why start with the favorites, meme?

[aruan]

They either cause endless agonizing or picking what's in the player right now.
A little behind, so a two-fer today:

Day 2: Favorite Movie What does that mean? Is it the movie I watch the most? Because that, embarrassingly enough, would be either Robin Hood: Men in Tights or Bridget Jones' Diary. Is it the movie I recommend to anyone who hasn't seen it? That's Fight Club. Because of the amazing experience I had in the theater, Scream 2 (used a fake ID because I was 15 and it's rated R!) and The Empire Strikes Back (when Han and Leia walk into the conference room on Bespin and Vader is sitting at the end of the table, I learned not to trust seemingly good guys) are up there. But I don't have a movie that speaks to my soul, as it were. When I'm happy, it's You've Got Mail or Beetlejuice. When I need cheering up, Men in Black or Beverly Hills Cop III (the rescue on the Spider is still the best action sequence ever!) usually does the trick. Basically, I like movies, but don't ask me to reduce Hollywood to a single title.

Day 3: Favorite TV show Much easier. On the air: 30 Rock. Off the air: Battlestar Galactica. No contest.

Thanks to a last-minute ticket (Dubizzle FTW) I got to see a tennis match between David Ferrer and some guy who's supposed to be the best who's ever played the sport. I think his name is Roger something?

Maybe you will recognize him:





Yeah, no, I can't actually downplay my enthusiasm. The seat was as nosebleed as you could get, but Federer put on an excellent show. It's like he emits some sort of anti-gravity aura, he just kind of hangs in the air and seems to get across the court faster than possible. Ferrer got his shots in, but he was way outmatched, running all over the court and unable to return a lot of what was served to him. Also, watching tennis with a live crowd is pretty cool - the energy of the place ratchets up the longer a point goes on.

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[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

I think his name is Roger something?

Huh, never heard of him. LOL J/K I CAN'T EVEN, SEEING HIM PLAY LIVE BEFORE HE RETIRES IS ONLY ONE OF MY GREATEST DREAMS. I'm so glad you enjoyed the experience! Have you ever read Federer as Religious Experience by David Foster Wallace? I recommend it highly!

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

Reading it now, and the part were he mentions Nadal being a technical expert and Federer being a thing of beauty and a joy forever (paraphrase SO MINE) is spot-on. Ferrer, and what I saw of Nadal and Soderling, were men of precision, who stood, ran and hit by the book, whereas Federer looked for all the world like he was frolicking in the park, having fun without worrying about his form. It was that sort of innate talent that people who deliberately work all their lives at perfecting a skill never attain that makes all us non-Mozarts of the world insane.