Guilty (and not-so-guilty) Pleasures. We should all be ashamed of ourselves

kaliyama

Capt Howdy wrote:

WTF is wrong with LadyHawke?

Seconded. Your guilty pleasure is characterizing ladyhawke as a guilty pleasure. We're here, we're... Hawkish, so get used to it!

lonelyahava

I will third Kushiel series (I never got through Imri's trilogy).
I will third or fourth or fifth Eddings. Fuck you they're enjoyable books.
I too know all the words to Phantom of the Opera.
I enjoyed the first 3 or 4 of the Goodkind books before they started to get too weird.
I -love- Wheel of Time and fuck you for looking down on me. I also enjoy GRRM although I find myself wanting to stab the man occasionally.

A pleasure that i don't deny myself but probably should? Cookbooks. My mom started me on this when I was younger. Whenever we went on vacation to someplace new, or to the bookstore or something different, she would get a cookbook. Those were her souvenirs. Most of them are unused, and just sitting on the bookshelves. But still. I have started my own cookbook collection as well. because I am addicted.

Food: Kraft Mac & Cheese. No no, I know this sounds silly, but think about it. I'm living in new Zealand right now. And I've been craving some american food. So we go to this store that has imported american brands. I buy a 12 pack of Blue Box cheesy goodness for $28NZD. It was like the angels of heaven shone down upon my head. (also lucky charms, pop tarts, and hidden valley ranch dressing).

I also seem to have a minor thing for hair products. Mostly shampoo and conditioner. I'll buy one, get about 7/8 through the bottle, then go out, buy another type, and never finish the other bottle off. I have enough shampoo in my bathroom right now to last for at least a year.

I'm rambling...

mageormike

RE: Food-

I know exactly how you feel. I've lived in Japan for several years, and during extended periods there were times where I would really want American food. Sometimes I would pay 8 dollars for 5 tiny tortillas and make sad tacos. Other times I would do the unthinkable and eat a Big Mac.

Japan has great food but anything imported is fairly hard to find and expensive as hell.

Syphyre

Here's one...I've been out of college and had a real job for years and I still love me some Ramen and Dr. Pepper at 10pm at night.

devCharles

I -love- Wheel of Time and fuck you for looking down on me.

I don't love Wheel of Time, but I enjoyed even the shittier Wheel of Time books, even though I had to read them with the internet ready to cross reference character names.

Muse Among Men

I have so much trouble convincing people Hot Tub Time Machine is amazing.

But I won't let it be a 'guilty' pleasure. That movie is a cinematic triumph.

Godfather

Back in the 90's I used to listen to the Creed album Weathered. Mainly the tune Six Feet From the Edge because of the cool guitar intro lick.

Suddenly they became internet-famous as the world's worst band and I don't really know why.

RhalloTonny

Syphyre wrote:

Here's one...I've been out of college and had a real job for years and I still love me some Ramen and Dr. Pepper at 10pm at night.

Same situation, and I know they're awful and awful for you

but every so often I get a pack of Pizza Rolls. Triple meat.

stevemarks44

Drez wrote:

Bring It On

Kamar

Let's see...I've probably seen A Knight's Tale like 300 times. I don't know why, I just love that damned movie.

Thinking about it, around half my day is dedicated to guilty pleasures. I'm weeaboo as fuck, so that's bad enough, but I also have very low standards for what I'll read/watch/play. The fact that I'm a writer myself just makes it worse, I think.

Arkas

I loved the movie Jumper, and I'm pretty sure I'm the only person on the planet who did.

I mean, bad guys? Terrible. Main character? A jerk. Plot? Bad. Dialogue? Worse.

But when he's being tortured and jumps that whole room into the lake to save the girl I was like man this is so damn cool.

And the way they flicker out when they're being electrocuted, and the way dust swirls and the air kind of cracks whenever they port in and out, and hell the guy jumping back from under the ocean with this big burst of seawater.

It's like mental candy to me. I never get tired of re-watching it.

Daxon

Arkas wrote:

I loved the movie Jumper, and I'm pretty sure I'm the only person on the planet who did.

I mean, bad guys? Terrible. Main character? A jerk. Plot? Bad. Dialogue? Worse.

But when he's being tortured and jumps that whole room into the lake to save the girl I was like man this is so damn cool.

And the way they flicker out when they're being electrocuted, and the way dust swirls and the air kind of cracks whenever they port in and out, and hell the guy jumping back from under the ocean with this big burst of seawater.

It's like mental candy to me. I never get tired of re-watching it.

Jumper was good fun!

But what I really love is Push. Got kind of the same vibe as Jumper with superpowers and whatnot but the dialogue, characters and actors are all great!

joshofalltrades

Godfather wrote:

Back in the 90's I used to listen to the Creed album Weathered. Mainly the tune Six Feet From the Edge because of the cool guitar intro lick.

Suddenly they became internet-famous as the world's worst band and I don't really know why.

