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Movies - Lists postsWednesday January 13, 2016
My Top 10 Movies of 2015
INTRO. Caveat: I haven't seen some contenders yet, such as "45 Years," "The Hateful Eight," "Son of Saul," but you don't want to wait until February for this kind of thing. Mid-January is already a month behind. I thought it was a weak year, but it ended well, and I had to leave off some deserving candidates: "Ex Machina," "It Follows," "Going Clear," "Of Miracles and Men," "The Martian," "Love & Mercy," "Bridge of Spies,"Me and Earl and the Dying Girl," "Creed." Here we go. Your mileage will differ.
10. STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS. Yes, it's derivative of itself; yes, Rey is a quick study; but my what fun. The torch has been passed to a new generation of Star Warsians, and they have—whaddaya know—personality.
9. CAROL. Not just a love story, not just a coming-of-age story, but a beautiful look back at a bygone era. Between this, "Brooklyn," and "Bridge of Spies," was there any 1950s memorabilia left in the second-hand shops in the New York Metro area?
8. SICARIO. Stunning visually, dramatically, ethically. How true is it? I'm sure liberties were taken. The larger truth is about how thin our veneer of civilization is. Both ways.
7. MEETING DR. SUN. A quirky joy from Taiwan and the Seattle International Film Festival. It's a heist film gone horribly amaterurish. The final, sad wrestling match on the Taipei streets, beneath the gaze of the titular statue, can be read as the two Chinas forever embroiled.
6. BROOKLYN. Something beautiful or unexpected happens in each scene. Watching, it was like I was being handed a rose. By the end of the movie, I felt like I was holding a bouquet.
5. INSIDE OUT. Sadness, and, particularly Bing Bong, take the movie to another level—a level that, in animated films, only Pixar seems to reach. "Take her to the moon for me" literally made me stifle a sob in the middle of a packed movie theater. It's the great cinematic sacrifice of 2015.
4. SPOTLIGHT. The best movie about investigative journalism since "The Insider." What's shocking is how undramatic it is, how matter-of-fact. You could almost call it objective.
3. THE BIG SHORT. It's the eat-your-vegetables movie that goes down like an ice-cream sundae. It's a primer on Wall Street, and mortgage derivatives, and the global financial meltdown. You want them to get the bad guys, to prick their bloated self-assurance, even though you know we all fall down. It's tragic, yes, but also fucking hilarious.
2. THE REVENANT. You feel it as much as see it. It's palpable, and beautiful, and exhausting. When it was over I exhaled and thought, "Great, but I doubt I'll want to see it again." The next day, I wanted to see it again.
1. THEEB. It's that rare beast: an art film that is also a harrowing adventure story. It's "Lawrence of Arabia" from a Bedouin boy's perspective. It's not just about the loss of life but the loss of a way of life.
Posted at 07:22 AM on Jan 13, 2016 in category Movies - Lists
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From the Archives: Top 10 Music Biopics
I wrote the following for MSN back in 2004 in anticipation of "Ray." Some of it still works. I'll add my new top 10 at the end.
You say you're a musician and someday you want Hollywood to tell your story? Here's what you need to do:
- Tell friends and family there's something "inside you" that needs to get out.
- If you're male, get a drug habit.
- If you're female, get an abusive husband.
- Die young. Preferably by plane crash.
We don't know how many of these scenarios are in the two music biopics opening this fall—Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in "Ray," and Kevin Spacey as Bobby Darin in "Beyond The Sea"—but we wouldn't be surprised to see at least a few. In the meantime enjoy this list of our 10 best music biopics.
Guidelines. No romans a clef, such as "The Rose" or "Eight Mile." Also no TV movies: "The David Cassidy Story" or "The John Denver Story." Life's too short. No documentaries or mockumentaries, either. Finally, the movie has to be about people famous for their music, not musicians famous for their biopic. This eliminates two great films—"The Pianist" and "Shine"—but opens things up to more traditional examples of the genre.
Now let's rock n' roll. To the toppermost of the poppermost!
10. "Bird" (1988)
Directed by Clint Eastwood. Written by Joel Oliansky.
Remember the "drug habit" scenario above? Here's a caveat: If the drug habit is the focus of the film—like in "Lady Sings the Blues," "Sid and Nancy," and "The Doors"—it'll probably kill the film. There's not much that's less dramatic than someone succumbing to addiction. So why is "Bird" on this list? Because Forest Whitaker's tortured performance as Charlie Parker sticks. Some of the scenes, too, have a spark: traveling through the deep south with "Albino Red," and in L.A. with Dizzy Gillespie. Too bad the rest of the film doesn't. Too bad it's 160 minutes.
Genre: Jazz
Who plays?: Charlie Parker.
Obstacles to success: Cymbals flying through the air.
Problems with success: Drugs. Ulcers. Racism.
Memorable number: Buster Franklin being reintroduced to that kid who couldn't play in Kansas City.
Academy Awards: Best Sound. Forest Whitaker won Best Actor at Cannes.
Quote: "Chan, comma. Help, period. Charlie Parker."
9. "La Bamba" (1987)
Written and directed by Luis Valdez.
It's a bit cartoony. A migrant labor camp never looked so idyllic, and the high school hallways are straight out of "Grease." The adolescent romance between Ritchie Valens and Donna is, well, adolescent, and Lou Diamond Phillips doesn't lip-synch particularly well. But the movie is what it sets out to be: a kind of Cain and Abel tale, with Cain carrying a bottle and Abel a guitar. Quick question: on that night in 1959 in Clear Lake, Iowa, three musicians went down in a chartered airplane, and two are on this list: Ritchie Valens (#9) and Buddy Holly (#6). So why is J.P. Richardson getting dissed? Where's "Hello Baby: The Big Bopper Story"?
Genre: Rock n' roll
Who sings: Los Lobos.
Obstacles to success: Not many. The kid was seventeen.
Problems with success: His brother. Airplanes.
Memorable number: Singing "Framed" at the American Legion Hall as Bob arrives drunk and ready to fight.
Music cameos: Los Lobos (in a Mexican brothel); Brian Setzer (as Eddie Cochrane); Marshall Crenshaw (as Buddy Holly).
Quote: "I'm gonna be a star. Because stars don't fall out of the sky, do they?"
