Melpomene's Musings

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 03:37:16 GMT

Ohmigod, Becky, look at her butt...

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 05:23:54 GMT

And wow, that lounge lizard version of "Baby Got Back" that bevanhaynes sent me has got to be heard to be believed.

Because I'm nice...

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:39:48 GMT

Apropos to the comments you left on my last entry, I decided to take a pic with my cell phone cam. Sorry for the blurriness!

A few random things...

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 05:06:15 GMT

Saw a free screening of the "Around the World in 80 Days" remake tonight. It was pretty harmless Disneyfied escapism with a lot of fight scenes and broad, flat comedy. I did enjoy some of the cameos--Ah-nuld (I'm not going to attempt to spell his last name and I'm too lazy to look it up) was amusing as a horny Turkish prince, and it was fun to see Kathy Bates as Queen Victoria. Cécile de France, who I enjoyed in "L'Auberge Espagnole," just annoyed me here....all the contrived perkiness of 10 Disney heroines rolled into one.

I bought a cute new outfit today...a lacy turquoise spaghetti strap top and a short turquoise chiffon skirt. Yay for frivolous expenditures...ah, well...I get my first paycheck from AMC soon.

Igby: How many Vassar professors and intellectual theologians beget nymphomaniacal, pseudo-Bohemian JAPs?
Sookie: I am not a JAP.

Oliver: [on Igby] I think if Gandhi had to spend a prolonged amount of time with you, he'd end up beating the shit out of you, too.

Sookie: You call your mother "Mimi"?
Igby: "Heinous One" is a bit cumbersome.

Sookie: He's your brother, you act like you hate him.
Igby: I do. I do hate him. He's totally hateable. Evil niblet fuck.

Igby: [on Ollie] He was ten-speeding a gazillion miles per hour through Central Park. You know, racing with all the other young Turks. When, all of a sudden he caught a glimpse of himself in the handlebar mirror and became so... aroused by it that he burst his Speedo shorts which then got caught in the gears and threw him right on his face. Splatter.

Bunny: Igby, I could just eat you with a spoon.
Igby: Don't.

And my favorite...

Russell: I told her; Lorna Luft was just too fucking obscure. People just think you're doing a bad Liza.

Hehe

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 05:51:29 GMT

You guys are bad. ;)

An interesting meme...

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:40:35 GMT

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Just a thought...

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 07:33:03 GMT

My mom needs to stop buying Good Humor ice cream eclair bars. Seriously.

Because everyone else is doing it...

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 22:22:07 GMT

How to make a bwaybabie

Ingredients:

5 parts pride

5 parts courage

5 parts

Method:
Stir together in a glass tumbler with a salted rim. Add a little cocktail umbrella and a dash of lovability

Personality cocktail
From Go-Quiz.com

Hmmm...is this me?

Oh...and I saw "Saved!" last night. I really enjoyed it, and I think that all the sexy awesomeness in Susan Sarandon's genes has been passed down to Eva Amurri (she played the misfit Jewish girl who dates the wheelchair-bound Macaulay Culkin). The girl just rocks.

Well...

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 23:14:05 GMT

I'm back from JMU orientation, and I'm all registered for my classes. All my Gen Ed transferred, but I need to take an additional philosophy class (as if I mind that). I have a pretty full schedule for the fall--six classes, and all of them theatre/musical theatre-related! It's going to be intense, but I think I'll love it.

I also found out some of the shows that they're doing this year--among others, "1776," "Angels in America," (I assume both of them) "Shakespeare's R&J" (I thought of you for that one, Bevan!), and "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." I'm pretty damned happy with that selection, I have to say. I would LOVE to be in "Drood" especially. Something tells me that if I were to get a main role, it would be Princess Puffer. I am SO one with my inner character actress.

"1776" would be great too, except I'm too mezzo for Abigail and I'm not really right for Martha (although "He Plays the Violin" IS an awesome song). And it just hit me that the guy in charge of the musical theatre program must be some kind of Betty Buckley freak, hehe.

Oh...and there's a 70/30 female to male ratio at JMU. Which is VERY good for the menfolk and not such a sweet deal for the gals.

Now for a looooong nap. I'm beat.

The difference between Maya and her sister...

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 03:33:59 GMT

So I'm in the car earlier today with my 17-year old sister Lynn, and I'm driving to our job orientation. Since, I'M driving I get to choose the music. I choose to listen to one of Corinna's mixes. Let it be noted that showtunes are the scourge of Lynn's existence (although she did rather enjoy "I Need Me A Girl" because she's a lesbian, hehehe). "I Can Do Better Than That" from L5Y comes on. This approximation of our discussion ensued:

Lynn: Why is she so excited? (disgusted face)

Maya: Loser...she's asking her boyfriend about living together...she's head over head in heels in love...of course she's excited.

Lynn: But why does she have to belt about being excited?

Maya: Umm...maybe because it's a musical?

Lynn and I then proceeded to contemplate the possibilites of a musicalization of my sister's life. Basically, it would be her sitting at the computer for 2 and a half hours, singing out URLs. That girl is just hopeless.

Oh...and everyone needs to check out this link, it's fricking hilarious. Thanks, Colestritch!

http://awards.tvgasm.com/archives/tony_awards/000058.html

I just feel the need to say....

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 05:56:59 GMT

corinna_with2ns rocks!

I just received the THREE mix CDs she made for me (when I was only expecting one). I'm currently listening to her wonderful "Female Empowerment" showtunes mix.

Cor, you're awesome! Thanks so much!!

My Tony Thoughts....

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 04:15:07 GMT

This may not be very coherent as I'm still in (delighted) shock from the "Avenue Q" wins, and I have a migraine, but here goes...

I want to start off by saying that I think this was the best Tony Awards show in some years. Hugh Jackman was a charming, affable and hilarious host, even more so than he was last year. Needless to say, he looked gorgeous too, and I nearly fainted during the "Boy from Oz" number. (The SJP bit was TOO funny, and definitely unrehearsed).

