Bird
No, don’t move, don’t run or fly away. I’m not really here. I mean nothing to you.
I won’t move any closer - for fear, for awe, for respect, for love.
You are magnificent and you know it.
And that glint in your eye says you know that although I am taking pictures quietly in apparent worship of your form, I am scared shitless of you and all your winged friends, and that if you so much as take a step towards me I will be off up that hill as fast as my feet can take me (which ain’t all that fast).
But now I am inside the house and am listening to your call, I know I am safe enough to do the magnificent Avitable’s meme.
Rules: If you’ve seen the film highlight it, and if you like put asterisks next to it.
- 1. Pulp Fiction (1994)**
- 2. The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-03)**
- 3. Titanic (1997)**
- 4. Blue Velvet (1986)**
- 5. Toy Story (1995)
- 6. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- 7. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
- 8. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)**
- 9. Die Hard (1988)**
- 10. Moulin Rouge (2001)**
- 11. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)**
- 12. The Matrix (1999)**
- 13. GoodFellas (1990)**
- 14. Crumb (1995)
- 15. Edward Scissorhands (1990)**
- 16. Boogie Nights (1997)
- 17. Jerry Maguire (1996)**
- 18. Do the Right Thing (1989)
- 19. Casino Royale (2006)**
- 20. The Lion King (1994)**
- 21. Schindler’s List (1993)**
- 22. Rushmore (1998)
- 23. Memento (2001)**
- 24. A Room With a View (1986)
- 25. Shrek (2001)
- 26. Hoop Dreams (1994)
- 27. Aliens (1986)**
- 28. Wings of Desire (1988)
- 29. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)**
- 30. When Harry Met Sally… (1989)**
- 31. Brokeback Mountain (2005)**
- 32. Fight Club (1999)**
- 33. The Breakfast Club (1985)**
- 34. Fargo (1996)**
- 35. The Incredibles (2004)
- 36. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
- 37. Pretty Woman (1990)**
- 38. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)**
- 39. The Sixth Sense (1999)**
- 40. Speed (1994)**
- 41. Dazed and Confused (1993)**
- 42. Clueless (1995)**
- 43. Gladiator (2000)** ** **
- 44. The Player (1992)
- 45. Rain Man (1988)**
- 46. Children of Men (2006)**
- 47. Men in Black (1997)
- 48. Scarface (1983)
- 49. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)**
- 50. The Piano (1993)
- 51. There Will Be Blood (2007)
- 52. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad (1988)
- 53. The Truman Show (1998)**
- 54. Fatal Attraction (1987)
- 55. Risky Business (1983)
- 56. The Lives of Others (2006)
- 57. There’s Something About Mary (1998)
- 58. Ghostbusters (1984)**
- 59. L.A. Confidential (1997)**
- 60. Scream (1996)**
- 61. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
- 62. sex, lies and videotape (1989)
- 63. Big (1988)
- 64. No Country For Old Men (2007)
- 65. Dirty Dancing (1987)**
- 66. Natural Born Killers (1994)
- 67. Donnie Brasco (1997)
- 68. Witness (1985)
- 69. All About My Mother (1999)
- 70. Broadcast News (1987)**
- 71. Unforgiven (1992)
- 72. Thelma & Louise (1991)
- 73. Office Space (1999)**
- 74. Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
- 75. Out of Africa (1985)
- 76. The Departed (2006)
- 77. Sid and Nancy (1986)
- 78. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)**
- 79. Waiting for Guffman (1996)
- 80. Michael Clayton (2007)
- 81. Moonstruck (1987)
- 82. Lost in Translation (2003)**
- 83. Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)
- 84. Sideways (2004)**
- 85. The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005)
- 86. Y Tu Mamá También (2002)
- 87. Swingers (1996)**
- 88. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
- 89. Breaking the Waves (1996)
- 90. Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
- 91. Back to the Future (1985)**
- 92. Menace II Society (1993)
- 93. Ed Wood (1994)
- 94. Full Metal Jacket (1987)**
- 95. In the Mood for Love (2001)
- 96. Far From Heaven (2002)
- 97. Glory (1989)
- 98. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)**
- 99. The Blair Witch Project (1999)**
- 100. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999)
Oh yeah, also stolen from Penelope
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Wow. I am so totally afraid of birds. Where did he come from?
Nats last blog post..Straight into Camden
Comment by Nat — June 23, 2008 @ 11:21 pm
I never would have thought a peacock could roost on a fence. I thought they’d lack the balance and the jumping/flying ability.
delmers last blog post..The Amazing Human Body
Comment by delmer — June 24, 2008 @ 2:00 am
I am indeed magnificent.
And how the fuck have you never seen The Naked Gun?
Avitables last blog post..Movies, movies, movies
Comment by Avitable — June 24, 2008 @ 3:46 am
Umm a peacock? That’s rather random! Was he lost?
Your list is much more impressive than mine, but then I didn’t ever expect to do that well ;o)
You haven’t seen A Room with a View? Oh you must! It’s just gorgeous. Makes me want to move to Italy immediately!
Penelopes last blog post..The meme and the rant.
Comment by Penelope — June 24, 2008 @ 6:50 am
Peacocks are pretty birds, but the noise they make is bloody awful
Dans last blog post..Indy and Short Round prepare for another adventure
Comment by Dan — June 24, 2008 @ 8:56 am
Nat - I hate the whole flappy lot of them. This particular specimen came from either a peacock farm about a mile away, or more likely from ‘across the road’ where quite a few ‘farm’ birds live in someones back yard… and when I say yard I mean field.
delmer - In my mind they hover like Satanic creatures… or new Daleks… That noise they make… evil.
Avitable - Are you sharing your ego about with the less fortunate now? You see what the problem is - they put the full title down of The Naked Gun and I became confused thinking it was a ’side’ film or something… But of course I’ve seen Naked Gun 1.
Yes. I am a dumbass.
Penelope - Room with a View - on my list to see asap! Looking at how many films I had seen has only made me realise how much I need to get out!
Dan - And this little blighter was shouting the odds until 11 o’clock last night.
Becs last blog post..Bird
Comment by Bec — June 24, 2008 @ 10:28 am
I’m quite relieved!
Avitables last blog post..I must be premenstrual
Comment by Avitable — June 24, 2008 @ 12:08 pm
I hate birds. Especially that whole pooping-on-your-head-without-warning part.
Momo Falis last blog post..Where Is The Love?
Comment by Momo Fali — June 24, 2008 @ 7:38 pm
I can’t believe you’ve never seen The Player. Unforgiven and No Country For Old Men can also be recommended.
Comment by yorksdevil — June 24, 2008 @ 7:43 pm
Avitable - So long as it wasn’t over the plants that’s fine!
Momo Fali - They really should be forced to wear bells of some kind. Lucky poop? My left butt cheek.
yorksdevil - Unforgiven? Western,right? Not a chance I’ll like it.
Comment by bec — June 25, 2008 @ 12:40 pm
We had one of those sitting on a neighbor’s roof. It would get right above the air intake vents of the house and cry out, at all hours of the day and night. They finally had to have someone come and remove it (they took to a local aviary). Beautiful bird, noisy as hell as 2am.
martymankinss last blog post..The Wedding Part 2: The Big Day
Comment by martymankins — June 30, 2008 @ 10:37 pm
martmankins - 2am? There’s a guy down the road who threw a shoe at a peacock at midnight - he was a crap directional thrower (with apparently a good arm) and put his wife’s heel through the window of his car. His wailing drowned out the bird. 2am? I would’ve been homicidal!
Comment by bec — June 30, 2008 @ 10:51 pm