More of My Favorite Things
As I rummage around the corners of my cranium I find many that
many people, groups, objects and events stand out as being tops
in their field, at least as far as I'm concerned. Here are some
specific favorites that come to mind:
|
ACTOR: |
Edward Herrmann |
|
ARTIST, ACADEMIC: |
Bouguereau |
|
ARTIST, REALIST: |
Norman Rockwell |
|
ARTIST, NATURE: |
Charles R. Knight |
|
BOOK, MOST RECENTLY READ: |
Steven Pinker's "The Language Instinct" |
|
COMPOSER: |
Johanne Sebastian Bach |
|
COMPOSITION: |
Brahm's Violin Concerto |
|
DRAWING: |
Portrait of a Young Girl, by Diego Velasquez |
|
EXPLORER: |
Roy Chapman Andrews |
|
GOSPEL GROUP, ACAPELLA: |
Glad |
|
HISTORIAN OF PHILOSOPHY: |
Daniel N. Robinson |
|
JAZZ ENSEMBLE, INSTRUMENTAL: |
The Rippingtons |
|
JAZZ COMPOSER: |
Raymond Scott |
|
LAW FIRM: |
Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short, LP |
|
MEDITATION TECHNIQUE: |
Taking a nap |
|
MOVIE: |
The Golden Compass |
|
MOVIES: |
Ali G Indahouse,
Almost Famous,
Amazing Grace,
Boys and Girls,
Dick,
Harold & Maude,
Ice Age Series,
Milo & Otis,
No Time for Sergeants,
Serial,
Sky Captain and the World of the Future,
Something the Lord Made,
Something Wild,
Splendor in the Grass,
Stage Beauty,
Stone Cold,
Street Kings,
Sundays & Cybelle,
The Good Shepherd,
The Last of the Mohicans,
The Parent Trap (with Lindsay Lohan),
Training Day,
What a Girl Wants
|
|
MUSICAL FORM: |
fugue |
|
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT: |
violin |
|
MUSEUM: |
American Museum of Natural History |
|
NUMBERS: |
pi, e, i, phi |
|
PALINDROME: |
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era? |
|
PERFORMANCE: |
Toni Basil singing and dancing "Wham!" on Saturday Night Live |
|
PHILOSOPHER: |
Plato |
|
PHILOSOPHER OF SCIENCE: |
Karl Popper |
|
PICTURE: |
Bouguereau's "First Kiss" |
|
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: |
Perl, JavaScript, PHP, Smalltalk, PL/I |
|
PSYCHOLOGIST: |
Paul Rosenfels |
|
SAFE SEX TECHNIQUE: |
Taking a nap |
|
SCI-FI AUTHORS: |
Fredric Brown, Olaf Stapledon |
|
SCIENCE JOURNALIST: |
Richard Milner |
|
SCIENCE TOPICS: |
quantum wierdness, exobiology, nanotechnology, galactic topography |
|
SINGER, FOLK: |
Stan Rogers |
|
SINGER, COUNTRY: |
Bonnie Raitt |
|
TV MINISERIES, FICTIONALIZED: |
Franklin and Eleanor |
|
TV MINISERIES, NON-FICTION: |
"The Ascent of Man" with Jacob Bronowski, "Civilization" with Kenneth Clark, "500 Nations" with Kevin Costner |
|
TV SERIES, FICTION: |
Northern Exposure, The Lone Gunmen |
|
VIOLINISTS: |
David Oistrakh, Aaron Rosand |
|
WRITING INSTRUMENT: |
1950-era J-series Esterbrook fountain pen (maroon) |
|
ZOO: |
Bronx Zoo |
|