Thursday, December 31, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
- An Education (Completed 8/4/10)
- The Hurt Locker (Completed 15/3/10)
- Nowhere Boy (Completed 2/01/10)
- Atonement (Completed 27/2/10)
- Bright Star (Completed 11/7/10)
- Julie & Julia (Completed 6/3/10)
- The Reader (Completed 20/11/09)
- Lovely Bones
- Becoming Jane (Completed)
- Wicker Park (Completed 8/2/10)
- Sherlock Holmes (Completed 7/1/10)
- Dirty Dancing
- Pretty Woman
- Chocolat
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Breakfast Club (Completed: 8/11/09)
- Almost Famous
- Finding Neverland (Completed 11/1/10)
- Where the Wild Things Are
- Alice in Wonderland (Completed 13/3/10 - Tim Burton)
- A Walk to Remember (Completed: 2/3/10)
- The Duchess (Completed)
- Miss Austen Regrets (Completed: 15/4/10)
- Good Will Hunting (Completed: 11/11/09)
- Pearl Harbour (Completed: 7/1/10)
- The English Patient
- Black Hawk Down (Completed: 20/1/10)
- The Hangover (Completed: 28/12/09)
- Dead Poet's Society (Completed)
- History Boys
- The Virgin Suicides
- Mansfield Park (Completed: 18/2/10)
- Avatar (Completed: 23/12/09)
Monday, November 9, 2009
IMDb Top 250
Top 250 Movies from IMDB
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994) (Completed 18/11/09)
- The Godfather (1972)
- The Godfather: Part II (1974)
- The Dark Knight (Completed - again - 27/12/09)
- Pulp Fiction (1994) (Completed 11/3/10)
- Schindler’s List (1993)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
- Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
- 12 Angry Men (1957) (Completed: 11/3/10)
- Casablanca (1942)
- Star Wars (1977) (Completed 14/2/10)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
- Goodfellas (1990) (Completed: 12/3/10)
- Rear Window (1954
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
- The Usual Suspects (1994)
- Fight Club (1999) (Completed 14/2/10)
- Psycho (1960)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Sunset Blvd. (1950)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
- Memento (2000) (Completed 14/3/10)
- North by Northwest (1959)
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- The Matrix (1999)
- It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
- Se7en (1995)
- WALL·E
- Léon (1994)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- American Beauty (1999)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- American History X
- Vertigo
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- M (1931)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- The Departed (2006) (Competed 1/3/10)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Double Indemnity (1944)
- Alien (1979)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- The Third Man (1949)
- Chinatown (1974)
- The Shining
- The Pianist (2002)
- Saving Private Ryan
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- The Wrestler
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
- L.A. Confidential (1997)
- Aliens (1986)
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Completed)
- Requiem for a Dream (2000)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Reservoir Dogs (1992)
- City Lights (1931)
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- All About Eve (1950) (Completed: 18/11/09)
- Metropolis (1927)
- Modern Times (1936)
- Rebecca (1940)
- Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- The Prestige (2006)
- Amadeus (1984)
- The Elephant Man (1980)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The Apartment (1960)
- Sin City (2005)
- The Great Escape (1963)
- No Country for Old Men (2007)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- The Sting (1973)
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
- Touch of Evil
- Hotel Rwanda (2004)
- The Great Dictator (1940)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- On the Waterfront (1954)
- Batman Begins (2005)
- Back to the Future (1985)
- Braveheart (1995)
- Jaws (1975)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Strangers on a Train (1951)
- Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
- The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
- There Will Be Blood (2007)
- Unforgiven (1992)
- Notorious (1946)
- High Noon (1952)
- The Green Mile (1999) (Completed 18/11/09)
- The Big Sleep (1946)
- Fargo (1996)
- Oldboy (2003)
- Cool Hand Luke (1967) (Completed 7/3/10)
- Gladiator (2000)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- Die Hard
- Donnie Darko (2001)
- The General (1927)
- Annie Hall (1977)
- Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
- Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- Heat (1995)
- Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
- The Deer Hunter
- The Sixth Sense (1999)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- Platoon (1986)
- Into the Wild (2007)
- Million Dollar Baby (2004)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
- Gran Torino
- Life of Brian (1979)
- Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- Ratatouille (2007)
- 8½ (1963)
- The Big Lebowski
- The Killing (1956)
- Finding Nemo (2003)
- The Graduate (1967)
- Brief Encounter (1945)
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
- Stand by Me (1986)
- Snatch. (2000 )
- The Night of the Hunter (1955 )
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
- The Wild Bunch (1969)
- Gandhi (1982)
- The Gold Rush (1925)
- V for Vendetta (2005)
