Comfort-ablers
What do you use as cognitive comfort-food when you need a mental/emotional break from reality ?
What puts you into a totally different frame of mind, if only for a brief respite?
Here are some of my favorite comfort-enablers:
Books:
- Dorothy Dunnett’s Lymond Chronicles
- Anne McCaffrey’s Pern series
Movies:
- any of the old MGM movie musicals — preferably with Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly
TV (on DVD, obviously, for instant access):
- Seasons 1-4 of The West Wing
- FWIW, my daughter depends on episodes from Little House on the Prairie. I think she’s got the full set of all 9 years on DVD, now!
What are some of your choices?
Alice
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Any Michael Connelly Harry Bosch mystery
Any James Michner historical novel
A good bug-eyed-alien science fiction story
Movies
Any James Bond or Dirty Harry
TV
Never use the stuff.
most murder mysteries
Terry Pratchett
good YA fiction (like Garth Nix's "Keys to the Kingdom" series or Irene Hunt's "Up a Road Slowly")
Movies:
Clueless
Grosse Pointe Blank
the Brannagh/Thompson Much Ado About Nothing
TV:
Good Neighbors (on DVD)
Newsroom (on VHS)
Sports Night (on DVD)
Squawk Box (CNBC weekday mornings)
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice & similar works
Sci fi & fantasy are favorite escapes.
Mirror of Her Dreams & A Man Rides
Through - Donaldson (When I really
need to disappear into a book.)
Movies:
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Shakespeare in Love
Notting Hill
TV:
I watch movies & the news on TV and not much else. Mostly TV is "background noise" in my house.
Dorothy Dunnett everytime
Pride and Prejudice
Ursula le Guin's Always Coming Home
Christopher Alexander on architecture
Lord of the Rings etc
TV:
West Wing (with Aaron Sorkin as writer)
Any Joss Whedon series: Buffy, Angel, Firefly
Pride and Prejudice / Persuasion (BBC Series)
Stargate SG1
Bocho series: Hill Street Blues, Murder One
Films:
LotR
Nora Ephron movies with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
While You Were Sleeping
84 Charing Cross Road
I could go on forever with this list.