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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Top 6 of 7

I haven't done one of these lists since back in January 2009 when I did the Top 6 of 6.

So these are my 6 favorites in 7 different categories (in no particular order, just as they come to me):

BANDS (w/links to their official websites)

Descendents
Smoking Popes
Face to Face
Alkaline Trio
U2
Emery

MOVIES (w/Wikipedia article links)

Batman Begins
High Fidelity
Book of Eli
Boondock Saints
The Dark Knight
Mother Night

BOOKS (w/Amazon links)

Jesus Wants to Save Christians by Rob Bell
The Barbarian Way by Erwin McManus
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
Batman Year One by Frank Miller
Animal Farm by George Orwell
This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti

ALBUMS (w/Wikipedia article links)

Everything Sucks by Descendents
I'm Only a Man by Emery
The Joshua Tree by U2
Crimson by Alkaline Trio
This Is Only A Test by Smoking Popes
Born Yesterday by Otisburg (no Wiki article on this one, just a link to the band's MySpace site)

WRITERS (w/Wikipedia article links)

Kurt Vonnegut
Rob Bell
Frank Miller
Geoff Johns
Jeph Loeb
Frank Peretti

TV SHOWS (w/Wikipedia article links)

Big Bang Theory
Smallville
Firefly
Jericho
Dollhouse
Heroes

WEBSITES

The Otter Limits
Oklahoma Lefty
WikiPedia
Internet Movie Database
Superhero Hype
Facebook


Posted by Otter Limits at 9:40 PM
Labels: books, Descendents, fiction, Kurt Vonnegut, Lefty, movies, music, nonfiction, Smoking Popes, U2

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