Things we like

Different sites, different traditions, different things we like. Some of these things are pure CTY; others go by site.

General

• Movies
  • Monty Python
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • The Princess Bride
• Music
  • Canon
    • "American Pie"
  • They Might Be Giants
  • R.E.M.
  • Led Zeppelin
  • Don McLean
  • Radiohead
  • Flight of the Conchords
• Books
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
  • Terry Pratchett, author
  • Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• Games
  • THE Game (Whoops, lost)
  • Rubik's Cubes
  • Risk
  • Diplomacy
  • Mafia
  • Ultimate Frisbee
  • Ninja
  • Non-Ultimate Frisbee
  • Four Square
  • Pokey
  • Dodgeball
  • Never Have I Ever
• Card Games
  • Mao
  • Set
  • Egyptian Rat Screw
  • Kemps
  • Chinese Poker
  • Scum - also known as President, Asshole, Socialism, and (Speed) Capitalism
  • Poker
  • B.S.
• Other Assorted Things
  • 42
  • Duct tape
  • Lanyards (especially staff)
  • Grass orgies
  • Dances
  • Passionfruit
  • CTY!!!
  • EVERYBODY!!!

Lancaster

• Games
  • The Game (I lose.)
  • The Other Game (I LOSE!)
  • Silent Football
  • Acting Improv (AI)
  • Blammo
  • Scum and its variant Scum: The Masquerade, or simply Masquerade
  • Art of War
  • Basketball
  • Illuminati
• Movies
  • Rent (and even better, the musical)
  • Mulan
• Other
  • Bathrobes and Towels
  • Caution Tape
  • Danger Tape
  • Island Coconut Chicken
  • Alcove-shaped things
  • Trees (and hugging)
  • Fobs
  • Angry, Young and Poor
  • Hair dye
  • Peanut products (for they are the forbidden fruit... or legume)
  • The Amish
  • Tom Lehrer
  • Turkey Hill
    • Strawberry Kiwi Lemonade

Carlisle

• Movies
  • Starcrash
• Games
  • Palace -- an obsession in Carlisle 06.1
  • Rapido
  • One Card Milard
  • Wahhh!
• Other
  • Mystery Science Theater 3000
  • HUB Donuts
  • HUB Potatoes
  • Couching!!
  • Tea Cooler! (... but do we reeeally like it?)
  • Red Adirondack Chairs and the Statue of Ben Rush
  • "The General" by Dispatch

Saratoga Springs (Skidmore)

• Movies
  • Dark Side of Oz
  • Harold and Maude
  • The Princess Bride
  • "Mulan"
• Music
  • "Man Out Of You" (Mulan)
  • "Let it Be" (Synergy)
  • "American Pie"
  • "Iris" (Goo Goo Dolls)
• Games
  • Varsity Catch
  • Ultimate Frisbee
• Other
  • Jon Good
  • Love Tape
  • Freeing Lee-Kai
  • Vermonsters
  • Commuunism

Loudonville (Siena)

• Movies
  • The Princess Bride
  • Xanadu - beginning at Siena 03.1
  • Clue
  • Labyrinth
• Music
  • "Umbrella"
  • "Sandstorm"
  • "Hey Juliet"
• Games
  • Slide and its many variants
  • Wanna buy a duck?
  • Italian Saliva - a version of Spit
  • The Game
  • Silent Football

Los Angeles (LMU)

• Movies
  • Alice in Wonderland (crossed with Radiohead's "Kid A")
  • Dodgeball
  • Finding Nemo
  • The Incredibles
  • Dirty Dancing
  • Soccerface
  • Monsters Inc.
  • Princess Bride
• Music
  • "Baby Got Back"
  • "Tears in Heaven"
  • "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"
  • "Seasons of Love"[session one] and "Leaving on a Jet Plane"[session two]
  • "Genie in a Bottle"
  • "Bananaphone"
  • "If You're Happy and You Know It"
  • "Men in Tights"
  • "Build Me Up Buttercup"
  • Queen
  • Simon & Garfunkel
  • Teddy, Shawno & Jonas
  • CTY Remix
• Games
  • The Game
  • Wah
  • Trench [this got banned July 27, 2009 by CTY administration.]
  • Spongeball (or "jump into the Seaver fountain")
  • Pokey
  • The Murder Game
  • Art of War
  • Lap tag
• Other
  • Otter Pops
  • Jamba Juice
  • Potatoes - it's a love/hate relationship
  • Doheny and Seaver fountains
  • Ralph's
  • Jason Boring [and messing with new DRL Steph]
  • the LMU bookstore
  • The Onion
  • Flyswatters
  • The Brick[s] and Dexter the Duck
  • Glitter
  • Glomping people

Baltimore (JHU)

• Movies
  • Harry Potter (any one)
  • "Hairspray"
  • "The Princess Bride"
  • "The Body"
  • Napoleon Dynamite
  • "Plan 9 From Outer Space (Worst movie ever!)
  • "School of Rock"
  • "The Dark Knight"
  • "Inception"
  • "The Office" (not a movie but often watched)
  • "Mythbusters" (also not a movie often watched)
• Music
  • "Fireflies"
  • "Forever Young"
  • "Sandstorm"
  • "Hey There Delilah"
  • "Tunac-Tunac-Tun"
  • "4 Minutes"
  • "Hey Soul Sister- Train"
  • "Stairway to Heaven"
  • "Hot N Cold"
  • "Single Ladies"
  • "Chasing Cars"
  • "Don't Trust Me" (the definite anthem of the year)
  • "A Thousand Miles"
  • "Don't Stop Believin'"
  • "The Pokemon Theme Song" (10.2; MAKE THIS CANON PLEEEEASE!!!!)
• Books
  • How to Surive a Horror Movie
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • Twilight
  • MindF*cks
  • The Call of Cthulu and other works by H.P Lovecraft
  • Nightlight (for all those Twilight haters out there)
• Games
  • BLAMMO!!
  • The Game (I lose, and so do you.)
  • "Would You Rather..."
  • Hackey Sack
  • Football
  • Frisbee (the Ultimate kind)
• Card Games
  • BS
  • Speed
  • Blackjack
  • Joker
  • President
  • Poker
  • Spit
• Other Activities
  • Afterdance
  • Cthulu-ing/Tentacle-wiggling
  • Party-boying
  • Skinning/J-packing
  • Jamming on our I-pods: FULL BLAST! and dancing up and down our hallway in our pajamas and not caring who sees us
  • Foreign games
  • Spaniards
  • PDA-ing
  • Ordering Chinese take-out
  • Myachi, because Izzy says so

Easton

• Movies
  • Clerks (at least 2003-2005)

• Music
  • "Numa Numa" ("Tres Chalupas": Dan, Bobby, James - 05.2)
  • "Seasons of Love" ("Tree Crew" - 06.2)
  • "Barbie Girl" (06.2)
  • "The Nevermore Song" ([Nevermores '06], Caitlin & Carolyn Byington, Nicolina DiNardi, Gardy Banks, Haydn Dufrene, Wil Hsie, Louie Polanco, TaNia Stewart, Kristen Bauer, Stephanie Nitopi, and Cyrus Jalai - 07.2)
  • "Hey There Delilah" (07.2)

• Books
  • The Twilight Series
  • Harry Potter Series

Other Sites

• Movies
  • Real Genius
  • WarGames
  • Robin Hood: Men in Tights
  • Moulin Rouge
  • Pirates of the Caribbean
  • Wayne's World
• Music
  • Moxy Fruvous
• Books
  • Catch-22
  • Wheel of Time
  • Stranger in a Strange Land
• Games
  • Illuminati
  • Gotcha