| November 25, 2009 | 35 Great Movie Quotes on Yoostar |
 This week on Twitter the hashtag #classicmoviequotes was a trending topic. When we choose scenes for Yoostar, we are looking for iconic and quotable scenes as well as scenes that might be fun to insert yourself into. I started thinking about how many great and classic movie quotes we have in scenes on Yoostar, and decided to create a list of them so that people could easily find them and/or view the video clips of the quotes. Here are 35 of my favorite movie quotes on Yoostar: 1. "Swallow the diamonds." - "Marathon Man" - Watch the scene. 2. "Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it." - "Caddyshack" - Watch the scene. 3. "I'll be back" - "The Terminator" - Watch the scene. 4. "Everyone and their mums is packin' 'round here." - "Hot Fuzz" - Watch the scene. 5. "Has the war started yet?" - "Gone With the Wind" - Watch the scene. 6. "How can five people operate one gun?" - "Shaun of the Dead" - Watch the scene. 7. "You fight like a goddamn ape." - "Rocky" - Watch the scene. 8. "They think he's a righteous dude." - "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" - Watch the scene. 9. "That's the way it always is, blind to my own life." - "Eve's Bayou" - Watch the scene. 10. "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'" - "Casablanca" - Watch the scene. 11. "Is this heaven? No, it's Iowa." - "Field of Dreams" - Watch the scene. 12. "A man should have a hobby." - "Psycho" - Watch the scene. 13. "Jake, you get wise. You get to church." - "Blues Brothers" - Watch the scene. 14. "How you think Captain Kirk got all that booty?" - "Barbershop" - Watch the scene. 15. "I want a woman that is going to arouse my intellect as well as my loins." - "Coming to America" - Watch the scene. 16. "Commerce is our goal here at Tyrell. 'More human than human' is our motto." - "Blade Runner" - Watch the scene. 17. "It's a household name." - "Forrest Gump" - Watch the scene. 18. "You're terminated, fu#6er" - "The Terminator" - Watch the scene. 19. "Toga! Toga!" - "Animal House" - Watch the scene. 20. "You aren't fit to wipe his boots!" - "Gone With the Wind" - Watch the scene. 21. "I won't try to manage things, because I can't think." - "Wizard of Oz" - Watch the scene. 22. "Have they forgotten what a star looks like?" - "Sunset Boulevard" - Watch the scene. 23. "I'm all about the boobies." - "Good Luck Chuck" - Watch the scene. 24. "You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down." - "It's a Wonderful Life" - Watch the scene. 25. "Call me when you have no class." - "Back to School" - Watch the scene. 26. "Nobody poor was ever called democratic for marrying somebody rich." - "Sabrina" - Watch the scene. 27. "Murder's never perfect -- always comes apart sooner or later, and when two people are involved, it's usually sooner." - "Double Indemnity" - Watch the scene. 28. "Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?" - "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" - Watch the scene. 29. "I'm a businessman. I got to work!" - "Beverly Hills Cop II" - Watch the scene. 30. "You are a walking lightbulb waiting to be screwed." - "Foul Play" - Watch the scene. 31. "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." - "The Godfather" - Watch the scene. 32. "We took a perfectly useless psychopath like Valentine and turned him into a successful executive." - "Trading Places" - Watch the scene. 33. "It's 106 miles to Chicago. We got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses." - "Blues Brothers" - Watch the scene. 34. "Here's looking at you, kid" - "Casablanca" - Watch the scene. 35. "I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is." - "Forrest Gump" - Watch the scene. Labels: quotes, video, yoostar posted by Jess Barron @ 10:36 AM 
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| June 2, 2009 | Opening Party David Lynch's Photo Exhibit |
Michael Kohn Gallery threw an opening party on May 29 for David Lynch's photo exhibit "Dark Night of the Soul." The line went way down Beverly Blvd. I heard more than one  person in line (and walking by) comment, "When was the last time you saw such a long line at an art opening!?" But it was worth the wait. (We have all witnessed how gaga I get for David Lynch.)Many of Lynch's photos on display in the Kohn Gallery (through July 11) elicit for me the same moods and feelings evoked in my favorite of his films. A weird disturbed nostalgia and the creepiness of dreams. That's how I felt about this shadowy BBQ by a too-perfect to be true Pacific Ocean. And this photo of woman giving the finger from the backseat of car reminded me of the teens who cause the fatal car accident in "Mulholland Drive." This hazy couple on the street at night reminded me of the cast of characters Laura Dern encounters on Hollywood Blvd in "Inland Empire." The photo which most perfectly fits the theme "Dark Night of the Soul" is this photo of a dingy lamp and bedside table with a corner filled with an overflowing pile of prescription pill bottles. That to me, truly communicates the modern American's long, lonely, troubled, sleepless night -- trying to medicate to escape from the pain of old and new terrors. It all reminds me of the quote from the final episode of Mad Men's first season "The Wheel," when Don Draper (in a mid-day meeting preceding his own "dark night of the soul") pitches his advertising colleagues and the client on a concept to sell Polaroid's "wheel" slide projector: Nostalgia - it's delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, "nostalgia" literally means "the pain from an old wound." It's a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn't a spaceship, it's a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards... it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It's not called the wheel, it's called the carousel. It let's us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved. I used to write a column for my college newspaper called "Nostalgia for the Present," and this quote has really stuck with me, and I think it also reminds me of what I like about David Lynch's movies, photos, and art. Labels: art, davidlynch, la, madmen, nostalgia, photos, quotes posted by Jess Barron @ 11:26 AM
