I just got out of the shower and I'm sitting here naked, in front of the fan, listening to Robin Hitchcock's rousing live rendition of "Brenda's Iron Sledge." My notebook is balanced on top of my knees and there's an ice cold Corona on the floor, dripping condensation on an old Heineken coaster.

My friend, Alvin, gave me that coaster one night when we went partying after work. That was nearly ten years ago. He said the signature on the back of the coaster was Jimmy Page's autograph. Jimmy Page was the guitarist for Led Zeppelin. I've seen Jimmy Page's autograph and it doesn't look anything like the scrawl that's on the other side of that coaster. Yeah, I was young and gullible back then and I've kept the coaster all these years, but now it symbolizes all the fun that we had that summer.

Here are the answers to last week's movie trivia:

1. (2003) "I've been to prison once. I've been married twice. I was once drafted by Lyndon Johnson and had to live in shitass Mexico for two and a half years for no reason. I've had my eye socket punched in, a kidney taken out and I got a bone chip in my ankle that's never gonna heal. I've seen some pretty shitty situations in my life, but nothing has ever sucked more ass than this!"
Willie (Santa) played by Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa

2. (2003) "Can you keep a secret? I'm trying to organize a prison break. We have to first get out of this bar, then the hotel, then the city, and then the country. Are you in or you out?"
Bob Harris played by Bill Murray in Lost in Translation

3. (2003) "I'd like to dip you in Cheez Wiz and spread you all over a Ritz cracker, if I'm not being too subtle."
Howie Rottman played by Eugene Levy in Bringing Down the House

4. (2003) "She is dead! Worse than dead! She will spend the next year in a phoneless, dateless, Amish existence!"
Annabelle Coleman as Tess played by Lindsay Lohan in Freaky Friday

5. (2004) Let's not find ourselves shackled by the bonds of employer/employee relations. Unless, of course, you're into that sort of thing. In which case I have some shackles in the back. Just kidding. But, no, really, I do.
White Goodman played by Ben Stiller in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story


More movie quotes from Andrea. There are no prizes or anything, but if you guess the correct movies from the following quotes, you might feel good about yourself:

1. (1993) "Try as they will and try as they might, who steals me gold won't live through the night."

2. (2001) "Whoever took the curtains wants to kill my children."

3. (2001) "And did you stop and think that maybe infants need darkness? That maybe darkness is part of their natural development."

4. (2002) "You nasty thing from beyond the dead, no matter what you think or do, good things will never come to you. And if evil is your black design, you can bet the goodness of the Light Ones...will kick your bad behind? For chrissake! That's it? That's the chant against evil from the Book of Souls? Oh yeah, right boss and what kind of decoder ring comes with that, man? Shit, it don't even rhyme well!"

5. (2002) "Here we go, the world is spinning. When it stops, it's just beginning. Sun comes up, we laugh and we cry. Sun goes down, and then we all die."

Talk show guests for tomorrow, Wednesday August 18th
Conan O'Brien: Pre-empted for Olympic Games
Craig Kilborn: John Tesh, Angus T. Jones, Tommy Stinson
Daily Show: Burt Reynolds
David Letterman: Sharon Stone, Yeah Yeah Yeahs (R)
Ellen DeGeneres: Dolly Parton, Jon Favreau (R)
Jay Leno: Pre-empted for Olympic Games
Jimmy Kimmel: Paul Sorvino, Blanchard Ryan, Carole King
Last Call: Pre-empted for Olympic Games
Regis and Kelly: Burt Reynolds, Neil Patrick Harris, John Cassidy
Sharon Osbourne: Sarah McLachlan, J. Mack Slaughter (R)
The View: Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Drea de Matteo, Michael Imperioli, Steven Schirripa (R)