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Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to as many people you like. You can't use the band I used. Do not repeat a song title. Repost as "My Life According to xxx"

Pick Your Artist: Radiohead

Are you a female or male: Bishop's Robes
Describe yourself: Paranoid Android
How do you Feel: Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
Describe Where You Currently Live: Planet Telex
Describe Where You Wish You Could Live: Palo Alto
If You Could Go Anywhere, Where Would You Go: Sail to the Moon (Brush the Cobwebs out of the Sky)
Your favorite form of transportation: 15 Step
Your best friend is: Idioteque
Your favorite color is: Nude
Your favorite animal is: Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Favorite Time of Day: Morning Bell
What's the Weather Like: High and Dry
If your life were a tv show, what would it be called: Reckoner
What is Life to You: House of Cards
Your Relationships: Like Spinning Plates
Your fear: A Wolf at the Door (It Girl. Rag Doll.)
What is the best advice you have to give: I Might Be Wrong
If you could change your name, you would change it to: Kid A
Thought for the Day: True Love Waits
How I would Like to Die: A Punchup at a Wedding (No No No No No No No.)
My Soul's Present Condition: Lull
My Motto: Bullet Proof...Wish I was

From seishonagon

The best reading experience you have ever had?

Tough question. Emotionally, I think it might have been Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans. Christopher, protagonist, who had been an expatriate child in the expatriate quarter of Shanghai, returns to Shanghai in the middle of the Japanese invasion of the city, in search of his mother. He encounters his former neighbor, Akira, who had grown up with him in the International District, and who had grown up to command a platoon of the invading Japanese forces. Christopher and a wounded Akira pick their way through the city/battlefield, and Akira assures Christopher that they cannot be lost, that he knows Shanghai "like [his] home village." Christopher stops him, and says: "This is our home village."

Nothing I had read before, or that I have read since, better captures the experience of expatriation. Christopher and Akira are out of sorts in their home countries and cultures, but "home" in a city and culture that wasn't even "theirs" in any meaningful sense. Few things have resonated with me more forcefully.

The worst reading experience that you have ever had?

Jane Eyre. I had to march through that stinking dung-heap of Victorian rot and sentimentality in a single day, because I had neglected to keep up with regular reading assignments. No academic punishment has yet been administered or threatened that compares with that.


Which book has affected or influenced you the most so far?

Another tough one. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes--I started reading Sherlock Holmes stories as a little kid, and loved how Holmes could deduce answers from observation. The character of Sherlock Holmes probably inspired me to learn as much as I could about everything--because Holmes could use his grasp of general knowledge and keen powers of observation to see things that lesser people (Watson, Gregson, Lestrade) could not.


Have you ever read a book that you got really scared of?

No.


What do you use as a bookmark?
Train tickets, airline boarding passes, lottery tickets.


When do you usually read? At home, work, while cooking, in the morning, noon, afternoon, before you go to bed...?

In transit--on the train (Metro or inter-city), on planes and buses; in bed; in libraries (yes, the law library has to count).

Do you remember the first book that you read?

Yes. Fox in Socks, by Doctor Seuss.


Which do you prefer - paperback or hardcover?

Depends on the situation. Trade paperbacks are easily abused and travel well. Octavo-sized hardbacks are good as well, but less handy for travel. And if I have to read out loud from a lectern, I'd love a proper folio, board-and-leather-bound.

What are you currently reading? What page are you on?

Other than my casebooks, I'm skimming through A.P. Herbert's Uncommon Law: Being 66 Misleading Cases--a collection of satirical "law reports," purporting to come from English courts. A great bit of review for common-law doctrines--the humor comes from the correctness of the legal reasoning.


Do you ever leave "a mark" (deliberate and/or not deliberate) in your books? For example, write in them, underline quotes, coffeemarks or food crumbs and etc.

Yes and no. Some of my casebooks are marginated and annotated (Most notably my Contracts book and the statutory supplement thereto). Others are pristine (Constitutional Law). I tend to write my name in my books, too.

But "leisure" books tend not to be marked-up at all, other than, of course, my name.