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| January 18, 2005 | "Your little yellow smiley face needs some gray time." |
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"Your little yellow smiley face needs some gray time." This is what Donald Trump told Yahoo's COO Dan Rosensweig via a pre-recorded video segment shown on a large screen during our company All-Hands meeting today. The Donald was razzing DanR (as he is called) for being online all the time and "annoying your employees by pinging them at all hours." The quote -- "your little yellow smiley face needs some gray time" -- refers to the little smiley face icon that appears in someone's Yahoo! Messenger buddy list to indicate whether or not the person is online and "available." Your Yahoo! Messenger smiley face "goes gray" when you go offline and sign-off (or when you're being stealthy and hiding from someone). This is my favorite new catch-phrase, and honestly I think I love it so much because my freakin smiley face needs to get some gray time. Raj Bhakta, the overly exhuberant Cassanova from last season of "The Apprentice" (who memorably tried to ask out Anna Kournikova on the tennis court during one episode) also spoke at our All-Hands and hit on our CFO Sue Decker. "I've heard you're the 48th Most Powerful Woman in business," he told her on stage. "And, you know, power is a strong aphrodesiac." "She's married!" yelled several folks from the audience. Egads. "Why the heck did you have all this "Apprentice" stuff at your company meeting?" you might ask. Well, Yahoo! has this deal with "The Apprentice" that was made last season: we host the official web-destination where you can go to find all of the extra behind-the-scenes video clips. And so, our company All-Hands became sort of like a commercial for the new season of "The Apprentice." They showed us a teaser/preview of the second episode in which the task is for the two teams of contestants to re-model a Jersey Shore motel and then guests stay there and use Yahoo! Local to rate the hotel experiences. I used to feel like I was living inside a cartoon; lately I feel like I'm living inside a commercial. At least it's one of those expensive, attention-grabbing Super Bowl commercials, but still. Labels: apprentice, quotes, yahoo posted by Jess Barron @ 7:16 PM
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| November 27, 2004 | Pegacorns and Eggzilla |
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Pegacorns are an American invention," he said as he finished his room service pancakes.
Labels: americanculture, pegacorns, quotes posted by Jess Barron @ 11:09 AM
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| November 9, 2001 | California -- It's the Cheese |
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"Happy cows make great cheese, and happy cows live in California." --a cheesy quote from California dairy farmers’ ubiquitous "It's the Cheese" tv ad campaign. "California is the only state that touches both Mexico and Canada." --Mindy, my (actually quite) intelligent friend who received her B.A. from Vassar. Three things: 1. It's November 9, and it's 75 degrees, and I'm wearing sandals. 2. As of next week, I will have lived in my loft for one calendar year. I'm actually planning to stay here one more year. This fact may not sound exciting to you, but this will be the first time since I was 17-years-old (ten years ago) that I've lived in the same dwelling for longer than 12 months. 3. I really do love California. Well, mostly I love Los Angeles and San Francisco (I can say with some certainty that I do not love Bakersfield, Fresno, Sacramento, San Diego, or Davis. But I will admit that there is still something interesting about places like Pasadena, pre-fab Palo Alto, and Sausalito.) Though I do not unconditionally love all the other California cities, there is something I do love about driving the 5 from bottom to top, my eyes lingering along the vast bountiful fields filled with fruit year-round, intersected by elaborate aqueducts, and lined with neat rows of plants and trees. As I reach northern California, I can't help but ogle the gorgeous soft rolling grassy green hills. Unlike the jutting mountain-like hills of New Hampshire or Vermont, northern California's hills seem take special care not to block out the sun. Sometimes I think I'm one of the only people who loves both San Francisco and Los Angeles. I am, quite possibly, the only person foolish enough to admit in writing that I love Los Angeles a bit more. A few days after moving to SF last fall, I was invited to a loft party in SOMA. While being introduced to a woman around my age, I accidentally mentioned that I had just moved to the city from Los Angeles. Her immediate self-satisfied response was, "Well, at least you're in a better city now!" I tried to explain to her that not everyone is completely brainwashed that the Bay Area is the best place to live, but it wasn't worth getting in a bitch fight and/or shattering her idea of reality. When I lived on the East Coast in Boston in 1996, I always assumed I would move to San Francisco. SF was so cool -- it was the dot.com epicenter -- (and I was already working at Monster.com and completely bought in on "The Revolution," as stupid as that now sounds.) Los Angeles seemed sort of tacky in comparison. When I