This is the one with the 2008 AFI 100.

Every year the American Film Institute lets people vote for the top 100 movies of all times. Here’s a PDF of the 2008 edition.

I guess it’s the Oscar buzz in the air that made me look up this list, and I’m going to make a conscious effort to watch as many of these movies as possible in the next year. The bolded movies are the ones that I’ve already seen. Un-bolded means I’ve yet to see it, or it’s been so long since I’ve seen it I’d like to watch it again.

This list will be updated as I watch some of these movies.

I have seen 65 of the 100. How many have you seen?

1. Citizen Kane
2. The Godfather
3. Casablanca
4. Raging Bull
5. Singing In The Rain
6. Gone With The Wind
7. Lawrence of Arabia
8. Schindler’s List
9. Vertigo
10. Wizard of Oz
11. City Lights
12. The Searchers
13. Star Wars
14. Psycho
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey
16. Sunset Blvd.
17. The Graduate
18. The General
19. On The Waterfront
20. It’s A Wonderful Life
21. Chinatown
22. Some Like It Hot
23. The Grapes of Wrath
24. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
25. To Kill A Mockingbird
26. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
27. High Noon
28. All About Eve
29. Double Indemnity
30. Apocalypse Now
31. The Maltese Falcon
32. The Godfather Part II
33. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
34. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
35. Annie Hall
36. Bridge On The River Kwai
37. The Best Years of Our Lives
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
39. Dr. Strangelove
40. The Sound of Music
41. King Kong
42. Bonnie and Clyde
43. Midnight Cowboy
44. The Philadelphia Story
45. Shane
46. It Happened One Night
47. A Streetcar Named Desire
48. Rear Window
49. Intolerance
50. Lord of The Rings: The fellowship of the ring
51. Westside Story
52. Taxi Driver
53. The Deer Hunter
54. M*A*S*H
55. North By Northwest
56. Jaws
57. Rocky
58. The Goldrush
59. Nashville
60. Duck Soup
61. Sullivan’s Travels
62. American Graffiti
63. Caberet
64. Network
65. The African Queen
66. Raiders of The Lost Ark
67. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
68. Unforgiven
69. Tootsie
70. A Clockwork Orange
71. Saving Private Ryan
72. The Shawshank Redemption
    
73. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
74. Silence Of The Lambs
75. In The Heat Of The Night
76. Forest Gump
77. All The President’s Men
78. Modern Times
79. The Wild Bunch
80. The Apartment
81. Spartacus
82. Sunrise
83. Titanic
84. Easy Rider
85. A Night At The Opera
86. Plantoon
87. 12 Angry Men
88. Bringing Up Baby
89. The Sixth Sense
90. Swing Time
91. Sophie’s Choice
92. Goodfellas
93. The French Connection
94. Pulp Fiction
95. The Last Picture Show
96. Do The Right Thing
97. Blade Runner
98. Yanky Doodle Dandy
99. Toy Story
100. Ben-Hur

This is the one about tonight’s Oscars.

I went to the AMC Best Picture Showcase with Mr. D and Julie yesterday. 12 hours in the movie theater. On paper it sounds kind of daunting, but in reality it was a lot of fun. We watched all five of the movies that were nominated for best picture.

If I were the Academy I would totally give the award to Juno. Great characters, moving story, and boys running in short shorts. I’ve made this analogy before: Juno is the thinking man’s Napoleon Dynamite.

Leah: Yo Yo Yiggady Yo.
Juno MacGuff: I’m at suicide risk.
Leah: Juno?
Juno MacGuff: No, it’s Morgan Freeman. Do you have any bones that need collecting?
Leah: Only the one in my pants…
Juno MacGuff: I’m pregnant.
Leah: What? Honest to blog?
Juno MacGuff: Yeah. Yeah, it’s Bleekers.
Leah: It’s probably just a food baby. Did you have a big lunch?
Juno MacGuff: No, this is not a food baby all right? I’ve taken like three pregnancy tests, and I’m forshizz up the spout.
Leah: How did you even generate enough pee for three pregnancy tests? That’s amazing…
Juno MacGuff: I don’t know, I drank like, ten tons of Sunny D… Anyway dude, I’m telling you I’m pregnant and you’re acting shockingly cavalier.
Leah: Is this for real? Like, for real for real?
Juno MacGuff: Unfortunately, yes.
Leah: Oh my GOD. Oh shit! Phuket, Thailand!
Juno MacGuff: There we go. That was kind of the emotion that I was searching for on the first take.

