July 21, 2003

• So until i get my cable connection and can upload the rest of my japan pics, here is a little sumptin to keep y’all amused…thanks be to dean for the idea

  
  

   

  
  

  100 books. Bold the ones you’ve read.
  
  1984, George Orwell
  The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
  Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
  Animal Farm, George Orwell
  Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
  Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
  Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
  The BFG, Roald Dahl
  Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
  Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
  Bleak House, Charles Dickens
  Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
  Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
  Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
  Catch 22, Joseph Heller
  The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger
  Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
  A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
  The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
  Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
  The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
  The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
  Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
  Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
  Dune, Frank Herbert
  Emma, Jane Austen
  Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
  Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
  The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
  The Godfather, Mario Puzo
  Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
  Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
  Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
  Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
  The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
  Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
  The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
  Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
  Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
  Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
  Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s (Sorcerer’s) Stone, JK Rowling
  Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
  His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman
  The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
  The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
  Holes, Louis Sachar
  I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
  Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
  Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
  Katherine, Anya Seton
  The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis
  Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
  Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
  The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien
  Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez ß read this it’s friggin awesome
  The Magic Faraway Tree Enid Blyton
  Magician, Raymond E Feist
  The Magus, John Fowles
  Matilda, Roald Dahl
  Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
  Middlemarch, George Eliot
  Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
  Mort, Terry Pratchett
  Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
  Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
  Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
  On The Road, Jack Kerouac
  One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  Perfume, Patrick S?skind
  Persuasion, Jane Austen
  The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
  A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
  Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen
  The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
  The Ragged Trousered Philantrhopists, Robert Tressell
  Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
  The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
  The Secret History, Donna Tartt
  The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
  The Stand, Stephen King
  The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
  A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
  Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
  A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
  Tess Of The D’urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
  The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
  To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
  A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
  Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
  The Twits, Roald Dahl
  Ulysses, James Joyce ß rena’s favorite author
  Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
  War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
  Watership Down, Richard Adams
  The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame
  Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne
  The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
  Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
  
  
  100 movies. Bold the ones that you’ve seen.
  
  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 Indenity (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) (aka: Spirited away, for those who don’t know this is the japanese name)
  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 Se7en (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) life is beautiful, for those who dont speak italian
  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 Rashemon (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) (aka, “Run Lola Run” in the american version, I think)
  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)

  
  

   

  
  

  moral of the story: do i watch movies much?

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