Okay, lame title. Anyway, here are Tiffani's responses to The Movie Memememe:

Total number of films I own on DVD/video:
Not very many…I probably own maybe 10. I just don’t see the point in it. I don’t like watching movies over and over again unless it’s a classic like “Pretty in Pink”.

The last film I bought:
American Pie or Fight Club ItÂ’s been so long I canÂ’t remember.

The last film I watched:
Of the movies I bought? On HBO? Or at the Theater? I saw Monster in Law a couple of weeks ago. I took my daughter, her friend and my son. The girls didn’t want to be seen with me so they went and saw a different movie. I dragged my son to see that movie. Poor kid. Oh wait I take that back – I saw Dodge Ball the other day. Best one liners ever. Like…”you guys look like retards fucking a door knob” Classic…just classic.

Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me (in no particular order):
OhÂ…this is hard. I always draw a blank.

First and foremost. Grease. I absolutely love that movie. John was so hot. I even had the album. You knowÂ…with all the pictures. My girlfriends and I used to reenact the movie and sing on the top of our lungs. Good Times. Good Times.

Remember I am a product of the 80’s…St. Elmo’s Fire is one of my favorite movies. When it’s on – I just can’t turn it off. That's mortal sin in my book.

I can not count how many times IÂ’ve seen Dumb and Dumber. I meanÂ… itÂ’s on TBS every freakin weekend. IÂ’ll be flipping through the channels and stop to watch just a little bit of it and before you know it itÂ’s over. Favorite part: MOCKING YEAH BIRD YEAH. Everybody have you heard. He's gonna buy me a mockingbird.

You're singing it now, arenÂ’t you?

IÂ’m a simple girlÂ…I loved Finding Nemo. Ellen Degenerous was the best in that movie. I could watch it everyday.

Pulp Fiction – Great movie

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The Unexpected Visitor was a complete sham. The anecdote came about from that line that I attributed to Mom: "Okay, I will take care of it but when you get home we are going to talk. And by 'we' I mean 'me'. And by 'talk' I mean 'scream at you'." I came up with this line a while ago and wanted to work it into one of my short stories but I just haven't had any time for story writing lately. Anywho...it worked pretty well in fooling a whole bunch of you in this Sham/Share.

Some clues that might have tipped you off were my low opinion of Ravi because he read too much (I've been an avidly gluttonous reader since before I could tie my shoes) and my worry over Mario dying if I abandoned the Donkey Kong game (DK on Atari sucked - there would have been no way a bright lad like me would have been that into it. Additionally, there were "safe" zones where you could park Mario and no barrel would ever hit him.)

7 out of 16 of you got this one correct. One point each to:

Paul
Phin
Tiffani
Tony
Machelle
tommy
Clancy. THE STREAK IS BROKEN!!

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Went and opened a joint account at the bank today. The finacee and I are going to start saving for the wedding expenses, so we figured this would be the best way to do it. Plus, after we get married we can use this account as our shared account to pay bills and all that shit.

Anyways, we've been saving since march, and finally scrapped together enough dough to open a decent account. I went over to the bank with more money in my hands than I think I've ever held, this side of a really big drug deal that is.

What just blows my mind is that we're saving our asses off, funding this wedding to throw for our friends. Really, that's what it is. We want to throw a great party celebrating us. So I said bye bye to a big pile of cash on Friday, but I guess we're assuming it's all worth it in the end. But part of me watched it depart and thought it would easily suffice for a downpayment and/or closing costs on a new home.

You think about weddings and look at the cash you saved and it seems like a small amount. Then you think about homes, cars, investments, and all of a sudden it throws you into a panic. Because here you are sitting on the seed of a nice financial investment that could be easily cultivated, and you're blowing it all on one day of...flowers and shit.

Logic tells me that it really must be a woman's world; or this shit wouldn't be going down. I don't ever want to hear one more word about women's rights. Speak up on the subject and I'll choke you to death with the reciepts.

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You know, I've been watching blogs for a shit ton longer than I've been writing them. They've changed, and not in a good way, from my perspective. Blogs a few years ago, would kick the shit out of today's blogs.