They're not the worst band. They're the Ctrl-Alt-Del of music. They're so mediocre, and content to be mediocre, that they invite ridicule. Some of their stuff is halfway decent, especially instrumentally, but then Scott Stapp does his annoying Eddie Vedder/goat impression while putting the syllable "AHHHH" at the end of every lyric, and the illusion of the band you are listening to not being Creed is shattered.

Chanus

joshofalltrades wrote:

Godfather wrote:

Back in the 90's I used to listen to the Creed album Weathered. Mainly the tune Six Feet From the Edge because of the cool guitar intro lick.

Suddenly they became internet-famous as the world's worst band and I don't really know why.

They're not the worst band. They're the Ctrl-Alt-Del of music. They're so mediocre, and content to be mediocre, that they invite ridicule. Some of their stuff is halfway decent, especially instrumentally, but then Scott Stapp does his annoying Eddie Vedder/goat impression while putting the syllable "AHHHH" at the end of every lyric, and the illusion of the band you are listening to not being Creed is shattered.

Really, if it wasn't for his messiah complex, they'd be just another not-so-great pop metal band from the early '00s.

Johnny Chopsocky

joshofalltrades wrote:

Godfather wrote:

Back in the 90's I used to listen to the Creed album Weathered. Mainly the tune Six Feet From the Edge because of the cool guitar intro lick.

Suddenly they became internet-famous as the world's worst band and I don't really know why.

They're not the worst band. They're the Ctrl-Alt-Del of music. They're so mediocre, and content to be mediocre, that they invite ridicule. Some of their stuff is halfway decent, especially instrumentally, but then Scott Stapp does his annoying Eddie Vedder/goat impression while putting the syllable "AHHHH" at the end of every lyric, and the illusion of the band you are listening to not being Creed is shattered.

Yeah, this. Creed in no way qualifies as the world's worst band.

That distinction belongs to Brokencyde. No, don't look it up. There's no guilty pleasure to be had from them.

joshofalltrades

Johnny Chopsocky wrote:

joshofalltrades wrote:

Godfather wrote:

Back in the 90's I used to listen to the Creed album Weathered. Mainly the tune Six Feet From the Edge because of the cool guitar intro lick.

Suddenly they became internet-famous as the world's worst band and I don't really know why.

They're not the worst band. They're the Ctrl-Alt-Del of music. They're so mediocre, and content to be mediocre, that they invite ridicule. Some of their stuff is halfway decent, especially instrumentally, but then Scott Stapp does his annoying Eddie Vedder/goat impression while putting the syllable "AHHHH" at the end of every lyric, and the illusion of the band you are listening to not being Creed is shattered.

Yeah, this. Creed in no way qualifies as the world's worst band.

That distinction belongs to Brokencyde. No, don't look it up. There's no guilty pleasure to be had from them.

Is there a schadenfreude pleasure from looking it up?

hadoken

I fucking loved Sucker Punch, but not because of the hot chicks or the action scenes. I was genuinely interested in the story.

People hate me for this.

Johnny Chopsocky

joshofalltrades wrote:

Johnny Chopsocky wrote:

joshofalltrades wrote:

Godfather wrote:

Back in the 90's I used to listen to the Creed album Weathered. Mainly the tune Six Feet From the Edge because of the cool guitar intro lick.

Suddenly they became internet-famous as the world's worst band and I don't really know why.

They're not the worst band. They're the Ctrl-Alt-Del of music. They're so mediocre, and content to be mediocre, that they invite ridicule. Some of their stuff is halfway decent, especially instrumentally, but then Scott Stapp does his annoying Eddie Vedder/goat impression while putting the syllable "AHHHH" at the end of every lyric, and the illusion of the band you are listening to not being Creed is shattered.

Yeah, this. Creed in no way qualifies as the world's worst band.

That distinction belongs to Brokencyde. No, don't look it up. There's no guilty pleasure to be had from them.

Is there a schadenfreude pleasure from looking it up?

There is NO pleasure to be derived from Brokencyde. Not schadenfreude or guilty or even ironic.

joshofalltrades

And Godfather, Creed is arguably not even the most distinctive epitome of mediocrity. Personally, I give that honor to Nickelback.

Chanus

I'm actually impressed that Nickelback came along and took the mediocrity title away from Creed.

Like... they're actually more bland.

That's got to be something they strived for.

hadoken

Personally i think Nickleback is a fine band, they just recycle everything they do a million times and their songs all sound the same. Apart from that, all good.

You guys ever heard of the fantastic "Freddy Got Fingered"? Love that, love it.

Chanus

It amuses me that SE++ needed an anonymous thread to reveal horrible secrets about themselves, and here people just openly admit to liking Nickelback.

joshofalltrades

I liked the Weezer Green album when it came out. Not as much as Blue or Pinkerton, but well enough.

Although I could never listen to the whole thing straight through. Verse-Chorus-Verse-Chorus-Guitar solo that is exactly the same melody as the verse-Chorus-End. For every song. I had to throw in a song in the middle of a mix CD or something.

Chanus

The green album had a couple good songs.

