1. What are your favorite five movies.
Casablanca, Creator, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Usual Suspects, Miller’s Crossing.
2. Who are your favorite five musicians.
Bruce Springsteen, John Prine, Warren Zevon, Jeff Tweedy, Magic Sam.
3. What are your favorite five books.
Slaughterhouse Five, The Great Gatsby, A Fan’s Notes, Leaves of Grass, Tom Sawyer.
4. Would you rather be able to consume fatty foods without gaining weight – or – be able to have unprotected sex with getting sexual diseases?
Bring on the fatty. I could move into the Brewery Bar or any other Mexican food establishment and live guilt free!
5. What are your favorite five desitinations.
The Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Steamboat Rock, in Echo Park on The Yampa River, Stuttgart’s main city park, Mom’s ranch on a late summer afternoon, The Pre Columbia collection of the Denver Art Museum.
I can’t fault you for phoning *these* in—they’re hard and thought provoking. Most of these lists are subject to change on a whim, but here are today’s attempts:
1. A Room with a View, The Usual Suspects, Howard’s End (the costume drama—not the filthy version), Silence of the Lambs, Out of Africa.
2. Elvis Costello, Rhett Miller, Ryan Adams, Robbie Fulks, Ben Folds, Dwight Yoakam (okay, that’s six—and I could keep on going).
3. The Great Gatsby, A Fan’s Notes, Among the Missing, Tupelo Nights (I’ll have to force you to read that one, Nall—it’s modern Southern Grotesque at its finest), CivilWarLand in Bad Decline.
4. I presume you meant, *without* getting any STD’s. Nonetheless, I’ll go with the fatty food. Imagine having fried cheesecake for breakfast, butter for lunch, and bacon for an on-the-go snack. That would be heaven.
5. Berlin, New York, Seattle, Kailua, New Orleans.
. What are your favorite five movies?
Fish Called Wanda, Princess Bride, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, and Harvey (an old James Stewart movie)
2. Who are your favorite five musicians? Billy Corgan, Eddie Vedder, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, and me.
3. What are your favorite five books? Alice in Wonderland, everything by Herman Hesse, Curse of Lono, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Tropic of Cancer
4. Would you rather be able to consume fatty foods without gaining weight – or – be able to have unprotected sex with getting sexual diseases?
Well, I am married… so I ain’t have that much sex. However, since getting sex isn’t much of an issue, I would have to go for being able to eat whatever I want without consequence. I recently lost 20 pounds in a month by giving up all beer and all carbs. It was the Suzzane Somers diet, which is basically the Adkins & South Beach diet. No white food > potatoes, rice, bread, pasta, sugar… all no no’s. I sure like pasta. It is super easy to cook and flavor, and super cheap to buy.
5. What are your favorite five desitinations? Anywhere coastal in Mexico, anywhere in the forest, home, anywhere in Arizona, and Red Rocks. We need to talk about the Departed. You know it won a buttload of Oscars. You know it starred a million great actors. You know we need only say ‘Marty Scorsesee’ to imply masterpiece. Well, they are talking about a sequel now… so I had to speak out. I watched it on DVD the day of the Oscars, knowing it would clean up. I am about to say something very uncool. You have been warned.
The Departed was a terrible movie. It made absolutely no sense. Every character was a young good looking white guy who was a cop and was also a bad guy at the same time. Leo (who is one of my favoite young actors) plays a cop who is playing a mob guy but is still a cop. Mark Wahlberg is a cop who is secretly a mob guy. They all work for the main mob guy (Nicholson), who is also secretly working for the cops. WTF?
Then, it went on for nearly three hours. As for the sequel, well they seemed to kill everyone in the course of the movie. It is sad, really. I am an absolute huge fan of everything Matry does (Gang’s of New York & Last Waltz are my favorites). I also dig the work of all the actors in this film. Their performances were terrific, but the storyline was so convoluted I had to read the back of the DVD jewelbox four times.
