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Hello I want to know what your favourite things are please! I have concocted a questionnaire for you to answer at your leisure please thanks. Add your own questions and answers if you like. I personally love filling out these things, as talking about stuff I like is basically my favourite thing to do, and I also love hearing other's answers too. Answer as much or as little as you like and feel free to detail why you like those things.

Here's me!

MOVIES - Harold and Maude - I first saw this film about 6 years ago and it immediately became my favourite. I've noticed it's also one of only a handful of films about age gap love where the older character is a woman. Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort have excellent chemistry and the only flaw I find with the film is that there aren't enough scenes of them actually being physically intimate (which was due to studio interference about not wanting to see an older woman being a sexual being, uggggghhh). Electric Dreams - The soundtrack alone is enough reason to see this delightfully 80's movie, but the plot is perfection. A man gets a computer and accidentally imbues it with the power of feeling and then the two of them fall for the same woman. Perfection.

SERIES - Doctor Who forever and always. Buffy, Deadwood, Golden Girls, and Firefly are also perfectly excellent.

ACTORS - Harry Dean Stanton - it's a damn tragedy that he only had approximately three lead roles in a career spanning 70ish years, but his particular style of non-acting was incredible. Ruth Gordon - between Rosemary's Baby and Harold and Maude you have an amazing actor who can be lovely and devilish simultaneously and always charming as fuck. I also really love Steve Coogan, Judi Dench, Julianne Moore, Joe Gilgun and Sarah Lancashire and will watch almost anything if they're in it (Steve Coogan has been in some truly horrendous films though...).

UNDERRATED/UNDERUSED ACTORS - Melanie Lynskey - she started off great by being the lead in Heavenly Creatures then was relegated to mostly average supporting roles for ages until the indie gem I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore. More Melanie please! Richard Jenkins - I really wish he was given more lead roles, although he is incredible at both drama and comedy he is criminally underused.

DIRECTORS - For cast and aesthetics alone I love Wes Anderson, but I also kind of find his films twee and insufferable at times but I also like that they irritate me slightly? Taika Waititi - because I mean, HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE HIM? Boy and Eagle VS Shark are probably my faves. Thor Ragnarok was excellent and made the MCU films interesting again after being very samey and stale for ages.

FILM GENRES - Technology learning the meaning of love and/or mortality (Electric Dreams, Short Circuit 2 and The Iron Giant are some faves), female relationships (Thelma and Louise, Fried Green Tomatoes and Boys on the Side).

BANDS - ELO, The Pandoras, The Dandy Warhols, Til' Tuesday.

SOLO ARTISTS - Prince, Bowie, Kate Bush, Leo Sayer, Lizzo, Matt Berry (the English actor from all of the British comedies. Check out his stuff asap please).

COMPOSERS - Giorgio Moroder, Ludovico Einaudi, Christophe Beck, Michael Nyman, Segun Akinola, Murray Gold (the latter two are Doctor Who composers of course).

ALBUMS - Kill the Wolf and Witchhazel - Matt Berry, Graceland - Paul Simon, Hounds of Love - Kate Bush, Silverbird - Leo Sayer, Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette (12 year old Red had never heard anything like it at the time, it was also one of the first concerts I ever went to!).

SONGS - You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon (really excellent childhood memories with that song), Hounds of Love - Kate Bush, Good as Hell - Lizzo, Together in Electric Dreams - Phillip Oakey and Giorgio Moroder, The New Matthew - Custard.

SOUNDTRACKS - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Piano, Reality Bites (it is the 90's in a soundtrack).

MUSIC GENRES - Post Punk and New Wave. These are two of the broadest genres to name, but they happen to be my favourite ones. They're very vague and contain many sub-genres but they are what floats my boat most. I also love avant garde pop, but prefer it to be more pop than avant garde.

NOVELS - To A God Unknown - John Steinbeck, Gerald's Game and Dolores Claiborne - Stephen King, The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare - Henry Miller, The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood, Still Life with Woodpecker - Tom Robbins (I still have the copy that Viva gave me years ago!).

SHORT STORIES/NOVELLAS - Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck, Different Seasons - Stephen King, Don't Look Now - Daphne du Maurier.

AUTHORS - John Steinbeck, Stephen King, Daphne du Maurier, Anais Nin, Henry Miller, and Margaret Atwood.

ARTISTS - Van Gogh for the beauty, Dali for the weird, and Charlyne Yi. Charlyne is most known for being an actress and singer but her art is poignant and simple but beautiful and important.

