Meme, rec, and miscellaneous stuff

[snorkackcatcher]

Wow, that was a specific post title, wasn't it?

OK, the meme first, via golden_d: it's the Oscars Best Picture Meme, which I didn't mind doing because it was quick! Basically, a list of all the films that have won said Oscar; bold the ones you've seen; italicize the ones partially seen.


Wings
The Broadway Melody
All Quiet on the Western Front
Cimarron
Grand Hotel (at least, I have a vague recollection of this)
Cavalcade
It Happened One Night
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Great Ziegfeld
The Life of Emile Zola
You Can't Take It with You
Gone With the Wind
Rebecca
How Green Was My Valley
Mrs. Miniver
Casablanca
Going My Way
The Lost Weekend
The Best Years of Our Lives
Gentleman's Agreement
Hamlet
All the King's Men
All About Eve
An American in Paris
The Greatest Show on Earth
From Here to Eternity
On the Waterfront
Marty
Around the World in 80 Days
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Gigi
Ben Hur
The Apartment
West Side Story
Lawrence of Arabia
Tom Jones
My Fair Lady
The Sound of Music
A Man for All Seasons
In the Heat of the Night
Oliver!
Midnight Cowboy
Patton
The French Connection
The Godfather
The Sting
The Godfather Part II
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Rocky
Annie Hall
The Deer Hunter
Kramer v. Kramer
Ordinary People
Chariots of Fire
Gandhi
Terms of Endearment
Amadeus
Out of Africa
Platoon
The Last Emperor
Rain Man
Driving Miss Daisy
Dances with Wolves
The Silence of the Lambs
Unforgiven
Schindler's List
Forrest Gump
Braveheart
The English Patient
Titanic
Shakespeare in Love
American Beauty
Gladiator
A Beautiful Mind
Chicago
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Million Dollar Baby
Crash
The Departed
No Country for Old Men


*sigh* I am so not a great film buff. I'm surprised there were that many, actually -- 22 out of about 80, mostly older ones that have appeared enough times on TV for me to catch them at some point.

A couple of other memes I've been tagged for -- er, will get around to it at some point? (Possibly in the way that Harry will get around to reading Hogwarts, a History.)

Thanks to everyone who suggested poetry that I could use for my quiz. Would it be wrong of me to go "muahahahaha!" at this point? Maybe.

Leave talent spotting to the suits, says EMI boss. Yeah, that'll work.

Happy birthday for yesterday to maya_a - if she sees this, anyway. (She doesn't seem to post a lot :D).

I actually have a vague plotbunny for a Zacharias Smith/adult!Gabrielle Delacour fic. (Yes, that was a random draw from a challenge. The other two were Remus/Cho and Ted Tonks/Lily Potter Jnr.) If written, it will be called something like Paradise by the Wand Light. If you consider that title together with Zach's role in HBP, I think you may see where I would be going with this ...

Finally saw Torchwood 2x08 A Day in the Death tonight -- will do a proper review later, but for now, a summary: "Again, WTF? What happened there?"

Ah yes, that rec. Who could resist taking a look at a fic with the summary: "Elizabeth Tudor, Queen of England ... and headmistress of Hogwarts? Three one shots. Complete." Well, certainly nor me. It's called A Headmistress's Tale and it's excellent -- an example of blending HP concepts and real history that IMHO genuinely works.

Lyrics: And finally, this. The last one was Nickelback's Rockstar, recorded as far back as 2005. Blimey. Gets played a lot at the moment due to being near the top of the charts -- in fact the damn thing's been playing in my head most of the day ... sporkyadrasteia, msmoocow, and sparkly_stuff all knew it.

This time, something older. A lot older, in fact, and only a short extract, but I bet you know it:

In a cavern, in a canyon,
Excavating for a mine
Dwelt a miner, forty niner,
And his daughter ... (1880s)

Comments

[laverinth.livejournal.com]

CLEMENTINE!

Oh my darlin', oh my darlin', oh my DARLIN', Clementine...
You are lost and gone forever, dreadful sorry, Clementine.

[snorkackcatcher]

Yep!

[msmoocow.livejournal.com]

And his daughter, Clementine...

Of the recent movies, I really recommend Crash. I live for stories that make me cry, and this was no exception. :)

[snorkackcatcher]

Yep. I really must watch more movies -- I just never seem to get around to it ...

[plaid-slytherin.livejournal.com]

I counted, and I've only seen 16 of those. Probably not worth the embarrassment of doing in my own journal. XD

[snorkackcatcher]

Not much less than me ...

[maya-a.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks for the birthday wishes! You're right, I comment and read but don't post much, alas. Oh, and thanks as well for the rec of A Headmistress's Tale! Love it.

[snorkackcatcher]

You're welcome!

[golden-d.livejournal.com]

Clementine! :)

[snorkackcatcher]

Yep!

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

Ah, Clementine.

I'd recommend Rebecca and Amadeus on the film list. Two films I absolutely adore. And No Country for Old Men was harrowing but very good.

[snorkackcatcher]

Yes indeed. I never seem to get around to watching movies -- the only times I've been to the cinema in the last few years are for the HP and LOTR films.

[jdbracknell.livejournal.com]

EMI make me laugh. It's like they sat around in a meeting and said 'hmm, the problem seems to be that people think we're corporate and whorish. Now, how do we fix that? Oh I know, we'll say something that makes us all sound even more corporate and whorish!'. Not that I'd shed a tear about a bunch of A&R men losing their jobs, because most of them really are middle-aged, middle-class wankers who won't speak to anyone who doesn't have a penis....

[snorkackcatcher]

Ah well. Then again, I doubt a venture capitalist type would be any better, or do any better ...

[cavgirl.livejournal.com]

Just dropping a line to say thanks for the rec! Of the movies, I'd recommend All About Eve (especially if you find theatre bitchiness amusing), Amadeus (freaky Mozart), and Schindler's List, although I think in retrospect that the latter is actually less effective than Life is Beautiful in illuminating the horrors of the Holocaust.

[snorkackcatcher]

You're welcome. I keep meaning to watch more well-known films, but somehow rarely get around to it. :)