Cheer Up Topic- Your Faves!!

LemonKiss · Newbie User Joined: Oct 14, 2005 Posts: 76

I don't know about you guys, but I love to tell people my faves and I love to know other people's too. It's always cool to be like OOO someone else likes that too? Who knows, maybe shybies like a lot of the same things. jk.

FAVORITES:
Movies: Heathers, Donnie Darko, Lord of the Rings, Sleepy Hollow, The Gift, Fight Club
Books: The Perks of Being a Wallflower, You Don't Know Me, Harry Potter, Gingerbread, Cut, Wasted, What Happened to Lani Garver
Actors: Johnny Depp, Giovanni Ribisi, Edward Norton
Actress: Angelina Jolie
Holiday: Halloween
Music: The Killers, Simon and Garfunkel, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, The Greatful Dead, Kanye West, Fallout Boy, U2, James Taylor, The Von Bondies
Foods: Ramen noodles, bagels
Intellectual topics: psychology, philosophy
Things to Do: listen to blaring music while day dreaming in bed snug under the covers with my puppy sleeping next to me, laughing really loudly at funny movies, reading, thinking, dancing!!!!!!, singing, playing guitar, talking to people I love, looking at the sky and baking cookies.

Now what about you? You can add what you want.

stardog · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:29 am Post subject:

great idea LemonKiss! Razz

Some of mine...

Movies: Shawshank Redemption, Saving Private Ryan, Dogma, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Star Wars IV- VI
Books: Northern Lights trilogy, LOTR
Music: Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Prodigy, Pixies, Supergrass, Faithless, Zero 7, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Silverchair, Sonic Youth, REM, The Who, Jeff Buckley, Little Feat, Primal Scream
Hobbies: Music! Playing guitar, piano, making music, listening to music whenever I can...oh yeah I come on this site a lot too I suppose it's a hobby

magda74 · Intermediate User Joined: Sep 25, 2005 Posts: 129

These are a few of my favourite things....

Movies: Clash of the Titans, Excalibur, Harold & Maude, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, Napoleon Dynamite, Aliens, Breakfast Club, Lord of the Rings, Matrix, Contact and Blade Runner and any movie with Shirley MacLaine.
Books: Great Expectations, Jitterbug Perfume, The Artist Way, The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe, Awakening The Buddha Within, The Davinci Code and any good psi fi.
Actors: Johnny Depp, Steve Buscemi, Edward Norton, Jack Nickolson and Christopher Walken
Actress: Shirley MacLaine, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Blanchette and Juliette Binoche.
Holiday: Halloween as well
Music: Kate Bush, Bjork, Sonic Youth, The Breeders, Radiohead, Fiona Apple, Sade, , Feist, PJ Harvey, Prince, The Organ, Earth Wind & Fire, James Brown, Blondie, The Arcade Fire, David Bowie and so on and so on
Foods: Greek, Thai or Indian
Intellectual topics: design, the arts, conspiracy theory, philosophy & sociology
Things to Do: I like my music very loud as well, singing, dancing around my apt., sketching, gardening, watching thunderstorms and going on road trips (the best).
Smile

redlady · Elite User Joined: Jul 08, 2005 Posts: 1958

Here's some of mine.

Movies: 9 to 5, The Monty Python Movies, Hideous Kinky, Occasional Course Language, Anything with Jet Lei...i love him, Firestarter, Shirley Valentine, The Nightmare before Christmas...........
Books: Any book of Clive Barker's that i have read, Terry Goodkind's wizards books...only up to the point before he got all stupid with them, All of Sara Douglas's trilogies that i have read.
Music: 80's (i love pop afterall) Daft Punk, Orbital, Classical, I bought this cd 'Celestial Harmonies' which features music from around the world...heaven, Enya, Enigma, Prince, Madonna's early stuff..when she was clean, U2......
Food: Lettuce sandwiches, Spagetti bol, Cadbury chocolate, Chocolate milk, cashews.
Actresses: Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin
Actors: Robert De Niro, Sam Rockwell, Robin Williams
T.V shows: The Simpsons, Seinfeld, South Park, Myth Busters, Spicks and Specks, Anything English Comedy.

MaGuS · Newbie User Joined: Aug 29, 2005 Posts: 54

Hello...

Movies: Anything Funny ... sometimes I like sad romantic movies too.

