Antiques Road House
...with your shirtless host, Patrick Swayze, and your expert appraiser, Sam Elliot.
Okay, so Antiques Roadshow and the movie Road House will probably never mingle. But just what if? I was watching an episode of Antiques Roadshow the other night...partly because I like the show and partly because I just did some ads for it at school (shout out to the rockin' AD, Puff Nitti).
It's interesting to hear the whole history and provenance of these objects, but I find it far more interesting to watch the owners. As the expert slowly builds anticipation to a palpable cresecendo, the owners of these objects become more and more exasperated and wild-eyed. It's as if you can see the lemons, cherries and sevens of a Vegas slot machine spinning furiously behind their fitful gaze. And when the machine finally stops, and the expert spits out a dollar range, the expressions range from anger to relief to stupified joy. My favorite line is "Oh yes, we'll definitely keep this in the family." So, your sewing table is worth $55,000 and from the looks of it, you can barely afford your fanny pack and oversized Looney Tunes t-shirt. Sounds more like someone's going to insure it, then "lose" it.
Hopefully something interesting will happen to me soon...before I start writing entries about MTV's Laguna Beach.
Okay, so Antiques Roadshow and the movie Road House will probably never mingle. But just what if? I was watching an episode of Antiques Roadshow the other night...partly because I like the show and partly because I just did some ads for it at school (shout out to the rockin' AD, Puff Nitti).
It's interesting to hear the whole history and provenance of these objects, but I find it far more interesting to watch the owners. As the expert slowly builds anticipation to a palpable cresecendo, the owners of these objects become more and more exasperated and wild-eyed. It's as if you can see the lemons, cherries and sevens of a Vegas slot machine spinning furiously behind their fitful gaze. And when the machine finally stops, and the expert spits out a dollar range, the expressions range from anger to relief to stupified joy. My favorite line is "Oh yes, we'll definitely keep this in the family." So, your sewing table is worth $55,000 and from the looks of it, you can barely afford your fanny pack and oversized Looney Tunes t-shirt. Sounds more like someone's going to insure it, then "lose" it.
Hopefully something interesting will happen to me soon...before I start writing entries about MTV's Laguna Beach.
6 Comments:
i love the guys that bring in like a ball of yarn from the 80's and expect to retire from it. i love to see the crushing blow from the tiffany's judge.
Right on. Those fuckers start arguing, too. Like "I am almost sure that this ball of yarn belonged to Thomas Jefferson." Oh yeah, you're probably right. The guy wearing a bowtie and talking with a lisp who has devoted himself to the study of antiques is probably wrong.
listen...the puff was gettin in between me and my fans...it's just Nitti now...(or mastergodlord)
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