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elsajeniI have more serious posts to make, posts that I'm pretty sure I'm going to lock in one way or another. But for right now, I'm going to make a stupid, frivolous post in which:
1) I brag about the new icon I have obtained, and
2) I list the DVDs and videos I now have in my room, because some of them are seriously entertaining.
First of all, eee! Look at my icon! It's even better than the "I'm a fermata. Hold me." bumper sticker! It made me collapse in hysterical giggles when I first saw it, and now it's my default icon, which is good, because it's replaced the cat icon I used to have that was seriously starting to get on my nerves.
Second of all, I drove two of my roommates and a couple of random guys out to the Village for dinner tonight, which was delightful; we ended up in an extremely inappropriate-for-mixed-company dinner conversation that was set off by mention of some video that one of the guys saw in high school sex ed that featured some made-up statistic about how 80% of college girls get raped in their first week there. (We took a poll around the table. Zero of the three girls present were raped in their first week. Or, indeed, any of the other three weeks we've been here.) Then we headed out to Best Buy so Pre-Med Roommate could buy a printer, and the rest of us ended up wandering the DVD section for over an hour. I bought movies. And it occurred to me, suddenly, that the contents of my Movie Stash were entertaining and that I should list them for the entertainment of my friends. And I will include random tidbits of information about each one. Because I enjoy that sort of thing. And even though it's behind an lj-cut (there are 20 of them, after all), you should read it, because there's a prize at the end.
1. The BBC Neverwhere miniseries. Dana and I watched it straight through one night, and I had nightmares afterward for several days; Croup and Vandemar scared me much more in the book, but the miniseries gave me a visual. Take it or leave it.
2. The 1966 Batman, starring Adam West and Burt Ward, and Lee Meriwether as Catwoman, and Burgess Meredith as the Penguin, and, for heaven's sake, Cesar Romero as the Joker, and you can see his facial hair through the makeup. I saw one scene of this movie on TV when I was on vacation, the scene in which Batman is attacked by a shark and... look, I'm not even going to try to describe this scene. Suffice to say that the first thing I did when I got home from that vacation was buy the DVD. If you have not seen this movie, see it immediately.
3. Hair. I can't even express how much this movie annoys me; the characters are all wrong. The only two things I like about it are that it sets the song I Got Life on top of the table at a fancy party the hippies have crashed, and that Woof is hot. Don't bother.
4. Rumble in the Bronx, starring Jackie Chan circa 1996. I haven't actually watched this yet; I bought it because it was cheap and had Jackie Chan. The case doesn't say anything about the movie, only how awesome Jackie Chan is.
5. X2. I love this movie beyond all reason. However, if you're looking for a reason to explain my love, you might start with Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler, because mmm.
6. Goldfinger. It's got the best scene ever, people. "Do you expect me to talk?" "No, Mr. Bond; I expect you to die." The "skin suffocation" concept gives the accuracy geek in me a headache, but I get over it pretty fast. Like all Sean Connery Bond movies, highly recommended.
7. Dr. No, which I bought because I'd read the book and it had a fight scene involving a giant squid. Tragically, there is no giant squid in the movie. Still highly recommended, because it's Sean Connery, but a bit of a letdown from my perspective.
8. The Man With The Golden Gun, which is simply the most surreal Bond movie ever. It stars Roger Moore, which isn't ideal, but I'm willing to put up with him in exchange for the villain whose identifying mark is a third nipple and who has a midget sidekick, and also because it features Sheriff J.W. Pepper from Louisiana, whom I find hilarious.
9. Three half-hour episodes of Tales of Tomorrow, apparently a sci-fi show from the early '50s (these episodes all aired in 1952). I simply had to have it. Haven't watched them yet.
10. The Day The Earth Stood Still, another that I haven't watched yet; I bought it because it was cheap and because it's widely renowned as a sci-fi classic.
11. Forbidden Planet. I cannot recommend this movie enough. I love it. I want to marry it. I first saw it in the seventh grade in Sci-Fi Club at school, and in my senior year of high school, I discovered the DVD edition and bought it immediately. It was made in 1956 and, like number 10 on my list, is referenced in the song "Science Fiction" from Rocky Horror ("Anne Francis stars in / Forbidden Planet" is the line in question). It's unbelievable. It's not what you'd call a good movie, but if you have not seen this movie, see it immediately.
12. Young Frankenstein. The first Mel Brooks movie I ever saw. Hilarious. I couldn't live without it.
13. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I shouldn't even have to say this, but if you have not seen this movie, see it immediately. Really. I mean it.