Some of the musical numbers were kind of sketchy in quality. "Tradition" had some great choreography even if Molina DOES seem a miscast Tevye. "Lot's Wife," left me underwhelmed due to Tonya Pinkins' vocal difficulties, but her acting was still pretty great. The song itself didn't do much for me, but I imagine it's more effective in context. "Everybody's Got the Right," was pretty wonderful, "It Sucks to Be Me" charming, but I think they could have chosen a better "Wonderful Town" number than "Swing." It does NOT show Donna at her best. "Defying Gravity" was just disappointing. While I'm not big on Idina, under normal circumstances, her high belt is pretty thrilling. Umm...I didn't think it was tonight.

WHAT THE FUCK DID MARY J. BLIGE DO TO "WHAT I DID FOR LOVE?" It made me hurt inside. Truly craptacular.

Jane Krakowski, Bernadette Peters and Nicole Kidman looked awesome. What curling iron attacked Scarlett Johansson's (sic) hair?

Anyway, I got 12 out of 17 predictions correct. I was as knocked over by the "Avenue Q" wins as everyone else, but I'm so glad that THIS year, the Tony voters were voting based on quality, not what show will make the most profit on the road. Stephen Schwartz, btw, looked like he was ready to kill something.

I'm very pleased about "Assassins'" 5 wins.

I'M SO HAPPY FOR AUDRA!! And her speech made me misty-eyed. This woman isn't even 34, and she has 4 Tonys. Amazing.

And wow...did "Avenue Q" REALLY just beat "Wicked" for best score, book and musical??

Bras on the fan

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 23:43:03 GMT

20 minutes til the Tonys! Woot! As usual, none of my friends want to come over and watch with me (even Hugh Jackman wasn't a big enough inducement), so it will just be my mom and I.

I soooo hope Donna wins because 1) she kicks ass 2) I want Michael Reidel to buy Bernadette Peters lunch.

I slept over at René's last night, and had fun for the most part. I was in a bad mood for the first half because of various issues, but I'm glad for this as Reiko and I got to work out some problems.

The funniest part of the sleepover was when Reiko stole my and Tabbi's bras, and slung them over the fan on the ceiling, along with her own. Here's a pic:

Standing below the fan are Reiko and Tabbi.

An example of Maya's political ignorance...(or just plain ignorance)

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Sat, 05 Jun 2004 23:23:59 GMT

Maya: (Waking up from a powernap, she grumbles and turns over)

Mr. TV Reporter's Voice from the Other Room: Ronald Reagan died today bla bla bla bla yada yada.

Maya: (thinks to herself "He wasn't dead already?" *grumbles again and falls back asleep*)

Brief HP review

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Sat, 05 Jun 2004 05:38:10 GMT

I, like most everyone else who was lucky and smart enough to secure a ticked in advance, am back from "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," which I saw with Tabbi, Reiko, Isis and Sarah. I don't want to go into great detail, but I think it's the best HP film so far. It's better than the first two combined, in fact. This one had great pathos and comedy, and in contrast to the first two, it actually felt magical. For "Sorcerer's Stone" and "Chamber of Secrets," it felt as if Chris Columbus just said, "Okay, we need a magical doorway with emanating light here...let's put a random broomstick there..." And the performances in "Prisoner of Azkaban" were just better as well. LOVED Emma Thompson in the rather small role of Madame Trelawney, David Thewlis was fine as Lupin, and Gary Oldman was one sexy-ass Sirius Black, intense and silly in turn. Daniel, Emma and Rupert rocked.

And so far both franklinshepard and gruyere have pointed out that they think Emma Watson is hot (or at least asked if it was okay to acknowledge this now or wait a few years). So now I don't feel so bad about thinking that Daniel Radcliffe is turning into quite a stud...*blushes*

Blah

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 08:21:50 GMT

01. I love school.
02. One of my eyes is blue; the other is greenish-brown.
03. I own Julie Andrews's biography and have read it cover to cover.
04. I have played both Marian and Harold in The Music Man.
05. I love winter.
06. I never drink soda.
07. I've got two bizarre younger brothers.
08. I attended an all-girls prep school for seven years.
09. I abhor mathematics.
10. My poetry was published when I was in fifth grade.
11. I hate people as a whole, but I love them as individuals.
12. I'm rarely cynical about anything.
13. I'm extremely fond of Mardi Gras beads as everyday jewelry.
14. I like to read. (this is a bit of an understatement)
15. I drive myself crazy when I procrastinate, but I do it anyway.
16. I've been taking French since the age of seven.
17. I strongly dislike instant messenger slang.
18. I have a lot to learn.
20. I hate rain.
19. I'm scared of death.
22. I'm anal retentive about most things, but my room is pretty messy. (sort of...)
23. I love hugs.
24. I've never had sex.
25. I'm not very athletic.
26. I should drink more water.
27. Racism really pisses me the fuck off.
28. I wish I was better at dancing.
29. I get angry when things aren't grammatical.
30. I have a dog.
31. I'm Jewish. (Technically half-Jewish as my mom is Jewish and my dad Catholic...but by Jewish law I am)
32. I've had the same bed since I left my crib at the age of two.
33. There is no more room left on my bookshelf.
34. I have lots of literary crushes.
35. I've been in a car accident.
36. I take pictures of absolutely everything.
37. I've never dyed or highlighted my hair.
38. I occasionally bite off more than I can chew when choosing extracurricular reading material.
39. I've never seen Ani DiFranco.
40. I can be really personable.
41. I really enjoy thoughtful gifts, even if they cost nothing.
42. I'm not going to study in Siberia next year.
43. I love my blankie.
44. I'm actually fairly content with my height.
45. My room is not pale blue.
46. I love cheese.
47. I can't go into Borders or Barnes and Noble without buying at least one book.
48. I believe in deism.
49. My favorite TV show is Law and Order: SVU.
50. I love my friends more than anything else.
51. I can't imagine not singing.
52. I have never had a really close girl friend.
53. I love to find money in my coat pockets.
54. I bite my nails, and it really needs to stop.
55. I love historical fiction with sex-driven plots.
56. I didn't think the Mona Lisa was anything special.
57. I love seafood.
58. My goal in life may be completely unattainable.
59. I am a counselor at a summer camp.
60. I find very little to complain about regarding myself.
61. I worry about the next generation. (Dear God.)
62. Generally, the people who have crushes on me aren't my type.
63. Even though I played the piano for seven years, I never learned to play Chopsticks.
64. I don't wear black if I can help it.
65. I'm apprehensive about getting older.
66. I find religion really intriguing.
67. I don't like to be alone all the time.
68. I don't like Katharine Hepburn.
69. My theory is that most amateur poetry is just vapor clothed in pretty words that means nothing but makes the reader think he isn't deep enough to understand the Deep Hidden Meaning.
70. Childbirth scares the fuck out of me.
71. I hate being excluded, although I sometimes exclude others.
72. I'm a winter baby.
73. I own a cell phone.
74. People my age annoy me.
75. I draw all over my school papers.
76. I love to write.
77. I AM a geek.
78. I've had a romantic lead.
79. I'll never marry someone stupid.
80. I don't have wisdom teeth yet.
81. I spell it "theater".
82. I am, admittedly, a little bit preppy, stylewise.
83. I eat meat.
84. My friends like my younger brothers.
85. I've tried to wax my legs.
86. Sometimes I think to myself, "Wow, people are really fucking stupid."
87. I like getting dressed up.
88. My birthday feels like any other day.
89. I can't stand it when people are obsessed with how awful they think they look.
90. I hate SUVs.
91. I can't understand why people are so damned critical of America.
92. I can't parallel park.
93. Goofing off is fun.
94. I like to think that I'm not very easily influenced by societal expectations.
95. The only movie I have ever cried in was The Return of the King.
96. I like Disney movies.
97. I like sandals.
98. I always watch previews.
99. I know every word to my favorite movies and musicals.
100. I vote yes on gay marriages.

