The Construct

It pays to know when to open your trap or just shut the f*ck up. ‘Cause you come out either looking like an idiot or being a total ass.

You want to know the first rule you’d know if you’d ever spent a day in your life? You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is. You fucking child.

-Ricky Roma, Glengarry Glen Ross

Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous goes down as one of my all-time favorite movies. I live for movie quotes and perhaps, second to Kevin Smith movies, Almost Famous has chockfull of my most favorite lines. And here they are:

• Russell Hammond: I am a golden god!
• Lester Bangs: The only true currency in this bankrupt world… is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.
• Lester Bangs: My advice to you. I know you think those guys are your friends. You wanna be a true friend to them? Be honest, and unmerciful.
• Lester Bangs: I’m always home. I’m uncool.
• Russell Hammond: And you can tell Rolling Stone magazine that my last words were… I’m on drugs!
• Jeff Bebe: Yeah, come back here! I’m incendiary, too, man!
• Jeff Bebe: Some people have a hard time explaining rock ‘n’ roll. I don’t think anyone can really explain rock ‘n’ roll. Except Pete Townshend, but that’s okay. Rock ‘n’ roll is a lifestyle and a way of thinking… and it’s not about money and popularity. Although, some money would be nice. But it’s a voice that says, “Here I am… and f*ck you if you can’t understand me.” And one of these people is gonna save the world. And that means that rock ‘n’ roll can save the world… all of us together. And the chicks are great. But what it all comes down to is that thing. The indefinable thing when people catch something in your music.
• Jeff Bebe: It’s okay! I’m easy to forget! Just leave me behind! I’m only the f*cking lead singer!

Oh yeah, and that bus scene where Tiny Dancer played? That was classic.