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Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 → Your favorite television program
Day 04 → Your favorite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobby of yours
Day 21 → A recipe
Day 22 → A website
Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy

I am trying to narrow this down to five, but it's proving very difficult. I think I'll tackle this chronologically.

The Blues Brothers: "We're on a mission from God." This movie is obligatory watching for every Chicagoan. It's more than classic. It's essential. Their faces are everywhere in the Chicago area, plastered on restaurant walls, dancing atop an ice scream shop off route 66 (I really have to get a picture of that). And they are absolutely hilarious. I fell in love with music watching this movie. I was dancing to it since I was old enough to stand on my feet. It's great, awesome stuff and totally silly half the time and every time I watch it I get the urge to drive through a mall.

Beauty and the Beast: My favorite Disney animated movie. Aladdin comes close, but this one still wins. I wanted to be Belle when I was little, especially because I didn't have an ounce of her confidence and I really wanted to.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: A bunch of formerly harmless strangers discover the location of a huge (and illegal) stockpile of money and break half the laws in existence to get to it while the cops are laughing their heads off. Along with TBB, this is a family movie. We all have it completely memorized. It's totally insane and I never get sick of watching it.


Lord of the Rings: They are not perfect (especially not TTT, which drives me crazy half the time and I hate watching with other people because I can't fast-forward through all the sacrilege and I'm sorry, but I do not like the elves at Helm's Deep and Treebeard and Theoden were driving me nuts and Faramir was not Faramir and I refuse to acknowledge his presence and... wait. What kind of list was this again? Oh! Right.) Anyway, the good stuff was good. And it is a hellishly difficult book to adapt and Tolkien himself thought it was impossible. I'm really looking forward to see what Guillermo del Toro will do with The Hobbit.

Pirates of the Caribbean:  The first one mostly. This movie began my obsession with the Age of Sail. I have never been more excited the weekned before a DVD comes out. I literally could not sit still. The obsession reached some rather freaky levels. It's also the first fandom for which I wrote more than a couple of fics and in which I got really involved with the characters, especially James Norrington. When I write Claude, that's how I felt writing Norrington (even though they're not that alike. Well, maybe in some things. Hmm.)