Top Ten Love

And whose fault is it for perpetrating this gross neglect? XD

How about the last ten books you've read--or are now reading? With an indicator of whether you've already read it.

Moderator's list:
Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens (again)
PG Wodehouse's The Code of the Woosters (again)
PG Wodehouse's Carry On, Jeeves (again)
PG Wodehouse's The Mating Season (does anyone detect a trend yet?)
PG Wodehouse's The Tribulations of Archie (good grief)
Ann Fadiman's Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Diana Wynn Jones's The Magicians of Caprona
Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment (again)
Chuck Jones's autobiography Chuck Amuck (again)

I blame angelthorn for the, the leaning of this list

...please name the ten best places you've ever spent more than a night.

Moderator's list, more or less in order of preference:

Four Seasons Jimbaran Bay, Bali (best by a looooong shot)
Family friend's house in Mindoro
Aunt's place in Englewood, New Jersey
angelthorn's house in Paranaque
lyrakristine's house in Laguna
Four Seasons Wailea, Maui
Uncle's flat in Hong Kong
Lim residence on the South Super Highway
Swan Hotel, Walt Disney World, Florida
Other uncle's house in Paranaque

Just watched Ocean's Twelve and Samurai Champloo vol. 1, and I liked them so much that they've inspired this list. So people: top ten kick-ass films you've ever watched. (We should do top ten kick-ass TV episodes next week...)

Moderator's List
Die Hard - what, like it's not a dead certainty?
The Long Kiss Goodnight - Geena Davis and Sam Jackson, King of Kick-ass.
Once Upon A Time In China - classic!
Reservoir Dogs
Ocean's Twelve - at least on first watching. We'll see if it sticks.
007: Diamonds Are Forever
Snatch
Black Mask
La Femme Nikita
Bad Boys

I have a lot more--I'm a big fan of mindless violence in movies ^^;

My goodness, but I'm getting erratic with this community. Sorry, all.

This week's post: your top ten Greek myths, because I'm on a roll. ^_^

Moderator's list:
12 tasks of Heracles
Prometheus
Eros and Psyche
Perseus and the Gorgons
Bellerophon and the Chimaera
Hyacinth and Apollo
Adonis and Aphrodite (especially Old Will's version, Venus and Adonis)
Oedipus and the Sphinx (but not the bits that came afterwards)
Theseus and the Minotaur
The fate of Ganymede

The first three are in order of preference. The first story I ever remember reading--the first story I ever remember--is the story of Heracles. That kind of thing tends to leave an impression.

Hello all and Happy New Year! I wanted to go on last Saturday and have you guys post a list of top ten favorite Christmas foods, and then this week ask you your top ten New Year's resolutions. But we've been having stormy weather and Internet interference, so I missed my chance. Want to do two top tens instead, this week?

Ok then. First list: top ten favorite food that you guys had this Christmas. Second list: your top ten new year's resolutions.

I love you all and want lots more years with you as friends!

Um...o.O Looks like everybody was busy last week. But I like Ly's idea so much I've decided to leave it up again this week, to see if we get any good lists.

So, to reiterate: If someone made a movie of your life, what would the soundtrack be like? Choose the top ten songs on your life soundtrack. You can add an explanation if you like...or not.

( Moderator's list )

Phew! That was hard. Go on, you try it. Lots of songs omitted, of course, it's a whole life after all, and we only have ten positions on the list. I did mine in chronological order, but you don't have to.

edit: added lyrics, because I suddenly realised they were apt as well. I actually tend to soundtrack my life as it goes along. Grand delusions...

Our moderator is drowning in school stuff (so send her lots of love and support!) and she asked me to do our week's top ten:

Songs of Your Life's Soundtrack

Hey all, sorry about last Saturday. You're all on my protected friends list, so you know why I didn't post that time. Things are better now. But one side effect of my black mood has been my staying inside and reading all kinds of random material, and that has inspired today's list.

Name your top ten favorite couples. Fiction or historical, fanon or canon, completely weird pairings...go nuts. ^_^ You can include your own characters too, if you want. Since this is such a small list, and most people here know each other, I don't have to worry about flamers. Yay, that's such a relief! Still, expect man-love on my list. *unabashed*

Moderator's list:
The Beast and the girl (The Tiger's Bride, Angela Carter)
Curt Wild and Brian Slade (Velvet Goldmine)
Gingetsu and Ran (Clover, CLAMP)
Hephaestion and Alexander the Great (tenuously historical, but in particular as they were portrayed in Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault)
George Koizumi and Yukari Hayasaka (Paradise Kiss, Ai Yazawa)
Shinomori Aoshi and Takani Megumi (Rurouni Kenshin, Nobuhiro Watsuki)--and I know just who to blame, too!
Kurogane and Fye D. Flowright (Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, CLAMP)
Imp y Celyn and Susan Sto Lat (Soul Music, Terry Pratchett)
Ginger Kincaid and Skank Zero Hopeless-Savage (Hopeless Savages: Ground Zero, Jan Van Meter and Bryan O'Malley)
Lord Asriel and Mrs Coulter (His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman)

Name the top ten items you can't leave the house without.

Moderator's list:
pen
diary
keys
phone
card holder
coat (even in summer--in London, you never know)
lip balm
mascara
camera
toothbrush

This week's list courtesy of saki_g. Name the top ten weirdest movies you've ever seen--and indicate whether you think they're weird in a good or bad way.

