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In the spirit of the year ending (Top 5 of 07!)
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Dec 25, 2007 03:51PM
Dee, I just read in Entertainment Weekly (where I pretty much get all my entertainment news) that Bruce Willis said he knew nothing about acting when he first did the Die Hard movies. He was just breaking out in Moonlighting, so he said that McClane is a lot of him. But I think that's what makes the movies so good.
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Meghan, I am an EW junkie, too! I have been a proud subscriber since the mid-90s. Don't ya just love the year-end issue for 2007?
We just got back from seeing National Treasure II. It was lots of fun. Just as good as the first one and definitely left open for a third.
Dee, I went through a Bette Davis phase, too, last summer I think. I watched Jezebel, Dark Victory, The Little Foxes, All About Eve, and Now, Voyager. I love her! The scene in Jezebel where she is wearing that white dress, and she sinks down on the floor in front of Henry Fonda - is that awesome or what? She was so gorgeous!
In addition to a huge stack of books that I am just dying to get into, my P just gave my both volumes of the Bette Davis Collection and a vintage window card poster from Mr. Skeffington, so I am in Bette Davis heaven.
Here's my Top 5 ListsBooks
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
So Big by Edna Ferber
Movies
Sweet Land
Stranger than Fiction
Wordplay
The Queen
Hot Fuzz
Songs
Country Girl by Primal Scream
I Want You So Hard by Eagles of Death Metal
Your Kisses are Wasted On Me by the Pipettes
Punkrocker by The Teddybears feat. Iggy Pop
Breakin' Up by Rilo Kiley
Albums
Soft Machine by The Teddybears
It's Not Big, It's Large by Lyle Lovett and his Large Band
Spice Girls Greatest Hits
Children Running Through by Patty Griffin
Back to Black by Amy Winehouse
TV Shows
Gilmore Girls
Deadwood
Doctor Who
Jam and Jerusalem (Clatterford in the US)
Mystery/Masterpiece Theater
Sera - yay! You're not only wise, but really really cool too. (heh)I have yet to be able to open my issue yet, but it is in my possession. I didn't think to stop my subscription while I was in China, so I'm still trying to catch up on 7 months-worth of back-issues. But it's funny to read them now because people will mention something now and I can pop in a quote or something I just read.
Even though it's not a book, I would have to put EW on my top list of things I love to read list.
EW is always soliciting me to subscribe to them. that's probably the main reason I haven't yet. it is tempting though.Amy, Wordplay was great, wasn't it? I had no idea crosswords had such a cult following. and Deadwood is pretty great too. :)
I have trouble assigning comparative values to things I enjoy, so these are in no particular order. Also, I wasn't sure if the music was supposed to be released this year. I just listed some things I've been frequently listening to lately. I hope that's alright.Top 5 Favorite Books you read this year:
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right by Bill Bryson
Ida B: . . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan
In the Name of Salome by Julia Alvarez
Making It Up by Penelope Lively
The End of the Alphabet by CS Richardson
Top 5 Favorite Movies you saw (either at home or the theater, doesn't matter):
Away from Her Directed by Sarah Polley
Zorba the Greek Directed by Mihalis Kakogiannis
Neverwas Directed by Joshua Michael Stern
Water Directed by Deepa Mehta
Stranger than Fiction Directed by Marc Forster
Top 5 Favorite Songs:
1234 by Feist
Bubbly by Colbie Caillat
No One by Alicia Keys
Shine by Laura Izibor
Take Control by Amerie
Top 5 Favorite Albums:
Careless Love by Madeleine Peyroux
The Crane Wife by The Decemberists
Raising Sand by Allison Kraus and Robert Plant
The Traveling Wilburys Collection
The Very Best of Sting & The Police
Top 5 Favorite TV Shows:
I don’t even watch 5 TV shows regularly. Here are some I tolerate:
Big Love* (HBO)
Planet Earth (Discovery Channel)
Stargate Atlantis (Sci-Fi)
What Not to Wear (TLC)
The Wire (HBO)
*Although the last episode I saw, I didn’t like and probably will no longer watch.
