This Week in Normality — My Love is Inexplicable

Please enjoy this excerpt of a conversation my wife and I had a few days ago as we were brainstorming ideas for this week’s theme:

Wife: I have a lot of guilty pleasures, like Footloose.

Me: Yeah, that’s true. You ever see Quicksilver? That movie where Kevin Bacon is a bike racer.

Wife: Uh, no! He was a bike messenger, god!

Now please enjoy this awesome(?) Quicksilver trailer:

If Kevin Bacon is my wife’s penultimate guilty pleasure then her ultimate also stems from her childhood and continues on to this day….Rick Springfield.

She still has a Rick Springfield shirt from when she was five that our daughter will be wearing any day now. That’s not a joke, she showed me the shirt on Tuesday.

This theme was inspired by last week’s, in fact, in that yeah, we all love things that aren’t popular, but we also all love things that we should be ashamed of…or not.

Mustardseed considers, for your consideration, the film In the Loop that, much to my surprise, is not about hoolahoops or organized hoolahoop competition.

Not to be outdone, Stoker reviews A Perfect Getaway, which should have been pleasurable but merely left him feeling guilty…see what I did there?

I give to you, faithful Normalinauts, a list of musical guilty pleasures I’m sure will frighten and amaze and humbly suggest that the nerds of the world adopt Football (real football) as our official sport.