Alexandra Leaving

I have a HUGE MASSIVE secret love for making lists. This must have something to do with my control freak tendencies and desire to organise and logically dissect.. Normally I try to curb my list-making enthusiasm but I am so very tempted by the latest thing that I have seen in few of my friends' journals that I am giving in completely:

Ask me my Top Five [Whatevers]. It doesn't have to be fannish. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post.

As requested by soniag, three of my interests:

Classic films.
Like classic books it is something that is proven by time. A movie that is famous after 40 or 50 or 60 years since it's release is bound to be worthy of watching, especially considering technological advancements in the film industry. I often wonder which of present day films will stay and be popular after 20 years.. Or after 40? Some of the Oscar winners of times past are completely forgotten, but some other films that were frowned upon by critics, like "Dirty Dancing", stay. I often want a time machine to look into the future! Also I like the fact that old films are very reserved as concerning sexual and violence content. I think this made the creators to try harder, to be more inventive, but this is just my own thinking.

But of course the main reason I like old films that they don't do actors and actresses like that anymore. :D Humphrey Bogart! Cary Grant!! ** sigh ** I wonder if they all had descended from aliens, their beauty was insane! Shoulder lines, perfect profiles, CHEEKBONES! Where all the perfect men gone?? Some of my most favourite films are "Third Man", "Citizen Cane", "Wild Strawberries", "Notorious", but my absolute favourite is "Casablanca", the greatest film of all times. :D

( Casablanca: Rick and Ilsa )

Chow Yun Fat
Isn't he handsome? He has that special x-quality of simultaneous manliness and gentleness. My favourite film with Chow Yun Fat and also my unchallenged favourite among Asian films is "Crouching tiger, Hidden dragon". What a movie!! Like a piece of beautiful music, a piece of human soul itself. Chow Yon Fat was absolutely amazing in his role of noble Master Li Mu Bai …..

( Chow Yun Fat: )

Cats.
I don't remember the time when I didn't love cats of all shapes and forms and sizes. I remember as a child I used to drag stray kittens home to my mum who was firmly against having a cat in our 2-room Russian flat.. Heee! By the words of Terry Pratchet's Death – "Cats are nice!!!" I totally sign by this. They are beautiful, they are clever, they are loyal but independent. They smell nice!! I always wonder how cats manage to stay clean and never get stinky even though they never have a bath. But the main and totally essential thing is that Cats do purr. Oh, what a comforting sound that is!!!

( Ragamuffin Kitten.. AWWWWW! )

HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!! Something happened with the Fixed Squares layout recently and it breaks now in an indecent way when displaying large graphics, as in this post. Flexible Squares had problems with large graphics before, but they were nowhere as bad. Does anyone know how to fix this??????????????????????? I really like this layout but I will have to change it if this is impossible to fix. ** weeping **

PS If you would like me to choose three of your interests, please let me know!!