Sean Astin's Finest

This is not going to be a movie review, rather like any good citizen I was on Facebook while at work. I was browsing random college network stats and found out that at Notre Dame, the most popular movie is Rudy. Thats cute...I guess.

At the University of Minnesota our top movie according to Facebook Stats is Wedding Crashers, which is pretty fucking lame for most popular movie. Actually after browsing a lot of random college networks it becomes painfully clear that the college body population loves the shit out of Wedding Crashers, Harry Potter, and Jack Johnson (musician) who I must admit, I've never even heard of. Even Ivy League schools love Jack Johnson and Harry Potter. After going through a lot of random friends facebook schools I finally struck gold. Sarah Lawrence finally bucks the trend of Wedding Crashers/Boondock Saints wankfest. The student body at large has selected Amelie as their top film. I am simultaneously applauding picking a different movie whilst I gag myself on the pretentiousness of the East Coast Bias world. They also list Eternal Sunshine, Donnie Darko, and Pulp Fiction. Thankfully they avoid the Jack Johnson love fest as he is no where to be found in the top 10!!! And in a shocking number 1 spot, they award "WRITING" as their favorite interest.

A quick google search and wikipedia skim lead me to believe Jack Johnson is probably some hippy freak jam band guy, which would explain why MIT does not have him listed either...you know, no hippies or girls for distraction. MIT gets props for having Queen in their top 10 though. Jumping to Brown, they get the distinction of being super huge hippies. Their number 1 interest is Ultimate Frisbee....there is a joke there somewhere.

I want to revisit the New York area just once more. NYU lists Love Actually as their second most popular movie. Now either the film majors out in NYU are in really small numbers, the rest of the NYU student body loves crappy movies, or this is some sick joke. I do like Juilliard's answers though. Top interests are Dancin around, Curling up on the couch with a nice red wine and a good movie, and oddly enough Buffalo Sabres.

What can we draw from all this? I waste a lot of time.