Back then, there was no such term as a blogosphere. Ask the IT guys where you work, ten years ago the Web was a joke, no one wanted to admit they were working on web-based marketing or inventory sytems. Fuck, these days the web is the shit. Anyone can have a website, Arianna proved that shit WORD.

Before there was a blogoshpere, there were just people. People putting shit out there for whoever was there. Before there was a blogosphere blogs were like space probes sending out radio waves into a chasm of unknown depth. Then one day tink a comment was born. A few (days) later we discovered, holy shit, there are other people talking out there. Plink a blogroll was born, a series of links to other people in the great beyond. Then before you know it, clang comments were born, and of course ping trackbacks evolved.

The blogs stood up on their hindlegs, understood their surroundings, and before you know it, they had turned into a bunch of self-righteous, soapboxing, sonsofwhores. It's shitty. I go from one site to another, and see the same issue turned inside out in two different directions. It's creeping into newsmedia too. I was at CBSmarketwatch a few days ago, and there was an article about how college grads are facing the best job market since 2000, the next day new hire stats come in at half the expected value.

Hi everyone, we live in an age where information has become immediate. You don't have to wait for postal mail, telegrams, couriers, telephones, faxes, delayed quotes or Matt Fucking Drudge. The information is out there, waiting for you. Matt Drudge just goes and gets it for you becuase he knows your dumb enough to think what he offers is some kind of service.

Before the word blog, we were just people fishing for contact in a supposedly barren ocean. Lo and behold, the barren ocean bears fruit, and years later we've got a waterway choked with unimaginable detritus.

Go home tourists. Go Home Blogspot, Blogger, 20six, and Huffington. Take us back to the days when the only people out here were the people who actually wanted to be here. Before blog was a tagline, before ad placement became a source of extra household income, before political machines enrolled blog sites to run their interference. Go the fuck home, nothing to see here.

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If there is one person whose memory dominates the summer and fall of '02, it's Jim Bob. I don't really know where to start, so excuse me if I ramble or begin to take rabbit trails, but there's just so much to tell. more...

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If I have no reason to have faith in humanity, what with all the vile things we do to eachother (killing, lieing, scamming, raping, cheating, etc), and I have no reason to believe in the historical religious instutions (because they've been all eaten up with political aspirations), what faith do I have left? I can't trust my own species, and I can't trust religion because it's domintaed by the same vices of my own species, so what the fuck? What the fuck.

When that volcano in Yellowstone finally blows half the world to hell or whatever, I'm going to see it as a long awaited escape. I mean hell, I won't have to pay back any mortages, car loans, college debt, any of that shit. I could drive down to Key West in my newly owned car (because the bank has been blown to smithereens by nuclear aftershocks or whatever and infrastructure is crumbling like a milk-soaked graham crakcer) and live out the rest of my days a free man. Shit, the day the bomb explodes/disaster strikes/meteor hits I might just go out and buy a two story open-ocean yacht, put the entire mother on credit (knowing the bank won't exist in a few months) and sail off into oblivion.

That would be the shit.

With my wife.

And some beer.

And maybe a few friends.

Aw fuckall.

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You might want to grab a chair for this one.

Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, the Papa Moose, the Whole Enchilada will go before a California jury and answer to charges of child molestation. Yes, you know that. But let's take a refreshing dip in a little pool I like to call Perspective. Walk with me, back to 1982. more...

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Jim's such a benevolent dictator if he wins the lottery he's going to buy us all a big ass present. I am super grateful and don't want to come across as an ingrate, so if he wins I'm hoping he'll use part of the money he would have otherwise spent on me to have Xzibit and MTV Pimp His Ride.

That's right, it'd no longer be a Milk White Mini-Van for my Boy.
He'd be pimptastic cruisin' in this ride:

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Caution: Despite many similarities in letter use the phrases "gild the lily" and "gird the lion" have little to nothing in common. more...

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Trey meme smacked me. As breaking this particular chain letter will result in my pants becoming infested with dust bunnies I am forced to comply.

