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favorite movies

In no particular order...

Make mine non-linear, please
Run Lola Run, Pulp Fiction, Go!, The Limey

Would you like a twist with that?
Fight Club, Confidence, The Sixth Sense, Matchstick Men, The Player

Musicals I can tolerate
Moulin Rouge, Grease, Annie, Chicago, The Sound of Music

Guilty pleasures
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Some Kind of Wonderful, Can't Hardly Wait, Orange County, Clueless

Don't answer the phone
The Exorcist, Misery, Jaws, The Ring, Seven, Jacob's Ladder

Classics
Casablanca, The Narrow Margin (1952, not 1990), Some Like it Hot, Double Indemnity, Psycho, Rebel Without a Cause, To Kill a Mockingbird

Comedy
Airplane, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Raising Arizona, Bill Cosby: Himself, L.A. Story, Dr. Strangelove

For the inner child
Mary Poppins, Alice in Wonderland, Spirited Away, Toy Story, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Documentary
Gimme Shelter, Step into Liquid, Spellbound, Koyaanisquatsi, The Thin Blue Line

And the rest...
Lean on Me, Fargo, The Hunt for Red October, Eyes Wide Shut, Scarface, Blow, SLC Punk, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Shawshank Redemption, Priest, American Beauty, Whale Rider, To Die For, Erin Brockovich, Bend It Like Beckham, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, U-571, Contact, Magnolia, Cruel Intentions, The Opposite of Sex, Six Degrees of Separation, Election, Traffic, Jackie Brown, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, M*A*S*H, Star Trek...most of 'em

And finally, for the best Elvis Costello cameo ever...
200 Cigarettes

The Simpsons, revisited

There are two kinds of Simpsons fans. The ones who just enjoy watching the show, and the ones who create sites like this.

http://www.snpp.com is the most comprehensive collection of Simpsons content I've ever seen. And http://www.mapofspringfield.com is equally as beautiful (scary?) in its painstaking attention to fictional deteil.

The movies according to the bunnies

When a friend of mine begged me to watch "The Exorcist in 30 seconds (and re-enacted by bunnies)", I thought, "great, another stupid flash cartoon that only two people in the world find funny." But it's brilliant. The bunnies also bring us Alien, Freddy vs. Jason, It's a Wonderful Life, Jaws, Pulp Fiction, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Scream, The Shining, Titanic, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

http://www.angryalien.com/

And now a message about the environment

I'm not big on environmental causes, but this site really opened my eyes. It talks about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide, a chemical that is largely responsible for acid rain, soil erosion, and a number of other environmental disasters. It can be highly toxic, and yet almost nothing is being done to reign in its use. Start out with the FAQ page .

http://www.dhmo.org

Sites that don't really do anything

Musicplasma This is one of those sites you either "get" or you don't. It helps if you take a Zen approach. Here's how it works: Type in the name of a musical artist or group, and it will show, with a universe of little orbiting bubbles, musically related artists and groups. Doesn't sound like much, but it's fun. http://www.musicplasma.com

WordCount Did you know that the word "useless" is the 528th most commonly used word in the English language? Well now you do. http://www.wordcount.org

Newsmap An interesting way to view news headlines from the Google News aggregator. http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/index.cfm

Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About

That's what this site is -- a very long laundry list of things this guy and his girlfriend have argued about. Sometimes funny, sometimes scary, and sometimes perplexing...well...just read it. It makes you wonder whose side this guy is on.

http://www.milmillington.com/

It's EPIC

The opening page intones:

In the year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline.
The Fourth Estate's fortunes have waned.
What happened to the news?
And what is EPIC?

Maybe it's my love for utopian (dystopian?) visions of the future. Maybe it's the narrator's hypnotic voice. But this eight-minute flash animation is oddly compelling.

Updated 5/11/07: The original link no longer works. Try this. Or search for "epic 2015 english" on YouTube.

concert

Allister
Jillian's, Las Vegas

I caught the last half of one of their songs on XM one morning, and sure enough, they were playing a week later at Jillian's. Brilliant.  Highlights: "Flypaper", "Scratch" Link

Blog of the month: Postsecret

Write your deepest, darkest secret on a postcard. Send it to a stranger. He posts it on his blog.

postsecret.blogspot.com