The Short List

People always seem to ask whats your favorite ________, Its a conversation starter. It can tell you a lot about a person. However I find myself never fully prepared to answer. I have favorites don't get me wrong but they say different things about me and I want different people to have different first impressions. because of this I have compiled a short list of my favorite ______'s.

Movies

1 Memento

2 Donnie Darko

3 Prestige

4 Peter Pan (live action 2008)

5 The Holy Grail (monty python)

Books

1 Fahrenheit 451

2 Adam

3 State of Fear

4 Candor

5 Animorphs

TV shows

1 Firefly

2 Game of thrones

3 Cougar town

4 Futurama

5 NCIS/House

OTHER

1 Final Fantasy 7

2 Think-Write

3 Cracked/Wired

4 Cardiff, Whales

and now your thinking Joel that gives us nothing at all yeah we now have lots of things to check out if we havent seen, read, or watched these yet;  but you need to explain yourself. 

Well stupid reader who I am thinking for, I will explain myself but not right now I will however every day this week cover one section or one item and why its so bloody awesome. 

For now i'll leave you with an ultimatum get ahold of these quick all subsequent blogs will contain spoilers

Remember Your Mortality.

I have been absent for a few weeks. For some reason the extreme amount of time that I have no drive to write. It may be the absence of a hipster atmosphere that exists on a college campus or my general dislike of my life in lawton but whatever the reason im writing again.

I just gave myself a deadline by telling one of the few pople who i know will not stop bothering me until I meet it that I would send her a new draft of something.

Oh and the title well that would be the literal translation of the phrase Memento Mori. This phrase is the title of the story written by my new favorite writer Jonathan Nolan (es everyones favorite director has an equally talented brother). Though I am late at finding this story and the film that goes with it I believe it is a new muse along with my other favorite movies and books that have inspired me

So to close here is a list of Movies TV and Books that made me want to write

The Once and Future King
Peter Pan (2003 live action version)
Fahrenheit 451
THR3E
The Prestige
Stranger Than Fiction
FLASHFORWARD
Dead poet Society
Memento
Memento Mori

CAUTION: read and watch at your own risk, side effects include: obsessive story telling, inability to enjoy meaningless television (and most sports), desire to pursue liberal arts degree, constant disappointment from new books and movies, and the wish to ignore all human contact to finish a pointless story that means everything to you