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from http://undeadwhispers.yuku.com/topic/502

SFX magazine, in the UK, have just released a vampire special mag and had a top 50 vamps...

50 Dracula - Gerald Butler - Dracula 2000
49 Deacon Frost - Blade
48 Marcus Van Scriver - Blade the series
47 Jerry Dandridge - fright night
46 Kurt Barlow - salems lot (79)
45 Eric Northman - True Blood
44 Santanico Pandimonium - From Dusk till Dawn
43 Reinhardt - Blade 2
42 Richard Gecko - From Dusk till Dawn
41 Henry Fitzroy - Blood ties
40 Dracula - Frank Langella - Dracula (1979)
39 The Master - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (series)
38 Claudia - interview with the vampire
37 Countess Bathory - Delphine Seyrig - Daughters of Darkness
36 Dracula - Louis Jourdan - Count Dracula (1977)
35 Schreck - Shadow of the Vampire
34 Eli - Let the Right One In
33 Martin Madahas - Martin
32 Vampire Willow - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (series)
31 Harmony Kendall - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (series)/Angel
30 Lilith Silver - Razor Blade Smile
29 Carmilla Karnstein - Ingrid Pitt - the Vampire Lovers
28 Miriam - The Hunger
27 Bill Comptom - True Blood
26 Barnabas Collins - Jonathan Frid - Dark Shadows
25 Darla - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (series)/Angel
24 Louis de Pointe du Luc - Interview with the Vampire
23 Marlow - 30 Days of Night
22 Count Duckula - Count Duckula
21 Mitchell - Aidan Turner - Being Human
20 Jesse - Near Dark
19 Count von Count - Sesame Street
18 Viktor - Underworld/Underworld Rise of the lycans
17 Josef Kostan - Moonlight
16 Danny Glick - Salem's Lot (1979)
15 Herrick - Being Human
14 Edward Cullen - Twilight
13 Dracula - Bela Lugosi - Dracula (1933)/Bud Abbott and Lou Costello meet Frankenstein
12 Severen - Near Dark
11 Blade - Wesley Snipes - Blade/Blade 2/Blade Trinity
10 Drusilla - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (series)/Angel
9 Selene - Underworld/Underworld Evolution
8 Lestat de Lioncourt - Tom Cruise - Interview with the Vampire
7 Dracula - Gary Oldman - Dracula (1992)
6 Graf Orlok - Max Schreck - Nosferatu (1922)
5 David - Lost Boys
4 Mick St John - Moonlight
3 Angel/Angelus - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (series)/Angel
2 Dracula - Sir Christopher Lee - Horror of Dracula
1 Spike - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (series)/Angel

Check out all the Buffy vamps! Ang saya. Nakaka-miss tuloy.

More chika at http://www.sfx.co.uk/page/sfx?entry=sfx_vampire_special
Slurp!

books.

googled "top 100 books" and ran into lists c/o time, random house, bbc and the guardian unlimited. cool!

my list (again, in no particular order, read over and over, in bed, the beach, the plane, the train; whoever pops into my brain)

1. a separate peace, john knowles
2. to kill a mockingbird, harper lee
3. the bell jar, sylvia plath
4. gone with the wind, margaret mitchell
5. the kiss, kathryn harrison
6. jane eyre, charlotte bronte
7. the age of innocence, edith wharton
8. anna karenina, leo tolstoy
9. time traveler's wife, audrey niffenegger
10. little women, louisa may alcott
11. the silmarillion, JRR tolkien
12. emily, l.m. montgomery
13. the romantic movement, alain de botton
14. lovely bones, alice sebold (wait how come it's not on the shelf...)
15. angela's ashes, frank mccourt
16. the godfather, mario puzo
17. tale of murasaki, liza dalby
18. memoirs of a geisha, arthur golden
19. dracula, bram stoker
20. dear america: letters home from vietnam
21. a many-splendored thing, han suyin
22. piece of my heart, keith walker
23. nicholas and alexandra, robert k. massie
24. the bourne identity, robert ludlum
25. the grapes of wrath, john steinbeck

as for my secret shame list
1. zoya, danielle steel
2. wrong-way romance (sweet dreams # 176) - which, i just found out, got 5 stars out of 9 reviews on amazon.com
3. princess daisy - judith krantz
4. till we meet again - judith krantz
5. i'll take manhattan - judith krantz (shiyet nababasyo ako)
6. mistral's daughter - judith krantz (lintik why did we garage sale these dudes now i wanna read them again)

...i hope i didn't miss anyone...

oh! recently read KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL and it was so cool! i couldn't put it down, and i'm not even a foodie.

that's one thing i realized, reading the book. admittedly i have my favorite food groups (gummi bears, otsumami, cereal, chocolate, pan de regla) but food is more like fuel to me than anything else (except i guess when i'm moody)...kung gutom na ako pero wala pang handa, kahit ano lalamunin ko muna to tide me over.

my sister, the official foodie in the family, was in shock when i said it out loud.

i guess that's why i do the dishes...

the all-TIME 100 albums...

li...are on time.com, and i only own four of them. seven if you count the ones cybs owns and i hope to one day steal.

so it got me thinking about my all-time favorite albums...the ones that blew my mind away, that i listened to over and over, whether i was rich enough to get my own copy or not...

off the top of my head, in no particular order, and doing my best not to just list all the tori and sarah albums...

1. tori amos, little earthquakes
2. sarah mclachlan, fumbling towards ecstasy
3. counting crows, august and everything after
4. radiohead, pablo honey
5. hole, live through this
6. joni mitchell, blue
7. heather nova, oyster
8. indigo girls, rites of passage
9. 10,000 maniacs, our time in eden
10. veruca salt, american thighs
11. better than ezra, how does your garden grow
12. cynthia alexander, rippingyarns
13. the bangles, everything
14. sinead o'connor, i don't want what i haven't got
15. cranberries, everybody else is doing it, so why can't we
16. sarah mclachlan, surfacing
17. tori amos, under the pink
18. tori amos, boys for pele
19. tori amos, from the choirgirl hotel (yes yes i'm copping out but they're legit, promise!)
20. R.E.M., monster
21. heather nova, siren
22. fiona apple, tidal
23. fiona apple, when the pawn....
23. jewel, pieces of you
24. garbage, garbage
25. pearl jam, ten
26. cher, heart of stone (wow, i had to google that one pa, tape pa yun)
27. sinead o'connor, am i not your girl?
28. nine inch nails, pretty hate machine (skinny will kill me for that one, i think)
29. basia, time and tide
30. abra moore, strangest places

...and if SOUNDTRACKS count...
31. OST - last of the mohicans
32. OST - the piano
33. OST - china beach
34. OST - buffy
35. OST - crazy beautiful
36. OST - 10 things i hate about you
37. OST - cruel intentions
38. OST - a walk to remember
39. OST - party of five
40. OST - romeo and juliet
41. OST - stigmata

and if, ahem, cartoons and broadway and greatest hits (pero parang this one shouldn't) count,
42. little mermaid
43. miss saigon
44. rent
45. les miz
46. bjork
47. counting crows again
48. fleetwood mac
49. peter, paul and mary
50. james taylor

hmmm. a few observations:
- they're mostly all chicks
- they're mostly all retro...back in the day when paying for a legit CD was still part of my budget.

interesteenk! i think i'll do books next...