This month, A Few of My Favourite Things would like to thank the academy…
1. My favourite polite request to a hairdresser: “S’il vous plait my hair?”
2. My favourite environment in which to take a sedative: Ambien lighting…
3. My favourite classic sitcom couple who put me to sleep: Fred and Ether Mertz…
4. My favourite human embodiment of good and evil/children’s game: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and go seek…
5. My favourite Joss Whedon series about a demon hunter in civilian clothes: Mufti the Vampire Slayer…
6. My favourite Australian post-apocalyptic film/Swedish actor: Mad Max von Sydow…
7. My favourite computer programme that ensures I won’t have to read Greek epic sagas: an Iliad blocker…
8. My favourite French film movement about the homeless: the Nouvelle Vagrant…
9. My favourite Puccini aria about a Japanese car: “Nissan Dorma…”
10. My favourite Puccini aria about a Dr. Strange villain: “Nessun Dormammu…”
11. My favourite Shakespearean play about different words for an Egyptian leader: Antonym and Cleopatra…
12. My favourite science fiction author/sweater: Pat Cardigan…
13. My favourite TV show about overly dramatic west coast lawyers: LA Hoopla…
14.My favourite movie series about beekeepers taking over the world: Planet of the Apians…
15. My favourite Biblical story about the star of Catch 22: Noah’s Arkin…
16. My favouite Donovan song about a laid back strings player: “Mellow Cello…”
17. My favourite cheesy horror movie about an invasion of relatives: Empire of the Aunts…
18. My favourite country singer/Illinois city: Keith Urbana…
19. My favourite technique for making films in Paris: Mise en Seine…
20. My favourite Dave Clarke Five hit about a garden: “Gladiola All Over…”
21. My favourite Rod Stewart song about the birth of Jesus: “The Gift of the Maggie Mae…”
22. My favourite state of poverty/alcoholic beverage: serfdom Perignon…
23. My favourite Fantastic Four actress/pasta: Jessica Elbow macaroni…
24. My favourite nonsense song about insects: “Cicada Da Da…”
25. My favourite method of communicating with a crowd/When Harry Met Sally actress: Megaphone Ryan…
26. My favourite documentary about petty annoyances in war: Band of Bothers…
27. My favourite Marvel hero/form of extreme wrestling: a Luke Cage match…
28. My favourite Biblical advice/visual social media phenomenon: “Man, know thy selfie…”
29. My favourite professional baseball manager/overseas factory for a native company: Branch Plant Rickey…
30. My favrouite environmental hazard/Persian Gulf Monarchy: acid Bahrain…
31. My favrouite BGs song about a fragrant ever-green herb: “Chive Talkin'”…
A Few of My Favourite Things knows where it dances. Where do you dance?
1. My favourite female novelist/southern state capital: Jane Austin, Texas…
2. My favourite Sidney James film about druggists: Apothecarry on Dispensing…
3. My favourite American song about a former wrestler’s favourite auto route: “Jesse Ventura Highway…”
4. My favourite flaky science fiction series: The Outre Limits…
5. My favourite Beatles song about a French philosopher: “Ticket to Derrida”
6. My favourite cosmologist/progressive rock band: Stephen Hawkwind…
7. My favourite Star Trek actor/ingredient in pesto: Chris Pine nut…
8. My favourite Taxi actor/job application component: Curriculum Danny de Vitae…
9. My favourite comedy film about a billionaire investor: Carl Heaven Icahn Wait…
10. My favourite Broadway musical about achieving enlightenment: West Side Satori…
11. My favourite nursery rhyme/side dish: Old King Cole Slaw…
12. My favourite Michael Caine movie/foundational document on human freedom: Get Magna Carter…
13. My favourite singer/dancer/provocatrice/1990s sitcom: Madonna About You…
14. My favourite Indiana city/food served at five star restaurants: Terre Haute cuisine…
15. My favourite Genesis album about an infection caused by a roundworm: A Trichinosis of the Tail…
16. My favourite Grace Jones song about Poles, Czechs and Russians having to dance: “Slav to the Rhythm…”
17. My favourite Supertramp song about circumcision: “Bloody Well Rite..”
18. My favourite CCR song about a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne travelling by water: “Roland on the River…”
19. My favourite Diana Krall song about making friends and influencing people: “Norman Vincent Peale Me a Grape…”
20. My favourite fashion designer/aid in arranging flowers: Perry Trellis…
21. My favourite heavyweight boxer/Indonesian island vacation spot: Muhammad Bali…
22. My favourite TVO movie host/kiln for drying hops: Elwy Oast…
23. My favourite oddball pop star: Eccentric Astley…
24. My favourite novel about a trip through hell set to a classical music tempo: Andante’s Inferno…
25. My favourite Led Zeppelin album about a gay bullfighter: In Through the Out Matador…
26. My favourite African nation/American news anchor: Sudan Rather…
27. My favourite form of exercise/upscale store: Sex Fifth Avenue…
28. My favourite big top comedian who incorporates electronics into his act: a circuits clown…
29. My favourite 1940s cinematic movement shot on the longest river in France: film Loire…
30. My favourite American Idol host/form of jury duty: Ryan Sequester…
31. My favourite sports slogan/Beatles song: “Win one for the ‘Day Tripper…'”