These are hard Roy, and I’m going to answer as to how I’m feeling at the moment:
1.) Requiem for a Dream, Finding Nemo, The Empire Strikes Back, Gladiator, Amadeus
2.) Jens Lekman, Beethoven, Martin Gore, Felix Mendelssohn, and right now Justin Furstenfeld ( singer/songwriter for Blue October ).
3.) The Great Gatsby, Smoke and Mirrors ( Neil Gaiman ), Needful Things ( Stephen King ), Cat’s Cradle, and the short story Cask of the Amontillado by E.A.P. A great little revenge story soaked in booze. The insane protagonist relates the story of how he got his victim drunk 50 years prior during Carnival and enticed him into a cellar with promises of a rare bottle of sherry. The poor sap falls for the ruse and gets chained up inside an alcove and bricked in whilst alive. Now that’s entertainment!
4.) Food for sure. Since Viagra exists to replace the ole sex drive which will eventually run out of gas, being able to eat whatever I want and maintain my physique into the twilight years would be great. That way I can still attract teens AND deliver the goods 🙂
5.) New York City, London, Amsterdam, any coastal locale with a nice beach, on the floor of a night club with sweaty, shirtless men. Hey–you asked.
1. Santa Sangre, Wings of Desire, Usual Suspects, Pulp Fiction and Blade Runner.
2. Annie Lennox, Lisa Gerrard, Kim Gordon, Bob Dylan and Matt Skiba.
3. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Fear & Loathing, The Painted Bird, Siddhartha and Ulysses.
4. FOOD.
5. Watching the turtles on The Big Island, seeing a shooting star over the Aegean sea in Crete, sipping wine at a cafe table in Tuscany, “coffee” bar in Amsterdam and window shopping in London.
1. Harold & Maude, Die Hard (that’s right, fuck you!), Pulp Fiction, Princess Bride and Clerks.
2. Johnny Cash, Billie Holiday, Keith Morris, Steve Albini and Jello Biafra.
3. Breakfast of Champions, The Great Gatsby, To Kill A Mockingbird, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence and Hitchkikers’ Guide to the Galaxy.
4. Well, I can already do the first one, so STD-proof me, baby.
5. Barra de Navidad (MEX), Chile, Denmark, the Hello Kitty store and Mom’s dinner table.
The Usual Suspects is f*cking great film. Top FIVE is just too cruel.
1)Empire Strikes Back, American History X, The Reanimator, The Sandlot, Dune
2)Led Zepplin, Springsteen, Christy Moore, Tool, Korn
3)Where The Red Fern Grows, James and the Giant Peach, Ismael, Prince Caspian, The Hobbit
4)Fatty food be vanquished
5)Camp, Home, The Movies, Underwater, VEGAS!
1. Western – Silverado
Comedy – this varies, but right now it’s Elf
Drama – American History X
Musical – The Sound of Music
Cary Grant – yes he gets his own category and really does anything else need to be said.
2. Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, Willie Nelson, Carol King, and Aretha Franklin
3. To Kill a Mockingbird, This Side of Paradise, Great Expectations, Phillip Pullman’s Dark Works, and any good who done it.
4. Food, Food, Food, you can protect yourself against the nasty diseases.
5. I don’t know, I never go anywhere. Vegas, Anywhere I can SCUBA dive, Salzburg, Austria, Berlin, NYC.
1. I noticed “The Usual Suspects” on a lot of lists. Apparently I am not the only one who loved this film. I also dig Caddyshack, Platoon, Casablanca, and the Godfather films. 1, 2 and yes, 3
2. John Hiatt, Neil Young, The Boss, The Beatles, The Stones.
3. I really have to read this Gatsby book. It too is on almost everyone’s list. “A Prayer for Owen Meany”, “The Hobbit”, “Slaughterhouse 5”, “The Firm”, “America the Book”.
4. Bring me the fried ice cream.
5. Places I haven’t been. Namely Europe. Pick 5 places there and those will be my answers. The Yampa river valley is my favorite place in Colorado.
Dear god I can’t stop thinking of movies I could have put on the list! That question is just unfair.