aruan | Wednesday Wrap-Up

I wasn't impressed by the list of 250 movies going around.

My Top 50 Movies Not Included By the IMDB:

Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
The Little Mermaid
Batman
The Count of Monte Cristo
Labyrinth
Edward Scissorhands
Peter Pan (2004)
Chicago
The Game
AI (Artificial Intelligence)
The Patriot
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Jurassic Park
First Knight
Moulin Rouge
Vanilla Sky
When Harry Met Sally
Quills
Sleepy Hollow
The Cutting Edge
Sister Act
Tomorrow Never Dies
Ghost
Coming to America
Dirty Dancing
Pretty Woman
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
The Mummy
Miami Rhapsody
Ocean's Eleven
8 Mile
Drumline
Bend It Like Beckham
Bridget Jones' Diary
The Opposite of Sex
Forces of Nature
Spaceballs
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Clueless
My Best Friend's Wedding
Interview with the Vampire
Dracula
Sleepless in Seattle
A League of Their Own
Rush Hour 2
Speed
The Last Unicorn
Legends of the Fall

Their choices I strongly hold with:
-the Lord of the Rings trilogy
-the Star Wars films
-Se7en
-The Matrix
-Silence of the Lambs
-Requiem for a Dream
-Saving Private Ryan
-Toy Story
-Pirates of the Caribbean
-Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
-Fight Club (actually, anything with Edward Norton)
-Groundhog Day
-The Princess Bride
-Back to the Future
-Almost Famous
-Gladiator
-Memento
-Finding Nemo

And...

My most egregious oversights (aka The movies everyone told me to see and I was lame and haven't):
-Casablanca
-It's a Wonderful Life
-Blade Runner
-Life is Beautiful
-Gone With the Wind
-2001: A Space Odyssey
-Reservoir Dogs
-The Godfather trilogy
-The Shawshank Redemption
-Citizen Kane
-The Pianist
-L.A. Confidential
-Singin' in the Rain
-Close Encounters of the Third Kind
-A Streetcar Named Desire
-Lost in Translation
-The Terminator series
-Planet of the Apes
-O Brother, Where Art Thou?

I love Westerns, gangster films, musicals, sci-fi (but not horror), psychological thrillers, and have recently discovered old Hollywood. Recommendations are always welcome.

In other meme news, you should all be listening to the debut albums of Third Eye Blind, Dido, and Savage Garden. Also, you should be listening to absolutely everything by Jude, Ben Folds (Five), Sarah McLachlan, and Eminem.

As to an LJ to read - I've said before that I read every journal I have friended. I friend people for a lot of reasons. Some because they're friends of mine in real life and I want to keep up with them, some who so generously find/host fandom-related news, pictures, and media, some because they share my interest in pop culture, some simply because I like the way they say the things they think. I like them all. Read my friendslist. Meet the cool kids I'm lucky enough to share a playground with.

As for "daring and adventuresome," if it's at all within your physical/fiscal capacity, y'all should be skiing. If not, you should experience waiting out in the cold in front of a concert venue with good friends. We really made a time of it.

Today was crazy, but in the good way. I love my (hopefully permanent) French instructor, we're totally keeping my American Revolution class, too, and Fact Finding is going to be a very guilty amount of fun. Dinner with