So anyways onwards through the posting everyday goodness in which this meme is on Day 4 which is "Your Favorite Books" so I will name off 5 of my fave books.

1) Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson -- Yes, I have a youth book in here. Loved the story, loved the time period it took place in, and it was just made of awesome despite the Mood Whiplash. Didn't see the movie, but man it was promoted so horribly. It's not really a fantasy book.

2) The Soul of Baseball by Joe Posnanski -- Buck O'Neill is awesome and I could read this book over and over again if I could. It's such a touching tribute to the man and Posnanski is a great writer. He's probably the best current sportswriter out there.

3) The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien -- read this in high school. I'm really into the 1960's period and how things just seemed to change so drastically. Also the Vietnam War is something I've always been interested in reading about.

4) Snow in August by Pete Hamill -- This is one of the few books I couldn't put down. It combines my love of baseball, my curiosity/fascination of Judaism, and my enjoyment of watching assholes get their due. It gets a little weird near the end. But honestly when I read this book, I started to read it at like 2am and I ended up staying up all night to finish it. It was one of those kind of books.

5) The Teammates by David Halberstam -- This chronicles the friendship of Bobby Doerr, Dom DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, and Ted Williams. Their friendship was awesome and the story takes place during the summer of 2001 while they were taking a trip to see Ted for the final time. Great book, though kinda short.

That's all for now.

Here's Day 3 of that Meme. I don't feel like linking the days before. This is basically Favorite TV Shows...I'll list 4 and one is kinda cheating

1) Red Sox Baseball -- Told ya it was cheating. Actually Major League Baseball in general counts here. Love it...it seems so mundane but yet so complex. (Baseball in general) Also I loved Eck in the booth.

2) Mad Men -- Started getting into it at the end of season 2, but really got into it this season. Granted, a lot of the season was kinda odd. It seemed like it was really disjointed compared to what I heard of the other seasons. However the last 3 episodes made up for the inconsistency and bizarreness because you see all the episodes actually finally coming together in that Trilogy of Transformation. But yeah, great show.

3) Top Chef -- I'm not huge on reality shows. Kinda think they're boring and blehh. I love this one though. You watch these chefs compete against each other and make these amazing meals with what they're given or what they think up. And this season was probably the best season in terms of talent. Hell Jen just got eliminated last episode and she probably could've won any other season. And Kevin I think has replaced Richard Blais as my all time favorite contestant (though I did love Carla and Stephanie)

4) How I Met Your Mother -- I'll be honest. I haven't really been that good of a viewer this season. I keep getting sidetracked. However, from what I hear, it's kinda a really bizarre season and disjointed. Also, they really fucked up with Barney/Robin relationship. Like a serious fuckup and that's a shame. They wrote them out of character which sucks. Though I do appreciate Ted being a lot less douchier this season and more amusing.

Here's teh deal. This is the list from Game Informer Magazine's 200 Best Video Games of All Time. I'll jot down my beef with it in a few because I got some beef but anyways here's the gist if you all wanna participate.
*Bold the games that you played and loved
*Italicize the games you played in general
*StrikeThrough the ones you HATED

Ready? Go!

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Anyways onto 5 gripes with the list

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I swear I'll talk more baseball once the offseason actually starts going somewhere.

Okay Onto Day 2

Day 1: Your Favorite Song
Day 2: Your favorite movie

I'll name 10 of my favorites and include a Youtube Link to my favorite scene (if I can find it)

1) Airplane! -- I'm a huge fan of spoof movies and this one is my favorite. And seriously, hearing June Cleaver speaking jive is fucking hilarious.
2) Field of Dreams -- I'm a sap at heart and this scene gives me chills like crazy
3) Shawshank Redemption -- This is one of those movies that just transfixes you and just the ending...gahhh!
4) It's a Wonderful Life -- Honestly folks, this movie is the reason I love the song "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" and "Auld Lang Syne"
5) Toy Story 2 -- Okay this is my second favorite scene but my favorite is the one with Woody seeing himself on TV singing "You've Got a Friend in Me" and realizing he needs to go back. With this scene just this one simple thing -- DO NOT WATCH THIS WITH ANYBODY AROUND YOU IF YOU HAVE A SOUL. You will be bawling like crazy and then feel bad about mistreating your toys.
6) Singin' in the Rain -- Okay seriously, haven't we ALL done this once or twice in our lives during a rainstorm? Or at least attempted to? Because I know I have.
7) Young Frankenstein -- It's "Fronkensteen"...but anyways this scene makes me giggle. And DYK moment -- Frankenstein was played by Peter Boyle aka Frank Barone from Everybody Loves Raymond. Of course I'm sure you all know of that...I think.
8) Casablanca -- I saw this movie in my Intro to Film and Video class and I nearly bawled my eyes out at this scene...yeah would've been embarrassing. Another DYK moment that you all probably know -- The screenwriters of this movie were the grandfather and great-uncle of Theo Epstein
9) Blade Runner -- Like tears in the rain...that line just...damn. And that line was actually improvised I believe. This whole movie was great. It just was great.
10) Lord of the Rings Trilogy -- I actually am partial to the second one if not just because of this scene. I also seriously thought Sean Astin should've been nominated for an Oscar for his performance in the third movie. I was riveted. Granted I can't really watch these movies anymore but I still like them.

Anyways that's all for now. Gotta go.

I'm doing that 30 Days Meme during December. This will help me out with keeping updates going on an everyday basis for the most part. So anyways here's the list underneath Cut number 1...

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So Now it's Day 1 -- Your Favorite Song and I think I'll list 10 of them complete with youtubery linkage. And because I'll be nice to you all, I won't count any video game songs :(

1) "Can I Get A Witness?"-Marvin Gaye
2) "Bring It On Home To Me"-Sam Cooke
3) "The Promised Land"-Bruce Springsteen
4) "More Today Than Yesterday"-Sprial Staircase (yes, part of the reason why I love this song is because I fucking pwn it at karaoke)
5) "Beggin'"-Four Seasons (this is a remixed version)
6) "It's Only a Paper Moon"-James Taylor (fucking LOVE this cover)
7) "I'll Make a Man Out of You"-from Mulan (....what? Don't be hating!)
8) "Quarter To Three"-Gary US Bonds
9) "Closer to Free"-The Bodeans (or, as you may know it "The Party of Five Theme Song" (hated the show, loved the theme song))
10) "While You See a Chance"-Steve Winwood

So anyways thought I'd just update and say what's up. Not much is really going on around here. Just kinda chilling out. My first two classes were canceled so I'm at home just being a lazy ass. I'm trying to figure out how I do an annotated bibliography for my final paper except for the fact that it's a dialogue that I'm writing myself (the bibliography is if I chose the research paper option which I didn't). He said he wanted something. I guess maybe in a sense he wants like how I came up with the idea. I'm gonna just go with that.

So anyways, Thanksgiving is coming up and everybody has a case of the lazies. Tomorrow is gonna be even worse. I have a quiz in my later classes but he drops the two lowest grades so I could miss that class and take a zero to have it dropped but mehh may as well show up, right? I mean all we're doing is going in, taking the quiz, and getting the heck out of there. I have to go to my first class because my teacher will be pissed if nobody shows up. So anyways that's all I got at the moment.

Also, I'm happy to see that the writers got the awards right this season for the most part.