What are some songs, books or movies you wish you wrote?

A kick in the junk to the first person to say any national anthem or the Bible.

I'd say either the national anthem or the bible

Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell

Thr3e by Ted Dekker

Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer

Phil Gordon's Little Green Book by Phil Gordon

teletubbies....imagine how baked those writers were

Book: Infinite Jest

Song: Desolation Row

Movie: Adaptation

I'd like to have written the Harry Potter series.

I think that being a billion dollars richer would agree with me.

Book: The Sun Also Rises

Movie: The Godfather

book: hes just not that into you

song: save tonight by eagle eye cherry (Since I am a one hit wonder might as well appreciate others)

movie: Monty Python: the Holy Grail. Still my #1 commedy ever. "We are the knights who say NEEEGH!"

I would MUCH rather make less money than I do now and be viewed as being as awesome as DFW than be as rich as the Harry Potter *****, but also be seen as being as illiterate as people who are actually into reading see her.

Song: Big Balls

Book: The Origin of Species

Movie: The Royal Tenenbaums




Also, Franny and Zooey.

Wow, I have way too many to list.

It'd be nice if I had just an ounce of talent and be able to write anything halfway decent. That's my main goal.

And just to piss off Dutch, I wish I had written The DaVinci Code....

What did that scrot bring in with that thing, $88mil.? At least no one reads enough to like Jonathan Safran Foer.

movie: Office Space

song: F*ck the World by ICP

books: some book that would have made a ton of money

Playboy

obv

every single song by the weakerthans(john k. sampson)

if you've never heard of them good god go check them out(seriously it will make you a better person)
also i wish had written "the rooming house madrigals" by bukowski

i did write this:
And every time I think of you
It’s always the same
I can’t accept this diatribe of loneliness and wanting
I think of another time
A time that wasn’t ever actually there
But it’s real…….to me
I wonder exactly how much bleach you can ingest before it cleanses your life
I wonder how many drinks you can have before you’re no longer alive
Inside
I think of the times I walked away
Contemptuous and loathing
And how many times I could have easily just smiled and said “okay baby,that’s allright”
But now it doesn’t matter
Because I didn’t do those things
I fought tooth and nail for nothing
And now I’m just sitting here realizing
That I’m fatally yours



so yeah
that's that

"The Game" - Neil Strauss

I think that's what my brother is reading right now, either that or he recently read.

I really wish I'd written Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco's finest album. I think the songwriting and arrangements are pretty great.

If I had to pick a movie, it'd be something like The Godfather II, because it's just so damn sweet.

And the book would be "Ender's Game." I respect good Science Fiction, and I've never been a very literary person.

I think being a literary snob is fine, but I'll take a billion dollars and the knowledge that I've entertained millions upon millions of people anyday.

It's a good story...anyone that can't appreciate that is right on that precipice of being just smart enough to know how smart they are (and be able to look down on everyone else), but not so smart that they can take a step back and see things from a different perspective. You're like the math professor that just doesn't understand Will Hunting. Or maybe like the majority of philosophy majors that.......I don't feel like finishing this thought.

Anyways, see what I did there? Yeah, me neither.

i think i would also have written the harry potters

I wish i wrote the book EVERYBODY POOPS

Movie: Man On Fire

Song: Like A Rolling Stone

Book: Lord of the Rings

Song: Wheat Kings by The Tragically Hip

Book: A brief history of time (as long as i wasn't as fucked up physically as Stephen Hawking) The author of this book is SMRT.

Song: Kid A by Radiohead

Book: Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

or

Book: Cat's Cradle, but Kurt Vonnegut

Movie: 2001

These are my off the top of my head random impulse answers.

Any of the "...for Dummies" books.


There's a lot of dumb people on this earth. Lots of rich, dumb people.

I guess my thing is that I don't want anything. I have plenty of money for the things I actually want, and have no actual use for more. And I hate people (especially the ones who would rather read HP than IJ), so entertaining them is almost a bad thing.

Not to say that one of my goals isn't to get as much money as possible, short of being seen as a super-genius.

This I understand.

I think this is the definitive answer.

Really? There's writing in Playboy?

I wish I wrote Fast Times at Ridgemont High since it reflects my generation in highschool to a T.

huh? all the movies in the world to chose from and you pick Man on Fire?

Seinfeld

Chris Carrabba, only taller

The book or the movie?





You = owned.

The book or the movie



you=owned

lol

I got confused.

I change my answer to Bruce Willis

song=my way frank sinatra


movie= godfather



book=godfather

Book: Revolutionary Road

Movie: The Wild Bunch

hell yea you mustve been cool as balls to chill with

I hate you.

didn't Paul Anka write My Way? either way, my pick too

movie would have to be Good Will Hunting


and the book...

"Fight Club" by palahniuk... really, really, really a ton better than a top 10 movie

u are correct sir

Excellent Choice sir.

I really got nothin' to add to this thread except that I certainly wouldn't mind having written Da Vinci Code or Harry Potter or something so I could be insanely rich.

edit - I'll just keep that one off the interweb.

Very good book. I like Player Piano too.

Song: Anything by The Beatles

Book: 1984

Movie: The Godfather of Se7en

I knew some scumbag would beat me to it. LOL

Movie: Definitely GWH

Book: 1984

Song: Vagina Song by Bloodhound Gang or Jumpin' Jack Flash by Los Rolling Stones

Movie: The Royal Tenenbaums

Book: 1984

Song: Paranoid Android by Radiohead

Your avatar kind of resembles the ass of a man...

Book: The Bible

Movie: The 10 Commandments

Song: Jesus Take the Wheel