Classic Movies. . .

Citizen Kane
The Godfather
Singin' in the Rain
Lawrence of Arabia
Schindler's List
Vertigo
Raging Bull
Some Like it Hot
Taxi Driver
The Grapes of Wrath
To Kill a Mockingbird-6/20/08
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A Streetcare Named Desire
Rear Window
West Side Story
The African Queen
Who's Afraid of Viginia Woolf?
Saving Private Ryan
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Spartacus
Sophie's Choice
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Ben-Hur
Breakfast at Tiffany's
My Fair Lady-6/7/08
An Affair to Remember
Out of Africa
Ghost
Pretty Woman
An Officer and a Gentleman
Funny Girl
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The English Patient
The Princess Bride
Body Heat
Braveheart
The Untouchables
Dances With Wolves
Amadeus
Rudy
Bridge on the River Kwai
Chinatown
Top Gun
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Dial M for Murder
To Catch a Theif
Roman Holiday
Chocolat

Merlin

My family lost someone very important today, our beloved cat, Merlin. He was almost 19 years old and he was very sick. We made the difficult decision to put him to sleep. I am too sad to talk about it now, but soon I will tell the story of Merlin. I know that Merlin lived a full, long life. . .here is a good poem that I found. . .

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glint on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you wake in the morning hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft starlight at night.

Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there, I did not die.
Mary Frye

Update on Decades Reading Challenge 2008

Completed titles are in blue italics:


1990's-"The Deep End of the Ocean" by Jacquelyn Mitchard
1980's- "The Cider House Rules" by John Irving
1970's- "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
1960's- "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1950's- "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
1940's- "1984" by George Orwel
1930's- "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
1920's- "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
1910's- "Dubliners" by James Joyce
1900's- "Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1890's- "Tess of the Dubervilles" by Thomas Hardy
1880's- "King Solomon's Mines" by H. Rider Haggard
1870's- "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
1860's- "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
1850's- "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville--reading now
1840's- "Vanity Fair" by William Thackery
1830's- "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens

Update on Movie Classic

1. Citizen Kane
2. The Godfather
3. Singin' in the Rain
4. Lawrence of Arabia
5. Schindler's List
6. Vertigo
7. Raging Bull
8. Some Like it Hot
9. Taxi Driver
10. The Grapes of Wrath
11. To Kill a Mockingbird
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
13. A Streetcare Named Desire
14. Rear Window
15. West Side Story
16. The African Queen
17. Who's Afraid of Viginia Woolf?
18. Saving Private Ryan
19. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
20. Spartacus
21. Sophie's Choice
22. Goodfellas
23. Pulp Fiction
24. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
25. Ben-Hur
26. Breakfast at Tiffany's
27. My Fair Lady-6/7/08
28. An Affair to Remember
29. Out of Africa
30. Ghost
31. Pretty Woman
32. An Officer and a Gentleman
33. Funny Girl
34. The Postman Always Rings Twice
35. The English Patient
36. The Princess Bride
37. Body Heat
38. Braveheart
39. The Untouchables
40. Dances With Wolves
41. Amadeus
42. Rudy
43. Bridge on the River Kwai
44. Chinatown
45. Top Gun
46. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
47. Dial M for Murder
48. To Catch a Theif
49. Roman Holiday
50. Chocolat

School

Back at school. I have one more year of school left and I am ready to be done! I have SO much coming up. So much work to do and I am so tired of it all. In have been going to school for 6 years now. Ugh. . .that is all I have to say. I am trying to just take it one day at a time.

That which does not kill me. . .

Movies of May 2008

3:10 to Yuma-4/5
August Rush-3/5
Casablanca-5/5
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind-4.5/5
Forgetting Sarah Marshall-4.5/5
National Treasure-4/5
Sex and the City the Movie-5/5
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian-4.5/5
The Cider House Rules-4/5