Meme snared from radiantbaby and baiku:
Look through your LJ calendar and post an entry from this day (or the nearest day with an entry) for all the years you’ve had a livejournal. If all your entries that day are dull, I give you license to look at 2 days either side.
As I often posted sporadically, here’s the NEAREST post to the date in question, regardless of dullness, if there isn’t a post within +/- 2 days:
Nicked from cadhla, who got it from smallship1, who got it from Agnes….
Make up a title for a story I didn’t write, and I will respond with details of those non-written stories. You may, if you like, include details, such as pairings or fandom or whatnot. Any fandom I know is fair game. (Not, I hasten to add, necessarily fanfic, since that really isn’t my thing, but I wouldn’t rule it out either.)
(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)
| ✓ I miss somebody right now. (More than one.) | × I don’t watch much TV these days. (Probably more than I ought to, but still not as much as the average person.) | ✓ I own lots of books. (And i need to build more shelves) |
| ✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses. | ✓ I love to play video games. (I spend a lot more time playing City of Villains than I probably should.) | ✓ I’ve tried marijuana. (In college. Couldn’t see what the fuss was.) |
| ✓ I’ve watched porn movies. (I’ve even watched them with SOs. Sometimes we’d take notes for later.) | × I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship. | ✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy. |
| ✓ I curse sometimes. (Working on cutting down on that.) | ✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year. (Not always for the better.) | × I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me. |
Meme vectored from filkerdave and rms_butterfly:
IP logging is off and anonymous posting is allowed.
Please tell me anything you want, anonymously. It can be a secret, a fear, a wish, a hope, a dream, an insult, your great-aunt’s secret recipe for chocolate fudge banana brownies.
Post twice or more if you like, I’m not counting.
And then, if you want, post this in your journal and see what people say there!
Ok, so after yesterdays’ list of book-to-film adaptations, here’s another long list of movies. This time, it’s Jim Emerson’s 101 Essential Films. Emerson writes:
This isn’t like Roger Ebert’s “Great Movies” series. It’s not my idea of The Best Movies Ever Made (that would be a different list, though there’s some overlap here), or that they were my favorites or the most important or influential films, but that they were the movies you just kind of figure everybody ought to have seen in order to have any sort of informed discussion about movies. They’re the common cultural currency of our time, the basic cinematic texts that everyone should know, at minimum, to be somewhat “movie-literate.”
So, I looked up the list and here it is, with only a couple changes. (I added “Fight Club” because it’s essential and it hadn’t been released at the time I made the list.) I remember I tried to represent key examples of all important genres, movie stars, directors, historical movements, and so on — like an overview of the 20th century in 101 movies. Yes, there are many more I’d like to add, but remember, this is only a primer. How many have you seen?
According to the UK newspaper The Guardian, here is a list of the Top 50 book to film adaptations of all time (a list, oddly enough, containing 51 items). Note which ones you’ve seen the movie of and/or read the book for. For films with multiple adaptations, any film adaptation counts.
Am I spoiled?
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