2010

I’ll try to come up with more realistic things than before, I am the master of postponing things, “Why do today what I can do tomorrow?” (Oh, right now I feel like murdering a few people on my block, slowly… They are sending off fireworks like crazy, it’s 23:27 and I want them to die! Have to check my baby… Poor thing, it hurts to see him like this, scared and drugged up like Courtney Love.)

1. Read at least one scripted per week
2. Control my anger, take a deep breath and count to ten when I get mad

To be continued…

Last Year’s New Years Resolutions

One by one
1. Go to the gyno and do a smear test or whatever it’s called (sounds like fun doesn’t it?) Check!
2. Get a haircut Check!
3. Buy a dress or a skirt. Oops…

Continuously
1. Keep a food diary to see what I need to add and remove from my “diet” Post it on the blog (and please yell at me when I’m not eating health) (Oops… doesn’t feel very necessary anymore)
2. Write X pages per X (have to figure out what amount of pages per day/week is reasonable) (Yes, I should have done this by now…)
3. Work on watching ALL 250 top movies on IMDB (some would call that a waste of time but…) (I’m doing well on this one but it takes time)
4. Get a pedicure (homemade, I’m pretty darn good) at least once a month. (started out good but…)

Projects
1. Finish one longer story (No!)
2. Finish a synopsis for a movie (No!)
3. Learn how to walk in heels (No!)
4. Learn how to do a decent manicure at home (No!)
5. Try to sew something, either finish the pants I have or make a simple dress (No!)
6. Try embroidery (No!)
7. Finish my brothers shirt and start knitting in the hats (that was last year’s new year’s resolution for Pete sake!) (No!)

All in all, I did not do well...

It’s not on the list?

How the H can it be that “Rebel without a cause” is not on IMDB top 250!? It’s better than Se7en, it’s better than Fight Club, The Matrix, The Usual Suspects and I can go on… What the H?! Anyway, I really like it, they don’t make movies like these anymore. If you haven’t seen it, do it now!


Movies left to see on IMDB top 250: 141

Movies

Twelve Monkeys: Terry is a weird man… (On Top 250)

Bladerunner: Um… what’s so brilliant about this movie? But Daryl Hannah was kind of hot. (On Top 250)

Heathers: What a weird-ass movie… but Christian Slater was actually kind of cute, and I like vintage Winona too. It’s pretty far from the info at IMDB “A girl who half-heartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics”

Cheaper by the dozen II: Sucks! There was nothing good about this movie (well, I love Bonnie Hunt, she’s so cute).

Singin' in the Rain: I like it, it was cute! And I feel like dancing. (On Top 250)

Ziegfeld Follies: (Recommended by Dita Von Teese) I have a crush on the pink ballerina, think it's Cyd Charisse.

Found picture here

I always forget to write down what movies I see, I know I forgotten a few. Um, a Russian movie (my first) Night Watch, which I kind of liked, there’s was a mood and atmosphere that I really enjoyed, maybe the story wasn’t that good but… I just know I’ve seen more movies… Oh, Pan’s Labyrinth (On Top 250), which I had high hopes for but I clearly expected too much. Atonement, um… okay I guess but I was mainly checking out the garden and the house.

Update on New Year’s resolutions

Did the scariest one which means I can finally get a haircut! Don’t know what happened to the food diary, I have to start with that again. Watching movies is running along smoothly though and having my “homemade” pedicures too but not once a month…

The writing is not going well at all… stuck like always and no idea how to get out of it but I have months left to finish it and I don’t have to write a master piece I just have to try.

Haven’t walked in heels in awhile but I saw a very cute cutout booties while a low heel so maybe I should get them and do some practicing.

The project are all going pretty slowly, no writing and learning how to make a decent manicure is hard and I haven’t even had any thoughts on sewing…

How are the resolutions going?

An update on my New Year’s resolutions.

· Keeping up with the food diary, even though I don’t feel there’s a point with it since it’s obvious that I don’t eat healthy and it just makes me feel bad.
· Did a pedicure for January.
· Spent three whole days in heels sounding like a horse and having achy feet.
· Watched a few movies on top 250 and more to come so… (157 left to go)
· Written a synopsis for one of my movie ideas and I hate it! It’s a lame cliché movie that not even I would watch. More research is needed.

All in all, I’m doing okay, even if I haven’t done the most important (and scariest) thing. I also added two things to the list, manicures and sewing.

