Daily writing prompt

What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times?

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The daily writing prompt answer will be off the cuff.  

Movies I’ve watched more than 5 times (from memory) from childhood, back when there were only around 3 channels, seasonal movies were watched annually, including:

The Wizard of Oz
It’s a Wonderful Life
Charlie Brown movies
The Night Before Christmas
The Snowman
The Velveteen Rabbit

Other movies:
Alien movies
Slapshot
Point Break (with Keanu and Patrick Swayze)
Fury Road (and the other Mad Max movies)
Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Studio Ghibli movies (Howl’s Moving Castle, Ponyo, Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind)
Wild at Heart
Blue Velvet

Series:
I don’t think I’ve watched any series 5 times, but there are a few I’ve watched more than once:
Justified
Northern Exposure (not all seasons)
Dexter
Lovecraft Country
Watchmen (HBO series, which is excellent if you haven’t seen it)

What about you?  What’s on your list?

Some pics not shared yet that were taken in Feb and March:

The first two are of Mlady, playing with her “tooth toy.”  It remains one of her 2 favorite toys.  The other is my pen, which has a rubber section that she likes to bite.  I have finally found a way to keep peace between Mlady and Dotty.  Dotty is a smart little cookie and has allowed herself to be trained.  When I get up in the morning and start going through my routine, she runs to the back room, where her wheel, food, water, and kitty box are.  I walk back and shut that door between the room and the rest of the house, open the blind on the outside door, empty recyclables that have collected in the inside box to the outside bin, clean her litter box, top up food and replenish water if needed, then go back into the main house area.  She runs on her wheel, eats food, drinks water, uses box, then waits.  

I heat up coffee if there’s some left or make a new pot, then open blinds in the kitchen and living room area.  I grab coffee and sit on the couch.  Within seconds, Mlady, who is also on board with the system, jumps up beside.  I scroll through phone and pet her.  She knows this is her main time with me and purrs up a storm.  We play with the toys and everything is peachy.  I look out the window, read current material, or do some writing.  We spend a good hour together, where she knows Dotty isn’t going to intrude.  They are peaceful with each other 95% of the time now.

Dotty gets my time at night when I’m watching TV.  Mlady runs from the TV, which started a couple of years ago.  She’s fine with youtubes or voices on the phone.  It works out well.  Dotty either sits on my lap or sleeps next to me, where I’m petting her.    

A friend of mine gave me a candle set from Arbor Made Candles a couple of years back.  The candle holder is made of silicon and there is a band of ceramic or something like it around the middle.  The candles are 100% soy, have the most heavenly aromas, and come in a waxed paper cupcake-like container that is recyclable.  The candles burn down evenly and almost to the bottom.  Once they get real low, the silicon bottom of the holder is pushed up and the leftover wax is popped out.  After a couple of years of refills as gifts from her, I decided to buy another holder and candle bundle.  The one she got me is white.  The new one I recently bought is in the picture.  I decided to doll the picture up a little for a review I wrote on the site.  If you burn soy candles or thought about burning them, check out Arbor Made (in Michigan) Candles at the site linked above.

The next pic was taken on Valentines Day by my older son and is shared with his permission.  Such a beautiful capture!

And last but not least, I won this beauty in a writing challenge at Chuck Palahniuk’s Substack, “Chuck Palahniuk’s Plot Spoiler.”  He has long been one of my favorite writers (along with Tom Robbins, Margaret Atwood, and more recently, George Saunders) and to be able to interact with him at Substack and have him help me and the others there to hone our writing skills is truly a dream come true.  Chuck inspires me every day!   This mysterious and elusive jackalope’s head now adorns my wall.  Chuck sent so many other goodies in the prize box that I hope at some point, and with his permission, I may share more about in a separate post.