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[DrT999]

Three favorite bands? Vienna Philharmonic; Glenn Miller; Beach Boys

three favorite authors? Dorothy L. Sayers; Rex Stout; Cicero

three favorite movies? The Thin Man; Monty Python/Life of Brian; and most of the Charlie Chan series (can't pick just one!)

TV bonus: Dr Who (esp #3&7); Babylon 5; Banacek

 

[Doc Manhattan]

Music
Joy Division
They Might Be Giants
Elvis Costello

Authors
J.G. Ballard
Mark Kurlansky (if we're allowing nonfiction)
Robert Frost

Movies
My Man Godfrey (the American version)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Wet Hot American Summer

Of those categories, it feels like cinema is the one where there's the biggest disconnect between what I admire and what I really like. Probably says something interesting about how media work now.

 

[gravel]

Music
Joy Division
They Might Be Giants
Elvis Costello

Oh man. Yes to all three.

 

[tech2576]

Bands: Eric Clapton, Eagles, The Who

Authors: I read mostly reference, Bios and autobios. so no real help there

Movies: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Airplane, Animal House. Honorable mention to Road House

TV: sports or news then I shut it off.

1. Rammstein, Wagner (composer), Frank Sinatra (singer)
2. J.R.R. Tolkein, ...not so much authors, but I love epics like the Aeneid, Das Nibelungenlied, Beowulf, Gilgamesh, ect.
3. Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Casablanca, 300

Just for jollies, I'm adding another category: video games!
4. Dead Space, Age of Empires II, Doom 3

The wife and I used to play that alot. Me on the laptop on the deck and her on the desktop in the spare room!

 

[Kyle Weiss]

I just can't answer things like this, as much as I want to. Sorry, guys. I'm complicated. :lol:

8)

 

[KevinM]

In alpha order and over the three limit --

Bands -- Beatles, Dylan, Stones

Authors -- Dr. Sam. Johnson, Cormac McCarthy, Herman Melville, Patrick O'Brian, John Steinbeck, Wm. Shakespeare

Movies -- About Schmidt, Amelie (Fr.), Das Boot, Harold and Maude, Hope and Glory (the one with with Ian Bannen), Little Miss Sunshine, Time Bandits, Waking Ned Devine (Euro version is just Waking Ned), Sunshine Cleaners, Swept Away (the original, not the dogpile with Madonna)

 

[sam a]

I just can't answer things like this, as much as I want to. Sorry, guys. I'm complicated. :lol:

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ditto.. 'cept i'd say i'm just to indecisive to narrow it down to three per catagory. good to see tom waits, nick cave, and david foster wallace on others lists though... some true giants.

 

[Jimmy1973]

Bands---The Animals,The Band,ProcolHarum
Authors---John Steinbeck,Ernest Hemingway,Cormac McCarthy
Movies---The Searchers,LonesomeDove,Jeremiah Johnson.

 

[George Kaplan]

I just can't answer things like this, as much as I want to. Sorry, guys. I'm complicated. :lol:

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I know what you mean. All of my top 10 lists have at least 63 items on them. With just three I have to consider how I present myself. Should I be edgy or sophisticated? Or should I go obscure and see if anyone shares my interest in, say, '60s Franco/Italian film scores? Oh well. It's late. I'll just try this with the first three to enter my head.

Bands: I like a lot of genres, but I'll stick with pop to keep it simple.

The Police (broke up before they could suck)
Nine Inch Nails (not so fortunate)
Johnny Cash

That was easy.

Authors:

Robert A. Heinlein
Raymond Chandler
Kurt Vonnegut
Henry Miller

Whoops. Slipped a little there.

Movies:

Star Wars. (The first one. Not Episode 1, the first one. Not the special edition, the first one. The one where Han shot first.)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead
Fallen Angels (Wong Kar Wai)
North by Northwest (go figure)

Dang! I did it again. Waitaminute:

Chasing Amy
The Big Sleep
Reservoir Dogs
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

Ok, this is useless. I'm going to bed. Now watch; I'll wake up in an hour and add 9 more to each list. I forgot Sublime! I suck at this. :x

 

[Anders And]

Bands:

Jethro Tull
Billy Joel
Runrig

Authors:

Salman Rushdie
Margaret Atwood
Ray Bradbury

Movies:

Spirited Away
Dead Man
Melancholia

Single Malts:

Lagavulin 16 Years
Aberlour a'bunadh
Highland Park 18 Years

 

[Puff Daddy]

Single Malts:

Lagavulin 16 Years
Aberlour a'bunadh
Highland Park 18 Years

Now we're talkin!!