8. "Backbeat" (1994)
Directed by Iain Softley. Written by Iain Softley, Michael Thomas, Stephen Ward.
Search the world over and you won't find anyone who can do a better John Lennon than Ian Hart. "Backbeat" was actually Hart's second go at John—after the short film "The Hours at the Times"—and once more he's amazing: looks, sounds, acts just like the former Beatle. Just doesn't sing. The film focuses on John's friendship with his art school mate Stuart Sutcliffe, who sold a painting, bought a bass guitar and joined the band. It's about the Beatles' Hamburg days, where they honed their talents, and about a love triangle: John, Stuart, and Astrid, the woman who gave the Beatles bangs. But who is John jealous of: Stuart or Astrid? John seems equally confused.
Genre: Rock n' roll
Who sings: Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs), Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum), Mike Mills (R.E.M.), Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Don Fleming (Gumball), and Dave Grohl (Nirvana) play the music for the early '60s Beatles. Nice! But let's face it: If Pete Best pounded the drums the way Grohl does, we never would've heard of Ringo Starr.
Obstacles to success: The picture makes it seem the Beatles' path to success was greased when it wasn't. Remember "Three-guitar and one-drum groups are on the way out"? You know, as wrong as you've ever been in your life, you've never been that wrong.
Problems with success: Takes place before the success.
Memorable number: "Good Golly, Miss Molly," "Twenty Flight Rock," "Long Tall Sally": Take your pick.
Academy Awards: Nope. But Hart recognized as Most Promising Newcomer at the BAFTAs.
Quote: "It's all dick."
7. "The Benny Goodman Story" (1955)
Written and directed by Valentine Davies.
"I must say Benny does have his own strange kind of integrity," future wife Alice Hammond says of Goodman in the middle of this biopic, and the picture's the same way. It's one of three Hollywood jazz stories made in the 1950s (along with "The Glenn Miller Story" and "The Gene Krupa Story"), but it works better than the other two, in part, because of this integrity. Goodman has a nerd's courage when confronting mobsters and bland band leaders but none with Hammond, who must take the lead in their relationship. Allen is understated as the jazz clarinetist. Donna Reed is charming as the classical music enthusiast won over to jazz. And the music swings.
Genre: Jazz.
Who plays: Benny Goodman. Steve Allen was an accomplished musician/composer, however.
Obstacle to success: The usual unimaginative promoters and businessmen.
Problem with success: She's gentile, he's Jewish.
Memorable number: Blowing away the stuffy society folks at Carnegie Hall with "Sing Sing Sing (with a Swing)."
Music cameos: Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, Ben Pollack, Kid Ory, Harry James, Ziggy Elman, and Martha Tilton.
Quote: "So many things he wants to say. And no clarinet to say them."
6. "The Buddy Holly Story" (1978)
Directed by Steve Rash. Written by Alan Swyer.
Rock n' roll has a bit of a complex – it yearns for both street cred and art cred – and two scenes in "The Buddy Holly Story" exemplify this. At one point Holly and the Crickets show up at the Apollo Theater in Harlem and win over a startled black crowd who were expecting black performers. That's the street cred. Later, a classical violinist compares Holly's use of strings in "True Love Ways" to Beethoven. That's the art cred. It helps, too, that Holly shakes his head over the violinist's comments. You can't be a true rock n' roller if you're seen vying for art cred. The film is a low-key account of rise and crash, with Gary Busey channeling his inner geek to earn an Oscar nom, and Don Stroud and Charles Martin Smith playing great back-up as the Crickets, the band that inspired the naming of the Beatles. Occasionally the 1970s seep through the seams of this period piece, but mostly it works the way Holly's tunes work: without strain.
Genre: Rock n' roll
Who sings: Gary Busey. Plays, too.
Obstacles to success: Sponsors and preachers who don't dig rock n' roll. Suits who won't let him produce his own music, man.
Problems with success: The jealousy/homesickness of the Crickets.
Memorable number: Singing "Oh Boy" at the Apollo Theater.
Academy Awards: Best Music. Busey was nominated Best Actor.
Quote: "No white act has ever played the Apollo!"
5. "What's Love Got to Do with It" (1993)
Directed by Brian Gibson. Written by Kate Lanier.
You watch this thing flinching from anticipated blows. When's he going to strike? Here? Here? When the first punch lands you find out it's not the first anyway, and then he rains them down and drags her through the house as friends stare in mute horror and the children scream. One boy holds his ears and cries – so heartbreakingly real you wonder what they did to the kid to get him to act that way. When the abuse continues, year after year, it almost drains your energy away. But when Tina finally fights back in the limousine, and she lands that first blow of her own? Oooh, that one feels good. Too much Buddhism at the end, and Ike keeps popping up like Jason in "Friday the 13th," but still our most emotionally raw music biopic.
Genre: Rhythm and Blues.
Who sings: Tina Turner.
Obstacles to success: Not many. Well, race.
Problems with success: Ike.
Memorable number: Singing "I Wanna Be Made Over" as she is.
Music cameos: Tina shows up at the end.
Academy Awards: Both Bassett and Fishburne were nominated. Bassett's so good we think she would've won if she'd been able to sing like Tina.
Quote: "Everything's alright. Just me and your mama talking."
4. "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942)
Directed by Michael Curtiz. Written by Robert Bucker and Edmund Joseph.
Yes, cornball, overly patriotic, and the Four Cohans in blackface is embarrassing. But few actors have embodied energy on the screen as well as Cagney, who shed his gangster image (for a New York minute) by quick-talking, tap-dancing, and charming his way through this biopic of George M. Cohan, creator of American myths, and composer of such rousing American standards as "The Yankee Doodle Boy," "Grand Old Flag," and "Over There." We're a cynical lot, but the scene where he tap-dances down the White House steps still makes us misty.
Genre: Tin Pan Alley
Who sings: Cagney, see?
Obstacles to success: Dietz and Goff.
Problems with success: Critics. Teenagers in jalopies.
Memorable number: "Yankee Doodle Dandy." What else?
Music cameos: Eddie Foy, Jr. plays Eddie Foy.
Academy Awards: Best Actor (Cagney), Music and Sound. Nominated for five others, including Picture, Director, Script, Editing, and Supporting Actor (Huston)
Quote: "My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you."
