Nathan Rabin > Quotes

“When I think about all the time I wasted feeling guilty and ashamed about things I should have embraced long ago, it fills me with guilt and shame.”
― Nathan Rabin, The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture

“If I were capable of human emotions, tears of joy would have been streaming down my face. You know that feeling you experience upon witnessing the birth of your first child? It was like that, only a thousand times better, because free burritos were involved.”
― Nathan Rabin, The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture

“The musical I’ll Do Anything has never been seen by the general public, but I was lucky enough to have a My Year Of Flops operative send me a bootleg DVD of the aborted version for use in this book. I watched the film as test audiences saw it, as a rough assemblage of scenes instead of a polished, finished movie.”
― Nathan Rabin, My Year of Flops: The A.V. Club Presents One Man's Journey Deep into the Heart of Cinematic Failure

“Pheonix, Arizona,”
― Nathan Rabin, Weird Al: The Book

“I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial.”
― Nathan Rabin, The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture

“Insane Clown Posse are responsible, sane businessmen who pretend to be insane clowns. Donald Trump, in sharp contrast, is an insane clown who pretends to be a responsible, sane businessman.”
― Nathan Rabin, 7 Days In Ohio: Trump, the Gathering of the Juggalos and The Summer Everything Went Insane: If We Make It Through November Hugely Expanded Edition

“Writing books can be a tricky business when you have no fucking idea what you’re doing.”
― Nathan Rabin, You Don't Know Me but You Don't Like Me: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My Misadventures with Two of Music's Most Maligned Tribes

“The Special Edition DVD of The King’s Speech should have a blooper reel—it’d just be a bunch of takes of Colin Firth enunciating his lines perfectly.”
― Nathan Rabin, Weird Al: The Book

“If they can put a man on the moon, why can’t they put a koala on the moon?”
― Nathan Rabin, Weird Al: The Book

“As a young man, my father taught me a valuable lesson: never be afraid to accept a handout. Not a hand-up, mind you, as hand-ups invariably entail doing some sort of "work" at some later point. That shit's flat-out distasteful.”
― Nathan Rabin, The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture

“Apparently going to a swingers' party with your mom is only wrong if she's married. Otherwise, it's fun for the whole family.”
― Nathan Rabin, The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture

“As a wise man once said (or probably should have), “If you’re going to hire somebody to write a book about you, it’s always a good idea to choose somebody who doesn’t think you suck.”
― Nathan Rabin, Weird Al: The Book