100+ Movies You Probably Shoulda Seen

Before I left China, I took a hungover 15 - 20 minutes (I was actually late for my class I was teaching because of it) to comprise this list I dubbed: "Flicks For Deb." Debbie (pictured, getting checked into the lake by me) is my beautiful good friend from Chi-town. She's an ice skater from way back, and of Taiwanese descent. The Debster, a sensitive girl--like Tommy from Snatch, missed a few key entertainment elements of life growing up as she was busy turning triple axles in hot short skirts and tights. She's a tremendous human and great to have by your side in Chinese character writing class, but she missed some not-to-be-missed movies in the midst of her olympics-prep-filled childhood, which sort of continued into her adulthood. So in trying to change that, I listed these movies in no particular order--just as they came to my less-than-full-speed mind that particular day.

It should be noted that this wasn't supposed to be all the best movies, but rather great ones in their individual rights. Some are super popular and most folks have seen, while others were more hidden gems that may have been commonly overlooked. Whether tear-jerkers, kidney-failure-inducing funny, culturally relevant in some way, or just generally rad, I believe one's life might be bettered by having seen a solid 90% of these, if not all.

There were plenty of movies left out for whatever reason--surely I haven't seen every cool movie; also the painfully obvious blockbusters were not exactly focused on per se; also, my hangover and rush to get to class that day cannot be overstated. Take it for what it is. Enjoy.

1. The Big Lebowski
2. Snatch
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Beverly Hills Cop 1 and 2
5. Big Trouble in Little China
6. Boogie Nights
7. Boondock Saints
8. Braveheart
9. Caddyshack
10. Clerks
11. Departed
12. Die Hard
13. Fifth Element
14. Full Metal Jacket
15. The Life Aquatic
16. The Wedding Singer
17. Goodfellas
18. Groundhog Day
19. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & 2
20. Dirty Work
21. Major League
22. The Matrix
23. Office Space
24. The Princess Bride
25. Reservoir Dogs
26. Revenge of the Nerds
27. Scarface
28. Stand by Me
29. Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
30. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
31. Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
32. Starship Troopers
33. Tombstone
34. Total Recall
35. Dumb & Dumber
36. 40 yr old virgin
37. Old School
38. Ronin
39. Zoolander
40. Cable Guy
41. Field Of Dreams
42. Bull Durham
43. Stripes
44. Napoleon Dynamite
45. True Lies
46. The Waterboy
47. Rudy
48. Garden State
49. Dazed & Confused
50. Fast Times At Ridgemont High
51. Dogma
52. Ghostbusters 1 and 2
53. Desperado
54. The Natural
55. Diggstown
56. O’ brother where art thou
57. The Darjeeling Limited
58. Tommy Boy
59. Wayne’s World
60. Wayne’s World 2
61. Bio-Dome
62. Black Sheep
63. Saving Silverman
64. Hot Shots
65. Hot Shots Part Deux
66. The Naked Gun
67. Big Daddy
68. Swingers
69. Anchorman
70. Semi-Pro
71. Talladega Nights
72. Starsky and Hutch
73. Wedding Crashers
74. Kingpin
75. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
76. Dodgeball
77. Get Shorty
78. There’s something About Mary
79. Happy Gilmore
80. Billy Madison
81. Tropic Thunder
82. Charlie Wilson’s War
83. Superbad
84. Spaceballs
85. Airplane
86. When Harry Met Sally
87. Bloodsport
88. Ferris Bueler’s Day Off
89. Gladiator
90. Pan’s Labyrinth
91. Gangs of New York
92. Sideways
93. Memento
94. The Bourne Identity; The Bourne Supremacy; The Bourne Ultimatum
95. Dave Chappelle’s Block Party
96. Friday
97. Rocky 1 – 4
98. The Godfather Parts 1 and 2
99. Casablanca
100.My Blue Heaven

CONVINCING RICKY: an ode to baseball

Ricky D, I'm tellin ya, baseball is truly a fine ale.  

As Spring Training fades into Opening Day....the boys hustle valiantly, fighting off perhaps expected improved mediocrity with the unknown of promising young infielders mixed with the slighter side of the league's quality heady veterans. 

Speaking in your language, The 2011 Stros should be a healthy cross between this year's Sixers and Grizzlies. Solid players. Guys to hope for, guys to make fun of, e.g. Big Fatty, and young kids to encourage, like Brett Wallace aka: Tree Trunks McNugent (aka T.T. McNuge). 

As a baseball fan, you'll have a relaxing something-to-do every night of the week: watch the game somewhere between a channel-flipping passiveness and a Rockets game-watching-focus. Of course, going to the Juice Box is wonderful--a DOGandaBEER at a ballgame is as culturally relevant as fireworks on the 4th of July. But becoming at least a relaxed casual fan: it's a great background for bars, parties, get-togeths, and driving--a calming constant in our involved lives for the hot-weather half of the year. Just wait until your first pennant race--leisure life doesn't get more intensely stimulating than that.

You're as open-minded a cat as anyone (which is rare).

Pick it up, Ma Bru, as it will you.

May baseball find you well.

Adam

I'm Telling Ya: The Whole World's Coming To An End

The antichrist very soon annihilates the three

The unbelievers are dead, captive, exiled;

with blood, human bodies, water, and red hail covering the earth

-Nostradamus

You are soon going to die....in theory. Don't worry--I will too.

You know what they said on those Nostradamus History Channel specials years ago? They said Japan's current massive life disturbance is all part of the plan.  The collective theory of historians and scientists giving merit to the 12/21/12 notion, first allegedly prophesied independently by the mathematically brilliant Mayans (few thousand years ago) and then No'damus (16th century), is that everything will culminate to THE END.

Everything = utter natural chaos of Earth + human-induced chaos of Earth + unexplained shit

Examples?
In the last ten years, we've seen:

Genocide in Africa
9/11
War in Iraq
War in Afganistan
Columbia shuttle disintegrates upon atmospheric re-entry in 2003
European heat waves - 35,000+ lives
Iran quake - 40,000+ lives
SARS outbreak
Bird Flu
Red Sox won the World Series in 2004
9.1 quake and Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004 - 250,000+ lives
Kashmir quake of 2005 - 80,000 lives
Katrina, Rita, Ike
AHMADINEJAD - dude's just a dick
Red Sox won A-fuckin-GAIN
Myanmar cyclone - 146,000 lives
Sichuan quake - 60,000+ lives
Anyone else notice a plane crash like every week in 2009?
Swine Flu
Miners were oddly trapped all over the world in 2010
Russian heat waves - 56,000 lives
9.0+ quakes in Chile in 2010
The Koreas are imminently going to nuclear war and dragging us with them.
Haiti quake - 320,000 lives
Iceland Volcano eruptions stopped travel in Europe
This winter in America has been insane! East coast snow storms; 22 degrees in Houston--just ridiculous!
Japan.....as I type this.....

Supposedly, life should get hostile and unpredictably unstable with EXTREME both natural and unnatural series of "events" leading up to.....something.

Disasters + Hate = ???

Now, I don't put foil on my head and hide in the basement with my orderly stacks of canned goods or anything, but if no other "normal" folk (what the hell does that even mean?) are gonna concede to the otherwise nut-job possibility that we may only have 21 months left to live....I'll say that shit.

LIVE YOUR LIFE

SHORT SPANISH FILM

You got ten minutes?

No es lo que parece from Sebastián Duarte on Vimeo.

Great musical direction in this shocking dark drama from España. Understanding Spanish helps, but by no means necessary.
Enjoy!