SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 85 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list, go to your own Xanga account, paste this as an entry. Then, put x's next to the films you've seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and submit. Have fun.
(X) Rocky Horror Picture Show ( ) Grease (X) Pirates of the Caribbean (X) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest ( ) Boondock Saints (X) Fight Club ( ) Starsky and Hutch (X) The Neverending Story (X) Blazing Saddles (X) Airplane
(X) The Princess Bride ( ) Anchorman ( ) Napoleon Dynamite (X) Labyrinth ( ) Saw ( ) Saw II ( ) White Noise ( ) White Oleander ( ) Anger Management ( ) 50 First Dates ( ) The Princess Diaries ( )The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Subtotal #1: 9
(X) Scream (X) Scream 2 (X) Scream 3 (X) Scary Movie (X) Scary Movie 2 (X) Scary Movie 3 ( ) Scary Movie 4 (X) American Pie (X) American Pie 2 ( ) American Wedding ( ) American Pie Band Camp
(X) Harry Potter 1 (X) Harry Potter 2 (X) Harry Potter 3 (X) Harry Potter 4 (X) Resident Evil 1 (X) Resident Evil 2 ( ) The Wedding Singer ( ) Little Black Book (X) The Village (X) Lilo & Stitch
Subtotal #2: 15
(X) Finding Nemo ( ) Finding Neverland (X) Signs ( ) The Grinch (X) Texas Chainsaw Massacre ( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning ( ) White Chicks (X) Butterfly Effect ( ) 13 Going on 30 (X) I, Robot ( ) Robots
( ) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story ( ) Universal Soldier (X) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events ( ) Along Came Polly (X) Deep Impact ( ) KingPin (X) Never Been Kissed (X) Meet The Parents (X) Meet the Fockers ( ) Eight Crazy Nights (X) Joe Dirt ( ) King Kong*
Subtotal #3: 11
( ) A Cinderella Story (X) The Terminal ( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie ( ) Passport to Paris (X) Dumb & Dumber ( ) Dumber & Dumberer ( ) Final Destination ( ) Final Destination 2 ( ) Final Destination 3 ( ) Halloween ( ) The Ring ( ) The Ring 2 ( ) Surviving X-MAS ( ) Flubber
( ) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle ( ) Practical Magic (X) Chicago ( ) Ghost Ship ( ) From Hell (X) Hellboy ( ) Secret Window (X) I Am Sam (X) The Whole Nine Yards (X) The Whole Ten Yards
Subtotal #4: 7
(X) The Day After Tomorrow ( ) Child's Play ( ) Seed of Chucky ( ) Bride of Chucky (X) Ten Things I Hate About You ( ) Just Married (X) Gothika (X) Nightmare on Elm Street ( ) Sixteen Candles (X) Remember the Titans ( ) Coach Carter ( ) The Grudge ( ) The Grudge 2 (X) The Mask ( ) Son Of The Mask
(X) Bad Boys ( ) Bad Boys 2 ( ) Joy Ride ( ) Lucky Number Slevin ( ) Ocean's Eleven ( ) Ocean's Twelve (X) Bourne Identity (X) Bourne Supremecy ( ) Lone Star (X) Bedazzled ( ) Predator I ( ) Predator II ( ) The Fog (X) Ice Age (X) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown ( ) Curious George
Subtotal #5: 12
(X) Independence Day ( ) Cujo ( ) A Bronx Tale ( ) Darkness Falls (X) Christine (X) ET (X) Children of the Corn ( ) My Boss's Daughter ( ) Maid in Manhattan (X) War of the Worlds (X) Rush Hour (X) Rush Hour 2
( ) Best Bet (X) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days ( ) She's All That ( ) Calendar Girls ( ) Sideways (X) Mars Attacks (X) Event Horizon (X) Ever After (X) Wizard of Oz ( ) Forrest Gump ( ) Big Trouble in Little China (X) The Terminator (X) The Terminator 2 (X) The Terminator 3
Subtotal #6: 15
(X) X-Men (X) X-2 (X) X-3 (X) Spider-Man (X) Spider-Man 2 (X) Sky High (X) Jeepers Creepers ( ) Jeepers Creepers 2 ( ) Catch Me If You Can (X) The Little Mermaid (X) Freaky Friday (X) Reign of Fire ( ) The Skulls ( ) Cruel Intentions (X) Cruel Intentions 2 ( ) The Hot Chick (X) Shrek (X) Shrek 2
( ) Swimfan (X) Miracle on 34th street ( ) Old School ( ) The Notebook (X) K-Pax (X) Krippendorf's Tribe ( ) A Walk to Remember (X) Ice Castles (X) Boogeyman ( ) The 40-year-old Virgin
Subtotal #7: 18
(X) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring (X) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers (X) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King (X) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (X) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (X) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
(X) Baseketball ( ) Hostel ( ) Waiting for Guffman ( ) House of 1000 Corpses ( ) Devils Rejects ( ) Elf (X) Highlander ( ) Mothman Prophecies ( ) American History X ( ) Three
Subtotal #8: 8
( ) The Jackal (X) Kung Fu Hustle ( ) Shaolin Soccer ( ) Night Watch ( ) Monsters Inc. (X) Titanic (X) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (X) Shaun Of the Dead ( ) Willard
( ) High Tension ( ) Club Dread (X) Hulk ( ) Dawn Of the Dead (X) Hook (X) Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe ( ) 28 days later ( ) Orgazmo ( ) Phantasm (X) Waterworld