Arctic: Wordplay was fantastic! I was fascinated when they showed how a crossword puzzle was created. The NYT puzzle appears in one of the local papers and a couple weeks ago I noticed Trip was the creator! Yay!I cried after I watched the last episode of Deadwood because I knew there weren't going to be any more. I don't watch tv shows anymore because too many great ones that I love are killed in their prime (Everwood, Joan of Arcadia, Deadwood, Dead Like Me). Don't even get me started on Everwood and how I sobbed throughout the two-hour series finale.
Summer: I also loved the movie Water. I learned so much from that movie. Absolutely amazing.
I'm looking forward to Wordplay as it is next in my Netflix queue. I've heard great things about it, and those of you who have seen it have confirmed that it will be good movie to watch.
I took many promising recommendations from this thread. I already updated Goodreads; now, I’m on to Netflix! Thanks!
Ooh, Stranger Than Fiction was a great movie! I forgot about that one.
Geez, I forgot about the Rilo Kiley album.That should've been on my top five list. I loved Wordplay, too! I am a NY Times crossword fanatic, so I loved to see how the crosswords were created. It's neat to see how crosswords appeal to people from different walks of life.
I loved Deadwood, too. I didn't watch the last season, because I was angry that it was being cancelled. So many great characters! I think Al Swearengen may be one of the greatest TV characters ever. (Now there's a good future thread: your favorite TV characters of all time...starting with Rory Gilmore!) The sexual tension between Sheriff Bullock and the Molly Parker character...wow. I added quite a few more colorful profane expressions to my repertoire courtesy of this show. Calamity Jane, was she great, or what?! I kind of had trouble understanding that flowery Victorian language, but once I kind of got into the groove, it was neat.
Oh, and speaking of Deadwood and David Milch, did anyone watch John from Cincinnati? What the heck was that all about?
Beth, you must see season three of Deadwood. Al has THE best lines. There's a few episodes where not much happens, but the last three are chock full of drama goodness. I didn't think I could love Al more, but my heart grew three sizes when he shows his protective nature towards Alma (Molly Parker). SO GOOD.
I just downloaded a few more albums. I don't know if they're the best of 2007, but I think they're fun:Colbie Caillat
Plain White T's
Sara Barielles
Sarah, I like One Sweet Love by Sara Barielles. It's such a pretty song.
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Anyhoo, I got Pillars of the Earth & The Alchemist at B&N, among others (had to put back three just before checking out)! Thanks to all for your recommendations. And I currently have Now, Voyager at my house via Netlfix. Just wondering when I'll watch it! I may have to pull an all-nighter, just to keep up with all of you pop culture junkies!! Wish you were here! There will be pizza rolls!
Top 5 Favorite Books you read this year:- Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- Moral Disorder: and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Top 5 Favorite Movies you saw (either at home or the theater, doesn't matter):
- Superbad
- Juno
- Annie Hall
- Hannah and her Sisters
- Reno 911! Miami
Top 5 Favorite Songs:
- MIA, Paper Planes
- Au Revoir Simone, A Violent Yet Flammable World
- Beirut, Nantes
- Gregory and the Hawk, In Fact
- Art in Manila, I Thought I Was Free
Top 5 Favorite Albums:
- Beirut, The Flying Cup
- Beirut, Gulag Orkestar
- Art in Manila, Set the Woods on Fire
- CocoRosie, The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn
- Joanna Newsom, Ys
Top 5 Favorite TV Shows:
- The Office
- Big Love
- Flight of the Conchords
- Gossip Girl
- America's Next Top Model
I liked John from Cincinnati! He had to be Jesus. You can't tell me otherwise. Or a Jesus-alien.
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Beirut is fantastic! glad you mentioned them, Savannah. And if I had HBO I'd be all about Flight of the Conchords too.mmm....pizza rolls.
