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Just thought I'd demand the impossible. But anyway....
I was just wondering about what other TV serieses (sp?), books, music and stuff people on the boards like. I'm bored so I thought I'd ask.....
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Well, there's been a rash of Doctor Who converts in the last year.  I'm one of them.  I'm also a huge fan of the Gilmore Girls and Queer as Folk (US). As far as books... well, fanfic often takes the place of any books I read, but I will still read them - just not as many as when I'm on a fanfic binge. I'll admit to liking those "chick lit" books, the ones like In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner and others. My all-time favorite author is Dean Koontz. I'm also a fan of Tami Hoag. And for music, I like mostly everything that's not heavy metal or rap. My favorite genre... well, add me to the small country music fanbase we have on the boards.  Sara (who should *really* not be procrastinating...)
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Thank you for your order with Impossible, Inc. At Impossible, Inc., we strive to live up to the standards of our founder, retired government agent Jim Phelps. We pride ourselves on making the impossible merely implausible.
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Oh, and I watch Stargate (both shows) and Battlestar Galactica.
And I read mostly Fantasy these days, with a bit of Sci-Fi here and there. Mercedes Lackey, Terry Pratchett, Elizabeth Moon, Robert Jordan, Robin Hobb, and whatever else looks interesting on the library shelves.
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Love Paul's post Apart from that, many, varied books, by Greek and foreign authors. An author I enjoy very much is Jules Verne. I've read Dan Brown's books, which I found intriguing, and... well, I've read my fair share of books And fanfic, o' course Music: Pretty much anything, except trance/progressive, rap (though I like Eminem and 50 Cent) and a certain kind of Greek music :p See ya, AnnaBtG.
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Have to say, I love Paul's post and can't top it! Let's see....as for tv shows, I love both stargates, and battlestar galactica (when is that new bsg season going to start by the way?!  ) My hubby and I have been following the new scifi show Eureka also...not sure if we're hooked yet or not. We keep trying to decide about it. As for books, most of my non-fanfic reading revolves around the things I read aloud to my children, which I am trying to expose to good Classics like The Hobbit, The Chronicles of Narnia, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, A Wrinkle in Time, that sort of thing. And loads of historical fiction to go along with whatever time period of history we're studying at the moment. As for music, I stick mostly with contemporary Christian like Third Day, Kutless, Jeremy Camp. And some Classical and a little bit of Oldies music from time to time. That's my two pennies. Marcy
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<hijack thread> Thanks, Anna and Marcy.  when is that new bsg season going to start by the way?! Sometime in October. According to this article , SG-1 and SGA will go on a 6-month break in September. Starting in October, BSG will air 20 eps, taking us into March. The second half of the Stargate season will air shortly thereafter. </hijack thread> Forgot to mention earlier: I also like most of R.A. Salvatore's work. Paul
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As far as tv, I watch some of the prime time shows, NCIS, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, etc. But I love comedy, so shows like Frasier and Everybody Loves Raymond will always be my favorites. I have a few authors I like to read...Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Dan Brown, Agatha Christie, and classics like the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Other than that, I read off recommendations from friends. I just finish a funny memoir book called Bitter is the New Black. Oh, and I love Dave Barry. Music? Rock n roll. I listen to the classics, Rolling Stones, AC/DC, etc, but if you ask my friends, they'll immediately point out all the alternatives like The Vines, Ok Go, 311, New Found Glory...People say I'm a little weird lol, but I'm an artist, so I get a free pass to weird. Or something like that. Oh, and I can't stand country. I'm glad you started this thread! I always wonder what other things everyone is into besides fanfic. (Not that you need much else. ) Jen
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Ha ha ha! Oh my gosh Paul! That was hilarious!!!
Okay, ahem, CCWB - here are some of my old habits.
TV - CSI (Vegas); LOST; and when I need a good laugh, Scrubs.
Books - Star Wars (not next gen, but all leading up to next gen) Amelia Peabody Mysteries, and of course all the fanfic I have time to read and write.
Music - pretty diverse, all the way from Celine Dion to Metallica. One thing I'm adverse to is old style Country. Can't stand it. Oh that and violent Rap, I can do some hip hop and some of the early 90's rap, sometimes, but not the new stuff.
Fav movies - I'm not sure you asked for that one but...
This one is harder and I'm tired (was up to late last night fiddling with that stupid USB drive) but I know the Princess Bride, Six Days & Seven Nights, Rat Race, and the Italian Job are all up there in my top 25. Along with a few Bond movies, Pirates of the Carribean and Spiderman to name a few others.
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by KSaraSara: <strong> Well, there's been a rash of Doctor Who converts in the last year.  Dave
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I watch entirely too much television. I just think it's a facsinating medium. Current shows I watch include: Prison Break, Bones, Gilmore Girls, Veronica Mars, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Lost, The OC, What About Brian, One Tree Hill, Smallville, Numb3rs, and ER. There's also a few new shows that are premiering this fall that I'm going to try out, plus I sometimes watch old favorites that have been cancelled, like Alias, Dawson's Creek, Everwood, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Friends, and of course, Lois and Clark.