Subtotal #9: 7
(X) Kill Bill vol 1 (X) Kill Bill vol 2 (X) Mortal Kombat ( ) Wolf Creek (X) Kingdom of Heaven ( ) The Hills Have Eyes ( ) I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman ( ) The Last House on the Left ( ) Re-Animator ( ) Army of Darkness
(X) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace (X) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones (X) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith (X) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope (X) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back (X) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi ( ) Ewoks Caravan Of Courage ( ) Ewoks The Battle For Endor
(X) The Matrix (X) The Matrix Reloaded (X) The Matrix Revolutions ( ) Animatrix ( ) Evil Dead ( ) Evil Dead 2 ( ) Team America: World Police (X) Red Dragon ( ) Silence of the Lambs (X) Hannibal
I just got a call. After 26 years in the same mall, and after I've worked there for 5 1/2 years, the bookstore that has been my 2nd (3rd?) job is being closed. Luckily, I was not dependent on the income from there to support myself, just my addiction. Guess I'll have to find another way to spring for my habit. Darn it.
Does anyone know just how much work it takes to support a $200 a month addiction? I know its not all THAT much, but still, my primary job just barely covers my mortgage and living expenses. I guess I'll start suffering withdrawals in a couple of weeks when the gate closes for good, but until then, I'm gonna try to stock up enough to last me for a while. Maybe I can get enough to last til summer, and the summer jobs open up. If they open up this year.
(you do all realize I'm talking about my reading addiction, right?)
I truly do enjoy my job. It is challenging, exciting, and everyday offers a new insight. Not to say that at times it isn't really frustrating, confusing, and a total emotional letdown, but hey. Life is.
Today, I ran into a new frustration level event. (Kind of like a scientific ELE - Extinction Level Event - something that should it occur will in all probability eradicate most life on earth)
My event isn't quite extinction level, but if the general situation doesn't change, I doubt I'll keep my job more than another year. And only that long because I'm under contract.
For those unaware, I teach high school in an extremely depressed, high-poverty area of the country. Additionally, it is an extremely small school. (I didn't graduate from a large school, but there were more people in my graduating class (181) than in the entire 7 - 12 grades where I teach. And almost as many as in the entire school pre-K through 12)
I personally believe that every person should be able to pursue any career they want, whether it is to grow up and be a truck driver, or work in a chicken-plant, or be a farmer, or teacher, or preacher or even President. But I am aware that coming from background of these students, the cards are stacked against them. Most of them have never been more than about 50 miles away from where they were born, and none of them have any real concept of what is available in the "real world out there."
So, a couple of years ago, I convinced the school board to allow me to start a club on campus designed to educate the students about the world by allowing them to explore other cultures. Appropriately, we call it the Multi-Cultural Club. Each academic year, we have 9 meetings where a different student will give a short presentation about another culture. Additionally, toward the end of each year, usually spring break or the first week of summer, I take them out of state to see things that cannot be found in the state I teach in. Like art museums, and national memorials, and historic sites.
This year, I planned to take them to Chicago with the intent of studying everything from the great fire of 1871, to the World Fair of 1893, to the mobsters of the roaring 20's, the Chicago Board of Trade, Navy Pier, Museum of Science and Industry, a couple of art museums, the Sears Tower, and all sorts of other stuff.
Today, however, I was informed that I cannot take them because I "need to stay close to home...no out of state trips."
Why? I could understand if there was anything here that was even remotely comparable, but there isn't. Additionally, why were we not told about the moratorium on out of state trips when we first asked to go and were approved to raise the funds for it. And why are we allowing the educational system to deliberately deprive the students of opportunities if we are supposed to be encouraging them to broaden their horizons?
Just my 1.25 cents worth. (Darn, but that republican inflation affects everything.)