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Yay!

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 22:04:04 GMT

Stolen from codeinconnu

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Which Sesame Street Muppet Are You?

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Meme-crazy

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 22:02:05 GMT

Stolen from franklinshepard

 This or That
Carrie the Musical or Superman the Musical?: IABIAPIS
Cats or Les Miserables?: Les Miz
Lights or Sound?: Lights
Publicity or Props?: Publicity
Costumes or Make-Up?: Costumes
Lots of lines or One Big Solo?: One Big Solo
Bye Bye Birdie or Grease?: Bye Bye Birdie, although I'm not a big fan of either
42nd Street or Thoroughly Modern Millie?: 42nd Street
Zombie Prom or Little Shop of Horrors?: LSOH
Neil Simon or Oscar Wilde?: Oscar Wilde
Wicked or The Wiz?: Wicked
Once Upon a Mattress or Into the Woods?: Into the Woods, of course!
Oliver or Annie?: Annie
Aida or Camelot?: Camelot
Beauty and the Beast or Lion King?: Beauty and the Beast
Sutton Foster or Susan Egan?: Sutton Foster has an amazing belt, but girlfriend needs a shiatzu massage or something. It's all about Egan!!
The Music Man or My Fair Lady?: My Fair Lady.
Cinderella or South Pacific?: That's a tough one...I prefer Cinderella's score, but South Pacific DOES have a pretty sturdy book. Blah...I'll go against the grain here and choose Cinderella.
Hairspray or Mamma Mia?: Hairspray
Rent or The Producers?: The Producers
Fiddler on the Roof or Gypsy?: Gypsy
The Sound of Music or The King and I?: The King and I...it's my favorite R&H
The Boy from Oz or Taboo?: The Boy from Oz
Stomp or Blast?: No clue.
Annie Get Your Gun or Oklahoma?: Oklahoma! may be a better show, but AGYG is my sentimental favorite
Jekyll and Hyde or Phantom of the Opera?: Both suck. But I'll choose J&H, because it's a guilty pleasure. POTO is just guilty.
Avenue Q or The Last Five Years?: AAAA, how can I choose? I can't. It's a tie.
Pirates of Penzance or Funny Girl?: Funny Girl
Chicago or Cabaret?: Cabaret

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Meme--top 250 movies as voted by IMDB users

