Only for you I don't regret that I was Thursday's child.
Yoinked from lightningspark & gonzo_md
What are your top 5 or 10 favorite movie moments? Post them here - they can be anything: a good one-liner, a scene that made you laugh, cry or just think a lot, a fight scene or a car chase.
1. The final dance scene in Dirty Dancing, where Baby throws off her childish behaviour and shows herself to the world, and the man she loves, as a woman beautiful and unafraid. Also, the two old biddies who shuck their minks and start dancing politely with each other.
2. The scene in Center Stage where the ballerinas are beating the crap out of their pointe shoes, ripping, burning and wetting them down. Never having been on pointe myself, I find the process fascinating.
3. The scene in, I believe it's Schindler's List, where the ashes are swirling through the air and settling on people's shoulders. I saw it once when I was about 13, so it's been a while, but I think that was the point where it really hit me what happened to the Jews in the Holocaust.
4. Hugh Grant doing his awesome hip-shakin' groove thing through the doorway in celebration in Love Actually. That scene can make my entire day full of win!
5. Pretty much all of The Return of the King. And Titanic. And Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade. And The Devil Wears Prada.
6. When Gwyneth Paltrow walks in on her cheating boyfriend in Sliding Doors, and tells him, "You really shouldn't stop like that. You can set a woman back three days doing something like that!"
7. The last 20 minutes of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, where Cate Blanchett becomes her lover's caretaker, as he reverts to childhood, loses his ability to speak, and yet still remembers her...
8. Katherine Hepburn as Eleanor of Acquitaine in The Lion in Winter. Fucking brilliant delivery of EVERY line!
9. Abigail Breslin's "talent" dance in Little Miss Sunshine.
10. Enchanted. That is all.
I'm sure there's more, and of course probably more significant scenes, that I've seen and that come to mind right now. But I like what I like! What do YOU like?
Also, I think I should do this for books - but not tonight.
Speaking of books, I have embarked on a new level of nerdiness - I have started an Excel document at work of the books I own. There will be filters to search by authors, genres, paper- or hardback, and so on. The really sad part? I got 5 pages worth just from memory! That's about a third of my book collection. Holy crap. There will also be associated documents for my Wishlist, so that when I go to the Library Book Fair, I will have printouts so that I don't purchase something that I already own (I've done this twice recently).
I think there are websites and programs and such that will do this for me. However, since I'm not allowed to be on the internet, it gives me something to do at work since the phones are quiet.
For my birthday, Gretchen got me a subscription to Domino Magazine, but sadly, the March issue will be their last one! Stupid economy! I hope it can be resurrected in some form or another, when things are back on the up-and-up. Ahhh, Domino... we barely knew ye!
So, the issue that I got last month (and just read yesterday) had an article that has given me a good idea. The article was about different foundations that offer opportunities to do mini-Peace Corps type things. For example, spending a week or two in Guatemala building stoves so the huts don't get all smokey and carcinogenic, or spending a year teaching a language - and there are options to fly for free, or get free room, and so on. Like a mission trip, without the religious affiliation, to places all over the world. Starting next year, I get three weeks of vacation (instead of two). I have the inspiration now to travel and do some good, see a tiny corner of the world and make a the world a teeny bit better. What better way to spend an extra week or so of paid vacation??
And finally, my dear ones, I'm looking for an new opthamologist. I saw an eye doctor in West Seattle last summer (apparently the ONLY ONE on the peninsula!) and while he was OK, the receptionist staff was very off-putting. I get that it's the West Seattle Junction, and Casual is Cool and all, but seriously people? When you work for a professional medical office, you should dress professionally - jeans and hoodies are not professional. And the attitudes? I don't like being ignored (I am a paying customer! I don't need to be put ahead of everyone, but my presence should AT LEAST be acknowledged with a pleasant smile and a "Hello! We'll be right with you!"), and then they can never find my file or my order... ugh. Not impressed. And, I don't want to go to the guy I saw like 4 years ago when I was still living in Tacoma, because although he was good, I'm SURE there's someone just as good in Seattle proper.
So I am looking for a recommendation for an eye doctor for my little peepers. Wanted: nice doctor who is helpful, professional office, trendy selection of glasses. Insurance is not a problem, I am totally covered. I don't REALLY need an eye exam, but I'm sure they will want to check them. I just need a new purveyor of contacts and hip glasses.
Please to be sending any options my way! Thanks guys, you're such pals!
