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What are your favorite weird food combinations?
Submitted by Dulce.

I don't know if this is really a favourite, but a friend of mine loves peanut butter and dill pickle sandwiches.  Out of sick, morbid curiosity, I tried it one day, and you know what?  I didn't hate it.  I've even had it since.  It's a weird salty-sweet / creamy-crunchy contradiction in one's mouth.

It's unquestionably wrong, and maybe that's what drew me to its forbidden tastiness.

What word(s) do you always make a typo in?

Unfailingly, I always mistype tempalte.   I mean template.

Got tagged by Kat to do this one.  RobotJohnny.com is down for a makeover, so Vox it is, which is really where I post fluff like this anyhow.

Supposedly, if you've seen over 85 movies, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 266 movies on this list. Put x's next to the movies you've seen, add them up, change the header to your number, and click post at the bottom. Have fun!

It's a strange list in that it comprises mostly movies from the last 5 to 10 years, and they're all either broad comedies or  genre/action/thriller flicks.  Deduction: this was written by an extremely young nerd.  Anyway, here goes.

(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
() Boondock Saints
(x) Fight Club
(x) Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story
(x) Blazing Saddles
(x) Universal Soldier
(x) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
() Along Came Polly
(x) Deep Impact
(x) KingPin
() Never Been Kissed
(x) Meet The Parents
() Meet the Fockers
(x) Eight Crazy Nights
() Joe Dirt
(x) King Kong
Total so far: 15

() A Cinderella Story
(x) The Terminal
(x) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
() Passport to Paris
(x) Dumb & Dumber
() Dumber & Dumberer
() Final Destination
() Final Destination 2
() Final Destination 3
(x) Halloween
(x) The Ring
(x) The Ring 2
() Surviving Christmas
(x) Flubber
Total so far: 22

(x) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
() Practical Magic
(x) Chicago
(x) Ghost Ship
(x) From Hell
(x) Hellboy
(x) Secret Window
(x) I Am Sam
(x) The Whole Nine Yards
() The Whole Ten Yards
Total so far: 30

(x) The Day After Tomorrow
(x) Child's Play
(x) Seed of Chucky
(x) Bride of Chucky
() Ten Things I Hate About You
() Just Married
() Gothika
(x) Nightmare on Elm Street
() Sixteen Candles (I know -- shameful)
() Remember the Titans
(x) Coach Carter
(x) The Grudge (I've seen the original, not the Buffy version. I'm sure this refers to the remake, but meh...)
() The Grudge 2
(x) The Mask
() Son Of The Mask
Total so far: 38

() Bad Boys
() Bad Boys 2
() Joy Ride
(x) Lucky Number Slevin
(x) Ocean's Eleven
(x) Ocean's Twelve
(x) Bourne Identity
(x) Bourne Supremecy
() Lone Star
(x) Bedazzled
(x) Predator I
(x) Predator II
() The Fog
(x) Ice Age
(x) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
(x) Curious George (you heard me.)
Total so far: 49

(x) Independence Day
() Cujo
() A Bronx Tale
() Darkness Falls
(x) Christine
(x) ET
() Children of the Corn
() My Boss's Daughter
(x) Maid in Manhattan
(x) War of the Worlds
(x) Rush Hour
(x) Rush Hour 2
Total so far: 56

() Best Bet
() How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
() She's All That
() Calendar Girls
(x) Sideways
(x) Mars Attacks!
(x) Event Horizon
() Ever After
(x) Wizard of Oz
(x) Forrest Gump
() Big Trouble in Little China
(x) The Terminator
(x) The Terminator 2
(x) The Terminator 3
Total so far: 64

(x) X-Men
(x) X2
(x) X-3
(x) Spider-Man
(x) Spider-Man 2
(x) Sky High
(x) Jeepers Creepers
() Jeepers Creepers 2
(x) Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Little Mermaid
(x) Freaky Friday (does the original count?)
(x) Reign of Fire
(x) The Skulls
() Cruel Intentions
() Cruel Intentions 2
() The Hot Chick
(x) Shrek
(x) Shrek 2
Total so far: 78

() Swimfan
(x) Miracle on 34th street (again, I am assuming this is supposed to be the remake, but screw it.)
(x) Old School
() The Notebook
(x) K-Pax
() Krippendorf's Tribe
() A Walk to Remember
() Ice Castles
() Boogeyman
(x) The 40-year-old-virgin
Total so far: 82

(x) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
(x) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
(x) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King
(x) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
(x) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(x) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Total so far: 88 (crossed the magic 85; I guess I have no life according to someone in grade 9)

