What usually happens with me is I come up with what I think are my favorites for one of these bloghops, but then when I check out all the other great choices, I think I should have made a different choice.
Favorite Genre of Movie: This has to be fantasy/scifi movies. This broad categories includes Transformers, The Avengers, Lord of the Rings, and dozens of others.
Favorite Genre of Book: Of course it is the same as my movie preference. It's also the genre I write, ranging from epic fantasy to fantasy romance. Give me a Brandon Sanderson or Terry Goodkind novel and I'm staying up all night reading. Most fantasy I read is medieval epic subgenre, but I do like some contemporary fantasy and also futuristic scifi. I like some contemporary scifi that crosses over towards horror also. Dean Koontz does that with his Odd Thomas series.
Favorite Genre of Music: This is the most difficult genre for me. I listen to all kinds of music but I guess the stuff I jog to on my iPod has to be my favorite. Even that playlist is varied. Give me lots of Maroon Five, some Plain White Tees, and a little Train, 3 Doors Down. Can't forget Adele or Daughtry, David Cook, and Five for Fighting and Green Day. What genre is that? Pop rock? Alternative Rock? I don't know.
Guilty Pleasure from One of the Group?: I can watch hours and hours of light-hearted or darker non-network TV shows. White Collar, Leverage, Hell on Wheels, Suits, Justified, Perception, just to name a few. So many of those shows depend on character interaction and chemistry rather than deep plots or mysteries that I can just enjoy them purely for entertainment.
So are you joining in the blogfest? Have your favorites changed over the years?
33 comments:
Your music choices are fab!!
Wonderful choices. With you all the way on the sci-fi and fantasy.
Heck, I'm even with you on the music. ^_^
Another fantasy fan here. I'm always happy to meet a fellow Ringer!
Leverage isn't a guilty pleasure - it's an awesome show!
We agree on movies and books. No surprise there.
Thanks for participating in my blogfest!
yay sci fi/fantasy! and music is alt w/a hint of pop =) great stuff!
Your choice of movies and books doesn't surprise me at all.
I'm going to have to check out some of those shoes. Justified and Hell on Wheels are gritty and wonderful.
White Collar and Leverage are two of my favorite shows. And I keep hearing such good things about Hell on Wheels that it sounds like I'm going to have to start watching that one too.
Nice! We share a lot of favorite genres. :)
I chuckled at your question on what genre is your music. I'm doing Alex's blog fest, too, and I listed the oldies as my music genre and mentioned that it was easier back then. Rock & roll was rock & roll. Period, end of discussion. Oh, and our parents hated it.
I love Leverage and Suits. Do you watch Burn Notice?
five for fighting is my guilty pleasure... never a bad song. shhh don't tell anyone.
Jeremy [Retro-Zombie]
Howlin' Wolf Records: On-Line Magazine
Oh, I'm addicted to Odd Thomas after reading the first. Can't wait for that movie!
Great choices!
i keep hearing people say how much they like white collar--i might take a look :)
Great choices! I've never read Brandon Sanderson but I hear he is really good.
Allison (Geek Banter)
We have a very similar TV watching list. Yes, it does take hours and hours to catch them all, which is why I'm always a bit behind :D
I know almost none of the bands you've chosen. Wow, my musical tastes are very limited! Shall Google a few of the ones you named :)
Jamie @ Mithril Wisdom
fun to read and know more about you.
I'm like that with music - I know what I like, but I'm never sure how to classify it!
Great choices - I'm a huge sf and fantasy fan too. I haven't read Sanderson - I'll have to check his stuff out!
I love old school medieval literature. And I too waste hours and hours on the same tv shows. I miss Suits.
Yes, mainly literary in my college days, but now I read a lot of genre novels (scifi, mystery, fantasy) and some literary). I've tried to broaden my reading tastes, and meeting other author bloggers has helped me do that.
I remember Transformers and we've seen the movies. I like reading everyone's choices, too, since it reminds me of other movies or books I liked.
I really like almost every band you named. Train is awesome!! I've never heard of any of those shows though. I'll have to look some of them up. I'm always looking for cool shows to watch.
I really like Odd Thomas. I haven't read the latest book yet though. Have you?
This has been such a fun blogfest - I've loved reading everyone's choices.
Maroon 5 is a great band!
Great list! Non-network TV can be addicting. I'm glad we don't get those channels.
I've not seen Leverage yet, or most of the others. Did see a wee bit of Blue Collar. Not to bad to look at, that one.
:-)
I haven't seen any of the shows on your guilty pleasures list. I've heard great things about White Collar. I love Green Day and can't wait for their new album next week!
Hi, Susan. How are you. Sorry I haven't visited in a while. *slaps hand*
Love your music choices. We're big Train fans over here, although we're growing a bit restless with the new direction. I have seen the band three times.
Take care.
-Jimmy
http://jamesgarciajr.blogspot.com/
My favorites have changed--I lean much further in the Science Fiction direction than I used to.
Great choices!
I had to really think over what to choose as my favorites, and then I went around basically nodding in agreement with what others said. I like a really wide selection of things, and my choices change constantly.
My Genre Favorites & Guilty Pleasures
Thanks for stopping by my site! We do seem to like the same kinds of music. And I really like fantasy movies, too, though there are so many bad ones out there . . . It's nice that technology is getting better so fantasy movies can look and feel more like they should. (Though admittedly, some of the 80s flicks like Dragonslayer are guilty faves of mine.)
Lord of the Rings, yes, that's great. Green Day too, but yea, you should have added Queen!! That's ok anyway, you mentioned them in the comment to my blog post.
Have a great weekend and thanks for visiting!
You listed lots of bands on my iPod! Adele has an amazing voice and I love Daughtry's new album!
I LOVE White Collar!! Good choice :)
And so glad to be connected now :)
Great choices..I am with you on your guilty pleasures
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