Get Cynical

Radmila from My2SecondShelfLife posted her list of movies that she has seen. I am bolding the ones I have seen from the list.

1. Snatch

2. 25th Hour
3. Godfather I II III(I refuse to watch the third one.)
4. Momento

5. Roxanne(Only Steve Martin could have pulled this one off)
6. Shallow Grave
7. Nightmare Before Christmas
8. Jackie Brown
9. Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
10. Formula 51
11. Pulp Fiction(The best movie of the 90s)
12. To Sir with Love
13. Burnt by The Sun
14. Cabaret Balkan
15. Beautiful Girls
16. La Femme Nakita
17. Edward Scissorhands
18. This Boy’s Life
19. Four Weddings & a Funeral
20. About a Boy
21. Goodfellas(I know this film verbatim)
22. Casino

23. The Usual Suspects

24. Seven

25. Punch Drunk Love
26. Fargo(I was speaking with that accent for weeks afterward)
27. Bend it Like Beckham(A bit boring I thought)
28. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

29. Notting Hill

30. Shakespeare in Love

31. Young Frankenstein

32. Blazing Saddles

33. The Life of Brian

34. The Joy Luck Club

35. Othello (the one with Lawrence Fishburne)
36. When Father Was Away on Business
37. Mother
38. True Romance

39. Dog Day Afternoon
40. Scarface
41. The Other Sister
42. Domenick & Eugene
43. Broken English
44. Reservoir Dogs

45. Snapper
46. The Onion Field
47. Pretty in Pink
48. The Breakfast Club
49. The Green Mile
50. Philidelphia
51. Antwone Fisher
52. Corina, Corina
53. Goin’ Down The Road
54. Sound of Music
55. Madame X
56. Imitation of Life
57. The Replacements
58. The Wizard of Oz
59. Fiddler on the Roof (I have yet to see it. Maybe one day..)
60. The Road to Perdition
61. Dead Man Walking

62. The Player
63. Doctor Zivago
64. Shindler’s List
65. The Dirty Dozen
66. Monty Python and the Holy Grail(classic)
67. Lolita (the original)
68. Shallow Hal
69. The Fine Young Cannibals
70. Round Midnight
71. American History X(Ed Norton was incredible in this)
72. The Outsiders
73. Rumblefish
74. Perfect Storm
75. A Bronx Tale(Did DeNiro give Scorcese anything for ripping his style?
76. Fight Club
77. 12 Angry Men(One of the best on this list)
78. A Patch of Blue
79. Remember the Titans
81. Little Odessa
82. Moonstruck(I don’t remember anything about this movie other than I saw it)
83. Sixth Sense
84. Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean
85. The Professional
86. The Valley of the Dolls
87. Dead Calm
88. Zelig

89. What’s Up, Tiger Lily

90. The Party
91. Wait Until Dark
92. To Kill a Mockingbird(Incredible book, Great Movie)
93. Empire
94. Mrs. Doubtfire
95. Save the Last Dance
96. My Girl
97. Paris is Burning
98. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
99. Rear Window
100. Irma LaDuce
101. Tribute
102. Harold & Maude
103. Clockwork Orange
104. This is Spinal Tap
105. Hardball
106. Slingblade
107. Pay it Forward(I hate movies that are preachy)
108. As Good as it Gets

From the Financial Times:

India’s technology industry has attacked proposed new US legislation that bans the outsourcing of federal work to low cost countries arguing it is a protectionist measure contrary to the spirit of free trade.

The move by the US Senate coincides with decisions by a number of foreign companies to halt further outsourcing to India because of a new domestic tax ruling that would enable the Indian government to tax part of their worldwide earnings.

My feelings on this? Fuck Free Trade. I have seen too many good people lose their jobs because the company decided it would be better to ship their jobs overseas and save on salaries and benefits. This has been happening for awhile with manufacturing jobs and nobody said anything. Now it is starting to hit white collar jobs and people are starting to wake up a bit.

The No-Contact Jacket is a wearable defensive jacket created to aid women in their
struggle for protection from violence. When activated by the wearer, 80,000 volts of low
amperage electric current pulses just below the surface shell of the entire jacket. This
exo-electric armor prevents any person from unauthorized contact with the wearer’s body.

Once they outlaw jackets, only outlaws will have jackets.

(via Weird Links)

Damn Nazis ruined everything!!

(via Attu Sees All)

Brothers, sisters and siblings of other genders; I’m here today to share with you a vision; a vision of a church without revelation, without prayer, without superstition and, most of all, without God.

Some might ask if it’s even possible to have a church without God. The answer to that is simple: There is no God, so every single Church on Earth, from the smallest, storefront loony cult to the largest, mainstream, world-spanning loony cult is, in fact, a Church without God.

But they do have a collection basket.

When you put a sign on the freeway
people will read it
until someone takes it down.

PresidentMatch.com asks you a series of questions and then tells you what candidates you have the most common views with. My top three were:

Kucinich
Dean
Kerry

Bush came in last.

In the spring of 2003, with the snow melting away and a somewhat recent move downtown, I started to notice something. Writing. On the street. Political messages, artistic graffiti, guerilla marketing. New York is a city of carless walkers which makes sidewalks an effective medium if you want to spread a message.

FactCheck.Org is:

We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit, “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases. Our goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding.

Sounds interesting. I will be visiting this site alot. I am always a bit suspicious when anyone says they are nonpartisan.