Hey, wait a sec. I'm a rationalist. I know that the dust bunnies in my pants have absolutely nothing to do with ignoring a meme tag. They are there because of the dust carrots.

Anyway...

1. Total Number of Books IÂ’ve Owned:

Over my lifetime? Countless. Not literally, of course. I mean if you lined them all up you could definitely count them. But seeing as I have acquired and dequired books for the past thirty years plus the fact that I have no realistic idea of how many have passed through my hands and couldn't get much more specific than that even under the threat of having dust kittens in my pants the total number of books I've owned is effectively countless. Let's just say "A lot".

2. Last Book I Bought:

Animalia by Graeme Base. A used hard cover in good condition that I found at a fantastic book store in Spokane. Graeme Base is my most favoritest children's book artist and he's a great writer to boot. His pictures are huge and gorgeous with things hidden all over them. The kids are in love with it too. We spent over an hour finding things in this book yesterday.

3. Last Book I Read:

Well, Animalia obviously. I just read it last night. The book before that was Gust Front by John Ringo.

4. Five Books That Mean A Lot to Me:

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss - This was my favorite book as a kid and I made Mom read it to me constantly, even well after I could read it myself. I'm pretty sure she could go the rest of her life without reading it again.

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey - This is where I first fell in love with dragons.

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin - Possibly the best written fantasy story I've ever read. Plus, George hasn't had a massive drop-off in skill like Robert Jordan. The next book in this series is the only book I'm currently looking forward to.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Frightening, moving, enlightening. This explained communism better to me than 1984.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - The book that made me understand what liberty is all about. Michael Moore's rape of this book title is just another reason why I think he should be stuck on a spit and roasted to solve the food shortage in a sub-Saharan country.

5. Tag five people and have them do this on their blog.

Not gonna do it. The sphere is just too heavy with these tag mememes at the moment and it's getting annoying. If you wanna do it, consider yourself tagged. If not, consider this the burnt stump of one of the hydra's heads.

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As soon as the elevator stops at a floor yell out "Oh my God! The doors are stuck!"

Leap to the doors and wedge your fingers into the crack. Strain like mighty Hercules forcing open the vaulted doors of Gehenna as the elevator doors open. When the doors have opened, step back with a sigh of relief and say "It's safe now."

This works even better when you do it at multiple floors so people see you do it more than once.

Additional: As each person leaves the elevator say "Your welcome" or "Looks like you owe me one".

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I just went and checked for any posts that might have been forgotten on "Draft" and found this jem from December of last year.

The Zoomquilt.

(Hat tip to Dopple-G)

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Fasturbation: (n) A solo quickie.

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Everybody dogs on France because ... well, mostly because they're French. I think that by now everybody has seen the list of French military defeats. They've pretty much lost every major and minor military conflict since bronze was first beaten into a spearpoint.

But do we have to keep saying that they are incompetent military losers who haven't won a war during their past twenty governments? This is a kinder, gentler world. A world of PC feel-goodness, verbal cuddling and slash-Americans. Can't we think of a nicer way to express the deficiencies of the French armed forces? I think we can. Try this on for size:

"The French army has consistently finished in the top 3 against every opponent they have faced. In fact, in the vast majority of conflicts, they have achieved the second best performance. The French armed forces are truly Silver Medal quality."

Now isn't that better?

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Throughout the summer of '02, I spent most of my days with a group of close friends that have become known as The Boys. I'm not sure if that's supposed to be capitalized or not, but that's what the girlfriend and I called them when we argued about how much of our time I spent hanging out with them. more...

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Unfortunately we didn't budget for that this year. But hope is not lost! The Georgia Lottery (well, one of the Georgia lotteries - we have more state sponsored gambling here than Nevada) is over $100 million and if I can scrounge together a dollar I plan on winning it.

I figure that after taxes, setting up college funds, leveling and rebuilding our house, buying yachts and cars and "personal appliances", binging, parties and all that other standard stuff is complete I'll have a cool hundred grand left to blow on my fans. I figure I'll spend $2,000 each on my fifty most motivated readers.

So sound off on what you want for your present. Lurkers, this is a great time to speak up. With palimony suits what they are these days, this is likely legally binding.

