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I wrote, “Movie number 181 was ‘The Turandot Project’ which was about the first production of Turandot brought and staged in China. Amazing.”

Right now I am watching #248: The Bonus Features for ‘From the Earth to the Moon’. That’s 67 movies. I obviously have no update for my ‘begin-to-excercise-as-a-way-to-improve-my-health-my-mood-and-maybe-get-a-sex-life’ goal.

Movie number 181 was ‘The Turandot Project’ which was about the first production of Turandot brought and staged in China. Amazing.

and I’m at 155/ 356. What started as a fleeting, and oddly morbid thought, “My queue is so huge, I bet I’ll die before I see all of these flicks,” has turned into an overly complicated system of tracking and tallying movies by number and genre. I even set mini goals for myself. I really need to work harder at my goal of going on a date.

The last few movies I’ve seen include:
Blow Out: 3 Stars
Fairy Tale: A True Story – 4 stars
Harold Lloyd Collection, Vol 1, Disc 1 – 4 stars
Harvey – 5 stars
Longtime Companion – 4 Stars
The Right Stuff – 4 Stars
Weeds, Season 1 – 5 Stars
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill – 5 Stars

Wonderful independent movie from Austrailia about young interracial love.

132 out of 355 = 37%

I’m a little over 1/3 there. I’m upping my membership to 4 discs at a time while I and my extended family go to the lake. From my list I’ll be taking the orginial Producers snd Harvey. Good family fun.

I watched Howard Zinn online in preparation for the convention. A thorough, but oddly passionless documentary about his life. Right now I’m puttering around the house and watching Soylent Green (which is pretty bad and not on the orginial list.)

Excellent movie – I got it from my local library! Oddly, I watched it while updating a database for my child’s elementary silent auction. I hope I didn’t add a wild boar head to the auction list.

So last night I found myself explaining to a friend why I had “Vanya on 42nd Street” at home and have had it for over a month. It’s on the original list. I have to watch it before I return it, even if I don’t want to anymore. I could return it, but would have to get it again eventually in order to finish the list. This made absolutely no sense to her. ‘So who made the orginial list? Who is making you watch them?’ Maybe these seem like sensible and obvious questions to someone else, but in my life it makes perfect sense. I enjoy making lists and crossing things off, even when it’s only meaningful to me.

In a similar vein, I went to a used bookstore yesterday looking for a copy of Turn of the Screw. The guy behind the counter (whom I know and love) instantly joked, “Who is making you read that?” So I told him the story of how I came to be looking for that book. I’ve started listening to a podcast called ‘CraftLit – the podcast for crafters who like books’. The second half of each episode is a serialized novel or a bunch of short stories. She’s been doing this podcast for over two years so there are lots of back episodes. I started at the beginning with Pride and Predjudice and and worked my way through to, yes – you guessed it – Turn of the Screw. This book is unlistenable to. There’s way too much fancy language and variety of narrators for me to follow and my mind tends to wander off. So I decided to only listen to the crafting intros and read the book myself. This makes perfect sense to me.

As a kid, I remember writing out a list of all the Nancy Drew books – this was in the mid 70’s – and taping it up next to my bed and crossing them off as I read them.

Someday, I will find a man who finds all this behavior charming and quirky.

The Outsiders – I’m watching it on tv right now. I’ve been watching tons of non-list Netflix lately like Extras and The Incidence at Owl Creek. I’m almost one third done.

This one wasn’t on my original queue, but I loved it so much I had to write about it. Visually stunning, Beatles music, and a sweet fable-like story. 5 stars.

This was a very strange experience. The Women directed by George Cukor with Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, and Rosalind Russell. It pretty much contains every stereotype of women that exists – the long-suffering and wholesome wife, the whore-ish other woman who works behind the perfume counter, the gossip, etc. The wife learns that her husband is having an affair, divorces him, and is finally reunited with him after he comes to his senses and she grows a backbone.

Here’s the hitch. The wife had the same name as myself and the other woman had the same name as the gal my ex-husband took up with during and after our marriage. Very, very trippy to watch. The best part – the guy never appeared at all.