Movie Families I'd Happily Join

The Buellers

The Griswolds

Addams Family

The Bankses (Father of the Bride)

The Hoovers (Little Miss Sunshine)

The Finches( Father of the Bride)

Corleones

The Beales & the Kennedys (Grey Gardens)

The Buckmans (Parenthood)

The Sussmans

Portokalos Family (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)

the Larsons (Home for the Holidays)

the Walshs 

O'Reilly's (Return to Me)

Mrs. Smalls & Bill (The Sandlot)

Bryan Mills (Taken)

the Incredibles

the family from E.T. 

the Weasley's (Harry Potter series)

the Parkers of "A Christmas Story"

Happy I'm Alive For and Not Alive For

Happy I Am Alive For:

the cinema

indoor plumbing

heating

air conditioning

travel: land, rail, sea, air

ease of finding vegan food

dental hygiene

the written word

photography

health care

a better world

the XIV Dalai Lama

the Internet

texting!!

excellent TV shows

at-home laundry

swing-sets

tiny houses!

amazon.com (Prime!)

Happy I Wasn't Alive For:

the plague

extreme famine

singing @ (around) a piano forte

corsets

inequality of the sexes

slavery

Jim Crow/whites& coloreds

a life without bathtubs!

religious persecution

rape w/o consequence

World War I

the Holocaust

forced marriages

Vietnam (War)

workhouses

life before radio!

cave dwelling

co-existing w/dinos!

beards being out of fashion

 

I should note that I am well aware that slavery still exists in this world, that many people are persecuted for their religious beliefs, that infinite number of rapes go unpunished, that there are still humans (women and often children) that are forced into marriage, the female sex is still not totally equal, many parts of the world are suffering with plagues and famines, and humans most likely never existed with dinosaurs, but this is a fucking silly game and I wrote the first things that came to mind! And frankly, I am still grateful that I was never alive to co-exist with velociraptors or have to use a "whites only" bathroom. So there.

Movie Monologues

-List Monologues That Left An Indelible Mark On You-

- courtroom speech "The Fountainhead"

- M'Lynn's breakdown "Steel Magnolias"

- on the fire escape "Education of Sonny Carson"

- the soliloquy in Branagh's "Hamlet"

- the end speech "The Great Dictator"

- Bryan's phone call in "Taken"

- "Rocky Balboa" I am speech

- "Network"

- Spence in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"

- William Makepeace Thackeray line in "The Crow"

- Jodie Foster "The Accused"

- Anne Bancroft final moment "Garbo Speaks"

- the breakdown in "Junebug"

- Mona Lisa Vito testimony " My Cousin Vinny"

- Judy to the cop "Rebel Without a Cause"

- in the play "Somewhere In Time"

- Robert Shaw "Jaws"

- "Good Will Hunting"

- "Rocky" - go the distance speech

- stream of consciousness "First Blood"

Film Characters

List Characters You Are Most Like

• Camille in Now, Voyager

• Minnie - Diary of a Teenage Girl

• both Rocky and Adrian in Rocky

• Katie The Way We Were

• Grace Return to Me

• Ripley Alien

• Rose The Mirror Has Two Faces

• Stef from Goonies (says Zach)

• Velma from Scooby Doo (Sydney)

• Jovie from Elf (Mum)

• Samantha from Sixteen Candles (Stacey)

• Sandy Outrageous Fortune (Wayne)

• Josh from Big (Mary)

• Veronica Heathers (Bishop)

• Iris Simpkins The Holiday (Aunt Gina)

• Lou Clark Me Before You (Cecilia)

• Juno (Terri)

• Rizzo Grease & Cher Clueless & Sam Sixteen Candles & Frances Under the Tuscan Sun (Kim)

• Susan Bringing Up Baby & Valerie I Shot Andy Warhol (Pax)

• Black Widow The Avengers (Jackson)

Fave Foreign Films

Hollywood Crushes

•List Your Biggest Hollywood Same-Sex Crushes•

Jenny McCarthy

Clementine Ford

Kate Moennig

Clea Duvall

Sharon Stone

Marilyn Monroe

Jean Seberg

Greta Gerwig

Mariska Hargitay

Susan Sarandon

Mena Suvari

Helen Mirren

Heather Matarazzo

Juliette Binoche

Noomi Rapace

Fran Drescher

Sarah Jessica Parker

Marisa Tomei

Veerle Baetens

Edie Falco

(this list was written between 2012 & 2018)

