Top fives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much, guys! Now I have top fives of almost everything . The lists are compiled in no particular order, if something is numbered "1" it doesn't mean it is the very top of the list.
Top five Korean actors, not by looks (there is another category "Korean men" for that), but by acting abilities:
1.Lee Min Ho
2. Lee Byung Hun
3. Song Kang Ho
4. Park Shin Yang
5. Uhm Tae Woong
Top Five story arcs in Rome TV series:
1.Friendship between Pullo and Vorenus. Many great smaller arcs here. My favourite is when they made a raft out of dead bodies after the shipwreck. Vorenus going crazy after the death of Niobe and Pullo looking after him is also a good one, but it is so sad.
2. Agrippa and Octavia's doomed romance.
3. Brutus and Caesar's relationship in the first season that culminated in Caesar's murder.
4. Octavian's change from a young boy into a tyrant, this is so very neatly done.
5. Pullo's baby :D
Top Five moments in a Song of Ice and Fire book series
1. Red Wedding : an incredibly powerful scene that is the hub of the series so far. Everyone and everything has been affected by Red Wedding.
2. Sansa singing to Sandor in "A Clash of Kings" : “You promised me a song, little bird. Have you forgotten?”
3. Jaime and Brienne in the bath-house: " The bath-house had been thick with the steam raising off the water, and Jaime had come walking through that mist naked as his name day, looking half a corpse and half a god."
4. Tyrion killing Lord Tywin in the privy: die evil man, die!
5. Rhaegar, winning the fateful tournament at Harrenhal and presenting a crown of winter roses to Lyanna Stark.
Five Favourite films:
1. Casablanca
2. Blade Runner
3. Three colours: Red
4. In the mood for love
5. Spirited Away
Five favourite icons that you've made yourself:
1. Leila smiling : I like the colours in this one and I love Leila.
2. Do androids dream of electric sheep: I love this book book title, it is a perfect quote and a perfect riddle.
3. The legend: This one is from my favourite Korean drama and it was really hard to make. I wanted the both figures to be seen clearly and I also wanted their forces to be seen clearly too. I was fiddling with this icon for hours but now I am quite pleased with it.
4. Summer fruit; Yummy!!!!!
5. We'd like to give you: I haven't done much with this one, just the usual cropping, colour enhancement and sharpening. But the quote is so bizarre it makes me giggle every time I see it:
Top Five painters is a really hard one. The are more than 5 painters that I admire and value equally:
1. Michail Vrubel
2. Vilhelm hammershoi
3. Edward Burne-Jones
4. Andrei Rublev
5. Paul Cezanne
Top five Russian/USSR movies:
1. Solaris , Tarkovsky:
This is probably the film that affected me more than any other film and helped to shape my personality and my tastes into what they are now. I have seen it for the first time during my formative years and had an enormous obsession with the film as well as with the book, Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, reading and re-reading the book, watching and re-watching the film numerous times. I wish some of you guys watched it. :D
2. Stalker. After "Solaris" I became obsessed with everything by Tarkovsky. I used to travel far just to watch his fims. These were the dark times before the Internet. "Stalker" is my second favourite among Tarkovsky's films. I also love the novel it was adapted from, Roadside Picnic by brothers Strugatsky. The word "Stalker" doesn't mean much in Russian but in English the title takes on some sinister, obsessive aspects.
3. Brother . This a slice of Russia , with it's brutality, melancholia, love for poetry and bigger than life heroes. It features most awesome Sergey Bodrov and songs by Nautilus Pompilius
4. Ostrov (Island) : So far , this is the best film I have ever seen about the matters of faith and relationship between faith and religion.
5. The Return
Five favorite Russian words/phrases. I tried to remember some of the most colorful ones. Fish, wolves, sparrows and other creatures are featured:
1. " Слово не воробей - вылетит не поймаешь" - A word is not a sparrow; after it flies out you will not be able to catch it back.
2. " На всякого мудреца довольно простоты " - For each wise man there is quite enough simplicity.
3. " Любопытной Варваре на базаре нос оторвали " - Curious Varvara's nose was torn off one market day. Don't be so nosy. Rhyme.
4. "Работа не волк - в лес не убежит." (or just " Работа не волк") - Work is not a wolf - it won't run away. Never do today what you can do tomorrow.