I actually liked Maladroit as well. Everything after has been utter rubbish, though. To the point that I feel personally betrayed by Rivers Cuomo.

Beltaine

No one should have ever let Tom Green make a movie, but damn, I thought it was funny.

Where else can you see a guy jerk off an elephant?

joshofalltrades

Yeah I liked certain stuff off of Maladroit. Tonally and musically, at least. Lyrically you could tell Rivers just didn't even give 1/10 of a fuck at that point.

Beverly Hills in particular is a fucking crime against humanity. It makes my ears puke.

Atomika

Chanus wrote:

The green album had a couple good songs.

I actually liked Maladroit as well. Everything after has been utter rubbish, though. To the point that I feel personally betrayed by Rivers Cuomo.

The Red Album seemed like a concerted effort to systematically destroy every bit of goodwill they had ever earned.

joshofalltrades

I actually had given up on them completely by the time the Red Album came out. I heard the single was called "Pork and Beans" and I went pfffffffft nope

Modern Man

Chanus wrote:

It amuses me that SE++ needed an anonymous thread to reveal horrible secrets about themselves, and here people just openly admit to liking Nickelback.

I'm sort of surprised that liking Nickelback is one of the more shocking guilty pleasures on this thread.

I'm kind of disappointed in you guys. I was expecting more.

Syphyre

I think in a non SE++ environment, we tend to be somewhat more civilized.

The Wolfman

Has Survivor been mentioned? Because... Survivor.

I know it's pretty much the junk food equivalent of television. But god damn if I don't tune in each season and splurge myself.

reVerse

I'd say that shows like Survivor, which have some sort of point, are perfectly okay.

But watching one of them shows that's just about useless people living their useless lives and being generally useless, those shows are the most awful thing since being kissed by Hitler.

Modern Man

reVerse wrote:

I'd say that shows like Survivor, which have some sort of point, are perfectly okay.

But watching one of them shows that's just about useless people living their useless lives and being generally useless, those shows are the most awful thing since being kissed by Hitler.

Shut up. Jerseylicious is awesome. Jersey Shore, on the other hand, makes me sad.

joshofalltrades

The Real Housewives

Spoiler:

is not a guilty pleasure I have

Modern Man

joshofalltrades wrote:

The Real Housewives

Spoiler:

is not a guilty pleasure I have

The very first one in Orange County was good, before it became a way for social climbers to try and sell themselves.

Oh, and the shows are full of MILFs, so there's that.

JebusUD

Modern Man wrote:

reVerse wrote:

I'd say that shows like Survivor, which have some sort of point, are perfectly okay.

But watching one of them shows that's just about useless people living their useless lives and being generally useless, those shows are the most awful thing since being kissed by Hitler.

Shut up. Jerseylicious is awesome. Jersey Shore, on the other hand, makes me sad.

You guys, the best reality TV ever was Tool Academy. Not a guilty pleasure, just awesome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool_Academy

Wikipedia wrote:

The nine men, all of whom have been nominated by their respective girlfriends, initially think they are taking part in a competition for the title of "Mr. Awesome." However, shortly after arriving they find out the truth: they are actually being entered into a "charm school" which focuses on teaching them how to behave as boyfriends.

The logo for the "Mr. Awesome" show explodes at one point and reveals the Tool Academy logo.

Destinyamber

hadoken wrote:

I fucking loved Sucker Punch, but not because of the hot chicks or the action scenes. I was genuinely interested in the story.

People hate me for this.

I feel you completely. The story was amazing. People just didn't care to look deeper into it.

TheCanMan

Johnny Chopsocky wrote:

Torque.

It is a movie about guys who ride motorcycles RIDE EXTREME MOTOREXTREMECYCLES EXTREEEEEEEEEME.

It's like giving a 12 year old boy a case of Pixy Stix and diving into his subconscious. Everything goes fast, everything is ridiculous, everything explodes, everything is CGI, physics is ignored, nothing is forbidden, everything is permitted and somehow Dane Cook manages a cameo.

It's stupid. Pants on head retarded. It is the ADHD-addled kid in the helmet of movies.

And if I come across it on cable I am compelled to watch it until the end every time.

Is that the one where at the end they're basically jousting with their bikes by laying on the front breaks and swinging their rear wheels at each other? And then the one bike goes so fast that it starts knocking parked cars over? If it's wrong to love that movie for all the wrong reasons, I don't want to be right.

Another movie I love on the absolute polar opposite end of the movie spectrum is P.S. I Love You. The first couple times I watched it I was with my wife. But I've also watched it all by my self. For heart-wrenching love story, it's also genuinely funny much of the time. I cried a little, too.

Capt Howdy

Survivor - THE BAND - is the greatest corporate rock band of the 80's!

Haters be damned. Poor Mans Son and American Heartbeat are phenomenal!

Godfather

I liked the song Through The Fire and Flames by Dragonforce. I know it's a terrible band, but the guitar is so flipping fast and the second half of the song is basically 50 guitar solos crammed into one, some of them actually a hell of a lot of fun to listen to at times.

I realize I am a terrible person for this.