Maturity?

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:37:54 GMT

We have some terrible news developing on the subject of my youth, or lack thereof.

Let me bring two songs to your attention. Wait, by the Ying Yang Twins, and HollaBack Girl, by Gwen Stephani.

These songs have two things in common:

constant rotation on every Contemporary radio station in NYC,

Explicit Lyrics that are completely essential to the song.

Now, heres the terrible part. God help me, I actually prefer the censored radio versions. I try to console myself by saying that the producers really did a great job of using samples and what not to disguise the curses. I tell myself that leaving a bit to the imagination just makes things better. I tell myself that "ish" and "skeet" are lightly velied inside jokes, and that hearing them is actually better than hearing their more common counterparts.

Wait till you see my "OHHH!".

This ish is bananas! b-a-n-a-n-a-s!

Once the excuses are gone, I'm left with the obvious. I'm officially getting old.

The Movie List

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:11:28 GMT

So, every once in a while, us Geeks astound ourselves by our own ability to propagate mindless drivel across the web. We then take an incredibly interesting, complex, social construct, and missapropriate it's name to describe what we're doing.

Without Further Ado, I present the Movie List Meme.

I don't really know where this list comes from; first guess is box office rankings, or something like that. There are, however, some great movies that aern't on this list, that I would highly recommend.

The quasi-psuedo intellectual/existential/cool looking movies:
- Pi
- Waking Life
- Fight Club check out the book, too: Fight Club-- by Chuck Palahniuk. (yes, it was a book before it was a movie.)
The memory centric movies:
- Memento
- Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
- 50 first dates I also dug the soundtrack.
The most "baletic fight scenes you've ever seen" movies:
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Kill Bill
Honorable mentions:
- Finding Nemo, listed below at 11, almost makes it onto the second list, mainly because of Dory.
- Apparently, Requiem for a dream should also be on the first list, but I haven't seen it yet.
- Run Lola Run was underwhelming, but a honorable mention for the first list.

And now, onto the actual meme. (Ironically, the lists above are more memetic than the list below...)

Here’s the rules:

Copy this list onto your own blog. Link back to my blog (add a trackback as well, if your software supports it).

Italicize the ones you've seen and Bold the ones you actually liked.

Titanic (1997) - $600,779,824
Star Wars (1977) - $460,935,665
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - $434,949,459
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) - $431,065,444
Spider-Man (2002) - $403,706,375
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) - $377,019,252
Passion of the Christ, The (2004) - $370,025,697
Jurassic Park (1993) - $356,784,000
Shrek 2 (2004) - $356,211,000
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) - $340,478,898
Finding Nemo (2003) - $339,714,367
Forrest Gump (1994) - $329,691,196
Lion King, The (1994) - $328,423,001
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) - $317,557,891
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) - $313,837,577
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) - $310,675,583
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) - $309,125,409
Independence Day (1996) - $306,124,059
Pirates of the Caribbean (2003) - $305,411,224
Sixth Sense, The (1999) - $293,501,675
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - $290,158,751
Home Alone (1990) - $285,761,243
Matrix Reloaded, The (2003) - $281,492,479
Shrek (2001) - $267,652,016
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) - $261,970,615
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) - $260,031,035
Jaws (1975) - $260,000,000
Monsters, Inc. (2001) - $255,870,172
Batman (1989) - $251,188,924
Men in Black (1997) - $250,147,615
Toy Story 2 (1999) - $245,823,397
Bruce Almighty (2003) - $242,589,580
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - $242,374,454
Twister (1996) - $241,700,000
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) - $241,437,427
Ghost Busters (1984) - $238,600,000
Beverly Hills Cop (1984) - $234,760,500
Cast Away (2000) - $233,630,478
Lost World: Jurassic Park, The (1997) - $229,074,524
Signs (2002) - $227,965,690
Rush Hour 2 (2001) - $226,138,454
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) - $219,200,000
Ghost (1990) - $217,631,306
Aladdin (1992) - $217,350,219
Saving Private Ryan (1998) - $216,119,491
Mission: Impossible II (2000) - $215,397,30
X2 (2003) - $214,948,780
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) - $213,079,163
Back to the Future (1985) - $210,609,762
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) - $205,399,422
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) - $204,843,350
Exorcist, The (1973) - $204,565,000
Mummy Returns, The (2001) - $202,007,640
Armageddon (1998) - $201,573,391
Gone with the Wind (1939) - $198,655,278
Pearl Harbor (2001) - $198,539,855
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) - $197,171,806
Toy Story (1995) - $191,800,000
Men in Black II (2002) - $190,418,803
Gladiator (2000) - $187,670,866
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) - $184,925,485
Dances with Wolves (1990) - $184,208,848
Batman Forever (1995) - $184,031,112
Fugitive, The (1993) - $183,875,760
Ocean's Eleven (2001) - $183,405,771
What Women Want (2000) - $182,805,123
Perfect Storm, The (2000) - $182,618,434
Liar Liar (1997) - $181,395,380
Grease (1978) - $181,360,000
Jurassic Park III (2001) - $181,166,115
Mission: Impossible (1996) - $180,965,237
Planet of the Apes (2001) - $180,011,740
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) - $179,870,271
Pretty Woman (1990) - $178,406,268
Tootsie (1982) - $177,200,000
Top Gun (1986) - $176,781,728
There's Something About Mary (1998) - $176,483,808
Ice Age (2002) - $176,387,405
Crocodile Dundee (1986) - $174,635,000
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) - $173,585,516
Elf (2003) - $173,381,405
Air Force One (1997) - $172,888,056
Rain Man (1988) - $172,825,435
Apollo 13 (1995) - $172,071,312
Matrix, The (1999) - $171,383,253
Beauty and the Beast (1991) - $171,301,428
Tarzan (1999) - $171,085,177
Beautiful Mind, A (2001) - $170,708,99
Chicago (2002) - $170,684,505
Three Men and a Baby (1987) - $167,780,960
Meet the Parents (2000) - $166,225,040
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) - $165,500,000
Hannibal (2001) - $165,091,464
Catch Me If You Can (2002) - $164,435,221
Big Daddy (1999) - $163,479,795
Sound of Music, The (1965) - $163,214,286
Batman Returns (1992) - $162,831,698
Bug's Life, A (1998) - $162,792,677
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) - $161,963,000
Waterboy, The (1998) - $161,487,252

NOTE TO FUTURE AUTHORS OF LAME WEB TYPE MEME THINGGEES:
if your going to do these web/blog based meme thingees, at least make them web friendly. I manually converted this list into a proper ordered list. If i had the time, I would have went through the painstaking effort of linking each item to amazon. In fact, if you had done that, you could have made a nice chunk of change on affiliate click through, and could have used that as an interesting measure of propogation... oh well, maybe next time?

Objective - Chris Hollander's Blog: Entertainment

Maturity?

The Movie List