Tuesday, November 10, 2009


  1. An Education (Completed 8/4/10)
  2. The Hurt Locker (Completed 15/3/10)
  3. Nowhere Boy (Completed 2/01/10)
  4. Atonement (Completed 27/2/10)
  5. Bright Star (Completed 11/7/10)
  6. Julie & Julia (Completed 6/3/10)
  7. The Reader (Completed 20/11/09)
  8. Lovely Bones
  9. Becoming Jane (Completed)
  10. Wicker Park (Completed 8/2/10)
  11. Sherlock Holmes (Completed 7/1/10)
  12. Dirty Dancing
  13. Pretty Woman
  14. Chocolat
  15. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  16. Breakfast Club (Completed: 8/11/09)
  17. Almost Famous
  18. Finding Neverland (Completed 11/1/10)
  19. Where the Wild Things Are
  20. Alice in Wonderland (Completed 13/3/10 - Tim Burton)
  21. A Walk to Remember (Completed: 2/3/10)
  22. The Duchess (Completed)
  23. Miss Austen Regrets (Completed: 15/4/10)
  24. Good Will Hunting (Completed: 11/11/09)
  25. Pearl Harbour (Completed: 7/1/10)
  26. The English Patient
  27. Black Hawk Down (Completed: 20/1/10)
  28. The Hangover (Completed: 28/12/09)
  29. Dead Poet's Society (Completed)
  30. History Boys
  31. The Virgin Suicides
  32. Mansfield Park (Completed: 18/2/10)
  33. Avatar (Completed: 23/12/09)
(23/33)