5. " Без труда не выловишь и рыбку из пруда " - Even a little fish can't be fished out of a pond without effort. If you want something, work for it. Nothing ventured nothing gained. This is another rhyme / tongue twister.
Top five Stringer Bell scenes (from The Wire TV series)
1. The first scene we see him in, at the courthouse with Jimmy McNulty.
2. Playing basketball with Avon in season 1: purely for pretty.
3. Teaching his guys macroeconomic
4. We don't need to dream no more, his conversation with Avon
5. His last scene
Top five Angel story lines (from Angel TV series)
1. Wesley and Fred romance
2. Illyria's arc
3. Pylea arc: the end of season 2.
4. Gunn's sister's story
5. Jasmine's arc in season 4
Top five Russian novels:
1. Idiot, Dostoyevsky. Dostoevsky is my favourite author of all times. I was obsessed with "Idiot", reading and re-reading it at least 12 times between the age of 14 and 24. I am still re-reading it from time to time.
2. Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky. My second favourite among Dostoyevsky's books.
3. Strugatsky: Monday begins on Saturday. I love all their books, but if I have to choose one I would probably choose "Monday begins on Saturday" as the favourite. It is hilariously funny book about workaholic wizards that makes fun of Soviet stereotypes.
4. Bulgakov: Master and Margarita : Satan visits Moscow. Many very funny things happen, in a very Faust-ian way.
5. Boris Akunin : Erast Fandorin series. Crime stories set in 19th century Russia. The series will provide you with numerous hours of wonderful entertainment. Highly recommended.
Top five OTPs. This was a hard one again. There are many movie and Asian drama OPTs that I adore, but if I have to choose, taking into consideration the length of time I have been obsessing over one or another OTP I will have to choose the following:
1. Sansa/Sandor, A song of Ice and Fire series (can I add Jaime/Brienne too?)
2. Fred/Wesley, Angel TV series
3. Lee Soo Hyeon/ Cha Song Joo , Korean drama Capital scandal
4. Lee/Kara, Battlestar galactica TV series
5. Nikita/Michael, La Femme Nikita TV series
Top five sci-fi films:
1. Blade runner
2. Alien (just rewatched it - it is awesome)
3. Stalker , Tarkovsky
4. Solaris , Tarkovsky
5. Matrix
Top five pairs of shoes. My autumn/winter shoes are still packed neatly away so I present you my summer favourites (I discovered while making the pictures that I have more than 20 pairs of summer shoes) :D
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5.
5 favorite things about living in England:
1. food is nice
2. How green everything is. Flowers are literally everywhere, any season.
3. The country is packed with pretty historical ruins (and not yet ruins)
4. people never jump the queue
5. rain
5 favorite kinds of tea:
1. Ceylon. (Twinnings)
2. English breakfast (Twinnings)
3. Green tea (Russian varieties especially)
4. Jasmine tea
5. Camomile tea
Top five dramas. As with the films, there are some dramas that I like on purely emotional level and there are some dramas that I think are well made (have an interesting original story, good cinematography and acting, etc.) . Top five is a small list so I only included the dramas that are at the top in both categories. It was really really hard and I am sure I have forgotten something:
1. Capital scandal, Korea
2. Legend (First King's Four Gods), Korea
3. Goong (Princess Hours), Korea
4. Ice World, Japan
5. Last friends, Japan
Top five Korean men, as far as pretty factor goes. Nothing to do with acting capabilities (although some of them are good at acting too):
1. Hyun Bin
2. Jo Ji Hoon
3. Park Shi Hoo
4. Lee Byun Hoon
5. Lee Wan
Top five favorite drama cliches:
1. Forbidden love (as in age difference, class difference, feuding families, etc)
2. Hurt/ Comfort (bandaging wounds, especially)
3. I am going to stay away from you for your own good!
4. Bad boy/Good girl or Good boy/ bad girl
5. He is her best friend, but she thinks she is in love with someone else. Later she finds out that she is in love with her best friend. (This doesn't work well for me if she continues to stay in love with someone else :D)
Top 5 paintings:
1.Vrubel: Princess Swan
2. Vrubel: Demon seating
3. Vilhelm Hammershoi: A woman reading by the window.
4. Edward Burrne-Jones: The Wedding of Psyche
5.Dante Gabriel Rossetti : La Pia de' Tolomei (the header in my LJ)
Top five moments in Generation Kill:
1. Sgt. Antonio 'Poke' Espera: "People been fighting over this bitch since ancient times, Dog. How many graves we standing on? Think about all the wisdom and science and money and civilization it took to build these machines, and the courage of all the men who came here, and the love of their wives and children that was in their hearts. And all that hate, Dog. All the hate it took to blow these motherfuckers away. It's destiny, Dog. White man's gotta rule the world."
