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[solarbird]

A very social weekend, with a pumpkin carving party (a.k.a. KIDMANIA!) here which was a lot of work but still pretty fun, particularly seeing a few people we hadn't seen in a year, followed by tea at Jessica's house today. Then I started studying up for the GRE. I need to refresh some of my geometry sk1lz - but probably not as much as I'd thought.

Here's another flower portrait; I've no idea what this one might be:


Red and White All Over

I thought a new article of mine was online, but it's not really. It shows up in a site search (did you know that the "Winter 2005" issue and the "November/December 2005 issue" of TechNet Magazine are nine months apart? They changed numbering systems, so they're Winter 2005, Spring 2005, November/December 2005, in that order), but not actually uploaded. Oh well. But it's out. Now I can get paid! Yay!

In other news, here's a list of the 50 most influential SF films, according to John Scalzi's Rough Guide to Science Fiction. The ones I've seen are bolded.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!
Akira
Alien
Aliens
Alphaville
Back to the Future
Blade Runner
Brazil
Bride of Frankenstein
Brother From Another Planet
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Contact
The Damned
Destination Moon
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Delicatessen
Escape From New York
ET: The Extraterrestrial
Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers serial
The Fly (1985 version)
Forbidden Planet
Ghost in the Shell
Gojira/Godzilla Including the uncut original, in Japanese
The Incredibles
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Jurassic Park
Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior
The Matrix
Metropolis
On the Beach
Planet of the Apes (1968 version)
Robocop
Sleeper
Solaris (1972 version)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
The Stepford Wives - 1975 version
Superman
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Thing From Another World
Things To Come
Tron
12 Monkeys
28 Days Later
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
2001: A Space Odyssey
La Voyage Dans la Lune (Partial)
War of the Worlds (1953 version)

Your 1920's Name is:

Octavia George

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You Are Likely A Forth Born

At your darkest moments, you feel angry. At work and school, you do best when your analyzing. When you love someone, you tend to be very giving. In friendship, you don't take the initiative in reaching out. Your ideal jobs are: factory jobs, comedy, and dentistry. You will leave your mark on the world with your own personal philosophy.

The Birth Order Predictor

Comments

[banner.livejournal.com]

Wow, Amazingly I've seen all the ones you have with one exception. I also got to see all of Metropolis, including the now missing parts, back in the 60's on PBS. I was like 10 at the time though so I don't recall all of the detail completely, but it had some cool stuff in it back then (I watched it with my sister, I think she wanted to see it cause she has just read RUR).

Oh, I have also seen Things to Come, Solaris, Robocop, and Sleeper too. I think 28 monkey's sucked (I saw the original twice, and after that.. Well you can't stretch a 15 minute movie into 90, sorry). I'm surprised 'Silent Running' didn't make it.

[solarbird]

There are more parts than they had in the 60s - they found more prints in the 80s - I think maybe as part of the Great Doctor Who Search - and a few more pieces in the 90s. I love love LOVE the 2003(?) restoration that I saw the other day, with added title cards to explain the missing scenes - there're these whole extra subplots that just make the whole plot make so much more sense.

Adding Silent Running to the list would only add one to the list of films I haven't seen! ^_^

[(Anonymous)]

The version I saw in the 60's wasn't missing those parts which they now explain with the title cards, it was complete.

And you might want to check out Silent Running. It had some really cool parts in it, though it was a bit of an ecological political flick. I saw it when I saw Fantastic Planet as a double feature flick.

[solarbird]

No way. There was an intact version that late? Are you serious? zomg.

Silent Running has been kind of on my list for a while, I just keep forgetting. I didn't like Fantasic Planet at all, though, when I caught it on video. Maybe it was better on a big screen.

[banner.livejournal.com]

Well in the 60's the filmstock really hadn't started to go bad yet and there were a lot of copies still left around. The whole problem with filmstock going bad started to set in, in the early 70's when a lot of film companies and film vaults went under. Also a lot of people who had killer private collections died and their copies went into the trash cause a lot of people didn't realize just how limited these things were, or that the originals had started to decay. I saw a lot of movies in the 60's that no longer exist anywhere, cause no one ever thought to preserve them. A lot of folks just didn't understand old filmstock.

It's really extremely sad when you think about what's been lost.

[banner.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that being Anon, for some reason LJ lost my login...

[solarbird]

np, I replied to it anyway. ^_^

[quen-elf.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen many of those, which doesn't surprise me. I *am* surprised that you haven't seen Robocop (which was pretty good) or Delicatessen (which was great, very funny parts), though.

[solarbird]

I'm thinking I might have seen parts of Delicatessen. But I'm not 100% sure it was the same movie so I'm not checking it off.

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

You've seen Delicatessen. At my birthday party. When I told people I wanted them to watch this movie and not bitch.

[poodlgrl.livejournal.com]

Can you send me the girls + pumpkins photo? Violet has asked me a couple times.

[solarbird]

I put all of 'em on a CD for you. We also have Darth Vader's helmet and Violet's sleeves!