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1. What's your main source of music (radio, MTV, CD, Cassette player, etc)?
My main source would have to be the car radio/cassette player.
2. What is currently in that source or what station/channel is it set to?
KROQ for new music. Yesterday, I bought an old Taj Mahal cassette, "The Natch'l Blues" and took out my well-worn Blues Explosion copy of "Damage" to listen to Taj's (now listening to both in the house). The song I bought it for is one of my favorites, "Ain't That A Love", which a blistering live version of a young spry Taj Mahal can be found on "The Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus", which I recently saw a newly-released CD at Tower Records.
3. What channel would your TV be set on, from the night before, when the TV is turned on in the morning?
If not a pay-movie channel, and not Wednesday morning after a day of VH1 Classic's Tuesday Twoplay, then most likely Comedy Central.
4. What book(s) are you currently reading right now? .
Currently, my reading habits are for shiite--I'm in the middle of 3 books -- "Scar Tissue" by Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers "Keith Richards - The Biography" about the Rolling Stones guitar legend, and an English novel by David Nobbs, "The Return of Reginald Perrin" a sequel to a novel that, according to the book's liner notes, was turned into a TV programme for the BBC. And just finished another, by one of England's funniest writers, Ben Elton, about a Big Brother-type show where one of the houseguests is murdered.
How can I call such an extensive list shit reading habits?
Well, because I almost always read exclusively when I have a sit-down visit to the bathroom!
5. What TV shows do you always stop on no matter what?
I Love Lucy, M*A*S*H (original cast), Benny Hill, TheDaily Show, Mr. Show, Duckman, Family Guy, South Park, Simpsons, Blind Date, The Office, Saturday Night Live (original cast)
6. What TV shows do you never stop on no matter what?
Nearly everything else...The Sopranos, Oz, any lawyer/cop/crime solving drama, any comedy where the husband is as wide as his wife is beautiful.
7. What movies do you always stop to watch no matter what?
Sooo many but always Fletch, JFK, Wasabi, Sid and Nancy, At Close Range, Harold & Maude, Husbands. Highlander, The Breakfast Club, La Bamba, The Blues Brothers
8. What movies do you never stop to watch no matter what?
That list is even longer
9. What songs/groups do you always stop for?
Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Sublime, The Rolling Stones, Bon Scott AC DC, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin
10. What songs/groups/music do you always switch off/away from?
The Doors, Journey/REo Speedwagen/Supertramp/Styx (except for "Renegade"),Bruce Springsteen, country, (most, but not all, pre-1967 Beatles)
11. What song(s) always makes you get misty/cry?
Stain'd - "It's Been Awhile" used to do it for me; this year, out of the blue, Carole King's "You're So Far Away" got to me
During a massive, messy break-up Ben Harper was the ticket
12. What TV show episode(s)/movie scene(s) make you get misty/cry?
(Note: Much like some candies, my hard exterior gives way to a soft(er) interior sweetness that is not only healthy but delicious. Scenes in films where random acts of genuine kindness, heart-felt reunions, or any signs of deep happiness, if done effectively, ie. image displayed/music played/feeling conveyed I am unashamed by the natural human response of tears in one's eyes. Just because my eyes may well-up doesn't mean I cannot or will not kick yer ass, so be careful! lol)
The I LOVE LUCY episode at the Tropicana, where Ricky receives an anonymous note by a woman in the audience who has been trying to tell her busy husband that she is expecting, requesting the song "We're Having A Baby, My Baby And Me". A touched Ricky proceeds singing, asking each table he passes, if its them. when the next table he reaches finds Lucy sitting alone, Ricky says "Hi honey" before moving along to the next table. As a mere afterthought, Ricky looks back at thetable, and like the others before her, he asks Lucy if its her, expecting another denial. But Lucy, instead, smiles and nods her head as Ricky turns to the next table before her answer sinks in. When Lucy nods it is like a cue for my eyes to mist up.
The M*A*S*H episode when Radar enters the operating room, where he is shouted at to put on a surgical mask, announces that Col. Blake's plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan always gets to me.
