In order they were received:
Top 5 Blogs
1. What Do You Mean Mace?
5. DJ's Whatever
Mr. Vance,
Thank you for requesting my Top Five List of Supernatural Movies. My requirements are that they are eerie/creepy, are NOT slasher/gore-fest films, rarely rely on "jump out of your seat" scares, and aren't comedies. Also note that, invariably, I've listed the original. I've never seen a good remake (such as the 1999 version of The Haunting which really sucked big time). Here they are:
1. The Haunting (1963)
2. Changeling (1980)
3. The Innocents (1961)
4. The Others (2002)
5. The Wicker Man (1973)
6. The Sixth Sense (1999)
7. The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
8. Carnival of Souls (1962)
9. The Gift (2000)
10. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
11. The Uninvited (1944)
12. The Birds (1963)
13. What Lies Beneath (2000)
14. Stir of Echoes (1999)
15. Kwaidan (1964)
16. Haunted (1995)
17. The Dead Zone (1983)
18. Island of Lost Souls (1933)
19. Nosferatu (1929)
20. Blair Witch Project (1999)
21. The Skeleton Key (2005)
22. Repulsion (1965)
23. Cat People (1942)
24. The Village (2004)
Top 5 Live Blues Recordings
Buddy Guy "This is Buddy Guy"
B.B. King "Blues is King"
Etta James "Rocks the House"
Son Seals "Live and Burnin"
Hounddog "Taylor Beware of the Dog"
T5 Live Rock Recordings
1. The Who Live at Leeds
2. The Allman Brothers Band At the Fillmore East
3. Little Feat Waiting for Columbus
4. Neil Young and Crazy Horse Live at the Fillmore East
5. Elvis Costello and the Attractions Live at the El Mocambo
OK, YOU ASKED FOR IT. Here's the definitive , authoritative, No Shit, one and only TOP 5 Mucic list of All Time.
Jazz
Coltrane "A Love Supreme"
Billie Holiday "Strange Fruit"
Louis Armstrong "Potato Head Blues"
Ella Fitzgerald "Does Gershwin"
Wes Montgomery "Vibratin'"
Thelonious Monk "Monk's Dream"
ROCK
Jimi Hendrix "Electric Ladyland"
Bob Dylan "Highway 61 Revisited"
Stevie Wonder "Innervisions"
Los Lobos "How Will the Wolf Survive?"
Rolling Stones "Let It Bleed"
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels "Detroit"
BLUES
Magic Sam "West Side Soul"
Johnny Winter "Progressive Blues Experiment"
Freddie King "Texas Cannonball"
Ma Rainey "I'm Jealous"
Sonny Stitt "Blues Greasy"
Top Five Of Anything That Comes To Mind
1. Garlic
2. Eggplant
3. Garlic and Eggplant together
4. "Mercury Blues" by David Lindley
5. Cool days
6. Potatos
7. Anne Francis
8. The movie "The Dresser"
9. The movie "Some Like It Hot"
10. Elephants
11. Japanese flutes
12. Olive oil (especially if used to cook garlic and eggplant)
13. Chess
14. Archery
15. The book "To Kill a Mockingbird"
16. Parchment
17. Cold water on a hot day
18. Spicy Pepper Sauce (especially if added to cooking garlic and eggplant in olive oil)
19. Good beer (like Dead Guy Ale)
20. The movie "A Room with a View"
21. Jumper cables
22. Oak tree forests
23. Surf music
24. Clouds after a rain storm
25. Red-winged blackbirds
26. Apples
27. External hard drives for backup
28. Snow
29. A nice cuppa tea
30. Any book you can't put down
31. Real licorice
32. Leave It To Beaver
33. Wrens
34. Autumn
35. Designing something that really, really works
36. Benson gyrocopters
37. Amelia Earhart
38. The Autogiro
39. Zucchinis
40. Velcro
So far, so good. We're still waiting on input from the rest of you, so let's get those top 5's in!!
