<p>I've noticed that on CC most people are in the 99th percentile of their respective demographics. We're rather flooded with super-stats here. But what about the intangibles? What do you we like to do? We sometimes feel a bit flat, but there are people behind these screen names.</p>
<p>So....</p>
<p>What's your favorite book?</p>
<p>Movie?</p>
<p>Song?</p>
<p>Painting?</p>
<p>Essay?</p>
<p>1) Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. Being a big history fan, I loved it.
2) Brazil
5) what type of essay?</p>
<p>1) "Big Book of Jewish Conspiracies"
2) "Monty Python & the Holy Grail"
3) "Eleanor Rigby" (The Beatles, of course; Billy Joel's "Piano Man" Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" are a close second/third, though)
4) Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Memory" (I know it has become almost kitsch, but I love the ideas embodied in his work)
5) I'm not really clear on the type of essay . . .</p>
<p>Oh! I just realized I forgot Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody!" How dare I! I'm pretty sure you get my genre of music, though</p>
<p>1) In Search of Lost Time
2) Army of Shadows
3) Andrew Bird "The Naming of Things"
4) Self-portrait, by Me (1993)
5) Beckett, on Proust</p>
<p>1) my name is asher lev (although some of steinbeck's works are close behind)
2) october sky
3) bruce springsteen "born to run"
4) dali "still life moving fast"
5) hmmmm. no idea for the essay :|</p>
<p>1)Tie between "Special Topics in Calamity Physics," and "The Handmaid's Tail,"</p>
<p>2)Elephant (Gus van Sant)</p>
<p>3)Ahh! Way too many!-"Symmetry," and "Elephants as Big as Whales" by Playradioplay, "Perhaps Vampire is a Bit Strong But...", and "A Certain Romance"-Arctic Monkeys, "Ordinary World"-Duran Duran, "This Charming Man"-The Smiths,"Every You Every Me"-Placebo, "La Foule"-Edith Piaff, "Broken Promises For Broken Hearts"-She Wants Revenge. Wow, I fail at picking favorites.</p>
<p>4)Not sure. Anything by Egon Schielle</p>
<p>5)Not sure.</p>
<p>1) In the Lake of the Woods, Tim O'Brien (quickly followed by Angels in America, Kushner)
2) Koyaanisqatsi
3) Woodstock, Joni Mitchell
4) "What Stands Between the Artist and..." Eric Fischl
5) "Nuit of the Living Dead" Sedaris</p>
<p>1) Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en (translated by Arthur Waley)</p>
<p>2) Borat</p>
<p>3) Tough one. . . tie between "Roundabout" - Yes, "Since I've Been Lovin' You" - Led Zeppelin, "Oh My Love" - John Lennon, "Bangladesh" - George Harrison, "Southern Man" - Neil Young, "Smooth" - Santana, "Won't Get Fooled Again" - The Who, "Black Stair" - Yngwie Malmsteen, etc. </p>
<p>4) Bacchanale - Salvador Dali</p>
<p>5) John Lennon by me</p>
<p>1 Crime and Punishment</p>
<p>2 Schindler's List</p>
<p>3 Bling- The killers</p>
<p>4 Stanze di Raffaello (ok so they're not actually paintings, but whatever)</p>
<p>Ah, now we're flooded with super-lists, flat super-lists, behind which there are no people, but only emotive machines.</p>
<p>So... [::: proceeds to hijack--attempt to hijack--thread::: [:::manical laughter:::]]</p>
<p>What's your favorite Pepperridge farm cookie?</p>
<p>Sin?</p>
<p>Object of ridicule?</p>
<p>Sex symbol?</p>
<p>Symbolic logician?</p>
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<li>Answers containing either books, movies, songs, paintings or essays (essays!?) will not be accepted as valid indicators of character or neuroses.</li>
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<p>I wouldn't say these are super list. Everyone seems to like Dali, which is interesting seeing as his compositions fall apart under the simplest of scrutinization. Maybe people just like odd things.</p>