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A while ago--a couple of years now--I was part of a community that made top-five lists. Some of my current friendslist was involved, in fact, and I think fondly of this community, often. Man, we top-fived the hell out of everything, and had a terrific time doing it. Someone posted a theme, and then we all ponied up our lists, and it was one of the best times of my spotty career as a blogger.

So it was with ineffable delight that I saw this meme tonight on resonant8's journal:

Ask me for "top five" lists of pretty much anything, and I will list you my top five of that thing or things.

Which is sort of the exact opposite of that old, long-dead community, but I was stricken with longing anyway. Don't you want to play? Say you do. Come ooooonnnnn.

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songs for rainy days

1. "Chinese Water Python" by Robyn Hitchcock


2. "New Slang" by The Shins


3. "Theme from Eternal Sunshine" by Jon Brion


4. "Morning Fog" by Kate Bush


5. "Hi-Fi" by M. Ward

places you wish were just down the road so you could go all the time
If this list included restaurants, they'd all be restaurants. So. Not including restaurants:

1. Movie Pitchers in New Orleans


2. Sir John Soane museum in London


3. My friends' houses (I want my bungalow court!)


4. The Saturn Bar in New Orleans


5. My grandmother's house

life-changing moments
You know, it wasn't until I started making this list that I realized how mostly seamless my life is, just a long slide of mediocrity, really. It's hard to come up with life-changing moments!

1. Spending a night in the Orleans Parish Prison (the OPP, as we hardened criminals call it)


2. Being hired by my first tech boss


3. Moving to Lake Charles, Louisiana, at fifteen


4. Reading fanfiction for the first time


5. Creating my first blog (now, it seems, defunct)

book quotes
Oh, man, I'm not too much of a quote person--I mean, I don't collect them, although I think about it sometimes. These are really more random ones that I like than a top-five list.

1. His words were so like his letters; taking their time to get wherever, funny, self-deprecating. It was plain he saw himself as a hell of a lucky guy who had been plopped down in a fascinating, illogical world for no other reason than to have a good look around, hands in pockets and a little surprised whistle on his lips.
   
   Years before, I had taken his "way" for naivete when I first knew him, but it wasn't that. It was a healthy, magnificently unpolluted sense of wonder. --Jonathan Carroll, Bones of the Moon


2. I think that this is why I relish writing for you so much. It makes it possible for me to be not like I am, but as I desire for you to see me. I can be funny, because I have time to meditate about how to be funny, and I can repair my mistakes when I perform mistakes, and I can be a melancholy person in manners that are interesting, not only melancholy. With writing, we have second chances. You mentioned to me that first evening of our voyage that you thought you might have been born to be a writer. What a terrible thing, I think. But I must tell you, I do not think you understood the meaning of what you said when you said that. You were making suggestions of how you like to write, and how it is an interesting thing for you to imagine worlds that are not exactly like this one, or exactly like this one. It is true, I am certain, that you will write many more books than I will. But it is me, not you, who was born to be the writer. --Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated


3. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita


4. I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. --Emily Bronte, and I believe it's from Wuthering Heights, but I'm not completely sure.


5. But then the Church frowns on everything. Except, of course, for frowning. or, contrariwise, Never trust a fucking art student. --both from Grant Morrison, Philip Bond, D'Israeli, and Daniel Vozzo, Kill Your Boyfriend