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I can't believe no one's noticed I didn't put anything down of my own when I started this thread lol
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Originally posted by Clark Kent Wannabe: I can't believe no one's noticed I didn't put anything down of my own when I started this thread lol I assumed that's because you already knew what other tv shows, books, music and stuff you like.
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You just kind of stared at me'
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Hmm tv series.. I don't really follow anything exept LnC.. just zapping.. like MTV and that kind of stuff.. once had one week a channel called FashionTV (Italian I think?) because it was free try.. liked that one too.. not really feeling like paying for it though.. I loooooooooooooove Orlando Bloom (PotC, LotR, KoH, Elizabethtown)and I intend on meeting him at least once in my life (as I intend on making a puzzle with more than 18000 pieces once in my life... hey, everyone has goals ) I read stuff like Bridget Jones Diary and Elle/Cosmo I watch those really bad movies with the concept: fall in love, get relationship, break up, find each other again (, possibly marry) if they wear pink clothes, it's alright with me. You get the picture... As for music... I like 60s/70s but it was already generally known that i'm crazy. As for computers/internet; a waste too much time on the computer :p I watch my new LnC dvd's on it (yesterday I saw 6 episodes in a row  ) and I do a lot of Photoshop/Paint Shop Pro/Paint. Sometimes I even play computer games (Age of Mythology > I'm turning into a guy or worse, a little boy!) and of course, I can be found on forums like this one Oh yeah, I love chocolate. Especially Toblerone or Milka. Or Nutella, but then without the bread.
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Originally posted by Selinde:
I loooooooooooooove Orlando Bloom (PotC, LotR, KoH, Elizabethtown)
I watch my new LnC dvd's on it (yesterday I saw 6 episodes in a row
Oh yeah, I love chocolate. Especially Toblerone or Milka. Or Nutella, but then without the bread. What's KoH? I got Pirates Of The Caribbean and Lord Of The Rings, but I can't work out KoH.... As for 6 episodes of L&C, after I finished downloading season 3 (It's out in America and therefore online first, there's no way I'm waiting until it comes out over here, I've waited ten years for the show to come out over here, lol) I watched 13 episodes in one day. I would have carried on but I needed sleep, lol. As for chocolate, who doesn't love it? I eat all I can get my hands on....
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Originally posted by Clark Kent Wannabe:
What's KoH? I got Pirates Of The Caribbean and Lord Of The Rings, but I can't work out KoH....
As for 6 episodes of L&C, after I finished downloading season 3 (It's out in America and therefore online first, there's no way I'm waiting until it comes out over here, I've waited ten years for the show to come out over here, lol) I watched 13 episodes in one day. I would have carried on but I needed sleep, lol.
As for chocolate, who doesn't love it? I eat all I can get my hands on.... KoH = Kingdom of Heaven.. :p Whoow 13??! Can't top that one! I eat as many chocolate as possible too.. in the last two weeks I ate 10 (!!!) chocolate bars.. (100 grams each > a kilogram of chocolate!!) and yes, I've gained some weight after that (BMI is 20,5 instead of the 20 that it was before these 2 weeks...)
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I've converted to lurk-ism... hopefully only temporary.
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Of TV series:
Dr. Quinn
Sue Thomas, F.B.Eye
Smallville (till somewhere in 4th season when it *really* went nuts)
Of books:
Tolkien's LOTR
C.S. Lewis (Narnia, Space Trilogy, Till We Have Faces . . .)
Patricia McKillip (especially Riddle-master trilogy, Song for the Basilisk, and The Forgotten Beasts of Eld)
Orson Scott Card (Ender series)
Diane Duane's Young Wizards and Cat Wizards series
Tamora Pierce (particularly the Circle of Magic series)
Mercedes Lackey's Velgarth books (better known as Valdemar books)
S.M. Stirling's Nantucket trilogy
Of music:
Loreena McKennitt
Yanni
Lesiem
Capercaillie
various songs of the Corrs, Michelle Tumes, Magna Canta, Iona, etc.
much more than I could ever write here
That's the major ones I can think of right now. There're heaps more, but . . . yeah, I could be here for days typing up stuff.
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I don't watch much TV these days. I follow Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis. (200th episode of SG-1 tonight, which should be hilarious -- think I saw a clip in the previews of Teal'c and Sam dressed up as D'Argo and Chiana of Farscape but I thought she made some good points. And then there's classics by Georgette Heyer -- I've been re-reading the Talisman Ring. Again. Music -- some Christian contemporary, but mostly the stuff that was contemporary 15 years ago. The only radio station I'll listen to is modern country. They've got good God-lovin' songs, romance songs, and fall-down funny songs... Alan Jackson's "Talkin' Song Repair Blues" is hilarious. Alas, I'm the only one in my family who likes country (it's a recent conversion) and everybody else kinda stares at me and backs away slowly whenever I bring up the topic. PJ
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