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 08:16:55 GMT

Rank	Title
1	Godfather, The (1972) 9.0/10 (95674 votes)
2	Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) 8.9/10 (118469 votes)
3	Godfather: Part II, The (1974) 8.8/10 (56562 votes)
4	Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) 8.8/10 (63340 votes)
5	Schindler's List (1993) 8.7/10 (80992 votes)
6	Shichinin no samurai (1954) 8.7/10 (24055 votes)
7	Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) 8.7/10 (85821 votes)
8	Casablanca (1942) 8.7/10 (54900 votes)
9	Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) 8.7/10 (128201 votes)
10	Star Wars (1977) 8.7/10 (113051 votes)
11	Citizen Kane (1941) 8.7/10 (50924 votes)
12	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 8.7/10 (57630 votes)
13	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 8.6/10 (86958 votes)
14	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 8.6/10 (51968 votes)
15	Rear Window (1954) 8.6/10 (33574 votes)
16	Pulp Fiction (1994) 8.6/10 (105546 votes)
17	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 8.6/10 (78565 votes)
18	Usual Suspects, The (1995) 8.6/10 (86313 votes)
19	Memento (2000) 8.6/10 (71570 votes)
20	North by Northwest (1959) 8.5/10 (29648 votes)
21	Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 8.5/10 (21503 votes)
22	12 Angry Men (1957) 8.5/10 (23164 votes)
23	Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 8.5/10 (25900 votes)
24	Psycho (1960) 8.5/10 (45262 votes)
25	Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 8.5/10 (45165 votes)
26	Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) 8.5/10 (77166 votes)
27	It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 8.5/10 (34755 votes)
28	Goodfellas (1990) 8.5/10 (54579 votes)
29	American Beauty (1999) 8.4/10 (91291 votes)
30	Sunset Blvd. (1950) 8.4/10 (12813 votes)
31	Vertigo (1958) 8.4/10 (28135 votes)
32	Cidade de Deus (2002) 8.4/10 (12243 votes)
33	Matrix, The (1999) 8.4/10 (119130 votes)
34	C'era una volta il West (1968) 8.4/10 (11918 votes)
35	Apocalypse Now (1979) 8.4/10 (52926 votes)
36	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 8.4/10 (24766 votes)
37	Pianist, The (2002) 8.4/10 (20485 votes)
38	Third Man, The (1949) 8.4/10 (15095 votes)
39	Paths of Glory (1957) 8.4/10 (11436 votes)
40	Taxi Driver (1976) 8.3/10 (38190 votes)
41	Fight Club (1999) 8.3/10 (87507 votes)
42	Some Like It Hot (1959) 8.3/10 (20825 votes)
43	Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 8.3/10 (15940 votes)
44	Double Indemnity (1944) 8.3/10 (9548 votes)
45	Boot, Das (1981) 8.3/10 (23800 votes)
46	Singin' in the Rain (1952) 8.3/10 (16822 votes)
47	Chinatown (1974) 8.3/10 (20838 votes)
48	L.A. Confidential (1997) 8.3/10 (59055 votes)
49	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 8.3/10 (12220 votes)
50	Requiem for a Dream (2000) 8.3/10 (34975 votes)
51	Maltese Falcon, The (1941) 8.3/10 (16310 votes)
52	M (1931) 8.3/10 (9547 votes)
53	All About Eve (1950) 8.3/10 (10818 votes)
54	Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957) 8.3/10 (18552 votes)
55	Se7en (1995) 8.3/10 (71206 votes)
56	Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 8.3/10 (49712 votes)
57	Rashômon (1950) 8.3/10 (8835 votes)
58	Saving Private Ryan (1998) 8.3/10 (83533 votes)
59	Raging Bull (1980) 8.2/10 (21077 votes)
60	Alien (1979) 8.2/10 (51755 votes)
61	Wizard of Oz, The (1939) 8.2/10 (31940 votes)
62	American History X (1998) 8.2/10 (46160 votes)
63	Léon (1994) 8.2/10 (40325 votes)
64	Sting, The (1973) 8.2/10 (19649 votes)
65	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 8.2/10 (9519 votes)
66	Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) 8.2/10 (10733 votes)
67	Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) 8.2/10 (8489 votes)
68	Vita è bella, La (1997) 8.2/10 (31447 votes)
69	Touch of Evil (1958) 8.2/10 (9707 votes)
70	Finding Nemo (2003) 8.2/10 (26759 votes)
71	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 8.2/10 (54906 votes)
72	Reservoir Dogs (1992) 8.2/10 (54724 votes)
73	Great Escape, The (1963) 8.2/10 (16076 votes)
74	Modern Times (1936) 8.2/10 (8088 votes)
75	Clockwork Orange, A (1971) 8.2/10 (53213 votes)
76	Amadeus (1984) 8.2/10 (30734 votes)
77	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 8.2/10 (39928 votes)
78	On the Waterfront (1954) 8.2/10 (9995 votes)
79	Ran (1985) 8.2/10 (9307 votes)
80	Annie Hall (1977) 8.2/10 (17287 votes)
81	Wo hu cang long (2000) 8.2/10 (43805 votes)
82	Jaws (1975) 8.2/10 (38697 votes)
83	Apartment, The (1960) 8.2/10 (9008 votes)
84	Braveheart (1995) 8.1/10 (77194 votes)
85	High Noon (1952) 8.1/10 (10037 votes)
86	Aliens (1986) 8.1/10 (53290 votes)
87	Fargo (1996) 8.1/10 (55110 votes)
88	Metropolis (1927) 8.1/10 (9477 votes)
89	Shining, The (1980) 8.1/10 (40537 votes)
90	Strangers on a Train (1951) 8.1/10 (8398 votes)
91	Blade Runner (1982) 8.1/10 (63756 votes)
92	Sixth Sense, The (1999) 8.1/10 (80382 votes)
93	City Lights (1931) 8.1/10 (6177 votes)
94	Donnie Darko (2001) 8.1/10 (32122 votes)
95	Duck Soup (1933) 8.1/10 (8132 votes)
96	Great Dictator, The (1940) 8.1/10 (8050 votes)
97	Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 8.1/10 (7323 votes)
98	General, The (1927) 8.1/10 (5324 votes)
99	Princess Bride, The (1987) 8.1/10 (45632 votes)
100	Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989) 8.1/10 (11308 votes)