Special note: Please notice I said "you think". One man's masterpiece is another man's pretentious piece of shit, or something. ^_^

Moderator's list:
The Happiness of the Katakuris by Takashi Miike - good
Avalon by Mamoru Oshii - not so good
End of Evangelion by Hideaki Anno - bad
Pink Floyd's The Wall by Roger Waters and Gerald Scarfe - good
The Beatles' Yellow Submarine by George Dunning and Heinz Eidelmann - good
Beowulf by...I can't remember, starring Christopher Lambert - bad
Being John Malkovich by Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman - good
Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa - good
The Fight Club by David Fincher and Chuck Palahniuk - good
Cool World by Ralph Bakshi - good

Thanks, Saki, this was a fun challenge!

Wow. I was so sleepy when I made this Saturday's post that I forgot to post it to the community and posted it on my own journal instead.

Brilliant, folks. I must never be allowed to operate heavy machinery. Or delicate machinery. Or indeed, any machinery at all. *turns Amish*

Once again, top ten. Name your top ten guilty pleasures.

Moderator's choice:
Lindsey Lohan movies
Stick-on tattoos for the below-13 demographic
Gamer webcomics that stink of male like smelly locker rooms
Um...hentai #>_<#
Books aimed at an audience half or even 1/3 my age
McDonald's (esp. breakfasts)
Goofing off on the Net till the sun comes up
Cherry Coke
Cosplay
Girly pink things

*flees in shame*

It's finally Saturday! I definitely have to post now--going to the Barbican first thing tomorrow, so don't want to miss a Saturday post again. I've been quite a bad moderator lately...

This week: name your top ten favorite web comics--with links, please!

Moderator's choices (in no particular order--couldn't make up my mind)

MegaTokyo
Bite Me!
My Life In Blue (currently down, so I linked the LJ instead)
Zero Sleep Beauty
Nice Hair
Demonology 101
Something Positive
when i am king
*note: this one is NECESSARY for anyone who's really serious about doing comics, especially web comics! It gets quite shocking but is so, so worth it just for the things you can learn about the medium!

Strings Of Fate
Sluggy Freelance (the one that started it all!)

Whee for chocolate-covered coffee beans!!!

This is a good one to swap with your friends: Give me your top ten favourite quotes.

In no particular order, moderator's list:

1. "Life's a lot easier when you learns to think straight." - Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
2. "There is no pain but the truth" - Luna Sea, No Pain
3. "Destiny is as destiny does." - Tom Hanks, The Making of Forrest Gump
4. "Imagination is more powerful than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
5. "Just because it's been done, doesn't mean you can't do it." - Sasha
6. "Reflect before you snack." Fa Mulan, Disney's Mulan
7. "Fantasy remains a human right; we make because we are made...in the image and likeness of a Maker." - JRR Tolkien, On Fairy-Stories
8. "Make the art that only you can make." - Neil Gaiman, Harvey Awards speech
9. "The way you do anything is the way you do everything." - my mum
10. "Don't bet on the prince." - Jack Zipes, in the anthology of the same name

Go on, inspire each other. ^_^

Sorry for missing the past two weeks! Livejournal is going nuts, and I have to pry my cousin's laptop out of his fingers just to update. So here's the current list:

Name the top ten people you'd most like to take out and shoot. Note: I mean specifically, not just a group of people like "politicians" or "girls who think Avril Lavigne invented punk". I want names, people. Or at least distinguishing physical features. ^_^

It's still Saturday! ;P The last five minutes of it, anyway.

Idea originally from petronia: top ten redheads in fiction. (Actually hers was top ten books with redheads in them.)

In no particular order, moderator's choices:

Door, Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Menolly, Harper Hall novels by Anne McCaffrey
Nausicaa, Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind by Hayao Miyazaki
Quentin McLeod, Highlander animated series
Shidou Hikaru, Magic Knight Rayearth by CLAMP
Himura Kenshin, Rurouni Kenshin by Nobuhiro Watsuki
Jamie Fraser, Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Jean Grey, X-Men (who created her, anyway? I am woefully behind in Marvel knowledge.)
Ariel, Disney's The Little Mermaid
Paul, Audrey Hepburn's Neck by Alan Brown

Which gives rise to some questions, such as: What is "red"? Devi in Jhonen Vasquez's I Feel Sick has violet hair, although in the black-and-white Johnny the Homicidal Maniac her hair is inked black. Miwako of Ai Yazawa's "Paradise Kiss" has pink hair (most of the time), as does Hikaru of Angelic Layer. Is Sakura Kinomoto a blond or a redhead? Manga is harder because the characters can change hair color from illustration to illustration, plus most of it is done in black-and-white anyway. So this list only counts true redheads, but if you're in doubt stick the characters in an honorable mention.

Everybody, so sorry!!! I've been so busy I totally forgot to post this week's top ten!

This week it's your top ten favorite songs to play in bad weather.

"Snow", Chiba Saeko
"Winter", Tori Amos (or pretty much any Tori song, but this one's the most suited)
"Kaze Ga Fuku Hi", Sakamoto Maaya
"Sweet Lullaby" (ambient mix), Deep Forest
"Scars Remain", Wolfsheim
"All I Want", The Poozies
"Together In Electric Dreams", Lali Puna (remake)
"There Is A Light That Never Goes Out", The Smiths
"Sora" (the song Folken's creature sings in the Escaflowne movie)
"Thickfreakness", The Black Keys

Your turn.

I will be away this weekend starting today, so this week's top ten is a little early.

Courtesy of saki_g: Name your top ten favorite desserts.

Here's mine, in no particular order:

Tapioca
Creme brulee´
Haagen-Dazs green tea ice cream
Ben & Jerry's Phish Food ice cream
Most fruit, served cool but not cold
Starbucks Chocolate Decadence cake
White chocolate mousse
Ginger cake in white chocolate fondue (sense a trend?)
Almond jelly with lychee
Coffee jelly in chocolate syrup

This week, list:

Your top ten fictional female characters.
Note: does not include characters from myth.

Am I allowed to do this? Anyway...

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