Things that cannot be improved upon

Found it, thanks widdershins.

The Mirror Image Thread

Gunnary Sgt R. Lee Emery, USMC - WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU GRABASTIC PIECES OF POND SCUM DOING??? HOLY SHIT!!! I like you… hell…YOU CAN COME OVER AND FUCK MY SISTER!!!

BLU-82 ‘Daisy Cutter’ - No…you terrorists don’t deserve our high tech laser guided stealth bombers. We are just going to fly over you in a cheap-ass cargo plain and kick a bomb out the back that looks like something Wyle E Coyote would order from ACME Co.

The Usual Suspects - A movie so great, it can even cast a Baldwin other than Alec without sucking.
Some other perfect stuff (that doesn’t hurt you):

Milano cookies (kind of like an anti-Oreo that doesn’t get stuck in your teeth)- I generally can’t buy them because I eat the entire box in one sitting.

P2P Software - Yeah its evil, but I sure do like free downloads.

Digital laudry cards - I think its so cool that we use this card in my building instead of having to stockpile bags of quarters.

Seatle Grunge Rock and being in college between 1991 and 1995 - Something about the combination of cerebral anger-music and angst ridden upper-middle class kids dressed like hobos in $60 flannel shirts from J Crew and Abercrombie & Fitch.

NYC take out food - Especially when you have a hangover. For $10 + tip, a liitle Chineese, Japaneese, Thai or Mexican guy brings you a hot meal.

The album London Calling by the Clash. All their other albums have their flaws IMHO, but not this one.

The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss. The man revolutionized kid’s literature, drove a stake through the heart of Dick and Jane, and predicted the rebellion and psychedelia of the 60s, all in some 60 pages.

Oh, yeah. And the song Alex Chilton by the Replacements.

I confess to being the same poster and originator of the aforementioned OP. Blame it on the unbearable slowness of the SDMB, which resulted in me posting a similar thread twice.

It t’weren’t my fault!

Oh, and by the way, AHunter3, your erudite descriptions of things that fit the OP humbles me. I was actually considering describing my absolute love of Nat King Cole singing “Stardust”. I guess you and I are of a similar mind.

[ul][li]Abbey Road by The Beatles-A pop music triumph from beginning to end (yes, even Maxwell’s Silver Hammer).[/li][li]Alfred Hitchcock Movies (except Family Plot)[/li][li]Fruitopia-“Iced tea brewed by hippies, but distributed by a heartless, multi-national corporation!” I’m hopelessly addicted to the stuff.[/li][li]Sandman by Neil Gaiman-Best comic ever written. Runner-up goes to Warren Ellis’ Transmetropolitan.[/li][li]2001: A Space Odyssey-Kubrick’s SF masterpiece is a visual symphony that still holds up 35 years later.[/li][li]Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington’s 1961 version of Mood Indigo-Quiet, yearning beauty.[/li][li]My mother’s lasagna.[/li][/ul]

Laughing Lagomorph, I didn’t even see the irony :slight_smile: Of course, the little monster last night wasn’t Charlotte. Charlotte was a pretty gray spider who lived in a barn where she belonged. This thing was black and furry and mysteriously had to leave town…

The Velvet Underground and Nico. <CBG>Best album by best band… EVER!</CBG>

Seriously, they’re like the Bizarro Beatles, and, if, like me, you prefer your music with a little edge (“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” is not edgy, but “Heroin” is) to it, this is the perfect album to listen to.

Beverly Sills singing Handel’s Julio Cesare

Blood and Roses by the Smithereens

Nirvana Nevermind, both the song and the album. It blew the whole music scene to pieces, and paved the way for just about every bit of rock that’s happened since.

Neil Finn singing Four Seasons in One Day.

Michelangelo’s David

Sorry, too late. Being used to sell expensive cars to Baby Boomers. Ruined. Wasn’t even greedy heirs or something- the Clash themselves sold the song to Jaguar.

:frowning:

Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.

And more modern tunes: The Tragically Hip’s Cordelia.

Coca-Cola.

Lipton’s Cup-A-Soup Chicken Noodle Supreme.

Tetris.

One occurred to me today:

The track titled “Tetsuo” from the soundtrack to the movie Akira. I wish I “spoke” music so I could describe it; the best I can do is: the first five minutes of the track is just the gamelan (the instrument, not the StarBlazer villains) players playing in unison as the rhythm slowly builds in complexity. Then, at one point it breaks apart, with several threads of a much more complex rhythm coming together and it’s just amazing. The first time I heard it outside of the movie, it really did bring tears to my eyes. That moment wouldn’t be so profound without the build-up; the timing is perfect. And the really interesting part is that it’s used perfectly in the movie, representing the growth of the Tetsuo character’s power.

And like Rick-Jay said, Coca-Cola.

Some would say that, at least in the world of animation, Akira itself could not be improved upon.

I’ll throw in a video game.
Terranigma. The graphics are just as good as they need to be. The plot is simple, wonderful and profound all at once. The controls are almost organic as you get into the game. Its easy to get into and as you play the game blossoms. It ends at just the right time, all questions are answered and it closes in the exact way that it should. Gaming at its best.

A coherent plot would be nice.

Actually, just to confuse things, I’d even nominate the whole Akira soundtrack for “cannot be improved upon” status. Perfection.

The main theme song from the movie “Chariots of Fire”, by Vangelis.

It never fails to stir me; the horn at the beginning and end is especially brilliant.

Things that have withstood the test of time:

Food - Reese Cups - You can have Godiva. Give me a frozen Reese Cup.

Drink - water - The world’s perfect drink.

T.V. show - I Love Lucy - it’s still funny.

Movie - Gone With The Wind - The casting was perfect.

Video - Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” video - You cannot have it on and not watch it. Perfect complement of music and video.

Rock Ballad - Journey’s “Open Arms” - not too mushy, not too hard. Just right.

Movie Star - Mel Gibson. Handsome, charming, talented, charismatic, intelligent, funny with just a glint of bad boy. Looks good in any hair length.

Book - “Outlander” by Diana Gabalond - humorous, romantic, intriguing.

The Brannock Device.

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, last movement.