And what the heck - in the off chance that I don't win the lottery I'll give out some points to the best gift ideas in each category. Categories to be announced later - I don't want to unduly influence your selections.

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1 I've had my heart set on this for the past twenty years or so. I'd really be appreciaitve if you could swing it. http://www.french-at-a-touch.com/Chateaux/chateau_chambord.htm

Posted by: Paul at June 02, 2005 02:25 PM (vbP6L)

2 I want a baby buffalo so I can love him, and feed him, and then eat him.

Posted by: Jeff at June 02, 2005 02:25 PM (ujYyI)

3 Well, this house for one. But if I have to go w ith something smaller... books, lots and lots of books.

Posted by: Rachel Ann at June 02, 2005 02:27 PM (Jgwqx)

4 I want another Kuvasz. I miss mine like nobody's business.

Posted by: RP at June 02, 2005 02:55 PM (LlPKh)

5 I would like a love ewe for my boss, a visit from ouchy the clown for my ex and these three shirts. *** Links aren't work safe. ***

Posted by: phin at June 02, 2005 03:18 PM (Xvpen)

6 Boob Job. Need I say more.

Posted by: Tiffani at June 02, 2005 03:45 PM (KE4Gu)

7 Yes! More! We need detailed descriptions.

Posted by: Jim at June 02, 2005 03:57 PM (tyQ8y)

8 Plane tickets to invade YOUR territory. I've a feeling we'd need the rest for beer money. Mwheh.

Posted by: Margi at June 02, 2005 04:04 PM (nwEQH)

9 Cabana boy! Oh and probably a pool to go with the Cabana boy.

Posted by: Machelle at June 02, 2005 04:08 PM (ZAyoW)

10 Payoff my dental bill (see my blog for the most excruciating 13 days in hell .... and 6 visits to the dentist) .... and payoff my $1000 credit card bill (from son's second eye surgery). Both reasonable requests, eh?

Posted by: Denise at June 02, 2005 06:26 PM (JTlEe)

11 Jim, all i want is modest bottle of decent single malt scotch. Course, i'll need a glass to drink it from. I mean, that goes without saying. And a deck. I mean, short of a library, scotch is best supped on a deck, facing west over the Blue Ridge Mountains. Yeah, a deck. But you know, a deck isn't much good without the rest of the house, so Yeah, one of those too. Nothing fancy, mind, a two bedroom one bath on the side of a mountan. With some room for expansion, you know, for when i eventually let my bachellorhood slide some. Hmmm, oh God, kids, there'll be kids eventually. Some land for them to roam on, and stay out of Mommy and My's hair, you know, so we can get back to the babymaking (i can dream, can't i :-). So, yeah, might as well be the whole mountain (or at least the whole west facing side, you know, for the scotch drinkin', remember that). Yeah, a bottle of nice Scotch. And accoutrements. I'm a simple guy after all. :-D

Posted by: tommy at June 02, 2005 08:25 PM (OJ+GI)

12 I'll take $100 million thanks. Failing that I'm prepared to accept an interest in a beer factory.

Posted by: Simon at June 03, 2005 12:49 AM (UKqGy)

13 I want this Bianchi. So what if it's too large for me? How come no one wants his first-born male child? Just asking.

Posted by: Victor at June 03, 2005 07:19 AM (L3qPK)

14 a 10X12 foot cargo trailer. That way I can finally bring my still with me everywhere I go.

Posted by: Contagion at June 03, 2005 08:43 AM (Q5WxB)

15 A ton of equipment from Cisco (Firewall, routers, switches, racks), house wired for -48 volts, huge amounts of pc stuff (cd rack, backup equipment, rack servers, flat screens, printers) and an office setup that is fun to be sitting at and playing (like it should include a wine rack that is climate controlled, a 'server' to bring me whatever food/drink I want, an awesome sound system). Yep, I think that would be a wonderful gift.

Posted by: VW Bug at June 03, 2005 01:19 PM (V4mW3)

16 Oooos...didn't see the (absolutely reasonable) monetary limit. In that case, I'd like this plasma cutter and welding helmet (Stars and Stripes pattern, of course!). Can't have too many--or even just one--plasma cutter and welding helmet.