Does the title, amount of pages and the cover affect you when you are considering a specific book?

Yes. Good book design (cover, type, etc.) will sell me a book. I have bought better typeset editions just because the type was more appealing. Historical books with good dust-jacket illustrations are interesting as well--see, e.g.,
Bradley K. Martin's Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty for an excellent example.

Do you ever browse through to the last pages in order find out the ending?
I used to do this when I was younger.


Has knowing the ending of a book (example, through spoilers or a movie) ever made you decide whether you will read the book or not?

Not really. I have re-read many books (see below). Plus, I have read books that have been adapted for film or television and been pleasantly, well, "un-spoiled."


Is there a book that you have read more than five times?
Several. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (with illustrations by Jules Pfeiffer) was probably my favorite childhood book. I have probably read Frank Herbert's Dune a dozen times now, as well. Franz Kafka's The Trial probably ranks here, too.


Have you ever been in an accident where the book was the cause? (for example, almost getting hit by a car when reading while walking, or having stacks of books falling on you from a bookshelf...)

I dropped a deed book on my pinkie in the county land record office once. Those things HURT.

Do you sell/give away your books or do you keep them, even though you don't like one of them?

I hoard books compulsively, so no. I do give them away occasionally--but that's rare.

Do you have some kind of book system, where you write down what you are reading, have bought, will read, will buy and etc?
I used to, but they have failed.

Yet another shuffle meme

IF SOMEONE SAYS 'ARE YOU OKAY' YOU SAY?
Telephone (Shelby Lynne)

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
Burning Man (Third Eye Blind)

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
I'm So Happy (Nirvana)

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Problems (The Sex Pistols)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
It's a Bird (Parokya ni Edgar)

WHAT'S YOUR MOTTO?
Flying South Alone (Gold Mind Squad)

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
J.S. Bach--Sinfonia No. 6 in E Minor, BWV 792 (Glenn Gould)

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Founders Come First--Then Profiteers (Nixon in China, Act 1, Scene 2) (John Adams)

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Where It's At (Leonard Nimoy)

WHAT IS 2 + 2?
Southern Comfort (Boban Markovic Orkestar)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
The Fitz (The International Beat)

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Do Wah Diddy Diddy (Murray Lachlan Young)

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Lee Hyla-- Howl: Poem & Reading by Allen Ginsberg (Kronos Quartet)

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Tutte le feste al tempio (Rigoletto, Act. II)

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Numbered Days (Mighty Mighty Bosstones)

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
I Wish You Would (Train)

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
Diamonds and Rust (Joan Baez)

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Friends Stoning Friends (McLusky)

WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?
Walang Nangyari (Parokya ni Edgar)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Life's a Joke (Acoustic) (The Speaks)

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Overdrive (Eraserheads)

more song chart memes

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every entry, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you’re cool

Opening Credits: "'Round Midnight," Stan Getz

First Day At School: "Pipeline," The Chantays Surf Music? WTF. . .

Falling In Love: "Ligaya," Eraserheads Appropriate

Fight Song: "Yellow Ledbetter," Pearl Jam. surreal

Breaking Up: "Colorblind," Counting Crows interesting.

Prom: "Bulletproof," Christopher O'Riley (covering Radiohead). Creepy, considering Barristers' Ball is coming up.

Life's OK: "Lonely Stranger," Eric Clapton

Mental Breakdown: "Sulk" Radiohead

Driving: "Royal Oil," The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Flashback: "Splish Splash" Cappadonna

Getting Back Together: "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan," Bobby Darin

Wedding: "Sunny Came Home," by Shawn Colvin This is getting more and more surreal by the minute

Birth of Child: "Likeness," Virginia Coalition

Final Battle: “Ring of Fire," Johnny Cash

Death Scene: "Let Love Speak Up Itself," The Beautiful South

Funeral Song: "Yakap sa Dilim," Apo Hiking Society This is just bizarre.

