Stuff I Like

In truly no particular order.

Movies & Related Paraphernalia:

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Star Wars - the original 3 – I grew up watching them about every 2 weeks (Favorite: Return of the Jedi)
• The Chipmunk Adventure
• the cinematography in The Constant Gardener, and other movies, but it’s the first one that came to mind
• Back to the Future: The Trilogy
• Anne of Green Gables (Thank you, Canada!)
• Newsies
• Little Women, the Winona Ryder version
• The Great Muppet Caper! (my favorite of the muppet movies; everyone has their pick)
• The Road movies with Hope and Crosby
• Pride and Prejudice (love the new version, also like Colin Firth, the older BBC one is not my favorite)
• All things Harry Potter, though my favorite of the movies is the most recent as of this posting – Order of the Phoenix (#5)
• Holiday Inn
• Singin’ In the Rain
• The Sound of Music
• Holiday
• Bringing Up Baby
• Philadelphia Story
• Yes, pretty much anything with Carey Grant (Arsenic and Old Lace, His Girl Friday) &/or Katherine Hepburn
• Casablanca
• I Soliti Ignoti (so brilliant and so much better than stupid American remake)
• most things done by Focus Features
• Roman Holiday
• most things with Audrey Hepburn
• West Side Story
• Run Lola Run
• Die Hard (1 & 3, don’t know 2)
• Rocky 4 (yes, I think 1 is better, but I love Rocky vs. Russia, what can I say?)
• Indiana Jones, though I will admit that I have still never seen #2 – Last Crusade is my favorite
• Casino Royale
• Empire Records
• LOTR trilogy
• V for Vendetta
• X-Men 1 & 2
• Amelie
• You Can Count on Me
• Brick
• Dangerous Beauty
• Lost in Translation
• Minority Report
• Groundhog Day
• Trading Places
• Stomp the Yard
• Bad dance movies, because I love dance movies and that seems to be the only kind they make
• The Dark Knight
• Rear Window
• Murder by Death (you need to see this movie if you haven’t)
• Spirited Away
• Seven Samurai
• A Fish Called Wanda
• 300
• The Sting
• Finding Nemo
• East of Eden
• Movie soundtracks by Thomas Newman – I love soundtracks and I have discovered that many that I love are all by him
• Conversations with Other Women
• The Visitor
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall
• True Grit (Coen brothers)
• The Hurt Locker
• The Proposal
• I somewhat guiltily really enjoy Confessions of a Shopaholic
• Arthur Christmas
• Serenity

As for TV:

• The Office – both versions; I was skeptical of the American one at first, but am now in love…well, I was
• Weeds
• Sportsnight
• Parks and Recreation
• Original cast of SNL, especially Gilda Radner
• Firefly
• & yes, I do like me some Project Runway and Top Chef
• Bramwell (did anyone else ever see this great PBS show?)
• Speaking of PBS – Poirot
• Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles
• 30 Rock – the first couple seasons. I have lost my love…
• Arrested Development
• I Love Lucy
• Absolutely Fabulous
• Distretto di Polizia 4 (When I was in Italy my host mother watched this show.  I thought it was called Police District 4, but no, 4 was the season.  It’s just plain old Police District.  And it’s awesome.  I really only know the end of season 4.)
• THE WIRE
• Party Down
• Lie to Me
• New Girl – hated the first episode, loved it by the end of the second
• Fawlty Towers
• Better Off Ted – brilliant show
• Suits
• Veronica Mars
• Community
• SHERLOCK

Bad Things I Find Hilarious:

• The Sleeping Dictionary starring Jessica Alba (most boring title ever and not what you’d expect)
• Tori Spelling movies on Lifetime
• & speaking of Lifetime, the one with Melissa Joan Hart setting up her wrong-side-of-the-tracks boyfriend for killing her parents when she did it to be with her preppy real boyfriend.  Best when viewed while sitting in a 24-hour laundromat.

 

This is a really strange list.  And yes, I will keep adding to it.