Comments on: Let’s Get It Started: Our Favorite Pop Culture Beginnings

By: arensb

arensb — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:06:48 +0000

“He's a mad scientist, and I'm his beautiful daughter.”
— Robert Heinlein, “The Number of the Beast—”

By: arensb

arensb — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:06:48 +0000

“He's a mad scientist, and I'm his beautiful daughter.”
— Robert Heinlein, “The Number of the Beast—”

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By: DwDunphy

DwDunphy — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:21:37 +0000

Aw man, do I miss regular broadcast Monday Night Football.

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By: OldSchool

OldSchool — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:25:16 +0000

My favs listed are Disney, Let's Go Crazy and Star Wars.
I would have to add the old school Monday Night Football theme song.
Made me start thinking of others.

By: jeffk

jeffk — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:30:04 +0000

This is a great topic.

Here's two to think about.

(1) The opening of Dances With Wolves. Yes, I know there seems to be a backlash against the movie after its initial success. . . . But how about that opening scene on the Civil War battlefield where the character tries to get himself shot after discovering he is going to lose his leg, followed by the voice over line: "The strangeness of this life cannot be measured: in trying to produce my own death, I was elevated to the status of a living hero."

(2) That instantly recognizable piano and harmonica and then "The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves..." starting the first great song Thunder Road on the Bruce Springsteen's great album, Born to Run.

By: JonCummings

JonCummings — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:13:54 +0000

My attempts to comprehend James Joyce were always an Epic Fail, but I do fondly remember the child-like opening of “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”:

“Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo…”

By: jabartlett

jabartlett — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:57:46 +0000

"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, 'I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive . . .' And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about 100 miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming: 'Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?'"

Dr. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"