A day in the life of an Ohioan turned New Yorker
lists and more
Published on February 12, 2005 By alison watkins In Entertainment
I used to say, "Never trust anyone who makes a list."

Forget that....

Favorite Cartoons
1) South Park
2) Family Guy
3) Aqua Teen Hunger Force
4) The Simpsons
5) Tom and Jerry

Favorite Movies
1) Detroit Rock City
2) National Velvet
3) South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut
4) Overboard
5) The Notebook

Honorable Mentions: The Lord of the Rings Series and Harry Potter movies

Favorite Books
1) She's Come Undone-Wally Lamb
2) Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel-Janice Dickinson
3) The Notebook-Nicholas Sparke
4) Interview with the Vampire-Anne Rice
5) Thoughts on Playing the Horn Well-Froydis von Wekre

Favorite Foods
1) Ice Cream
2) Pizza
3) Fettucine Alfredo
4) Buffalo Chicken Wings
5) Chocolate
(This is why I have to work out! haha)

Favorite Places I've been
1) New York City
2) New Orleans
3) Las Vegas
5) Niagra Falls
6) Pittsburgh
Honorable Mention-Orlando Fla

My Valentines day dinner is almost ready so I better stop....feel free to share your favorites!

Comments
on Feb 13, 2005
Re: She's Come Undone: I really felt for the girl (I forgot her name.) One event in her life changed her completely. I found the chapters where she's in college tough to read.

Favorite Books
1) 1984 - George Orwell
2) Animal Farm - George Orwell
3) Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
4) On The Road - Jack Kerouac
5) I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb

Favorite movies:
1)Chasing Amy
2)25th Hour
3)Center Stage
4)Memento
5)Dirty Dancing

Favorite TV Shows:
1) Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2) Angel
3) Felicity
4) Once and Again
5) Freaks and Geeks
on Feb 13, 2005
The character;s name in She's Come Undone was Delores...yeah...I agree with the College chapters, they kind of threw me for a loop. I'm actually thinking about buying I Know This Much is True-I haven't read it yet.

LONG LIVE FREAKS AND GEEKS!!!
on Feb 14, 2005
I still say, "Never trust anyone who makes lists"...

and with that in mind....

Favorite Cartoons
1) Pinky & The Brain
2) Animaniacs
3) Any and all "Looney Tunes"
4) The Simpsons
5) Strongbad Cartoons

Favorite Movies
Comedies:
1) Monty Python & The Holy Grail
2) Major Payne
3) So, I Married an Ax Murderer
4) Napolean Dynamite
5) The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
6) It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

(Ok, far too many comedies to name!!! ;~D)

Horror
1) The Changeling
2) The Ring
3) The Others
4) Omen series

SciFi/Fantasy
1) Lord of the Rings films
2) Harry Potter
3) Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
4) War Games
5) Real Genius
Future Favorite) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

What I call "Storyteller Films"
1) Secondhand Lions
2) O Brother Where Art Thou?

Drama/Action
1) Breakfast Club
2) Miracle
3) Indiana Jones films
4) Three Musketeers & Man in the Iron Mask (I know their two different movies, but they work so well together).


Favorite Books
1) Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the whole 5 book trilogy)
2) Work and the Glory series
3) Lois L'Amour westerns (especially the "Sacket" stories
4) The "Imponderable" series

Favorite Foods
1) Pizza
2) Hamburgers
3) Lasagna
4) Chicken Enchaladas
5) Chocolate

Favorite TV Shows:
1) Freaks & Geeks (a pox on NBC for never giving this classic a chance!!!)
2) M*A*S*H
3) Night Court
4) Lonesome Dove (The Series &The Outlaw Years)
5) My So Called Life
6) The Muppet Show