happy birthday + memes!
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eide_oconrad, happy birthday!
Hope you have the best one ever!
And now, the top five meme!
Lost related
My first five Lost moments (damn that's HARD!):
1 The Boone pens quest in the Pilot, all of it;
2 THE CONSTANT (all of it. Hey, that's a hard question, I'm allowed to cheat!!).
3 Sayid and Danielle's first meeting in Solitary;
4 'Because you're the closest thing I have to a friend, Doc';
5 Has to be a tie between that whole Desmond-realizes-the-button-is-right-and-turns-the key in LTDA, Desmond breaking down and Charlie bringing him to his tent in Flashes and Locke standing up in Walkabout.
Five saddest Lost moments:
1 Do-No-Harm. All of it. Which yeah, means Boone dying;
2 The end of The Economist;
3 Jack screaming 'We have to go back' in the S3 FF;
4 All of The Long Con (that episode makes me depressed);
5 Locke and Helen breaking up.
[note: Charlie dying isn't there because it belongs in most enraging Lost moments.]
Five happiest Lost moments:
1 Des/Penny phonecall in The Constant. I don't think I've ever been so happy during a Lost episode.
2 Hurley's Island Open during Solitary;
3 Tie between Jack and Kate reviving Charlie in All the Best Cowboys have Daddy Issues, the Dharma van launching and Hurley glomping Sawyer in that same episode.
4 Tie with Jack/Sawyer reunion in One of Us and Sawyer getting the glasses in Deus ex Machina;
5 The whole reunion during Collision.
Five sexiest Lost moments:
1. Hands down Further Instruction Spirit Guide Boone. Never seen anything sexier than that;
2. Tie between the opening sequence of Man of Science, Man of Faith and naked!out-of-the-bush!Desmond in FI;
3. Sayid jumping out naked of that bed in The Economist to top all the sexy that he was in that episode;
4. Sawyer/Sayid boar camping conversation in Outlaws (I find it terribly sexy, really).
5. Tie between whenever Sawyer has glasses on and Jack's leather jacket in the Eggtown ff and his burgundy shirt in The Hunting Party fb .
Non-Lost related
Five favorite movies:
1 Blade Runner;
2 Casablanca;
3 Last Tango in Paris;
4 The Man who Shot Liberty Valance;
5 Unforgiven;
Five things I couldn't live without (I didn't include people because it said things XD):
1 Music;
2 Books;
3 Internetz;
4 Movies;
5 Coffee;
Top five books:
1 1984 by George Orwell (still the greatest punch in the stomach a book gave me. Never found something so haunting and clever again);
2 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (that's totally my most hearted novel. Seriously, all of it makes me so damn happy);
3 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (why do you think I'm that interested in Great Depression matters? ;) )
4 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (hey, it's the only woman writer I totally love. And that novel is nothing short of amazing);
5 If I could say all of King's Dark Tower series I'd say it, but if I'm allowed just one, The Wastelands. Best out of the series and the only one in which there wasn't a single thing wrong.
Top five memories (even harder than the Lost one):
1 My first and for now only Springsteen concert;
2 The time I spent living in Paris for a couple of weeks, two years. I haven't learned half of the French I should have but it was some of the best time of my life.
3 The Gilby Clarke concert and the subsequent day in Milan with
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_izu_ and marlonob;4 The day high school was over;
5 Getting Ken Loach and Jim Jarmusch (on two different occasions) signing some random piece of paper for me. Ken Loach might be a little bit higher because I've actually talked to the guy and had, like, an exchange of three lines and he was a total sweetheart even if he was in a hurry.
The five Tv Shows of my life:
1. Lost. Enough said;
2 Ally McBeal;
3 Friday Night Lights;
4 Supernatural;
5 I still have to say Judging Amy. On and off, cheesy as it may be, I've been watching it for more than five years between re-runs, repeats and stuff. Maybe more.
Top five ships/OTPs (and here I want to laugh):
1 Athos/d'Artagnan, from the Three Musketeers up there;
2 Maurice/Alec from Forster's Maurice;
3 Roland/Eddie from the Dark Tower series up there;
4 Jack/Boone because it still is the closest I came to a Lost OTP;
5 and since we go ships, I'll give a great big tie and say Desmond/Penny, Jack/Sawyer, Sawyer/Sayid, every Des/Sayid setting and Jack/Juliet. Though I'll read everything.
Top five album covers:
1 Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA;
2 Led Zeppelin's III;
3 Patti Smith's Horses;
4 Queen's Sheer Heart Attack;
5 U2's Achtung Baby;
Top five quotes from various sources:
1 Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. [1984]
2a Then I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be ever'where—wherever you look. Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there... I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an'—I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready. An' when our folk eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build—why, I'll be there. [The Grapes of Wrath]
2b ^ strictly related to that... 'Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand, or decent job or a helpin' hand, wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free, look in their eyes Mom you'll see me.' [from Springsteen's The Ghost of Tom Joad]
3 'But, you're not a girl! You're a guy, and, why would a guy wanna marry a guy?'
'For security!' [from Some Like it Hot]
4 I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost in time, like tears...in rain. Time to die. [Blade Runner]
5 I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy mixed up world. Someday you'll understand that. [Casablanca]
Phewwwwwwwww. That was long..
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Date: 2008-03-28 09:51 am (UTC)e AUGURI!!!