Currently Read[ing] Books: Meditations / Flow / Living Buddha, Living Christ / Teachings of the Buddha / The meaning of Jesus / Love / Reflections on Loving / Da Vinchi Decoded / Self-Help Books / etc.. etc.. / and art & math books.

Music: Classical but sometimes I get bored with it and need "louder" music.

Food: Lots of fruit and vegs & fish

Hobbies: Running / Chess ( if you play let me know ) / Reading / life / Art

Current Major Goal: To be a man of true character / Live Well / Help the world

Major Life Goal: To be content / Live Well / Happy / Unafraid / True

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at some point you must "put away your books, be distracted no longer" -Marcus Aurelius / Meditations XIII

redlady · Elite User Joined: Jul 08, 2005 Posts: 1958

Forgot my favourite poets and artists Rolling Eyes

Poets: Shakespeare, Bruce Dawe, Christina Rossetti
Artists: Anyone from the Renaissance ALL!! of them were masters for crying out loud, Salvador Dali, Peter Paul Rubens, Lin Onus, Anyone who dabbled in post impressionism - notably Van Gogh and Monet - Frida Kahlo.

UnReal · Newbie User Joined: Nov 21, 2005 Posts: 7

Music: depeche mode, enigma, atb, madonna, tiesto, moby
Movies: Kill Bill, Gladiator, office space, matrix, ninja scroll, LOTR trilogy, 5th element
Books: 1984, Homeland, Sword of truth series, Elfstones of shannara, Return of the king
TV Shows: family guy, simpsons, futarama, oz (1st couple of seasons), sopranos, dexter's lab
Actresses: Salma Hayak, Angelina Jolie, Kristin Kreuk
Actors: Johnny depp, Bruce willis

Other stuff: driving in nice weather, unexpectedly hearing one of my fav. songs, thai / indian food, yummy cheesecake, spending time with friends who I haven't seen for awhile, opening packages that Ive been expecting in mail forever and the list goes on! and on!

jamez · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 4:17 am Post subject:

Movies: Fight Club, Raging Bull, Rocky, American Beauty
Books: Kurt Vonnegut, Roald Dahl, Paul Jennings
Music: 2pac, Eminem, Aerosmith, Red Hot Chilli, Jack Johnson, Foo Fighters and more!
Food: Pizza, Chocolate
TV: South Park, Family Guy, One Tree Hill, The O.C., My Name Is Earl
Actors: Johnny Depp, Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro
Actresses: Salma Hayek, Eliza Cuthbert, Zhang Ziyi, Kate Winslet
Holiday: None really, maybe Christmas
Intellectual topics: Boxing, Cricket, Tennis
Things to Do: Computer, Internet, Games, Tennis, Basketball, Singing, Reading

2QuietForThem · Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:21 pm Post subject:

Movies : Shawshank Redemption, Batman 1, Star Trek II and III, the Rocky and Rambo movies, Color Purple, Purple Rain, The Waterboy, Independnce Day, Armageddon, John Q, Crimson Tide
Books: Anything from Stephen King

Music: Prince, Luther, 70s and 80s pop and R&B

Food: 20-piece chicken nuggets w/ sweet and sour sauce (Woo!), chicken, fried fish, pizza, pork chops, turkey, honey ham

Actresses: Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock, Halle Berry.

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Denzel Washington, Donald Sutherland

Fave celebs in general: Prince, George Clinton, Steve Harvey, Bill Cosby,

T.V shows: Spongebob Squarepants ("Bring it around town!"), Andy Griffith Show, WWE Wrestling (Undertaker!), Law & Order SVU

shyandnumb · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:15 am Post subject:

It sounds like fun. I going try it, too. Smile

Books: The Seventh Heart, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (a childhood favorite), Of Two Minds, More Minds, Howl's Moving Castle, The old and new Dragonlance series, The Giver, The Anita Blake Vampire Series, Historical and Supernatural romances, What do you say to a Naked Elf?, Sister to the Rain, etc.
Music: All kinds except rap
Movies:Witchblade 1 & 2, Mummy 1 & 2, Animatix, Matix, Nightmare Before Christmas, Spirited away, Castle in the Sky, Old fashion romances, etc.
Shows:The anime shows on Adult Swim and Cartoon Network, Beyond Belief, Ghost Hunters, Moving Up, Trade Spaces, Nova, Mystery Theater, The Most Scariest Places, etc.
Colors: All shades pf blue, green, purple; silver, black, brown, & white
Online sites:Games, fanfiction (mostly anime), poetry, forums, and quizzes