Monday, November 9, 2009

IMDb Top 250

Top 250 Movies from IMDB


  1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) (Completed 18/11/09)
  2. The Godfather (1972)
  3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  4. The Dark Knight (Completed - again - 27/12/09)
  5. Pulp Fiction (1994) (Completed 11/3/10)
  6. Schindler’s List (1993)
  7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
  8. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
  9. 12 Angry Men (1957) (Completed: 11/3/10)
  10. Casablanca (1942)
  11. Star Wars (1977) (Completed 14/2/10)
  12. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  13. Goodfellas (1990) (Completed: 12/3/10)
  14. Rear Window (1954
  15. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  16. The Usual Suspects (1994)
  17. Fight Club (1999) (Completed 14/2/10)
  18. Psycho (1960)
  19. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  20. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
  21. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  22. Memento (2000) (Completed 14/3/10)
  23. North by Northwest (1959)
  24. Citizen Kane (1941)
  25. The Matrix (1999)
  26. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
  27. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
  28. Se7en (1995)
  29. WALL·E
  30. Léon (1994)
  31. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  32. Taxi Driver (1976)
  33. American Beauty (1999)
  34. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  35. American History X
  36. Vertigo
  37. Slumdog Millionaire
  38. Paths of Glory (1957)
  39. M (1931)
  40. Forrest Gump (1994)
  41. The Departed (2006) (Competed 1/3/10)
  42. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  43. Double Indemnity (1944)
  44. Alien (1979)
  45. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  46. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  47. The Third Man (1949)
  48. Chinatown (1974)
  49. The Shining
  50. The Pianist (2002)
  51. Saving Private Ryan
  52. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
  53. The Wrestler
  54. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  55. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
  56. L.A. Confidential (1997)
  57. Aliens (1986)
  58. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Completed)
  59. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
  60. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  61. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  62. City Lights (1931)
  63. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  64. Raging Bull (1980)
  65. All About Eve (1950) (Completed: 18/11/09)
  66. Metropolis (1927)
  67. Modern Times (1936)
  68. Rebecca (1940)
  69. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
  70. Some Like It Hot (1959)
  71. The Prestige (2006)
  72. Amadeus (1984)
  73. The Elephant Man (1980)
  74. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  75. The Apartment (1960)
  76. Sin City (2005)
  77. The Great Escape (1963)
  78. No Country for Old Men (2007)
  79. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  80. The Sting (1973)
  81. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
  82. Touch of Evil
  83. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
  84. The Great Dictator (1940)
  85. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  86. On the Waterfront (1954)
  87. Batman Begins (2005)
  88. Back to the Future (1985)
  89. Braveheart (1995)
  90. Jaws (1975)
  91. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
  92. Blade Runner (1982)
  93. Strangers on a Train (1951)
  94. Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
  95. The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
  96. There Will Be Blood (2007)
  97. Unforgiven (1992)
  98. Notorious (1946)
  99. High Noon (1952)
  100. The Green Mile (1999) (Completed 18/11/09)
  101. The Big Sleep (1946)
  102. Fargo (1996)
  103. Oldboy (2003)
  104. Cool Hand Luke (1967) (Completed 7/3/10)
  105. Gladiator (2000)
  106. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  107. Die Hard
  108. Donnie Darko (2001)
  109. The General (1927)
  110. Annie Hall (1977)
  111. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
  112. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
  113. It Happened One Night (1934)
  114. Heat (1995)
  115. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
  116. The Deer Hunter
  117. The Sixth Sense (1999)
  118. Ben-Hur (1959)
  119. Platoon (1986)
  120. Into the Wild (2007)
  121. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  122. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
  123. Gran Torino
  124. Life of Brian (1979)
  125. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
  126. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  127. Ratatouille (2007)
  128. 8½ (1963)
  129. The Big Lebowski
  130. The Killing (1956)
  131. Finding Nemo (2003)
  132. The Graduate (1967)
  133. Brief Encounter (1945)
  134. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  135. Stand by Me (1986)
  136. Snatch. (2000 )
  137. The Night of the Hunter (1955 )
  138. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
  139. The Wild Bunch (1969)
  140. Gandhi (1982)
  141. The Gold Rush (1925)
  142. V for Vendetta (2005)
  143. Gone with the Wind (1939) (Completed 17/11/09)
  144. The Princess Bride (1987)
  145. The Incredibles (2004)
  146. Trainspotting (1996)
  147. Milk
  148. The Thing (1982)
  149. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
  150. Scarface (1983)
  151. The Lion King (1994)
  152. Harvey (1950)
  153. Groundhog Day (1993)
  154. Children of Men (2006)
  155. Toy Story (1995)
  156. Sleuth (1972)
  157. The Terminator (1984)
  158. The Hustler (1961)
  159. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
  160. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
  161. The African Queen (1951)
  162. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
  163. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  164. The Conversation (1974)
  165. Duck Soup (1933)
  166. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
  167. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
  168. The Adventures of Robin Hood
  169. The Lady Vanishes
  170. Stalag 17 (1953)
  171. Crash (2004/I)
  172. Casino (1995)
  173. King Kong (1933)
  174. Ed Wood (1994)
  175. The Kid (1921)
  176. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
  177. Dial M for Murder (1954)
  178. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
  179. The Exorcist (1973)
  180. The Lost Weekend (1945)
  181. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
  182. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  183. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
  184. Rope
  185. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  186. Patton (1970)
  187. Rosemary’s Baby
  188. Glory (1989)
  189. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
  190. Frankenstein (1931)
  191. Magnolia (1999)
  192. His Girl Friday (1940)
  193. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
  194. In Bruges (Completed 16/5/10)
  195. Spartacus (1960)
  196. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
  197. Big Fish (2003)
  198. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  199. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
  200. Manhattan (1979)
  201. Network (1976)
  202. Roman Holiday (1953) (Completed: 15/11/09)
  203. Safety Last! (1923)
  204. Mystic River (2003)
  205. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
  206. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
  207. Great Expectations (1946)
  208. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
  209. A Christmas Story (1983)
  210. Rocky (1976)
  211. Dolce vita, La (1960)
  212. Planet of the Apes
  213. Laura (1944) (Completed 17/11/09)
  214. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
  215. Blood Diamond (Completed 24/11/09)
  216. Barry Lyndon (1975)
  217. Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
  218. Shaun of the Dead
  219. Changeling (2008) (Completed 25/12/09)
  220. Inglourious Bastards (2009) (Completed: 25/12/09)

Friday, November 6, 2009

101 in 1001

Spiritual/ Good-will/ Relationships (2/9)
  1. Read the Bible (Read: Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, Haggai, 2 James)
  2. Donate blood.
  3. Organ donor.
  4. Start a prayer journal.
  5. Do the 40 hour famine.
  6. 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.
  7. 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)
  8. Complete your "Meeting 100 People in 2010". (Complete 12/12/10)
  9. Send a army care package.

Materialistic (3/6)
  1. Buy a painting from the art gallery (Complete - from Australian National Art Gallery)
  2. Get a new camera - DSLR?
  3. Organise new photo albums for the trips to Vanuatu, New Zealand, Paris, London.
  4. Complete photo albums for 2009, 2010 and 2011 (0/3)
  5. Get something else from Tiffany & co (Completed 12/9/10)
  6. Get a new phone and ipod (2/2) (Completed 25/12/09)

Financial (7/7)
  1. Save $4,500 for trip to Paris and London ($4,500/$4,500) (Completed)
  2. Pay dad back $1000 ($1000/$1000) (Completed)
  3. Get promoted at David Jones. (Completed)
  4. Get an online bank account to put the money I'm saving for travel (Completed)
  5. Get a job for the year of '10. (Completed)
  6. Send off Ruben Scarf Award for the money. (Completed)