3. "Bound for Glory" (1976)
Directed by Hal Ashby. Written by Robert Getchell.
Ironic title, given it's one of the few music biopics where the lead character doesn't seem bound for glory. In fact the young Woody Guthrie seems like a lazy, impractical dreamer. He paints signs, plays fiddle, tells fortunes, fools around. The movie picks up when he picks up and encounters bullying railroad men and uncaring church men on his way to California, the promised land, where things only get worse. The film is like its subject. It has an unhurried, rambling nature. Look for Ronny Cox, the epitome of corporate villainy in films like "Robocop," as Woody's mentor, Ozark Bule, the anti-corporate union organizer.
Genre: Folk.
Who sings: David Carradine. Actors sang in the seventies.
Obstacles to success: The dust bowl. The California border patrol.
Problems with success: Sponsors, marketers, and packagers.Memorable number: A sing-along led by Ozark Bule in a migrant labor camp.
Academy Awards: Best Music and Cinematography (Haskell Wexler). Nominated for Film Editing, Costume Design, Writing and Picture. 1976 was a tough year at the Oscars.
Quote: "You sure as hell don't look like much. How do you sing?" "Makes me happy."
2. "Coal Miner's Daughter" (1980)
Directed by Michael Apted. Written by Thomas Rickman.
For a film with abject poverty, a near-rape scene, and a whole lot of bickering and squallering, this movie is pure fun. It's partly the writing and direction, of course, and it doesn't hurt to have locals in speaking parts. (When did directors stop doing that?) But the movie really belongs to its two stars. Sissy Spacek plays Loretta Lynn from age 13 to, what, 40? She sings like Loretta. Hell, she should've gone to Nashville afterwards and cut herself some records. And with her in nearly every scene is one of the best actors in Hollywood. Tommy Lee Jones' Doolittle Lynn is a flawed, fascinating man who literally drives his wife to stardom only to discover that by succeeding he's failed. Her success – their success – has rendered him superfluous. How does he handle this? At first poorly; then like a man.
Genre: Country.
Who sings: Sissy Spacek. Perhaps the only thing more amazing than Spacek's pitch-perfect Loretta Lynn is Beverly D'Angelo's pitch-perfect Patsy Cline.
Obstacles to success: Poverty, obscurity, shyness.
Problems with success: Headaches. Doo.
Memorable number: Quieting a honky-tonk with "There He Goes."
Music cameos: Ernest Tubb and Minnie Pearl. Levon Helm plays Loretta's father.
Academy Awards: Best Actress for Spacek. The film was nominated for six others, including Picture, Writing, Art Direction, Cinematography, Editing and Sound. The fact that Tommy Lee Jones wasn't even nominated discounts for all eternity every awards show everywhere. We're serious.
Quote: "Stop making that noise! You sound like an old bear growling."
1. "Amadeus" (1984)
Directed by Milos Foreman. Written by Peter Shaffer.
It's more than a biopic; it's a blueprint for how to deal with genius on screen. Simply view the extraordinary (Mozart) through the eyes of the ordinary (Salieri). There's one glorious scene after another here: Salieri playing his and then Mozart's music before the innocent priest; Mozart playing back the little march of welcome Salieri composed in his honor ("That doesn't quite work, does it?"); Salieri looking through Mozart's first – and only – drafts. And on and on, right up to the very end when Antonio Salieri, the Patron Saint of mediocrities, absolves us all. And the music? "Finished as no music is ever finished."
Genre: Classical
Who plays: Neville Marriner
Obstacles to success: Too many notes.
Problems with success: Dead father. Carping wife. Jealous colleague. Not necessarily in that order.
Memorable number: Pick one.
Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Writer, Actor (Abraham), Art Direction, Costume Design, Make-up and Sound. Also nominated for Actor (Hulce), Cinematography, and Editing.
Quote: "I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes – at an absolute beauty."
Not bad: "The Glenn Miller Story" (1953); "Lady Sings the Blues" (1972); "Sweet Dreams" (1985); "Sid & Nancy" (1986); "Immortal Beloved" (1994);
Not good: "The Gene Krupa Story" (1959); "Mahler" (1974); "Lisztomania (1976); "The Doors" (1991); "Selena" (1997)
Since then? The floodgates. We've gotten, among others, "Ray" (Ray Charles) "Beyond the Sea" (Bobby Darrin) "Walk the Line" (Johnny Cash) "La Vie en Rose" (Edit Piaf) "I'm Not There" (Bob Dylan) "Cadillac Records" (Chess Records) "Jersey Boys" (Frank Valli) "Get On Up" (James Brown) "Jimi: All Is By My Side" (Jimi Hendrix), "Love & Mercy" (Brian Wilson) and "Straight Outta Compton" (NWA).
Some I haven't seen yet. And with some of the top 10 above I'm like, really, Erik? "What's Love Got to Do With It?" at No. 5? I keep thinking that I gave "Bird" short shrift and movies like "La Bamba" too much shrift. I keep remembering being not overwhelmed by "Bound for Glory." I remember exactly nothing about "The Benny Goodman Story."
Given all that, here's my new Top 10. Your results will differ:
- Amadeus
- Coal Miner's Daughter
- Yankee Doodle Dandy
- La Vie en Rose
- I'm Not There
- Love & Mercy
- Bound for Glory
- Jimi: All Is By My Side
- What's Love Got to Do With It?
- The Buddy Holly Story
Beyond the first two, it's really kind of a crapshoot.
Whose music biopic would you like to see on screen? Or maybe the better question, given the history of the genre, is: Whose story would you LEAST like to see Hollywood screw up?
Posted at 06:38 AM on Aug 22, 2015 in category Movies - Lists
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Ranking Hitchcock
Patricia recreating a scene from "The Birds" outside the Potter Schoolhouse during a 2011 trip to Bodega, Cal.
On the day of Alfred Hitchcock's 116th birthday, two days ago, some top IndieWire critics, including Anne Thompson, Susan Wloszczyna and John Anderson, ranked their 25 favorite Hitchock films. Twenty-five! "Vertigo," the new darling, was No. 2, while "Notorious" took the top slot. I saw the list via Jeff Wells, who had some mild disagreements, mostly with the highish ranking (13th) of "Marnie," which both Wells and I think is the lamest of Hitchcock's work. But it's been revived by the New Yorker's Richard Brody. Too bad. But Wells agrees with IndieWire about the new No. 1.