End Credits: "A British Tar," Gilber & Sullivan (from "The H.M.S. Pinafore")

75% Chris Dodd
74% Barack Obama
70% Hillary Clinton
69% John Edwards
69% Bill Richardson
67% Joe Biden
66% Dennis Kucinich
65% Mike Gravel
58% John McCain
47% Ron Paul
46% Mike Huckabee
43% Rudy Giuliani
43% Mitt Romney
35% Tom Tancredo
33% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

Dodd suffered a tremendous 1st-round knockout in Iowa. Intriguing that I line up behind Barack Obama as strongly as I do. Another "candidate matcher" had me either for Kucinich or Paul--what a choice, eh?

Amusingly, although the Dems rise to the top of my list, the GOP contenders rank pretty much where I'd want them. I'm surprised that Tancredo (another early casualty) doesn't fall lower on the scale, given his attitude towards immigrants.

Ganked from everywhere. Originally from here, based on an exercise developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. (Permission to spread the exercise has been granted but [the permission] asks that if you participate in this blog game, you acknowledge their copyright. So be good and don't let the links be lost to the unlinked pages of the internet.).

Note that lots of these don't have much bearing on "privilege," and the question about "class" is a bit bizarre.




EDITED to add attribution, under terms of license


Father went to college
Father finished college
Mother went to college
Mother finished college.
Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor. Attorneys: aunt & uncle; professor: aunt.
Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers
Had more than 50 books in your childhood home
Had more than 500 books in your childhood home
Were read children's books by a parent


Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18 Piano.

Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18

The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively I haven't a clue as to what this means. I don't dress as snazzy as the people who talk like me, and the people who dress like me don't talk like me. I need to get whiter, older, and buy me some tweed sportcoats.

Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18. Shit, I didn't get my first credit card till I was--um, 25?
Went to a private high school Amusing anecdote: one of my Cambridge friends remarked to me, after I had told her a little about high school, that even though I was American, my experiences matched up pretty neatly to an Englishman who had gone to a "very minor public school." So rah, dahlings.

Went to summer camp
Had a private tutor before you turned 18
Family vacations involved staying at hotels
Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18
Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them
There was original art in your house when you were a child My father had been in the publishing trade, so some of the early artists' proofs/sketches from his friends have followed us around.
Had a phone in your room before you turned 18
You and your family lived in a single family house
Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home
You had your own room as a childEasy when you're an only child for most of your childhood!
Participated in an SAT/ACT prep courseParticipated in an LSAT course. Didn't do me a lick of good.
Had your own TV in your room in High School
Owned a mutual fund or IRA in High School or College
Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16. My first flight was probably Philippine Airlines, from Manila to Naga, at about five months of age.
Went on a cruise with your family
Went on more than one cruise with your family
Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up. Yay, Smithsonian Institution! I loved dinosaurs. Actually, most of my little-kid museum time was fantastically compressed during a five-week stand in DC. Dad was in town for business--Mom took me to the museums and the zoo and everywhere. it was awesome.
You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your familyWe lived in tropical countries until I was 10.

From seishonagon: Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along, if you like.

She gave me: barbie's cradle, debian, eugene smith, fluxbox, gnome, lady margaret boat club, social distortion, rotoscope.


Barbie's Cradle was a Philippine pop act, fronted by Barbie Almalbis. I was back in the 'pinas in 2001 and Barbie's Cradle was all over the airwaves. The hit at the time was "Money for Food":



"Sing all you like! 'Cause people still need money for food . . ."

My cousin bought me the "music from the buffet table" album, and I was hooked. Songs like "Dear Paul" (solo acoustic, schoolgirl-crush song; best lyric: "My favorite addiction was named after you") and "Shiny Red Balloon" ("I'm keeping my affair in a book/ so this is how a villain feels").

Barbie came a bit too late in my life to do maximum good. This is schoolgirl/boy music, not particularly difficult lyrics. It can be sentimental.

The writing can seem a bit forced if you don't speak Tagalog at the same time--she's really writing/singing in Tagalog, but using English words. "Money for Food," for instance, kind of makes sense in English, but makes a lot more sense when you realize that it feels like a verbatim translation from Tagalog.

