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F is for fake is a film inside a documentary, inside a film..by orson welles...

starts off with some magic...and goes into other types of art...and, well, blatanty forgery, cheating and subtefuge...so really, magic still in some ways...

plus, i could listen to orson welles narrate things all day...

"the sky is bruising..."

1. Top Five Films
a. The Usual Suspects
b. Torch Song Trilogy
c. Snatch
d. Star Wars (all)
e. Star Trek (all)

2. Top Five Bands/Musicians/Choirs/Orchestras/Whatever-tickles-your-fancy Musically
a. Queen
b. Stray Cats (most all Rockabilly)
c. Moody Blues
d. …the classics i.e. Beetles, Rolling Stones, etc.

3. If you were a starter, main course and dessert, what would you be and why?
a. As an Appetizer I’d have to go with Pot Stickers – a versatile dumpling compose of a simple shell that can be either soft or hard depending on how it is addressed. It is filled with a uniquely seasoned meat filler that’s both, sweet as well as a bit “different” when it comes to taste. Then there is the dip that goes with it, revealing the “salt” and sweet-bitterness that can sometimes cover the lot.
b. Sticking with the Asian food theme, I have to go with either General Tzo Chicken or Kum Pow in that both offer a sweet & hot factor the pretty much sums up key points of my personality
c. Desert would, in this case, be Green Tea Ice Cream – it’s unique, leaves a wonderful after-taste and for junk food, it’s actually healthy.

4. Tell me a joke...
George W. Bush

5. Which is your favourite season and why?
I have two favorite seasons for mainly the same reason; it’s not too hot, nor too cool e.g. I have to go with Spring & Fall with Fall being the most preferred due to all the festivals to be had.

6. One of your favourite places you've visited in your life...?
Wow! So many to choose from but I’ll go with San Francisco. If I could I’d move back there.

7. Your perfect evening right now would consist of...
My favorite someone cuddled on the couch after a day of wondering about and enjoying life. We’ve had a nice, quiet dinner (nothing overly fancy) and are just enjoying being with one another whilst watching a movie… something odd, like Shrek perhaps

8. If you won ten grand, what would you do with it?
Finish up on a couple of special projects tied-in with my Séance shows and get some initial marketing into the mix.

9. Would you eat Tony Blair's toe skin shavings for £1000? If not, what's your price?
No price in that I wouldn’t do that for anyone, let alone someone that kissed up to the Bush’s as much as he did.

10. Favourite comedian(s)?
The Late Great George Carlin
Galligar
Whoopie Goldberg
Lilly Tomlin
Steve Martin
Red Skelton
Jack Benny

1. Top Five Films
Harvey
A Day At The Races
The Dark Knight
This Is Spinal Tap
Plan 9 From Outer Space

2. Top Five Bands/Musicians/Choirs/Orchestras/Whatever-tickles-your-fancy Musically
mclusky
Radiohead
The Smiths
Ryan Adams
Converge

3. If you were a starter, main course and dessert, what would you be and why?
Mildly disappointing.

4. Tell me a joke...
Nope.

5. Which is your favourite season and why?
Winter. It's great, and then there's Christmas to boot.

6. One of your favourite places you've visited in your life...?
LA. It was so wonderfully shallow.

7. Your perfect evening right now would consist of...
A decent meal followed by live music and an early night.

8. If you won ten grand, what would you do with it?
I'd hope I'd put it away and save it but I know I'd blow it on the best computer I could afford and a ton of books, films and silly things.

9. Would you eat Tony Blair's toe skin shavings for £1000? If not, what's your price?
...moving swiftly on.

10. Favourite comedian(s)?
Dylan Moran, Louis C.K., Bill Hicks, Groucho Marx, Ricky Gervais, Mitchell & Webb, Richard Pryor, Darrell Bluett.

