was bored, and slightly curious

102 Films to See Before You Die

[] "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) Stanley Kubrick
[ ] "The 400 Blows" (1959) Francois Truffaut
[ ] "8 1/2" (1963) Federico Fellini
[ ] "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" (1972) Werner Herzog
[x] "Alien" (1979) Ridley Scott
[] "All About Eve" (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
[x] "Annie Hall" (1977) Woody Allen
[] "Apocalypse Now" (1979) Francis Ford Coppola*
[x] "Bambi" (1942) Disney
[] "The Battleship Potemkin" (1925) Sergei Eisenstein
[ ] "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) William Wyler
[ ] "The Big Red One" (1980) Samuel Fuller
[ ] "The Bicycle Thief" (1949) Vittorio De Sica
Total so far: 3

[ ] "The Big Sleep" (1946) Howard Hawks
[x] "Blade Runner" (1982) Ridley Scott
[ ] "Blowup" (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni
[] "Blue Velvet" (1986) David Lynch
[] "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) Arthur Penn
[ ] "Breathless" (1959 Jean-Luc Godard
[ ] "Bringing Up Baby" (1938) Howard Hawks
[] "Carrie" (1975) Brian DePalma
[ ] "Casablanca" (1942) Michael Curtiz
[ ] "Un Chien Andalou" (1928) Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali
[ ] "Children of Paradise" / "Les Enfants du Paradis" (1945) Marcel Carne
Total so far: 4

[x] "Chinatown" (1974) Roman Polanski
[] "Citizen Kane" (1941) Orson Welles
[] "A Clockwork Orange" (1971) Stanley Kubrick
[] "The Crying Game" (1992) Neil Jordan
[ ] "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) Robert Wise
[ ] "Days of Heaven" (1978) Terence Malick
[] "Dirty Harry" (1971) Don Siegel
[ ] "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" (1972) Luis Bunuel
[ ] "Do the Right Thing" (1989 Spike Lee
[ ] "La Dolce Vita" (1960) Federico Fellini
Total so far: 5

[ ] "Double Indemnity" (1944) Billy Wilder
[x] "Dr. Strangelove" (1964) Stanley Kubrick
[] "Duck Soup" (1933) Leo McCarey
[x] "E.T. -- The Extra-Terrestrial" (1982) Steven Spielberg
[ ] "Easy Rider" (1969) Dennis Hopper
[x] "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) Irvin Kershner
[] "The Exorcist" (1973) William Friedkin
[x] "Fargo" (1995) Joel & Ethan Coen
[x] "Fight Club" (1999) David Fincher
[] "Frankenstein" (1931) James Whale
Total so far: 9

[ ] "The General" (1927) Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman
[x] "The Godfather,"
[x] "The Godfather, Part II" (1972, 1974) Francis Ford Coppola
[] "Gone With the Wind" (1939) Victor Fleming
[] "GoodFellas" (1990) Martin Scorsese
[x] "The Graduate" (1967) Mike Nichols
[ ] "Halloween" (1978) John Carpenter
[x] "A Hard Day's Night" (1964) Richard Lester
[ ] "Intolerance" (1916) D.W. Griffith
Total so far: 13

[ ] "It's a Gift" (1934) Norman Z. McLeod
[x] "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) Frank Capra
[x] "Jaws" (1975) Steven Spielberg
[ ] "The Lady Eve" (1941) Preston Sturges
[ ] "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) David Lean
[ ] "M" (1931) Fritz Lang
[] "Mad Max 2" / "The Road Warrior" (1981) George Miller
[ ] "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) John Huston
[] "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962) John Frankenheimer
[] "Metropolis" (1926) Fritz Lang
[ ] "Modern Times" (1936) Charles Chaplin
Total so far: 15

[x] "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975) Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam
[ ] "Nashville" (1975) Robert Altman
[ ] "The Night of the Hunter" (1955) Charles Laughton
[] "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) George Romero
[ ] "North by Northwest" (1959) Alfred Hitchcock
[] "Nosferatu" (1922) F.W. Murnau
[ ] "On the Waterfront" (1954) Elia Kazan
[x] "Once Upon a Time in the America" (1984) Sergio Leone
[ ] "Out of the Past" (1947) Jacques Tournier
[ ] "Persona" (1966) Ingmar Bergman
[ ] "Pink Flamingos" (1972) John Waters
Total so far: 17

