I totally forgot about 2 movies last time: Ghostbusters, and Casper. (When you're 13, the scene where Casper transforms into Deven Sawa and dances with Christina Ricci is like the most romantic thing ever.)
So, in preparing for a party I'm having, I'm working on a Halloween tunes list. Here's what I have so far:
Addam's Family: Addam's Groove (The song from the end of the first movie - awesome!)
Devil Went Down to Georgia (Charlie Daniel's Band)
Don't Fear the Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult)
Ghostbusters (The movie theme, of course.)
Grim Grinning Ghosts (From the Haunted Mansion ride...I have 2 versions of this actually.)
Monster Mash (Bobby Pickett)
Munsters Theme (From the TV show)
Oogie Boogie's Song (From Nightmare Before Christmas)
Over at the Frankenstein's Place (From Rocky Horror Picture Show)
Phantom of the Opera (Techno Version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber classic.)
So, I hate scary movies. I'm a big wuss. Always have been, always will be. I hate horror movies. I just don't see the fun in gore or getting scared.
That makes Halloween a hard season for me TV/Movie wise. I don't have too many favorite Halloween movies. Most Halloween related movies are scary/gross, which makes sense I guess, but I wish they would make some more kid friendly ones. I can handle kid friendly! Anyway, here are some Halloween movies I can handle:
The Nightmare Before Christmas (My all time favorite.)
Hocus Pocus (A classic.)
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Another classic.)
Garfield Halloween Special (Although it scared the crap out of me as a kid.)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (The Disney one.)
Claymation Halloween (You probably haven't seen this.)
That's all I can think of for now... Anyone else have any suggestions? I'm more into Christmas movies.
So, with baseball season coming to a close, I've had a yearning to watch some baseball movies. Enter Netflix. After a simple internet search, I created a list of movies I wanna watch having to do with America's favorite pastime. Some of these are movies I've seen before. But most of them I haven't seen.
Here's the list:
bold - watched it since starting since project. italics - seen it before
Mr. Baseball Field of Dreams 61* The Natural Cobb Major League Major League 2 Angels in the Outfield The Sandlot The Rookie of the Year The Babe Pastime Bang the Drum Slowly The Bad News Bears Bleacher Bums Bull Durham Eight Men Out For Love of the Game Damn Yankees Everyone's Hero Fear Strikes Out Mickey The Winning Season The Life and Times of Hank Greenburg Finding Buck McHenry A League of Their Own Hustle The Pride of the Yankees The Rookie The Scout
So yeah, I've only watched one movie so far, Mr. Baseball, which is from the early 90's and stars Tom Selleck as a fading major leaguer who goes to play in Japan. It's a comedy, and I actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would. It's pretty funny. Plus, Tom Selleck is just plain awesome. Also, it has the guy from those State Farm commercials. A good start to my project.
Next on my list? I'm not sure. I have a bunch of the movies waiting for me from Netflix, plus I actually own a few. I'll probably watch either Cobb or The Natural next.
This is just so sad to me. I understand people can't watch weather all day...well, most people anyway, but seriously - movies?! That just seems wrong to me. And some of their choices - Deep Blue Sea?! That movie is hilarious - mostly unintentionally - is that really the kind of movie a respectable channel such as the Weather Channel wants to associate with? I mean, for the love of god, the ending theme is LL Cool J singing about how his hat is like a shark's fin. (I am NOT kidding!)
Though, when you resort to movies...is there any respect left to give?
You'll have to look for your local forecast while Samuel L. Jackson yells about shit.
Can I tell you how obsessed I am with this commerical advertising this new NY lottery game? It's the cutest thing I've ever seen and it always brings a smile to my face. I've enjoyed ads in the past, mostly because they made me chuckle, but I have watched this ad a sick number of times. It's just soooo cute - especially since I own a rabbit. I know there are advertising awards, and I don't know what agency made this ad, but they deserve to win something. Brilliance. I don't play the lottery and it almost makes me wanna buy a ticket.
I love baseball. It's the only major sport I get into.
I love the Yankees - I'm from New York, my father is a Yankees fan, my grandfather is a Yankees fan - my whole family bleeds pinstripes. My husband borders on fanatical. But I have to admit I've distanced myself a bit in recent years...so many bad memories...bad moments. I think I hit rock bottom when I literally could not get out of bed for 2 days after the 2004 ALCS collapse. It was pretty pathetic.
After all, it's just a sport, right? So I told myself to take a step back and go on with my life. I couldn't let my life get controlled by a game anymore. If the Yankees lost, I couldn't let it ruin my day. Life went on. It wasn't controlled by a ball and a bat.
But I've never stopped being a fan. And now that we're back in the ALCS again I'm very excited. Nervous, but excited. I have a good feeling about this year. And while that may mean nothing to you, I normally have a very good feeling when it comes to baseball. No joke - I predicted the entire 2004 ALCS before any of the games even started. Well, kind of. But that's a story for some other time.
So. Baseball. It's going to be a great series. The teams are pretty evenly matched. I hate the Angels, mostly because they always tend to beat us, but this year we ended up even in the season series. It's gonna be a toughie.
But let's christen our new stadium the Yankee way, okay?
That means we take home the championship.
Don't be the team from the last couple years. The team that lacked heart. That lacked drive. I think this year they want it - they've already proven they don't give up. So I won't. Not until the end. 'Cause it ain't over till the last out's recorded.
Toy Story and Toy Story 2 are still my favorite Pixar movies - (even if I didn't go see them in 3D... I know, I know, but I just don't have the time to sit in the movies for that long) so I'm super excited about the 3rd installment. It's been a long time coming, but better late than never!
"Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth." Sephiroth: …I've always felt since I was small… That I was different from theothers. Special, in some way. But…not like this…
Sirius: I would have died! I would have died rather than betray my friends, as we would have done for you!
Rufus:I'll control the world with fear. Freya: Ahahaha... What irony. To find the man about whom I have dreamtendlessly... ...only to discover that he cannot even remember who I am!
Auron:Legendary guardian? I was just a boy. A boy about your age, actually. I wanted to change the world, too. But I changed nothing.
Roy: I once executed two people, two doctors. "There are no sides, just patients." That's what they said as they treated our fallen enemies in Ishbal. But the people they were healing would just rise up again to fight us. The military asked them to stop, but they wouldn't. And their makeshift hospital was becoming a den for insurgents. I got my orders in the morning, and I shot them that night. After that I tried to kill myself, but I was too much of a coward. So I took an oath instead: to never follow unreasonable commands again, to reach a position where I wouldn't have to follow them, and I stayed true to that.
Locke: I've lost all sense of purpose... My life will have no meaning until I can right this terrible wrong...
Squall: ...Even if you end up as the world's enemy, I'll...I'll be your knight.