Posted by: Victor at June 03, 2005 01:47 PM (L3qPK)

17 Workboots and shorts for Machelle's cabana boy (Machelle's my blogdaughter, Father's day is coming up, & I'm trying to make sure I don't get a hand-painted fish-tie)

Posted by: Harvey at June 04, 2005 08:52 PM (ubhj8)

18 Ok, now that i asked for all the great stuff... what you can get me for $2k is a personal trainer for 3 months and my kids in school for 2 days a week. Thanks!

Posted by: vw bug at June 07, 2005 01:47 PM (t8+yq)

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[Note from Jim: Dave set this up during my out of town experience and it is still open for anybody who wishes to participate. I'm topping it to get it in view again. Hurry and submit a caption as time is running out.]

My name is Dave, a local viewer and frequent commenter on SBD. I'm one of those gracious few having been knighted by Jim for the purpose of totally polluting his blog in his absence. I don't know why, other than my occasionally inspirational writings served me well on my application, which I filled out only just because it was there to fill out!

For lack of anything more creative at the moment, I submit a picture in need of a caption:

(click thumnail to enlarge)

Usual rules and points awards for captions apply. This contest will be open at least until Jim gets back, in which case I may let him judge and award as he sees fit.

Now I hope that the blasted thing comes out OK and I don't end up nuking the blog...

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Da rules: I post an anecdote that may or may not be true. You guess which it is, based on your knowledge of me and my curious ways. Whoever gets it right gets a point when the contest closes. Here we go:

The Unexpected Visitor

A little background is needed for this one. My step-dad was a lawyer and trouble-shooter for a gargantuan insurance and banking company that will remain nameless except to say that you used to be encouraged to "get a piece" of it. We moved around a lot as he was sent to different locations to straighten them out. He did a goodly amount of purging and hiring to correct deficiencies in personnel. Okay, background is over.

A few months after we moved to Freehold, NJ (home of The Boss!) I arrived home from school (7th or 8th grade or thereabouts), tossed my book-bag in a corner and turned on my new and beautiful Atari 2600 to immerse myself in its digital wonders. Mom was upstairs cleaning and Little Bro was taking a nap or something. In any case I was completely undisturbed, which was a great rarity. more...

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1 Share ... cos it's just too lovely a story

Posted by: Rob at June 02, 2005 05:38 AM (kXZI6)

2 I'm gonna say share too. It sounds reasonable with your stepdad travelling, he may have forgotten to drop the bomb on your mom about the new guest. Yep....... sharing. Plus ......last one was a sham. LOL So its time for a share. LOL

Posted by: Denise at June 02, 2005 06:31 AM (JTlEe)

3 I'm saying true. I don't have time to read it all now, so it's a complete guess...but any story with a Ravi in it has to be true.

Posted by: Simon at June 02, 2005 06:45 AM (UKqGy)

4 Fiction. I know it when I see it.

Posted by: Paul at June 02, 2005 07:38 AM (vbP6L)

5 I'm going with true as well. At least I hope it is a share, it is just one of those lovely stories that are so nice if true.

Posted by: Rachel Ann at June 02, 2005 08:26 AM (Jgwqx)

6 I'm going with Share. It sounds like something my father or I would do to our wives.

Posted by: Contagion at June 02, 2005 08:44 AM (Q5WxB)

7 It's gotta be fiction, Mario wasn't around until the NES days.

Posted by: phin at June 02, 2005 08:49 AM (Xvpen)

8 Mario wasn't around? The blasphemy! You never heard of Donkey Kong?

Posted by: Jim at June 02, 2005 09:02 AM (tyQ8y)

9 I'm so ashamed to have forgotten D.K. I shall turn in my pocket protector at the end of the day.

Posted by: phin at June 02, 2005 09:19 AM (Xvpen)

10 Sham.

Posted by: Tiffani at June 02, 2005 09:26 AM (KE4Gu)