14. The Dark Crystal. People have been telling me for years and years that, if I liked Labyrinth, I had to see this movie right away, so when I saw it for cheap, I bought it. Haven't watched it yet.
15. The Princess Bride, which I doubt I even need to review. If you haven't seen it, just ask the person nearest you about it, and I'm sure they'll gush with praise. If you have not seen this movie, which I imagine is unlikely, see it immediately, at the very least so that you understand what the rest of the world is going on about when they mention that their name is Inigo Montoya, you killed their father, and you should prepare to die.
16. George Lucas in Love is about half a parody of Shakespeare in Love and half a parody of Star Wars, in which the young George Lucas suffers writer's block while trying to finish his screenplay for film school at USC. Come on, people, its running time is listed as 9 minutes and that's only if you watch all the credits.
17. Willow. I can't remember if I've ever seen this movie all the way through; I don't think I have. I remember watching parts of it at Luan's house when I was a kid. It's another one that I've been told anyone who loves Labyrinth needs to see.
18. This is where we get to the stuff I bought tonight! Jaws, 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition. I love this movie with an inexplicable passion, no matter how fake the shark looks, and this edition has outtakes, for heaven's sake. A shark movie with outtakes! What more could you want?
19. This one's a twofer; I'm listing them together, because otherwise it just doesn't make sense. Are you familiar with the Clint Eastwood classics A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More? Well, we have here, bought as a set for a total of six dollars, A Fistful of Yen and For a Few More Yen. Six dollars, people. I couldn't pass it up.
20. And, just to reassure you all that I'm not entirely tasteless, I also bought the actual For a Few Dollars More. Oh, as if I'm going to pass up Clint Eastwood. Mmm.
Hey, here's your prize for clicking on the lj-cut: a roommate story. Last night I heard an absolutely bloodcurdling scream from the bathroom and bolted in there, convinced that one of my roommates was being murdered. What do I find? I find Architecture Roommate, who is from up north. She had been cornered. By a teeny little baby cockroach. Which she was unwilling to touch even long enough to squish it, even with the wad of toilet paper she'd grabbed.
What the hell is going to happen when she meets a real roach?
1) I brag about the new icon I have obtained, and
2) I list the DVDs and videos I now have in my room, because some of them are seriously entertaining.
First of all, eee! Look at my icon! It's even better than the "I'm a fermata. Hold me." bumper sticker! It made me collapse in hysterical giggles when I first saw it, and now it's my default icon, which is good, because it's replaced the cat icon I used to have that was seriously starting to get on my nerves.
Second of all, I drove two of my roommates and a couple of random guys out to the Village for dinner tonight, which was delightful; we ended up in an extremely inappropriate-for-mixed-company dinner conversation that was set off by mention of some video that one of the guys saw in high school sex ed that featured some made-up statistic about how 80% of college girls get raped in their first week there. (We took a poll around the table. Zero of the three girls present were raped in their first week. Or, indeed, any of the other three weeks we've been here.) Then we headed out to Best Buy so Pre-Med Roommate could buy a printer, and the rest of us ended up wandering the DVD section for over an hour. I bought movies. And it occurred to me, suddenly, that the contents of my Movie Stash were entertaining and that I should list them for the entertainment of my friends. And I will include random tidbits of information about each one. Because I enjoy that sort of thing. And even though it's behind an lj-cut (there are 20 of them, after all), you should read it, because there's a prize at the end.
1. The BBC Neverwhere miniseries. Dana and I watched it straight through one night, and I had nightmares afterward for several days; Croup and Vandemar scared me much more in the book, but the miniseries gave me a visual. Take it or leave it.
2. The 1966 Batman, starring Adam West and Burt Ward, and Lee Meriwether as Catwoman, and Burgess Meredith as the Penguin, and, for heaven's sake, Cesar Romero as the Joker, and you can see his facial hair through the makeup. I saw one scene of this movie on TV when I was on vacation, the scene in which Batman is attacked by a shark and... look, I'm not even going to try to describe this scene. Suffice to say that the first thing I did when I got home from that vacation was buy the DVD. If you have not seen this movie, see it immediately.
3. Hair. I can't even express how much this movie annoys me; the characters are all wrong. The only two things I like about it are that it sets the song I Got Life on top of the table at a fancy party the hippies have crashed, and that Woof is hot. Don't bother.
4. Rumble in the Bronx, starring Jackie Chan circa 1996. I haven't actually watched this yet; I bought it because it was cheap and had Jackie Chan. The case doesn't say anything about the movie, only how awesome Jackie Chan is.
