What to do on a rainy day...before the lounging hours...

A lounge lizard gets his cues from the finest minds of imagination. Those velvet jackets, snake skin shoes, blue suede bucks and Dunhill lighter made their appearance in the cult classic movies. I even tried putting a Scarface hot tub in my living room once - that truly is a movie prop, I learned.


So on this day I revisit the best movies of my favorite brother directors: the Coens, Joel and Ethan. So here is my rainy day list of my favorite Coen movies and a note on my take away life lessons:

1) The Big Lebowski: It's influence on me: I no longer take baths for fear that someone will throw a ferrite in the tub with me. Honestly, I did try to make a White Russian with non-dairy creamer once - ill-advised. Terry cloth bathrobes are great blowing attire. Lastly, a rug can tie the simplest of rooms together.

2) Raising Arizona: It's influence: "Make sure you got your dip tet;"  "You want to find an outlaw, hire an outlaw. You want to find a Dunkin' Donuts, call a cop;"  Lastly, white shoes are really cool, but use a shoe horn to save the heel. 

3)  Fargo:  It's influence:  Wood chippers; Buicks; Arby's can be sexy: "Ah, hon, ya got Arby's all over me;" and lastly, You betcha, hon!