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.

June 16, 2006

Updated List

Movies
Star Wars: Episode 4 A New Hope - First movie put on the list - 5 votes
Lord Of the Rings Trilogy - 5 votes
Casablanca - 4 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
A Fish Called Wanda
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
Contact
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Die Hard
Dogma
Dracula (Original with Bella Ligousi)
Dune
Fantasia
Fight Club
For a Few Dollars More
Forest Gump
Galaxy Quest
Goldfinger
Goodfellas
Heavenly Creatures
Hello Dolly
High Fidelity
Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
Kung Fu - David Carradine, Made for TV
Manchurian Candidate (remake)
Matewan
Memento
Modern Times
Moulin Rouge
Nightmare Before Christmas
North By Northwest
Office Space
Out of Africa
Paris, Texas
Princes Bride
Project A - Jackie Chan
Psycho
Re-animator
Rear Window
Robin Hood with Errol Flynn
Royal Tenenbaums
Say Anything
Schindler's List
Silence of the Lambs
Seven Samurai
Singing in the Rain
Sophie’s Choice
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 Great Race
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Incredibles
The Matrix
The Passion of the Christ
The Quiet Man
The Ring
The Seventh Seal
The Shining
The Thin Man
The Thing (original)
The Usual Suspect
The Way We Were
The Wolf Man
The Zero Effect
Texas Chainsaw Massacarre - (original)
They were expendable
West Side Story
Young Frankenstein
Zatoichi


Now for the Books
Lord of the Rings Trilogy - 5 votes
Moby Dick - Melville - 5 votes
Dune - 3 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 by Kurt Vonnegut - 2 votes
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - 2 votes
Geek Love - 2 votes
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling – 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 Civil Action
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 Dick Francis
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
Bodyline Autopsy by David Frith
Borstal Boy
Catcher and the Rye - Salinger
Circle of Gold
Civil War - Shelby Foote
Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks
Collected Star Man comics - James Robinson
Collected Stories - Franz Kafka
Collected Stories - Edgar Allan Poe
Confronting Silence - Toru Takemitsu
Cosmos - Carl Sagan
Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters - John Waters
Crime and Punishment - Fydor Dostoyevsky
Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller
DareDevil - Frank Miller
DK Atlas of World History
Don't smoke grass on my father's lawn (son of Charlie Chaplin),
Dreadnought - Robert Massie
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
Flyboys---Bradley
Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel - Groucho and Chico Marx
For Whom the Bell Tolls---Hemingway
Foucault's Pendulum
Foundation Trilogy
Fountainhead
Getting Things Done
Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
Gone with the Wind
Good Earth
Good Omens - Neil Gaimen and Terry Pratchet
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Great Gatsby
Green Arrow, Archers Quest - Brad Meltzer, Phil Hester
Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Gulliver's Travels
His Dark Materials Trilogy – Phillip Pullman
How The Dead Live - Will Self
I know why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Iliad - Homer
In Dubious Battle - Steinbeck
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat - John Gibbons (non fiction)
In the Heart of the sea---Plhilbrick
It - S. King
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Kane & Abel
Kite Runner
Lance Armstrong's first book
L.A. Confidential - James Elroy
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 1
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Life on Earth by David Attenborough
Love in the time of Cholera
Madam Bovary
Maltese Falcon
Meditations on First Philosophy - Descartes
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Monkey, A Journey to the West
Neuromancer - William Gibson
No Ordinary Time
Of Mice & Men - John Steinbeck
Old Man and the Sea - Hemmingway
On the Road
Oxbow Incident
Paradise Lost
Pharmakopia
Poetics of Music - Igor Stravinsky
Portable Beat Reader - many writers (Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs)
Rose Madder - S. King
Rule of the Bone - Russell Banks
Science and Human Values - Bronowski
Shackleton
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
Snow Ghosts (also called The Snowstorm)
Still Life with Woodpecker - Robbins
Swamp Thing - Alan Moore
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Abs Diet - David Zinczenko
The Big Book of Conspiracies - Robert Anton Wilson
The Big Sea - Langston Hughes
The Collected Calvin & Hobbes
The Cousins' War
The Dark Is Rising - series by Susan Cooper
The Dilbert Principle or The Way of the Weasel - Scott Adams
The Firm---Grisham
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
The Great War and Modern Memory
The Heart is Deceitful Above All things - JT Leroy
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Illuminati Papers - Robert Anton Wilson
The Pirate Lafayette,
The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
The Prince
The Proud Tower
The Rites of Spring - Madras Eckstein
The Secret of the Unicorn/Red Rackham's Treasure by Herge
The Son Also Rises - Hemmingway
The Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond
The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
The Tipping Point
The Trial - Kafka
The Wizard of Oz series - Frank L Baum
Three Musketeers
Tom Sawyer - Mark Tawain
Tomb of Dracula - Marv Wolfman
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
Walden - Thoreau
Warriors of God
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
White Noise
Winnie the Pooh
Winter Soldier - Robert Ketchum
Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould
Zen and art of Motorcycle Maintenance

And Now for the Worst Movies
13 Ghosts - The remake
30th Anniversary Night of the Living Dead DVD - they recut the film.
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Batman - Another Tim Burton movie
Bill & Ted – both movies
Blue velvet
Boxing Helena
Casino Royale (1967 starring David Niven)
Destiny Turns On the Radio
Die Another Day
Double Agent 73
Eraserhead
Family Stone
Howling 2
Howling 3
Howling 4
Howling 5
Interview with a Vampire
Ishtar
Jaws 3D
Mars Attacks
Meet the Fockers
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Planet of the Apes - the Tim (I have to wipe my ass on really good things) Burton remake.
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Something about Mary
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Starship Troopers
Surf Nazi's Must Die
Tarzan the Ape Man – The Bo Derek movie
Top Gun

Sith at work

I was complaining about a major shake up at work, until I found out that the new guy my boss would be reporting to is a former employee of my boss and they have a mentor/student/Sith thing going on. Here is how a buddy of mine responded.

Sith thing? Does this mean he killed your boss and took his place? Always there are two. Are you are the new Apprentice? Have you shed Dave Mielcarek to become Darth Malevolence? Does the hatred of your commute make you strong in the Darkside? Young fool. Only now, at your bosses end do you finally grasp the power of the Dark Commute! With each passing mile the Dark Side grows in its dominance of your destiny! The commuters are defenseless. Take your weapon - strike them down with all of your hatred; the blood dimmed tide will be loosed and the bus will fill with the scent of a butcher shop as you wade through their ichor to exit at your stop. Only then will your journey to the Dark Side be complete! Bwahahahahahaha...