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ursamajorHappy birthday, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
noghri! (Dear self, actually remembering to hit post before going to bed means it'll actually post and birthday wishes will go out in a timely fashion. Though I did at least get to the birthday wishes in person, being local and all.)
Speaking of Steve, we had a conversation last week about movies - I didn't grow up seeing a lot of them, and I don't tend to go see them a lot now, either - the last movie I saw in the theatre was Happy Feet, and before that, I think it was the third X-Men movie. So I have a number of "holes" in my movie-culture-awareness.
ursamajor: .... bruno's comparing her to tiffany. oy.
noghri: no... breakfast at tiffany's
ursamajor: oh, heh, okay, i just heard half the sentence i guess
ursamajor: ... another movie i've not actually, uh, seen. *ducks*
noghri: i just saw it recently.. still on my tivo... very good... she's an amazing woman
ursamajor: chuckles and adds it to her wish list.
ursamajor: casablanca is on there, too *G*
noghri: freak.. see it already
ursamajor: okay, what else do i absolutely have to see that it's a crime i haven't already?
noghri: i don't remember what you haven't seen yet...
ursamajor: start from the beginning and assume nothing except princess bride, when harry met sally, and a few '80s movies *G*
noghri: casablanca, singing in the rain, guys and dolls, star wars, raiders of the lost ark, back to the future, silence of the lambs, an officer and a gentleman, empire of the sun,
ursamajor: i've seen singing in the rain! with you! back to the future, yes; five of the six star wars, yes
noghri: schindler's list, butch cassidy and the sundance kid, spartacus, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, dr. strangelove, monty python
noghri: the graduate
ursamajor: monty python, dozens of times :)
noghri: godfather
noghri: citizen kane
noghri: i think that's enough to get you started
ursamajor giggles
ursamajor: i fell asleep 20 minutes into the godfather.
noghri: freak
ursamajor: theconvictor was offended for like two days. *G*
Now, I saw Singing in the Rain withnoghri (yes, dance scenes on repeat). I've seen five of the six Star Wars movies (still haven't been able to bring myself to watch the second prequel), all of the Indiana Jones movies (though the rumor that there's a *new* one coming out now is moderately disturbing to me), the Back to the Future trilogy. I walked out of a dorm showing of Silence of the Lambs halfway through because it was creeping me out (then again, I was also a very-easily-creeped-out high school freshman). One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was part of English class junior year; Monty Python and the Holy Grail was played on every single bus ride home for vacation from high school. Citizen Kane I saw as part of a film class in college, and I fell asleep on theconvictor's shoulder in the aforementioned viewing of The Godfather.
What movies do you consider your classics? Whether you mean ones you can watch over and over again, or movies that changed how you thought about something, or in general are must-see films, what are your standouts?
Separate geek note: I have now gotten it set up so I can download TV shows from the Tivo to my desktop, and stream music from the desktop up to the sound system. It's not quite ideal, because I let iTunes organize my music in a manner I think makes sense, but Tivo is a little more cantankerous about. I wonder if it recognizes playlists; it does allow for "shuffle" and "repeat" within a folder and its subfolders, but that makes pulling together something like a party mix more challenging, since I'd have to copy each file that I wanted to come up into a folder and direct the Tivo to play from there. Unless I can get it to recognize shortcuts. But that's still somewhat tedious.
All I have to say about last night's DWTS is, dear ladies, Heather Mills is fucking kicking your ass in the mambo, and she's doing it on one leg. The mambo is supposed to be IN YOUR FACE SEXY. Only Laila Ali was better. Not what I expected to be saying after last week.
