And now, for something completely different......

[pinkieposies]

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I gotta admit...I also love the bagpipes!!!​

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ME TOO!!!​

I've got it in my blood!​

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[pinkieposies]

Some of my fav movies in no particular order:

PeeWee Herman's Big Adventure

The Three Amigos

Wooo!!! I forgot these ones! I LOVE PEEWEE'S BIG ADVENTURE!!! I gotta go put it on my list right now!

.:Erin:.​

 

[ClementofRome]

Music...let's see...I like most of it!

However:

Grateful Dead
ALL BLUEGRASS
ALL JAM GRASS (esp. Psychograss and Sam Bush Band)
Bela Fleck (any band he has ever played in or will ever play in)
Chris Thile (esp. when he plays with folks other than Nickle Creek)
David Grisman Quintet
Bob Marley
Miles Davis
Thelonius Monk
James Brown
Parliment Funkadelic (or any configuration thereof w/George Clinton)

I could go on and on and on...

 

[inchristalone221]

Music!
Dashboard Confessional, Copeland, DC Talk, Thousand Foot Krutch, FM Static, Relient K, Glad, Falling Up, Superchick and SO much more

Hymns: How Deep the Father's Love, How Great Thou Art, Amazing Grace, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, A Mighty Fortress is Our God

Movies!
I like watching cage fights on the tv, but I like movies too
A Few Good Men, Identity, Tombstone, Mystic River, and ANYTHING by Mel Brooks (and I like Monty Python)

Fiction!
Divina Comedia by Dante Alighieri
Sherlock Holmes stories (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Hobbit (and kinda the Lord of the Rings) by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

I admit, I'm weird

 

[lmnop9876]

Midnight Oil

did you know their lead singer is now an australian federal MP?

 

[edie19]

music - I'm as all over the place with music as I am with movies

Beethoven
Carl Orff (particularly the Carmina Burana)
Harry Connick Jr.
Carol King
David Sanborn
Al Jarreau
Boz Scaggs
The Crusaders
Manheim Steamroller
Brooks & Dunn
Toby Keith (alright - I'm going to admit one of my really big failings here, I just want to touch his arms - just once wrap my hands around his biceps and triceps - am I bad or what?)
Santana
The Moody Blues
Bing Crosby
Keith Urban
The Beach Boys
Kenny Chesney
Barry Manilow (to this day the single best stage performance I've ever seen, he's the consumate showman)
Sara Evans
Martina McBride
Wynton Marsalis
Herbie Hancock
Take 6
John Mellencamp
Bob Seger
Jim Morrison & the Doors
Creed/Scott Stapp
multiple Broadway musicals (A Chorus Line, Phantom, 42nd Street, Hello Dolly, My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, West Side Story)

think I'd better stop now.

edie

 

[cygnusx1]

Fav films


Jesus Of Nazareth

Moses the Lawgiver

King David

Luther (Stacy Keach) fav play


secular


Love and Death (Woody Allen) fav comedy .
(Everything by) Laurel and Hardy
(Everything by) The Marx brothers

Falling Down
Jaws
Gladiator
Troy
The Titanic
The Game
Wall Street
Rambo (first blood)
Rocky (all of them)
All quiet on the western front
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Wages of fear
Silas Marner
One Flew over the Cuckoos nest
Kung Fu (series)
The Water Margin (series)
Bruce Lee (all his films)
Amadeus
My Beloved (Beethoven)
Cinema Paradiso
Sherlock Holmes (B&W versions Bazil Rathbone)
King Kong
James Cagney (all his films)
Humphrey Bogart (all his films)

etc etc .......

Fav actor : Michael Douglas

 

[oworm]

Ben Hur
Killing fields
All Star Wars
All Star Trek
Goodwillhunting
Hobsons Choice(Very old John Mills film)
A River Runs Through it
All Norman Wisdom films
All Jerry Lewis films


There are many more but its 3AM and Im exhausted >

 

[AndOne]

My Top Five Favorite Movies:

LOTR Trilogy
Star Wars (1-6)
Hunt For Red October
Rudy
Ben Hur

My Top Five Favorite Books:

Desiring God - John Piper
Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
The Institutes of the Christian Religion - John Calvin
Darwin's Black Box - Michael J. Behe

My Top Five Musical Groups:

Payable On Death (P.O.D.)
Living Sacrifice
Soul Embraced
Bride
Rush

My Dream Band:

Steve Harris (Iron Maiden) on Base
Vivian Camble on Guitar
Oz Fox (Stryper) on Guitar
Niel Pert (Rush) on Drums
Ronnie James Dio on Vocals

 

[calmcoolandelected]

Hmmm............

I'm in a "I don't like Hollywood" funk so I don't go to the movies very often. My husband and kids saw "Narnia" today though. They loved it!

Movies:

Christmas Story
Pride and Predjudice (BBC)
Napoleon Dynamite

Reveals a lot about me, eh? Actually, those are movies I've seen lately. Someone had Amelie on their list and I liked that one too.

Saw a movie this year that was disturbing yet thought provoking -- Vera Drake.

Music: We have not-so-good Christian radio here so I am not up on the latest.

