On the off chance that someone is interested

[angela_o]

Here's a cool meme that I've seen floating around, most recently in the LJ of ww1614.

Ask me for "top five" lists of pretty much anything, and I will list you my top five of that thing or things.

Come one, come all. Step right up and ask away. :)

ETA The juxtaposition of the meme's content and the music that I was listening to at the time amuses me.

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[ww1614.livejournal.com]

Top 5 books?

Top 5 favorite things about having kids?

Top 5 songs from movies?

[angela-o.livejournal.com]

Top 5 books

Let's see. These are going to be in no particular order and I'm going to cheat. :)

1. Possession by A.S. Byatt
2. A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
3. The Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace
4. The Novels of the Company series by Kage Baker
5. a four way tie between Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, Time and Again by Jack Finney, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and The Eight by Katherine Neville

Top 5 favorite things about having kids

1. Their senses of humor. They make me laugh a lot. The six-year old particularly is the Queen of the Non sequitur
2. The love. No one loves as wholeheartedly and purely as a child.
3. Getting to share the things that I love with them.
4. Seeing bits and pieces of people that I've loved pop up in my children.
5. Again with the love. You love no one else the way that you love your child.

Top 5 songs from movies

Okay, this one is tough!! I don't necessarily associate songs with movies, so I'm going to cheat a little and pick songs that I first heard used in tv show soundtracks as well. Again, no particular order and off the top of my head.

1. Possession by Sarah McLachlan. I heard it for the first time in a Due South episode.
2. In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel *Love* that scene from Say Anything. (Sorry Mel.)
3. Everything by Lifehouse. First heard used in a Roswell episode.
4. The Way We Were by Barbra Streisand from the movie of the same name. Young Robert Redford in dress whites. Mmmm.
5. Ice Cream by Sarah McLachlan. Used to great effect in a Felicity episode.

[marcolette.livejournal.com]

Top 5 scents/smells

I'm wearing my last clothes that smell like France today, so it's on my mind. *g* While in Paris, I washed my clothes with the detergent I always used when I lived there, and it's very evocative. But after today . . . they'll all be washed again with my usual American detergent. Sense memories erased!

[angela-o.livejournal.com]

Top 5 scents/smells

Interesting question. Let's see.

1. The air after it rains.
2. Carnations. I know that they're plebeian, but I love 'em. :)
3. Vanilla.
4. Mulled cider.
5. fall air with a hint of woodsmoke

Honorable mentions would go to chocolate, tea roses, musk, and the ocean.

Obviously food figures fairly heavily into my list. lol

[tasyfa.livejournal.com]

Food is good. ;-) So...top 5 desserts that you didn't have to make. :D

[angela-o.livejournal.com]

Top 5 desserts that I didn't have to make

1. Triple chocolate mousse. A combination of white chocolate, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate mousse at a much lamented French restaurant that used to be close to my house.

2. My grandmother's banana pudding. The real kind made only with Nilla wafers.

3. The red velvet cake that my aunt makes for me. With cream cheese frosting.

4. My mother's apple turnovers.

5. My husband's made from scratch apple pie. He's made it for my birthday in some years.

Honorable mention goes to a buttercream frosted yellow cake garnished with strawberries with lemon curd filling.

Now I'm hungry! lol

[mockingbird39.livejournal.com]

Damn it. Now I'm going to have to have some red velvet cake. This is the problem with being single--if I buy a cake, I have to eat the whole thing. Poor me. ;)

Anyway:

Top Five Favorite Places, please.

[angela-o.livejournal.com]

op Five Favorite Places

I had to think about this one for a little while and decided to go for very specific to me locations rather than more general places. In no particular order.

1. The hammock at my father-in-law's vacation home on Lake Leelanau with the wind rustling the leaves of the silver beeches.
2. The beach at night. Particularly on the NC coast and in Hawaii.
3. My mother's house.
4. Yale, specifically the Silliman dining hall and courtyard.
5. My bathtub late at night when everything is quiet in my house.

[muffinkath7.livejournal.com]

This IS a fun one. Hee. I'm going to do it too.

Top Five Movie Quotes.
Top Five TV moments.
Top Five places you MOST want to go.

[angela-o.livejournal.com]

More tough ones. lol Let's see.

Top Five Movies Quotes

This ended up being quotes from some of my favorite movies, but still, on with the show.

1. "As you wish."
2. "Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I'm being repressed!"
3. "Wouldn't it be lovely if we were old? We'd have survived all this. And everything would be easy and uncomplicated, the way it was when we were young."
4. "Laugh while you can monkey boy."/"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are."
5. "Then why are you shaking?"
"I dont know. I think I'm happy."

With honorable mention going to "Toe pick" and "You are everything I never knew I always wanted".

Top Five TV Moments

Ugh, this is incredibly difficult. So, I'm going to go with things that have impressed me in recent years/months and I'm frightened to realize how much of a romantic sap I am. lol

1. Buffy kisses Spike in the Bronze.
2. John proposes to Aeryn.
3. Liz gets her wedding dance from FMax.
4. The Doctor gets his one day where "everyone lives" *and* he dances with Rose.
5. Logan tells off Dick and the '09ers and Veronica takes his hand in front of them.

Top Five Places I Most Want to Go

Finally, an easy one and in no particular order. :)

1. Switzerland
2. France
3. England
4. New Zealand
5. Ireland

[muffinkath7.livejournal.com]

I loved your number five for TV moments, I must say. It would count as one of mine too. That's why I love that show. It is just so damn SATISFYING. I hope it keeps on that way.

I recognized most of your quotes, but not 2 & 3. What are they from?

[angela-o.livejournal.com]

2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail from the scene when Arthur gets into a discussion of political systems with the two peasants. Also includes the classic "Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony." :)

3. The Way We Were when Katy and Hubbel's relationship is falling apart.

I hope that VM does keep maintain its incredibly high standards. Did you see that CBS is going to air 4 episodes? 2 on the 7/29 and 1 on each of the following weeks? I've seen Pilot and Echoll's Family Christmas for the 29th. I'm guessing that they're filling JoA's old spot.

[muffinkath7.livejournal.com]

I did see that. I think it's a great idea. An Echolls Family Christmas is a good one too. I think it's a great idea to only do mostly stand-aloneish ones. I think a lot of people were fooled into NOT watching the show because of the season long mystery arc, thinking if they missed one week, they'd be lost.