Entertainment That I Am Proud to Say I Was On Board For Before They Were Cool
1) Ali G -- I was a HUGE Ali G fan when I spent a semester in London in 1999. He was on a British show called The 11 o'clock Show (it is/was a lot like the Daily Show).
2) Radiohead -- This one comes with a caveat. Everyone knew "Creep," but I feel like I was in the "they aren't a one-hit wonder" crowd pretty early in the game -- way before OK Computer came out. I saw them open for R.E.M. on the Monster tour in support for The Bends. A lot of my friends made fun of me for loving the "Creep" band. Suck it.
3) Jurassic 5 -- My friends and I had their E.Ps and imports, and listened the shit out of them for a couple years. Then we got an advanced copy of their first album (on cassette tape). We promptly had a power outage, so there were 5 of us sitting in a circle around a tiny boom box listening to a horribly-made copy of Quality Control and drinking. It doesn't get any more underground cool than that for a bunch of white kids from the suburbs.
4) Soccer -- oh, wait, no one cares, still.
5) Memento -- I read an article about it somewhere once, and then saw it the day it opened in New York. There was 1 other person in the theater. A couple months later, it was selling out.
6) Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels -- This one is kind of cheating. I just happened to be in London and saw it before it was released in the States. But still, I was able to call friends and tell them to see it when it came out.
7) Modest Mouse -- I bought my first Modest Mouse album three years ago. Now they're huge. Though there are a lot of people who were on board with them before me.
Lest you think I am doing this just to brag, I will also say I was a HUGE (I cannot emphasize this enough) Oasis fan, I'm pretty late to the game with regards to Bill Hicks, I had a faux-hawk once, I am really late to the game with regards to Wilco, and like a sheep I follow the vintage-shirt fad. Among a plethora of others. I just wanted to point out (for myself, as well) that every now and then I get things right.
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Entertainment That I Am Proud To Say I Disliked Before They Were Known
1. Elliott Smith -- I actually mentioned this show on my blog recently, but he opened for Mary Lou Lord in New York. She called him "a young Bob Dylan." I was confused as to why.
2. Kid Rock -- When I worked in a record store in 1993, I had a single of his called "Back from the Dead," which was a sort of ripoff of "Paid in Full," and I loved it. Then when his full-length album came out, I somehow "obtained it" from the store. Now his angle was being "the guy in the playground whop tells dirty jokes!" It was so bad I gave it back and put it in the defective bin.
3. According to Jim -- Not that anyone thinks it's good, but I read a very early draft of the pilot and it was so bad it was inspiring: "If this can get made, why am I not employed?" And I started my first script the next day. Of course, the "Jim" people are now bigger millionaires than when they began and I still have no job, so I'm not sure what the moral of that story is. Still, I knew it would suck before anyone knew it even existed.
Good call on "Jim" and Kid Rock. I must disagree with Elliott Smith.
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