If my past picks tell you anything (I was all about Brokeback Mountain; I loved Little Miss Sunshine and Babel), Juno will probably not cut it…so I’m going to predict that No Country For Old Men will win the best picture Oscar. Anyone up for a friendly wager?

Before Atonement started I was ready to hate it, but ended up enjoying it a lot more than I had expected. I really loved Vanessa Redgrave’s performance…and even teared up a little. To me, Redgrave is such an elegant woman. One question my sister had about this movie: did Briony really have to keep the same hairstyle her entire life? Seriously, little Briony, teenager Briony, and older Briony all had that same haircut…how realistic was that?

The only nominated movie I didn’t enjoy 100% was There Will Be Blood. The story was solid, and I can see why it was nominated…I just have trouble enjoying movies that are all dusty and the characters have handlebar moustaches. Those are superficial criticisms…I know. But I am what I am.

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This is the one with a quiz about TV theme songs.

Occasionally I’ll get teased when a friend realizes that I’ve got a collection of television theme songs on my iPod. So?

There are some really good theme songs of yesteryear that I don’t wish to forget any time soon. How many have you forgotten? Listen to these 15 theme songs, and tell me that it doesn’t throw you back to the 80s.

Keep track of how many you can correctly guess the name of the television show that it comes from. Click the link at the end of this post to see the correct answers. Share your score with me in the comments (honor system).

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The Answers:

Cheers

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Family Matters

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Saved By The Bell

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Sanford & Son

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Perfect Strangers

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The Odd Couple

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Alf

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Full House

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Family Ties

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Silver Spoons

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People’s Court

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Punky Brewster

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Laverne & Shirley

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Mr. Belvedere

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One Day At A Time

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This is the one with a fast-driving guy named Jose.

This is the 9th and final limerick in this series.

This is the one about a stylish red-head.

This is the 8th in the series.  Read the others here.

This is the one where my mom cooks.

My mom isn’t a wonderful cook…that’s no secret.  She gets teased often in our house because she will have a recipe and at the last minute decide to alter it, and ultimately ruin the food.

Last night she was cooking potato soup, and the recipe called for 1/3 cup of flour, and 3 cups of milk.  And my mom was doubling the recipe.  I guess she looked at the recipe card cross-eyed or something because she thought it said 3 cups of flour…and she doubled that.

So instead of 2/3 cups of flour, my mom put in 6 cups of flour.  6 cups of flour.

We seriously could have taken the soup and rolled it into balls, baked it, and made potato biscuits.

We ended up trashing the soup and making pasta and salad.

This is the one about Nelly’s jewelry and bling.

This is number 7 in a series.  Read the others here.

This is the one where Joana says “This Diet Rocks!”

Another limerick. See them all here.

This is the one where it becomes official.

Arizonans call the Department of Motor Vehicles the “Motor Vehicles Department.”  Totally fucks with that place in my brain where acronyms are stored.  For the past 20 years I’ve been calling the place where you get licensed and car registrations the DMV…and suddenly I have to start calling it the MVD?!?!

Well I went there yesterday, and registered my car and got an Arizona Driver License.  You can see my California and my Arizona license off to the left there.  I’ve lost a few pounds, huh?  The California picture was taken in summer 2006–so not too long ago.

One thing that I really liked about the Arizona DMV…er MVD was that they give you everything right then and there.  I paid to register my car, and the woman reached under her desk and gave me a new license plate.  I took a photo for my new license, and the woman said, “give me 2 minutes to print it out.”  In California you have to wait for everything to be mailed to you.  They give you temporary everything…”Give it 6 weeks to arrive in the mail.”

So I think that my new plates and my new license make me an Arizonan.  Officially.

What do you think?