is life.
I like a lot of movies, and I hate many more. A random selection of my favorites, in no particular order:
*Rushmore
*Death to Smoochy
*Snatch
*Miracle on 34th Street
*Napoleon Dynamite
*Pretty in Pink
*Some Kind of Wonderful
*Quarterback Princess
*Dream a Little Dream
*The Royal Tenenbaums
*Three Kings
*The Little Princess
*Wag the Dog
*Garden State
*Lord of the Rings (whole series)
*Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder version)
*Benny and Joon
*Annie
*Girls Just Want to Have Fun
*American History X
*Good Will Hunting
*The Shawshank Redemption
*Vertigo
*Memento
*It's A Wonderful Life
*The Matrix (first one only)
*L.A. Confidential
*Cool Hand Luke
*Big Night
*The Incredibles
*Best in Show
*Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
*Back to the Future (whole series)
*The Karate Kid (first one only)
*Down With Love
*Bruce Almighty
*The Truman Show
*Friday Night Lights
*Remember the Titans
*Roll Bounce
*Kids
*The Passion of the Christ
*The Bourne series
*Kolya
*The Sandlot
*Savannah Smiles
*Pollock
*Moonstruck
*Walk The Line
*Election
*Office Space
*Aeon Flux
*Lotsa old black & white movies
*Lots and lotsa documentaries!
*Cable News
*Judge Shows
*Top Model
*VH1 Specials
*The Office
*Scrubs
*Inked
*Project Runway
*An endless list of 80s TV shows
*Intervention
*TLC documentaries (aka freeeeak shows!)
Current obsession:
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders - Making the Team
Very sadly, I have had zero time to read in far too long, but here is a short list of recent (and recently revisited) faves:
*The Diary of Anne Frank
*Stand Up, Ernie Baxter: You're Dead by Adam Voith
*Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art by Madeleine L'Engle
*Everyday Apocalypse by David Dark
*Media Journal: Reading and Writing About Popular Culture (everyone should read this)
*Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan
*The Bible (always)
Looking forward to reading:
*The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
*The Malling of America by William Severini Kowinski
*The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
*
Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty by Nancy Etcoff
*A book that Ken recommended to me that I can't find the name of (note to Ken: "Help!")
*Various media books with long titles that I won't bore you with...
"You're dancing with the angels, Walking in new life"