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evileOK, I have lots of these, so I'm going to do 5 books, 5 movies, and 5 TV series. AND etcetera!
Books:
1) Pippi Longstocking
2) Anne McCaffrey's Pern books (only read these for the first time in your preteen years. these books don't stand up well to adulthood, but they were great when I was 12 or so)
3) The Witches of Eastwick (I've read this pretty much once a year since I was in my late 20's...I find I identify with a different character each time.)
4) The Oracle Glass (and any other books I've read by Judith Merkle Riley. Supernatural adventure historical romance. You've got costumes, decadent parties, alchemy, gods and demons, suspense, murder, bad guys, good guys, and true love, what else can you ask for?)
5) How to Be Compassionate, by the Dalai Lama (reading it right now, it's really, really good. We are all human. We are all trying to be happy and avoid suffering. We hurt ourselves and each other by making mistakes in our thoughts, feelings, and actions in attempts to create happiness and avoid suffering. We can fix our mistakes, develop patience and compassion, and help each other and ourselves to become happy. We don't have to be doormats or endure bad behavior, but there's no point to anger or hate. It's stupidly simple and true, true, true, so true it hurts.)
Movies:
1) Labyrinth. My all time favorite, I think. (any Jim Henson movie is going to be a winner with me--Dark Crystal, Muppets, etc.)
2) The Big Lebowski. I hated this movie the first time I saw it.
3) Short Bus. (RL orgies look nothing like the ones in this movie, BTW.)
4) Fried Green Tomatoes. I don't usually do 'chick flicks' but I really love this one.
5) I can't pick a #5... let's call it a tie between Natural Born Killers and The Linguini Incident. :)
TV Series:
1) "Star Trek" the original series. Been a Trekkie since I was 11. :)
2) I really liked "Space: Above and Beyond" even though it was short-lived.
3) "Heroes." I even liked the stinky season everyone else hated. (got it from Netflix, didn't watch it on TV)
4) "Big Bang Theory" (got it on Netflix, didn't watch it on TV)
5) I vaguely remember a TV series called (I think) "Wizards & Warriors" I liked it a lot at the time but I doubt it was really all that good. Still, I might like to see an episode or two again sometime.
etc:
1) Malbec. it's a nice deep dark red wine that is absolutely fantastic with a steak.
2) Memory Foam mattresses & pillows. best. sleep. evar.
3) Hitachi Magic Wand. No explanation needed.
4) Las Vegas. You could go to Paris, Venice, New York, Hawaii, and San Francisco over the course of many miles and lots of time. Or you could go to the cleaner, brighter, only-slightly-smaller Las Vegas versions of each of those, all in a weekend.
5) Whatever happened to "Fizzl'd Fruits" Skittles? They were kinda cool the one time I tried them and I've never seen them again.
Books:
1) Pippi Longstocking
2) Anne McCaffrey's Pern books (only read these for the first time in your preteen years. these books don't stand up well to adulthood, but they were great when I was 12 or so)
3) The Witches of Eastwick (I've read this pretty much once a year since I was in my late 20's...I find I identify with a different character each time.)
4) The Oracle Glass (and any other books I've read by Judith Merkle Riley. Supernatural adventure historical romance. You've got costumes, decadent parties, alchemy, gods and demons, suspense, murder, bad guys, good guys, and true love, what else can you ask for?)
5) How to Be Compassionate, by the Dalai Lama (reading it right now, it's really, really good. We are all human. We are all trying to be happy and avoid suffering. We hurt ourselves and each other by making mistakes in our thoughts, feelings, and actions in attempts to create happiness and avoid suffering. We can fix our mistakes, develop patience and compassion, and help each other and ourselves to become happy. We don't have to be doormats or endure bad behavior, but there's no point to anger or hate. It's stupidly simple and true, true, true, so true it hurts.)
Movies:
1) Labyrinth. My all time favorite, I think. (any Jim Henson movie is going to be a winner with me--Dark Crystal, Muppets, etc.)
2) The Big Lebowski. I hated this movie the first time I saw it.
3) Short Bus. (RL orgies look nothing like the ones in this movie, BTW.)
4) Fried Green Tomatoes. I don't usually do 'chick flicks' but I really love this one.
5) I can't pick a #5... let's call it a tie between Natural Born Killers and The Linguini Incident. :)
TV Series:
1) "Star Trek" the original series. Been a Trekkie since I was 11. :)
2) I really liked "Space: Above and Beyond" even though it was short-lived.
3) "Heroes." I even liked the stinky season everyone else hated. (got it from Netflix, didn't watch it on TV)
4) "Big Bang Theory" (got it on Netflix, didn't watch it on TV)
5) I vaguely remember a TV series called (I think) "Wizards & Warriors" I liked it a lot at the time but I doubt it was really all that good. Still, I might like to see an episode or two again sometime.
etc:
1) Malbec. it's a nice deep dark red wine that is absolutely fantastic with a steak.
2) Memory Foam mattresses & pillows. best. sleep. evar.
3) Hitachi Magic Wand. No explanation needed.
4) Las Vegas. You could go to Paris, Venice, New York, Hawaii, and San Francisco over the course of many miles and lots of time. Or you could go to the cleaner, brighter, only-slightly-smaller Las Vegas versions of each of those, all in a weekend.
5) Whatever happened to "Fizzl'd Fruits" Skittles? They were kinda cool the one time I tried them and I've never seen them again.
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Date: 2011-07-09 03:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-10 06:13 pm (UTC)Space Above and Beyond!
Date: 2011-07-12 10:45 pm (UTC)yes it really was a cheesey war movie set in space in some ways... but Tanks.. and AI's and whole lot of other subterfuge let them deal with social issues too hot to touch in classic SciFi style.
I rememver wizards and warriors ..i think it ran like six episodes and had lots of good D&D in jokes (like "They cant do this to me.. i'm sixth level!")