Post a Comment On: I Am A Child Of Television

Okay, I'll play but I don't have anyone to hand it along to so I guess it won't be going anywhere from here.Five Light ReadsJSA Comics (from DC)

Any of Max Allan Collins' Nate Heller novels
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
Any Nero Wolfe stories by Rex Stout
Positively Fif th Street by James McManusFive Reads To Make Me Think (then give me a headache from thinking too much)The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Hawaii by James Michener - Loved the way he used the location as a character
The National Dream/The Last Spike by Pierre Berton - Proof positive that history isn't boring but how it's presented frequently is.
Winning At Poker by Dave Scarf - my favourite Poker book but then I still dont own SuperSystem 2 by Doyle Brunson
Most manuals for electronics - but not in a good wayFive Songs Which Turn Me On

Well I dont know about Turn Me On but:La Marseilles (I swear, every time I hear this I get chills up and own my spine)
Sing Sing Sing - Benny Goodman orchestra
Your Cheatin' Heart - by Hank Williams but I prefer the Ray Charles cover
Hurt - the Johnny Cash cover of the Nine Inch Nails song

Crying - the version by Roy Orbison and k.d. lang Five Best Movie DramasAll The Presidents Men
Original version of The Manchurian Candidate (for Angela Landsbury's performance if for nothing else)
Original version of Inherit The Wind (Frederic March and Spencer Tracy)
Casablanca
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone - they dont make guys likethat anymore)
Honourable mention to Notorious (Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman have a kissing scene that is explosive).Five Best Movie ComediesSpeedy (Harold Lloyd - probably not the best Lloyd but the best of the few I've seen)
The General (well really any Buster Keaton but this is the one that is always shown)
Duck Soup (The Marx Brothers)
Philadelphia Story (Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart)
What's Up Doc (Ryan O'Neal, Barbra Streisand)