Also, Joey Fatone's emblazoned tails cracked me up for the entirety of his dance, but he's pretty darned good.hyounpark is very sad that his teenage crush was sent home early, and I agree in that of the two bottom, the other chick should've gone home first, but, um, what, not Billy Ray Cyrus? Okay, there's no one as bad as Tucker Carlson this time out, but still!
noghri! (Dear self, actually remembering to hit post before going to bed means it'll actually post and birthday wishes will go out in a timely fashion. Though I did at least get to the birthday wishes in person, being local and all.)Speaking of Steve, we had a conversation last week about movies - I didn't grow up seeing a lot of them, and I don't tend to go see them a lot now, either - the last movie I saw in the theatre was Happy Feet, and before that, I think it was the third X-Men movie. So I have a number of "holes" in my movie-culture-awareness.
ursamajor: .... bruno's comparing her to tiffany. oy.noghri: no... breakfast at tiffany'sursamajor: oh, heh, okay, i just heard half the sentence i guessursamajor: ... another movie i've not actually, uh, seen. *ducks*noghri: i just saw it recently.. still on my tivo... very good... she's an amazing womanursamajor: chuckles and adds it to her wish list.ursamajor: casablanca is on there, too *G*noghri: freak.. see it alreadyursamajor: okay, what else do i absolutely have to see that it's a crime i haven't already?noghri: i don't remember what you haven't seen yet...ursamajor: start from the beginning and assume nothing except princess bride, when harry met sally, and a few '80s movies *G*noghri: casablanca, singing in the rain, guys and dolls, star wars, raiders of the lost ark, back to the future, silence of the lambs, an officer and a gentleman, empire of the sun, ursamajor: i've seen singing in the rain! with you! back to the future, yes; five of the six star wars, yesnoghri: schindler's list, butch cassidy and the sundance kid, spartacus, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, dr. strangelove, monty pythonnoghri: the graduateursamajor: monty python, dozens of times :)noghri: godfathernoghri: citizen kanenoghri: i think that's enough to get you startedursamajor gigglesursamajor: i fell asleep 20 minutes into the godfather.noghri: freakursamajor: theconvictor was offended for like two days. *G*Now, I saw Singing in the Rain with
noghri (yes, dance scenes on repeat). I've seen five of the six Star Wars movies (still haven't been able to bring myself to watch the second prequel), all of the Indiana Jones movies (though the rumor that there's a *new* one coming out now is moderately disturbing to me), the Back to the Future trilogy. I walked out of a dorm showing of Silence of the Lambs halfway through because it was creeping me out (then again, I was also a very-easily-creeped-out high school freshman). One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was part of English class junior year; Monty Python and the Holy Grail was played on every single bus ride home for vacation from high school. Citizen Kane I saw as part of a film class in college, and I fell asleep on theconvictor's shoulder in the aforementioned viewing of The Godfather.What movies do you consider your classics? Whether you mean ones you can watch over and over again, or movies that changed how you thought about something, or in general are must-see films, what are your standouts?
Separate geek note: I have now gotten it set up so I can download TV shows from the Tivo to my desktop, and stream music from the desktop up to the sound system. It's not quite ideal, because I let iTunes organize my music in a manner I think makes sense, but Tivo is a little more cantankerous about. I wonder if it recognizes playlists; it does allow for "shuffle" and "repeat" within a folder and its subfolders, but that makes pulling together something like a party mix more challenging, since I'd have to copy each file that I wanted to come up into a folder and direct the Tivo to play from there. Unless I can get it to recognize shortcuts. But that's still somewhat tedious.
All I have to say about last night's DWTS is, dear ladies, Heather Mills is fucking kicking your ass in the mambo, and she's doing it on one leg. The mambo is supposed to be IN YOUR FACE SEXY. Only Laila Ali was better. Not what I expected to be saying after last week.
Also, Joey Fatone's emblazoned tails cracked me up for the entirety of his dance, but he's pretty darned good.
hyounpark is very sad that his teenage crush was sent home early, and I agree in that of the two bottom, the other chick should've gone home first, but, um, what, not Billy Ray Cyrus? Okay, there's no one as bad as Tucker Carlson this time out, but still!
