Monday 26 July 2010

19 Watch these films

19. Watch these Films

When Harry Met Sally
Just watched When Harry Met Sally let me tell you it was well worth the wait I cannot believe how young Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan look, thats probably because they were considering the film was made in 1989. So epic, and some scenes were absolutely classic, I wouldnt want to ruin anything so I'll just say two things: tissues and orgasms = hilarious. You wont be disappointed I promise. If only all of us could have those sorts of relationships: fulfilling, loves all of us including our flaws, can talk to the middle of the night know what we are thinking type person. Gah a girl can dream right?

Memorable quote:

Marriages don't break up on account of infidelity. It's just a symptom that something else is wrong.

Sunday 25 July 2010

Places I've been and Places I want to go

Places I've been and Places I want to go

19 Watch these Films

Breakfast at Tiffanys

A glamorous Miss Audrey Hepburn plays Miss Holly Golightly who co-stars along George Peppard who plays Fred Varjak. I love it when she calls the cat 'slob darling'.


I also love the rain scene at the end, then again who doesnt? =]




Memorable quote:

Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?


Paul Varjak: Sure.



Holly Golightly: Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there. If I could find a real-life place that'd make me feel like Tiffany's, then - then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name!



Donnie Darko
This film will always remind me of Mad World by Gary Jules, very cleverly written with good acting from Jake Gyllenhaall who plays Donnie Darko. I wouldnt fancy a rabbit telling me to do bad things, however.. Frank is actually I think rather good looking.

Memorable quote:


Donnie Darko ( to Cherita Chen): I promise, that one day everything will be better for you

49. See These Animals in the Wild

49.See These Animals in the Wild...
c) Hippo
e) Elephant
k)Lion
h)Koala
l) Monkey
p)Crocodile


OK so unfortunately I cant show you all of my experiences with these animals as some I saw when I was younger and others well I forgot to take pictures silly cow... but it still counts right? =P These pictures are taken from the Lower Zambezi National Park and Chongwe River Camp Zambia. May I just say that it is an absolutely amazing experience...

To be so close to these animals sitting in the vehicle watching them lie there, the lions I must say were quite pro-active as you can see by their rolling in the sun. Just like domestic cats, however I think it would be pushing it to jump out and stroke them, I think they would look at you thinking you were more like dinner.







There were also quite a few elephants at camp, they like the acacia trees =] I suppose less dangerous (slightly) to Buffalos who will just charge at you which means RUNN!! Elephants on the other hand can also mock charge best of 2? If you see one just try and hide.. They're very protective of their young though, the baby ellies can be quite unpredictable, but aww theyre so sweet I remember seeing one looking very enthusiastic jumping on the sand.



You know Hippos are quite difficult to take pictures of because as soon as you dig your camera out on the water in your boat, they can feel the ripples and go down under. So I am afraid to say that my pictures of them are just heads and ears mainly oh well. They have quite a distinctive sound as well, which is great and everything just not at 2 in the morning when all you want to do is shut them up so you can get some sleep XD although you do get used to it and come to love it. Will try and post sound of them, its quite hard to describe but yeah.



Saw some Vervet monkeys hence I have crossed it off my list ^_^ too theyre very sweet and cute but quite cheeky!















