Books N Movies Rants

Started as a blog of a father trying to create the perfect list of books and movies that his son should read and watch. Now it is that and some general rants. Scroll down for the lists. If you have a list of 10 books and 10 movies please send it to me.

February 16, 2006

In Progress - Worst Movie List

So we have the best movies people recommend - now for the worst. Send me your list of 5 worst movies and I will add them into the list.

The movies are listed alphabetically and by the number of votes they have.

So far we have:


  1. Planet of the Apes - the Tim (I have to wipe my ass on really good things) Burton remake. What a monumental piece of crap. I have had hemorrhoids that I enjoyed more. And the ending - what the ever living fuck was that? The movie contradicted itself so many times and in so many ways it makes my brain hurt just thinking about it. Do not see it. First movie with 2 votes.
  2. 30th Anniversary Night of the Living Dead DVD - they recut the film. Check out this great rant http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=4397 - Best Rant about a bad movie ever!
  3. 13 Ghosts - The remake
  4. Batman - Another Tim Burton suck fest. I have to admit I saw this twice because the first time I could not believe how bad it was. I figured "Well I am a fan of the Batman comic, so maybe I am just being really hard on the film." So in all fairness I saw it again. Still sucked
  5. Blue velvet - Imagine Salvador Dali directing "Abbot & Costello meet Marilyn Chambers". Now make it unfunny and boring. I was more interested in the coat of the guy sitting in front of me than this movie. I think if a date drags you to a movie that sucks this bad she ows your a BJ.
  6. Boxing Helena - Another film that even though there is a lot of nudity, and hot nudity at that, it does not matter - nothing will ever save this movie. When I and the audience left the movie we told the people waiting on line to go see another film. When someone responded that it could not be that bad, we all looked at each other and in unison said "It's a dream sequence". Everyone on line went to another movie.
  7. Destiny Turns On the Radio - One of the most boring movies ever made. Quentin Tarantino guest starred as a favor to his no-talent director buddy. A complete waste of everyone's time.
  8. Double Agent 73 - This is a soft core movie where secret agent Chesty Morgan has a camera inserted in her breast so when she wants to take a picture she whips it out and squeezes. I was going through puberty when I saw this movie and even all the nudity could not save this movie.
  9. Eraserhead - The second David Lynch movie, but Tim Burton is still ahead in sucking.
  10. Family Stone
  11. Howling 2
  12. Howling 3
  13. Howling 4
  14. Howling 5
  15. Interview with a Vampire - Second Tom Cruise movie to make the list
  16. Ishtar
  17. Jaws 3D
  18. Mars Attacks - In the long, long list of awful, fake-artsy Tim Burton movies, this one sucks the most ass. Quite a feat there, Tim.
  19. Meet the Fockers - Second Ben Stiller movie to make the list.
  20. Something about Mary - Cameron Diaze would have to actually give blowjobs in the theater to get me to see this waste of time again.
  21. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier - Shatner finally gets to direct one and boy is it an ass wipe of a film. The plot involves Spock's long lost never mentioned brother. But the main reason he did it - the final fight of the movie - Kirk vs. God. And Kirk wins.
  22. Starship Troopers
  23. Surf Nazi's Must Die - The shittiest of all the shitty Troma movies. Granted, that's like comparing which is worse: leprosy or ebola. They both suck, but which would you rather die from?
  24. Tarzan the Ape Man - This convinced me that Bo Derek sucks. In fact, everyone involved with this movie sucks. I suck for sitting thru it. Boring soft-core porn for people who are afraid to watch the real thing.
  25. Top Gun - Jingoistic Tom Cruise bullshit with an annoying, awful soundtrack. This movie is why the 80's sucked. Really. It's solely responsible. It ruined the decade for me.

Please note that the quotes are from the various people who submitted to this list and do not necessarily express the viewpoints of this blog.

They probably do though.

Especially anything about Tim Burton sucking monkey cock.