Alison, I just read 4 issues of EW this week, because I had fallen behind. I don't see cancelling in my near future, because that's where I stay on top of things. It's also helpful to find out what's good to see in regard to TV and books, because the reviewers aren't too bad and there's plenty of info to indicate how the general population feels about certain things.However, I do not like the movie critics at all. They can be so phoo-phoo, or is it foo-foo?. I usually ignore what they say and go with word of mouth - which is another reason why I love this group.
I think that I'm going to start Pillars of the Earth after I finish my current book. I've been putting it off, because I know that I will love it, and figure that I won't be doing much else through the new year.
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I just posted on another thread that I finally bought it. And the %#&@! Oprah sticker won't come off!I want to finish the book I'm reading now and find out when the January selections are for this club before I start it though. And I have a HUGE stack of books I've bought but haven't read yet. I really need to stop buying them, but that's so not gonna happen. LOL
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My to-read-own list has 106 books on it. Oy.
Sarah, I meant to tell you I found at B&N a non-Oprah bookclub version of Pillars. It was the exact same cover as hers too, which I thought was funny. Must have been an older addition. But what I found truly funny, was that the 20% B&N sticker was placed over the Oprah sticker on every single copy in the store (yes, I really did check them all). I wonder if they'd been getting complaints or something?But I was wondering is there a club in this place that just discusses books? Like each thread would on a book you wanted to discuss? Not to take away from this club (which I love and like the goals), but sometimes I just want to talk about a book that I'm reading or want to read and don't want to necessarily join a club in order to do so. So I'm all over a Pillars thread. Let me know where it gets started! Oy. I'm going to have to dig up my copy. I think it's been over a year since I last read it.
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Sarah, I'll see your 104 and raise it to 110 own-but-unread. Soon to be 113 - thanks for posting about the B&N sale. :) I too now require a Pillars thread. I think it would do well in this here general folder. Otherwise maybe we need a 'non-GG books and movies' folder.
also, Netflix has White Castle on the way for me.
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Top 5 Favorite Books you read this year: 1) The Road: Cormac McCarthy
2) The Pact: Jodi Piccoult
3) The Glass Castle: Jeannette Wells
4) The Thirteenth Tale: Diana Setterfield
5) Water for Elephants: Sara Gruen
6) The God of Animals: Aryn Kyle
Top 5 Favorite Movies you saw (either at home or the theater, doesn't matter):
1) Blood Diamond
2) The Departed
3) Bourne Ultimatum
4) The Holiday
5) Click
Top 5 Favorite Songs:
1)Broken: Seether and Amy Lee
2) My Immortal: Evanescence
3) Fake It: Seeter
4) Animals: Nickleback
5) Unfaithful: Rhiana
Top 5 Favorite Albums:
I hardly ever buy full cd's anymore thanks to itunes.
Top 5 Favorite TV Shows:
1) Sex and the City - Watched the entire season this fall
2) Gilmore Girls - Working my way through season right now
3) The Office
4) The Biggest Loser
5) American Idol
Sorry about posting twice, my 3 year old was throwing a bit of a bed time fit and I couldn't remember where I was with the post!!!
It's okay, Becky! You know you can delete posts? You click on "edit post" and then "delete".
Arctic, you and I have the exact same taste in music! I love Elliott's New Moon CD, but it makes me kinda sad. It took me back to my college days when I discovered him and his brilliant XO CD.Anyways back to favs:
Books:
"The Road" by McCarthy
"Falconer" by Cheever
"That Summer in Paris" by Callahan (sp?)
"Lolita" (read it every year)
"Henderson the Rain King" by Bellow
Film:
"Juno"
"Lars and the Real Girl"
"Sweeney Todd"
That's all I can remember...
