{"id":8934,"date":"2020-04-08T11:16:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T15:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=8934"},"modified":"2020-04-06T10:24:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T14:24:44","slug":"10-movies-books-to-know-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2020\/04\/08\/10-movies-books-to-know-me\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Movies\/Books to Know Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I heard from my informants that social media has thing thing: 10 movies to know you, and I was inspired. These are the 10 movies, and then 10 books that have shaped me (in no significant order).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Movies<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
  1. Alice in Wonderland (multiple versions, but mostly the one with Carol Channing<\/a>)<\/li>
  2. The Witches<\/a> (1990)<\/li>
  3. The Ruling Class<\/a> (1972)<\/li>
  4. Real Genius<\/a> (1985)<\/li>
  5. Zorro the Gay Blade<\/a> (1981)<\/li>
  6. Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/a> (1975)<\/li>
  7. Rock ‘n Rule<\/a> (1983)<\/li>
  8. Streets of Fire<\/a> (1984)<\/li>
  9. White Christmas<\/a> (1954)<\/li>
  10. Earth Girls are Easy<\/a> (1988)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Books<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
    1. Dynamic Anatomy<\/em> by Burne Hogarth<\/li>
    2. Art of War<\/em> by Sun Tzu<\/li>
    3. Dancing Cats of Applesap<\/em> by Janet Taylor Lisle<\/li>
    4. ABCs of Human Mind<\/em> a Reader’s Digest Family Answer Book<\/li>
    5. Little Women<\/em> by Louisa May Alcott<\/li>
    6. Atlas Shrugged<\/em> by Ayn Rand<\/li>
    7. The Guilty Head<\/em> by Romain Gary<\/li>
    8. Doc Holiday<\/em> by John Myers Myers<\/li>
    9. Russian Fairy Tales<\/em> translated by Norbert Guterman from the collections of Aleksandr Afanas’ev<\/li>
    10. Hocus Pocus<\/em> by Kurt Vonnegut<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      I heard from my informants that social media has thing thing: 10 movies to know you, and I was inspired. These are the 10 movies, and then 10 books that have shaped me (in no significant order). Movies Alice in Wonderland (multiple versions, but mostly the one with Carol Channing) The Witches (1990) The Ruling… Continue reading 10 Movies\/Books to Know Me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[74,58,21],"class_list":["post-8934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-books","tag-leemsmachine","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4284,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/09\/09\/talking-about-mermaids\/","url_meta":{"origin":8934,"position":0},"title":"Talking about mermaids","author":"leems","date":"September 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been looking through a lot of my Spectrum books (and I have a lot of\u00a0Spectrum books) so I have been drawing a lot of mermaids (they are chock full).\u00a0 And then, I happened upon a movie in Netflix instant that sounded kind of cool.\u00a0 Mad About Men is a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"mermaid017","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/mermaid017-561x600.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10450,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2024\/09\/25\/holidays-in-the-movies-calendar-summary\/","url_meta":{"origin":8934,"position":1},"title":"Holidays in the Movies: calendar summary","author":"leems","date":"September 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the past few years we have been cultivating holiday themed watching to get us in the right frame of mind for every holiday. 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