Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Getting to know you?

OK, Terri tagged me, and these surveys are almost always impossible to answer definitively.

FAVORITE TOP 5 NOVELS: (this would have to be updated every five years) Icy Sparks, The Things They Carried, Plantation (bawled my head off silly), Lonesome Dove (read it probably four times!), Forest Service 1919: The Cook the Thief and a Hole in the Sky.

FAVORITE SHORT STORIES: "A Good Man is Hard to Find," "Jury of her Peers," "The Evangelist (my story, sorry)," The Red Covertible,"Everyday Use"

FAVORITE POEM: "Violence on Television," tie, "Skinhead"

FAVORITE SONG: As if there could be ONE favorite song. "Show Me How to Live," Audioslave

FAVORITE CONCERT ATTENDED: Staind

FAVORITE ARTISTS: Rembrandt, Salvador Dahli, Gustav Klimdt

FAVORITE MOVIES: Sunset Boulevard, Johnny Guitar, Gangs of New York, Goodfellas, Godfather, Leave her to Heaven, dir. John Stahl, Rear Window, The Birds, North by Northwest

FAVORITE TV SHOW OF ALL TIME: Northern Exposure

FAVORITE FOODS: all cheeses, olives, potato chips, pizza, anything salty

FAVORITE VACATION: last year with Ivy to NM and CO

FAVORITE SPORT: sex with Scott, well you asked!

FAVORITE TIME OF DAY: watching PBS in bed or reading in bed at night

FAVORITE DAY OF THE WEEK: Saturday

FAVORITE HOBBIES: AS if I could name them all, but to start: playing guitar, hiking, camping, daydreaming about Scott/Mr. Right, cooking, working out, going and visiting funky diners/thrift stores/taverns in towns I've never been to before.

3 comments:

t said...

Okay, I found it! Awesome answers, I definitely will check out the books you recommend.

Boomer said...

Who wrote the Forest Service title?

nate said...

Hi, Boomer, that'd be Norman McClean (got Ben in my lap or I'd get up and double check the spelling).