2. Brad: "Gentlemen, from now on, we're gonna have to earn our stories."
3. Brad : "That was pretty fucking ninja."
4. Sixta: many many moments, for example: " You inappropriating your chemical filtration device by attempting fornication with"
5. Ray: many many moments too, for example: "This whole thing comes down to pussy. You take the Republican guard and comp their asses for a week in Vegas. No fucking war.
Top 5 actors:
1. Robert De Niro
2. Humphrey Bogart
3. Christian Bale
4. Oleg Menshikov
5. Tony Leung
Top 5 actresses:
1. Nicole Kidman
2. Juliette Binoche
3. Maggie Cheung
4. Audrey Hepburn
5. Ingrid Bergman
Top 5 favorite foods:
1. sushi
2. éclairs, profiteroles and such like
3. cherries
4. Indian dishes
5. Russian blini (pancakes)
Top five books ever:
1. Dostoyevsky: Idiot
2. Dostoyevsky: Brothers Karamazov
3. George RR Martin: A song pf Ice and Fire series
4. Jane Austen : "Pride and Prejudice"
5. J. R. R. Tolkien: "Lord of the Rings".
Top 5 things that should fly:
1. People
2. Pigs
3. Cats
4. Chickens
5. Peacocks
Top 5 things you can find at the bottom of the ocean:
1. Pearls
2. Treasures
3. Corals
4. Ruins
5. Crabs
Top 5 cheeses!
1. Blue Stilton
2. Gauda
3. Brie
4. Edam
5. Suluguni
Top 5 facial expressions you love:
1. Smile
2. Wink
3. Tongue out
4. Pout
5. Blank
Top five cities you have visited. I haven't been in too many countries yet:
1. York
2. Edinburgh
3. London
4. Moscow
5. St Petersburg
Having satisfied my list-making obsession I can go on holidays in peace. Florence - we will be there tomorrow! I wish everyone a great end of summer and will see you all in two weeks!!!!!!! ** hugs **
Top five Korean actors, not by looks (there is another category "Korean men" for that), but by acting abilities:
1.Lee Min Ho
2. Lee Byung Hun
3. Song Kang Ho
4. Park Shin Yang
5. Uhm Tae Woong
Top Five story arcs in Rome TV series:
1.Friendship between Pullo and Vorenus. Many great smaller arcs here. My favourite is when they made a raft out of dead bodies after the shipwreck. Vorenus going crazy after the death of Niobe and Pullo looking after him is also a good one, but it is so sad.
2. Agrippa and Octavia's doomed romance.
3. Brutus and Caesar's relationship in the first season that culminated in Caesar's murder.
4. Octavian's change from a young boy into a tyrant, this is so very neatly done.
5. Pullo's baby :D
Top Five moments in a Song of Ice and Fire book series
1. Red Wedding : an incredibly powerful scene that is the hub of the series so far. Everyone and everything has been affected by Red Wedding.
2. Sansa singing to Sandor in "A Clash of Kings" : “You promised me a song, little bird. Have you forgotten?”
3. Jaime and Brienne in the bath-house: " The bath-house had been thick with the steam raising off the water, and Jaime had come walking through that mist naked as his name day, looking half a corpse and half a god."
4. Tyrion killing Lord Tywin in the privy: die evil man, die!
5. Rhaegar, winning the fateful tournament at Harrenhal and presenting a crown of winter roses to Lyanna Stark.
Five Favourite films:
1. Casablanca
2. Blade Runner
3. Three colours: Red
4. In the mood for love
5. Spirited Away
Five favourite icons that you've made yourself:
1. Leila smiling : I like the colours in this one and I love Leila.
2. Do androids dream of electric sheep: I love this book book title, it is a perfect quote and a perfect riddle.
3. The legend: This one is from my favourite Korean drama and it was really hard to make. I wanted the both figures to be seen clearly and I also wanted their forces to be seen clearly too. I was fiddling with this icon for hours but now I am quite pleased with it.