In the end, Barbie's Cradle--along with the other Philippine pop acts I've come to love--are my way of staying Filipino. It makes me Filipino in a way that isn't necessarily determined by my parents. Barbie might cover "Langit na Naman" (a hit for Hotdog in the '70s), and I might sing along, but she makes the song hers, and I make it mine.


Eugene Smith. In my less-responsible, fuck-the-man, rock-and-roll photographer pipedreaming days, I used to think that I might escape the world and become a photojournalist. W. Eugene Smith would have been my role model, and my hero. He had worked for Life and eventually the Magnum photo agency. He was great at depicting people under stressful situations--Marines in the Pacific, a country doctor on his rounds, Dr. Schweitzer in Africa, Haitian lunatics in an asylum, the pollution victims of Minamata. His work is striking, artful; it exhibits both technical skill and emotional sensitivity.

As a photographer, I tended to sneer at the f/64 bigots. While I respect Ansel Adams as a technician, I have found that the followers of Saint Ansel are an overbearing bunch. They obsess too much about the mathematics and chemistry of photography, often at the expense of actually getting out there and capturing emotionally-powerful images. Smith was actually every bit as obsessive about technique as Adams, but he actually got out there and got dirty covering people, giving us a sense of who his subjects were. Smith, I think, strikes a better working balance between technique, bravery, and perception--the three things that make a good photojournalist.

Lady Margaret Boat Club. viva laeta Margareta beatorum insulis/ si possimus, fuerimus semper caput flumenis!(Late medieval "Latin," RAH!)

What would my life have been without my stint in the LMBC? In my first week at St. John's, the boat club was out there recruiting aggressively. A few conversations and a few drinks with the scarlet-blazered boaties and I found myself novicing. I was a terrible rower--not fit enough, not tall enough, not anything enough. I never rowed in any of the Upper Boats (the 1st and 2nd VIIIs) or even in the top of the Lower Boats (3rd VIII). My 5th Novice VIII was an almost comically bad boat.

I found myself back in the boats during Easter Term of 2000. Maggie (that's the Boat Club) was short rowers that term. I had been drinking one night and found myself sitting in a boat the next morning. Again, our 5th May VIII was a catastrophically bad boat--but we at least preserved the honour of the LMBC by keeping the reserved spot on the Bumps Chart. We also avoided the ignominy of being bumped four days in a row--"getting our spoons."

I will never forget how I felt rowing in the May Bumps. I might have been in a low boat, but, as one of the other Maggie rowers was telling me as I sat on the bank, waiting for the starting cannon: "It won't matter that you're just the fifth boat. When you get around Grassy [a bow-side corner on the Bumps course], you'll hear all the Bufties [alumni/former rowers] cheer. They don't care that you're just the Fifth Boat. They don't care that this is the Fourth Division. All they're going to see is the colour of your blades when you square away, and they'll be yelling just because it's a Maggie boat that's come around the corner."

Rowing for Maggie made me somebody at college: it gave me something in common with a lot of other people-- two-thirds of my matriculation year spent at least one term in the LMBC. All of my best college friends had been Maggie men (and women).

And there's really nothing more "Cambridge" than rowing: it socialised me very quickly. It made my transition to that environment that much easier.


Rotoscope. Technically, this is the method of animation where one films a live actor, then traces the resulting film frame-by-frame. In this context, though, it's a local rock act that seems to have gone on indefinite (permanent?) hiatus. Yes, there's a female vocalist. Yes, shes hot. But they did have a song, "Drive," whose lyrics I really loved:

"You know how hard it is driving west at sunset/ looking past the tears through dirty glasses and a foggy windshield . . ."

Social Distortion No female vocalist here. I don't know if you remember, but back in the day Ball and Chain was one of my favorite songs. Country/punk, desperation, drunkenness, and despair--in the key of C.

It had a lot of resonance with me back when I was on the Certamen circuit, believe it or not.

Debian, Fluxbox, GNOME. I'll take these three together, since they really go together. I'd been interested in UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems back in college, but wasn't technical enough to take the plunge. Many of my friends were engineers and mathematicians--they had Linux workstations. One of my friends--an historian !-- ran RedHat as his principal OS long before it was the cool thing to do.