[] "Psycho" (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
[x] "Pulp Fiction" (1994) Quentin Tarantino
[ ] "Rashomon" (1950) Akira Kurosawa
[x] "Rear Window" (1954) Alfred Hitchcock
[ ] "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) Nicholas Ray
[ ] "Red River" (1948) Howard Hawks
[ ] "Repulsion" (1965) Roman Polanski
[ ] "The Rules of the Game" (1939) Jean Renoir
[] "Scarface" (1932) Howard Hawks
[ ] "The Scarlet Empress" (1934) Josef von Sternberg
[x] "Schindler's List" (1993) Steven Spielberg
[ ] "The Searchers" (1956) John Ford
[ ] "The Seven Samurai" (1954) Akira Kurosawa
Total so far: 20

[] "Singin' in the Rain" (1952) Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
[] "Some Like It Hot" (1959) Billy Wilder
[ ] "A Star Is Born" (1954) George Cukor
[ ] "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) Elia Kazan
[ ] "Sunset Boulevard" (1950) Billy Wilder
[x] "Taxi Driver" (1976) Martin Scorsese
[ ] "The Third Man" (1949) Carol Reed
[ ] "Tokyo Story" (1953) Yasujiro Ozu
[ ] "Touch of Evil" (1958) Orson Welles
Total so far: 21

[ ] "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948) John Huston
[ ] "Trouble in Paradise" (1932) Ernst Lubitsch
[x] "Vertigo" (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
[] "West Side Story" (1961) Jerome Robbins/Robert Wise
[ ] "The Wild Bunch" (1969) Sam Peckinpah
[x] "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) Victor Fleming
Total: 23


I have not watched enough 'classic' films it seems

I want

see there's a part of me that really wants to write one of those annoying as fuck whiny lists about all the thinga I want the things I wish weren't at the moment

but I think there's too big a part which would want to smack me round the face for it


I need another drink


or possibly some comedy



mostly I want that person back from where she is
tis only a matter of time
a day, in fact


shutupyaoldfool

I have not posted on here for quite some time

I guess it has been a rather strange week, all in all




I hate how I can have an idea or something, a little bit of inspiration of an idea but then when I try and expand upon it I get stuck and don't know what to put so I normally end up giving up, or if it's for school or something carrying on, doing the rest much worse than I wish it could be and then hating it after it's done


aaah I dunno, typically when everything should be happy and I should be content with everything I'm in a funny mood *rolls eyes at self*
it's probably just I've put off doing this work all weekend one way or another (and a pretty decent weekend it's been, the best I can remember for a long time for that matter) I now have to do it,and however much I'd like to go and play dawn of war all evening I know I have to go and do that and then come back and do this. And the thing is I'm sure I've got to the point in the coursework where I shouldn't just be trying to 'bang something out', but I don't know what else to do, certainly not with creative writing :/

ah I dunno we'll see what happens, half the time I feel I'm gonna fail english anyways, admittedly that mostly because of this looming coursework. That's the problem with being hand fed coursework at GCSE, you're screw-ed at A Level

Right I think that's quite enough whining/timewasting now I'm gonna go and waste my time in some other infinitely less annoying way.

oh :)

I'm all happy now

thank you Rain man/conversing with people I like :)

although

what's REALLY scaring me is the thought that no one's gonna come online at all

I've always felt

that melancholia is just a hairs breadth away, and that to have it leak through you just have to take away one, or all, of the things that keeps the flood at bay


maybe I just feel this way because I've got the weekend blues


I want to watch a film, but not a too long one in case I miss people coming online :/

it's that bad

We measure ourselves, no longer by our gold but our circuitry

I was unpacking my bag and I realised that all the things I consider to be of particular worth are electronic, it struck me how nowadays electronic stuff is often worth more than precious stones, purely in terms of common usage. Maybe that's a half baked theory, but

what I mean is

no longer do we measure ourselves, as much, by the fancy clothes/jewelry etc. but by whether we have the latest 12o thousand gigabyte iPod touch phone, built in spaceship


I'd like to think there's some sort of overarching point or message to these ramblings, but I don't think I'm gonna be eloquent to express it even if I knew what it was.