Book/Movie memes

[shadowkat]

Okay, first the meme thing - here's my responses to the polls in aliera and oyceter's journals. Sorry don't do links (b/c I have no idea how), so you'll have to find their journals for yourselves.

3 books you use most often for reference
Dictionary
A Pocket Style Manual
Writers Market

3 books you read on "high rotation"
(what re-read?? Don’t know what this means)
Can’t think of any

3 books you read for comfort
Harry Potter series
PG Wodehouse
Mysteries/Fantasy

3 books you really ought to read
Crime and Punishment by Dostevosky
Gullivar's Travels by Jonathan Swift
War and Peace by Tolstoy

3 books you will never read
War and Peace (too bloody long)
David Cooperfield (also too bloody long and I hate Dickens)
Anything by Marcel Proust or Pilgrim’s Progress

3 movies that are "the best ever made"

The Godfather
Lawrence of Arabia
Casablanca/Spirited Away

3 movies you watch on "high rotation"???

3 movies that are "guilty pleasures"

Grosse Point Blanc
Nightmare Before Christmas
LadyHawk

3 movies that are "buried treasures"

Zero Effect (great private dick movie with Bill Pullman)
Unbreakable (with Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis, by M.Night Shalaman)
The Haunting (Robert Wise’s film with Julie Harris and Clair Bloom, scared me as a kid)

3 movies you watch for comfort

Gross Point Blanc or Noises Off
Nightmare Before Christmas
Princess Bride

3 movies you really "ought" to watch

Alien (never made it through it, too gory)
Bergman’s Frannie and Alexander
Truffaut’s The 100 Blows or Bicycle Thief

3 movies you will never watch

Anger Management
Cabin Fever (gory horror movie not my cup of tea)
The Thing

Faves:
Action: Face/Off, Die Hard, DareDevil, X-Men2, Raider’s of The Lost Arc, The Killer (John Woo), Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction
Drama: Days of Wine and Roses, The Apartment, The Godfather, Lawrence of Arabia,
Comedy: Gross Point Blanc, Noises Off, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Something About Mary, Tootsie, Princess Bride
Romance: Romancing the Stone, The Philadelphia Story, Gigi,
SF/Fantasy: Lord of The Rings (best fantasy films ever), Star Wars & Empire Strikes Back (only those two), Blade Runner
Animation: Spirited Away, Castle Calistrika (sp? – Lupin III one), Ghost in The Shell,
Nightmare Before Christmas

Hmmm...was going to write my impressions of the Who
promo party I worked last night. But I'm too tired to figure out how to word it, so maybe will wait a few days.