() Baseketball
(x) Hostel
(x) Waiting for Guffman
() House of 1000 Corpses
() Devil's Rejects
(x) Elf
(x) Highlander
(x) Mothman Prophecies
() American History X
() Three
Total so Far: 93

() The Jacket
(x) Kung Fu Hustle
() Shaolin Soccer
() Night Watch
(x) Monsters Inc.
(x) Titanic
(x) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(x) Shaun Of the Dead
(x) Willard
Total so far: 99

() High Tension
(x) Club Dread
(x) Hulk
(x) Dawn Of the Dead
(x) Hook
() Chronicle Of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
(x) 28 days later
(x) Orgazmo
() Phantasm
(x) Waterworld (and I still say it's not as bad as it's made out to be!)
Total so far: 106

(x) Kill Bill vol 1
(x) Kill Bill vol 2
(x) Mortal Kombat
() Wolf Creek
() Kingdom of Heaven
() the Hills Have Eyes
() I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
() The Last House on the Left
(x) Re-Animator
(x) Army of Darkness
Total so far: 111

(x) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
(x) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
(x) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(x) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(x) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
(x) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
(x) Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
(x) Ewoks The Battle For Endor
Total so far: 119

(x) The Matrix
(x) The Matrix Reloaded
(x) The Matrix Revolutions
() Animatrix
(x) Evil Dead
(x) Evil Dead 2
(x) Team America: World Police
(x) Red Dragon
(x) Silence of the Lambs
(x) Hannibal (Saw this on Valentine's Day. Nothing says romance like eating a dude's brain.)
Total so far: 128

(x) Battle Royale
() Battle Royale 2
(x) Brazil
(x) Contact
(x) Cube
(x) Dr. Strangelove
() Enlightenment Guaranteed
(x) Four Rooms
(x) Memento
(x) Pi
() Requiem for a Dream
(x) Pulp Fiction
(x) Reservoir Dogs
(x) Run Lola Run
() Russian Ark
() Serenity
(x) Sin City
(x) Snatch
(x) Spider
(x) The Sixth Sense
(x) The Village
(x) Waking Life
() Zatoichi
() Ikiru
() The Seven Samurai
() Brick
() Akira

Grand total: 145.  It was a pretty crappy list of movies to movies to work with.  It would be more interesting with some more obsure titles, and some older classics.

What were your top 5 TV shows of 2006?

The Office
Those who dared to ignore the intellectual comedy snobs who wouldn't give the American version a chance against the "vastly superior" British original were rewarded when Carrell's Office finally came into its own and, dare I say it, outshone its predecessor.

Deadwood
"Pain or damage don’t end the world, or despair or fucking beatings. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man—and give some back."

QI
I discovered this show searching for clips of A Bit of Fry & Laurie on YouTube, and quickly downloaded torrents of the entire series (so far).  The supreme Stephen Fry hosts a trivia show with rotating comedian panelists in which correct answers aren't nearly as important as interesting ones.  It's Jeopardy! meets Whose Line Is It Anyway?.

House
In its third season the show starts to veer away, ever so slightly, from its formulaic "You're cured! Wait, you're worse! Okay, now you're really cured!" storylines.  But even when it does seem repetitive, Hugh Laurie still gives the best performance on TV.  Actually it's a pretty even tie between Dr. Gregory House and Deadwood's Al Swearengen.

Heroes
Cheap, fun, dark, serial sci-fi-fantasy.  Finally a worthy replacement for The X Files!

How well do you know your next-door neighbors?

Not at all.  In one neighbouring house there lives a guy, probably my age, who whenever I see him is always working on his car.  He loves that car.  He's always cleaning it, tuning it, under its hood, and pimping it to perfection.  It's funny to me because it's such a dinky little hatchback.  We've never spoken, but we nod to each other like masculine dudes do.

In another house lives relatives of Gordasm.  I don't remember how or when we realized I was neighbours with his family, but I suppose, for the sake of this post at least, it's fitting that I joined Vox via an invite from Gord.

Well, as long as I'm here, I might as well play along!

What's your morning beverage of choice?  Coffee, tea, juice?  Homemade or store-bought?

I usually sleep in the very last possible second that will allow me just enough time (and usually less than that) to shower, get dressed, and head out the door.  This leaves one with little time for breakfast.  I've never been a coffee-drinker, and there's no time for a cup of tea in the morning, so if there ever is a morning drink, it's juice.

Usually I go for grapefruit, but the little store down the street sells some locally-produced peach/mango juice that I can't seem to get enough of.

I really don't need an excuse to waste more time online, nor do I really need another outlet for blogging.  But everyone else is doing it, and for love of all that's holy, who am I not to follow trends??