The Power of Positive Thinking

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I know this is corny but what books, films, and records make you feel GOOD - uplifted and ready to take on the world in your own inimitable style?

What would you read, watch, or listen to the night before a job interview or something?

Spring is here and the time is right to get your chin up and start kick-boxing the future.

― fritz, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Give it Up" by Public Enemy. Those who know this song you KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

BOOK: Dandelion Wine

MOVIE: Zoolander or any movie that ends with a freezeframe of someone jumping in the air with a fist in the air.

MUSIC: Jimmy Cliff - You can get if you really want/the harder they come, Capleton - Wings of The Morning remix, Bad Brains - Rock For Light.

― fritz, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two words: THE PIXIES!!!

― katie, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Comic = Quit Your Job by James Kolchalka

Music = Crazy Crazy Nights by Kiss

― jel --, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Film: Bottle Rocket

― Nitsuh, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chemical Brothers...

― Ronan, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"The Days Of Swine And Roses" by My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult. Also, Frank Martin's Mass for Double Chorus and "In The Beginning" by Aaron Copeland.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Music sounds better with you

― N., Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

books are tough.

movies: I'll second Bottle Rocket and add Papillion, The Bad News Bears, Goodfellas ("My Way" sounds so good at the end) and, fuck it, I'm not to cool to say I loved the end of Shawshank Redemption.

music: Misfits - Where Eagles Dare, Sylvester - Mighty Real, Beatnuts - Watch Out Now, The Specials - Rude Boys Outta Jail, Sinatra - New York, New York.

― fritz, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The debut record by french band Phoenix. I usually take a tape of it with me on holiday.

― nathalie, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Christopher Durang actually does not work for this, no matter what you might think.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Chameleons' "One Flesh" (specifically the first two minutes, just goddamn beautiful). Probably Ferris Bueller's Day Off now that I think about it. Books I'm not sure about...

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Books: Nothing comes to mind. The Collected Works of Mike Hanle y would probably cheer me up. if there was such a thing.

Movies: Hairspray, Bringing Up Baby, Auntie Mame

Music: Any song with the word "jump" in the chorus; the Cowsills, especially when Susan is singing; Andrew WK-"I Love NYC", the Hives-"Hate To Say I Told You So", "Main Offender", "Die, All Right".

― Arthur, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Groundhog Day' always cheers me up because it suggests that even jaded misanthropes can change...

― Andrew L, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"hail" by sjf.

― di, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fugazi - Waiting Room

― bnw, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anything with swagger.

Film: When We Were Kings

Listen to: T. Rex -- 20th Century Boy, James Brown: Live @ the Apollo.

― JM, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

...and Street Fighting Man

― JM, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

six years pass...

ayo ilx needs some of this right now

i say this with LOVE my friends

― find yr HOOS & steendrive anything in the way (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 17 January 2009 07:04 (seventeen years ago)

btw when i am approaching an event about which i am nervous i make it happen with the lady and then listen to "Can't Knock the Hustle" on the way to whatever needs doing

― find yr HOOS & steendrive anything in the way (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 17 January 2009 07:06 (seventeen years ago)

i make it happen with the lady !!

― Thorstein Veblen (velko), Saturday, 17 January 2009 07:11 (seventeen years ago)

movies: Truth about Cats and Dogs, Sixteen Candles, The Goonies...also the Pirates of the Caribbean movies put me in a pretty good mood normally

books: Bad Jelly the Witch - Spike Milligan, Attack of the Killer Monster Snow Goons (Calvin & Hobbes)

music: Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens

― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 17 January 2009 07:13 (seventeen years ago)

hoos wears the pants in the bedroom.
or something.

what makes me feel good lately?
records: robert ashley "perfet live & the blues busters "how sweet it is" & irma thomas "sings"
movies: third-string hitchcock, third-string john wayne, star wars trilogy on vhs.
books: walker percy "lost in the cosmos" (i know tombot's a fan.)

― ian, Saturday, 17 January 2009 07:17 (seventeen years ago)

I also really dig putting on Curtis Mayfield's Curtis for some feelgood shit, or watching His Girl Friday.

― find yr HOOS & steendrive anything in the way (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 17 January 2009 07:20 (seventeen years ago)

friday
minutemen - buzz or howl under the influence of heat, Franco And Rochereau - omona wapi
theodore sturgeon - more than human

― artdamages, Saturday, 17 January 2009 07:42 (seventeen years ago)

I Can See Clearly Now the Rain Has Gone. Johnny Nash.

I think I can make it now the pain has gone.

― james k polk, Saturday, 17 January 2009 07:45 (seventeen years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf400/f431/f43110d4337.jpg

― schlump, Saturday, 17 January 2009 08:28 (seventeen years ago)

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― 909090909 Rivethed Brikkchin Reverk now DANZ (Mackro Mackro), Saturday, 17 January 2009 21:13 (seventeen years ago)

eight years pass...

I hate advice to "stay positive." It just means, "shut up."

― Treeship, Thursday, 1 June 2017 02:59 (eight years ago)

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