| Cocky | Introspective | Nonsensical | Out-Of-Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| "There's no word in English for my style." -- TMBG | "Wherest do you wander?" -- Mother Goose | "I'm looney tuney, touched in the head Please pass the ketchup, I think I'll go to bed" -- Bugs Bunny |
"Sink one from there and I'll tell you." -- The X-Files |
| "I am the trick my mother played on the world." -- The Silver Jews | "Call me Max. Max the Dreamer. Max the Poet. Max the Dog." -- Maira Kalman |
"They sing without juicers They sing without blenders They sing without flunjers, capdabblers, and smendlers!" -- The Simpsons |
"It's pretty much hard rock with a couple of wussy songs. That way we can still reel in the Belle & Sebastian fans." -- Steve Malkmus |
| "Embrace the senile genius. Watch her reinvent the wheel." -- Pavement | "Do you believe in MGM endings?" -- The Silver Jews | "the music drags...the music drags...the music drags..." -- Beck | "So this is where you sneaks come to try out your 'interpretive dance'" -- Newsradio |
| "I'm no nutjob mom." -- V8 Splash Ad | "Soberly, without regret, I make another sandwich." -- Belle & Sebastian | "purplemonkeydishwasher." -- The Simpsons | "Amuseumly Unamused." -- Headline in NY Daily News that I read in a dream |
| "Let's wake up the neighbors, let's turn up our amps..." -- Yo La Tengo | "Then, of course, I quit thinking." -- The Tin Woodman of Oz | "I was passing out cookies and graham crackers and all that shit." -- overheard 6/30/98 | "I think black & white photography is pretentious." -- Newsradio |
| "Somebody smack that guy." -- Steve Malkmus | "And the world is a holiday Smoking in an old ashtray" -- Beck |
"Gosh, I never realized killing was so grounded in the liberal arts." -- Calvin & Hobbes | "A backpack can sweat?" -- my English teacher |
| "And don't give me that wonderstruck 'I'm only a humble garbageman' bullshit, either." -- Henry Fool |
"If you never been to EMMA, Don't ever come to EMMA, because you wouldn't understand EMMA, So stay the fuck out of EMMA!" -- written on the wall of my bunk (Emma) |
"With that blow to the head, the deputy might as well have identified McGruff the Crime Dog as his attacker." -- The X-Files | "In truth, Walt Disney was not a very good animator." -- Shamus Culhane |
