5.

On this rainy Sunday in Georgia, let's take a break from our usual post formatting and do something a little different - no word of the day, no mention of the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death (which, I guess, is a way of mentioning it), etc.

Let's do a 5 Things post:

Five Greatest Male Athletes of My Lifetime
- Michael Jordan
- Jerry Rice 
- Roger Federer
- Lance Armstrong
- Michael Phelps

Five Greatest Female Athletes of My Lifetime
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- Serena Williams
- Misty May-Treanor/Kerri Walsh
- Mia Hamm
- Janet Evans 

My Five Favorite Heist Movies 
- Ocean's Eleven (2001)
- Quick Change (1990)
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
- The Italian Job (2003)
- The Usual Suspects (1995)

My Five Favorite Sports
- Basketball
- Football
- Tennis
- Handball (thanks to this Olympics)
- Beach volleyball

Five Books I Love That You Probably Wouldn't Even Like (or Finish)
- Light Years by James Salter
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Studs Lonigan Trilogy by James Farrell
- Under the Volcano by Albert Finney
- Indignation by Philip Roth

Five States I Would Love to Go to and Never Leave
- New Mexico
- Oregon
- Colorado
- Arizona
- Maine

Five Actresses I Would Love to Take on a Date
- Kate Beckinsale
- Vera Farmiga
- Jennifer Garner
- Claire Danes
- Jennifer Lawrence

Five Artists/Bands That I Will Be Still Listening to In 25 Years
- Harry Nilsson
- The Kinks 
- Johnny Cash
- Los Lobos
- Paul Simon 

Five Painters Whom I Love to Know More About
- JMW Turner
- El Greco
- Jan Van Eyck
- Paul Gauguin
- Wassily Kandinsky

Five Famous Movies I Haven't Seen
- Gone With the Wind
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Spartacus
- Blazing Saddles
- Ben-Hur

My Five Favorite Courtroom/Legal Films:  
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
- A Few Good Men (1992)
- Primal Fear (1996)

- The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
- My Cousin Vinny (1992) 

Five Movies I Didn't Think Were As Funny As Others Did
- Some Like it Hot (1959)
- Dr. Strangelove... (1964)
- MASH (1970)  
- Tootsie (1982)
- The Big Lebowski (1998)

Five Places I Could Eat At Multiple Times Every Week
- Five Guys
- Walker Brothers' Pancake House (Chicago)      
- Gigi's Cupcakes
- Lovin' Spoons Frozen Yogurt
- Shakespeare's Pizza (Columbia, MO)

Five Favorite Things My Wife Makes
- oatmeal
- pound cake
- scotchies
- chicken parmesan
- vodka pasta

Five Authors I've Never Read (well, all the way) 
- Leo Tolstoy
- Joseph Heller
- George Eliot
- Ayn Rand
- C.S. Lewis

Five Greatest TV Comedies of My Lifetime
- Seinfeld 
- Curb Your Enthusiasm 
- Arrested Development 
- The Office 
- Modern Family 

Five (er, 6) Greatest TV Dramas of My Lifetime
- The Sopranos 
- Six Feet Under
- Dexter 
- The Wire 
- Friday Night Lights    
- Mad Men    

 
Five People I Never Want to See or Hear From Again
- Justin Bieber
- Mitt Romney
- Charlie Sheen
- Robert Pattinson
- Steven Tyler 

Five Art Museums I Need to Go To
- Prado, Madrid 
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
- Louvre
- Vincent Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
- Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Five Songs I Wish I Had Written By Artists/Bands I Really Don't Like
- "Better Man," by Pearl Jam
- "Go Now," by The Moody Blues
- "Bad Time," by Grand Funk Railroad  
- "Superstar," by The Carpenters 
-  "I Want to Know What Love Is," by Foreigner 


And... one more...



Five Recent Romantic-Comedy Movies I Didn't Think Were That Bad 

- The Back-Up Plan (2010)
- Valentine's Day (2010)
- Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)   
- You Again (2010) 
- Killers (2010) 

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