Greatest Films

Greatest Films according to Richard Horne plus some I've added which are in red
  • 12 Angry Men
  • 2001: Space Odyssey
  • A Bout de Souffle
  • Alien
  • Aliens
  • Amadeus
  • Amelie
  • American Beauty
  • An American Werewolf in London
  • Annie Hall
  • Apocalypse Now
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
  • Audition
  • Back to the Future I
  • Barbarella
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Big Wednesday
  • Blade Runner
  • Blue Velvet
  • Das Boot
  • Brazil
  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  • The Breakfast Club
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • Caddyshack
  • Casablanca
  • Casino
  • A Christmas Carol (1970)
  • Citizen Kane
  • City of God
  • Chariots of Fire
  • Clash of the Titans
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • The Deer Hunter
  • Deliverance
  • Les Diaboliques
  • Donnie Darko
  • Do the Right Thing
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Dr Zhivago
  • Ed Wood
  • The Elephant Man
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Enter the Dragon
  • Eraserhead
  • Evil Dead 2
  • Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
  • Festen
  • Fight Club
  • Flash Gordon
  • Ghostbusters
  • The Godfather, Part I
  • The Godfather, Part 2
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  • Goodfellas
  • The Graduate
  • The Great Escape
  • Grosse Point
  • Blank
  • Groundhog Day
  • Harold and Maude
  • Harvey
  • Heathers
  • The Italian Job (1969)
  • It’s a Wonderful Life
  • Jaws
  • Jules et Jim
  • The Jungle Book
  • Kind Hearts and Coronets
  • Kingpin
  • L.A. Confidential
  • The Ladykillers (1955)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Lost in Translation
  • The Matrix
  • Memento
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • Monty Python’s Life of Brian
  • National Lampoon’s Animal House
  • The Night of the Hunter
  • North by NorthwestO Brother, Where Art Thou?
  • The Omen (1976)
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  • A Passage to India
  • Peeping Tom
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  • Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
  • Platoon
  • The Producers (1967)
  • Psycho
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Rear Window
  • The Right Stuff
  • The Ring
  • Risky Business
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • Scanners
  • Secretary
  • Sexy Beast
  • Seven
  • Seven Samurai
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • The Shining
  • Shrek
  • The Sixth Sense
  • Sleepless in Seattle
  • Spirited Away
  • Star Wars IV: A New Hope
  • The Sting
  • The Straight Story
  • The Sure Thing
  • Swingers
  • Taxi Driver
  • Terminator 2: Judgement Day
  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
  • The Thing
  • This is Spinal Tap
  • To Kill a Mockingbird

  • Top Secret
  • Touch of Evil
  • Toy Story
  • Toy Story 2
  • Trading Places
  • True Romance
  • Two-Lane Blacktop
  • The Untouchables
  • The Usual Suspects
  • The Vanishing
  • Videodrome
  • When Harry Met Sally
  • When We Were Kings
  • The Wicker Man (1973)
  • Withnail & I
  • Young Frankenstein
  • Greatest Books Ever Written List

    Greatest Books Ever Written according to Richard Horne
    1984 by George Orwell
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
    Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
    Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
    All Creatures Great and Small James Herriot
    American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
    An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
    Animal Farm by George Orwell
    The Art of War by Sun Tzu
    Asterix and the Golden Sickle by R. Goscinny and A. Uderzo
    Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
    The BFG by Roald Dahl
    Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
    The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
    Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
    Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
    Carries War Nina Bawden
    Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
    Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
    The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
    A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
    The Complete Works of Shakespeare
    The Complete Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm
    Crash by J.G. Ballard
    The Crow Road by Iain Banks
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
    Danny, Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
    David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
    Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
    Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
    Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
    Dubliners by James Joyce
    Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
    Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
    The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
    Explaining Death to the Dog by Susan Perabo
    Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
    George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
    Girlfriend in a Coma by Doug Copeland
    Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
    Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
    Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
    Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
    Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
    The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
    Holes by Louis Sachar
    The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
    I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
    Kes (Kestrel for a Knave) by Barry Hines
    Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain Fournier
    Little Women Louisa May Alcott
    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
    Lord of the Flies by William Golding
    The Magic Porridge Pot by Anon
    The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
    Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
    Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
    Moby Dick by Herman Melville
    Mr. Tickle by Roger Hargreaves

    The Great Gatsby F.Scott Fitzgerald
    The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
    The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
    No Logo by Naomi Klein
    Not Fade Away by Jim Dodge
    The Odyssey and The Iliad by Homer
    Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
    The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
    One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest Ken Kesey
    Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
    The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
    Perfume by Peter Suskind
    Possession by A.S. Byatt
    A Prayer by Owen Meany by John Irving
    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
    Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
    Sarah by J.T. Leroy
    The Secret History by Donna Tartt
    The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
    Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
    Ulysses by James Joyce
    Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
    The Van by Roddy Doyle
    The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
    The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks
    Waterland by Graham Swift
    Watership Down by Richard Adams
    Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
    The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahamme
    Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
    Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
    The World According to Garp by John Irving
    Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