101	Dogville (2003) 8.1/10 (6889 votes)
102	Mononoke-hime (1997) 8.1/10 (14594 votes)
103	Rebecca (1940) 8.1/10 (9192 votes)
104	Notorious (1946) 8.1/10 (8518 votes)
105	Full Metal Jacket (1987) 8.1/10 (38387 votes)
106	Big Sleep, The (1946) 8.0/10 (8161 votes)
107	Toy Story 2 (1999) 8.0/10 (33418 votes)
108	Lola rennt (1998) 8.0/10 (26367 votes)
109	Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) 8.0/10 (4928 votes)
110	Yojimbo (1961) 8.0/10 (6673 votes)
111	Ladri di biciclette (1948) 8.0/10 (5742 votes)
112	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 8.0/10 (16580 votes)
113	Patton (1970) 8.0/10 (11619 votes)
114	Graduate, The (1967) 8.0/10 (22629 votes)
115	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 8.0/10 (64423 votes)
116	It Happened One Night (1934) 8.0/10 (6337 votes)
117	Deer Hunter, The (1978) 8.0/10 (22694 votes)
118	Forrest Gump (1994) 8.0/10 (72738 votes)
119	Manhattan (1979) 8.0/10 (10193 votes)
120	Mystic River (2003) 8.0/10 (12670 votes)
121	Glory (1989) 8.0/10 (18341 votes)
122	Searchers, The (1956) 8.0/10 (8393 votes)
123	Philadelphia Story, The (1940) 8.0/10 (8670 votes)
124	Cool Hand Luke (1967) 8.0/10 (11640 votes)
125	Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) 8.0/10 (18647 votes)
126	African Queen, The (1951) 8.0/10 (11681 votes)
127	Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 8.0/10 (14409 votes)
128	Ben-Hur (1959) 8.0/10 (17364 votes)
129	Unforgiven (1992) 8.0/10 (24957 votes)
130	Bringing Up Baby (1938) 8.0/10 (7510 votes)
131	Green Mile, The (1999) 8.0/10 (47614 votes)
132	Hable con ella (2002) 8.0/10 (8927 votes)
133	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 8.0/10 (68380 votes)
134	Elephant Man, The (1980) 8.0/10 (13068 votes)
135	Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) 8.0/10 (6370 votes)
136	Shrek (2001) 8.0/10 (49178 votes)
137	Stalag 17 (1953) 8.0/10 (5678 votes)
138	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 8.0/10 (9341 votes)
139	Night of the Hunter, The (1955) 8.0/10 (6045 votes)
140	Gone with the Wind (1939) 7.9/10 (23721 votes)
141	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 7.9/10 (50910 votes)
142	Christmas Story, A (1983) 7.9/10 (16150 votes)
143	Straight Story, The (1999) 7.9/10 (11741 votes)
144	Back to the Future (1985) 7.9/10 (56506 votes)
145	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 7.9/10 (5445 votes)
146	Wild Bunch, The (1969) 7.9/10 (8742 votes)
147	Platoon (1986) 7.9/10 (28199 votes)
148	Hustler, The (1961) 7.9/10 (6615 votes)
149	Amores perros (2000) 7.9/10 (10580 votes)
150	Smultronstället (1957) 7.9/10 (3774 votes)
151	Young Frankenstein (1974) 7.9/10 (18178 votes)
152	Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938) 7.9/10 (5738 votes)
153	Gold Rush, The (1925) 7.9/10 (5059 votes)
154	Die Hard (1988) 7.9/10 (48812 votes)
155	Lost in Translation (2003) 7.9/10 (24789 votes)
156	Monsters, Inc. (2001) 7.9/10 (29672 votes)
157	His Girl Friday (1940) 7.9/10 (5374 votes)
158	Life of Brian (1979) 7.9/10 (27017 votes)
159	Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) 7.9/10 (4528 votes)
160	Grande illusion, La (1937) 7.9/10 (4072 votes)
161	Spartacus (1960) 7.9/10 (13641 votes)
162	Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962) 7.9/10 (5771 votes)
163	Charade (1963) 7.9/10 (7128 votes)
164	Ying xiong (2002) 7.9/10 (7186 votes)
165	Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) 7.9/10 (4950 votes)
166	Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 7.9/10 (4035 votes)
167	Gladiator (2000) 7.9/10 (75321 votes)
168	Festen (1998) 7.9/10 (9668 votes)
169	Conversation, The (1974) 7.9/10 (8096 votes)
170	Roman Holiday (1953) 7.9/10 (7519 votes)
171	Almost Famous (2000) 7.9/10 (31131 votes)
172	Sling Blade (1996) 7.9/10 (17221 votes)
173	Magnolia (1999) 7.9/10 (36880 votes)
174	Toy Story (1995) 7.9/10 (38019 votes)
175	Night at the Opera, A (1935) 7.9/10 (4838 votes)
176	Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951) 7.9/10 (8346 votes)
177	Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951) 7.9/10 (7661 votes)
178	Brazil (1985) 7.9/10 (25540 votes)
179	Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) 7.9/10 (8499 votes)
180	All the President's Men (1976) 7.9/10 (10391 votes)
181	Insider, The (1999) 7.9/10 (23492 votes)
182	Ed Wood (1994) 7.9/10 (17269 votes)
183	To Be or Not to Be (1942) 7.9/10 (2788 votes)
184	Killing, The (1956) 7.9/10 (5322 votes)
185	Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 7.8/10 (4339 votes)
186	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 7.8/10 (5759 votes)
187	Being John Malkovich (1999) 7.8/10 (44795 votes)
188	Exorcist, The (1973) 7.8/10 (26819 votes)
189	Harvey (1950) 7.8/10 (6400 votes)
190	Mulholland Dr. (2001) 7.8/10 (26809 votes)
191	Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 7.8/10 (11651 votes)
192	Stand by Me (1986) 7.8/10 (25155 votes)
193	Hotaru no haka (1988) 7.8/10 (4638 votes)
194	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 7.8/10 (41674 votes)
195	Twelve Monkeys (1995) 7.8/10 (51862 votes)
196	Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) 7.8/10 (6439 votes)
197	Terminator, The (1984) 7.8/10 (49292 votes)
198	Gandhi (1982) 7.8/10 (12887 votes)
199	Trainspotting (1996) 7.8/10 (42579 votes)
200	Groundhog Day (1993) 7.8/10 (35906 votes)
201	Lion in Winter, The (1968) 7.8/10 (4702 votes)
202	This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 7.8/10 (16056 votes)
203	Miller's Crossing (1990) 7.8/10 (11343 votes)
204	21 Grams (2003) 7.8/10 (10659 votes)
205	Big Fish (2003) 7.8/10 (16067 votes)
206	Ikiru (1952) 7.8/10 (2776 votes)
207	Whale Rider (2002) 7.8/10 (6701 votes)
208	Right Stuff, The (1983) 7.8/10 (10981 votes)
209	Rain Man (1988) 7.8/10 (35025 votes)
210	Adaptation. (2002) 7.8/10 (17461 votes)
211	Strada, La (1954) 7.8/10 (3857 votes)
212	Network (1976) 7.8/10 (7644 votes)
213	Midnight Cowboy (1969) 7.8/10 (10580 votes)
214	Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 7.8/10 (10188 votes)
215	Laura (1944) 7.8/10 (3712 votes)
216	8½ (1963) 7.8/10 (6200 votes)
217	Stagecoach (1939) 7.8/10 (4506 votes)
218	Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La (1928) 7.8/10 (2511 votes)
219	King Kong (1933) 7.8/10 (8132 votes)
220	39 Steps, The (1935) 7.8/10 (6165 votes)
221	Snatch. (2000) 7.8/10 (33683 votes)
222	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) 7.8/10 (26492 votes)
223	X2 (2003) 7.8/10 (27371 votes)
224	In America (2002) 7.8/10 (3895 votes)
225	Big Lebowski, The (1998) 7.8/10 (38611 votes)
226	In the Heat of the Night (1967) 7.8/10 (5212 votes)
227	Others, The (2001) 7.8/10 (28553 votes)
228	Untouchables, The (1987) 7.8/10 (25257 votes)
229	Rio Bravo (1959) 7.8/10 (5762 votes)
230	Thin Man, The (1934) 7.8/10 (3756 votes)
231	Planet of the Apes (1968) 7.7/10 (16687 votes)
232	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) 7.7/10 (1919 votes)
233	Red River (1948) 7.7/10 (2993 votes)
234	Minority Report (2002) 7.7/10 (39963 votes)
235	Beauty and the Beast (1991) 7.7/10 (20686 votes)
236	Traffic (2000) 7.7/10 (34855 votes)
237	Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 7.7/10 (3476 votes)
238	Die xue shuang xiong (1989) 7.7/10 (7358 votes)
239	Sleuth (1972) 7.7/10 (3909 votes)
240	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) 7.7/10 (2599 votes)
241	Todo sobre mi madre (1999) 7.7/10 (10810 votes)
242	Good Will Hunting (1997) 7.7/10 (51740 votes)
243	Henry V (1989) 7.7/10 (7253 votes)
244	Fantasia (1940) 7.7/10 (12723 votes)
245	Being There (1979) 7.7/10 (8579 votes)
246	Heat (1995) 7.7/10 (34941 votes)
247	Enfants du paradis, Les (1945) 7.7/10 (2573 votes)
248	Quiet Man, The (1952) 7.7/10 (6013 votes)
249	Clerks. (1994) 7.7/10 (33879 votes)
250	Beautiful Mind, A (2001) 7.7/10 (34407 votes)











































































