lithera | Tagged from an unexpected source

List off five things you like. Explain, in at least a sentence but no more than three, why you like those things. Do not repeat types of things: only one TV show, only one band, only one movie, only one type of food, et cetera. And be descriptive. Then name five people you like and make them do it.

I love Chicken Tikka Masala and it doesn't even have to be good. There are certain foods that stick with you because when you first had them it was the best food you've ever had and because of that trip to London, this is one of mine. Since that trip I have found that like pho, from time to time I have cravings for it that cannot be denied - it has secret powers.

I used to watch Jumping Jack Flash a lot when I was a kid, I would stay up really late watching and would fall asleep before it was over, waking up to be in the middle of another move on the tape. It took me many, many years to find and watch all of the original Sabrina but it quickly became one of my favorite movies, if not my favorite, because it is unabashedly charming. Audrey Hepburn is so classic and pretty much what I think of when I think of female beauty and she is amazingly cute and talented next to Bogey in this.

I am fascinated by socopaths, though only on the page or screen thus far, for reasons I have yet to figure out and am not entirely sure I want to figure out. It probably has something to do with my compulsion to figure out how people think and why they do what they do. The one reason I continue to read the Anita Blake books is hoping that I will, eventually, get more of Edward.

It is very hard to choose just one but I still feel that my favorite book is The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay. While I cry easily, too easily at times, this book made me cry regularily for the last one hundered and fifty pages. Something amazing is set up in those pages and Kay allows you to glipse the glory and the possible perfection that could be if everything worked out but at the same time you know that will never and possible cannot be and that something has to end up irrevocably broken.

Though this might not be the most popular one of them all, The Fragile is my favorite Nine Inch Nails album. It isn't so much the lyrics or any of that on this album as it is the fact that there are so many lavers of instrumentation and syncopation that I can spend time just listening to the different layers. I appreciate music that suprises me and that I can hear new things in when I listen after the newness of it has faded.

And I tag: Who ever wants to be tagged.