(we socia poi me prepari uno zip col Brando? ghghghghghg)
e stasera leggo le top five sìsìsì
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Date: 2008-03-28 01:10 pm (UTC)E' stupendo, è bellissimo ed è Marlon! Cosa posso dirti se non grazie, davvero! <3 Insomma, è stata una sorpresa fantastica!
E leggendo i tuoi meme (e saltando quelli su Lost per evitare eventuali spoiler! u.u) mi rendo sempre più conto che abbiamo gusti davvero simili per molte cose! <3
E l'altro ieri ho visto Casablanca pensando a te! xD
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Date: 2008-03-28 02:19 pm (UTC)CASABLANCA! *g* ♥
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Date: 2008-03-28 01:21 pm (UTC)Boone and his pens. That was a great moment. I should have given you the bittersweet category too because Lost has so many nice moments that come back to kick you in the ass minutes or months later.
I love 1984. I've never read The Three Musketeers, let alone think to ship it! The Grapes of Wrath was good but Mice and Men would be on my top 5 instead. I still need to read Wuthering Heights but Charlotte Bronte claims my heart with Jane Eyre.
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Date: 2008-03-28 02:38 pm (UTC)That had to be my first. Not even five minutes of show and 1) I was already hooked 2) I had already pledged my poor heart. Absolutely good observation regarding the bittersweet-ass-kicking moments. It's probably the only thing they'll never run out of.
I doubt I'll ever read something topping 1984, for me. About the Musketeers (talking about also Twenty Years Later etc.) I wasn't actually thinking of ever shipping it before reading it, but it's so obvious and thrown right in your face that you don't even need to ship it for how blatantly there it is. Which is one of the reasons I love it. Mice and Men probably suffered the fact that I read it first in a pretty lame translation, while the Grapes of Wrath didn't and it had a whole other effect. But I totally love Mice and Men, too ;) I read Jane Eyre last summer and I definitely loved it though in the Bronte household I'd have definitely stayed on Team Heathcliff. Even if Rochester came close to threaten his place.
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Date: 2008-03-28 02:57 pm (UTC)The Boone pens quest in the Pilot, all of it;
*sighs* That brings me really good memories.
I'm working on my top 5 meme, and really, the top five best memories is a really though one!
You lived in Paris? That's so cool, I love that city so much! Not that I've gone in a lot of occasions, but the times I've been there I really enjoyed the whole city.
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Date: 2008-03-28 06:26 pm (UTC)Good memories indeed! That scene will always be my favorite. Hey, I committed myself right then! And I even knew what I was going into but well.. :/
I went there two weeks each year for two years in order to study French during the holidays... how much French I've actually learned is a matter to discuss because I'm kinda bad at it but I loved the city and I had really a wonderful time. It's probably the only place I'd switch Rome with, if I had to leave here and I could dream some, but alas..
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Date: 2008-03-28 04:51 pm (UTC)Amo le top5! le adoro! L'unica cosa che non abbiamo in comune di Lost ho scoperto essere Boone, ma per il resto sono d'accordo con quel che dici!
Anche se a pensarci bene sarei probabilmente morta nel dover formulare tutte quelle dettagliate top5...xD
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Date: 2008-03-28 06:23 pm (UTC)Eh il mio povero uomo se lo filano in pochi ma tanto meglio per me, c'è meno fila ;) mentre è il tuo turno da Sayid io so cosa fare ♥
E' stato un mezzo incubo debbo dire XD
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Date: 2008-03-28 05:30 pm (UTC)GIUGNOOOOOOOOOOOOO XDDD
*pats herself for 2 of them* XDD
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Date: 2008-03-28 06:22 pm (UTC)*gives you the high five* ;)
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Date: 2008-03-28 06:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-28 06:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-28 07:51 pm (UTC)That moment absolutely killed me. I didn't even like Boone that much the first time watching season 1 episodes, but I couldn't stop crying then. Even when Charlie died, I didn't cry as much.
I just finished reading The Grapes of Wrath earlier this week, and I liked it a lot. :D
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Date: 2008-03-28 09:29 pm (UTC)The Grapes of Wrath is awesome, it's good to know we share that opinion!
My first fic
Date: 2008-03-28 09:05 pm (UTC)Re: My first fic
Date: 2008-03-29 08:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-28 09:30 pm (UTC)I so agree about the S/Sd boar convo from Outlaws! I thought I was the only one who thought that was totally hot. It's the expression on Sayid's face - the way he's looking at Sawyer like he just wants to eat him up and laugh at him at the same time. I kinda miss Sayid being amused. It's not like he's a laugh riot, but an occasional smile is nice.
I think though, all my sexiest Lost moments would be from The Economist. And that ep contained some of my happiest Lost moments and some of my saddest too.
Yay, Blade Runner! Yay, Grapes of Wrath!
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Date: 2008-03-28 09:44 pm (UTC)That conversation is easily one of my favorite moments ever. I think it was the first moment I decided that Sawyer/Sayid would have been a pretty nice ship to jump on to! It's one of the hottest things ever appeared on that show. The camping boar remark was one of the funniest things Sayid has ever said and you're right, the occasional Sayid smile was something golden *sighs*.
Well, I tried to be fair and to give everyone his moment but damnit, The Economist should have a place for the episode with the most sexy in Lost ever (with FI but that's me loving spirit Boone and cleaned up people). It definitely was one of the best ever.
And YAY definitely! I'm a total addict for both of those two ;)
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Date: 2008-03-29 12:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-29 08:05 pm (UTC)