- Gone with the Wind (1939) (Completed 17/11/09)
- The Princess Bride (1987)
- The Incredibles (2004)
- Trainspotting (1996)
- Milk
- The Thing (1982)
- Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
- Scarface (1983)
- The Lion King (1994)
- Harvey (1950)
- Groundhog Day (1993)
- Children of Men (2006)
- Toy Story (1995)
- Sleuth (1972)
- The Terminator (1984)
- The Hustler (1961)
- The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
- Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
- The African Queen (1951)
- Twelve Monkeys (1995)
- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- The Conversation (1974)
- Duck Soup (1933)
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- The Lady Vanishes
- Stalag 17 (1953)
- Crash (2004/I)
- Casino (1995)
- King Kong (1933)
- Ed Wood (1994)
- The Kid (1921)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
- Dial M for Murder (1954)
- Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
- The Exorcist (1973)
- The Lost Weekend (1945)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
- Rope
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
- Patton (1970)
- Rosemary’s Baby
- Glory (1989)
- Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
- Frankenstein (1931)
- Magnolia (1999)
- His Girl Friday (1940)
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
- In Bruges (Completed 16/5/10)
- Spartacus (1960)
- Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
- Big Fish (2003)
- The Philadelphia Story (1940)
- In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- Manhattan (1979)
- Network (1976)
- Roman Holiday (1953) (Completed: 15/11/09)
- Safety Last! (1923)
- Mystic River (2003)
- Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- Great Expectations (1946)
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
- A Christmas Story (1983)
- Rocky (1976)
- Dolce vita, La (1960)
- Planet of the Apes
- Laura (1944) (Completed 17/11/09)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- Blood Diamond (Completed 24/11/09)
- Barry Lyndon (1975)
- Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
- Shaun of the Dead
- Changeling (2008) (Completed 25/12/09)
- Inglourious Bastards (2009) (Completed: 25/12/09)
Friday, November 6, 2009
101 in 1001
- Read the Bible (Read: Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, Haggai, 2 James)
- Donate blood.
- Organ donor.
- Start a prayer journal.
- Do the 40 hour famine.
- Bought a new bible - perhaps a study one, so you can highlight and write in it. You want to keep your one now for the rest of your life because it has Mark's special message in it.
- Write a comprehensive list for life goals. You will keep adding to/changing it throughout your life, but this is a start. (Complete: Posted on this blog)
- Complete your "Meeting 100 People in 2010". (Complete 12/12/10)
- Send a army care package.
- Buy a painting from the art gallery (Complete - from Australian National Art Gallery)
- Get a new camera - DSLR?
- Organise new photo albums for the trips to Vanuatu, New Zealand, Paris, London.
- Complete photo albums for 2009, 2010 and 2011 (0/3)
- Get something else from Tiffany & co (Completed 12/9/10)
- Get a new phone and ipod (2/2) (Completed 25/12/09)
- Save $4,500 for trip to Paris and London ($4,500/$4,500) (Completed)
- Pay dad back $1000 ($1000/$1000) (Completed)
- Get promoted at David Jones. (Completed)
- Get an online bank account to put the money I'm saving for travel (Completed)
- Get a job for the year of '10. (Completed)
- Send off Ruben Scarf Award for the money. (Completed)
- Have completed a first draft for biography of Alice.
- Finished researching books for Alice.
- Written a first draft of your fiction book.
- Completed a Nanowrimo (November).
- Completed a Script Frenzy (April).
- Upload all Romanov photos on photobucket.
- Complete the 888 challenge. (17/64)
- Recieve 101 Postcards. (6/101)
- Watch all "IMDb Top 250" without the foreign films. (19/220)
- Watch 30 films to make up for the taking out of foreign films (19/33)
- Attend 15 Concerts/ Festivals/ Stand up/ Plays (8/15) (Big Day Out 2010, Russell Brand, Stephen Fry, Kate Nash, Muse, Russell Howard, Wicked, Eminem)
- Attend German, French or Italian basic lessons.
- Get my red P's.
- Memorise a poem and a sonnet (1/2)
- Learn how to read music.
- Write to Kitty every day for a month (31/31) (Completed)
- Take a creative writing class.
- Paint/ watercolour/ draw something that you are proud of, that you feel you could hang in your room. (Completed)
- Received a high distinction in one of your assessments at university.
- See all Star Wars movies (4/6)
- See all the classic Audrey Hepburn movies (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Paris When it Sizzles,Roman Holiday, Sabrina, War and Peace, Funny Face, Charade, My Fair Lady, Love in the Afternoon, How to Steal a Million, Two for the Road)
- Be in the audience for "First Tuesday Bookclub" or "Jennifer Byrne Presents . . ." (Completed 2/7/10)
- Attend a Twenty/20 cricket match.
- Attend a NSW cricket match.
- Attend a Sydney Theatre Company show.
- Attend the Ballet twice (2/2) (Completed)
- Vote in an election (Completed 5/12/09)
- Write poetry. (Completed 29/12/09)
- See a movie a month at Roseville cinema (1/12) (January - Nowhere Boy,)
- Take Adult Ballet lessons.
- Attend a yoga class, or watch a dvd on yoga.
- Run a marathon.