Music:
Bloc Party, "Weekend in the City"
Arcade Fire, "Neon Bible
Elliott Smith, "New Moon"
Modest Mouse, can't recall the entire album title
Pinback, "Blue Screen Life (not new, but new to me)
TV:
Gilmore Girls
Heroes
Family Guy
Mad Men
Ugly Betty
Jondice77, you have great taste. :) I'm a huge Elliott Smith fan, and you're absolutely correct about the sadness of his untimely death. Either/Or is probably my favorite of his followed by XO, though really I love listening to anything by him.
I'm hoping to read The Road this year (2008), so I'm glad to see that you liked it. Also happy to see Family Guy on someone's list here. :)
another note on music that i wanted to mention somewhere: KEXP and NPR both have their music lists up for 2007 if anyone is interested. Radiohead topped both lists. haven't heard it yet myself.
Family Guy is the best, and I just finished The Road last week. I really enjoyed it, but I have a difficult time recommending it, because of how bleak it is.
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Shannon, the founder of fun (back from sabbatical)
(last edited Dec 31, 2007 11:53AM)
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Books
1. Eleanor Roosevelt
2. 1984
3. Slaughterhouse Five
4. Cat's Cradle
5. The Time Traveler's Wife
TV shows
1. 30 Rock
2. Flight of the Conchords
3. Weeds
4. The Office
5. Big Love
Movies - I still have to see all the nominated films yet but so far here they are:
1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Casey Affleck A M A Z I N G
2. Grindhouse
3. The Darjeeling Limited
4. Superbad
5. Knocked Up
Albums - this was a great year for music so I'm putting down more than five. Maybe the crappy pop music decade is finally over!!
1. Menomena - Friend and Foe
2.Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
3. Rilo Kiley - Under the Black Light - great concert I saw too!!
4. Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
5. Lily Allen - Alright, Still
6. Feist- The Reminder
7. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
8. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
9. Radiohead - In Rainbows
Happy New Year everybody!!
In the last two days, I have watched Evening directed by Lajos Koltai and Waitress directed by Adrienne Shelly. Both were absolutely excellent. In the vintage category, I also recently saw and LOVED The Big Sleep (Bogart & Bacall) bringing my movie recommendations up to 8.
Top 5 Favorite Books you read this year: Only had two favorite books:
1) Cocaine: The Unauthorised Biography
2) The Time-Traveler's Wife
Top 5 Favorite Movies you saw (either at home or the theater, doesn't matter):
1. The Kite Runner
2. The Orphanage
3. Sweeney Todd
4. Lars and the Real Girl
5. Blades of Glory
Top 5 Favorite Songs:
1. Damn Girl - Justin Timberlake
2. D.A.N.C.E - Justice
3. The Way I Am - Timbaland
4. Girl Sailor - The Shins
5. She's the One - Caribou
Top 5 Favorite Albums:
1. The Reminder - Feist
2. Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
3. Version - Mark Ronson
4. Justice - Justice
5. Naturally - Sharon Jones
Top 5 Favorite TV Shows:
1. Ugly Betty
2. Pushing Daisies
3. How I Met Your Mother (I heart NPH)
4. Aliens in America
5. Gossip Girl
Hi Everybody,I've been M.I.A. for a little while, but I'm hoping to get back into the swing of things!
Here are my top 5 books of '07:
1. The Hours
2. Blonde
3. The Virgin Suicides
4. Water for Elephants
5. The Time Traveler's Wife
Sera - I know what you mean about recommending The Road. It's one of my "favorite" books, but I don't even really want to call it that because of the content. I have recommended it to a few people at work and one lady told me today she read it, but she never wants to read another book like it. She knew what she was getting into because I told her a lot about it and warned her. It's such an emotional read that I'm just not sure how people will react to it.
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Becky, I hear your struggle, because I feel the same way. I couldn't give it 5 stars, because it's a tough book, and when I finished reading it, I thought that I did not want to live after an apocalypse. That's an uncomfortable feeling for someone who loves life and tries to get the most out of it. But I guess that that's what also makes the book great, because it brought out a different perspective in me.
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