My history of Hitchcock is sketchy, but of the ones I've seen I'd rank them in this order:
- The 39 Steps
- Rear Window
- Notorious
- Vertigo
- Psycho
- The Birds
- Rebecca
- North by Northwest
- The Lady Vanishes
- Rope
- Dial M for Murder
- Sabotage
- The Wrong Man
- Spellbound
- Marnie
There's a great purity and economy in the storytelling of "The 39 Steps," not to mention wit. It reminds me of what Fitzgerald and Salinger did with the best of their stories. It's also got one of the great steamy scenes of the 1930s.
I need to see more Hitchcock, obviously.
Posted at 08:18 AM on Aug 15, 2015 in category Movies - Lists
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My Top 10 American Movies, as of July 28, 2015
The dark side of the American dream: war, profits, and the death of the working class. None of these movies wound up on the BBC list.
I'll have a few more posts about that BBC list of the top 100 American movies as chosen by 62 international critics, but, as a reminder, each of the 62 chose their own top 10, with No. 1 being worth 10 points, 2 worth nine points, and so on. Since I'm a bit critical of the list, I thought I'd come up with my own Top 10. Haven't done it in a while. And never from a wholly American perspective.
It's not easy. This is what the BBC says about its process:
What defines an American film? For the purposes of this poll, it is any movie that received funding from a US source. The directors of these films did not have to be born in the United States – in fact, 32 films on the list were directed by film-makers born elsewhere – nor did the films even have to be shot in the US. ... Critics were encouraged to submit lists of the 10 films they feel, on an emotional level, are the greatest in American cinema – not necessarily the most important, just the best. These are the results.
I went after movies that say something deep and real about life. And if they say something deep and real about American life, all the better. "The Godfather," after all, is about the dark side of the American dream (first line: I believe in America) and so is "All the President's Men." I guess most of these films are, now that I think about it. Even "Breaking Away." It's lighthearted in tone but it's about the death of the blue-collar working class. It's about owning your epithet (nothing is more American than that), and, in a very funny way, it's about the American talent for reimagining yourself—in this case as a non-American; as an Italian.
I also tried to pick movies that I've watched at least five times and would like to watch again. Like right now.
Enough gab:
|My Rank
|BBC Rank
|The Thin Red Line (1998)
|Terrence Malick
|The Godfather (1972)
|Francis Ford Coppola
|The Insider (1999)
|Michael Mann
|Casablanca (1943)
|Michael Curtiz
|Annie Hall (1977)
|Woody Allen
|Breaking Away (1979)
|Peter Yates
|All the President's Men (1976)
|Alan J. Pakula
|Amadeus (1984)
|Milos Forman
|Singin' in the Rain (1952)
|Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
|Monkey Business (1931)
|Norman McLeod
Immediate thoughts:
- It's a very '70s-centric list but it could have been more so: "Chinatown," "Cuckoo's Nest," "Love and Death," "Jaws," "The Godfather Part II." The '70s were a good decade for American film and I was coming of age during it.
- Six of my 10 aren't on the BBC's top 100.
- When will "The Thin Red Line" get its due? When will "The Insider"? (I have no hope that "Breaking Away" will ever get its due.)
Feel free to post your Top 10 (or 5, or 3) below.
Posted at 06:40 AM on Jul 28, 2015 in category Movies - Lists
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That BBC 100 Greatest Movies List, By Genre
In BBC's list, crime is strong, comedies are holding their own, but musicals are way over yonder in the minor key.
OK, another post about BBC's list of the 100 greatest American films, as chosen by 62 international critics.
First thing I noticed? Not a lot of musicals. Also not many animated movies: one, to be precise. A superhero movie made the list, which is new, plus two documentaries. And an experimental short from the 1940s? OK. I guess. But one wonders how.
Which genres did well? That most American of genres, the western, did OK. So did crime drama and film noir, both of which are wholly American, despite the latter's French nomenclature and the European pedigree of many of its most famous practitiioners.
(Side thought: How many of the directors on this auteur-heavy list of great American movies are foreign-born?)
Comedy did OK, with some interesting choices (ex: "Groundhog Day"), while horror got the usual nods (Hitchcock, Kubrick) plus one unusual one ("Night of the Living Dead"). The critics weren't loving the war movies. In fact, there's more of what I call "mystery thriller w/perverse sexuality" than there is of war.
This last comment indicates a problem with even attempting what I'm attempting. What genre is "The Tree of Life," for example? Or "Casablanca"? Or "Crimes and Misdemeanors"? Is this last a crime drama? A crime drama with comedy? A comedy with crime and drama? What's the difference between a crime drama and a film noir? Entire books have been written on that subject. I can't help recalling James Baldwin's great line about how our passion for categorization, our attempt to order the world neatly, has "boomeranged us into chaos; in which limbo we whirl, clutching the straws of our definitions." That's me, here. But I keep doing it. Or attempting it.
Proviso stated, here are the genre numbers. (I've added the "mystery thriller w/sex" subgenre into the "thriller" category):
- Drama: 31
- Comedy: 16
- Western: 10
- Film noir: 9
- Thriller: 7
- Musical: 5
- Sci-fi: 5
- Action: 3
- Horror: 3
- Romance: 3
- War: 3
- Documentary: 2
- Animated: 1
- Superhero: 1
- Short: 1
Essentially it's a dark brooding list with a few oddities, like "Forrest Gump" at No. 74. (I put that one in its own category: "drama, comedy." It seems a drama to me first. You could go: "drama, fantasy" or "drama, history," too.)
For a list that ends with "Citizen Kane" at No. 1 and "The Godfather" at No. 2, it's also a fairly hip list, which makes "Gump" an even odder inclusion. Maybe it's getting its hipster fans now, who are reacting to my generation's overall shrug on the subject.