was trying to get my employers at Wildweb to pay for my transfer to Los Angeles in 1999 (from Boston) my friend and manager, Eliot, a former Angeleno, had warned me, "People in the Bay-Area treat Los Angeles as if it's this big, dumb dog. And Los Angeles maybe kind of just accepts that stereotype, because I don't think LA really cares about the image as much as people might think. But anyone who lives there knows that LA actually has a lot of things, particularly in Los Feliz and Silverlake, that are just as cool, if not cooler than anything they have up there. Plus there are more artists." With Eliot's assistance and a bit of luck, I did end up being transferred from Boston to Los Angeles, and when I arrived there, I found a place that was so strange and filled with people who all had huge dreams and bizarre quirks. I was convinced, and still am, that it had to have been created by someone's imagination like some kind of trippy cartoon. The way the sunlight hits the buildings at 3 in the afternoon, the shadows and colors are so dramatic, you constantly feel like those scenes in a movie where they close-up on the lover beaming down over the beloved's face. (I swear I wasn't much of a romantic until I moved to Los California.) I know, no one's supposed to love Hell-ay, but I did. I fell in love with the city no one was supposed to love, just as easily as I fell in love with the goofy messed-up boy in my life who was daring me to love him. When my friend Jeff and I decided to go west just over two years ago, he was living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which he loved, except for the sweltering summer heat waves that kept everyone inside hovering around an air conditioner. Jeff and I had been friends since we were fifteen. We grew up in a Massachusetts suburb and met in a public school Latin class. Three years after my graduation from Vassar, I was living in Cambridge, MA and hating everything about the uptight Bostonian East Coast attitude. I had already been bitten by the Burning Man bug, and realized that the majority of Black Rock City's inhabitants hailed from the West Coast. "When a lot of people get together in the best places things go glimmering. The thing is to have a lot of people in the center of the world, wherever that happens to be. Then things go glimmering." I beckoned Jeff to move west with me, peppering my speech with lines from "Absolution," one of my favorite F. Scott Fitzgerald short stories. Two of our other friends Paul and Hillary already lived in the City of Quartz. Paul lived in Santa Monica studying architecture at Sci Arc and Hillary lived in Hollywood and worked in acquisitions at Fox. Jeff became convinced. The only decision was whether to find an apartment in cool-kid Los Feliz or out by the sparkly ocean in Santa Monica. Our jobs on the Westside dictated our choice, and I found that I could be happy living anywhere in Los Angeles, even in West LA where we were surrounded by UCLA kids and families with Spanish-style bungalows with immaculate lawns. Maybe I loved Los Angeles most because I hit it at an interesting time in my life. I was really ready to begin everything. I wanted to dance all night to glam rock in Hollywood clubs with strippers and guys in bands. I wanted to dress even more flamboyantly. I wanted to learn to rollerblade while watching the sun set over the ocean and licking the salt from my lips. Maybe I loved Los Angeles because I hit it at an interesting time in its life. I saw the entertainment dot.com bubble from the inside. My P-2-P MP3 start-up company was headquartered in Beverly Hills and majority-owned by mogul Michael Ovitz. The people I met were writers, photographers, painters, musicians, and actors (some whose names you’d recognize, and some who you would not), and they didn’t all hail from New England or go to college in the Northeast. They had their own unique dreams and they weren't doing these things just because their families expected them to. A few weekends ago while walking barefoot on San Francisco's Ocean Beach, Mindy and I were speculating about which, if any, states could successfully succeed from the Union. "California is probably the only one that could do it, right?" I ventured. "Well, California is the only state that touches both Mexico and Canada," Mindy said. "California doesn't touch Canada!" I exclaimed, and both of us immediately started laughing. "I can’t believe I said that," Mindy said, while still giggling. "It's stuff like that that makes people in Washington and Oregon hate Californians." I admitted that I sometimes pictured the map that way too. I suppose that confirms it -- we're officially Californians now. Labels: california, jeff, la, losangeles, mindy, quotes, sanfrancisco, sf, web posted by Jess Barron @ 8:39 PM
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| May 7, 2001 | Pier Parties and Dog Saboteurs |
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I loved stumbling upon that pier party yesterday (thanks to Mindy and Matt...) So fun even though we didn't know who the DJs were. I'm starting to appreciate San Francisco a bit more. I mean, how many cities have great local DJs throwing free parties in warehouses (like that Supernatural thing we went to a few weekends ago) and on postapocalyptic piers. My favorite overheard conversation snippet: Someone said to a guy with a little Yorkshire Terrier: "Hey, your dog looks different -- I can see his eyes now -- did he get a haircut?" Other guy, holding up dog: "Yeah, I took him to the groomer last week. When they gave him back to me, I was like, 'Dude! You sabotaged my dog!" Last night I had dreams about dog saboteurs... Labels: dog, quotes, sanfrancisco, sf posted by Jess Barron @ 4:31 PM
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