Windows has abstracted away a lot of functions to the point that I don't really understand what's going on in my computer anymore. Migrating to Linux hasn't been easy, but I do like the fact that I have a lot of control over what I do with my computer and what my computer does for me. Running Linux, I can have as much abstraction as I need or want.

The Debian Project is a Linux distribution that has spawned a number of "Debian Daughter" distributions, of which my preferred distro, Ubuntu, is the most widespread. Debian has some upsides: it's a very community-run, community-centered project. It's a huge project. It does everything. And if the Linux kernel has been adapted for your architecture, odds are that you can use Debian on that architecture.

I'm also a big fan of their .deb/apt package management.

Fluxbox is a super-minimal graphical user environment. It's my second-favorite GUI--it has a certain old-school badassitude to it. It's highly configurable. It's very light in terms of system resource use.

My "default" GUI in Linux is Gnome. I actually went to Ubuntu over other Linux distributions because it was a "GNOME by default," distro, and I wanted something other than KDE 3.0 (which was what I was using back when I ran SuSE 9.1).

The results of an interview meme from seishonagon

1) What do you eventually want to do with your law degree?

I intend to be a practicing attorney, hopefully in Washington, hopefully in the International Trade field. No matter what they tell you, there's really not all that much you can do with a law degree other than the law.

I mean, I could run for Congress eventually, but given the current political environment, I'm too foreign and too literate for that.

2) Which of the languages you've learned was the most difficult for you, and why?

Tagalog, without a doubt. That's going to seem funny, since it's supposed to be my "native" language--but in reality, I never really got a chance to be properly native in Tagalog.

My family spoke English to me from a very young age. English would have been indispensible to me--the language of opportunity, if you like--and I would end up with Tagalog anyway once I started primary school. But since we left the Philippines when I was 4, I never got to Phase II of the plan.

When I speak Tagalog now, I have to wrestle with three main problems. First, my absolute command of the language isn't what it should be. The language is structurally very different from the other languages I speak--it agglutinates rather than inflects, and it's tough to keep all the permutations and agglutinations straight while simultaneously flowing.

Second, when other Tagalog speakers figure out I speak Tagalog, they sometimes assume I am much more fluent than I really am. This can make it very difficult for me to follow sometimes.

Third, I am more thoroughly ashamed of my inadequacy in Tagalog than I am by any shortcomings I may have in any other languages I speak. Tagalog should be--is?--part of the core of who I am and how I think about myself. I could speak English or Spanish badly without shame, since in those languages, I'm just another bloody foreigner. I don't have that excuse in Tagalog.

3) What other options than law did you consider for graduate work?

Remember, I did get my M.Sc in International Relations before going to law school. The only other way forward in graduate work would have been to bid for a PhD in History, probably specializing in US-Philippine relations, or the US in the greater Asia-Pacific region.

Sometimes, I wonder whether I should have done it anyway.

I often explain to people that I had a very long, rather stormy love-affair with Academia---and when I finally walked out on her after my time at the LSE, it was a particularly messy break-up. Every so often we run into each other and wonder what if. But in the end, I know I'm happier out of that relationship than in it.

4) Do you think you'll ever go back to England on something other than a basic visit? As in, to stay for a while?

Tough to say. The prospects of spending some time back in England aren't so remote when I consider that there are plenty of U.S. firms with London offices now--just as there are English firms with U.S. offices. I'd love to go back to London in a professional capacity, and I could definitely see myself selling that to a potential employer. After all, how many junior associates can say that they're as intimately acquainted with life over there as I am?

I did consider settling out there permanently, but on balance I find that I fit in here better. There's nothing to being an immigrant here. The cultural adjustment is much, much bigger over there.

5) Is your tolerance for idiocy still as low as it was in high school? If so, how do you think you'll deal with it if you go into law?

To paraphrase Mr. T: I don't suffer the fools, [but] I pity the fools.

For a long time, I have assumed, naively, that the boom in personal GPS receivers and navigational equipment was part of the promised Peace Dividend--swords into very profitable ploughshares.