In the meantime, for masochists, the list as sorted by genre (or its best approximation):
|84. Deliverance (John Boorman, 1972)
|82. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
|38. Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
|86. The Lion King (Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, 1994)
|95. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
|83. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
|71. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
|67. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)
|50. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
|44. Sherlock Jr (Buster Keaton, 1924)
|30. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
|18. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
|17. The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925)
|55. The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
|comedy, dark
|42. Dr Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
|comedy, dark
|24. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
|comedy, dark
|58. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
|comedy, romance
|32. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
|comedy, romance
|23. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
|comedy, romance
|56. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
|comedy, sci-fi
|69. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1982)
|53. Grey Gardens (Albert and David Maysles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, 1975)
|73. Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
|63. Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)
|31. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)
|26. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1978)
|25. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
|14. Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
|59. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Miloš Forman, 1975)
|29. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
|22. Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924)
|74. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994)
|drama, comedy
|79. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
|drama, coming of age
|57. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989)
|drama, crime
|93. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)
|drama, crime
|81. Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991)
|drama, crime
|28. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
|drama, crime
|20. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
|drama, crime
|19. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
|drama, crime
|10. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
|drama, crime
|6. Sunrise (FW Murnau, 1927)
|drama, crime
|2. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
|drama, crime
|94. 25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)
|drama, crime
|46. It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
|drama, fantasy
|99. 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)
|drama, history
|97. Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
|drama, history
|65. The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman, 1983)
|drama, history
|39. The Birth of a Nation (DW Griffith, 1915)
|drama, history
|27. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
|drama, history
|11. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
|drama, history
|1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
|drama, history
|47. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock, 1964)
|drama, psychological
|87. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
|drama, sci-fi
|48. A Place in the Sun (George Stevens, 1951)
|film noir
|100. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
|film noir
|92. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
|film noir
|89. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
|film noir
|72. The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg, 1941)
|film noir
|54. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
|film noir
|51. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
|film noir
|35. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
|film noir
|12. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
|film noir
|85. Night of the Living Dead (George A Romero, 1968)
|62. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
|8. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
|88. West Side Story (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, 1961)
|80. Meet Me in St Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
|70. The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)
|7. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1952)
|34. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
|musical fantasy
|61. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
|mystery thriller w/sex
|60. Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
|mystery thriller w/sex
|21. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
|mystery thriller w/sex
|3. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
|mystery thriller w/sex
|43. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)
|romance, drama
|9. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
|romance, drama
|37. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)
|romance, weepy
|91. ET: The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
|76. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
|75. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
|36. Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)
|4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
|40. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943)
|short, experimental
|96. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
|13. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
|33. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
|thriller, psychological
|68. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
|thriller, romance
|90. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
|78. Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
|15. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946)
|98. Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino, 1980)
|77. Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)
|66. Red River (Howard Hawks, 1948)
|64. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)
|52. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
|49. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
|45. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)
|41. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
|16. McCabe & Mrs Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
|5. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
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City Academy defender Cameron Humphreys captained England in the Victory Shield clash against Scotland on Friday.
The honour was awarded to Humphreys after his strong showings at England u17 level in the Nordic Tournament last summer.
City have had a record seven youngsters selected for the England Victory Shield squads this season as the Academy goes from strength to strength.
Lukas Nmecha started Friday's game against Scotland alongside Humphreys, while Will Patching was an unused sub after making his Three Lions bow earlier in the season against Wales.
Unfortunately, the City duo were part of a side that went down 1-0 in Perthshire, as the hosts claimed the trophy for the first time in 14 years.
However, such extensive City involvement in the tournament bodes well for the future of the club. Nmecha, Cameron McCulloch, Josh Murray, Elan Assiana and Sadou Diallo all featured for England in the previous clash against Northern Ireland on a record-breaking night for the Academy.
Head of Academy, Mark Allen, said: "I think it's a great reflection on what we're trying to do, they're all homegrown boys and now they can call themselves England internationals."
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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – "The Rachel Zoe Project", "It's a Brad, Brad World" with Brad Goreski, and newcomer "Dukes of Melrose" got 2013 debut dates from Bravo moments ago. The Rachel Zoe Project will return for its fifth season on March 6, Bravo said in a news statement Thursday. She will air first in a two hour block of programming from Bravo.
For weeks, fans have been asking Andy Cohen when would Zoe and Co be retuning for a new season. Cohen hinted to news that the new season would be arriving sooner than expected.
But in a news statement Thursday, Bravo said that Zoe will return on a revamped Wednesday night platform. Original programming will start with Zoe during the 9 o'clock hour. Zoe's new season will feature expanding ventures including a "blow dry salon" along with "styling clients for music video and photo shoots". The show will focus on her "her spring collection at New York Fashion Week" as ell.
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I've just started getting back into the game and apparently SWK is having technical difficulties. The main files I've been trying to find are the the latest versions (or at least somewhat updated versions) of Kotor Tool and the K-GFF GFF Editor. Does anyone know of any mirrors, or can anyone upload them to a free site or maybe one of the other modding sites? I don't have a lot of time left to wait, as I'll be pretty busy soon enough.
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if you guys no any mirrors for kse plz post em i cant download anything from pcgamemods just recently i keep gettin an error message if anyone can do this it would help thnx
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Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice only serves white chicken | Photo: Julia Khoo
This chicken rice stall at Maxwell Food Centre has been a household name and critics' darling for a while now. That is a feat in this land that considers chicken rice its unofficial national dish.
Foo Kui Lian of Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice doesn't sacrifice quality for quantity | Photo: Julia Khoo
Foo Kui Lian, 64, and her husband took over the stall from her elder brother in 1988, and she sticks closely to time-honoured methods of preparation and the use of quality ingredients.
Four outlets later, the zingy chilli sauce is still made with fresh calamansi juice (a common substitute is vinegar); the fragrant rice is made with chicken stock, pandan leaves, shallots and ginger; and the soup base is enhanced after frying the shallots and ginger to make for a more fragrant and flavourful broth.
In every portion (from $3), the chicken is plump, smooth and tender, even for the notoriously stringy chicken breast meat. Judging by the unending queues and our chicken rice taste test, we are not the only fans.
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Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia. One of the most haunted locations in the city. An amazing place. Al Capone spent time in here, and his cell is preserved as he left it. Looks like a mini-parlor.
Nikon D300, Nikon 18-200VR @20mm, 1/2 second, F8.0, ISO 100, handheld (VR does work) As I didn't want to fork over the extra $10.00 for the tripod pass. For those of you familiar with the TV show "Ghosthunters" they have spent time here on several occasions. If you are ever in the city, this is a "must see". Welll worth it if you like photographing old stuff.