February 14, 2006

Current Book & Movie Lists

Current Book List

Lord of the Rings Trilogy - 5 votes
Moby Dick - Melville - 5 votes
Ulysses - James Joyce - 3 votes
100 years of solitude - Garcia Marquez - 2 votes
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - 2 Votes
Animal Farm - Orwell - 2 Votes
Any book - Kurt Vonnegut - 2 votes
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - 2 votes
Dune - 2 votes
Geek Love - 2 votes
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - 2 Votes
Illuminatus! - Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shae - 2 votes - First book to receive multiple votes & first book put on the list
Junkie - William S. Burroughs - 2 Votes
Odyssey - 2 votes
Silence of the Lambs- 2 Votes
The Stand - S. King - 2 Votes
The Stranger - Albert Camus - 2 votes
The World According to Garp - 2 Votes
Waiting For Godot - Samuel Beckett - 2 votes
Watchmen - 2 votes
Wuthering Heights - 2 votes
1984
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
A good biography on Abraham Lincoln
Alone---Byrd
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - John Locke
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Anything by Kipling
Anything by Cussler
As Told at the Explorers Club
Athletic Shorts - Chris Crutcher or anything else by him
Battle Cry Freedom
Belladonna - Karen Moline
Beowulf
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Borstal Boy
Catcher and the Rye - Salinger
Civil War - Shelby Foote
Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks
Collected Star Man comics - James Robinson
Collected Stories - Franz Kafka
Collected Stories - Edgar Allan Poe
Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters - John Waters
Crime and Punishment - Fydor Dostoyevsky
Don't smoke grass on my father's lawn (son of Charlie Chaplin),
Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman
Enders Game - Orson Scott Card
Fahrenheir 451 - Ray Bradbury
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72, - Hunter Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter Thompson
Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel - Groucho and Chico Marx
Fountainhead
Getting Things Done
Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
Gone with the Wind
Good Earth
Good Omens - Neil Gaimen and Terry Pratchet
Great Gatsby
Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss
Gulliver's Travels
It - S. King
Rose Madder - S. King
Portable Beat Reader - many writers (Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs)
Kane & Abel
The Prince
Still Life with Woodpecker - Robbins
Lance Armstrong's first book
Monkey, A Journey to the West
Old Man and the Sea - Hemmingway
Neuromancer - William Gibson
The Wizard of Oz series - Frank L Baum
The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
L.A. Confidential - James Elroy
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat - John Gibbons (non fiction)
The Pirate Lafayette,
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
Iliad - Homer
Maltese Falcon
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
Snow Ghosts (also called The Snowstorm)
The Trial - Kafka
Middlemarch - George Eliot
On the Road
The Son Also Rises - Hemmingway
Oxbow Incident
Paradise Lost
Three Musketeers
White Noise
Foucault's Pendulum
Pharmakopia
The Tipping Point
Love in the time of Cholera
Rule of the Bone - Russell Banks
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Madam Bovary
The Rites of Spring - Madras Eckstein
The Proud Tower
Dreadnought - Robert Massie
The Great War and Modern Memory
The Big Sea - Langston Hughes
Winter Soldier - Robert Ketchum
The Cousins' War
The Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond
In Dubious Battle - Steinbeck
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 1
Green Arrow, Archers Quest - Brad Meltzer, Phil Hester
For Whom the Bell Tolls---Hemingway
Tom Sawyer - Mark Tawain
In the Heart of the sea---Plhilbrick
The Firm---Grisham
Shackleton
Flyboys---Bradley
Meditations on First Philosophy - Descartes
The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
Science and Human Values - Bronowski
Confronting Silence - Toru Takemitsu
Poetics of Music - Igor Stravinsky
The Dilbert Principle or The Way of the Weasel - Scott Adams
The Abs Diet - David Zinczenko
The Illuminati Papers - Robert Anton Wilson
The Big Book of Conspiracies - Robert Anton Wilson
Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller
DareDevil - Frank Miller
Tomb of Dracula - Marv Wolfman
Swamp Thing - Alan Moore
The Collected Calvin & Hobbes
I know why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
How The Dead Live - Will Self
The Hear is Deceitful Above All things - JT Leroy
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Of Mice & Men - John Steinbeck
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Walden - Thoreau
Warriors of God
Winnie the Pooh
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
Zen and art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Here is the current movies list:

Star Wars: Episode 4 A New Hope - First movie put on the list - 4 votes
Lord Of the Rings Trilogy - 4 votes
Casablanca - 3 votes
A Wonderful Life - 2 Votes
Blade Runner - 2 Votes
Clerks - 2 Votes
Star Wars 5 - Empire Strikes Back - 2 votes
Exorcist - 2 Votes
Ghost Dog 2 - votes
Gone With the Wind - 2 votes
Jaws - 2 votes
Manchurian Candidate (original) - 2 votes
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - 2 Votes
Rashomon - 2 votes
The 10 Commandments - Original with Charlton Heston - 2 votes
The Godfather - 2 votes
The Sound of Music - 2 votes
Wizard of Oz - 2 Votes
Abbot & Costello meet Frankenstein
Animal House
Aliens
Apocalypse Now
Barbarella
Battle of the Bulge - Henry Fonda
BeastMaster
Bells of St. Mary's
Bowling for Columbine
Brain Candy
Brazil
Bridge of the River Kwai
Bridges of Madison county
Children of Paradise
Citizen Kane
Clash of the Titans
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Die Hard
Dogma
Dracula (Original with Bella Ligousi)
Dune
Fight Club
For a Few Dollars More
Forest Gump
Goodfellas
Hello Dolly
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
Kung Fu - David Carradine, Made for TV
Manchurian Candidate (remake)
Modern Times
Moulin Rouge
Nightmare Before Christmas
North By Northwest
Office Space
Out of Africa
Princes Bride
Project A - Jackie Chan
Psycho
Re-animator
Rear Window
Robin Hood with Errol Flynn
Royal Tenenbaums
Schindler's List
Silence of the Lambs
Seven Samurai
Singing in the Rain
Star Wars 6 - Return of the Jedi
The Big Lebowski
The Cocoanuts with The Marx Brothers
The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover
The Godfather 2
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Incredibles
The Passion of the Christ
The Quiet Man
The Seventh Seal
The Shining
The Thin Man
The Thing (original)
The way we were
The Wolf Man
The Zero Effect
Texas Chainsaw Massacarre - (original)
They were expendable
West Side Story
Young Frankenstein
Zatoichi

February 09, 2006

Interesting article on torture gaining acceptance in the US

Below is a link to a very interesting article by Alfred McCoy, professor of History at University of Wisconsin, on the increasing acceptance of torture in the US. Here is an excerpt:

  • ". . . Torture in defense of the "homeland" has gained surprisingly wide acceptance, while the torture debate has been reframed -- to the administration's great advantage -- as a choice between public safety and the lives of millions or private morality and bleeding-heart qualms over a few slaps up the side of the head. In this way, old-fashioned morality has been made to seem little short of immoral."

http://tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=57336

February 06, 2006

Preaching to the converted

There is a thing going around about Oliver North Named Osama bin Laden as a Feared Terrorist During 1987 Iran/Contra Hearings While Being Questioned By a Disgusted Al Gore.

This is FALSE. See the link here that takes to a letter by North explaining that it is a lie.

http://truthminers.com/hoaxarticles/oliver_north.htm

The thing that gets me about this sort of thing is why take the time to create this lie. It makes the Right look like desperate liars. I do not think it is a Left conspiracy. Not going to waste the time on North.

No I think it is some stupid Right wing nut living in his Mom's basement waiting for the rapture. One of those "by any means necessary" idoits. By lieing about their cause to make the Left look bad they just make the Right look bad as well.

Get a life.

February 03, 2006

Ouch

Some one posted this on an industry site about the company I work for:

The whole thing is broken.

It has become nothing more that chatter and a few execs making more than they should.

Last one then make sure you turn out the lights. I don’t see a savior among them.

Neet site


There is a site where there are three realy attactive women standing in front of a car and you type in commands to ge them to do stuff, pretty cool.

http://a.oneofthelads.com/carwash.php

I could not get a pic to upload. But try the site and try the words:

blow
spread
sex
slap
spank
bra
knickers
wet
water
finger
wash
ass

you get the idea

The Greatest Blog Ever

http://rrrrrrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnnnnhhhh.blogspot.com/

I say no more, for I am humbled by the master.

February 01, 2006

If you are going to SPAM my blog . . .

There is that little space at the end of a blog entry where people can post comments. Most of the comments I get are freaking spam. Why the hell would I take any legal advice from a guy who posts his legal advice on a blog. And what the hell about my comments makes anyone think I would be interested in Canine Kidney Failure? Have you seen anything related to dogs in here?

Come on - if you are going to spam me at least have the decency to to submit a list of movies or books for me to add. Make it look like you might have even looked at the damn blog before you post saying "WOW, big fan of your blog. I think you might be interested in a blog about the mating habits of ants."

Like Zombies?

Here is a link to a great Zombie Flash animation series

http://www.xombified.com/episodes.html

Check it out.