I was wrong. Apparently, the boom might have something to do with the fact that as many as one-fifth of Americans are unable to locate the United States on a map.

From seishonagon: The deal is you ask and I give you a letter; you then list your ten favorite songs from your media player which start with that letter. As an option you can include your favorite lyric from each song.

For the following letter, list your ten favorite songs from your music player which start with that letter. Including your favorite lyric from that song is optional.

She gave me the letter R. My list follows, in no particular order:

• "Raining in Baltimore" --Counting Crows. These train conversatiosn are passin' me by, and I don't have nothin' to say
  
  
• "Razor Valentine"-- Thea Gilmore. I love you like the last shot at the bottom of the bottle, I love you razor valentine.
  
  
• "Ring of Fire"-- Johnny Cash. And it burns, burns burns--that ring of fire, that ring of fire
  
  
• "Rock the Casbah"--The Clash. Sharif don't like it...rock the casbah, rock the casbah
  
  
• "Ruby Soho" --Rancid. DESTINATION UN-KNOWN, RUBY RUBY RUBY SO-HOOO.
  
  
• "Run-around"-- Blues Traveler. Sure the banner may be torn and the wind's gotten colder--perhaps I've grown a little cynical/ But I know no matter what the waitress brings, I shall drink it and always be full, yeah I shall drink it and always be full--
  
  
• "Rent"--Pet Shop Boys. Look at my hopes, look at my dreams--the currency we've spent/ I love you, you pay my rent.
  
  
• "Rhinestone Cowboy"--Glen Campbell It's been a road of compromises on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me...
  
  
• "Round Midnight"--Thelonious Monk. I only wish I was even one thousandth of the pianist Monk was. Sigh.
  
  
• "Round Here"--Counting Crows. I know, another Counting Crows song? but: I walk in the air, between the rain, through myself and back again, where? I don't know.
  

Unreal City
Under the brown fog of a winter noon
Mr. Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant
Unshaven, with a pocket full of currants
C.i.f. London: documents at sight,
Asked me in demotic French
To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel
Followed by a weekend at the Metropole.
=-T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land,"

Link: The Which Ancient Language Are You Test written by imipak on OkCupid, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Shamelessly ganked from my friend Simon
SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 85 of these mostly Hollywood films, you have no life. This is clearly wrong as you might have been on a huge number of dates... Personally I think it is more interesting which of the films you have seen rather than the number.

Anyway, just mark the ones you've seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list, go to your own facebook account, paste this as a note. Then, put x's next to the films you've seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and click post at the bottom. Have fun



Hollywood

() Rocky Horror Picture Show
() Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
() Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
() Boondock Saints
() Fight Club
() Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story
(X) Blazing Saddles
(X) Airplane
Total: 4

(X) The Princess Bride
() AnchorMan
() Napoleon Dynamite
() Labyrinth
() Saw
() Saw II
() White Noise
() White Oleander
() Anger Management
() 50 First Dates
() The Princess Diaries
() The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Total so far: 5

() Scream
() Scream 2
() Scream 3
() Scary Movie
() Scary Movie 2
() Scary Movie 3
() Scary Movie 4
(x) American Pie
() American Pie 2
() American Wedding
() American Pie Band Camp
Total so far: 6

(x) Harry Potter 1
(X) Harry Potter 2
() Harry Potter 3
() Harry Potter 4
() Resident Evil 1
() Resident Evil 2
(x) The Wedding Singer
() Little Black Book
() The Village
() Lilo & Stitch
Total so far: 8

(x) Finding Nemo
() Finding Neverland
() Signs
() The Grinch
() Texas Chainsaw Massacre
() Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
() White Chicks
() Butterfly Effect
() 13 Going on 30
() I, Robot
() Robots
Total so far: 9

(x) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
() Universal Soldier
() Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
()Along Came Polly
(x) Deep Impact
() KingPin
() Never Been Kissed
(x) Meet The Parents
() Meet the Fockers
() Eight Crazy Nights
() Joe Dirt
() KING KONG (200x remake I suppose)
Total so far: 12