"The Joy Luck Club" - Scene in beauty parlor, last scene
"La Bamba" 1st scene at Del Phi Records, in response to Bob's ultimatum "Your friends, or your music?": "My family." When Bob finds their mother after learning of Richie's death.
"Once Were Warriors" - Scene in the rental car when the whole family is going to see Boog and singing "What's the Time, Mr. Wolf". I think, Why can't they always be this happy?
13. What TV show episode(s)/movie scene(s) make you laugh no matter how often you've seen it/them?
All of them, if its funny, its always funny to me
14. What's the scariest scene/movie you've ever seen?
"Oliver!" whenI was around 9 years old, Bill Sykes was scary, but Bill forcing Oliver to climb up and out on the edge of the roof, and then them both trying to swing over to the next building, and Sykes getsshot. Heavy stuff for that age.
The Mickey the Wizard sequence in "Fantasia" scared me as a kid.
The last scene in the original 1976 TV movie "Helter Skelter" where Charlie is bouncing on his jail bunk singing and clapping just as he turns and looks through the bars of the cell, and they freeze-frame it still...after watching it, I would check behind all the doors in the house.
That Bill Paxton movie he directed, "Frailty" was also pretty scary, because of him and his son's point(s) of view(s) not being able to reason with such a person, especially when that person is the one person you completely look up to, and depend upon.
15. What movie/scene really offended you?
Oddly, it wasn't a scene in a movie that offended me, it was a scene not in a movie that offended me. I went to see a newly-remastered print of John Cassavetes "Husbands" by the UCLA Film Department and was sucker-punched in the gut when my over 5 minutes from my favorite scene was excised, and further on in the film, there were scenes inserted that added absolutely nothing to the film, especially in light of the scene already butchered. I actually applied to UCLA Film School in the hopes of, if accepted, finding the person/persons responsible for what I considered blasphemous.
Oddly enough, I think "The Sopranos" is reprehensible, think about the same regarding "Oz" and during the O.J. trial I was offended by The Tonight Show's nightly assault of The Dancing Itos. Also the show "Extra", which had just started, and one evening it's annoying broadcaster who, sounding like a game show emcee, announced" "Well, there was no court today at the O.J. Simpson trial so we visited the murder scene!"
16. What movie that you thought you would dislike/or avoided altogether completely took you by surprise?
Several including "Once Were Warriors", "La Bamba" and "Mr. Saturday Night", the latter two I avoided like the plague, and then was blown away by them.
What are some of your's? Copy andpaste to your journal and answer if you so desire...and let me know so I can see...
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1. Car radio/cd player.
2. An alternative music station here in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (side digression...saw them filming the remake of Dukes of Hazzard on the interstate today, crash test dummies in the car...or was it Jessica? That was mean, I digress). CD player in car has Korn Greatest Hits Volume I in it.
3. A dvd that's set on pause!
4. My reading habits are for shiite too. I look mostly at art publications, and my guilty pleasure, US and Star ragazine.
5. Seinfeld, Desperate Housewives, CSI, I agree with M*A*S*H as well.
6. Any family based cutesy sitcom. So unrealistic.
7. Way too many to list, Fight Club, What About Bob, Forrest Gump, Office Space, Heaven Can Wait, nearly all the John Hughes films (few exceptions).
8. Mine is probably like yours, ;)
9. Pink Floyd, yes indeedy, LOVE the Pink!
10. MOst if not all, Top 40 bubblegum Britany, X-tina, Hilary, Lindsey, Jessica or Ashlee kind of shit...totally not into that crap.
11. The Christmas Song..."Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose"..makes me feel lonely, sad, and longing for Christmas and people past, first loves, my mom, just a different way of life.
12. I have to agree with your choices.
13. I agree with that too :)
14. The scene in Jaws when the head pops out of the boat, that scared the popcorn and coke right out of my hands, I spent the rest of the movie in the bathroom at the theatre, and I saw it when it first came out that infamous summer..."is it safe to go back into the water?"
15. Can't recall.
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