CONFESS!!!!!! What's your "Brain Candy"

[LynneSin]

Now I think I've become a pretty darn good expert on the type of folks that post regularly here on DU. I think I've met more of you folks in person and I haven't met a dumb cookie in the lot of you.

We like the op-ed section of the NY Times, the Pol-Sci section of our favorite indepenant bookstore. We watch "Meet the Press" and curse out Tim Russert. We are very smart folks!

But let's face it: We all have our own form of 'Brain Candy'. My bookshelf may be lined with the NYTimes non-fiction bestsellers from the past 3 years (all progressive books), but every once in awhile I like to watch a TV show that should insult my intelligence. I love Survivor and I also watch Real World & Road Rules (and all the off-shoots). These are my brain candies, I can enjoy them without having to put alot of thought into the content.

So CONFESS!!! What is your 'Brain Candy'??? Is it a show, a type of music or a genre of movies? Let us know what your secret 'Brain Candy' is!!

[flamingyouth]

1. Nora Roberts/JD Robb books

Yes, I admit it! I also like Susan Elizabeth Phillips! :D

[Burma Jones]

2. Age of Empires, Age of Kings, Conquerors Edition

Damn Game.......

[LynneSin]

27. I just started playing Age of Empire

I suck at it

[Burma Jones]

29. You must spend years at it

Grasshopper.....

It sucks up time nearly as effectively as Simcity.

[tigereye]

47. my 8 year old can give you tips

he is frighteningly good at it. Ready I fear for virtual world domination!

[patrice]

3. "Older" Outer-Limits & X-Files.

Also, any David Lynche and Tim Burton.

[terrya]

4. "Keeping Up Appearances"

It's on every Saturday night on the PBS station here...and I love this show! It's not "cerebral comedy" by any stretch of the imagination. But it's hilarious and a lot of fun.

[KittyWampus]

39. Shall We Have A Waterside Supper With Riparian Entertainment?

:D

[MallRat]

5. THE AMAZING RACE.

The only reality show that I can watch with a clear conscience.

I've been known to catch the occasional episode of Survivor or American Idol, but nothing compares to The Amazing Race.

-MR

[Az]

6. CRPGs and Tactical games

Need them for the down time between studying memetics, cosmology, neurology, physics, philosophy, and religion. Mostly RPGs but tacticals are almost as fun. Everyonce in a while I dip into FPSs. Waiting for Doom3 right now.

[kmla]

7. I tune into "Sponge Bob Square Pants."

I can't resist the wit and wisdom of the little absorbent yellow guy...

[Parrcrow]

8. I'm with you on Survivor Lynne

I'm starting to get a little sick of it though.

I like to read baseball books.

oh oh and Captain Underpants books as well.

[BigMcLargehuge]

9. Ahh, great question!

Books: The Destroyer Series created by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir about the super-secret organization CURE under direct service of the President of the US. The agents of CURE, all three of them (Smith, Remo, and Chuin) are assassins charged with protecting democracy by operating outside that democracy. The are almost universally witty and often laugh-out-loud funny, especially the bits with Remo and Chuin.

Music: I am super picky, so all of my music is brain candy. Right now I am listening to The Who's Quadrophenia.

Movies: Reptilicus, Sydney Pink's attrocious giant lizard in Copenhagen movie.

Magazines: used to be Macworld, but Macworld started to suck. Now I don't read any periodicals.

TV: The Adult Swim block on cartoon network

[SanFranciscoDemocrat]

10. Gimme cheese

I love horribly bad sci fi films. Also some bad horror films. "Van Helsing" sounds promising due to its terrible writing, bad acting, and Kate Beckinsale in a corset.

Occasionally my wife and I watch "Elimidate" before retiring. I don't watch much TV but have gotten hooked on "Deadwood" on HBO and have been a fan of "Six Feet Under" since its debut.

And I bounce around on freerepublic.com; I used to be horrified by those people, now I just see them as rich sources of very very sick humor. John Waters couldn't make these characters up.

[PragMantisT]

11. The Simpsons, the Ramones, and Umberto Eco.

Make my brain feel warm and fuzzy.

[robertpaulsen]

12. Food Network, especially "Iron Chef".

Sometimes, the news and the kneejerk spin is so depressing, this is where I turn for comfort.

[GOPisEvil]

13. TV Shows about cars.

Popular Hot Rodding TV, Trucks, HorsePower TV, Mother's Car Show Series on ESPN2. Yep, I watch 'em all.

[GirlinContempt]

14. Romance novels...

Its SO stupid... I read constantly, and tons of incredible books... But, sometimes... I like to curl up with a romance novel...

[bratcatinok]

19. Don't feel alone!

I have to join you in admitting I like the occasional gothic romance novel. Lets me escape to a different time and place.


edit: spelling

[GirlinContempt]

21. I really love

'romance' novels written in the 1800's

[central scrutinizer]

15. recreational math books, cryptic crosswords

I love the Atlantic Monthly puzzler but it is only once a month. I also wait patiently for the Friday and Saturday NY Times crosswords puzzles (Thursdays is often interesting as well).

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

16. Sports on TV

Namely, auto racing and soccer.

[qb]

17. Carl Hiaasen books on tape.

[woofless]

18. Detective/Murder mysteries particularly British.

When I just want to listen and go with it it can be Van Halen or Allison Krause or Dianna Krall or The Band, depending on mood.
(Or Miles, or Steely Dan or The Who or Shawn Phillips, you get the picture.)

[AngryAmish]

20. Professional Wrestling

I like it because it is such a raw form of drama. Double-dealing, loyalty, tragedy - it is all there. In an individual match, the fact that these two (usually) people have to tell a story with nothing but their bodies. When done well it can be something. Or really stupid.

