Friday night TV kinda sucks.

[jlh]

Katherine Hepburn is the star of the day on TCM and even I can't really take this much Kate. I'm passing on Philadelphia Story, given that I own it and can watch it any time I want. I sort of overdosed on CSI earlier this week, so even my TIVO is giving me no love.

So to stave off boredom while I continue to clean my apartment this weekend, I'm doing the top five meme!

So ask me for my top five anything, and I'll answer up!

Comments

[ceilidh]

Your top five ice cream flavors! (if you don't eat ice cream then... top five desserts).

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Passion Fruit.

Red Raspberry from Herrell's, preferably with Heath mixed in.

Black Raspberry (very New England), preferably with that peanut butter crunch stuff on top.

Mint chocolate cookie, especially with fudge sauce on top.

Butter crunch. When I was a teen, I would get double scoops with butter crunch and black raspberry.

[evil-erato.livejournal.com]

Black raspberry sounds amazingly good. *craves*

[jlh.livejournal.com]

It is, and the thing is that in New England it's really common. Even the tiniest store will have chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, orange sherbet, maple walnut, and black raspberry. Very popular. Very purple, like, Barney purple.

[evil-erato.livejournal.com]

In the spirit of my drunken-ness: your top five favorite alcoholic drinks. :D

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Tom Collins

Mojito

Margarita on the rocks, no salt

Lemon Drop

Champagne

Honorary mention: anything with passion fruit puree/syrup

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

Top five favorite places to be?

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Out sailing on Casco Bay, Portland, ME

Sitting out near the pond at my parent's place in Maine

My apartment

In a car with C or D

Wherever there are friends to welcome me

and right now, an ice floe in the Arctic sounds hella good to me!

[titanic-days.livejournal.com]

Top five top fives, please.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

HA.

Well, I can't really limit this to just fives, but here are some favorite lists:

Paul Schaeffer's Top Ten Tambourine Players of All Time: I used to have this on my wall in college, but it has sadly been lost; it was on Letterman when I was in high school, so something like 1986, and no where to be found on the web, at least by Google. What I do remember is that it included Stevie Nicks, Betty from the Archies, and three mentions of Davy Jones: The Monkees, as a solo artist, and The Monkees reunion tour.

Top 100 bad ideas of the Twentieth Century: Compiled by Time magazine when they were doing all those lists in 1999. It only seems available on time.com itself as the results of a poll (http://www.time.com/time/time100/worstideas.html), but this (http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/6174/time-magazine-100-worst-ideas-century.htm) is in a more readable format.

Top 1000 Rock Songs of All Time, as related over a holiday weekend by an American Classic Rock Radio Station. Three days of programming just to get to Stairway to Heaven.

Renton's list of "choices" from Trainspotting

Nixon's enemies list, because it's a damn good collection of people.

[pinkfinity.livejournal.com]

Top 5 concert experiences?

[jlh.livejournal.com]

U2, Joshua Tree tour, Boston Garden, September 1987. Too cool for school, I faffed off to see them with a high school pal during my Freshman Orientation Week at college. Their catalog was small enough that they were still playing tons of stuff off Boy and War, like Out of Control, and people were singing at the top of their lungs, and Bono kept taking his hair in and out of a ponytail. The crowd was still singing "40" as we got onto the Green Line train. (By the way, this show just barely beats out seeing them in Jersey on the Elevation tour pre-9/11 with my pal S.)

Crowded House, Together Alone Tour, Roseland (NYC), 1994. Sheryl Crow opened. I was living in the East Village at the time which is why I saw the sign for the tour, and I dragged my friend P along with me. Again, the entire crowd was singing; they were fantastic of course. We were well near the front and it was fun to be with a big pile of fans. Up until then I had thought of Crowded House as just something my friend S and I were into.

INXS opening for the Go-Gos, The Swing/Talk Show Tours, Cumberland County Civic Center, 1985. This stands in for all those shows I saw in junior high and high school. CCCC became like a second home and it wasn't like there was much else to do in Portland in the mid 80s. It's got a reputation of being a really great audience, but I think that's mostly because no one wants to leave as there will be literally no place else to go. At that time concert prices were almost ridiculously low, about $15-$20, or around 3x a movie, so you'd go to concerts you might not be all that interested in just to hang out. I remember Corey Hart opening for Rick Springfield on first day of school junior year and it was like my entire class was there. (And, famously, I saw Bon Jovi open for Ratt.) At any rate, this was probably the best of those concerts because INXS was just coming up and they were fanTAStic; I went out and bought Shabooh Shoobah and The Swing after seeing them live and they said we gave them their first encore of the tour. The Go-Go's were equally awesome, just a really tight live band and the whole show was really fun.

Lollapalooza I, someplace outside of Boston, summer 1991. Sadly, Siouxie was sick and didn't perform, but we saw Nine Inch Nails, Ice-T's thrash band Body Count, Living Colour, Jane's Addiction, the Henry Rollins Band—it was fucking awesome, like the culmination of all that music I listened to in college. Annoyingly, someone later stole my tshirt out of my laundry!

REM, Life's Rich Pagaent Tour, CCCC, 1986. REM is sort of infamous for never playing their own old songs in concert. At that point I hadn't heard the EP Chronic Town, knowing only their first four albums. But these three guys behind us kept screaming "Box Cars!" between every song, and instead REM would play another Pylon cover no one knew. Had I known then what I know now, I would have turned around and said, "I, too, wish they would play that song as it is superlative, but they will not, so if you would, please STFU." I do still have this tshirt, and it is a prized possession.

[irinaauthor.livejournal.com]

Top five favorite ways to relax

Top five favorite pairs of shoes you own

Top five books you've read, and why

Top five holiday memories

Top five meals you've ever eaten

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Relax:
Read a book
Sing a song
Take a nap
Go out with friends
Take a bath

I'm not much of a shoe pig. I suppose my red Sketcher sneakers, my Peter Fox black mary janes, my black Tevas, and my little black flats, which is only four I know but those are my favorites.

Top five books were in my answers to the book meme (http://www.livejournal.com/users/jlh/209821.html)

I don't actually like holidays very much, so I'm going to skip this one if that's okay.

Wow, okay, top five meals is going to take more thought, so look for a new comment on that one.

Thanks so much! These are great questions and i had to really think about them!

[ali-wildgoose.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm....

Top Five Things about Living in Hell's Kitchen?

Top Five SFU moments?

Top Five Val-related Adventures?

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[jlh.livejournal.com]

Hell's Kitchen:
I'm a bit of a walk from the subway (which means this neighborhood can only get so gentrified) but I'm that same walk from four major subway lines and close to the crosstown bus if I get lazy.
The Amish Market, my bodega and my laudromat, where they know me.
My public garden
The neighborhood is so diverse—working class PR families, broadway types, even those Chelsea north guys, and more lesbians all the time which is definitely new. And yet I still don't have to dress too much to go to the bodega.
My cheap apartment.

5 for SFU! I'll need some time on that one.

Every day with Val is an adventure, of course, but this is what comes to mind:
Going to the dive bar with her, Bow!Sarah and Ziggy, where she defended us against those guys who thought we were hookers.
Holi
Any of the times she's called me at 2am
Singing "Cherry Lips" with her in my apartment when Alex was here the first time
Going on an emergency, ten-minute booze run with her in Johnland at Fourth of July