, right?
Books - well, it's all subjective, isn't it? One man's trash is another man's treasure. I'll leave it at random James Patterson titles and MAD Magazine (which isn't a book but you know what I mean).
TV - Elementary. Poor man's Sherlock. I can't stand waiting for more Benedict Cummerbundiehoo so I fill in the blanks and time with Jonny Lee Miller in the meantime.

 

[The Nameless]

4. The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross.
I'm serious. If happy little clouds can't make you forget about your cares for a minute or two, I don't know what will.

Don't even dare feel guilty about watching that. That was one of the best shows ever made, so calm, relaxing and hypnotic with his soothing voice and the monotony of his brush strokes on the canvas. I miss bob.

Song - if I like a song I make no apologies for it, and if I had a car I would never listen to the radio, the crap on there these days would give me Road rage.

Movie - IT (admit it, it's proper cheesey), the breakfast club, practical magic.

Book - I never read books before I started reading king, and he's still the only author I've read. With the amount of bad press it seems to get from fans I'll say The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

TV - Charmed and the biggest loser (nowhere near ad popular over here as it is in America).

 

[Arcadevere]

What guilty pleasures (although reluctant to admit) would you answer to the following topics:

1.) Song you have to sing along to in the car.
= No Brand Girls by u's (it's from Love Live School Idol Festival rhythm game) and Gibberish - MAX

2.) Movie
= I'll go with Silent Hill : revelations. as a die hard fan of silent hill, this movie sucks but in the other hand, i like the

Spoiler

Sacrifice of Harry Mason in the ending. which is completely different in video game

3.) Book
= i'll go with Rainbow six

4.) Tv show
= Ghost Asylum and Wicked Tuna lol

 

[baggy]

1.) Song you have to sing along to in the car.- The Lion Sleeps Tonight
2.) Movie- The Scarlet Pimpernel (with Anthony Andrews & Jane Seymour).
3.) Book- None that I feel guilty about, all time fave that started my passion for fantasy stories The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen by Alan Garner.
4.) Tv show- Real Housewives Of Beverley Hills ( don't judge me too harshly)

 

[no bounce no play]

1.) Song you have to sing along to in the car.- The Lion Sleeps Tonight
2.) Movie- The Scarlet Pimpernel (with Anthony Andrews & Jane Seymour).
3.) Book- None that I feel guilty about, all time fave that started my passion for fantasy stories The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen by Alan Garner.
4.) Tv show- Real Housewives Of Beverley Hills ( don't judge me too harshly)

nooooooooooooo!!!!! Ugg... too late
A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh.
A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh.
If I'm going to have this stuck in my head all day, all y'all have to too lol

 

[no bounce no play]

I was reluctant to list this book as a guilty pleasure in my first post but here goes...

Back in the 80's, three of us at work were reading Nancy Friday's Men in Love: Men's Sexual Fantasies. One afternoon, two of us were on the front desk when we heard a loud gasp coming from the break room. We looked at each other and started laughing and simultaneously said, "Jill must have gotten to the chapter on golden showers."