A Netflix account is good for many things. For one, it can virtually assure you that you'll never get that 4.0 your mother's spent the last week harassing you about (thanks, Spec). But I've recently discovered that it can offer advice and explanations about life, too. What's more, this advice can often be hauntingly specific (it's almost as if the writers/directors of these movies or television shows were hoping their work would somehow resonate with audiences). This week I re-watched Woody Allen's Manhattan. Here's a few worthwhile quotes applied to life at Columbia:
On living in Wien:
Isaac Davis: It's brown water! I'm paying seven-hundred dollars a month, I got rats with bongos and a, and a frog and I got brown water here.
On CrackDel:
Isaac Davis: Corned beef should not be blue.
On Spec:
Isaac Davis: Has anybody read that Nazis are gonna march in New Jersey? Y'know, I read this in the newspaper. We should go down there, get some guys together, y'know, get some bricks and baseball bats and really explain things to them.
Party Guest: There is this devastating satirical piece on that on the Op Ed page of the Times, it is devastating.
Isaac Davis: Well, a satirical piece in the Times is one thing, but bricks and baseball bats really gets right to the point.
On String Theory, the love lives of physics majors:
Isaac Davis: I think that, under my personal vibrations, I could put her life in some kind of good order.
Yale: Yeah, that's what you said about Jill, and under your personal vibrations she went from bisexuality to homosexuality.
Isaac Davis: Yeah, but I gave her the old college try.
