Month: May 2003

Okay, I give up. Top 100 Movies on IMDB.

Bold: I’ve seen

Italics: I want to see

1. Godfather, The (1972)

2. Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)

3. Godfather: Part II, The (1974)

4. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)

5. Schindler’s List (1993)

6. Citizen Kane (1941)

7. Casablanca (1942)

8. Seven Samurai (1954)

9. Star Wars (1977)

10. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

11. Memento (2000)

12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

13. Rear Window (1954)

14. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002)

15. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

16. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

17. Usual Suspects, The (1995)

18. Amelie (2001)

19. Pulp Fiction (1994)

20. North by Northwest (1959)

21. Psycho (1960)

22. Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)

23. 12 Angry Men (1957)

24. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

25. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

26. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

27. Goodfellas (1990)

28. American Beauty (1999)

29. Vertigo (1958)

30. Pianist, The (2002)

31. Sunset Blvd. (1950)

32. Apocalypse Now (1979)

33. Some Like It Hot (1959)

34. Matrix, The (1999)

35. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

36. Taxi Driver (1976)

37. Third Man, The (1949)

38. Paths of Glory (1957)

39. Fight Club (1999)

40. Boot, Das (1981)

41. L.A. Confidential (1997)

42. Double Indemnity (1944)

43. Chinatown (1974)

44. Requiem for a Dream (2000)

45. Maltese Falcon, The (1941)

46. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

47. Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)

48. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)

49. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

50. All About Eve (1950)

51. M (1931)

52. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

53. Raging Bull (1980)

54. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

55. Seven (1995)

56. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000)

57. Wizard of Oz, The (1939)

58. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

59. Vita e bella, La (1997) — my favourite movie of all time

60. American History X (1998)

61. Sting, The (1973)

62. Touch of Evil (1958)

63. Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)

64. Alien (1979)

65. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

66. Rashomon (1950)

67. Leon (1994)

68. Annie Hall (1977)

69. Great Escape, The (1963)

70. Clockwork Orange, A (1971)

71. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)

72. Reservoir Dogs (1992)

73. Sixth Sense, The (1999)

74. Jaws (1975)

75. Amadeus (1984)

76. On the Waterfront (1954)

77. Ran (1985)

78. Braveheart (1995)

79. High Noon (1952)

80. Fargo (1996)

81. Blade Runner (1982)

82. Apartment, The (1960)

83. Aliens (1986)

84. Toy Story 2 (1999)

85. Strangers on a Train (1951)

86. Modern Times (1936)

87. Shining, The (1980)

88. Donnie Darko (2001)

89. Duck Soup (1933)

90. Princess Bride, The (1987)

91. Lola rennt (1998)

92. City Lights (1931)

93. General, The (1927)

94. Metropolis (1927)

95. Searchers, The (1956)

96. Full Metal Jacket

97. Notorious (1946)

98. Manhattan (1979)

99. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

100. Graduate, The (1967)

37/100, compared with 34/100 for the BBC books list. I’d consider that nicely balanced! W00t.

BWEE!!!! Just found out that the next Thursday Next (har) book is coming out (in the UK, at least) July 7th! Yay, I will not be without my Jasper Fforde goodness for long! ::prances delightedly::

Woah! Yesterday was my half-birthday, and I didn’t even notice.

I observed today that I’m much more likely to say “hey, kids” or similar when I’m the youngest person in a group. Odd.

Rented Labyrinth, which I have not seen since I was ikkle and wee. Hopefully, will watch it tonight.

I have to ask… do these guys do graduation parties?

Wow. I just opened Windows Media Player with the intent of listening to a song that I realized 5 seconds later was a song I’d written for “Men at Arms”. Gah, I’ll be so happy when there’s a recording of the music from this show.

Bah. Just had the classic actor’s dream of having to be onstage, but not knowing any lines. I was Marian in The Music Man, so I knew all her songs about 90%, but of course I hadn’t rehearsed singing them, so they hadn’t been fully worked into my range yet. Though it was being performed at Hockaday, the role was double-cast, and Harold Hill was played by Tom Tompkins, which was also weird. Tom could pull it off, but he doesn’t really seem like the Harold type. I tried to sneak script onstage and read from them in a not-very-obvious fashion, but I failed miserably. Anyway, during intermission, I got a phone call from Mrs. Felice, who told me that Berne Klinke (Bud Frump in Jesuit’s How To Succeed two years ago) would be at the show tomorrow and tried to reassure me as I panicked. I frantically tried to learn my lines. Then I heard music, and I ran to the stage, only to find my double already there, singing “Til There Was You”. They had decided to put her onstage instead of me because I had been on the phone. Ugh.

I’m tempted to take this image and make an icon that says “My fandom looks disturbingly like my Physics teacher.” I swear, Richard Taylor and Peter Jackson were twins separated at birth!

Fluffy kittens sing

Of the joys of sleeping in.

I blog in haiku.

Today, as I had little to do for my senior project, I went around taking pictures of all my friends and writing mean haiku about everyone. It was fun! Especially picking on Keith, muaha.

So here is my day at Reel FX, in haiku form:

Ninjas and pirates?

Watching GI Joe makes me

thoroughly depressed

Explanation: Why are there ninjas, pirates, and cowboys in GI Joe? The world may never know.

Wolverine? Havek?

Which X-Man are you? Watch us

Waste company time

Spam based on Conan?

Girlfriend looks like Amelie.

Ah, inspiration.

From the upcoming animation “Mr. Spam”

Watch as he CGs!

Limbert’s 1337 Photoshop skillz

Make me feel stupid

Alas, woe. The sky

image does not work. I make

a contribution!

Helicopters fly

Through the air like hummingbirds,

Blown up by glider.

Watch as we BS

The entirety of the

“Behind the Scenes” reel

While the camera crews filmed one of the guys, who was pretending to show us some of the storyboard and concept art stuff, he just spouted gibberish about “This is where I lost my eraser.” Another: “It’s interesting that you get neater when you don’t have your eraser.” Another: “At which point did you start drinking heavily?” It was funny. And I think I was in a couple of the shots; watch for me if you ever see it.

Damn. The virus spreads

Throughout the entire system.

Thanks a lot, Brandon.

Doodling and sketching,

Checking email all the time.

Does Keith ever work?

Arthur gives advice

Troubleshooting email woes.

Blind leading the blind.

Entropy decrease?

Coincidences pile up.

I dine with Rachel!

I went out to lunch with a bunch of the Concept Art room guys, and they were randomly having lunch with a guy that was having lunch with Quinn Mathews and his daughter, Rachel, one of my good friends. Craaaaazy.

Meet Keith’s new girlfriend.

He got lonely; played the SIMs.

Send us a JPEG!

Cobra flips the bird,

Hamsters don Leperchaun suits.

God bless blooper reels!

The Keith Series: (Keith protested that indeed, he does do work, so I wrote more haiku about him. Har.)

Scanning through the script,

Keith’s work is invaluable.

Without him, we fail.

Keith: a vital part

of Reel FX’s art room.

All hail the scanboy!

Fabian asks me

To scan a bunch of his art.

Hah, I stole Keith’s job.

No, Keith is our friend.

He does not deserve the grief.

He gave me chocolate.