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Vance,
That last list was bogus. It didn't include Mary-Kate and Ashley. Or sno-cones. Whoever made that list wasn't thinking when he/she made that bogus list. It was hella bogus.
In protest, I am not submitting MY list, which just happens to be comprehensive, and not bogus.
A Member of your Vast Readership that is against bogus lists.
Dear Member of My Vast Readership, etc., etc.,
I am sorry you are offended by bogus lists.
In defense of the list submitted by the other MoMVR you were gagging on, I never said lists couldn't be bogus.
However, I agree it was bogus, due to the fact it didn't include rough lesbian sex.
I will accept even the lamest of bogus lists, and publish them in my blog because that's the kind of guy
I am.
Follow-up to my response to the whiner who didn't like the list which didn't include Mary-Kate and Ashley, sno-cones, or rough lesbian sex:
Change "gagging" to "ragging".
That was simply a typo, and I'm not smart enough or tenacious enough to figure out how to edit my comments.
Vance & Guy Against Bogus Lists:
Given the controversy, and as a public service, here is my definitive list of all things bogus in no particular order:
1. California cuisine
2. Paris Hilton
3. El Paso, TX
4. French films
5. Transvestite hookers
6. Fox News
7. Ballet music
8. Motor scooters
9. Highway billboards
10. School superintendents
11. Dogs smaller than a beagle
12. Meat substitutes
13. Eichlers
14. Scrapbooking
15. Power ballads
16. Busses
17. Mispronunciations of "et cetera"
18. 737's
19. Chiropractors
20. "Best music" lists that don't include bluegrass or reggae or Frank Zappa or Tower of Power
21. Prius's
22. Tennis moms
23. Alternative minimum tax
24. Overuse of "quotation marks"
Dear dude,
Thanks for the list of all things "bogus". It is misguided, but an over-all good attempt. I could not call it "comprehensive".
It did not include "Mary-Kate and Ashley", or "sno-cones". It also did not include the mis-use of hyphens or appostrophe's.
The mis-use's of apostrophe's and hyphen's is one of the most "blatant" and "irresponsible" acts of "Grammatical Sabotage" one can engage in, other than the mis-use of Capital Letter's. And possibly subject/verb agreement problems. To understand why, see one of my earlier posts that discusses how English is changed by usage, for better or worse.
Also, you neglected to exclude "Weiner Dog's" from the "Dogs smaller than a Beagle" item. Especially "Wire-Haired Weiner Dog's". No one will disagree that "Weiner Dog's" are definitely -not- bogus.
And what about Lindsey?
Lindsay?
Hey Vance,
Just got back from the coast. You are quite correct re: my omission of sno-cones, but I think one could expand that to include all carnival foods (candy & caramel apples, cotton candy, corn dogs (except for the Kosher ones)) are all items more often regurgitated than excreted. In fact, all things "carny" (please excuse the use of quotation marks), and I don't mean MEAT belong on the bogus list -- midway arcades, temporary rides, and (shudder) carny folk.
I'm afraid the jury's still out on weiner dogs: On the plus side, immortalized by Doggie Diner; on the down side, bred to go down ratholes. Not very dignified -- maybe pre-bogus.
Mary-Kate and Ashley -- 2 lives, maybe 1 1/2, destroyed by early fame. Do they live together? Not too different from inoperable conjoined twins. However, they are more pathetic than bogus.
dude
ps. what's with all the quotation marks? Are you just trying to piss me off?
pps. add computerized wine-tasting to the bogus list
dude,
I must concur with your assessment that machine-dispensed wine-tasting schemes are definitely bogus, if that is what you meant by computerized wine tasting. I had the experience at some San Mateo wine place the other day. Just what the hail is that all about?
Give me a bored barkeep pouring generous tastes of all kine of stuff to obviously cheapskate patrons, any ol' day.
Nome sayin'?
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