4. Summer fruit; Yummy!!!!!
5. We'd like to give you: I haven't done much with this one, just the usual cropping, colour enhancement and sharpening. But the quote is so bizarre it makes me giggle every time I see it:
Top Five painters is a really hard one. The are more than 5 painters that I admire and value equally:
1. Michail Vrubel
2. Vilhelm hammershoi
3. Edward Burne-Jones
4. Andrei Rublev
5. Paul Cezanne
Top five Russian/USSR movies:
1. Solaris , Tarkovsky:
This is probably the film that affected me more than any other film and helped to shape my personality and my tastes into what they are now. I have seen it for the first time during my formative years and had an enormous obsession with the film as well as with the book, Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, reading and re-reading the book, watching and re-watching the film numerous times. I wish some of you guys watched it. :D
2. Stalker. After "Solaris" I became obsessed with everything by Tarkovsky. I used to travel far just to watch his fims. These were the dark times before the Internet. "Stalker" is my second favourite among Tarkovsky's films. I also love the novel it was adapted from, Roadside Picnic by brothers Strugatsky. The word "Stalker" doesn't mean much in Russian but in English the title takes on some sinister, obsessive aspects.
3. Brother . This a slice of Russia , with it's brutality, melancholia, love for poetry and bigger than life heroes. It features most awesome Sergey Bodrov and songs by Nautilus Pompilius
4. Ostrov (Island) : So far , this is the best film I have ever seen about the matters of faith and relationship between faith and religion.
5. The Return
Five favorite Russian words/phrases. I tried to remember some of the most colorful ones. Fish, wolves, sparrows and other creatures are featured:
1. " Слово не воробей - вылетит не поймаешь" - A word is not a sparrow; after it flies out you will not be able to catch it back.
2. " На всякого мудреца довольно простоты " - For each wise man there is quite enough simplicity.
3. " Любопытной Варваре на базаре нос оторвали " - Curious Varvara's nose was torn off one market day. Don't be so nosy. Rhyme.
4. "Работа не волк - в лес не убежит." (or just " Работа не волк") - Work is not a wolf - it won't run away. Never do today what you can do tomorrow.
5. " Без труда не выловишь и рыбку из пруда " - Even a little fish can't be fished out of a pond without effort. If you want something, work for it. Nothing ventured nothing gained. This is another rhyme / tongue twister.
Top five Stringer Bell scenes (from The Wire TV series)
1. The first scene we see him in, at the courthouse with Jimmy McNulty.
2. Playing basketball with Avon in season 1: purely for pretty.
3. Teaching his guys macroeconomic
4. We don't need to dream no more, his conversation with Avon
5. His last scene
Top five Angel story lines (from Angel TV series)
1. Wesley and Fred romance
2. Illyria's arc
3. Pylea arc: the end of season 2.
4. Gunn's sister's story
5. Jasmine's arc in season 4
Top five Russian novels:
1. Idiot, Dostoyevsky. Dostoevsky is my favourite author of all times. I was obsessed with "Idiot", reading and re-reading it at least 12 times between the age of 14 and 24. I am still re-reading it from time to time.
2. Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky. My second favourite among Dostoyevsky's books.
3. Strugatsky: Monday begins on Saturday. I love all their books, but if I have to choose one I would probably choose "Monday begins on Saturday" as the favourite. It is hilariously funny book about workaholic wizards that makes fun of Soviet stereotypes.
4. Bulgakov: Master and Margarita : Satan visits Moscow. Many very funny things happen, in a very Faust-ian way.
5. Boris Akunin : Erast Fandorin series. Crime stories set in 19th century Russia. The series will provide you with numerous hours of wonderful entertainment. Highly recommended.
Top five OTPs. This was a hard one again. There are many movie and Asian drama OPTs that I adore, but if I have to choose, taking into consideration the length of time I have been obsessing over one or another OTP I will have to choose the following:
1. Sansa/Sandor, A song of Ice and Fire series (can I add Jaime/Brienne too?)
2. Fred/Wesley, Angel TV series
3. Lee Soo Hyeon/ Cha Song Joo , Korean drama Capital scandal
4. Lee/Kara, Battlestar galactica TV series
5. Nikita/Michael, La Femme Nikita TV series
Top five sci-fi films:
1. Blade runner
2. Alien (just rewatched it - it is awesome)
3. Stalker , Tarkovsky
4. Solaris , Tarkovsky
5. Matrix
Top five pairs of shoes. My autumn/winter shoes are still packed neatly away so I present you my summer favourites (I discovered while making the pictures that I have more than 20 pairs of summer shoes) :D
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
5 favorite things about living in England:
1. food is nice
2. How green everything is. Flowers are literally everywhere, any season.
3. The country is packed with pretty historical ruins (and not yet ruins)
4. people never jump the queue
5. rain
5 favorite kinds of tea:
1. Ceylon. (Twinnings)
2. English breakfast (Twinnings)
3. Green tea (Russian varieties especially)
4. Jasmine tea
5. Camomile tea
Top five dramas. As with the films, there are some dramas that I like on purely emotional level and there are some dramas that I think are well made (have an interesting original story, good cinematography and acting, etc.) . Top five is a small list so I only included the dramas that are at the top in both categories. It was really really hard and I am sure I have forgotten something:
1. Capital scandal, Korea
2. Legend (First King's Four Gods), Korea
3. Goong (Princess Hours), Korea
4. Ice World, Japan
5. Last friends, Japan
Top five Korean men, as far as pretty factor goes. Nothing to do with acting capabilities (although some of them are good at acting too):
1. Hyun Bin
2. Jo Ji Hoon
3. Park Shi Hoo
4. Lee Byun Hoon
5. Lee Wan
Top five favorite drama cliches:
1. Forbidden love (as in age difference, class difference, feuding families, etc)
2. Hurt/ Comfort (bandaging wounds, especially)
3. I am going to stay away from you for your own good!
4. Bad boy/Good girl or Good boy/ bad girl
5. He is her best friend, but she thinks she is in love with someone else. Later she finds out that she is in love with her best friend. (This doesn't work well for me if she continues to stay in love with someone else :D)
Top 5 paintings:
1.Vrubel: Princess Swan
2. Vrubel: Demon seating
3. Vilhelm Hammershoi: A woman reading by the window.
4. Edward Burrne-Jones: The Wedding of Psyche
5.Dante Gabriel Rossetti : La Pia de' Tolomei (the header in my LJ)
Top five moments in Generation Kill:
1. Sgt. Antonio 'Poke' Espera: "People been fighting over this bitch since ancient times, Dog. How many graves we standing on? Think about all the wisdom and science and money and civilization it took to build these machines, and the courage of all the men who came here, and the love of their wives and children that was in their hearts. And all that hate, Dog. All the hate it took to blow these motherfuckers away. It's destiny, Dog. White man's gotta rule the world."
2. Brad: "Gentlemen, from now on, we're gonna have to earn our stories."
3. Brad : "That was pretty fucking ninja."
4. Sixta: many many moments, for example: " You inappropriating your chemical filtration device by attempting fornication with"
5. Ray: many many moments too, for example: "This whole thing comes down to pussy. You take the Republican guard and comp their asses for a week in Vegas. No fucking war.
Top 5 actors:
1. Robert De Niro
2. Humphrey Bogart
3. Christian Bale
4. Oleg Menshikov
5. Tony Leung
Top 5 actresses:
1. Nicole Kidman
2. Juliette Binoche
3. Maggie Cheung
4. Audrey Hepburn
5. Ingrid Bergman
Top 5 favorite foods:
1. sushi
2. éclairs, profiteroles and such like
3. cherries
4. Indian dishes
5. Russian blini (pancakes)
Top five books ever:
1. Dostoyevsky: Idiot
2. Dostoyevsky: Brothers Karamazov
3. George RR Martin: A song pf Ice and Fire series
4. Jane Austen : "Pride and Prejudice"
5. J. R. R. Tolkien: "Lord of the Rings".
Top 5 things that should fly:
1. People
2. Pigs
3. Cats
4. Chickens
5. Peacocks
Top 5 things you can find at the bottom of the ocean:
1. Pearls
2. Treasures
3. Corals
4. Ruins
5. Crabs
Top 5 cheeses!
1. Blue Stilton
2. Gauda
3. Brie
4. Edam
5. Suluguni
Top 5 facial expressions you love:
1. Smile
2. Wink
3. Tongue out
4. Pout
5. Blank
Top five cities you have visited. I haven't been in too many countries yet:
1. York
2. Edinburgh
3. London
4. Moscow
5. St Petersburg
Having satisfied my list-making obsession I can go on holidays in peace. Florence - we will be there tomorrow! I wish everyone a great end of summer and will see you all in two weeks!!!!!!! ** hugs **