“What are you looking at? Wipe that face off your head, bitch!”

I haven’t been in school for 6 years but still, every year around this time I get the “school’s out for summer” feeling. Dazed and Confused is the best movie for this time of year and it’s is the best movie of its kind.

This movie is chockfull of great quotes, but Parker Posey has the best one.

Does anyone else get this feeling this time of year? Are there any other movies anyone watches this time of year? I also enjoy American Graffiti, Superbad and Super 8.

“Hey, guess what time it is: it’s beer o’clock, and I’m buying.”

-Teddy (Joe Pantoliano), from Memento

I haven’t seen Memento for a few years, but after remembering this quote a few days ago (I joked with one of my students about the time being “beer o’clock”), I checked out more from the movie and realized how much I liked it. I really dug it when it came out in 2001 and I remember seeing it a few times in Germany and back in Colorado. Really original plot and concept, good acting, great lines. Anyhow, good stuff.

I’m going to put this on the front page of Cinematic Attic, mainly to remind you to check out our other pages with shorter posts. We have the Movie Log, Quotes, and Beer pages, and all are great and waiting for you!

This is actually the same advice I give to my students regarding cell phone use in class, but I don’t think any of them have tattooed it on their arms yet.

Have a good one!

- Michael J. Fox

I read this quote in Fox’s book Lucky Man back in 2001 or so. I’ve always been a fan since Back to the Future is still at the top of my favorite movies list.

I dug this quote up when I was looking through a “quote book” that my old roommate Himal and I started writing down funny things when we lived together. A lot of them are from our friends, but there are also some from movies and books. I may find a few more and put them up here eventually.

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This is Ryan, trying out a new “Quotes” feature on the blog. Let’s hope it works!

These quotes are from the book:

1. (There is a lot in the book that talks about how zoos are actually not so bad; I’m not sure how to square this with a lot of what humanity in general thinks about zoos, but it is interesting fodder for thought or debate. In any case, here he’s been talking about how many animals are actually more comfortable in zoos): “If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and said, ‘Go! You are free! Free as a bird! Go! Go!’–do you think they would shout and dance for joy? The wouldn’t. Birds are not free. The people you’ve just evicted would sputter, ‘With what right do you throw us out? This is our home. We own it. We have lived here for years. We’re calling the police, you scoundrel.’”

2. (I wanted a quote that was representative of the role religion played in the book. But I forgot to mark one, so I’ll have to go with this completely different one instead): “I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he’s not careful.”