# One movie. One album. One TV show. One novel. One other. Go!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 19, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037 "2011-06-19T15:23:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/1 "2011-06-19T15:23:08Z")
Here is how this works. You name your single favorite movie, TV show, album, and novel. You are allowed only one selection for each category. You may skip any you like (I realize that some folks may not have a favorite novel, for example). Just for kicks, you may add any one (and only one) category of your own (i.e. meal, wine, handgun, sexual act, whatever).
Why? I thought it might be interesting to see whose tastes run similar to each other. Maybe you’ll see someone’s list – someone you have had major issues with and perhaps have written off as a jerk-face – who, in fact, has Café Society-type favorites that are identical to your own. Additionally, you may see a list that contains many of your own likes but also includes an unknown: “Hey, she likes this and this and this too…maybe I should check out that novel that I’ve never heard of”.
Or, this could crash/burn. Time will tell.
Just to be clear, your post will contain no more than five selections. Additional commentary is encouraged.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/2 "2011-06-19T15:27:29Z")
To get us started:
Movie: **The Godfather**
Album: **Abbey Road by The Beatles**
TV Show: **Breaking Bad**
Novel: **A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole**
Other: Song to play on the piano: **Layla (piano solo)**
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### Author:  [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2011, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/3 "2011-06-19T15:28:49Z")
Movie: Tough one. I like movies. I’m going to use the criterion “movie I could watch over and over again and never get tired of” and so therefore I’m going to have to go with **Ghostbusters**. Maybe not a great work of cinematic genius, but I could watch it about a million times and never get tired of it.
Album: Easy. **Flood** by They Might Be Giants.
TV show: Toss-up between Doctor Who and Futurama, but I think I’m going to have to go with **Futurama**.
Novel: Again I will use the criterion of re-readability. For something I could pick up and read over and over again, I will go with **Good Omens** by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Though ask me on another day and my answer might well be different.
Favorite non-alcoholic beverage: **Thai iced tea.** Nom nom nom, so tasty. Could drink it by the gallon.
PS: Cool thread idea!
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### Author:  [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/4 "2011-06-19T15:43:55Z")
Movie: **Natural Born Killers** – The perfect mix of Hollywood and experimental movies, and Oliver Stone at his best. It also has the best soundtrack (mixed by Trent Reznor) and uses a variety of different visual and cinematic tricks.
Album: This is tough for me, as I have a few that could qualify for different reasons, but today I’m going to go with Eric Dolphy’s **Out to Lunch** , a masterpiece of jazz that more people should be familiar with.
TV Show: **The Pretender**. It was a brilliant show that had a lot of influence for me.
Novel: Neal Stephenson’s **Snow Crash**.
Nonfiction Book: **Critical Path** , by R. Buckminster Fuller. Literally the Bible for me. I think it could provide the blueprint for a better world if followed.
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### Author:  [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2011, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/5 "2011-06-19T15:45:21Z")
> [@infinitii](#):
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> Novel: Neal Stephenson’s **Snow Crash**.
If I did the sub-category “Best opening chapter in a fiction novel” this book would win it, hands-down.
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/6 "2011-06-19T15:53:18Z")
Movie: _Life as a House_. I actually like _Fellowship of the Ring_, but since it’s part of a trilogy I ultimately find disappointing, I’ll go with \*Life.
\*Album: The 1985 cast album to Stephen Sondheim’s _Sunday in the Park with George_.
TV show: I’m torn between _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_ (by far the best of the Trek series) and _Mad Men_. I’ll go with the former since there’s more hours of entertainment there.
Novel: This is the easy one, though I may surprise some people: Valerie Martin’s _A Recent Martyr_.
The one other will be a short story collection: _The Armless Maiden & Other Stories for Childhood’s Survivors_, edited by (I think) Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/7 "2011-06-19T15:53:47Z")
Movie: _The Big Lebowski_
TV Show: _The Simpsons_.
Album: _Blast Tyrant_ by Clutch.
Novel: _Perdido Street Station_ by China Mieville
Other: Really dark red wine.
