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[constance]

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.

Comments

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, once you start asking, how do you stop?

Top five book characters you've had crushes on.

Top five things to eat that they had in a place where you used to live, but don't have in the place you live now.

Five of the names you've saved up to give to a pet one day -- every animal lover has that mental list, right?

[bowdlerized.livejournal.com]

I wasn't really involved until it started dying, but RIP, tothefifth! We should totally make a new one.

Gimme your top five:
- concert experiences
- beverages
- websites
- Snape moments (NO I AM NOT TOTALLY OBSESSED OR ANYTHING)

[quartertosix.livejournal.com]

Haircuts. Best or worst. Your choice.

[woodyinvincible.livejournal.com]

What are your top five "top five" lists?

[kickthebeat.livejournal.com]

I totally second this. Long live tothefifth! Do I smell a resurrection, or is that just my turkey and cheese Hot Pocket?

[kickthebeat.livejournal.com]

I really want to do this meme too, but I'm afraid nobody would respond and I'd look like a total lamer. :|

I would like to know your top five:

• fictional places to live.
  
• songs to Sing Loudly in the car.
  
• dishes you can cook yourself.

... I fear these are all dumb. :|

[tofty.livejournal.com]

This was my worry, that no one would respond. Actually, because I am completely lame, it is always my worry. But if you do it, I will respond! Not till tomorrow, because wow it is getting late, too late even to make these lists tonight. But I will.

Not dumb at all! >:O!

[disdainty.livejournal.com]

I MISS THAT COMM SO MUCH T_T

Top five:

x songs for rainy days
x places you wish were just down the road so you could go all the time
x life-changing moments
x book quotes

[bowdlerized.livejournal.com]

That ain't no Hot Pocket--let's do it!

Do you think we need to start a new comm? How exciting!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Top five book characters you've had crushes on.

1. Laurie Laurence from Little Women - it took me years to forgive Jo for turning him down.


2. Frederick Wentworth from Persuasion - double-super-reinforced by Ciaran Hinds's portrayal in the movie.


3. Remus Lupin from Harry Potter - Yummy, yummy, yummy. I could get used to the Wolfsbane.


4. Charlie Bucket from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Maybe my first. You never forget your first love, you know.


5. Peter Wimsey in the Dorothy Sayers detective series, but specifically in her later books. The Peter who is in love with Harriet Vane, that is the Peter I love best. I would like someone to love me like that.

Top five things to eat that they had in a place where you used to live, but don't have in the place you live now.
You know, most things I can get here, muffalettas and fried oysters and things like that. It's just a few things that are not to be found, at all, as far as I can tell.

1. Sno-balls


2. Crawfish Etouffe


3. Gelato from Brocato's


4. Debris po-boys


5. Spinach Madeleine

Five of the names you've saved up to give to a pet one day -- every animal lover has that mental list, right?
Hahahahaha, yes, of course I have a list! It is sort of pet dependent--that is, the type and personality of the pet would dictate the name I chose. But here are a few of my favorites. I am am longing to have pets with these names.

1. Margaret


2. John Thomas


3. Judy


4. Isaac


5. Constance (a Harry Potter shout-out: just between you and me, her middle name would be Vigilant)

[tofty.livejournal.com]

concert experiences

1. Son Volt, Baton Rouge: Son Volt were incredibly popular in Baton Rouge, probably because of "Windfall," and they played a lot, and they were all fabulous shows, full to the brim with frat boys who used to piss me off because they would totally have made fun of Jay Farrar in high school. Okay I will shut up now.


2. Robyn Hitchcock, New Orleans: I saw him a couple of times in concert, but the time I'm thinking of was in a little dive bar in midsummer. It was incredibly hot, there was no air conditioning, and we were up by the stage where there was a very slight breeze, and it was a terrific concert and Robyn Hitchcock was on crack, he just never shut up, and he played a lot of Soft Boys songs and I loved him for that.


3. Big Star and the Posies, New Orleans: This was a New Year's Eve reunion concert, probably my one and only chance to see one of my favorite bands (mostly) reunited. And the Posies as a bonus! Who could ask for more?


4. The Fleshtones, New Orleans: Does anyone besides me remember The Fleshtones? Anyone remember Peter Zaremba? They used to give annual Mardi Gras concerts, and we went to a bunch of them, and they all just completely rocked in every way.


5. Steve Earle, Little Rock: The first and best concert I ever saw him play, and he puts on a pretty damned good live show in general, but these were the days back when he first cleaned up, back before he was so political, and he just rocked. And the concert venue was completely surreal, dark and full of huge black-light paintings of cowboys and cacti, so added bonus points for that.

beverages
Okay, I am not really much of a drinker, so these are pretty unexotic. Sorry about that.

