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" It&amp;#039;s the first day of 2014 and odds are you aren&amp;#039;t your best. Your head feels like it is has been stuffed with broken glass. The echoes of last night&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Aud Lang Syne&amp;quot; have turned into a persistent buzzing in your ears. Your mouth tastes like an ashtray, and although the most strenuous exercise you performed last night was hoisting a champagne glass at midnight, every one of your muscles aches. You are hungover. You are not the only one. The only real cure for a hangover is time, but laughing at others can help ease the pain. No matter how bad you are feeling, it could be worse. Watch these epic mornings-after to feel a little bit better about yourself on national hangover day: 1. Jimmy McNulty/The Wire      Jimmy McNulty&amp;#039;s weeknight is wilder than your New Year&amp;#039;s Eve: He crashes his car twice (into the same concrete pillar), slices his hand on broken glass, and has sex with a total stranger all in a few short hours. Waking up hungover in a bed stained with his own blood, his final look says it all. 2. Don Birnam/The Lost Weekend If the headache pounding your temples has you considering a booze-free 2014, this movie might put you over the edge. The Lost Weekend is one long crawl through a marathon of lying, stealing, humiliation, and deceit in the pursuit of one more drink. This clip finds the hero awakening from another long binge to vivid hallucinations. Hey, at least you aren&amp;#039;t seeing things, right? 3. The Entire Hangover Oeuvre      Most of the series is too cartoonish to relate to, but ask yourself, am I missing any teeth? Have I lost a friend and gained a tiger? Do I have a new tattoo on my face? No matter what happened last night, your wakeup can&amp;#039;t be as bad as Ed Helms&amp;#039;s. 4. Johnny Depp as Hunter S. Thompson/Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas      A darker version of The Hangover, with significantly more drug abuse. Depp&amp;#039;s awakening in a flooded hotel room leaves him hoping to piece together his night from the destruction around him and terrifying half-memories of a strung-out Benicio del Toro. While wearing a dinosaur tail.  5. Spud/Trainspotting It just doesn&amp;#039;t get any worse than this. You might be hungover, you might not remember the end of the evening, you may have even dirtied your belongings with vomit (or worse). But no matter what has happened, at least you haven&amp;#039;t covered your significant other&amp;#039;s family with... well, just watch the clip:       I&amp;#039;m feeling better about myself already. Honorable Mention: One terrible hangover from real life. At least you didn&amp;#039;t have to fight a python this morning. Follow The Culture Blog on RSS and on Twitter at @ESQCulture. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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