The Meme of Joke (a work in progress)

Joke is one of my favorite e-friends. He is also very smart. This has got to be the best meme I've seen come down the pike. Due to circumstances in and out of my control, the Sarah Louise plan for today has been changed, so I have time to sit here and meme away. I will be adding my own comments b/c I am just that kind of gal. I'm a girl, so I'm not really sure any of this will help you to REALLY understand me, but this is your Cliff Notes version. Yeah, I'm really sure this won't help you very much, especially when you scroll down to the cities you should visit (I don't know about the lurkers, but most of y'all don't have the ready cash or time to spend time going to Warsaw or Tegucigalpa.)

Movies You Need To See To Understand Me Better:
You've Got Mail
Shakespeare in Love
Adventures in Babysitting
High Fidelity
Cutting Edge
Twister
Picture Perfect
Home Alone
Man in the Iron Mask
Three Musketeers (the one with Sheen, Sutherland, and Platt)
Enchanted April
Persuasion
Drive me crazy
A Knight's Tale
Love, Actually
Runaway Bride
Metropolitan
Jerry Maguire
About a Boy
Brokedown Palace
The Mighty Ducks Trilogy
Joy Luck Club
Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea. (not the Continuing story, please!)
Sweet Home Alabama
Career Girls

Albums You Need To Listen To Understand Me:
Really Rosie (yes, as in the TV show which I watched once. The album was listened to umpteen times)
Tapestry
Glass Houses
A New Standard (Steve Tyrell)
How to dismantle an atomic bomb
Jill Sobule (self-titled album)


TV Shows You Need to (Have) Watch(ed) To Understand Me:
Sesame Street
WKRP in Cinncinati
Taxi
Cosby (not the one where he is Herr Doctor Huxtable.)
Boy Meets World
Dawson's Creek
Friends (yes, all 10 seasons)
The Muppet Show
Sex and the City


Books You Need To Read To Understand Me:
Trixie Belden
Bright Lights, Big City
The Crack a Joke Book
Persuasion
Writing down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead but Gutsy Girls do
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology
Lucy Maud Montgomery: the Anne books and the Emily books
pretty much all of Madeleine L'Engle
Cynthia Voigt before she moved to Maine (ie, read the Tillerman cycle, do not read the Bad Girls series)
most of Judy Blume (but not her stuff for adults, which really stink)
Traveling Mercies (the audio book)
Harry Potter 1-6 (on audio, with Jim Dale)
The Bible (in various translations, my favorite being the Jerusalem)
The Nanny Diaries
The Cloister Walk
Chasing Grace: Reflections of a Catholic Girl, Grown Up
Girl's Poker Night
Something Borrowed and its sequel, Something Blue


Comic Strips that often mirror my life:
Sylvia by Nicole Hollander
Unshelved

Comics I adore:
Calvin and Hobbes
Peanuts

Games You Need To Play To Understand Me:
Scrabble
Trivial Pursuit

Musicals/Plays You Need To See To Understand Me:
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
Carnival
Fiddler on the roof (NOT THE MOVIE)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Man of La Mancha

Periodicals You Need To Read To Understand Me:
American Libraries (free with your membership to the American Library Association, the folks that brought you the fabulously mediocre sounding Newbery, Criss Cross) (wasn't that a rap group in the early 90s?)
Sassy (the first 2 years)
Victoria (the early years)
Good Housekeeping

Catalogs You Need To Get--not necessarily order from--To Understand Me Better:
Oriental Trading (Beth and I spent desk time yesterday flipping through this, critiquing the variety of, well, crap)

Places You Need To Visit To Understand Me Better:
Pittsburgh, PA
Warsaw, Poland
Bonn, Germany
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Silver Spring, MD

Radio Shows You need to (Have) Listen(ed) To Understand Me:
Music Americana with Dick Serey
Saturday Lite Brigade (pre and post-WYEP days)
A Prairie Home Companion

Restaurants, etc.
Tazza D'Oro
61C
Pizzera Uno
Le Petit Trianon (yes, the one in Warsaw, Poland)
Chi Chis
Mad Mex
Wendys
The drug store lunch counter (c'mon, you didn't think I'd give FULL disclosure, did you?)