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Holy moly, too many movies!!! I think we all have this problem. Since day one, if you were conceived since the late 1800s or whenever the moving picture camera was developed, you've seen more movies than youc an shake a stick at!!!
I'll never be able to list ALL of my favourite movies- there will always be some old classic I'd forgotten about, or just discovered on a classic movie channel, and since they will probably never stop making movies until the human race is wiped off the face of the planet, I'm always going to have a new one to fall for.
I'm going to try to mention a few tho. and give you some idea of the genres I like and the actors whose work I enjoy. That way if you know of a movie yout hink I'd just LOVE to see, you can get in touch and let me know.
I think, like many people, one of the earliest movies I can remember seeing is The Wizard of Oz. Such classic entertainment.. based on the popular book series by Frank L. Baum, this movie is a favourite of nearly everyone I know, and its constant rerun on television will probably make it a movie many children will have as their first film for time to come.I still kinda get goosebumps or weepy everytime I see it. It also, however, spurned some of my very first nightmares....I have dreamed of tornadoes my whole life, and I suspect this movie is to blame.
I also saw Yellow Submarine as a teeny weeny and have never grown tired of it. In my later years I became a Beatles fan and have now seen and love all of their movies, but as a kid I had no frame of reference other than the story told within its own sweet self. I remember tho, as a kid being a little restless through some of the musical numbers....who on earth ever decided kids like to be sang to???
Aaaah, Disney. Who doesn't like at least one Disney movie? Delightful for kids, trippy for adults. Some of my many favorites include Fantasia, Dumbo(pink elephants on parade!!!!),Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Escape to Witch Mountain, & the Little Mermaid.
At the moment my favourite kid oriented movie(s) is the Harry Potter series, of course.
A'ight. enough of this kiddy stuff. My favourite movies tend to be surreal. as said, my mom used to take me to R rateds even when I was a kid, and this was the 70s! so I was exposed to some weird mindblowing stuff from quite early on in.
In one of my poems about media, "Primetime Vodoun Blues in A" I state: "when I was little I was taken to see? 'Jesus Christ Superstar' and 'Tommy'/ and that is how I got religion"...and uh...yeh, better believe it. I mean, you're a little kid, how can you not remember tripped out things like the statue in those "Planet of the Apes" things, or Tommy stepping out of Tina Turner's iron maiden as Christ, a skeleton & his own dad & think...."whoa....!"
I like religious movies, yeh. Anything that'll show me Bible stories is cool in my book, if some of them get a bit cheesy. I also like hippy era movies like "PsychOut" and "Easy Rider", many many music movies made to promo various bands (a small list o' faves: The Song Remains the Same(Led Zepp),Yessongs,The Wall & Live at Pompeii(Pink Floyd) & Live!Tonight!Sold Out!(Nirvana)). All those drugs and travel romps of the 80s, like Dogs in Space,Get Crazy,Straight To Hell, Repo Man. Freaky arthouse flicks like Liquid Sky,Forbidden Zone,Zardoz....
I love love love scary movies. Have since I was a kid and watched Chiller Theater on TV. Vincent Price was my first favorite actor, and I love all those loosely-based-on Edgar Allen Poe movies he did, especially The Raven. I like the atmosphere of the old Hammer horror movies, and I also like the wacky monster movies out of Japan. Godzilla vs the Smog Monster was my favourite of those.
Vampyres are a fave of mine, followed closely by zombies. There are very few movies about these monsters I haven't seen. Some of my favourite vampyre movies include RazorBlade Smile & Interview with the Vampire. Some of my favourite zombie flicks include Dead Alive and Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things. I've never been big on slasher flicks, or rednecks-with-chainsaws, tho I've seen my share of them. I did, however like Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses a lot; the characters were colourful. I get a giggle out of the Hollywood version of Satanists as well, especially all the 80s movies which tied Satan worship to bad hair metal bands. Some of my favourite "Satan" movies include: Psychomania,Phantom of the Paradise,The Devil's Rain &Black Roses. I also like the rash of imported Asian ghost story movies, like Ringu,Ju-On and The Eye.
