a desert fete

You guys play top 10? Top 5? I can't do top 5 of anything, too hard to limit it and get the priority right, and top 10 is just too many for here, so let's stick with top 3.

I have been playing "top" since about 9 years ago when I met my friend Bruce, he was interviewing me for a job. (He became my boss before my friend.)

"Top 3 bands?" he asked. I was flabbergasted. What kind of interview is this? He proceeded to ask about movies and books, and I recently generated top three for TV shows after rewatching Twin Peaks. So here are mine;

Music
-David Bowie
-Bob Dylan
-The Beatles

Films
-Harold and Maude
-The Royal Tenenbaums
-Cabaret

Books*
-Catcher in the Rye
-The Unbearable Lightness of Being
-Still Life With Woodpecker

Television
-Buffy the Vampire Slayer
-Twin Peaks
-Arrested Development


I love asking people this. And I try to always be prepared with my tops.

I asked Emilia's husband (then fiance) once about movies (since that's his jam), it might have been best movies of the decade that I asked about though, being freshly into 2010. He was a little caught off guard, unprepared with a list, but he ended up emailing me a well thought out list of like, 100. It was awesome.

How bout you all?

*I first thought of blogging about this after generating the TV top three, but I was embarrassed about the book section. Guys, I am not as literary as you all. This is a loose list here, one that I am not passionately attached to, so I feel a little, I dunno, like I shouldn't be claiming it, but I have to claim something. Anyways, after Michael** forced requested that Peonies pick her tops in music I had to do a tops post. Lets just not start talking about who we DON'T like, K?

**speaking of michael AKA the Flashdance, have you guys entered to win a free room at the Ace for his industry night?!??!