Now time to study. I meant to clean tonight, but I seem to have caught a bad case of the don't-wanna's!
What are your top 5 or 10 favorite movie moments? Post them here - they can be anything: a good one-liner, a scene that made you laugh, cry or just think a lot, a fight scene or a car chase.
1. The final dance scene in Dirty Dancing, where Baby throws off her childish behaviour and shows herself to the world, and the man she loves, as a woman beautiful and unafraid. Also, the two old biddies who shuck their minks and start dancing politely with each other.
2. The scene in Center Stage where the ballerinas are beating the crap out of their pointe shoes, ripping, burning and wetting them down. Never having been on pointe myself, I find the process fascinating.
3. The scene in, I believe it's Schindler's List, where the ashes are swirling through the air and settling on people's shoulders. I saw it once when I was about 13, so it's been a while, but I think that was the point where it really hit me what happened to the Jews in the Holocaust.
4. Hugh Grant doing his awesome hip-shakin' groove thing through the doorway in celebration in Love Actually. That scene can make my entire day full of win!
5. Pretty much all of The Return of the King. And Titanic. And Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade. And The Devil Wears Prada.
6. When Gwyneth Paltrow walks in on her cheating boyfriend in Sliding Doors, and tells him, "You really shouldn't stop like that. You can set a woman back three days doing something like that!"
7. The last 20 minutes of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, where Cate Blanchett becomes her lover's caretaker, as he reverts to childhood, loses his ability to speak, and yet still remembers her...
8. Katherine Hepburn as Eleanor of Acquitaine in The Lion in Winter. Fucking brilliant delivery of EVERY line!
9. Abigail Breslin's "talent" dance in Little Miss Sunshine.
10. Enchanted. That is all.
I'm sure there's more, and of course probably more significant scenes, that I've seen and that come to mind right now. But I like what I like! What do YOU like?
Also, I think I should do this for books - but not tonight.
Speaking of books, I have embarked on a new level of nerdiness - I have started an Excel document at work of the books I own. There will be filters to search by authors, genres, paper- or hardback, and so on. The really sad part? I got 5 pages worth just from memory! That's about a third of my book collection. Holy crap. There will also be associated documents for my Wishlist, so that when I go to the Library Book Fair, I will have printouts so that I don't purchase something that I already own (I've done this twice recently).
I think there are websites and programs and such that will do this for me. However, since I'm not allowed to be on the internet, it gives me something to do at work since the phones are quiet.
For my birthday, Gretchen got me a subscription to Domino Magazine, but sadly, the March issue will be their last one! Stupid economy! I hope it can be resurrected in some form or another, when things are back on the up-and-up. Ahhh, Domino... we barely knew ye!
So, the issue that I got last month (and just read yesterday) had an article that has given me a good idea. The article was about different foundations that offer opportunities to do mini-Peace Corps type things. For example, spending a week or two in Guatemala building stoves so the huts don't get all smokey and carcinogenic, or spending a year teaching a language - and there are options to fly for free, or get free room, and so on. Like a mission trip, without the religious affiliation, to places all over the world. Starting next year, I get three weeks of vacation (instead of two). I have the inspiration now to travel and do some good, see a tiny corner of the world and make a the world a teeny bit better. What better way to spend an extra week or so of paid vacation??
And finally, my dear ones, I'm looking for an new opthamologist. I saw an eye doctor in West Seattle last summer (apparently the ONLY ONE on the peninsula!) and while he was OK, the receptionist staff was very off-putting. I get that it's the West Seattle Junction, and Casual is Cool and all, but seriously people? When you work for a professional medical office, you should dress professionally - jeans and hoodies are not professional. And the attitudes? I don't like being ignored (I am a paying customer! I don't need to be put ahead of everyone, but my presence should AT LEAST be acknowledged with a pleasant smile and a "Hello! We'll be right with you!"), and then they can never find my file or my order... ugh. Not impressed. And, I don't want to go to the guy I saw like 4 years ago when I was still living in Tacoma, because although he was good, I'm SURE there's someone just as good in Seattle proper.
So I am looking for a recommendation for an eye doctor for my little peepers. Wanted: nice doctor who is helpful, professional office, trendy selection of glasses. Insurance is not a problem, I am totally covered. I don't REALLY need an eye exam, but I'm sure they will want to check them. I just need a new purveyor of contacts and hip glasses.
Please to be sending any options my way! Thanks guys, you're such pals!
Now time to study. I meant to clean tonight, but I seem to have caught a bad case of the don't-wanna's!