Answer to meme question #2

What are your top 10 favorite Simpsons episodes?
This was really tough. Like you said Maggie, I got it down to about 40 really great episodes, then had to cringe as I tried to cull the list down to just 10. I can name my all time favorite episode easily, Whacking Day. It's just a classic and has tons of quotable quotes in it. Here's my final list, in order from most favorite to least favorite (but either way, this is kind of a best of the best for me).

1. Episode 79. Whacking Day - Like I said, just an all time classic and fantastic episode!


2. Episode 115. Homer the Great - Who can forget Homer's adventures in the Stonecutters?


3. Episode 162. El Viaje Misterioso De Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer) - This episode is just so wacky and you can't go wrong with Johnny Cash playing a talking coyote.


4. Episode 109.Treehouse of Horror V (The Shinning, Time and Punishment, Nightmare Cafeteria) - I mostly chose this one just because of the Shinning segment. The rest of the episode I could take or leave.


5. Episode 231. E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt) - One word: TOMACCO!


6. Episode 209. D'oh-in' in the Wind - "My god, it's nothing but carrots and peyote!"


7. Episode 161. Hurricane Neddy - I love any episode that shows Ned's "lousy beatnik" parents.


8. Episode 191. The Joy of Sect - "Na na na na na na na na, Lea-der!" or "Homer no function beer well without."


9. Episode 91. $pringfield (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) - "There's only one monster here, Lisa. The gambling monster who's enslaved your mother. I call him Gamblor!"


10. Episode 55. Colonel Homer - I get Lurleen Lumpkin's songs stuck in my head all the time.

Answer to meme question #2

A list of my top 10 favorite Simpsons episodes can be found here.

Answer to meme question #3

Okay so perhaps you have mentioned it before, but what are your religious beliefs? what do you do for a living? and what is your family background?

This one is likely to be very long. At least the religion and possibly the family background parts.

( Religious beliefs )

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( What I do for a living )

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( Family background )

And there you have it. Might as well be my life story. I probably should have broken that up into a couple of entries really.

Answer to meme question #4

Favorite movie and least favorite movie and why...

My impulse answer would be Lord of the Rings and if I had to pick a single movie of the trilogy, it would be Return of the King. It's just so fantastically done. Sure there are liberties taken with the storyline, but I believe their executed in such a way that it still holds true to Tolkien's world and ultimate vision. And let's face it, a book adaptation is just not going to be able to stick to the original story word for word or event for event anyway. Aesthetically, it's beautiful, even the orcs and cave trolls. There's such an insane amount of detail that was put into those movies that we don't even really get to see on screen. The costumes, the sets, all the pieces of paper used in the film that were hand written and drawn (maps, books, the decree banishing Eomer from Rohan, etc. and several copies of each), the time they spent with each actor perfecting battle techniques, languages, horseback riding, etc.. You don't ever see all the effort they truly put into these films but you'd certainly miss it if it weren't there. I remember the two times I visited the costume and prop exhibit at the Indiana State Museum a few years ago. Getting up close to some of those pieces, they're just works of art. You never notice there are Celtic patterns etched into Theoden's armor on screen, but it's there and it's amazing!

But, if I sat back and thought about it for a minute, I think I'd have to say my all time favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. It's just a classic and has been very dear to my heart since I was a little girl. I just love the story and I always wanted my very own flying monkey. In first grade, my mom made me a Dorothy costume for a book character day at school. I cherished my ruby slippers until I grew out of them later that year. There again, for the time it was made, there was an amazing amount of detail and hard work put into that film. I guess it's mostly a nostalgia factor that makes me love it so much. But after possibly hundreds of viewings of it (and yes, some of which were synced with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon), I still love it just as much.

Most hated movie (yes, it deserves more than just "least favorite"), Das Boot. I explain all about why here. Granted there are worse films out there, but I tend to avoid them based on trailers. I specifically feel this one is my worst movie ever because it's hailed to be such a great film. As mentioned in my entry on it, its on IMDB's top 50 movies of all time list. Surely there's a movie more deserving of it's spot on the list.

Answer to meme question #3

Okay so perhaps you have mentioned it before, but what are your religious beliefs? what do you do for a living? and what is your family background?

Answer can be found here. Beware, it's quite long.

Answer to meme question #4

Favorite movie and least favorite movie and why...

Answer can be found here.