Still a Burton girl

Watched Dark Knight yesterday (it’s on the 250 list) and… I don’t get it, I didn’t get it with Batman Begins and I still don’t understand what is supposed to be so brilliant about these movies… Gary was good and Heath was good but I expected more after all the talk about him.

It’s a wonderful life

Yesterday I missed two movies on the top 250 list, got pretty angry but today I made it to “It’s a wonderful life”, corny but cute. I’ve always wondered what movie it is in “Home alone” that they are all watching in France and now I know.

Top 250 movies

Here are the movies that where on the top shortly after midnight. Some of these movies I really don't want to see, like anything with Ingmar Bergman, don't get the guy at all... (Bold means I've seen the movie, italic means I haven't seen it)

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4. The Dark Knight (2008)
5. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo., Il (1966)
6. Pulp Fiction (1994)
7. Schindler's List (1993)
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
9. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
10. 12 Angry Men (1957)
11. Casablanca (1942)
12. Star Wars (1977)
13. Shichinin no samurai (1954)
14. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
15. Goodfellas (1990)
16. Rear Window (1954)
17. Cidade de Deus (2002)
18. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
19. C'era una volta il West (1968)
20. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
21. The Usual Suspects (1994)
22. Fight Club (1999)
23. Psycho (1960)
24. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
25. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
26. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
27. Memento (2000)
28. North by Northwest (1959)
29. Citizen Kane (1941)
30. The Matrix (1999)
31. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
32. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
33. Se7en (1995)
34. WALL·E (2008)
35. Léon (1994)
36. Apocalypse Now (1979)
37. Taxi Driver (1976)
38. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
39. American Beauty (1999)
40. American History X (1998)
41. Vertigo (1958)
42. Paths of Glory (1957)
43. Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001)
44. M (1931)
45. Forrest Gump (1994)
46. The Departed (2006)
47. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
48. Double Indemnity (1944)
49. Alien (1979)
50. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
51. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
52. The Third Man (1949)
53. Das Leben der Anderen (2006)
54. Chinatown (1974)
55. The Shining (1980)
56. The Pianist (2002)
57. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
58. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
59. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
60. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
61. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
62. L.A. Confidential (1997)
63. Aliens (1986)
64. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
65. Laberinto del fauno, El (2006)
66. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
67. Das Boot (1981)
68. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
69. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
70. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
71. City Lights (1931)
72. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
73. Rashômon (1950)
74. Raging Bull (1980)
75. Metropolis (1927)
76. All About Eve (1950)
77. Der Untergang (2004)
78. The Wrestler (2008)
79. Modern Times (1936)
80. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
81. Rebecca (1940)
82. Some Like It Hot (1959)
83. Amadeus (1984)
84. The Prestige (2006)
85. The Elephant Man (1980)
86. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
87. Vita è bella, La (1997)
88. Sin City (2005)
89. Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988)
90. The Great Escape (1963)
91. The Apartment (1960)
92. No Country for Old Men (2007)
93. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
94. The Sting (1973)
95. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
96. Touch of Evil (1958)
97. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
98. Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
99. The Great Dictator (1940)
100. On the Waterfront (1954)
101. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
102. Batman Begins (2005)
103. Braveheart (1995)
104. Back to the Future (1985)
105. Jaws (1975)
106. Ladri di biciclette (1948)
107. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
108. Blade Runner (1982)
109. Strangers on a Train (1951)
110. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
111. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
112. There Will Be Blood (2007)
113. Unforgiven (1992)
114. Notorious (1946)
115. High Noon (1952)
116. The Green Mile (1999)
117. The Big Sleep (1946)
118. Fargo (1996)
119. Oldboy (2003)
120. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
121. Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)
122. Gladiator (2000)
123. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
124. Die Hard (1988)
125. Mononoke-hime (1997)
126. Donnie Darko (2001)
127. Yojimbo (1961)
128. Ran (1985)
129. Smultronstället (1957)
130. Annie Hall (1977)
131. The General (1927)
132. Salaire de la peur, Le (1953)
133. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
134. It Happened One Night (1934)
135. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
136. Heat (1995)
137. The Sixth Sense (1999)
138. The Deer Hunter (1978)
139. Ben-Hur (1959)
140. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
141. Platoon (1986)
142. Into the Wild (2007)
143. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
144. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
145. Notti di Cabiria, Le (1957)
146. Life of Brian (1979)
147. Diaboliques, Les (1955)
148. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
149. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
150. Ratatouille (2007)
151. 8½ (1963)
152. The Big Lebowski (1998)
153. The Killing (1956)
154. Finding Nemo (2003)
155. Amores perros (2000)
156. The Graduate (1967)
157. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
158. Brief Encounter (1945)
159. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
160. Stand by Me (1986)
161. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
162. Snatch. (2000)
163. The Wild Bunch (1969)
164. Gandhi (1982)
165. The Gold Rush (1925)
166. V for Vendetta (2005)
167. Gone with the Wind (1939)
168. The Incredibles (2004)
169. The Princess Bride (1987)
170. Trainspotting (1996)
171. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
172. Milk (2008)
173. The Thing (1982)
174. Scarface (1983)
175. Battaglia di Algeri, La (1966)
176. Harvey (1950)
177. Children of Men (2006)
178. The Lion King (1994)
179. Groundhog Day (1993)
180. Toy Story (1995)
181. Sleuth (1972)
182. The Hustler (1961)
183. The Terminator (1984)
184. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
185. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
186. The African Queen (1951)
187. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
188. The Conversation (1974)
189. Umberto D. (1952)
190. Duck Soup (1933)
191. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
192. Gran Torino (2008)
193. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
194. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
195. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
196. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
197. Crash (2004/I)
198. Stalag 17 (1953)
199. Scaphandre et le papillon, Le (2007)
200. King Kong (1933)
201. Casino (1995)
202. Hotaru no haka (1988)
203. Ed Wood (1994)
204. The Kid (1921)
205. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
206. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
207. Dial M for Murder (1954)
208. The Exorcist (1973)
209. The Lost Weekend (1945)
210. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
211. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
212. Rope (1948)
213. Wo hu cang long (2000)
214. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
215. Patton (1970)
216. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
217. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
218. Glory (1989)
219. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
220. Belle et la bête, La (1946)
221. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
222. Frankenstein (1931)
223. Magnolia (1999)
224. Låt den rätte komma in (2008)
225. His Girl Friday (1940)
226. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
227. Spartacus (1960)
228. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
229. Big Fish (2003)
230. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
231. Manhattan (1979)
232. Strada, La (1954)
233. Roman Holiday (1953)
234. In Bruges (2008)
235. Network (1976)
236. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
237. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
238. Mystic River (2003)
239. Safety Last! (1923)
240. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
241. Great Expectations (1946)
242. A Christmas Story (1983)
243. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
244. Dolce vita, La (1960)
245. Rocky (1976)
246. Planet of the Apes (1968)
247. Laura (1944)
248. Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)
249. Harold and Maude (1971)
250. Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)