Break-Up Mix Tape Songs

If I Were Your Woman - Gladys Knight and the Pips

Single - Everything But The Girl

Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus

1000 Oceans - Tori Amos

Seasick, Yet Still Docked - Morrissey

Paper Bag - Fiona Apple

Grey Room - Damien Rice

Outside - Staind

Untouchable Face - Ani DiFranco

Ex-Girlfriend - No Doubt

I'm Hurtin' Inside - Bob Marley and the Wailers

Something I Can Never Have - Nine Inch Nails

Eat My Dust You Insensitive Fuck - Catherine Wheel

The Way We Were - Barbra Streisand

I Got It Bad & That Ain't Good - Nina Simone

Sad Lisa - Cat Stevens

Tear in Your Hand - Tori Amos

I'm Still Here - Tom Waits

Hope There's Someone - Antony & the Johnsons

Get Gone - Fiona Apple

Film Quotes

•List Film Quotes You'll Never Forget•

• "A Mercedes is a thoroughbred."

• "...flames...on the side of my face..."

• "Don't throw me down, Clark..."

• "You know how stupid I am about doors."

• "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

• "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night."

• "Smells like they're cookin' a god damn cat over there."

• "I'm on vacation!!!" & "Get outta the car!!"

• "I can't help it if I've got a heavy flow and a wide set vagina."

• "Shelby, Shelby, drink the juice..."

• "Say no more." "I can say no more."

• "Frankie! Your mother forgives me!"

• "Angel, you are hell and gone from Cartagena."

• "This cow got in to an onion patch."

• "I'll never be big enug to pull anything..."

• "Coffey looks and he sees Russians. You have to look with better eyes than that."

• "Hey Russell, what'd you do to my mama?!"

• "Mrs. Simpson married the Duke of Windsor."

• "I wouldn't suck your lousy dick if I was suffocating and there was oxygen in your balls."

• "You retract that bit about my cunt fucking children!"

The Answers:

• Jack Weston - The Four Seasons

• Madeline Kahn - Clue

• Mae Questel - Christmas Vacation

• Christopher Reeve - Noises Off

• Clark Gable - Gone With The Wind

• Bette Davis - All About Eve

• Bruce Dern - The 'Burbs

• Richard Dreyfuss - What About Bob?

• Stefanie Drummond - Mean Girls

• Sally Field - Steel Magnolias

• Eleanor Bron and Paul McCartney - Help!

• Robert Loggia - The Ninth Configuration

• Michael Douglas - Romancing the Stone

• Jon Heder - Napoleon Dynamite

• Devin Ratray - Dennis the Menace

• Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - The Abyss

• Dick Shawn - It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

• Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were

• Mink Stole - Female Trouble

• Ralph Fiennes - In Bruges

Best Movie Moments

•List the Best Movie Moments of All Time•

the crossing in Man on Wire

Oskar's breakdown Schindler's List

"Holy Mary Mother a God" - The Goonies

the climax of Miracle

"the" scene in Alien

Airplane - Mrs. Cleaver speaks jive

the coastal drive in Only You

the seduction in De Muze

Penny Serenade - before the judge

seeing the factory in Willie Wonka

the (new) finger in The Piano

Rebirth - the bird during eulogy

resuscitation scene - The Abyss

t-shirt performance - The Future

the birds* flying into the cave - The White Diamond

black and white to colour The Wizard of Oz

running from the plane North By Northwest

farewell on tarmac Casablanca

* white-tipped swifts

Places I've Traveled via Books, Films, and TV

• River Heights ∙ Nancy Drew Mysteries by Carolyn Keene ¹

• Wessex ∙ "Far From The Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy ¹

• Paradise Cove ∙ "The Rockford Files" ²

• Papen County ∙ "Pushing Daisies" ²

• Twin Peaks ∙ series by David Lynch and Mark Frost ²

• Venice ∙ Rome ∙ Positano - "Only You" ³

• Barbary Lane ∙ "Tales of the City" by Armistead Maupin ¹

• The Warren Hotel ∙ "Warren the 13th" by Tania del Rio ¹

• The Camino ∙ "The Way" ³

• Pawnee ∙ "Parks and Recreation" ²

• Bedford Falls ∙ "It's a Wonderful Life" ³

• 3100 Willow Pond Road ∙ "Hart to Hart" ²

• Hogwarts ∙ Harry Potter series by JK Rowling ¹

• Scrooge's London ∙ "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens ¹

• California 1930s-1950s ∙ "You Must Remember This" by Robert J. Wagner ¹

• 1970s America "All in the Family" ∙ "Mary Hartman Mary Hartman" ∙ Maude" ∙ "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" ²

• The World of David Lynch: Eraserhead ³

• Wonderland ∙ "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" ¹

• Chagrin Falls ∙ "The Gathering" ³

¹ - Book

² - TV

³ - Film

Fictitious Bands

The first one is my favourite!