Pheebs wrote:So.. (unless already done and someone can bosh me in the direction the thread is)... I figured you guys could answer the following things I always ask people when I first meet them... it helps me figure out how people tick

Your turn Pheebs!

Tasty hook:

1. Top Five Films

Saving Private Ryan.
Saving Ryan's private.
Chitty chitty bang bang.
Titty titty Bang bang.
STAR WARS sixology????

2. Top Five Bands/Musicians/Choirs/Orchestras/Whatever-tickles-your-fancy Musically

Mettalica.
Guns n Roses.
Eminem.
Evinesnece.
Linken Park.

3. If you were a starter, main course and dessert, what would you be and why?

Soup.......Coz it is way posh.
Turkey roast....Coz it is like English nad like well posh.
Pofitta rolles with ice cream.......coz its tastey...English and well posh.

4. Tell me a joke...
A women cut her husbands penis off while driving down the road......why did she not just throw it out of the window.........because she did not have the balls.

5. Which is your favourite season and why?

Summer....BIKINIS and TOPLESS SUNBAVERS

6. One of your favourite places you've visited in your life...?
Menorca

7. Your perfect evening right now would consist of...
Me a girl some food and then we will see what happens

8. If you won ten grand, what would you do with it?
Enrol in a school of magic at all three levels then invest in a couple of good stage illusions.....leave the rest in the bank for a rainy day.

9. Would you eat Tony Blair's toe skin shavings for £1000? If not, what's your price?
I would do it for 1000 but 100 quid would be nice.

10. Favourite comedian(s)?
The welsh bloke...i am to tired to remember his name.

Is that ok.

1. Top Five Films
As others have said, this changes all the time but at the moment:
Grudge (Jap & US)
Ring (Jap & US)
War of the Worlds (Speilberg)
Matrix
Pan's Labyrinth

I also love '40's, 50's & 60's sci-fi and horror, plus old horror spoofs including Carry On Screaming and the Abbott & Costello "monster" movies.

2. Top Five Bands/Musicians/Choirs/Orchestras/Whatever-tickles-your-fancy Musically

Northern Soul (kudos Iain for soul references), Rat Pack (impressed how many people have cited Sinatra) plus Bobby Darren & Wayne Newton, Doo Wop, Rockabilly (kudos Craig for Stray Cats). My fave rockabilly band of all time are actually not a bunch of southern US ne'er do wells but a bunch of late '70's brits called Whirlwind. Following the punk explosion in London a host of rockabilly bands sprung up who seemed to take the punk energy and use it to create their own vibrant scene. Bands such as Crazy Cavern & the Rhythm Rockers, the Riot Rockers, and Whirlwind. The lead singer had the purest rockabilly voice I've heard since Sun Elvis - which should be impossible for an English boy. He sadly died of cancer in his 20's. Check them out here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bySaW3P7_o


3. If you were a starter, main course and dessert, what would you be and why?

Love Chinese & Indian, but I'll go for: Onion Bhajis, Chicken Vinduloo, coffee. And red wine. Lots of red wine.

4. Tell me a joke...
How do you know there's an elephant in bed with you?
He has a big E on his pyjamas.

5. Which is your favourite season and why?

Autumn, Winter. Love Halloween, falling leaves, bonfires, Christmas, snow, fog, frost and rain.

6. One of your favourite places you've visited in your life...?
New York.

7. Your perfect evening right now would consist of...
Me plus partner have lovely meal plus wine in restaurant, get home by 10pm to find Abbott & Costello Meet the Monster is on TV. Fall into bed and spoon all night, wake up late, make love, then drive to Little Chef for a fry up breakfast.... I've gone too far again haven't I?