Converted to b&w in Lightroom, then tweaked in between LR and Photoshop.
Light Fixture. Eastern State Penitentiary. Death Row. I was out with my daughter shooting this part of the prison. I was photographing this lamp, and she was about 20 feet away shooting the colorful, but rusted push buttons on the electrical panel that at one time opened and closed the death row cell doors. I heard her say "dad, stop breathing on me". She thought I was behind her snooping on what she was shooting! I said to her from across the room: "I'm over here!" She turned, saw where I was standing, screamed and ran outside and refused to go into any other building. Weenie.
Something or someone had breathed on her neck several times -- and we were the only two (living) souls in death row at the time. It was awesome!
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'Out Of Context!
Out Of Context!'
Amy Anderson
From: "amy anderson"
To: "Positive Atheism" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Sent: December 18, 2001 9:18 PM
Subject: Positive Ignorance
Reading many of the issues on your webpage, mainly the poster on Bible Week, I find that you tend to take Bible verses both out of litereary and cultural context. You display an ignorance in everything you say. Know the facts before you dis them.
From: "Positive Atheism" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
To: "amy anderson"
Subject: Re: Positive Ignorance
Date: December 19, 2001 12:42 AM
It is very easy to jump up and down, shouting, "Out of context! Out of context!" This downhill effort takes no intelligence and very little nerve. Most of all, to do as you have done here requires not a lick of honesty. Many have done this over the years, but nobody has had the integrity to accept our challenge of showing us precisely where and how we have attempted to lead our readers astray in this matter.
Thus, if you would kindly show us which documents take Bible verses out of context by showing us what is their proper context, you will have the distinction of being the very first reader who has ever done this for us. As it stands, nobody who has written shouting, "Out of context! Out of context!" has even tried to show us what she or he means in accusing us of having shamelessly committed this most dishonorable subterfuge.
If you do not show us precisely how we have erred, here, we will be forced to include you among the almost countless dishonest Christians who have pointed their fingers at us, shouting the accusation that we commit the outrageous transgression of attempting to deceive our readers.
So, get out your lexicon and Church history books and make sure you have access to the ways in which these passages have traditionally been interpreted throughout the centuries, because this is what it will take to show that I have done what you accuse me of doing: I will not accept some oddball modern interpretation as the One True Interpretation for all time, but will ask for the ways in which the Roman Catholics, the Reformers, and at least one other major denomination interprets these passages that you insist I have taken out of context.
Since Bible interpretation is subjective and personal (to the point where personal, individual interpretation of Scripture is written into the body of doctrine for the Baptist denomination), we will need to use the historical understanding of these passages as our arbitrator. Also, if none of the three sources I mention can agree as to the meaning of a particular passage, then we will agree that this passage has no clear meaning that can even be "taken out of context," but, rather, that the Bible has passages in it that defy understanding.
A classic example of Bible ambiguity is Job 21:24 "His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow." a comparison of this passage in all the different translations will reveal quite a variety of possibilities for what the Authorized Version (the King James) translates as "His breasts are full of milk."
Thus, when I say, for example, that the passage in Numbers 31, which has Moses commanding, "kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man" means that Moses commanded his soldiers to keep virgin women as war booty, you will need to show that the historical consensus regarding this passage is quite different from what I say it is.
Similarly, when I say that Deuteronomy 21:18-21, "And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die," requires that the parents of a rebellious boy are to demand that the city elders execute the lad, you will need to show us that the historical consensus disagrees with my understanding (that is, that I have taken the passage out of context).
(This is God's Law!? You want your kids to read this stuff!? Well, go ahead, because in my opinion the United States Constitution's guaranted of Religious Liberty is the only thing coming between your right to teach this to children and child abuse charges!)
Good luck with this one, because Jesus himself not only mentions this passage in the first part of Matthew 15, but he backs up its message! Jesus here accuses the Pharisees of nullifying Deuteronomy 21:18-21 (which is, in fact, one of the most famous humanitarian feats that this party of reformers, the Pharisees, accomplished when they set out to reduce the barbarism contained in the Law of Moses without compromising the authority and nobility of the rest of the law. Were it not for the slander leveled against this laudable group of men and placed into the mouth of Jesus long after he died, we would still be familiar with them today as the prototype of humanitarian religious reformer who has been lauded throughout history. Since Jesus grabbed, as disciples, mostly members of the Zealot party, and since the Zealots were a subset of the Pharisee party, what does this say about Jesus's real relationship to the Pharisees?
Specifically, if you wish to show me as having been dishonest (as you say I have been), you will definitely want to demonstrate to us that the passage in I Timothy 6:1-5 does not pronounce as "puffed up with conceit," etc., anybody who disagrees with Paul's teaching specifically about human slavery. To make this case solid, you will need to come up with historical teaching from the Roman Catholic Church and the Reformation-Era Protestantism that agrees with the modern translations, such as the New International Version, which has this passage switching gears in midstream. Siding with the traditional (pre-Abraham Lincoln) interpretation, I have Paul's pronouncement of wrath referring to the antecedent, those who disagree with Paul's slavery teaching; the NIV and other twentieth-century translations have the pronouncement refer to some generic "sound doctrine" -- pulled out of a vacuum or somewhere -- even though the sentence begins with Paul giving instructions on the "Christian" approach to human slavery. If you can show that the preponderance of pre-Abolitionist commentators side with the NIV on this one, I will retract the "National Bible Week" poster and apologize to both to our readers and to Christians the World over.
Until you (or someone) is willing to do this, however, I will continue to say it as I see it: The passages are as they read, and there are no "hidden meanings" which make them say something other than their natural reading. The only exception in all of this would be Song of Solomon 4:5: "My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him." I included this one because of the quirky way in which the Authorized Version (the King James) renders this one, in that it seems pornographic when the phraseology is applied the way these phrases are interpreted in the modern vernacular. Somebody with forethought couldn't have done a more comedic job at botching the translation of a Bible passage than the completely accidental way in which this one came out!
And as for Song of Solomon 2:3, "I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste," you tell me what this is supposed to mean in the context of the sexually explicit work which is the Song of Solomon!
