Hi I'm Trixie Mattel, I'm at Amoeba Records and this is What's In My Bag.
First up, this is my all-time favorite movie.
This is the most important movie. I was maybe 5 years old when this came out in 1995.
Ew, get off of me. Ugh, as if.
This movie is unique in that it portrays a rich, privileged, beautiful girl as a really good person.
And that never happens.
So I'm living proof now that you can be like so rich
but also, like, grounded. Do you know what I mean?
Boy, they came out of nowhere.
This movie, I mean Brittany Murphy, obvious scene stealer in every movie.
Stacey Dash, that's taking a turn but we'll still take her.
Obviously Paul Rudd too.
Paul Rudd. If my brother was Paul Rudd, I'd fuck him too.
It's not incest if it's Paul Rudd, you know what I mean?
Stop it, you're making me blush.
Brittany Murphy is so good in this. Rollin' with the homies. She gets hit in the head with a shoe.
And, oh my god, the iconic line 'you're a virgin who can't drive.'
You're a virgin who can't drive.
That was way harsh Tai.
When she was being robbed at gunpoint and they're like, 'get on the ground.' And she's like, 'but this is an Alaia.'
And he's like, 'and a-what-a?'
And she was like, 'it's like a totally important designer.'
And he's like, 'I will totally shoot you in the head' and she gets on the ground like this.
I mean, that is so iconic. I've been robbed, it was nothing like that.
This is one of those films, too, I have multiple copies of when people come over.
I'm like, you can have one. This is a great gift.
This is 'Head Over Heels,' the Broadway original cast recording
of 'Head Over Heels,' which is a musical using music from the Go-Go's.
I saw it on Broadway this year and it was so, so good.
And my friend Peppermint, who was a former RuPaul's Drag Race Queen is on this album.
As well as, oh my god, Bonnie Milligan I believe is her name.
She sings like... even when you have the earbuds in, you're like, I think my face just melted off.
She sings so high and so loud and so freely. She's truly iconic.
Now normally I don't like aggressive rock music.
And even this all-girl band is too testosterone-driven for me.
But The Donnas, for some reason, transcend space and time to me.
I mean I grew up playing acoustic guitar, listening to country music.
I don't know why but their music is so good.
I believe they're from Palo Alto, California.
And I think I learned that watching this series.
But this is their greatest hits album
and it includes some of the live versions of 'Take It Off' and 'Fall Behind Me.'
And they are really good and they don't play together anymore.
So they only have like four studio albums to pick from.
And since this is greatest hits, I would get this one.
'Soap Dish.' This I had never seen until this week.
And it was so, so good.
We'll just say that Maggie went to Tibet to visit with the Dalai Lama.
Like a spiritual thing.
I thought the Dalai Lama moved to LA.
Well then some other Lama. It doesn't matter, Fernando Lama, c'mon.
Sally Field. Forrest Gump's mom.
She is so good in this, the part where she's yelling about a turban.
I don't feel quite right in a turban.
What I feel like is Gloria fucking Swanson.
Although I think this movie has quite aged well because, in the end
Cathy Moriarty turns out to be transgender and that's like the punchline.
Not sure if that part's ok. Maybe watch it and skip chapter 24 of the DVD.
What are you looking at?
But this is a really, really, really funny movie, and I had no idea.
Whoopi Goldberg, young Whoopi Goldberg, still no eyebrows.
This is one of my favorite movies, this is 'Jawbreaker.'
Our best friend is dead.
People are not going to be pleased.
But they'll understand.
No, you don't understand.
I am not getting fucked because I was sweet enough to play a clever little prank on my girlfriend for her birthday.
Written and directed by Darren Stein
who is one most iconic individuals in the world.
Starring Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, Julie Benz, and Pam Grier.
There's a part where Pam Grier is interrogating the teenagers
and she goes, 'Jawbreaker. Pretty fucked up name for a candy isn't it.'
And then she licks it and goes, 'mmm it's hard,' and then slams it on the table.
It's hard.
This movie to me is like really dark and really funny.