75	Clockwork Orange, A (1971) 8.2/10 (53213 votes)
76	Amadeus (1984) 8.2/10 (30734 votes)
77	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 8.2/10 (39928 votes)
78	On the Waterfront (1954) 8.2/10 (9995 votes)
79	Ran (1985) 8.2/10 (9307 votes)
80	Annie Hall (1977) 8.2/10 (17287 votes)
81	Wo hu cang long (2000) 8.2/10 (43805 votes)
82	Jaws (1975) 8.2/10 (38697 votes)
83	Apartment, The (1960) 8.2/10 (9008 votes)
84	Braveheart (1995) 8.1/10 (77194 votes)
85	High Noon (1952) 8.1/10 (10037 votes)
86	Aliens (1986) 8.1/10 (53290 votes)
87	Fargo (1996) 8.1/10 (55110 votes)
88	Metropolis (1927) 8.1/10 (9477 votes)
89	Shining, The (1980) 8.1/10 (40537 votes)
90	Strangers on a Train (1951) 8.1/10 (8398 votes)
91	Blade Runner (1982) 8.1/10 (63756 votes)
92	Sixth Sense, The (1999) 8.1/10 (80382 votes)
93	City Lights (1931) 8.1/10 (6177 votes)
94	Donnie Darko (2001) 8.1/10 (32122 votes)
95	Duck Soup (1933) 8.1/10 (8132 votes)
96	Great Dictator, The (1940) 8.1/10 (8050 votes)
97	Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 8.1/10 (7323 votes)
98	General, The (1927) 8.1/10 (5324 votes)
99	Princess Bride, The (1987) 8.1/10 (45632 votes)
100	Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989) 8.1/10 (11308 votes)

