bear

Happy birthday, 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.

( list of classic movies, what Steve recommended and what I've actually seen of those. )

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.

( In other news, all I have to say about this week's DWTS is ...  )