Rose McGowan as like Satan.
I better never have kids, I have like zero patience.
I mean she plays like the devil.
I made you, and I can break you just as easily.
Good idea. Kill me like you did Liz.
So many good lines: 'I killed Liz. I killed the Teen Dream. Deal with it.'
Obviously this movie didn't affect you guys as much as it affected me.
All the movies in the world, do you like how I'm like, this is iconic cinema folks.
Did these movies turn me gay? Probably not. Did they turn me stupid? Absolutely.
Absolutely. I mean, 'Jawbreaker' is truly, I mean...
It is the ultimate 90s movie too.
It opens with them accidentally killing their best friend.
And it goes to this opening credits montage of a jawbreaker being made
and it's Veruca Salt.
I mean, them and like Letters to Cleo, that's like the sound of the nineties.
Oh my god, I want to watch it right now. We have to play a show later.
This album is a little bit of a throwback for some but it is on constant replay for me.
This is Michelle Branch, 'The Spirit Room.'
Debut album by a budding singer-songwriter.
I believe she was like 20, maybe. 19?
And she wrote all these hit songs, 'Everywhere,' 'All You Wanted.'
She was amazing. Actually this album was the reason I started playing guitar.
I'd never really heard acoustic guitar sound cool before.
Because I grew up on country music and I was like, that's old people stuff, that's for old people.
And I got this when I was 13, maybe, and this was like it bitch.
I have never seen her live, wait, I've seen her live when I was like 14.
And then last year I bought one VIP meet-and-greet ticket to see her.
I was gonna go by myself to House of Blues Anaheim, like a fucking stalker.
And luckily something got scheduled over it
because I would've just showed up and I would've just started crying. And she doesn't care.
If you see me out of drag, she would have been like, just one bald-headed white guy alone in line?
Security please.
But she's amazing, I remember on this album she was playing a black cutaway acoustic guitar.
I even bought a guitar just like it 'cause I was obsessed with her.
And sometimes she responds to my tweets. That's all I'm saying.
This is Maria Bamford, 'Unwanted Thoughts Syndrome.' This is extremely funny.
Where are you right now?
I'm on the bus.
Oh my god. Do you need me to pick you up?
No I'm on the bus.
Maria are you ok?
I don't know anymore.
I would say this is probably the quintessential Maria Bamford album
because it's probably the weirdest.
It's very warm and loving.
This one's the most voices and the most odd.
Particularly track 12. She does a section where she talks about
what she does if she gets booked for a gig where they don't really appreciate alternative comedy.
And she sort of does stand up as a character that's sort of a white girl doing stand-up.
And it is truly incredible.
First date, kiss on the cheek. Second date, we can make out.
Third date, if he buys me shoes and chocolate
he can get keys to my apartment and he can go through the back door.
I'm empty inside. I'm a husk. I can't feel my hands.
Also, the cover is her with two dogs in wigs.
So I feel that, as a dog in a wig.
Ok, lastly, almost lastly, this is Aimee Mann, 'Mental Illness.'
Aimee Mann has been around for a very long time
but her folk music career is particularly inspired.
And this album came out last year, and it was so good and I listened to it on a loop for like a year.
And then it was nominated for a Grammy for folk album of the year.
And then it won and I've never been so secondhand happy for someone I don't know.
Because normally I think, why not me?
But she is so iconic and hilarious. And she's a big fan of stand-up, actually.
So I love her.
Is there a track on there that you especially like?
Her songs are all super sad. I mean, 'Stuck In The Past'
'You Never Loved Me,' 'Lies Of Summer,' 'Patient Zero.'
I mean, way to hit me where I live, Aimee.
Lastly, let's say your electricity goes out
or you have to play a record the old-fashioned style, Gramophone, wind it up.
You can still listen to it by candlelight with your Dolly Parton candle.
I have actually a lot of these. This is like my number one fan gift.
People come to the shows and give me this exact candle.
So at my house there's a lot of these sitting around.
And that's it.
Cool, thank you so much.
Yeah, easy.