Here's what is in the CD changer in the car at present:

Bonnie Raitt's Greatest Hits
Los Lonely Boys-How Far Is Heaven
Carole King's Greatest Hits
Billy Joel's The Stranger
The Red Clay Ramblers (Bluegrass)
The Three Tenors Christmas - O Holy Night! by Placido Domingo brings tears to my eyes

CC&E

 

[calmcoolandelected]

My Top Five Favorite Books:

Darwin's Black Box - Michael J. Behe

Any relation?

CC&E

 

[edie19]

I was thinking about this thread today and realized I forgot a couple of things (silly me).

Anyhow - two of the best movies I've seen of late
1. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2. Miracle (I can't help it - I love hockey and the 1980 US Olympic team was my first "exposure" to the sport)

Music
Motown - grew up listening to the Temptations, The Four Tops, Smoky Robinson. I keep telling my daughter - we wouldn't have "boy bands" today if it weren't for the Temptations and The Four Tops - they started (and perfected) the genre.

Never did answer the books - since books are my favorite things this one was really hard. Again, in no particular order. . . .

Little Women (actually all of Louisa May Alcott's books)
To Kill a Mockingbird (one of the few books I've read where I enjoyed the movie as much as the book)
The Crucible (ok, it's a play, but it should count)
Jane Eyre
Rebecca
Mere Christianity
Knowing God
The Secret Garden
We Believe
the various Sherlock Holmes
the "All Creatures Great and Small" series by James Herriott
Tuesdays With Morrie
The World According to Mr. Rogers
My Grandson Lew (a children's book, but worth the read)

I don't read much "Christian fiction" but have enjoyed several books by one author (Randy Alcorn)
Deadline
Dominion
Safely Home

 

[strengthinweakness]

Umm, it may take a while (and perhaps some eye strain!) to read all three of my lists! Proceed at your own pace, hehe. Here we go...

Favorite Movies:

La Dolce Vita (my absolute favorite film-- so many striking, thought-provoking moments-- timeless!)
Ponette (a beautiful, sad, funny, and surprisingly Christian-themed film from France)
Blue
Magnolia
Dogville (brutal but brilliant-- a profound statement on human depravity)
The Best Years of Our Lives
Raising Arizona
Sixteen Candles
The Breakfast Club
Pretty in Pink
Children of a Lesser God
The Ice Storm
The Seventh Seal (a classic from Ingmar Bergman about faith, doubt, and the Second Coming)
Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman again-- the last fifteen minutes of this film changed my life)
Persona (yet more Ingmar Bergman-- can you tell that I like his work? )
Ordinary People
Basquiat
The Decline of Western Civilization, Part 1 (documentary on early '80s L.A. punk scene)
Goodfellas
Rock 'n' Roll High School (the one and only film starring The Ramones, hehe!)
Amelie
Heavy (a slow but very rewarding, touching film about drifting through life and unrequited love)
The Straight Story
Rushmore
About A Boy
Funny Ha Ha (best newer film that I've seen recently-- very "indie" but not overly "hip"-- a lot of heart)


I know that I am forgetting so many films, but I have to end that list in order to go on to....

Music!

16-18th century God-glorifying Hymns!!!
J.S. Bach
Scarlatti (as interpreted on piano by Vladimir Horowitz)
Hadyn
Mozart
Beethoven
Chopin
Brahms
Wagner
Puccini
Robert Johnson
Leadbelly (great, great folk-and-bluesman-- he should be known by more people)
Hank Williams, Sr. (his songs will live as long as human beings laugh, cry, and fall in love)
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Chuck Berry
Elvis Presley (mostly the early '50s songs)
The Temptations
The Beatles
The Beach Boys (MUCH more than just a "surf-and-fun" group-- check out Pet Sounds!)
The Rolling Stones (I can't believe it, but their newest CD is actually a latter-day classic!)
Stevie Wonder
Creedance Clearwater Revival
Marvin Gaye
Sly and The Family Stone
Jethro Tull
Nick Drake
Van Morrison (Astral Weeks may still be my favorite album of all time)
Laura Nyro (her early albums-- some of the most soulful singing ever)
The Bee Gees
Big Star
The Eagles
Yes
Electric Light Orchestra
Earth, Wind, and Fire
Lou Reed (solo and otherwise)
John Cale (solo and otherwise)
Bob Marley
Gil Scott-Heron (great funk and jazz-tinged socially conscious songwriter, criminally under-known)
Fleetwood Mac
The Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman (the very beginning of indie-rock!)
The Ramones
The Sex Pistols
The Clash
Gang of Four
Patti Smith (especially her incredible first album, Horses, even though the first song troubles me now, as a Christian)
Television
Elvis Costello
Keith Green (why can't we have more Christian songwriters as real, honest, and confrontational as he was?)
The Pretenders
The Cars
Blondie
U2
Daniel Amos (the forerunner for ALL Christian alternative bands)
Talking Heads
Joy Division (the musical definition of what life was like for me, pre-salvation-- brilliant songs but very, very dark)
New Order
The Cure
X (as in "X, the best, most intelligent L.A. hardcore punk band of the early 1980s!")
R.E.M.
The Replacements (Paul Westerberg is such a genius that he had a high school named after him in the film, Heathers )
The Pixies
Michael Knott (one of the greatest-- and definitely the most edgy!-- of Christian artists)
Steve Camp (not quite as edgy and "underground" as Mike Knott, but very challenging and thought-provoking lyrically-- and Reformed!)
The Sugarcubes (and Bjork's solo work)
The Sundays (wish they would regroup-- their beautiful songs still make me cry!)
Cocteau Twins
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Uncle Tupelo
Smashing Pumpkins
Wilco
Hum (nerd-metal-alternative-space rock! I love it! very loud but also surprisingly pretty)
The Flaming Lips
The eels (Electro-Shock Blues is a front-to-back masterpiece-- harrowing but filled with heart)
The Walkmen
John Davis (formerly of Superdrag, now a Christian!)
The Hold Steady (Separation Sunday is, hands-down, the best album I've heard this year!)


