My beloved Memphis was quite a pleasant place to be this Friday morning and early afternoon. The sun was shining, there was a nice breeze, even the temperature was playing along: a wonderfully out-of-season 60 degrees. I was driving to Home Depot to buy materials for my soon-to-be-started garden and listening to the Shins (Chutes Too Narrow, FYI), and you know, the moment did not entirely suck. In fact, it did not suck at all.
Then I started thinking about that moment in Garden State when Natalie Portman hands her over-sized headphones to Zach Braff and tells him to listen to the Shins, because “they will change your life.” And I got to thinking that Zach Braff is a real big douchebag, because he wrote that film. OK sure, he was funny in Scrubs, but that’s all I can do for him. Because every time I listen to the Shins, whom I like, I think of that movie, which I did not like.
Douche.
fieldguidetomemphis | 11-Feb-09 at 10:28 pm | Permalink
i think you are the most earnestly un-earnest person i know. fyi, you’re my role model.
i like the shins and have no intention of watching garden state.
in other news, i did just netflix “the best of the muppets” starring peter sellers. now that’s a study in contrasts. what a goofball on the big screen and a complex troubled lil’ man in real life.