Top 101 - 250

Rank	Title
101	Dogville (2003) 8.1/10 (6889 votes)
102	Mononoke-hime (1997) 8.1/10 (14594 votes)
103	Rebecca (1940) 8.1/10 (9192 votes)
104	Notorious (1946) 8.1/10 (8518 votes)
105	Full Metal Jacket (1987) 8.1/10 (38387 votes)
106	Big Sleep, The (1946) 8.0/10 (8161 votes)
107	Toy Story 2 (1999) 8.0/10 (33418 votes)
108	Lola rennt (1998) 8.0/10 (26367 votes)
109	Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) 8.0/10 (4928 votes)
110	Yojimbo (1961) 8.0/10 (6673 votes)
111	Ladri di biciclette (1948) 8.0/10 (5742 votes)
112	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 8.0/10 (16580 votes)
113	Patton (1970) 8.0/10 (11619 votes)
114	Graduate, The (1967) 8.0/10 (22629 votes)
115	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 8.0/10 (64423 votes)
116	It Happened One Night (1934) 8.0/10 (6337 votes)
117	Deer Hunter, The (1978) 8.0/10 (22694 votes)
118	Forrest Gump (1994) 8.0/10 (72738 votes)
119	Manhattan (1979) 8.0/10 (10193 votes)
120	Mystic River (2003) 8.0/10 (12670 votes)
121	Glory (1989) 8.0/10 (18341 votes)
122	Searchers, The (1956) 8.0/10 (8393 votes)
123	Philadelphia Story, The (1940) 8.0/10 (8670 votes)
124	Cool Hand Luke (1967) 8.0/10 (11640 votes)
125	Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) 8.0/10 (18647 votes)
126	African Queen, The (1951) 8.0/10 (11681 votes)
127	Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 8.0/10 (14409 votes)
128	Ben-Hur (1959) 8.0/10 (17364 votes)
129	Unforgiven (1992) 8.0/10 (24957 votes)
130	Bringing Up Baby (1938) 8.0/10 (7510 votes)
131	Green Mile, The (1999) 8.0/10 (47614 votes)
132	Hable con ella (2002) 8.0/10 (8927 votes)
133	Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 8.0/10 (68380 votes)
134	Elephant Man, The (1980) 8.0/10 (13068 votes)
135	Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) 8.0/10 (6370 votes)
136	Shrek (2001) 8.0/10 (49178 votes)
137	Stalag 17 (1953) 8.0/10 (5678 votes)
138	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 8.0/10 (9341 votes)
139	Night of the Hunter, The (1955) 8.0/10 (6045 votes)
140	Gone with the Wind (1939) 7.9/10 (23721 votes)
141	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 7.9/10 (50910 votes)
142	Christmas Story, A (1983) 7.9/10 (16150 votes)
143	Straight Story, The (1999) 7.9/10 (11741 votes)
144	Back to the Future (1985) 7.9/10 (56506 votes)
145	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 7.9/10 (5445 votes)
146	Wild Bunch, The (1969) 7.9/10 (8742 votes)
147	Platoon (1986) 7.9/10 (28199 votes)
148	Hustler, The (1961) 7.9/10 (6615 votes)
149	Amores perros (2000) 7.9/10 (10580 votes)
150	Smultronstället (1957) 7.9/10 (3774 votes)
151	Young Frankenstein (1974) 7.9/10 (18178 votes)
152	Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938) 7.9/10 (5738 votes)
153	Gold Rush, The (1925) 7.9/10 (5059 votes)
154	Die Hard (1988) 7.9/10 (48812 votes)
155	Lost in Translation (2003) 7.9/10 (24789 votes)
156	Monsters, Inc. (2001) 7.9/10 (29672 votes)
157	His Girl Friday (1940) 7.9/10 (5374 votes)
158	Life of Brian (1979) 7.9/10 (27017 votes)
159	Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) 7.9/10 (4528 votes)
160	Grande illusion, La (1937) 7.9/10 (4072 votes)
161	Spartacus (1960) 7.9/10 (13641 votes)
162	Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962) 7.9/10 (5771 votes)
163	Charade (1963) 7.9/10 (7128 votes)
164	Ying xiong (2002) 7.9/10 (7186 votes)
165	Quatre cents coups, Les (1959) 7.9/10 (4950 votes)
166	Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 7.9/10 (4035 votes)
167	Gladiator (2000) 7.9/10 (75321 votes)
168	Festen (1998) 7.9/10 (9668 votes)
169	Conversation, The (1974) 7.9/10 (8096 votes)
170	Roman Holiday (1953) 7.9/10 (7519 votes)
171	Almost Famous (2000) 7.9/10 (31131 votes)
172	Sling Blade (1996) 7.9/10 (17221 votes)
173	Magnolia (1999) 7.9/10 (36880 votes)
174	Toy Story (1995) 7.9/10 (38019 votes)
175	Night at the Opera, A (1935) 7.9/10 (4838 votes)
176	Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951) 7.9/10 (8346 votes)
177	Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951) 7.9/10 (7661 votes)
178	Brazil (1985) 7.9/10 (25540 votes)
179	Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) 7.9/10 (8499 votes)
180	All the President's Men (1976) 7.9/10 (10391 votes)
181	Insider, The (1999) 7.9/10 (23492 votes)
182	Ed Wood (1994) 7.9/10 (17269 votes)
183	To Be or Not to Be (1942) 7.9/10 (2788 votes)
184	Killing, The (1956) 7.9/10 (5322 votes)
185	Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 7.8/10 (4339 votes)
186	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 7.8/10 (5759 votes)
187	Being John Malkovich (1999) 7.8/10 (44795 votes)
188	Exorcist, The (1973) 7.8/10 (26819 votes)
189	Harvey (1950) 7.8/10 (6400 votes)
190	Mulholland Dr. (2001) 7.8/10 (26809 votes)
191	Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 7.8/10 (11651 votes)
192	Stand by Me (1986) 7.8/10 (25155 votes)
193	Hotaru no haka (1988) 7.8/10 (4638 votes)
194	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 7.8/10 (41674 votes)
195	Twelve Monkeys (1995) 7.8/10 (51862 votes)
196	Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) 7.8/10 (6439 votes)
197	Terminator, The (1984) 7.8/10 (49292 votes)
198	Gandhi (1982) 7.8/10 (12887 votes)
199	Trainspotting (1996) 7.8/10 (42579 votes)
200	Groundhog Day (1993) 7.8/10 (35906 votes)
201	Lion in Winter, The (1968) 7.8/10 (4702 votes)
202	This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 7.8/10 (16056 votes)
203	Miller's Crossing (1990) 7.8/10 (11343 votes)
204	21 Grams (2003) 7.8/10 (10659 votes)
205	Big Fish (2003) 7.8/10 (16067 votes)
206	Ikiru (1952) 7.8/10 (2776 votes)
207	Whale Rider (2002) 7.8/10 (6701 votes)
208	Right Stuff, The (1983) 7.8/10 (10981 votes)
209	Rain Man (1988) 7.8/10 (35025 votes)
210	Adaptation. (2002) 7.8/10 (17461 votes)
211	Strada, La (1954) 7.8/10 (3857 votes)
212	Network (1976) 7.8/10 (7644 votes)
213	Midnight Cowboy (1969) 7.8/10 (10580 votes)
214	Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 7.8/10 (10188 votes)
215	Laura (1944) 7.8/10 (3712 votes)
216	8½ (1963) 7.8/10 (6200 votes)
217	Stagecoach (1939) 7.8/10 (4506 votes)
218	Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La (1928) 7.8/10 (2511 votes)
219	King Kong (1933) 7.8/10 (8132 votes)
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Yet another crush on a French actress...

