The Return of a Dog Poet

He's back! And apparently in a mostly-clothed film role in a flick titled "Vanilla" at the Philly Int'l Gay and Lesbian Film Fest.

"I AM Big! It's the Pictures That Got Small!"

This has nothing to do with Miz Norma Desmond or Sunset Blvd., just a list of movies, documentaries, and tv shows that the incoming students to the USC Film School are expected to see. I got this via Byrne who got it via FARB who got it via Gideonse Bible who in turn got it from Sarah. (Dang! Sounds like a social disease!)

Anyway, the ones I've seen have been bolded.

MOVIES:
A Hard Day's Night
African Queen
Alice in the Cities
Alien
All About Eve
Amadeus
American Friend, The
American Grafitti
Annie Hall
Apartment, The
Apocalype Now
Apu Trilogy, The
Band of Outsiders
Band Wagon, The
Barton Fink
Battle of Algiers
Being John Malkovich
Bicycle Thief, The
Big Lebowski, The
Black Orpheus
Blade Runner
Blow-Up
Blue
Blue Velvet
Bob le Flambeur
Bonnie and Clyde
Boyz 'n the Hood
Breathless
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Carrie
Casablanca
Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis)
Chinatown
Cinema Paradiso
Citizen Kane
Clueless
Coal Miner's Daughter
Contempt
Conversation, The
Cool Hand Luke
Crimes And Misdemeanors
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Deep End, The
Dekalog
Dersu Uzala
Diner (half)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The
D.O.A. (1950)
Do The Right Thing
Dog Day Afternoon
Donnie Darko
Double Indemnity
Dr. Strangelove
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
8 1/2
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Exorcist, The
Fallen Idol, The
Fight Club
Fish Called Wanda, A
Five Easy Pieces
Force of Evil
Godfather, The (I & II)
Gone With the Wind
Graduate, The
Grand Illusion
High and Low
High Noon
House of Sand and Fog
It Happened One Night
Jaws
Jules and Jim
King of Marvin Gardens, The
Kramer Vs. Kramer
La Jetée
La Strada
Lady Eve, The
Last Tango in Paris (half of it)
L'Avventura
Lawrence of Arabia
Le Boucher
Le Samouraï
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Like Water for Chocolate
Man for All Seasons, A
Matrix, The
M*A*S*H
Memento
Midnight Cowboy
Miller's Crossing
Mother and the Whore, The
Morocco
Mulholland Drive
Nashville
Network
Night Moves
Ninotchka
Notorious
On the Waterfront
Once Upon a Time in the West
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Out of the Past
Paths of Glory
Patton
Point Blank
Producers, The
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Ran
Rashomon
Rear Window
Red
Red Balloon, The
Repo Man
Rules of the Game
Safe
Searchers, The
Seven Samurai
Seventh Seal, The
Shanghai Express
Shock Corridor
Shoot the Piano Player
Silence of the Lambs
Stagecoach
Star is Born, A (1937)
Star Wars
Stranger Than Paradise
Sullivan's Travels
Sunset Boulevard
Talk to Her (half)
Thelma and Louise
Third Man, The
Tin Drum, The
Touch of Evil
Traffic
Trouble in Paradise
2001 - A Space Odyssey
Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The
Underworld U.S.A.
Unforgiven
Verdict, The
Vertigo
White
Wild Strawberries
Wizard of Oz, The
Written on the Wind
Woman in the Dunes
You Can Count on Me

DOCUMENTARIES:
Sorrow and the Pity, The
Harlan Country, USA
Dogtown and Z Boys
My Architect
Triumph of the Will
Hoop Dreams
Roger and Me
Super Size Me
Grey Gardens
Gimme Shelter
Crumb
Spellbound
Capturing the Friedmans
Riding Giants
The War Room
Don't Look Back
Brother's Keeper
What the Bleep do we know?
The Thin Blue Line
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control
The Kid Stays in the Picture
Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser
Control Room
The Celluloid Closet
Sans Soleil
Poto and Cabengo

TV [available to Rent]:
Six Feet Under
The Sopranos
Sex and the City
Freaks and Geeks
All in the Family
MASH
Seinfeld
24
Arrested Development
Gilmore Girls
Good Times
The Wonder Years
The Shield
The Wire
The Office

I'm surprized that there's a few things left off the list. I wonder how the person who threw the list together made his/her choices? No silents, no Harold and Maude, no John Waters, no Monty Python?

Watch Out, Siskel and Ebert!

The Muppets have struck again, this time with Statler and Waldorf reviewing new flicks! Along with Pepe the Prawn doing a segment on the new dvd releases (in which he calls Sandra Bullock's recent flick "Miss Congenitalia 2")

This week, Stadler and Waldorf review War of the Worlds and Bewitched

Link courtesy of Modern Fabulousity.

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And could someone PLEASE make TommyGurl shut the fuck up!?

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Which Rocky Horror Picture Show character are you? Magenta A Domestic

Click Here to Take This Quiz Brought to you by YouThink.com quizzes and personality tests.

Testing. Testing. 1-2-3

I've spotted this on a couple of sites already and I figured I'd post about it for those who might be interested in taking it. Cameron Marlowe from the MIT Media Lab is running it as a general social survey of the "Greater weblog community" in order to see how weblogs are affecting the way we communicate.

It seems to be a serious, legit survey instead of those fun, fluffy one on quizilla or wherever.

Beware the Beer That Turns You Into an Ostrich!

Came across this ad on screenhead.com for a Belgian beer company called Stella Artois. Very well done with a tip of the hat to Luis Buñuel and with music by theramin virtuoso Clara Rockmore.