1. Vernor's ginger ale


2. Cherry limeade from Sonic


3. Apple Juice


4. V-8 Spicy tomato juice, lately (what is wrong with me?)


5. Tazo chai tea with milk

websites
O_o hmmmmmm. I visit lots of sites on a regular basis, but I think these are five I get maximum surfage from.

1. http://www.theonion.com


2. http://www.salon.com


3. http://www.gettyimages.com


4. http://www.explodingdog.com


5. http://www.livejournal.com

Snape moments (NO I AM NOT TOTALLY OBSESSED OR ANYTHING)
SPOILERS FOLLOW!!!!!

1. Harry and Snape in the Forbidden Forest, Snape barely containing his anguish and fury. I totally agree with you: that is now my all-time favorite. OH MAN IT BROKE MY HEART INTO A MILLION PIECES ON THE FLOOR.


2. Sitting in bed, bored, flicking at flies with his wand.


3. Totally behaving like a fifteen year old and smashing Harry's potions as revenge for Harry's insrusion into his pensieve instead of behaving like a grownup and using Harry's regret to his advantage and building some kind of truce between them ahahaha okay I am clearly never going to forgive Snape for this. Still top five material though.


4. In the Shrieking Shack, completely pissed off and still determined to save Harry, Hermione and Ron despite themselves.


5. And oh, this breaks my heart in a different way from #1. Being a loner and an outcast, doctoring his textbooks, and calling himself The Half-Blood Prince. :(( !

[tofty.livejournal.com]

:O MAYBE WE SHOULD AT THAT!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Haircuts. Best or worst. Your choice.
Oh worst, that's just more funner.

1. My first haircut: I was six years old, and my hair was long, and my mother and I fought and fought over that hair. My hair tangled really easily, and I hated having it brushed because it hurt, and she hated brushing it because it always ended up in a tantrum or tears, and finally one day she just hacked it all off. When she finished, I looked like a little boy, and we both burst into tears. We had a tacit agreement after that to never fight over my hair again.


2. My most recent haircut, minus the one I had to get to fix it: It was bad. It was baaaaad. Trust me.


3. The one where I wanted a pixie cut and she gave me a crewcut instead.


4. The one where he said, "I didn't think the one you wanted would look good on you, so I gave you this ass-ugly fringey mullet instead." That may not be a direct quote.


5. The one where my brother sneaked up behind me and cut out a big hank of hair, just after the #1 haircut had started to grow out. The fact that I probably deserved to be tortured didn't make it any easier to bear.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Top five top five lists
These are all from the old comm.

1. Top Five HP Songs, Book by Book


2. Top Five Oddest Things You've Ever Collected


3. Top Five Band Names


4. Top Five Beloved Fictional Characters I Would Despise If They Were Real People


5. Top Five Words

[tofty.livejournal.com]

fictional places to live.

1. The Shire


2. Spinner's End :D Now that Snape is on the run, Remus and I can live there together.


3. The Littles's house (but as a Little)


4. The Mortmains' house-grafted-onto-a-castle from I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith


5. ahahahaahahaaa I just thought of this: do you remember that a long time ago there was a fad for fabled creatures books? It may have been before your time, but I think the gnome book started it all, and I had that book and God, did I want to live in a Gnome house, a little rabbit warren (literally) made up of tiny little cupboard beds and ingenious plumbing.

songs to Sing Loudly in the car.
I don't know why old songs are so much more satisfying for me to sing at the top of my lungs, but they are. Try not to laugh too hard, okay?

1. "At Last" by Etta James


2. "Gimme Shelter" by The Rolling Stones


3. "Stop Dragging My Heart Around" by Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks


4. "Respect" by Aretha Franklin


5. "Rock and Roll" by Led Zeppelin

dishes you can cook yourself.
I can cook most things with a recipe book. Here are five things I can cook without a recipe book:

1. beans and rice of any sort


2. baked potato soup


3. marinara sauce


4. spinach lasagna


5. chicken salad (is that cooking? If not, say mushroom risotto.)

[tofty.livejournal.com]

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

[bowdlerized.livejournal.com]

If you are also into it, then we should totally do it!

New list for you to make: Top 5 LJ Username Choices for a New Top 5 Community! It's so meta! Go go go!

PS- OH I LOVE SON VOLT!!!! AND ALSO SNAPE!!!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I would like to see your Snape list!!

Top five top five community names:

tothefifth_jr
full_fathom_five
countingbyfives

[tofty.livejournal.com]

whoops posted too soon

collectallfive
highfive

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I already adore Constance Vigilant!