- Cook twenty dinners for family (5/20) (Rigatoni with Italian Sausage, Lasagna, Chicken Parmigiana, Spaghetti with Jesse, Enchiladas)
- Complete a cross stitch.
- Make bread.
- Start a recipe folder, putting in all my favourite/good recipes and changes I've made to them.(Completed 28/12/09: Present for Christmas from Jess)
- Try 20 new restaurants (20/20) (Completed: Terry Hills Thai, Sheriton on the Park breakfast, the restaurant in Christchurch, Flame in Queenstown, Pizzabase in St Ives, new Thai in St Ives, CQ Cafe in Circular Quay, St Leonards Pub for Ash's 19th, El Karim in Roseville, Wagamama in the City, Mamak in Chatswood, Whitewater in Manly, Kingsley's in Wollomolloo, Bathers in Balmoral, The Stoned Crow, ARIA, Burnt Orange, The Rice Den, Station Hotel in North Sydney, Fuuki Japanese in Crows Nest, Small Bar in Crows Nest)
- Host ten dinners, three have to be with something you cooked (4/10) and (1/3)
- Cook all recipes from one book/blog (Mars Bar Slice, Butter Cake,)
- Knit something that is good enough to give as a gift.
- Attend a wedding. (Completed 18/6/11)
- Have dinner at David Jones Food Hall in the City. (Completed w/Naomi on VFN)
- Buy Julie Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking
- Helicopter ride. (Completed)
- Attend Mardi Gras. (Completed 28/2/10)
- Attend a soccer game. (Completed)
- Go iceskating.
- Skydive.
- Bungy jump. (Completed)
- Gamble, go the pokies. (Completed 9/1/10, or 10/1/10, night out for Lucy's birthday at Star City)
- Make brownies (Completed 4/11/11)
- Biblestudies Weekend Away. (Completed)
- Attend a day at the races.
- Send a secret to postsecret tumblr. (Completed 27/12/09)
- Listen to the Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. (0/500)
- Stay with Nan twice a year (2/5 - 2010, 2011).
- Watched a court case. (Completed 7/4/10)
- Made antlers on your head with sticks and take a photo.
- Meet 100 new people in 2010 (100/100) - rule is that you have to have met them long enough to be confident in adding them on facebook. (Complete)
- See Muse live again. (Completed)
- Russell Brand. (Completed)
- Go to Pancakes on the Rocks (Completed 16/11/09)
- Catch up on Fringe seasons, Brothers & Sisters, and Gossip Girl seasons (Completed 3/3)
- Go to a drive-in movie theatre.
- Second ear piercing (Completed 30/1/10)
- Been to the archives/places where Alice lived in Germany.
- Go to Melbourne. (Completed)
- Go to Canberra. (Completed)
- Been to Europe twice (1/2)
- Travel to New Zealand (Completed 7/2/10)
- Travel to Vanuatu (Completed 7/12/09 - 18/12/09)
- Spain.
- Go on a roadtrip out of Sydney twice (1/2) (To Wollongong for Houseparty with Kat, Rosie and Grace/Lili on the way back)
- Attend the Australian Open.
- Go to major beaches (Palm Beach, Marubra, Coogee, Bondi, Bronte) (1/5)
- Write a 101 list for exchange to England. (Completed: see Westminster Emma)
- Italy.
- Write a 101 list for trip to Paris. (Completed)
- Complete the 101 list for Paris. (Completed)
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
— | The Breakfast Club Claire: What's your name? Bender: What's yours? Claire: Claire. Bender: Claire? Claire: Claire. It's a family name. Bender: Oh, it's a fat girl's name. Claire: Oh, thank you. Bender: You're welcome. John Bender: What’s that? Claire Standish: Sushi. John Bender: Sushi? Claire Standish: Rice, raw fish, and seaweed. John Bender: You won’t accept a guy’s tongue in your mouth, and you’re going to eat that? Claire Standish: Can I eat? John Bender: I don’t know. Give it a try. The Breakfast Club, 1985. |
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
To Emma by John Keats
With love-looking eyes, and with voice sweetly bland.
O come, dearest Emma! the rose is full blown,
And the riches of Flora are lavishly strown,
The air is all softness, and crystal the streams,
And the West is resplendently clothed in beams.
We will hasten, my fair, to the opening glases,
The quaintly carved seats, and the freshening shades,
Where the faeries are chanting their evening hymns,
And in the last sunbeam the sylph lightly swims.
And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed
Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head;
There, beauteous Emma, I'll sit at thy feet,
While my story of love I enraptured repeat.
So fondly I'll breathe and so softly I'll sigh,
Though wilt think that some amorous Zephyr is nigh -
Ah, no! - as I breathe, I will press thy fair knee,
And then thou wilt know that the sigh comes from me.
Then why, lovely girl, should we lose all these blisses?
That mortal's a fool who such happiness misses.
So smile acquiescence, and give me thy hand,
With love-looking eyes, and with voice sweetly bland.