[SW FL Dem]

22. Crime novels.

James Patterson, Richard North Patterson, Patricia Cornwell and Sue Grafton. I also enjoy the West Wing and ER.

[flamingyouth]

40. I like those books too

especially early Patricia Cornwell and all of Sue Grafton's.:hi:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

23. Gleemonex, of course.

[Az]

24. Gleemonex is just the drug form of

Stimpy's Happy Helmet.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

25. And boy, am I thankful for it.

[VelmaD]

26. Trashy WWII novels...

anything where our intrepid heroine and dashing hero find love while fighting the Nazis. :)

[LynneSin]

28. For Books: VC Andrews, Judith Krantz and Olivia Goldsmith..

...I own just about all of them, but I quit buying some of the latest series from VC Andrews. Nothing will ever top her "Flowers in the Attic" series (although they ruined the book with the movie)

[Don_G]

30. Shamefuly, I Like Tom Clancy

Specifically, his "Jack Ryan" series.

[Commendatori]

31. I read conservative books and pick apart

their dumbass arguments. I don't generally read progressive books because I already agree with a great deal of what's written in them (almost everything except for guns).

Before I started doing this, I had some difficulties arguing with Repugs because I couldn't see their talking points coming - they could argue on autopilot, I was sitting there thinking about my next words and looking unsure compared to them, etc. Now I can finish their points before they do, and cut them down just as quickly.

It's painful, but worth the effort.

[zonmoy]

32. mine

heavy metal, civilization 3, baldurs gate, and science fiction.

[Donkeyboy75]

33. Chicago Cubs baseball!

[LostInAnomie]

34. I think Freud called it "Man's first addiction"

wink wink

[0007]

35. Orange Sunshine

[Lydia Leftcoast]

36. Many mysteries these days are too smart to be "brain candy," but

I have no good excuse for watching the Tuesday evening run of 1950s detective shows on Goodlife TV: 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, and Surfside 6. They take me back to my childhood, I guess, even though I wasn't hanging around in nightclubs at the age of 8 or 9.

[mitchum]

37. True crime accounts and pornography...

but I never confuse the two

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41. pimp my ride on mtv

food network except for Bobby Flay and Rachael "Garbage bowl" Ray, funny stupid movies...ie Caddyshack, all time favorite stupid funny movie and reading my daughters Lemony Snicket books.

[m-jean03]

42. M*A*S*H* and Family Ties

And the DU Lounge!!! :-)

[Susang]

43. Invader Zim

When I can actually catch it on Nicktoons, that is. They seem determined to show it at odd hours and keep it unscheduled. It infuriates me! :mad:

[Amaya]

44. I love cheesy Kung Fu movies

and I have a huge obsession for Bruce Lee :9:evilgrin:

[Guy Fawkes]

45. OLD Kung Fu movies

where there's a HUGE difference in when they talk and when their mouths move.

[bloodyjack]

46. anne rice novels, weezer records

pun generation (well, they do say puns are the lowest form of comedy, don't they? or is that violence?)

bush's press conferences

tennis tournies

pink panther movies

and of course, *******

[tigereye]

48. The Fifth Wheel, COPS occasionally

also I am a mystery junkie

[baldguy]

49. Books: Star Trek novels

TV: Mysteries of the Bible on the History Channel, The Thunderbirds! on TechTV

[toddzilla]

50. horribly violent video games

First person shooters, the bloodier the better.

[citizen snips]

51. I agree.

I also love very bloody movies.

[Canuckistanian]

52. Episodes of Morse

Or just about any british drama show.

[SarahB]

53. Hmmmm....

Probably involves too much reading of a genre that bears little relationship to my dull existence.

[BattyDem]

54. Playing The Sims and SimCity ...

I love controlling the lives of all those little, simulated people! :evilgrin:

[ikojo]

55. Brain candy....Bev Hills 90210..

Must confess I watch Real World and Road Rules when I am near a TV with cable.

TechTV: LEO, LEO, LEO!!!

I also fell in love with the Amazing Race last summer. I loved Reiken and Chip!

Monkees

[Arugula Latte]

56. Extreme Makeover

I know it's all kinda sick, and it says loads about the superficiality of our society, blah blah blah, but I find the damn thing fascinating!

[NightTrain]

57. Murder mysteries.

I do get a kick out of reading those things!

[Mattforclark]

58. Games (of all sorts) & Monty Python

Monty Python = Meaning Of Life.... :evilgrin:

[kiahzero]

59. I would say videogames

But those don't "insult my intelligence." Nor do the Simpsons.

I did watch Mad Mad House on Sci Fi with some of my g/f's friends, however. I'd say that qualifies. =D

[Lizz612]

60. Robert Ludlum books

Bloody, male oriented, shoot 'em up, spy novels. I rip through them in about a day, but I love it.

[AgadorSparticus]

61. fluffy chick lit books, NBA games, & surfing the internet.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

62. A variety of Candies

TV: South Park, Trading Spaces, ER, UNC Basketball, Simpsons

Magazines: Stuff Magazine/Maxim. (I know, I know... Yes, there is Objectification...but.. Hey, I like the articles!)

Computer games: Snood, Diablo II.

[JackDragna]

63. Liquor.

Nummy, nummy liquor.

[supernova]

64. You really have to ask?

:D

He's brain food. He's brain candy. There are no other actors before him.

[m-jean03]

65. they make BRAIN candy??

ARRRHHHGGHHGH I WANT SOME!! BWAHAHAHAH

[Egalitarian]

66. NPR Mountain Stage

[thestatusquo]

67. Trading spaces

I'll admit it..i love TY!!!!!

[ncrainbowgrrl]

68. Have you seen Trading Spaces Boys vs. Girls?

If so, what do you think of it?