Ow. I'll tell you what, ow!

(my feet hurt so badly.)

Another movie everyone should watch:

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. ESPECIALLY if you love Robert Downey Jr.

This is the most amazing

bookmark I've ever laid my eyes on. I TOTALLY want one! :)

(via The Daily What)

What did I do today you ask?

I took my car in for a check up and spent 3 hours bumming around at Panera in the process (my car is ok, no worries!). Then, I went to Salvation Army and got a wicked ottoman for $5 (it was half off!). THEN I went to Target and a garage sale and got two cutesy chairs and a wrought iron table for my porch (please see: future posts about enjoying meals/reading outside). Next came a visit to the Ames Public Library. I went crazy and got two books, a movie, and the 2nd season of Six Feet Under.

Then I came home for awhile. And I left again. Where to? Joann Fabrics, of course!

There are got 3 and a half yards of black anti-pill fleece and hoo-boy did I go crazy and cover the freecycle chair I got on Tuesday. Yes I did! Now the chair is covered and I still have to do the ottoman, but I am fresh out of energy and desire to cover it! Plus my knees are magnificently rug burned.

I also spent some time feeling miserable and hungry, which I've sort of taken care of but now that the chair is covered I am really going to ponder what to eat (talk about eating dinner later than normal!).

Breath. This is what happens when I am left to my own devices for 2 week. Thanks, Joe! :)

Now watching:

The General.

Only 8 more AFI movies to go!

I just finished

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Boy, oh boy! Do I love Jimmy Stewart.

Attention Everyone:

Stop what you're doing and watch Double Indemnity. Now!!

"That's one of the advantages of being an adult.

You get to act like a kid anytime you feel like it."
--Jack Taylor, "One Fine Day"

"What do you want?

You-you want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey, that's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon...Well, then you could swallow it. And it'll all dissolve, see. And the moon beams that shoot out of your fingers and your toes and the ends of your hair...Am I talking too much?"

"You know that point in your life

when you realize the house you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of a sudden even though you have some place where you put your shit, that idea of home is gone...You'll see one day when you move out it just sort of happens one day and it's gone. You feel like you can never get it back. It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist. Maybe it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't ever have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I don't know, but I miss the idea of it, you know. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people that miss the same imaginary place."
[Garden State]

"Laugh Curtain old boy!

It's a great joke played on us by the Lord, or fate, or nature, whatever you prefer. But whoever or whatever played it certainly had a sense of humor! Ha! The gold has gone back to where we found it!... This is worth ten months of suffering and labor - this joke is!"

On deck:

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and/or reading The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. :)

I'm about to watch

a potentially horrible 88 minute movie with Johnny Depp called "Nick of Time."

...I am judging that it will be bad BECAUSE it's 88 minutes. I mean, I saw "Jumper" with Hayden Christiansen and THAT was 88 minutes and was absolutely horrible.

If there's not enough material to make it to at least an hour an a half, then why bother making it a movie at all. [That statement excludes animated children's movie, or actual honest to goodness shorts.]

On second thought, I probably shouldn't talk about the fact that I've seen "Jumper." It's THAT bad.

Happy New Year everyone!

In 2010 I:
-Applied for more jobs than I ever imagined I would
-Fell down an entire flight of stairs...TWICE.
-Watched a lot of the AFI top 100 movies
-Performed in the Vagina Monologues
-Interned with the Heart of Illinois United Way
-Published the 2010 edition of Broadside as Editor-in-Chief
-Graduated from college
-Celebrated the finale of Lost
-Saw one of my best friends get married
-Spent the summer working at Target
-Was offered and accepted a job with Wiley-Blackwell
-Moved to Ames, IA
-Started living completely on my own for the first time

I don't normally make new years resolutions, but I do like to think about things to make a general game plan, so here's what I came up with:

-Eat healthier
-Exercise more and shoot for 3+ times a week, but don't beat myself up if I don't (which shouldn't be too hard considering I barely exercised after I graduated from High School)
-Read some excellent books
-Keep in touch with friends

Otherwise, I am just going to keep on keeping on. It's time for bed. I am feeling so grateful for my family and friends. I am thankful for what the past year has brought me and am really looking forward to what the year will bring me.

Now watching

Bonnie and Clyde.

Getting cozy with Gary Cooper.

It was a Gary Cooper weekend it seemed on TMC. My parents came to visit (which is funny, since I will be home for the holidays on Wednesday) and we ended up watching THREE Gary Cooper movies.

I'd never seen anything he was in (which, my dad, was shocked by), but I did really enjoy Meet John Doe and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (which is WAY better than Adam Sandler's Mr. Deeds). I would definitely recommend each!

I just realized something.

I can't watch Good Morning, Vietnam. I think it's because I associate it with the beginning of a really horrible time in my life.

Huh.

I've decided

that I am going to leave out the films I'd already seen when I started my AFI endeavor (unless someone out there in cyberspace wants my take on them). For the record, I will give the name of the movie with the 2007 ranking first, and the 1997 ranking next in parentheses. So here is the list of those movies (which made me realize I'd only seen 25 when I started I guess):


#5(10) Singin' in the Rain


#6(4) Gone with the Wind


#10(6) The Wizard of Oz


#13(15) Star Wars


#17(7) The Graduate


#20(11) It's a Wonderful Life


#24(25) E.T The Extra Terrestrial


#34(49) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs


#39(26) Dr. Strangelove


#44(51) The Philadelphia Story


#50(-)The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring


#51(41) West Side Story


#66(60) Raiders of the Lost Ark


#71(-)Saving Private Ryan


#72(-)The Shawshank Redemption


#73(50) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid


#74(65) The Silence of the Lambs


#76(71) Forrest Gump


#83(-)Titanic


#89(-) The Sixth Sense


#99(-)Toy Story


#100(72) Ben Hur


#-(53) Amadeus


#-(58) Fantasia


#-(64)Close Encounters of the Third Kind

AFI's two top 100 movies of all time lists

The American Film Institute (AFI) has been making 100's lists since 1998. The first one they put together was 100 Years, 100 Movies, which is pretty self explanatory.

My freshman year of college, I heard about this list and immediately wanted to see which movies I'd already seen, and then watch any of the movies I hadn't already. If I remember correctly, I'd only seen something like 34 or so of the movies, which kind of surprised me because my family is full of big movie watchers. So Brooke and I decided to start making our way through them.

Then the AFI put out other top 100s lists, and then in 2007 they did their 100 Years, 100 Movies 10th Anniversary Edition. There were quite a few changes to the 1998 list, so I decided to combine the two, which made the list total 123 movies.

Here I am 4 years later (FOUR YEARS?!) and I am still making my way through them. I only have 25 left!

I am going to go through all of the movies I've watched so far and post little reviews/comments of my thoughts. Get ready!!

Remember, remember

the fifth of November.