11 I thought it was a crock until I came to this quote from your mother: "Okay, I will take care of it but when you get home we are going to talk. And by 'we' I mean 'me'. And by 'talk' I mean 'scream at you'." Gotta be true--share--whatever--

Posted by: Victor at June 02, 2005 09:32 AM (L3qPK)

12 Not buying it, nope.

Posted by: Tony at June 02, 2005 10:16 AM (4HoZk)

13 I'm far to gullible to participate in these but I'm ROFLMAO at phin. "Turn in my pocket protector." LMFAO!!

Posted by: Margi at June 02, 2005 10:55 AM (nwEQH)

14 Share. I'm going to go with share.

Posted by: Helen at June 02, 2005 01:18 PM (8wm0s)

15 I'm going with sham. I just can't believe your step-dad would forget something this important.

Posted by: Machelle at June 02, 2005 04:12 PM (ZAyoW)

16 True. Very plausible, especially the "oh, I forgot to tell you" part.

Posted by: diamond dave at June 02, 2005 04:32 PM (gkwrQ)

17 I gotta go sham. That "By We i mean ME..." bit seems a bit far fetched, even coming from the woman that wouldn't have her name on a D paper. So yeah, SHAM.

Posted by: tommy at June 02, 2005 08:32 PM (OJ+GI)

18 I figure I'm going to have to start trying to accumulate points eventually, so I'm taking a wild guess here. I'm saying "share". But then, I thought the poisonous Doritos story was true too. Heh.

Posted by: songstress7 at June 03, 2005 01:55 AM (ie93s)

19 I'm going with Sham. I hope I can keep my streak going!!

Posted by: Clancy at June 03, 2005 02:29 PM (JxYJc)

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The various branches of the armed forces rag on each other incessantly. It's generally done in good humor and taken well by the target. At the root of things anybody serving has a decent respect for other folks who are serving.

We pretty much ignore the Coast Guard. I guess that's because picking on the Coast Guard would be too much like kicking a puppy. As a Navy man I've spent years casting aspersions on the grunts and the jarheads but my favorite target has been the Air Farce, mostly because my Dad was a Sergeant in the USAF and picking on Dad is always good fun.

With all that in mind, here's a little treasure sent to me by Lovely Wife:

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I've been meme-tagged again. Since it's Margi who's calling ollie-ollie-ox-in-free I am powerless to resist.

Total number of films I own on DVD/video:

My SWAG* is around 100 or so tapes and DVDs. We have a number of duplicates too - items we had on VHS that we later got on DVD after we bought a DVD player.

The last film I bought:

Lemony Snickett's: A Series of Unfortunate Events, purchased as a birthday present for Lovely Wife.

The last film I watched:

Spanglish with Penelope Cruz and Adam Sandler. My one sentence review of this film: It takes an inordinate amount of time to get exactly nowhere. If that isn't enough to ward you off I'll also mention that at no time during this movie does Penelope unleash the ta-tas.

Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me (in no particular order):

The Neverending Story - The first movie ever where the hero was a little kid who read books. It validated me.

Star Wars - The real Star Wars. The first movie. What modernists have rechristened "Episode IV". Feh. Star Wars is and will forever be Star Wars.

Corvette Summer - Completely forgettable except for two things. First, it starred Mark Hamill without a light saber. I had never considered that possibility. Second, it was my first "titties at the drive-in" movie. On screen, not in the car. Hey, give me a break - I was 10!

Red Dawn - Another one where kids my age were the heroes and they gave a serious shit kicking to the Commie bastards. Wolverines!!

The Usual Suspects - This movie is a work of art. At the end of it I knew exactly how Chazz Palminteri's character felt because I was right there with him as every single thing I'd learned for the past two hours suddenly shifted.

Tag 5 people and have them put this in their journal/blog:

We must bring Lovely Wife into this one. We have similar taste in a lot of movies but some strong differences too.

Rob must pay for tagging me with the music meme.

Tiffani doesn't post nearly often enough.

Same with Clancy. Besides, he needs a break from working on the house.

Trey, because he has no cable provider or TV reception at his house so the sole use of his TV is movie watching.

* SWAG = Scientific Wild-Ass Guess

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