The Huntingdon Frauds

Slice o' Berryman Pie, Please

Rochester Royals

The Tea Cozies

Squeaky Floorboards

White Bordello

Nightfall

Templeton Razors

The Awful Louses

Limp Shakes

Swiss Tantrum

The Wallace Leroy Quintet

Chevron Coffers

The Hopeless Wrecks

Xanthe Mathews Bumblebees

Graveside Spectacle

Our Sterling Reputation

Hotel Room Key

Lily's Good Luck Charm

The Forelocks

What I Would Love The Afterlife To Be Like

This list comes from Lisa Nola's Spirit Listography:

peaceful

full of love

warm

all the pleasures of life:

- food

- swingsets

- loved ones, etc

- lots of laughter!

- drive-in theatres

comfy cloud beds

all the answers

no pain

no cruelty

animals (mythical ones, too!)

nothing scary

endless energy

comforting

feeling that you finally belong

hammocks

magic

More from Spirit Listography

My Favorite Things To Hear

List the Songs to Play at Your Funeral

•Entire Albums•
Alice - Tom Waits
You & the Night - M83
Somewhere In Time 
The Best of Erik Satie
The Piano - Michael Nyman (minus Here to There)
•Songs•
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
Maneater
Isn't She Lovely
Penny Lane
Billie Jean
Lucky Star
Heart Shaped Box
Cooling - Tori Amos
Lisa Says - The Velvet Underground - Live 1969
Wrapped Up in Love - Olly Murs
Matter of Trust
Drop the Pilot
No Frills
Les Ailes - Khaled
Standing Outside the Fire

Some of the choices are baffling even to me. I am assuming that I selected certain songs to interject a bit of humour into my funeral or memorial service. Maneater?? That had to have been my idea of a joke. I don't really even love that song. Weird...

Things We Are Good At

This is from my Friends Listography book, with most of them filled out in 2012.

Me, Bishop, Mum, Amy, Xavier, Marina, Karen, Donna, and Wayne.

Movies You Walked Out On

Taken from my Film Listography book by Lisa Nola:

- Star Trek 2: Wrath of Khan (I was actually carried out by my mother. Three times. This film traumatised me from the worms going in people's ears, to when they came out, and then finally when Spock sort of died. Saw it once when I was six and never plan on seeing it again.)
- Seven (I spent most of the film looking at my feet. When the body tied to the bed gasped so we knew they were alive I turned to my friend and said "Wake up, Winnie, we're leaving." I even demanded my money back. I was never so disgusted by a film in my life.)
- Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End
- Once Upon a Time in Mexico
- Stepmom (Robert and I saw this and we left more than once for a smoke - why did we go back in?!)
- Mr. Turner (Technically I think I only left for a smoke break but had to go back b/c I was there with Anne - I hated this movie.)
- The Ref (Absolutely beyond believable. We left when Spacey suddenly was on Leary's side and helped him to escape. Mega lame.)
- Saving Silverman

Favourite Historical Dramas

Elizabeth
The Killing Fields
Mrs. Brown
Good Night, and Good Luck
The Right Stuff
The King's Speech
Schindler's List
Hotel Rwanda
All the President's Men
Battleship Potemkin
Zodiac
Bridge of Spies
Munich
Frost/Nixon
Bright Star
Blood Diamond
How the West Was Won
Argo
Spotlight
Captain Phillips
The Grapes of Wrath

Make-Out

Dug this out of my Lisa Nola Music Listography book: List Songs for Your Perfect Make-Out Mix Tape

Depeche Mode - Dirt
Nine Inch Nails - Get Down Make Love
Massive Attack - Angel
Sade - No Ordinary Love
Portishead - Glory Box
Marilyn Manson - I Put a Spell on You
Jamiroquai - Everyday
Madonna - Justify My Love
NIN - Closer
Depeche Mode - Policy of Truth
Prince - Scandalous
The Doors - The End
Chris Isaak - Can't Do a Thing to Stop Me
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
Sinatra - Corcovado
Johnny Mathis - It's Not for Me to Say
Johnny Mathis - Chances Are
Elvis - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Ain't Gone n' Give Up on Love
U2 - With or Without You

Best Disaster Films

The Towering Inferno
Airport
The Poseidon Adventure
Dante's Peak
Everest
Twister
Independence Day
Dawn of the Dead
Titanic
Alive
The Birds
28 Days Later
Shaun of the Dead
The Thing
Avalanche
The Mist
The Blob
The Perfect Storm