() A Cinderella Story
() The Terminal
() The Lizzie McGuire Movie
() Passport to Paris
() Dumb & Dumber
() Dumber & Dumberer
() Final Destination
() Final Destination 2
() Final Destination 3
() Halloween
() The Ring
()The Ring 2
() Surviving X-MAS
() Flubber
Total so far: 12

() Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
() Practical Magic
() Chicago
() Ghost Ship
() From Hell
() Hellboy
() Secret Window
() I Am Sam
() The Whole Nine Yards
() The Whole Ten Yards
Total so far: 12

() The Day After Tomorrow
(X) Child's Play
() Seed of Chucky
() Bride of Chucky
() Ten Things I Hate About You
() Just Married
() 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
Total so far: 16

() Bad Boys
() Bad Boys 2
() Joy Ride
() Lucky Number Sleven
() Ocean's Eleven
() Ocean's Twelve
() Bourne Identity
() Bourne Supremecy
() Lone Star
() Bedazzled
(X) Predator I
(X) Predator II
() The Fog (200x remake)
() Ice Age
() Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
() Curious George
Total so far: 18

(x) Independence Day
() Cujo
() A Bronx Tale
() Darkness Falls
() Christine
() ET
() Children of the Corn
() My Bosses Daughter
() Maid in Manhattan
() War of the Worlds (wow, another 200x remake)
(x) Rush Hour
(X) Rush Hour 2
Total so far: 20

() Best Bet
() How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
() She's All That
() Calendar Girls
() Sideways
() Mars Attacks
() Event Horizon
() Ever After
(X) Wizard of Oz
(x) Forrest Gump
(X) Big Trouble in Little China
(x) The Terminator
(x) The Terminator 2
() The Terminator 3
Total so far: 24

(x) X-Men
(x) X-2
(x) X-3
(x) Spider-Man
(x) Spider-Man 2
() Sky High
() Jeepers Creepers
() Jeepers Creepers 2
() Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Little Mermaid
() Freaky Friday
() Reign of Fire
() The Skulls
() Cruel Intentions
() Cruel Intentions 2
() The Hot Chick
() Shrek
() Shrek 2
Total so far: 29

() Swimfan
() Miracle on 34th street
() Old School
() The Notebook
() K-Pax
() Krippendorf's Tribe
() A Walk to Remember
() Ice Castles
() Boogeyman
() The 40-year-old Virgin
Total so far: 29

(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
Total so far: 35

() Baseketball
() Hostel
() Waiting for Guffman
() House of 1000 Corpses
() Devils Rejects
() Elf
() Highlander
() Mothman Prophecies
(x) American History X
() Three
Total so Far: 36

() The Jacket
() Kung Fu Hustle
() Shaolin Soccer
() Night Watch
(X) Monsters Inc.
(X) Titanic
(x) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
() Shaun Of the Dead
() Willard
Total so far: 39

() High Tension
() Club Dread
(x) Hulk
(X) Dawn Of the Dead
(x) Hook
() Chronicles Of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
(x) 28 days later
() Orgazmo
() Phantasm
() Waterworld
Total so far: 43

() Kill Bill vol 1
() Kill Bill vol 2
() Mortal Kombat
() Wolf Creek
() Kingdom of Heaven
() the Hills Have Eyes (original version, not the new one!)
() I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
() The Last House on the Left
() Re-Animator
() Army of Darkness
Total so far: 43

(x) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
() Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
() 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
Total so far: 47

(x) The Matrix
(x) The Matrix Reloaded
() The Matrix Revolutions
() Animatrix
() Evil Dead
() Evil Dead 2
() Team America: World Police
() Red Dragon
(X) Silence of the Lambs
(X) Hannibal
Total so far: 51

Now put "I've seen 51 out of these 239 mainstream films" and post it

Here's the last.fm Mainstream-o-Meter, which purports to show just how close (or far) you are from the rest of the music-listening public on last.fm.

Apparently, I'm only 26.48 % mainstream. It's interesting that Radiohead and The Beatles have ridiculously high "mainstreamness" scores. The rest of my top 30 are reassuringly obscure, with at least one (local dc/md/nova folkie James Stevens) showing no data.

Interesting.