GAMES (video, board or tabletop) - Stardew Valley, Bioshock, Donkey Kong Country 2, Telltale's The Walking Dead and Tales from the Borderlands (telltale's Borderlands is incredible and is basically just a hilarious playable film), Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2, Gris, and The Last of Us.

CLOTHING - I flippin' LOVE big woolen jumpers and at last count I had over 50, my pride and joy being a TARDIS jumper that I bought off an old lady on etsy. Checked pants have been my jam for about a year now and I think might now be my trademark? I also really love velvet to an insane degree and have so much of it, I can't wait until Autumn/Winter so I can wear more of my velvety items.

FOOD - Pastaaaaa!! It is the best food, you can do absolutely anything with it. I especially love a homemade spaghetti bolognese, but if I'm going to have pasta at a place I'll usually choose a simple carbonara or ravioli. Hnnngh. Now I want some pasta.

NON-FOOD BASED SMELLS - Dog's paws (they smell like corn chips!), rain on fresh tar, glossy paper - the kind used for programs at plays and musicals, "Still" by Jennifer Lopez - I've been wearing this perfume since 2005-ish?

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I worked on those questions and answers over two days on breaks and while waiting for documents to copy and/or scan so don't feel obligated to write an essay like I did, but the more info the better! I added ones about things I find interesting, so add yours too if you feel so inclined .

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Had some free time today, so I filled a lot of these out:

MOVIES - So many to say here, but if I had to pick a number 1, it would undoubtedly be Aliens. 
The movie is a roller coaster ride of an action/horror movie, but its deeper than that. It's also telling the story of a woman who's suffering from multiple traumas, and how she pulls herself up and overcomes these traumas in a hostile environment—not just because of hideous Freudian pseudosexual monsters, but the group of men she's stuck whom most of don't listen to a word she says until it's too late.

They just don't make movies like that anymore. Today, it'd be all CG'd out. Back then, they had amazing rubber suits, giant puppets controlled by multiple people, etc. It's a triumph of special effects, atmosphere, and girl power. What's not to love?

Plus, I was born the day before it was released in theaters in the US, so do the math there

Other favorites are: The Big Lebowski, Hot Fuzz, Last Action Hero, WALL-E

SERIES -  My favorite show of all time is Futurama. Especially the classic era circa 1999-2003. If you're not familiar, the basic premise is a man from the year 2000 (who's life is essentially falling apart) finds himself cryogenically frozen until the year 3000, where the world is (as you might expect) quite different.

This is just a show that keeps on giving. Amazing voice acting and writing that makes jokes crack me up even after I've seen them 20+ times. The world building/lore is fantastic. The characters are wonderfully diverse. And each episode is filled with slightly hidden sight gags that you keep discovering with repeated viewings.

Other favorites are: Archer, Arrested Development, Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad.

ACTORS - In no particular order: Cate Blanchett, Peter Sellers, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L Jackson, Michael McKean, Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm, Bill Murray.

UNDERRATED/UNDERUSED ACTORS - I think voice actors are very underrated. Favorites include Maurice LaMarche, Billy West, Tara Strong, Jim Cummings, Jennifer Hale, Rob Paulsen, Dan Castellaneta and Ashleigh Ball. If you've watched any famous animated shows over the last 30 years, you've likely heard them before.

DIRECTORS - In no particular order: James Cameron, Ridley Scott, Edgar Wright, Wes Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino.

FILM GENRES - Sci-Fi seems to be a common theme with me across many different genres, so I'll list that.

BANDS - In no particular order: The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Tribe Called Quest, Jurassic 5, People Under the Stairs, Little Brother, The Chemical Brothers.

SOLO ARTISTS - In no particular order: J Dilla, Pete Rock, Flamingosis, Nicolay, 9th Wonder.

ALBUMS - Flight Fantastic by Flamingosis, Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, Midnight Marauders by Tribe Called Quest, Power in Numbers by Jurassic 5, The Minstrel Show by Little Brother, Further by The Chemical Brothers.

SOUNDTRACKS - Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (the movie) has a fantastic soundtrack.

MUSIC GENRES - In case you haven't noticed, I like Hip Hop a lot. But I'm also keen on classic rock and electronica.

NOVELS - I'm more of a non-fiction reader than a fiction reader. To that end, my favorite book as of now is A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage.

ARTISTS - I love digital artists (though the traditional methods are still wonderful too). My favorite artist right now is Mioree.