So, we eagerly await your attempt to show us where we have taken these Bible passages "out of context" in our"National Bible Week" poster, which has been online for over two years and has withstood numerous charges of "Out of context! Out of context!"
In addition, since you mention the "National Bible Week" poster as just one of many places where we do this, I'll want you to back up this separate accusation by showing at least five other occurrences in our body of editorial writing (Cliff's Monthly Column, the FAQ Section, and Cliff's Replies to the Letters) where we have done this -- apart from the instances from "National Bible Week" poster that you will be showcasing for us. Since you point your finger specifically at us (and not Joseph Lewis or Bertrand Russell or Mark Twain), you will need to do this with our writings and nobody else's in order to make your case.
Finally, because you are so bold as to charge the following:
You display an ignorance in everything you say.
I will ask that you back up this charge by taking any two words at random from this response and entering them into the Search Engine on our Front Page. Since it is true, then, that I "display an ignorance in everything" that I say -- everything -- you should have no problem at all taking the first five "hits" from that search that are either from our FAQ, from Cliff's Monthly Column, or from Cliff's responses to the Letters (or any writing that contains a "Cliff Walker" byline, for that matter). These constitute our body of editorial opinion, and thus constitute writings by the "you" that you here describe.
Since you, being a faithful Christian, are a truth-telling person and not a liar or a slanderer, you will have no problem showing blatant ignorance in each of these five documents -- seeing as how you said that I "display an ignorance" in everything that I say. You should be able to dispute at least one statement per paragraph on each of the pages that come up in your search, but please keep it down to five botches per page, and please also keep it down to the first five pages that have a Cliff Walker byline. I can only handle so much criticism, and I wouldn't want you to cream me!
If you can demonstrate to us that you are a truth-teller and not a liar in this respect, I will renounce my work in the Positive Atheism project and find something else to do. (If I'm that dishonest, I should be able to make quite a killing as a preacher!) But being a man of truth, I could not live with myself if I discovered that I had been, as you here accuse, misleading the public and misleading my readers -- who trust me to have sat down (as I do) and worked these things out (like I do) and present to them the highest quality scholarship and the strictest thinking that I can muster when I put items such as the "National Bible Week" poster and the "Which Ten Commandments?" flyer together.
I eagerly await your reply, Amy.
Cliff Walker
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New York City is a haven for the arts. There are always new exhibitions in museums all across the city and, frequently, public artwork is commissioned so everyone can enjoy artistic creations even if they are not big fans of exploring museums. Many times publically commissioned pieces of art are tied into charity endeavors and/or the season. The "Faberge Big Egg Hunt" is an art project, exhibited publically throughout NYC, that is both a charitable event and a playful ode to Easter.
"Faberge Big Egg Hunt 2014" is being hosted by Faberge, the world's most iconic artistic jeweler. From April 1 to April 26 over 260 giant fiberglass eggs will be placed around the five boroughs of New York City. Each egg will be designed differently due to collaboration with trend-setting artists and designers. The event is being held in order to raise funds for the "Elephant Family" and "Studio in a School" charities.
New Yorkers are encouraged to take part in the "big egg hunt." By downloading an app it is possible to "collect" each egg by scanning in the barcode on each sculpture. According to the official Faberge website:
"Participants who enter the hunt will have the opportunity to win one of three Fabergé prizes, with a combined retail price exceeding USD 125,000. The unique prizes are specially designed jewellery egg pendants in gold and diamonds set with exquisite Zambian emeralds, Mozambican rubies or Zambian amethysts. The colored gemstones for the prizes are kindly donated by Gemfields, the world's leading producer of ethically-sourced, rare colored gemstones. The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt will culminate in a grand auction held by Sotheby's where the giant egg sculptures will be sold. All proceeds will go to the two charities Elephant Family and Studio in a School."
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This sky blue egg is decorated with an interesting pattern of cactus-like images all over the surface. It is very eye catching and, from a distance, it resembles a polka dot pattern.
Circular "Eggs" Egg
This brightly colored egg is truly fantastic to behold. It's vibrant colors make it irresistible to look at and each and every one of the circular "eye-like" patterns are painted with depth and texture.
Neon Egg
This egg is one of the brightest and most noticeable. It is also one of the most conceptually interesting designs because it was created using layers of neon-hued plastic, not fiberglass. It is impossible to ignore and one of the most impressively creative.
Paisley Egg
This egg uses a classic paisley design entwined with gentle, almost-pastel, colors. This egg is among the most resembling of a classic Easter egg and that gives it an air of charm and old-fashioned class.
Three-Dimensional Butterfly Egg
This egg is one of the most strikingly brilliant since it incorporates a patterned butterfly design with an actual three-dimensional sculpture on one side that conveys several dozen butterflies in flight—as if they are just landing on or taking off from the egg.


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Dead TreeThey say you're gonna be back in two monthsDead Tree by thatrandomguitargirl
And I'm crying myself to sleep tonight
Because what
Am I gonna do
When you're back to hurt me?
I'm scared to death
And I don't want to be
Near you
You are the dark shadow in my life
That swallows me whole
You suck me in
And I'm
You'll get me back into things
I never wanted to start in the first place
You'll tear me
You'll poison me
And tear me
Like a dying tree
The money, the drugs, and the lies
I want nothing
To do with them
In your letters to mom
You say you're a changed man
But I couldn't, won't, and never will
Trust you again.
SheSheShe by thatrandomguitargirl
Has these eyes
That suck you in like a vortex
Has this face
That makes you believe there's a God
Has this body
That makes you shiver, like it's winter
Has this laugh
That makes you believe there's good in this world
More Questionaarrree things.1: What colour(s) are you socks?More Questionaarrree things. by MCRmyBrandi14
Pink and orange and green and shit!
2: What book are you currently reading?
Rule...its a VERY good book (;
3: What's the weather like right now?
Clear and Sunny and slight chill but it feels good!
4: What is your middle name(s)?
5: Were you named after anyone?