    Saturday 24 July 2010

    My Walk to Remember- The List

    1. Send a message in a bottle
    2.Run up an escalator the wrong way
    3. Make an origami crane
    4.Host a party
    5. Keep a Dream Diary
    6. Write Lyrics for a Song
    7. Stay up all night
    8. Learn to play an instrument
    9. Act in a play
    10. Have an Embarrasing Moment and Get Over It
    11. Sleep all day
    12.Start a collection
    13.Grow something from a seed
    14. Help save the planet
    15.Climb to the top of a mountain
    16. Start your own blog
    17.Do something charitable
    18. Read These Books
    19. Watch these films
    20. Take part in a TV show
    21.See your music idol perform live
    22.Sing in front of an audience
    23.Build your own website
    24. Be vegetarian for a week
    25.Learn to live without something you love for a week
    a) TV
    b)Mobile Phone
    c) Computer Games
    d) Junk Food
    e) Internet
    f) Other (facebook)
    26. Write a story and get it published
    27.Be vegetarian for a week
    28. Swim with dolphins
    29.Run a Marathon
    30.Travel the world
    31.See the Aurora Borealis
    32. Learn to say phrases in various languages
    33. Go parachuting
    34. Donate blood
    35. Live in the place you love
    36.Go Sky diving
    37. Be an extra in a film
    38. Go on a demonstration
    39. Lobby your local MP
    40.Run in the Race for Life
    41.Join a club
    42. Go Hot Air Ballooning
    43. Learn to drive a car
    44. Visit:
    a) a safari park
    b) a carnival
    c) a castle
    d) a theme park
    e) a farm
    f) an aquarium
    g) the countryside
    h) another country
    i) your capital city
    45. Succed at something your bad at
    46. Learn to stick up for yourself
    47.Learn to skim stones
    48. Realise your childhood dream
    49.See These Animals in the Wild...
    a) Panda
    b) Rhino
    c) Hippo
    d) Grizzly Bear
    e) Elephant
    f) Hummingbird
    g) Giraffe
    h) Koala
    i)Manatee
    j) Gorilla
    k) Lion
    l) Monkey
    m) Penguin
    n) Kangaroo
    o) Tiger
    p) Crocodile
    q) Orangutan
    r) Eagle
    s) Polar Bear
    t) Coelacanth
    u) Leopard
    50.Attend a film premiere
    51. Do a runner from a fancy restaurant
    52.Visit...
    a) Colosseum, Rome, Italy
    b) Uluru, Australia
    c) Machu Picchu, Peru
    d) The Pyramids at Giza, Egypt
    e) Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    f) Sydney Harbour, Australia
    g) Taj Mahal, Delhi, India
    h) Great Barrier Reef, Australia
    i) Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
    j) Grand Canyon, Arizona
    k) Angor Wat, Cambodia
    l) The Great Wall of China
    53. Learn Astronomy and read the night sky
    54. Conquer your fear
    55.Visit the World's Tallest Buildings
    a) Burj Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirate
    b) Russia Tower, Moscow, Russia
    c) Freedom Tower, New York
    d) Taipei 101, Taiwan
    e) Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai, China
    f) International Commerce Centre, Hong Kong
    g) Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    h) Sears Tower, Chicago
    i) Jin Mao Building, Shanghai, China
    j) Two International Finance Centre, Hong Kong
    k) Citic Plaza, Guangzhou, China
    l) Shun Hing Square, Shenzhen, China
    m) Empire State Building, New York
    n) Central Plaza, Hong Kong
    o) Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong
    56. Plant a tree and climb it when your older
    57. Invent a new trend
    58. See:
    a) solar eclipse
    b) lunar eclipse
    59. See a comet
    60. Say yes to everything for a day
    61. Help Save the Planet
    62. Make a one minute movie
    63. Build an igloo
    64. Make at least one huge purchase you cant afford
    65. Milk a cow
    66. Learn to take great photos
    67. Win an award
    68. Catch a fish with your bare hands
    69. Research your family tree
    70. Learn to bake a cake
    71. Make a unique milkshake
    72. Learn how to ask someone out
    73. Go to a restaurant and just have dessert
    74. Visit the Lord of the Rings Set
    75. Skinny dip at midnight
    76. Fly first class on an aeroplane
    77. See Michael McIntyre Live
    78. Visit Jane Austens House
    79. Go on a Band of Brothers Tour
    80. Go to the cinema alone
    81. Visit Cadbury World
    82. Complete my degree at university
    83. Start a blog
    84. Try a Meatball Marinara from Subway
    85. Experience the London Bus Tour 
    86. Sing in front of an audience
    87. Take part in a TV show
    88. Visit New Zealand
    89. Go visit Zambia again