GAMES (video, board or tabletop) - The original DOOM is hands down my favorite video game. It still holds up extremely well today. More importantly, its home to a massive community of modders who have made incredible and beautiful things with it. It's become a canvas for art. All in all, it's a game that keeps on giving, and will probably continue to do so longer after I'm dead and buried.

Other favorites include the Warcraft series, Chrono Trigger, Smash Bros. and the Half-Life series.

Board games: Star Realms, Hero Realms, Root, Pixel Tactics, and anything with a dungeon-crawler theme.

FOOD - I love chicken. I really hope one day vegan food developers can replicate its taste the way they've replicated beef. Maybe one day. I'm also a cajun food fan, with jambalaya being a comfort food.

NON-FOOD BASED SMELLS - Sandalwood, sage, frankincense, jasmine, cedar, just about anything that is woodsy.

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Ooh thank you for your contribution!! I wholeheartedly agree with you about voice actors not getting enough credit. One of my favourite voice actors is Ashley Johnson who does the voice of Ellie in The Last of Us and Gortys in Tales from the Borderlands. I like that video game voice actors at least are getting a BIT of recognition these days, because voice acting is something that you don't necessarily think would be very difficult to achieve until you hear it done terribly. My all time favourite example of this is in Resident Evil. "You were almost a JILL sandwich!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmP5fSQGzUQ

I freakin' LOVE Michael McKean and he is incredible in Better Call Saul. I also need to re-watch Futurama. I've seen the first 3 seasons loads but have only sporadically seen the others. Lovely stuff.

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Um, I added a few. (I might get back to yours later.)

FAVORITE MINOR CHARACTERS FROM FUTURAMA: Morbo, Calculon, the Perseids, Zapp Brannigan, Zoidberg

FAVORITE FLAVOR OF DORITOS: Black Pepper Jack [discontinued, alas]

FAVORITE MINOR CHARACTERS FROM GAME OF THRONES: Jaqen H’ghar (a man is cool), Varys, Qyburn, Lydia Mormont

FAVORITE ROMANIAN FILMS: Police; adjective, Tuesday After Christmas, Aurora, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days.

FAVORITE JAPANESE LOGIC PUZZLES: Heyawake, Hashiwokokero, Yajilin, Gogiken Naname.

FAVORITE COMPOSERS: Ludwig. van. Freaking. Beethoven.

FAVORITE NON-MUSICAL SOUNDS: Shortwave radio station coming in all distorted and static-y, huge reverberant spaces like train stations, babbling brooks and fountains.

FAVORITE OPERAS: Otello, Turandot, Tristan und Isolde, Götterdämmerung, Salome, I Pagliacci, Bluebeard’s Castle.

FAVORITE COMIC STRIPS: Pogo (duh), Peanuts, Calvin & Hobbes, Krazy Kat, Doonesbury.

FAVORITE WEIRD FLAVOR OF ICE CREAM: Dill Pickle

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I maintain a list of  music videos that I highly enjoy upon rewatch. "You Can Call Me Al" is one of them. If you haven't seen the video recently (or ever), check it out and observe if it makes you smile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA

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I maintain a list of  music videos that I highly enjoy upon rewatch. "You Can Call Me Al" is one of them. If you haven't seen the video recently (or ever), check it out and observe if it makes you smile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA

Haha, yesssss! Thank you! I've seen that video many times and at one point it was my favourite music video as well.

Howland, your list is glorious. I wish we got all the Doritos flavours of the northern hemisphere down here. For the mostpart we just have Nacho Cheese and Cheese Supreme. CC's are the superior corn chip anyway though and they are more than sufficient. You have also made me realise that I have seen exactly zero Romanian films. What is it about films from there that you like?

Howland

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Wow, never heard of Cheese Supreme Doritos. We have a whole bunch of mostly spicy ones (Jalapeño, Sweet chili, etc.) but I wish they'd bring back Black Pepper Jack (*sigh*).

I like Romanian films because they're intense. Some of them are grim in the way you might expect from an ex-Soviet bloc country: protagonists dealing with corrupt bureaucracy and so on. (4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days is about trying to get an illegal abortion, which gives the title a certain urgency!) Tuesday, After Christmas is more of a domestic drama, with a guy trying to decide whether to leave his wife for his rather younger mistress. No less intense than the others though -- for example, in the scene where he finally tells one of them that he's decided to ditch her for the other one. (Warning: graphic nudity, so don't see it with your mom.)