I'm not a big fan of comedy movies. However, there are a lot of them out there, so for the record, I'll mention a few I did like; it may give you some idea how my sense of humour tends to slant. A lot of movies are just too cheesola in their idea of what is funny; I have a better time making fun OF the movies than the movies themselves.
Comedy movies I have liked include the Wayne's World things, and the two Bill & Ted movies. I love anything Monty Python. anything that spoofs movies in and of themselves, like Amazon Women on the Moon and Kentucky Fried Movie are usually fun. I also like spoof documentaries, like This Is Spinal Tap, & Fear of a Black Hat. Other comedy movies I've liked include Drop Dead Fred& Dogma.
Don't really like action movies either, unless they have a supernatural or sci-fi slant. Like everyone else, I've watched them...but they amuse me for a bit, and then I just forget them. I liked the Indiana Jones series ok, liked Desperado and Pulp Fiction & I like war movies like Apocalypse Now and Platoon. I think the only action movies I've ever liked so much as to own copies were The Crow with Brandon Lee, and Jim Jarmusch's western Dead Man with Johnny Depp and Gary Farmer.
The only chick flicks I've liked were both about ghosts. Ghost with Patrick Swayze, and Truly Madly Deeply with Alan Rickman. Not big on the mushy love stories, I.
I have a list at Amazon.com of movies I like. hope you'll go check it out!
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guess this leave only one mediae left...
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radio...

I've been a DJ. twice. Once in the 80s on Goddard College's radio station WGDR, and once on the Burlington pirate station. In spite of this, I don't listen to as much radio as I used to. Once I have a sound card on my computer, maybe...
In the 80s tho, radio was the shizzz. I was all about it; NY had some truly kickbutt rock stations- WLIR, WAPP... WPLJ was a fave of mine tho. I used to call the DJs and bug them to play me stuff... we could get in some of the college stations from faroff NJ. It took a bit of finagling the antennae into bizarre configurations, and reinforcing it with hangers and any other metal bitsys we could scrounge...but as a result of this I am proud to say I discovered WFMU. Now that was a station. We got turned on to Gong as a result of a DJ named Jim Price...whereas it was great to listen on the commercial stations to Dr.Demento, he kind of paled next to our Ol'Pal, Irwin Chusid and his 'simply atrocious music' show. When I was doing the pirate show, I occasionally pulled up feeds from GDR, and the politicos who didn't like that there were *gasp!* music DJs on our station to begin with! were aphalled to have to hear something "commercial"; if they'd actually listened to some of the broadcasts instead've pining for replays of last weeks' Pacifica World News or whatever, they'd have realised how revolutionary this all really was! their loss....
MOving to Verrrmont did take me away from a lot of the tres cool radio, but in its time there was some pretty cool goings on at Goddard. Longrunning and fun was David Dzendron's show. There were a lot of DJs who were willing to get experimental with what they played. Nowadays its kinda watered down to a lot of reggae and womyn's music, but heyy. For what it was, it was cool, onceupona.
Moving to Washington state meant listening to a lot of KAOS. To this day they remain one of the hippest stations I know of. They're also pretty up on the leftist politics, if that really yanks your crank.
Now I am back in Burlington, where I sometimes listen to UVM's WRUV. Again, much better in the past. There was a Goth/industrial show run by TheGirlUWant I liked a lot, a prog rock show by a guy calling himself Maestro, and of course the fun & offensive talk show The Howie Rose show. This has been pulled. UVM got this whole apple-up-their-arse idea that 'non-affliates' ie, townies were somehow lesser people than students; not only has their radio station suffered for this,but going to the campus is much less fun. I recommend listening to St.Mike's (88.7) or WCLX, the album oriented classic station.
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