Rockmore with theramin

Hoodie

Hell�s Kitchen/ Theatre District 94% Alphabet City 89% Washington Heights 83% El Barrio 78% Chelsea 78% Harlem 67% Upper West Side/ Morningside Heights 61% Upper East Side 56% Inwood 45% Stuyvesant Town 45% Kips Bay 39% Financial District/Battery Park 39% SoHo/ TriBeCa 33% China Town 33% Which neighborhood in Manhattan is best for you? created with QuizFarm.com

Quiz found over on FARB's blog.

Question is, tho - Where the hell is the El Barrio neighborhood in New York?

Another Cute Video...

...to hold yer attention while I get over this lethargy caused by two 110 degree days in a row, a pulled muscle in my lower back, and a lousy run of poor sleep since my bipap machine (yeah, I got sleep apnea) dropped dead on me nearly 2 weeks ago and I still haven't got a loaner approved yet due to my doc's ditzy assistant.

Anyway, meet Olivia Newton John...




...a Sony Aibo (a robot puppy dog) that won Sony's dance challenge by dancing to Daft Punk! Also check out Tara and Mister, the 2nd and 3rd place winners! Danged cute. DANCE PUPPY! DANCE!

Yes, I'm Still Alive

Just a quick note to say that and that, for those interested, Battlestar Galactica returns July 15th.

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Just came across these over on screenhead.com and thought I'd pass them along.

This one is from the bunny re-enacted theater gang:



Pulp Fiction in 30 Seconds and re-enacted by bunnies.

They'll be putting out "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" in July!!

This one...



...is an ad put out by Blaupunkt seemingly titled "Pimp My Ride" and gives new meaning to Furries Sex.

In Honor of the Michael Jackson Case

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog reporting from outside the Jackson Trial.

Well, This Sucks

So a Mainstay Hospital Can Expand, a Signature Theater Will Go Dark

Just found out that Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center will be tearing down the Beekman Theater on 66th St. and 2nd Ave. in order to build a breast and diagnostic imaging center. Now, it's obviously for a good reason and not some God-forsaken overpriced condo (like the belated Baronet and Coronet Theaters on 59th St. and 3rd Ave.) or some chi-chi overpriced boutique but the theater was one of my old neighborhood theaters. It's wierd seeing bits of yer childhood "backyard" disappear forever.

Another One Too Good Not to Pass On

Found this one over on screenhead.com that has Shatner spoofing not only himself and three of his characters that he's played over the years but also the ending of the film Se7en:

Shatner's Seven.

A Couple of Links I Just Had to Post.

Too funny and sometimes quite true: Min Jung's Lifecycle of Bloggers

What's scarier than Celine Dion or Michael Jackson? Celine Dion DOING Michael Jackson! (Quicktime needed)

Both links courtesy of/via Ernie.

Here's To You, Mrs. Robinson

Actress Anne Bancroft dies in New York

That saddens me. I always liked her from the first time I saw her in The Miracle Worker back in the mid-60's through many of her movies and it was a treat to see her in what was her first movie role in Don't Bother to Knock with Marilyn Monroe and Richard Widmark. Another film she did was in a small film titled 84 Charing Cross Road, which is one of the books I always loved.

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I've been spending some time the past few days battling the fucking fundie idiots over on AOL which has taken a bit of energy recently so that's one reason I landed up taking longer than I thought away from here.

Another reason is that I've been searching through the 1910 and 1920 censuses over on Ancestry.com trying to locate various and assorted family members. I did manage to find a few more.

One item which I printed up and faxed to my parents was the draft registration card of my paternal grandfather that was dated June 65, 1918 so it turned 87 this past Sunday. Something about it fascinated me and seeing it meant more than I realized.

He died 3 1/2 years before I was born and I was named after him (a tradition in Jewish families - to name a child after a relative that died before the child's birth). I've only seen pictures and silent black and white films of him that my family has and that was it. Now, being able to see his handwriting as well and some history (his address at the time as well as his employer) added to making him more real. Alas, I'll never be able to meet him, hear his voice, or get to know him but at least he's a bit more alive now to me.

Italian Beefcake; Bush is a Boob and Chaney's a Chump; Betty Bowers - I Love You!; To Paraphrase Anthony Newley: What Kind of Train Am I?

Just for Meg, Bex, Ceece, Kathy, and Nancy (who dared me to post this!):




Italian soccer player Francesco Totti leaving a soccer match. Er....is this the latest in the team's uniform?

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Here's Prez Bush's and Part-automaton Cheney's reaction to Amnesty International's accusation that the U.S. had human rights violations in Guantanamo Bay prison.

Cheney: "For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don't take them seriously," he said in an interview that aired Monday night on CNN's "Larry King Live."

Bush: "It's an absurd allegation. The United States is a country that promotes freedom around the world," Bush said of the Amnesty International report that compared Guantanamo to a Soviet-era gulag.

Yeah, whatever guys! I'm just glad they can't be elected again.

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And here's a wonderful missive from America's best Christian, Miz Betty Bowers commenting on TommyBoy Cruise's recent acting on the Oprah Show where she gets her jabs on Tom, Oprah, Pat Kingsley, Patsy "Who killed my little JonBenet?" Ramsey, and Pope Eggs Benedict. Enjoy!

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You are artistic, a bit whimsical, and less iconic
than the train on the other side of the Park.
Others may see you as an odd conglomeration of
new and old-fashioned ideas, but you realize
that's part of your charm.


Which New York City subway line are you?
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Which is just swell with me since I lived near a couple of 4,5, and/or 6 stops for the last 11 years I lived in NYC.

Quiz stumbled upon at FARB's site.