I was browsing through Wikipedia (I gotta love this site. It’s probably one of my favorite ones so far).

Apparently, the American Film Institute last year of a list of “100s” ratings on the greatest movies ever produced in America, and it’s really pretty interesting. They’ve got categories like “100 Movies”, “100 Stars”, “100 Laughs”, “100 Thrills”, “100 Passions”, “100 Movie Quotes”, and “100 Songs”, all coming from movies.

I gotta love these lists.:D I’m a sucker for those old musicals (and by old, I mean 1950s old) and there are a lot that have been included. Yay to Gene Kelly! There were a lot on the list I haven’t watched yet though, and I definitely have to watch these, because they’re the cream of the crop, the king of kings, the… Well, you get the picture. Anyway, here’s a short list of my own (veeeery short. I’ll just be picking the Top Ten of the ones I really want to watch, in order) on which ones I have to watch, based on the lists they made (that’s a load of lists!)

1. Gone with the Wind (I already have a copy of it, but I haven’t gotten around to watching it)

2. The Godfather (Yeah, Mario Puzo’s the king of gangster movies. I don’t know where I can get a copy of it yet though)

3. West Side Story (I also have a copy, but I haven’t watched it yet)

4. Vertigo/Psycho (If it’s Alfred Hitchcock, it must be good)

5. A Streetcar Named Desire

6. Amadeus

7. The Manchurian Candidate

8. Schindler’s List

9. Pulp Fiction

10. The Silence of the Lambs (I really hate gross-out movies, but since this movie made it to a lot of the lists, not to mention that this has Anthony Hopkins in it.)

For the movie buffs out there, I would ask, beseech, beg you to watch (if you haven’t already) Singin’ in the Rain, The Wizard of Oz, Chinatown, Sunset Boulevard, The Maltese Falcon, 12 Angry Men, Casablanca (for the sheer heck of satisfying that urge to watch this classic), and Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Van Halen’s standard concert contract called for them to be provided with a bowl of M&Ms backstage, but with provision that all the brown candies must be removed. The presence of even a single brown M&M in that bowl, was sufficient legal cause for Van Halen to peremptorily cancel a scheduled appearance without advance notice. The legendary “no brown M&Ms” contract clause was indeed real, but the purported motivation for it was not. The M&Ms provision was included in Van Halen’s contracts not as an act of caprice, but because it served a practical purpose: to provide an easy way of determining whether the technical specifications of the contract had been thoroughly read (and complied with).

Whoa. Can’t blame these guys for lack of guts.@_@ Imagine risking the whole gig because of M and Ms.

Reminds me of “The Wedding Planner”, only that it’s the other way around: they kept the brown chocolate M and Ms just because the guy (Matthew McConanaughey) said that these have the least amount of food coloring because chocolates are already brown.

I think I liked the movie more than the band.:P

On to London, lads!

In 1992, 29,000 rubber ducks fell of a Chinese freight ship in the Pacific ocean. Thousands of them washed up on the shores of eastern Asia and Australia. Some even made it as far as the western shores of Noth & South America. But some have travelled even further; After a few years at sea they floated north into the Bering Straight where they became trapped in the polar ice cap. The ducks and the ice then migrated east. A few years ago they emerged from the ice in the northern Atlantic. They then traveled down the eastern Canadian & US coastline before be swept into the gulf stream. Finally, they went down to merry old England, where they were expected to land sometime in the summer of 2007.

Wow, Ernie must have been really happy last year. He probably rushed all the way to London not to see the queen, but the yellow rubber duckies.

Since the “Dark Knight” movie is going to be released middle of the year, here are a few Batman trivia you might like:

During the filming of “Batman Begins”, Christian Bale lost his voice three times due to altering his voice while playing Batman.

The Batmobile was originally a red car (This one I found funny, for some reason. Imagine the Dark Knight riding a scarlet mobile).

When he first appeared (in the Golden Age of Comics), Batman had no compunctions about killing people. He once broke the neck of an unaware thug with his foot, and even knocked several thugs into a vat of acid. Also, since Batman reflects the social norms of the times, his own mores have changed from the time he was first made. At one point, he regularly gunned down criminals. Now, he finds the use of guns abhorrent, as they remind him of the night his parents died by gunshot.

The original design of Batman’s costume actually had eyeballs in these (downright freaky).

Bob Kane originally planned to name the hero “Birdman” (I guess the name was finally given justice - if you can call it that - in that psychotic Cartoon Network Adult Swim show. Kids, please don’t watch that.)

A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk,

but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

So… Which one actually stinks?:P

Slightly off-topic, but I suddenly missed the old Pepe LePeu cartoons. Imagine having all items with “Le” before them even if these aren’t really legit (le zoo, le pussycat, le fountain, le food, le tent, le house, and the list goes on and on). It’s pretty psycho, but it worked.:P

I just realized: my favorite Looney Tunes characters are both black-and-white! I love Pepe and Sylvester, and they’re both pretty monochromatic. What’s that about?@_@