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 01:30:30 GMT

I watched "Une Femme est une Femme" last night...her petulant beauty takes my breath away...

Belmondo (the epitome of sexy-ugly) cracked me up.

Because I don't have ENOUGH internet communities to occupy me right now...

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Mon, 31 May 2004 17:35:05 GMT

Are any of you guys on Friendster? I just joined.

Insanely long book meme

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Mon, 31 May 2004 07:54:11 GMT

stolen from empfindsamkeit

*bold those you've read
*italicise started-but-never-finished
*add three of your own
*underline those you own but haven't gotten to yet
*post to your livejournal

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
207. Winter's Heart, Robert Jordan
208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
213. The Married Man, Edmund White
214. Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin
215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
225. Tartuffe, Moliere
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
232. A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen
233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
240. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
241. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
242. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
245.Candide, Voltaire
246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum
259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
261. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
264. A Yellow Rraft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
269. Witch of Black Bird Pond, Joyce Friedland
270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien
271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Jester
275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
276. The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan
277. The Bone Setter's Daughter, Amy Tan
278. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
283. Haunted, Judith St. George
284. Singularity, William Sleator
285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
286. Different Seasons, Stephen King
287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
289. The Bookman's Wake, John Dunning
290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
291. Illusions, Richard Bach
292. Magic's Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
293. Magic's Promise, Mercedes Lackey
294. Magic's Price, Mercedes Lackey
295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
302. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
304. The Lion's Game, Nelson Demille
305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
306. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
307. Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
314. The Giver, Lois Lowry
315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
316. Xenogenesis (or Lilith's Brood), Octavia Butler (Dawn, Adulthood Rites,
Imago)
317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern
322. Beowulf, Anonymous
323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
326. Passage, Connie Willis
327. Otherland, Tad Williams
328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
330. Beloved, Toni Morrison
331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
332. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
335. The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev
336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
338. The Genesis Code, John Case
339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
340. Paradise Lost, John Milton
341. Phantom, Susan Kay
342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
346: The Winter of Magic's Return, Pamela Service
347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime O'Neill
351. Othello, by William Shakespeare
352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
354. Sati, Christopher Pike
355. The Inferno, Dante
356. The Apology, Plato
357. The Small Rain, Madeline L'Engle
358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
335. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
336. The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
337. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
338. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
339. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
340. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
341. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
342. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
343. Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
344. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
345. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
346. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
347. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
348. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
349. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
350. Time for bed by David Baddiel
351. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
352. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
353. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
354. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
355. Jhereg by Steven Brust
356. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
357. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
358. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
359. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
360. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
361. Neuromancer, William Gibson
362. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
363. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
364. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
365. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
366. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
367. Absalom, Absalom, William Faulkner
368. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
369. Dreamhouse, Alison Habens
370. Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
371. Prospero's Children, Jan Siegel
372. Gaudy Night, Dorothy Sayers
373. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
374. Enchantment, Orson Scott Card
375. Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold
376. Beauty, Sheri S. Tepper
377. The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector
378. The Patron Saint of Liars, Ann Patchett
379. Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson.
380. A wizard of Earthsea, Ursula Le'Guin
381. Assassin's Apprentice, Robin Hobb
382. The Axis Trilogy, Sara Douglass
383. Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie
384. Sabriel, Garth Nix
385. Maurice, E.M. Forster
386. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
387. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
388. Bloodtide, Melvin Burgess
389. Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk
390. Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
391. V, Thomas Pynchon
392. Swann's Way, Marcel Proust
393. Les liaisons dangereuses, Choderlos de Laclos
394. Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
395. Gender Trouble, Judith Butler

396. Wise Children, Angela Carter

397. In America, Susan Sontag

398. The Stranger, Albert Camus

sigh

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Sat, 29 May 2004 04:20:11 GMT

What does it say about my desperation to find a summer job that I applied to Chuck E. Cheese today?

Hmmm....

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Fri, 28 May 2004 03:36:56 GMT

This day just keeps getting weirder and weirder....

Mmmmmm, Adjani...

mayawithaneye@gmail.com — Thu, 27 May 2004 22:57:22 GMT

So I go to the temp agency in DC this morning only to find out that I came too late; there are too many applicants and I need to come back Wednesday morning, damnit.

My day wasn't completely lousy though; I saw this film--

I'm going to start by saying that Adjani, at 48, doesn't look a day over 35, and she's still mind-bogglingly (yay, new adverb!) gorgeous. Add Virginie Ledoyen and Yvan Attal to the eye-candy equation and Maya was a happy little Francophile.

The film itself wasn't that amazing, but I did enjoy myself. From the reviews, I had expected a bunch of aristos frolicking around in occupied France, but it was less of a comedy than I had imagined (although there were funny moments). Really, the film was more about human frailty and morality, something that is not always inborn. At least, that's what I got out of it, and I'm probably making it sound more substantial than it really was. "Bon Voyage" was a little too Hollywoodized in parts for my liking, but I did welcome the happy ending. What I DID like was that the film didn't impose judgements on its characters in quite the same way that other WWII-set films have done. Yeah, the Nazis were sort of buffoonish, but the collaborators themselves were painted in neutral colors. It's up to the viewer to judge.

Can I get back to Adjani for a minute? Although Gerard Depardieu, Attal (sigh, so cute), and Ledoyen were also very good, the woman OWNED the film. Her character, a glamorous, spoiled movie star, wasn't the most sympathetic character (she's willingly blind to the strife around her), but Adjani made her funny, kittenishly sexy and real. She had this one great scene where she's trying to get Depardieu, as her Nazi collaborator-lover, to cave into her demands. So Adjani lets loose a big phony melodramatic tantrum, only to turn immediately sunny the minute she gets what she wants...it was awesome. In a way, I think this role is slightly poking fun of her persona as the Queen of Beautiful Sad Martyred French Heroines. I looooooooove this woman (as if it's not obvious, hehe).

Oh, and I saw Shrek II the other day (along with half of the American population). Loved the movie as much as I loved Banderas.