About top 250

Since that list is changing so much I’ll look at it on midnight tomorrow (well actually today since it’s after midnight) and that list will be the one I’ll go after.

Movie 250

I’ve seen “Young Frankenstein” so many times, as a kid I watched all Mel Brooke movies. My favorite is Frau Blücher and when Victor Frankenstein puts the scalpel in his own leg. Oh and Marty Feldman of course, he is my favorite character in that movies (sorry Frau Blücher). I have to watch that again, I only have it on video… bet the quality of that tape is pretty crappy now. When I was a kid I thought this was Frankenstein, the Frankenstein and didn’t understand why it was considered a horror film.

Year 2009

I don’t even remember my new year’s resolutions for 2008, there was an awful lot I know that much and they were sort of contradicting each other since one of them was “set realistic goals” and the rest were probably pretty crazy. I’ll only list the most important things, and perhaps add some later… maybe you should have a list and cross them off one by one?

One by one
1. Go to the gyno and do a smear test or whatever it’s called (sounds like fun doesn’t it?) Check!
2. Get a haircut
3. Buy a dress or a skirt


Continuously
1. Keep a food diary to see what I need to add and remove from my “diet” Post it on the blog (and please yell at me when I’m not eating health)
2. Write X pages per X (have to figure out what amount of pages per day/week is reasonable)
3. Work on watching ALL 250 top movies on IMDB (some would call that a waste of time but…)
4. Get a pedicure (homemade, I’m pretty darn good) at least once a month.

Projects
1. Finish one longer story
2. Finish a synopsis for a movie
3. Learn how to walk in heels
4. Learn how to do a decent manicure at home
5. Try to sew something, either finish the pants I have or make a simple dress
6. Try embroidery
7. Finish my brothers shirt and start knitting in the hats (that was last year’s new year’s resolution for Pete sake!)