Genre_snob Gifts

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

"I only like their bad albums – the good ones are too commercial."

Sign in book shop window: 'Critics agree the book is much better than the movie.'

Standard endings for sci-fi movies...

'Yeah, my home theater even has spilled drinks and popcorn on the floor.'

'What was the first music they ever said 'this isn't even music' about?'

Mysteries.

"I'm just not in an Australian-movie mood, O.K.?"

"The audience is really classy tonight, they are throwing quail eggs."

"The subaqueous qualities of the biomorphic forms spacially undermine the larger metaphorical resonance of the mark-making."

"'City Slickers' was O.K., but, let's face it, it was no 'Claire's Knee.'"

'I may not know much about art. But, I don't know what I like either.'

'Oh man, every time.'

" will enver read that book, and I"m eagerly waiting to avoid the movie."

'I want something by Anais Nin... but not the naughty Anais Nin!'

"Can we go see 'Home Alone 2'? My friend Jeffrey says it's an important picture."

"So this is fun---the artist is actually with us tonight."

"YouTube's one thing, but cats will never make it on the big screen."

"I've seen this film ten times and it's still awful."

"It's one of my early works from before I could afford paint."

"You've hung this picture upside down!!"

'Listen my man, I am not being condescending, I am just trying to use words I think you may be able to understand. . .'

"I can't decide if that was bad in a good way, good in a good way, good in a bad way, or bad in a bad way."

'What kind of music would you like? Korean classical or Death Metal?'

'The acting was awful and the plot was thin, but the mortgage rate looked interesting.'

'The review said drinking this wine is like drinking a Rembrandt. All I taste is the frame.'

"Hi! I haven't had a crap in months. Bon appetit!"

"Give me first chair or I tell everyone that you're unwinding with bro country."

'I always wanted to be a genre, but I'm worried I've become a cliche.'

"Working with high net worth clients can bring its own challenges."

"I live in the Brooklyn arrondissement."

Fiction book sales.

'Wow! That's probably the best Kyrgyzstani neo-realist horror-comedy crossover I've seen so far this year.'

Amongst the Culturati II.