8. If you won ten grand, what would you do with it?
Spend it.

9. Would you eat Tony Blair's toe skin shavings for £1000? If not, what's your price?
No thanks.

10. Favourite comedian(s)?
Eddie Izzard.
Abbott & Costello.
Laurel & Hardy.

1. Top Five Films
- Doomsday
- Trainspotting
- Human Traffic
- The Great Escape
- The Usual Suspects

2. Top Five Bands/Musicians/Choirs/Orchestras/Whatever-tickles-your-fancy Musically
- Kevin Energy
- CLSM
- Herve
- Bullet For My Valentine
- Danny Byrd

3. If you were a starter, main course and dessert, what would you be and why?
Smoked Salmon, some sort of steak, chocolat brownie with ice cream!

4. Tell me a joke...
Not so much a joke, but I like describing what "Superman", "Donkey Punch" and "A Cherry Bakewell" are.

5. Which is your favourite season and why?
Definitely Summer

6. One of your favourite places you've visited in your life...?
Camden

7. Your perfect evening right now would consist of...
A night out listening to music most of you would detest

8. If you won ten grand, what would you do with it?
Boringly use it as a deposit on a house

9. Would you eat Tony Blair's toe skin shavings for £1000? If not, what's your price?
Depends how many skin shavings. And how much they weigh. Colour/toughness is also a factor.

10. Favourite comedian(s)?
Lee Evans
George Carlin
Michael McIntyre

1. Top Five Films
Off the top of my head :

V for Vendetta
The Prestige
Mission Impossible : II
Ocean's Series
Mr. Bean's Holiday

2. Top Five Bands/Musicians/Choirs/Orchestras/Whatever-tickles-your-fancy Musically

Led Zeppelin
Bon Jovi
The Beatles
The Eagles
Michael Jackson

3. If you were a starter, main course and dessert, what would you be and why?

Starter : Italian/Lebanese
Main Course : Indian
Dessert : Anything and everything that has chocolate

4. Tell me a joke...

Two friends in a jungle. One just drops down. The other contacts emergency services.

"Hello I've got an emergency here. My friend and me are in a jungle and he just fell down and isn't getting up. "

"Please don't panic Sir. First, make sure he is dead "

A gunshot is heard by the emergency service assistant.

5. Which is your favourite season and why?

Winter ! ( Summers are too hot here in the Indian subcontinent )

6. One of your favourite places you've visited in your life...?

The Himalayas

7. Your perfect evening right now would consist of...

Watching Arsenal FC on a 65" television with popcorn, nachos and friends.

8. If you won ten grand, what would you do with it?

Deposit in my fund for a Bugatti Veyron.

9. Would you eat Tony Blair's toe skin shavings for £1000? If not, what's your price?

Nothing less than his whole fortune. Plus compensation for emotional and physical damages.

10. Favourite comedian(s)?

George Carlin ( May he RIP )
Bill Maher ( Superb ! It's like we share a common brain )
Bill Malone ( He's hilarious ! )
Eddie Murphy ( I love his movies ! )

And to act like a dumass, an addition : (Come on I'm not hijacking. Just adding .. The rest of you add this as well ... )

11. Favorite TV Series

Boston Legal
8 Simple Rules ( May John Ritter RIP.. He was loved by all.. )
Scrubs
F.R.I.E.N.D.S
Entourage

Oooo, I like hardik988's addition! Good call.

Fave TV (in no order and subject to change - apart from Buffy):
Battlestar Galactica
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Mentalist (no comments please. Patrick Jane is kewl and l33t! )
Flashpoint
Prison Break
Supernatural
Band of Brothers
Due South
Friends
Anything starring Derren

Ok, I'll stop now.

TV shows: Black Books, The Simpsons, Father Ted, Trick of the Mind, The Office (UK and US), Mystery Science Theater 3000, House.

Okay... Telly!
Buffy
Angel
Firefly
The Professionals
The Goodies
Star Trek (DS9)
Millennium

Okay, so I sneaked in seven... whatcha gonna do about it??!

Oh, and Doctor Who!

pcwells wrote:Okay... Telly!
Buffy
Angel
Firefly

Yay, another Joss Whedon fan! Good on you