Favorite Books and Favorite Authors (even though I majored in English, for the sake of time, this will be a short list!)

The Holy Bible, by God, using various human instruments (my favorite is Paul!)
Jonathan Edwards (haven't read nearly enough of him yet, but what I have read, I love!)
C.S. Lewis-- even though he has some serious theological flaws at times
Charles Colson (Loving God is a fave)
J.I. Packer
John Piper
Reformed works in general (including Packer, Piper, and especially the Puritans!)
Elisabeth Elliot (Passion and Purity, Loneliness, and Keep A Quiet Heart have greatly blessed me)
The Journals of Jim Elliot
The Complete Poems of George Herbert
The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton
The Complete Poems of Sylvia Plath
The Four Quartets, by T.S. Eliot (poetry from a Christian viewpoint that actually isn't cliched!)
Any poetry by C.K. Williams
Mr. Ives' Christmas, by Oscar Hijuelos (a stirring, wrenching, but hopeful novel about grief and spiritual renewal)
Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace (even though I have never finished it!)
All of the novels of Walker Percy (especially The Moviegoer and Lancelot)
The Complete Stories, by Flannery O'Connor (brilliant short stories informed by man's depravity and God's grace)

Now, at the end of these mammoth lists, I should say that I don't actually own every work by every person or group on the lists. I once owned much more. As of the last couple of years, though, God has been convicting me to spend less of my money on "entertainment" and spend more of it on doing His work in various ways. If I spend my money on diversions as freely and lavishly as non-believers do, what does that say for how much I love God? Just a definite conviction of the Spirit that I have had over time. I still love music and films, but I don't spend nearly as much money on them as I once did. Now, as for Christian books... well, I'm working on spending less money there! At least they are directly edifying to my relationship with God.

 

[AndOne]

Any relation?

CC&E

Nope - I just chose the screen name (a few years ago now) because of the profound impact the professor's writings have had on me from a scientific aspect to a spiritual one.

 

[Paleoconservatarian]

Alison Krauss & Union Station

This is one of my relatively recent favorites as well. Dan Tyminski too, a member of Union Station. And no, I have not seen O Brother, Where Art Thou? (everyone asks me this).

To Kill a Mockingbird (one of the few books I've read where I enjoyed the movie as much as the book)

This is one of my all-time favorites, both the book and the movie. In fact, my father used to read that to us when we were kids.

 

[edie19]

This is one of my all-time favorites, both the book and the movie. In fact, my father used to read that to us when we were kids.

Wise man, your father.

 

[lmnop9876]

1. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

I've watched bits and pieces of it, it was hilarious, especially the brothers telling the guy how to say the "Greek words", and the people's response to them.
however, I did think the guys baptism in the baby's swimming pool was a bit sacrilegous, and probably also a bit unrealistic.

 

[edie19]

I've watched bits and pieces of it, it was hilarious, especially the brothers telling the guy how to say the "Greek words", and the people's response to them.
however, I did think the guys baptism in the baby's swimming pool was a bit sacrilegous, and probably also a bit unrealistic.

My husband and I went to the movie with my pastor and his wife. Pastor David mentioned after the movie that Greek Orthodox do practice baptism by immersion, also that converts from other religions must be baptized in their church. So while a wading pool might not be used they would use something comparable.

Oh - and I was baptized in a swimming pool.

 

[lmnop9876]

My husband and I went to the movie with my pastor and his wife. Pastor David mentioned after the movie that Greek Orthodox do practice baptism by immersion, also that converts from other religions must be baptized in their church. So while a wading pool might not be used they would use something comparable.

Oh - and I was baptized in a swimming pool.

I know that Orthodox practice baptism by immersion, I thought it was, 1. sacrilegous, because they were performing a sacrament for the purpose of a movie, and 2. unrealistic, because they used the baby's wading pool, normally, an adult would be baptised in a river or lake, or pouring would be allowed for purposes of economy. an Orthodox friend agreed with me that it was probably a bit unrealistic, and they probably wouldn't use the baby's pool, but, given that it was an adult, and the normal font was far too small, it might be allowed.

 

[inchristalone221]

And no, I have not seen O Brother, Where Art Thou? (everyone asks me this).

You have to watch it. It's just GOLD!