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Howland I love how you kept your post spoiler free! Now I really want to see Tuesday After Christmas to see which one he chooses...

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Ok I have a bit of time today so i'll have a go at these. Got some pretty high brow posters here!

MOVIES - I've sort of drifted away from movies in the last 5 years which is a bit of a shame, I'm sure there are a lot of recent movies that are great that i've just missed out on. In terms of favorites, for more "serious" films, it has to be No Country For Old Men. A fantastic adaptation of the book and Javier Bardem plays probably the most creepy villain i've seen in cinema. Ended up doing paper on the sound design in this film a few years back. For comedies, it would be "Four Lions". I saw this film in a tiny cinema with about 25 other people. No expectations or high hopes and i have never known a cinema to laugh as much as we all did throughout that film...And it makes a good social and political point, which is a nice bonus.

TV SERIES: All time favorite is The Bill (I promise i have genuinely good taste beyond this haha). When i was a kid my parents would watch this every week on tv and i remember going to bed and seeing the siren lights flashing on my bedroom wall from the opening credits. I always wanted to watch it, and when i was 13 or so my dad finally let me. Fell in love with it from then on! Sherlock would have to be up there as well, Jessica Jones season 1, Fringe. I'm sure there are others that will come to me after posting.

ACTORS/DIRECTORS: Ok I have to confess this is a huge gap in my knowledge. I just really have no real attachment to actors/directors, i've always just judged each show/film on its own merits. Though he isn't a director, I do want to mention Michael Schur, one of the most consistently excellent writers and producers in comedy tv these days.

FILM GENRES: When I was younger I would have said Action, but these days probably drama or comedy

BANDS: Oh wow so many, Jawbreaker, Ramshackle Glory, Off With Their Heads, Rent Strike, Worriers, Against Me!, Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains, Dinosaur Jr, HappyHappy, Spanish Love Songs, Mobina Galore, Catch 22/Streetlight Manifesto and so many more

ALBUMS: Take your pick from any of the above. Special mention to The Grand Spontanean by Telethon, an 85 minute punk rock opera that continues to through up new things each time i listen to it.

GENRES: Punk, Melodic Hardcore, Anarco-Folk, Folk, First Wave Emo, Grunge

NOVELS: I'm a huge fan of fantasy and in particular, epic fantasy series'. Wheel of Time is a big favorite, The Belgariad was amazing when I was younger. Mistress of the Empire series (if you are a fan of Magician and have not read these, then please do). The PowderMage Trilogy, and loads more. Nothing quite compares to the journey you go on when you get stuck into a good series of books.

AUTHORS: Robert Jordan, Terry Pratchett, David Eddings, Brian McClellan

GAMES: Big fan of both video and board games. I played WoW for many years so I can't get away without mentioning that as a favorite. I love the Far Cry series, GTA, Red Dead Redemption. Control has been an amazing newish game i've played, real mindfuck and a lot of freedom to play how you like. For boardgames, i'v had a lot of silly fun recently with Escape From The House On The Hill, Four Kingdoms: Dual is a great one for two players as well.

CLOTHING: I like dressing well I think? Jeans are a go to, but I try to keep them quite interesting, something a bit more than just plain denim colours. Leather jackets if it's cold enough (which is unfortunately rare at the moment). I'm SLOWLY becoming more interested in shoes. I never thought I would do, but i'm getting a nice collection now (My bank account isn't thanking me). I have been a blacks and whites sort of guy for a long time but i'm expanding a bit now!

FOOD: Somewhat in contrast to my otherwise punk style and ethos, I really love the opportunity to experience fine dining. I've been to Europe and was lucky enough to eat at some incredible places there. I grew up being very fussy, so i'm making it my goal to try more and more, experience objectively good food and learn to like a lot more things. Pasta is a definite fave, and as basic as it is, I can't go past a really well prepared steak. I also like "extreme" flavours. So things that are very sour or spicy or salty.

SMELLS: (love this one). Freshly cut grass, petrichor, diesel fumes (like from old buses or trucks that you occasionally still see around), cheese toasties cooking, a particular brand of washing powder that my grandparents in Scotland always used

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Wow, never heard of Cheese Supreme Doritos. We have a whole bunch of mostly spicy ones (Jalapeño, Sweet chili, etc.) but I wish they'd bring back Black Pepper Jack (*sigh*).