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### Author:  [@bmasters1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmasters1)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/8 "2011-06-19T15:54:06Z")
Film: “Ramona and Beezus”
TV series: “Hardcastle and McCormick”
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### Author:  [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/9 "2011-06-19T15:55:26Z")
Movie: _Two-Lane Blacktop_
Album: _Strange Days_ by the Doors
TV show: _Ed_
Novel: _Atlas Shrugged_
Other: A custom 1911, probably an Ed Brown or Les Baer
That was much harder than it should have been.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/10 "2011-06-19T15:57:27Z")
Movie: _Inherit the Wind_
TV Show: _Twilight Zone_ (original)
Album: Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos, played by the composer
Novel: _The Fountainhead_
Cathedral: Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
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### Author:  [@Gilles\_de\_Rais](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilles_de_Rais)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/11 "2011-06-19T16:08:14Z")
**Movie:** _Lawrence of Arabia_
**TV Show:** Star Trek TNG
**Album:** Kate Bush’s _Hounds of Love_
**Novel:** Atlas Shrugged
**Other:** The Stendahl Syndrome
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/12 "2011-06-19T16:17:48Z")
Non-Top 100 AFI Movie: Raising Arizona
TV Series (complete): Battlestar Galactica
Ethnic food: Thai
Book I read before I turned 15: Watership Down
Fart: Full-bodied, minimal brap
Board game: Settlers of Catan
Card game: Euchre
Television episode: West Wing, “In Excelsis Deo”
Saturday afternoon: Minor league baseball game
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/13 "2011-06-19T16:40:39Z")
> [@Munch](#):
>
> Non-Top 100 AFI Movie: Raising Arizona
> TV Series (complete): Battlestar Galactica
> Ethnic food: Thai
> Book I read before I turned 15: Watership Down
> Fart: Full-bodied, minimal brap
> Board game: Settlers of Catan
> Card game: Euchre
> Television episode: West Wing, “In Excelsis Deo”
> Saturday afternoon: Minor league baseball game
So much for following the rules.
mmm
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### Author:  [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/14 "2011-06-19T16:51:47Z")
Movie: _Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan_
TV Show: _Hill Street Blues_
Album: N/A
Novel: _Busman’s Honeymoon_ by Dorothy Sayers
Song: “If I Only Had a Brain”
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### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/15 "2011-06-19T17:12:04Z")
Movie - M by Fritz Lang
Album - Rammstein Live Aus Berlin
TV Show - Dr Who
Novel - Lois McMaster Bujold Memory
Memory - First year out of high school, 1981. Fresh out of the hospital, and in rehab for a bad injury, it was late spring and My 2 best friends and I were spending the weekend at my family summer cottage before the tourist season really began so the lake shore was empty where our cottage was. After a long day of swimming, hanging out in my sail boat grilling dinner and otherwise relaxing, it was that time of twilight where everything was a uniform grey - fog off the lake, a soft velvet silence, the air was the perfect temperature so that the humidity was cool and comfortable instead of muggy or clammy. We were relaxing on the dock with a bottle of wine and listening to crickets and frogs trying to attract mates. The small moon made everything luminuous instead of bright. It was like being isolated in our own tiny universe.
I have never managed to catch a perfect evening like that since.
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### Author:  [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/16 "2011-06-19T17:38:23Z")
Movie: _Raiders Of The Lost Ark_
TV Show:\* Futurama\*
Album: \*The Way Up \*by the Pat Metheny Group
Novel: \* Lord Foul’s Bane\* by Stephen R. Donaldson
Other: Secretariat is my favorite athlete.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/17 "2011-06-19T17:54:57Z")
Movie: Contact
Album: Quadrophenia
TV Show: Curb Your Enthusiasm
Novel: The Anubis Gates
Favorite beach activity: boogie boarding
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### Author:  [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/18 "2011-06-19T18:15:04Z")
Movie: Sense and Sensibility
Album: [Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hangman%27s_Beautiful_Daughter) by The Incredible String Band
TV Show: [Mystery Science Theater 3000](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pDem1UIBHA&feature=related)
Novel: [Soldier of the Great War](http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0156031132) by Mark Helprin
Other: Poem: [Sitting in a Small Screenhouse on a Summer Morning](http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2001/03/29), by James Wright
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/19 "2011-06-19T18:18:42Z")
Movie: **Caligula**
Novel: **American Psycho**
Album: **Electric Ladyland** (Hendrix)
TV show: **Larry Sanders Show**
Porn classic: **Taboo 2**
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-movie-one-album-one-tv-show-one-novel-one-other-go/586037/20 "2011-06-19T18:21:03Z")
Movie: _Star Wars_ (no episode number or subtitle, thank you)
Album: _A Night at the Opera_ by Queen (or maybe _Who’s Next_ by The Who, hard to decide)
TV Show: _Battlestar Galactica_, re-imagined version
Novel: _The Lord of the Rings_ (the whole thing is one novel, of course)
Whisky: Lagavulin
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