2.27pm
Thursday
13 January 2005

And if you've learned anything from working for me, you Up-addicted half-monkey/half-man, I would hope you've picked up on the fairly basic fucking theme that monkeys will in general ignore things that they find to be depressing, and will always ignore something they find boring.

 

Ms. Dooce has drilled into my head the good lesson of not talking too much about work here on my personal jibberish site, and I'm going to stick with that and just note that I'm really happy with work these days, loving the new office and feeling a potentiality for productivity that I have not felt in a long while.

 

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My 25 most favorite movies, in some semblance of order, with the assumption that certain movies can be grouped together and count as one, which is perhaps a little liberal of me, but this is my list, so I can organize it how I please.

  1. La Vita è Bella
  2. Harold and Maude
  3. The Lord of the Rings trilogy
  4. The Shawshank Redemption
  5. Natural Born Killers
  6. The Hours
  7. Annie Hall
  8. The Big Lebowski
  9. The Star Wars trilogy
  10. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  11. Blade Runner
  12. Love Actually
  13. American History X
  14. Before Sunrise and Before Sunset
  15. Clerks
  16. Dead Poets' Society
  17. Pi
  18. Waking Life
  19. Gone with the Wind
  20. Reality Bites
  21. The Royal Tenenbaums
  22. Super Troopers
  23. Ghost World
  24. Apocalypse Now Redux
  25. The Incredibles

I think it is possible that a healthy chunk of these are on every single person in the world's favorite movie list and are not very original, but that does not mean that they are not all stellar movies that say important things about my soul.

MY SOULLLLLLLLLLLL.

 

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Edited to update, 10 February 2006:

  1. La Vita è Bella
  2. Harold and Maude
  3. Love Actually
  4. Annie Hall
  5. Natural Born Killers
  6. The Hours
  7. The Big Lebowski
  8. The Lord of the Rings trilogy
  9. Blade Runner
  10. A Few Good Men
  11. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  12. Before Sunrise and Before Sunset
  13. The Star Wars trilogy
  14. Reality Bites
  15. The Incredibles
  16. The American Astronaut
  17. Pi
  18. Lost in Translation
  19. Clerks
  20. The Shawshank Redemption
  21. Waking Life
  22. Super Troopers
  23. Gone with the Wind
  24. Serenity
  25. American History X

 

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I'm off for a quick pretty walk through the drippy grey streets to get more thick fancy paper from the art store and look up at the sky melting into the buildings that scrape against it.

 

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