I like Romanian films because they're intense. Some of them are grim in the way you might expect from an ex-Soviet bloc country: protagonists dealing with corrupt bureaucracy and so on. (4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days is about trying to get an illegal abortion, which gives the title a certain urgency!) Tuesday, After Christmas is more of a domestic drama, with a guy trying to decide whether to leave his wife for his rather younger mistress. No less intense than the others though -- for example, in the scene where he finally tells one of them that he's decided to ditch her for the other one. (Warning: graphic nudity, so don't see it with your mom.)

Ahhh very interesting to hear. I rather like grim and intense but I very much have to be in the mood, it's not something I can just pop on whenever. I like to think that I'm pretty broad with my taste but realising that I have never seen a single Romanian film is quite humbling indeed. DO YOU EVEN MOVIE RED??

Sadoraan123, these answers have been quite highbrow indeed! I didn't add a "absolute trash that I enjoy watching more than I should" part, but if I did I would include 90 Day Fiance, Don't Tell the Bride, Bachelor in Paradise and Just Tattoo of Us on there. I also think farts are rather hilarious, just to further lower the brow a bit

No Country For Old Men is amazing and I always forget that it's based on a novel. Is it very similar to the film? Also I love that you love The Bill. It's one of those shows that I never got into, but it was always on and I would watch it quite often. I absolutely adored the first two seasons of Sherlock, but then it got a bit too Moffat-ey, as Moffat tends to do.

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Sadoraan123, any favorite Against Me! songs/videos? For me:

Favorite Against Me! Video (All-Time): White People For Peace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY9TbZMlTaI

Favorite Against Me! Video (Recently): Because Of The Shame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iuwG6GevV0

Both are worth a watch in my opinion.

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Sadoraan123, any favorite Against Me! songs/videos? For me:

Favorite Against Me! Video (All-Time): White People For Peace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY9TbZMlTaI

Favorite Against Me! Video (Recently): Because Of The Shame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iuwG6GevV0

Both are worth a watch in my opinion.

YESSSSSSS!! So good!! Teenage Red was a fan indeed. I one embarrassed myself horribly in front of a boy I liked by getting Against Me and Rise Against mixed up

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Perfectlysexy and Sadoraan123 do either of you know or like The 69 Eyes? I only found out about them last year and I regret every single year I hadn't heard them prior. Goth rock with a singer that wants to sound like Elvis? Ummmmm YES PLEASE. This is the first song I was shown because Lost Boys is one of my favourite moofeez.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRq2J2M2ap8

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Sadoraan123, any favorite Against Me! songs/videos? For me:

Favorite Against Me! Video (All-Time): White People For Peace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY9TbZMlTaI

Favorite Against Me! Video (Recently): Because Of The Shame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iuwG6GevV0

Both are worth a watch in my opinion.

YESSSSSSS!! So good!! Teenage Red was a fan indeed. I one embarrassed myself horribly in front of a boy I liked by getting Against Me and Rise Against mixed up

Did the boy find it charming and/or endearing?

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Did the boy find it charming and/or endearing?

He did not. He made fun of me for it. I eventually hooked up with him about a year later though.

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Heaps unrelated, but I rediscovered this song last night and I can't stop listening to it. The film clip is glorious too. Texas are a band that I've always enjoyed but often didn't know that the songs of theirs that I liked were from them. I thought they were several different one hit wonders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfzbVTQE3iw

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Sadoraan123, any favorite Against Me! songs/videos? For me:

Favorite Against Me! Video (All-Time): White People For Peace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY9TbZMlTaI

Favorite Against Me! Video (Recently): Because Of The Shame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iuwG6GevV0

Both are worth a watch in my opinion.

Ooh good question, I love White People for Peace as well. White Crosses is another really good one. As a powerful statement, I can't go past Paralytic States from Transgender Dysphoria Blues. Such a fantastic and influential album and a really powerful song.

Redbird, I think i just never grew out of my teenage punk phase . I've not heard of The 69 Eyes (though the name makes me thing of That '69 Sound by Gaslight Anthem, which is another fantastic album.)
Just had a listen and they are really cool! Remind me of Misfits crossed with TSOL! I will add them to my spotify list

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Did the boy find it charming and/or endearing?

He did not. He made fun of me for it. I eventually hooked up with him about a year later though.

So did you make him rise against you then? (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Also, there's no shame in not having seen any Romanian movies -- they just burst onto the scene recently I think (unlike, say, Iran, India, or Russia).