5. X2. I love this movie beyond all reason. However, if you're looking for a reason to explain my love, you might start with Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler, because mmm.
6. Goldfinger. It's got the best scene ever, people. "Do you expect me to talk?" "No, Mr. Bond; I expect you to die." The "skin suffocation" concept gives the accuracy geek in me a headache, but I get over it pretty fast. Like all Sean Connery Bond movies, highly recommended.
7. Dr. No, which I bought because I'd read the book and it had a fight scene involving a giant squid. Tragically, there is no giant squid in the movie. Still highly recommended, because it's Sean Connery, but a bit of a letdown from my perspective.
8. The Man With The Golden Gun, which is simply the most surreal Bond movie ever. It stars Roger Moore, which isn't ideal, but I'm willing to put up with him in exchange for the villain whose identifying mark is a third nipple and who has a midget sidekick, and also because it features Sheriff J.W. Pepper from Louisiana, whom I find hilarious.
9. Three half-hour episodes of Tales of Tomorrow, apparently a sci-fi show from the early '50s (these episodes all aired in 1952). I simply had to have it. Haven't watched them yet.
10. The Day The Earth Stood Still, another that I haven't watched yet; I bought it because it was cheap and because it's widely renowned as a sci-fi classic.
11. Forbidden Planet. I cannot recommend this movie enough. I love it. I want to marry it. I first saw it in the seventh grade in Sci-Fi Club at school, and in my senior year of high school, I discovered the DVD edition and bought it immediately. It was made in 1956 and, like number 10 on my list, is referenced in the song "Science Fiction" from Rocky Horror ("Anne Francis stars in / Forbidden Planet" is the line in question). It's unbelievable. It's not what you'd call a good movie, but if you have not seen this movie, see it immediately.
12. Young Frankenstein. The first Mel Brooks movie I ever saw. Hilarious. I couldn't live without it.
13. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I shouldn't even have to say this, but if you have not seen this movie, see it immediately. Really. I mean it.
14. The Dark Crystal. People have been telling me for years and years that, if I liked Labyrinth, I had to see this movie right away, so when I saw it for cheap, I bought it. Haven't watched it yet.
15. The Princess Bride, which I doubt I even need to review. If you haven't seen it, just ask the person nearest you about it, and I'm sure they'll gush with praise. If you have not seen this movie, which I imagine is unlikely, see it immediately, at the very least so that you understand what the rest of the world is going on about when they mention that their name is Inigo Montoya, you killed their father, and you should prepare to die.
16. George Lucas in Love is about half a parody of Shakespeare in Love and half a parody of Star Wars, in which the young George Lucas suffers writer's block while trying to finish his screenplay for film school at USC. Come on, people, its running time is listed as 9 minutes and that's only if you watch all the credits.
17. Willow. I can't remember if I've ever seen this movie all the way through; I don't think I have. I remember watching parts of it at Luan's house when I was a kid. It's another one that I've been told anyone who loves Labyrinth needs to see.
18. This is where we get to the stuff I bought tonight! Jaws, 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition. I love this movie with an inexplicable passion, no matter how fake the shark looks, and this edition has outtakes, for heaven's sake. A shark movie with outtakes! What more could you want?
19. This one's a twofer; I'm listing them together, because otherwise it just doesn't make sense. Are you familiar with the Clint Eastwood classics A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More? Well, we have here, bought as a set for a total of six dollars, A Fistful of Yen and For a Few More Yen. Six dollars, people. I couldn't pass it up.
20. And, just to reassure you all that I'm not entirely tasteless, I also bought the actual For a Few Dollars More. Oh, as if I'm going to pass up Clint Eastwood. Mmm.
Hey, here's your prize for clicking on the lj-cut: a roommate story. Last night I heard an absolutely bloodcurdling scream from the bathroom and bolted in there, convinced that one of my roommates was being murdered. What do I find? I find Architecture Roommate, who is from up north. She had been cornered. By a teeny little baby cockroach. Which she was unwilling to touch even long enough to squish it, even with the wad of toilet paper she'd grabbed.
What the hell is going to happen when she meets a real roach?
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Date: 2004-09-12 07:31 pm (UTC)And that old Batman movie is, like, the greatest thing ever. Hurry Robin! Get the bat-shark-repellant!
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Date: 2004-09-12 08:52 pm (UTC)Also, you totally wear sunglasses even when you dunt need to. *giggles hysterically*