Writing/Education (6/29)
  1. Have completed a first draft for biography of Alice.
  2. Finished researching books for Alice.
  3. Written a first draft of your fiction book.
  4. Completed a Nanowrimo (November).
  5. Completed a Script Frenzy (April).
  6. Upload all Romanov photos on photobucket.
  7. Complete the 888 challenge. (17/64)
  8. Recieve 101 Postcards. (6/101)
  9. Watch all "IMDb Top 250" without the foreign films. (19/220)
  10. Watch 30 films to make up for the taking out of foreign films (19/33)
  11. Attend 15 Concerts/ Festivals/ Stand up/ Plays (8/15) (Big Day Out 2010, Russell Brand, Stephen Fry, Kate Nash, Muse, Russell Howard, Wicked, Eminem)
  12. Attend German, French or Italian basic lessons.
  13. Get my red P's.
  14. Memorise a poem and a sonnet (1/2)
  15. Learn how to read music.
  16. Write to Kitty every day for a month (31/31) (Completed)
  17. Take a creative writing class.
  18. Paint/ watercolour/ draw something that you are proud of, that you feel you could hang in your room. (Completed)
  19. Received a high distinction in one of your assessments at university.
  20. See all Star Wars movies (4/6)
  21. 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)
  22. Be in the audience for "First Tuesday Bookclub" or "Jennifer Byrne Presents . . ." (Completed 2/7/10)
  23. Attend a Twenty/20 cricket match.
  24. Attend a NSW cricket match.
  25. Attend a Sydney Theatre Company show.
  26. Attend the Ballet twice (2/2) (Completed)
  27. Vote in an election (Completed 5/12/09)
  28. Write poetry. (Completed 29/12/09)
  29. See a movie a month at Roseville cinema (1/12) (January - Nowhere Boy,)

Well-being (0/3)
  1. Take Adult Ballet lessons.
  2. Attend a yoga class, or watch a dvd on yoga.
  3. Run a marathon.

Home Life (4/11)
  1. Cook twenty dinners for family (5/20) (Rigatoni with Italian Sausage, Lasagna, Chicken Parmigiana, Spaghetti with Jesse, Enchiladas)
  2. Complete a cross stitch.
  3. Make bread.
  4. 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)
  5. 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)
  6. Host ten dinners, three have to be with something you cooked (4/10) and (1/3)
  7. Cook all recipes from one book/blog (Mars Bar Slice, Butter Cake,)
  8. Knit something that is good enough to give as a gift.
  9. Attend a wedding. (Completed 18/6/11)
  10. Have dinner at David Jones Food Hall in the City. (Completed w/Naomi on VFN)
  11. Buy Julie Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking

Adventure (7/10)
  1. Helicopter ride. (Completed)
  2. Attend Mardi Gras. (Completed 28/2/10)
  3. Attend a soccer game. (Completed)
  4. Go iceskating.
  5. Skydive.
  6. Bungy jump. (Completed)
  7. Gamble, go the pokies. (Completed 9/1/10, or 10/1/10, night out for Lucy's birthday at Star City)
  8. Make brownies (Completed 4/11/11)
  9. Biblestudies Weekend Away. (Completed)
  10. Attend a day at the races.

Random (8/12)
  1. Send a secret to postsecret tumblr. (Completed 27/12/09)
  2. Listen to the Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. (0/500)
  3. Stay with Nan twice a year (2/5 - 2010, 2011).
  4. Watched a court case. (Completed 7/4/10)
  5. Made antlers on your head with sticks and take a photo.
  6. 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)
  7. See Muse live again. (Completed)
  8. Russell Brand. (Completed)
  9. Go to Pancakes on the Rocks (Completed 16/11/09)
  10. Catch up on Fringe seasons, Brothers & Sisters, and Gossip Girl seasons (Completed 3/3)
  11. Go to a drive-in movie theatre.
  12. Second ear piercing (Completed 30/1/10)

Travel (7/14)
  1. Been to the archives/places where Alice lived in Germany.
  2. Go to Melbourne. (Completed)
  3. Go to Canberra. (Completed)
  4. Been to Europe twice (1/2)
  5. Travel to New Zealand (Completed 7/2/10)
  6. Travel to Vanuatu (Completed 7/12/09 - 18/12/09)
  7. Spain.
  8. Go on a roadtrip out of Sydney twice (1/2) (To Wollongong for Houseparty with Kat, Rosie and Grace/Lili on the way back)
  9. Attend the Australian Open.
  10. Go to major beaches (Palm Beach, Marubra, Coogee, Bondi, Bronte) (1/5)
  11. Write a 101 list for exchange to England. (Completed: see Westminster Emma)
  12. Italy.
  13. Write a 101 list for trip to Paris. (Completed)
  14. Complete the 101 list for Paris. (Completed)
TOTAL = 101 GOALS


End time: Sunday, August 5, 2012
(45/101)