FAVORITE IRANIAN FILMS: Through the Olive Trees, Taste of Cherry, A Separation, Gabbeh

FAVORITE INDIAN FILMS: Hidden Star [aka Cloud-Capped Star], Charulata, Jalsaghar, The Home and the World

FAVORITE RUSSIAN FILMS: The Cranes are Flying, Stalker, Earth, Ballad of a Soldier, The Return, Battleship Potemkin

FAVORITE NAMES OF FILM DIRECTORS: In this category surely Apichatpong Weerasethakul can have no competition (I think he goes by "Tony").

FAVORITE FILM ACTRESS WHO LOOKS UNCANNILY LIKE REDBIRD: Bulle Ogier. No lie! I recently saw the French film Le Pont du Nord, and while I recognized this actress from other films (e.g. L'Amour Fou, Céline and Julie Go Boating), I could not figure out who else she was reminding me of. Finally I realized it was Redbird! You may not think so if you see a random still shot of her, but in this movie (in which she's about 40 but is completely adorable) she totally looks like Redbird (it's partly the hairstyle I think).

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Ooh good question, I love White People for Peace as well. White Crosses is another really good one. As a powerful statement, I can't go past Paralytic States from Transgender Dysphoria Blues. Such a fantastic and influential album and a really powerful song.

Redbird, I think i just never grew out of my teenage punk phase . I've not heard of The 69 Eyes (though the name makes me thing of That '69 Sound by Gaslight Anthem, which is another fantastic album.)
Just had a listen and they are really cool! Remind me of Misfits crossed with TSOL! I will add them to my spotify list

I had a re-listen and a new listen to some Against Me! songs and was happy to hear that they're really good! My teen taste was pretty varied but I liked a lot of really cringey stuff too so I was worried they wouldn't be as good as I remembered, haha. I'm glad you dig The 69 Eyes, they're so very entertaining (and friends with Bam Margera for some reason?).

So did you make him rise against you then? (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Also, there's no shame in not having seen any Romanian movies -- they just burst onto the scene recently I think (unlike, say, Iran, India, or Russia).

FAVORITE IRANIAN FILMS: Through the Olive Trees, Taste of Cherry, A Separation, Gabbeh

FAVORITE INDIAN FILMS: Hidden Star [aka Cloud-Capped Star], Charulata, Jalsaghar, The Home and the World

FAVORITE RUSSIAN FILMS: The Cranes are Flying, Stalker, Earth, Ballad of a Soldier, The Return, Battleship Potemkin

FAVORITE NAMES OF FILM DIRECTORS: In this category surely Apichatpong Weerasethakul can have no competition (I think he goes by "Tony").

FAVORITE FILM ACTRESS WHO LOOKS UNCANNILY LIKE REDBIRD: Bulle Ogier. No lie! I recently saw the French film Le Pont du Nord, and while I recognized this actress from other films (e.g. L'Amour Fou, Céline and Julie Go Boating), I could not figure out who else she was reminding me of. Finally I realized it was Redbird! You may not think so if you see a random still shot of her, but in this movie (in which she's about 40 but is completely adorable) she totally looks like Redbird (it's partly the hairstyle I think).

Holy heck Howland I haven't seen ANY of those films. I swear I watch non-English speaking films, but this has been a real eye opener to my total lack of experience with Romanian, Russian, Iranian, and Indian films! And to think I consider myself an avid fan of films...turns out I'm just a damn hack, haha.

FAVOURITE NAME OF FILM WRITER: Rusty Lemorande. He wrote Electric Dreams and 4 other things AND he was a co-producer of Yentl. Pretty much the best name ever though.

I can kiiiiind of see what you mean with Bulle Ogier, but I imagine it's more convincing in action rather than just stills. She has hooded eye lids like me. She also kind of looks a little like Jacqueline McKenzie who is someone I was told I looked like a couple times when I was still a skinny minnie. I mainly get Florence Welch, but that's 100% just because of the hair. I personally think I look most (and dance, albeit nowhere near as well) like the redhead on the left in the Jungle music video for Busy Earning. Because I actually have been in a music video before ("acting" not dancing though) I've legit seen this and for a split second remembered it as being me before having to remind myself that I'm not a dancer and I have also never been in a Jungle video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcsfftwLUf0

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omg she looks exactly like you!

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a girl I hadn't seen in a long time tagged me in this meme on fb saying she looks like me..

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Whoah Viva are you sure that isn't you!? That's freaky...

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lol SO GOOD.