Friday is List Day: the “It Might Be Over 80 in My Apartment, But I’m Still Cool” Edition
Random Ten
1. They Might Be Giants - “Letterbox”
2. Death Cab For Cutie - “Transatlanticism”
3. Bloc Party - “Like Eating Glass”
4. Camera Obscura - “Footloose and Fancy Free”
5. Badly Drawn Boy - “Silent Sigh”
6. Interpol - “Mascara”
7. Franz Ferdinand - “Take Me Out”
8. The Clash - “Clampdown”
9. New Order - “True Faith”
10. The Gossip - “Lily White Hands”
Four Hip Fashions When I Was a Kid (That I Never Had)
1. Skidz (gods help us)
2. Z Cavaricci
3. Guess
4. Hypercolor
Five Cool Video Game Characters
1. Alucard Tepes - Castlevania: If goth is your passion, you can’t get much cooler than the son of Dracula. It’s not every guy who can pull of knee-high boots.
2. Jade - Beyond Good and Evil: A hip, green-lipstick wearing, leather jacket sporting, photo journalist who kicks ass with a staff? Cool.
3. Claire Redfield - Resident Evil: While I can’t always commend her fashion choices (red daisy dukes with biker shorts underneath? Ugh), you can’t deny she’s cool. She’s a motorcyclist who loves Queen. She kicks zombie ass. Enough said.
4. Solid Snake - Metal Gear: A badass secret agent who fights giant robots and is rewarded for not killing? Pretty awesome. He’s cool factor is so good that I can even overlook the mullet he tends to sport. Now that’s cool.
5. Ladd Spencer - Bionic Commando: Ignore the cover art to the game (where he looks like some kind of weird Star Trek reject), and check him out in-game. Spikey hair, cool glasses, and a robotic extendo arm that he uses to punch people and swing, Tarzan style, over pits? Come on. Cool.
