In Lieu of “Friday Five”

Well, there is no Friday Five today, so instead of that I’m taking the lead of Amelia and Catherine and doing a fun little survey instead. Here we go!

TEN Movies you couldn’t live without:

1. West Side Story

2. Auntie Mame

3. My Fair Lady

4. Never Been Kissed

5. Stage Door

6. Giant

7. A&E’s Pride and Prejudice

8. Waiting for Guffman

9. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

10. Office Space

NINE albums that are important to you:

1. Soundtrack to West Side Story

2. Soundtrack to My Fair Lady

3. Soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou

4. Kevin Max, Stereotype Be

5. Vangelis, Equinox

6. Linda Perry, In Flight

7. Richard Einhorn, Voices of Light

8. Sarah Brightman, Dive

9. Moby, Play

EIGHT “bands/artists” you couldn’t live without:

1. Moby

2. Simon & Garfunkel

3. The Monkees

4. The Beatles

5. The Who

6. Fat Boy Slim

7. Third Day

8. Michael W. Smith

SEVEN things that annoy you:

1. People who interrupt others

2. Squalling babies

3. When my computer freezes and I have to reboot

4. pop-up ads

5. Lotus Notes

6. When Cooper insists on tearing apart his plush toys and gets the innards all over the place

7. Stepping in Cooper doo in the backyard

SIX of your favorite songs at this moment:

1. “Dance of the Cucumber” by Larry the Cucumber (Veggietales)

2. “Song of the Cebu” by Larry the Cucumber (Veggietales)

3. “If I Was A Latin King” by John Austin

4. “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” by Kylie Minogue

5. “We Are All Made of Stars” by Moby

6. “Stand” by Jr. Asparagus (Veggietales)

FIVE tv shows you watch regularly:

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer

2. Angel

3. ER

4. Alias

5. BBC America’s Ground Force

FOUR of your all-time-favorite, desert-island books:

1. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

3. Timeline by Michael Crichton

4. The “Mark of the Lion” Trilogy by Francine Rivers

THREE albums you’ve bought recently:

1. Jars of Clay, “The Eleventh Hour”

2. The Violet Burning, “Faith and Devotions of a Satellite Heart”

3. John Austin, “Authorized Unauthorized”

TWO people that have influenced your life the most:

1. My mother

2. My father

ONE thing you could spend the rest of your life with:

1. This one is tricky – I could go really deep and say my spiritual faith, or I could go totally shallow and say my bed. You decide.