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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)

Kyle Weiss wrote:

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

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.

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

Kyle Weiss wrote:

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

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.

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

Anders And wrote:

Single Malts:

Lagavulin 16 Years
Aberlour a'bunadh
Highland Park 18 Years

Now we're talkin!!

Bunnahabhain 12
Aberlour A'Bunadh
Ardbeg 10

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...

Television

Frasier
Sherlock Holmes w/ Jeremy Brett
CBS Sunday Morning

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

...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!

Kyle Weiss wrote:

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

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.

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!

Kyle Weiss wrote:

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

Cop-out

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

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

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...

Brewdude wrote:

the rev wrote:

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

Simple Man wrote:

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

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

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...

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

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)

the rev wrote:

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

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

Simple Man wrote:

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

Hey, brother, with the exception of Kenny G, I happen to like everything on your list. Even old sweaters with elbow patches. I saw Sarah Brightman in Phantom in Toronto back in the '90s. She wan magnificent!

Ok, after a long process and looking at it as if these were my last requests I would have to say,

Bands: Pink Floyd, Tool, Faith No More

Authors: Stephen King, Tolken, Mark Twain

Movies: Meet the Fockers (never gets old)..... Wow there's still too many good movies to choose from. Sorry

the rev wrote:

Brewdude wrote:

the rev wrote:

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

Amen rev.

McMurtry is gifted with his storytelling lyrics, isn't he?

Love "Choctaw Bingo". Lots of imagery in that one.

Also "We Can't Make It here Anymore". Hits the old nail right on the head, that one.

And not to forget "Fireline Road", "Lights of Cheyenne", "Just Us Kids" or especially "God Bless America".

Hard hitting, tell-it-like-it-is, pull no punches, raw and in your face. Modern day troubadour.

Caught his act a few years ago with his 3-pc band an a small club in Seattle, and they were freaking awesome!

Hellecasters are scary good pickers. They're all monsters and technically several orders of magnitude above and beyond mere mortal men! Pity they aren't playing together anymore.





Cheers,

RR

I've never checked out hellcasters, but definitely dig on McMurtry. "We can't make it here anymore" was the song that grabbed my mind.

Its not easy for me to say anything is my favorite, anyway here's what came to mind first.

1. Zack Brown Band ,AC/DC ,Nickelback

2. Stephen Ambrose , John Gierach , Web Griffin

3.Goodfellas, Rudy, The Greatest Game Ever Played

Nice thread idea Rev.

Like many here (I suspect) I'm having a hard time getting down to three. I can usually do a fairly solid top 20 on most things, but getting to top 10 or 5 always gets sticky. So anyhow, I don't know if these are my real top 3s, but they are certainly up there.

Bands on disc: Foofighters, Alice in Chains, Nirvana (Honourable mentions to: Gnarls Barkley, Silverchair, Dubstep, Ellie Goulding remixes, Incubus, perfect circle, soundgarden, Weezer, Jack Wall, Yoshihisa Hirano and Hideki Taniuchi, 3 doors down)
Bands live: Nickelback, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, counting crows (I've seen the Foo's a couple of times when they toured the UK and they put on a very minimum effort show. Its sad to say as I really love them. But when I saw Nickleback live... Holy ****, those guys can rock. Counting crows has to go on there as I remember seeing them once when the lead singer walked on stage, did a massive guitar jump and split his trousers, then ignored it to do a 3 hour set with his ass hanging out so people didn't have to wait for him to go and get changed. Top guy!)

Authors (Tough one). Peter F Hamilton, George RR Martin (I liked him before it was cool!) and Joe Abercrombie. (Honourable mentions to: Terry Pratchett - I love the guy but sadly in the last few books his humour is faded and you can really see the effects of his alzheimers kicking in - Karl Marlantes, Robert Mason, Raymond E Feist, Weis & Hickman, Joe Haldeman, Timothy Zahn, Alan Moore, Max Brooks... agh, too many)

Movies... ah you're killing me: The Right Stuff, Aliens, Dances with wolves. (Honourable mentions: Screw it, I've got about 550 DVD's lying around here, far too many favourites to list, and I'm already changing the three choices too much).

Ten favorite bands ? Zach Brown, Alabama, Def Leppard, Petra, Garth Brooks, Needtobreathe, JJ Grey, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hank Williams Jr, John Mayer

three favorite authors? Ted Dekker, Frank Perretti, Ken Follett

three favorite movies? Shooter, Bourne series, Buck (documentary)

Buck is a great documentary.

Cigarettes
Camel shorts
American Spirit Maroon and Gold, Black
Marlboro Reds

Cats

Music
What my head hears

Books
Buddhist Terms and Concepts

Spirits
Seagrams VO Gold
McClelland Islay
Evan Williams 1783

The movie Buck uses horses to teach us so much about ourselves. I think it would be a great movie for all new parents to watch.

A lady in my office has a troubled 18 year old son. I paid her to watch the movie.