Bunnahabhain 12
Aberlour A'Bunadh
Ardbeg 10

:drunken:

 

[user 2031]

Bands/Music

Rich Mullins
Andrea Bocelli
Sarah Brightman
Celine Dion
Kenny G

Oh, did you say 3? Sorry, but some did do duets, so there ya' go.

Authors

Charles Dickens!
Walt Whitman
William Wordsworth
(Lewis Grizzard )

Movies

Grumpy Old Men
The Magnificent Seven
Last of the Mohicans
Bells of St. Mary
Casablanca

Whoops, I did it again... :lol:

Television

Frasier
Sherlock Holmes w/ Jeremy Brett
CBS Sunday Morning

Yep, my list is quite different, just as I anticipated... :lol:

 

[PeterD]

...Bands;
Moody Blues
Jethro Tull
Dan Fogleberg
London Symphony

Authors;
E. Gibbon
WW Longfellow
Clive Cussler

Movies;
Star Trek - Movies 1-6
Armageddon
Sling Blade
My Fair Lady

Single Malts;
Lapharoig-16
Lagavulin 16 Years
Aberlour a'bunadh

...So there, you have it! :cheers:

 

[Boulder&Briar]

I just can't answer things like this, as much as I want to. Sorry, guys. I'm complicated. :lol:

8)

I'm with ya Kyle, it would probably be easier for me to list the things I don't like. When it comes to music and art, well I'm a musician and an artist. I was raised on classic rock and metal. I really like Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Peeping Tom, Mondo Cane, Tomahawk) Dax Riggs (Acid Bath, Agents of Oblivion, Deadboy and the Elephant men, And most of his solo work) and the Black Keys, JJ Grey, I love Slayer, but I listen to a lot of blues and southern rock/jam bands to keep me spirits up and not be so angry and aggresive all the time. See what I mean. :scratch:

As far as authors, I'm a magazine guy. Hot Rod, Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords, Pipes & Tabacco, Nat Geo, Field & Stream, ect. Basically it all interests me, and obviously I like my Mustangs, pipes, fishing, hunting, art ect.

Movies/tv shows: classics, twilight zone, Alfred Hitchcock, horror, scifi, south park
American pickers, antique roadshow, dr. G medical examiner, and anything earth science, outdoors, Nat geo, astrology, aliens. It all interests me.

I'm might be schizo, and if I'm not then Nick definitely is! :joker: :lol!:

 

[gravel]

I just can't answer things like this, as much as I want to. Sorry, guys. I'm complicated. :lol:

8)

Cop-out

 

[user 2031]

Gosh, looking at my own list, I am so...

Oh well, I'm "comfortable"... yea, that's it! :lol:

You probably won't be too surprised to know that I also like old sweaters with leather patched elbows, Old Spice cologne, and PBR...


I'm going to make one good Grandpa... :lol:

 

[the rev]

wow, jethro tull and McCurtry in the same list, and then the hellecasters? I wanna party with you

you guys are way too cool, I want to be best friends with all of you

rev

Not a lot of folks are familiar with McMurtry. Even less so with The Hellecasters. Good to see you are rev.


Cheers,

RR

McCurtry has one of the best lyrics, and I quote it often just because it is so awesome:

though I never intended to bend the rules
whiskey don't make liars it just makes fools
so I didn't mean to say it... but I meant what I said
too long in the wasteland, too long in the wasteland
must of gone to my head

Love it.

Hellecasters are just guitar wizards

rev

 

[the rev]

Gosh, looking at my own list, I am so...

Oh well, I'm "comfortable"... yea, that's it! :lol:

You probably won't be too surprised to know that I also like old sweaters with leather patched elbows, Old Spice cologne, and PBR...


I'm going to make one good Grandpa... :lol:

how many hipsters does it take to screw in a light bulb?







Its a really obscure number you probably don't know it

mate, its all about what you dig. I love punk, blues, and singer songwriter stuff, but I hate country, metal or most modern pop. Its just what it is.

rev

 

[jefe1037]

Bands:
Sam Cooke
Better than Ezra
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Authors:
Carl Hiasson
Zane Grey
Herman Mellville

Movies:
The Big Lebowski
Caddyshack
Blazing Saddles (esp. because they could NEVER make a movie like this anymore)

 

[George Kaplan]

how many hipsters does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Its a really obscure number you probably don't know it

:lol!: :cheers: