Favorite semi-recent artists

Brook:

5. Jim Lee

4. Cal Slayton

3. Craig Thompson

2. Michael Lark

1. Will Eisner

Chris:

5. Joan Miro

4. Lucian Freud

3. Mark Rothko

2. Francis Bacon

1. Marc Chagall

Favorite smells

Brook:

5. Cotton Candy

4. Cookies baking

3. Calvin Klein's Escape for Women

2. A burning fireplace

1. Bread baking

Chris:

5. Incense

4. Fresh bread

3. Barbecue

2. Cinnamon

1. The air before it rains

Favorite Shakespeare plays

Brook:

5. Macbeth

4. The Taming of the Shrew

3. The Merchant of Venice

2. Romeo and Juliet

1. Hamlet

Chris:

5. King Richard III

4. Henry V

3. The Merchant of Venice

2. Much Ado About Nothing

1. I Henry IV

Favorite cover songs

Brook:

5. "Changes" by Seu Jorge (David Bowie)

4. "Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia (Ednaswap)

3. "Leaving on a Jet Plane" by Chantal Kreviazuk (John Denver)

2. "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" by David Gray (Soft Cell)

1. "Little Wing" by Stevie Ray Vaughan (Jimi Hendrix)

Chris:

5. "All Along the Watchtower" by Jimi Hendrix (Bob Dylan)

4. "The Passenger" by Siouxsie and the Banshees (Iggy Pop)

3. "Take Me to the River" by Talking Heads (Al Green)

2. "Feelin' Alright" by Joe Cocker (Traffic)

1. "Proud Mary" by Ike and Tina Turner (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Favorite sitcoms of all time

Brook:

5. NewsRadio

4. Wings

3. Frasier

2. Seinfeld

1. Friends

Chris:

5. Sports Night

4. Wings

3. The Cosby Show

2. NewsRadio

1. Northern Exposure

Favorite TV chefs

Brook:

5. Emeril Lagasse

4. Bobby Flay

3. Martin Yan

2. Rachel Ray

1. Alex Albrecht & Heather Stewart

Chris:

5. Iron Chef Morimoto

4. That English chick who does all the sensual camera work (can't think of her name)

3. Iron Chef Sakai

2. Anthony Bourdain

1. Gordon Ramsay (the BBC years, not the Fox crap)

Favorite board games

Brook:

5. Pictionary

4. Scrabble

3. Cranium

2. Scene It

1. Trivial Pursuit

Chris:

5. Monopoly

4. Clue

3. Risk

2. Scrabble

1. Trivial Pursuit

Favorite books I had to read in high school

Brook:

5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

4. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

3. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

2. Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

1. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Chris:

5. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

4. Beowulf

3. My Antonia by Willa Cather

2. The Stranger by Albert Camus

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Favorite band names (not favorite bands)

Brook:

5. Weezer

4. Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives

3. Government Cheese

2. Jesus Chrysler Supercar

1. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Chris:

5. Sleezus Fist and the Latter Day Taints

4. Twang Twang Shock A Boom

3. Thievery Corporation

2. The Velvet Underground

1. American Analog Set