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It's Yuletide Yuletide Yuletide time!

Naturally, I'm having trouble narrowing my list down to just six, but with great slicing and dicing, I've now got a mere sixteen (sigh):

ETA: Wow! You guys are awesome. I'm down to just *eight*, and I think movies_michelle is going to nominate Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which brings me theoretically down to nine, and jacquez has generously donated like, five of her six slots.

Everything I wanted to nominate may be nominated, plus possibly two more spots for two more fandoms! YAY FLIST!

Life on Mars (tv)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (movie)
The Wire (tv)
Scrubs (tv)
How I Met Your Mother (tv - you should watch! It's a sitcom that's actually funny!)
Psych (tv)
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (tv)
The Road to El Dorado (movie)

~~Hustle (tv)~~ (nominated by iamtheenemy)
~~Dead Like Me (tv)~~ (nominated by iamtheenemy)
~~Shawshank Redemption (movie)~~ (nominated by darthfox)
~~Transmetropolitan (comic)~~ (nominated by apathocles)
~~Dexter (tv)~~ (nominated by darthfox)
~~Slings and Arrows (tv)~~ (nominated by isiscolo)
~~1776 (movie)~~ (nominated by tv_elf)
~~Without a Clue~~ (movie) (nominated by darthfox)

Of course, what I'd love is for all of you possible Yuletide writers to do is run out and familiarize yourselves with all of these pronto so that you can offer to write them when the time comes. ;) But for the *most part*, I would strongly urge you to familiarize yourself with these even if you don't offer to write them, for your own enjoyment:

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: A spectacular gem of an overlooked movie (see icon). While the icon is pimptastic re: slash, the move is so much more than that one moment. It's... an comedy-action-noir-thriller-buddy flick. If you haven't seen it you're missing out. Period.

Dexter: A new tv series on Showtime based on the Jeff Lindsay Dexter novels. It's about a blood-spatter forensic who is also a serial killer. Funny and gruesome and really really exciting to watch. Terrific cast headlined by Michael C. Ball of Six Feet Under fame, in a role that could not be more removed from his 6FU role (other than the "hangs around death" part), and including Julie Benz (Darla from the Buffyverse), Lauren Velez and David Zayas (late of Oz), and lots of blood. And dark, dark comedy. If you don't get Showtime, beg friends for copies of the episodes or look for torrents.

Without a Clue: This is not a *great* movie, but the Remington Steele-ish twist on the Holmes world, with Ben Kingsley as the Dr. Watson who solves the cases and Michael Caine as the actor Watson hires to portray the amazing detective Sherlock Holmes (no one will publish the stories of a *doctor* who solves crimes, you see), is a hoot - and the two leads have remarkably giddy chemistry with one another.

Oh, hell... I could do this for all my choices. Just find a way to slow time and watch them all, wouldya?

One last thought - who's up for a barter system? "I'll nominate X as one of my six if you nominate Y as one of your six"... I'm *so* not asking the Yuletide mods to get involved in that, but I am beyond certain that there have got to be more than one of you on my flist who want Life on Mars listed for Yuletide (or Hustle or Slings and Arrows...), and only one of us has to put it on our final six for it to get in. Seems a shame to waste a vote. :-D

Thoughts?