Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Meet Me at the Equinox




Check out Death Cab's new song, the first single from the New Moon soundtrack! I'm kind of disappointed with the video - it's basically just clips from the trailer intercut with the band. I feel like it could have been another venue for new clips for the movie, giving the Twilight fans even more reason to watch the video than to just listen to the song and not pay attention to the artists.

Sesame Street is cool again!





Sesame Street just became culturally relevant again. I don't know what happened, but I'm really digging this new pop culture insurgence in their skits. I know the kids probably don't get the Mad Men references and are too young to remember a time without iPods, but these types of skits make it much more fun for the babysitters and moms to enjoy the show with their children.

Yahoo's list of 100 movies to see before you die


(bold movies you have seen)

1. 12 Angry Men (1957)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 3. 400 Blows (1959) 4. 8 1/2 (1963)
5. The African Queen (1952)
6. Alien (1979)
7. All About Eve (1950) 8. Annie Hall (1977)
9. Apocalyse Now (1979)
10. The Battle of Algiers (1967)
11. The Bicycle Thief (1948) 12. Blade Runner (1982) 13. Blazing Saddles (1974)
14. Blow Up (1966)
15. Blue Velvet (1986)
16. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
17. Breathless (1960)
18. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
19. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
20. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
21. Casablanca (1942) 22. Chinatown (1974) 23. Citizen Kane (1941) 24. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) 25. Die Hard (1988)
26. Do the Right Thing (1989)
27. Double Indemnity (1944) 28. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
29. Duck Soup (1933)
30. ET the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
31. Enter the Dragon (1973)
32. The Exorcist (1973) 33. Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
34. The French Connection (1971)
35. The Godfather (1972) 36. The Godfather, Part II (1974)
37. Goldfinger (1964)
38. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)
39. Goodfellas (1990)
40. The Graduate (1967)
41. Grand Illusion (1938)
42. Groundhog Day (1993) 43. A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
44. In the Mood For Love (2001)
45. It Happened One Night (1934) 46. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) 47. Jaws (1975)
48. King Kong (1933)
49. The Lady Eve (1941)
50. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
51. The Lord of the Rings (2001)
52. M (1931)
53. M*A*S*H (1970) 54. The Maltese Falcon (1936) 55. The Matrix (1999)

56. Modern Times (1936)
57. Monty Python & the Holy Grail (1975) 58. National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)

59. Network (1976)

60. Nosferatu (1922)
61. On the Waterfront
(1954)

62. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
63. Paths of Glory (1958)
64. Princess Mononoke (1999)
65. Psycho (1960) 66. Pulp Fiction (1994) 67. Raging Bull (1980) 68. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
69. Raise the Red Lantern (1992)
70. Rashomon (1951)
71. Rear Window (1954) 72. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) 73. Rocky (1976) 74. Roman Holiday (1953) 75. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
76. Schindler’s List (1993)
77. The Searchers (1956)
78. Seven Samurai (1954)
79. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
80. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
81. Singin’ in the Rain (1952) 82. Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 83. Some Like It Hot (1959) 84. The Sound of Music (1965) 85. Star Wars (1977) 86. Sunset Blvd. (1950) 87. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
88. The Third Man (1949)
89. This is Spinal Tap (1984) 90. Titanic (1997) 91. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 92. Toy Story (1995) 93. The Usual Suspects (1995) 94. Vertigo (1958) 95. When Harry Met Sally (1989)
96. Wild Strawberries (1957)
97. Wings of Desire (1988)
98. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
99. Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown (1988)
100. The World of Apu (1959)

60 out 100...not too shabby! How many have you seen?