Nope. I am not special lol
6: Bullet your whole day so far.- Alarm goes off at 6:00 am
-Go into the bathroom: pee, wash face
- Get changed, MAYBEE do makeup (depends on the day)
- Straighten hair
- Brush Teeth
- Drive to school
- Sleep in Theatre class
- BREAK! 15 minutes
- Don't pay attention in Math
- Sing and Cuddle boyfriend in Chorus C:
- Lunch Time (aka - sat by myself because I'm losing all my friends)
- Hablo en español en la clase de Español
- Sleep through English class
Gerard's Sugalumps (crack!fic)He walks - no, strides - down the street, all the girls staring at the one spot. Gerard sees them, of course, he's wearing track pants that always put the girls in a trance. At least he didn't wear his dungarees or pantaloons, that didn't end well last time.Gerard's Sugalumps (crack!fic) by AbsentOutcast
"Hey, buddy, could you cover those things please?" A guy asks, averting his eyes.
"Well, let me tell ya," Gerard says. "I see the girls looking at my junk, then checkin' out my trunk, then back to my sugalumps."
"Sugalumps?" The guy inquires, finally allowing himself to stare.
"Yeah, they look so good that's why I keep 'em in the front," Gerard states, sauntering away with no shame in the world and no fucks to give.
No one's ever been able to withstand the power of his sugalumps, they're so sweet and white and highly refined. They'll try to steal a feel of the family jewelry, but they always shri
I don't know I just like doing hood rat stuff with my friends~
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6 Smartphone Security Tips For Your Kids
As smartphones are growing in popularity, a child at almost any age now can easily learn to operate and use a smartphone without the help of a parent. While smartphones have been shown to provide some educational benefits for children, having that technology and communication at your fingertips at such a young age can have a critical impact on a child's social development. Here are six smartphone security tips that can help you and your kids get the greatest benefits from smartphone technology.
Check for parental controls on the device
Parental controls can be golden for a parent if you know how to use them appropriately. The iPhone actually allows parents to set a variety of restrictions on the phone's usage. By disabling features such as Safari Internet, iTunes, YouTube and even app installation, this can limit your child from exploring the features of the Internet and keeps them restricted to just using the phone for what you allow.
Monitor your child's use
It's never been easy to monitor your child's every move, even with the powerful technology that we have now. While parental control software is easy to find, it's important to find the perfect software for your needs. There are certain programs that allow you to hide specific features, block texts and calls from certain numbers, implement time restrictions, block the Internet and app usage and monitor content. These are all important tools to use when giving your child the privilege of having a smartphone at a young age.
Limit/block users
If your child is using a smartphone on a regular basis, I'm sure you've thought about blocking or limiting their communication with certain users. There are certain platforms that allow users to record verbal threats and harassment, block inappropriate text messages and 'sexts', and allow users to email/text this behavior to parents, teachers and law enforcement.
Use a time manager
If you never see your child without their phone in their hands or by their side, you might want to consider using a time manager to limit the amount of time they spend on their phone. It's been recommended by The American Academy of Pediatrics that parents limit their children's phone usage to no more than two hours per day. By using a time manager, parents can set the number of minutes their children can play on the device, and start the timer before giving the phone to the child.
Beware of free WiFi
Just as you're afraid to use free WiFi from your laptop, you should have this same mindset when using free WiFi on your phone. Cellphones are just as susceptible to malware attacks as computers are, and while it might be difficult to explain to your kids the dangers of using unsafe Internet, it's important to educate them. Explain that spots such as airports, cafes or other free WiFi spots are not safe for Internet mobile use and they will be putting their information at risk if they connect.
Lost phone software
Phones have had GPS on them for quite some time, but lost phone software is fairly new and extremely beneficial, especially if you have a child that misplaces their phone easily. A lost/stolen phone app can help your child locate his or her phone or even erase its data remotely. There are additional tracking apps that can help you locate the phone, even if it's not lost.
Jennifer Jackson is a freelance writer focusing on smartphone technology. With all that she has researched, she uses NQ.com's NQ Mobile antivirus software to keep her family's smartphones safe from hackers.


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This chapter describes various advanced Info commands. (If you are using a stand-alone Info reader, there are additional commands specific to it, which are documented in several chapters of section `GNU Info' in GNU Info.)
One advanced command useful with most of the others described here is C-q, which "quotes" the next character so that it is entered literally (see section `Inserting Text' in XEmacs User's Manual). For example, pressing ? ordinarily brings up a list of completion possibilities. If you want to (for example) search for an actual `?' character, the simplest way is to insert it using C-q ?. This works the same in XEmacs and stand-alone Info.
|2.1 s searches Info documents
|How to search Info documents.
|2.2 i searches the indices for specific subjects
|How to search the indices for specific subjects.
|2.3 g goes to a node by name
|How to go to a node by name.
|2.4 1--9 choose a menu subtopic by its number
|How to choose a menu subtopic by its number.
|2.5 M-n creates a new independent Info buffer in XEmacs
|How to create a new Info buffer in XEmacs.
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|Variables modifying the behavior of XEmacs Info.
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The commands which move between and inside nodes allow you to read the entire manual or its large portions. But what if you need to find some information in the manual as fast as you can, and you don't know or don't remember in what node to look for it? This need arises when you use a manual as a reference, or when it is impractical to read the entire manual before you start using the programs it describes.
Info has powerful searching facilities that let you find things quickly. You can search either the manual text or its indices.
The s command allows you to search a whole Info file for a string. It switches to the next node if and when that is necessary. You type s followed by the string to search for, terminated by RET. To search for the same string again, just s followed by RET will do. The file's nodes are scanned in the order they are in the file, which has no necessary relationship to the order that they may be in the tree structure of menus and `next' pointers. But normally the two orders are not very different. In any case, you can always look at the mode line to find out what node you have reached, if the header is not visible (this can happen, because s puts your cursor at the occurrence of the string, not at the beginning of the node).
In XEmacs, Meta-s is equivalent to s. That is for
compatibility with other GNU packages that use M-s for a similar
kind of search command. Both s and M-s run in XEmacs the
Instead of using s in XEmacs Info and in the stand-alone Info,
you can use an incremental search started with C-s or C-r.
It can search through multiple Info nodes. See section `Incremental Search' in XEmacs User's Manual. In XEmacs, you can disable this behavior
by setting the variable
Info-isearch-search to
(see section 2.6 XEmacs Info-mode Variables).
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Since most topics in the manual should be indexed, you should try the index search first before the text search. The i command prompts you for a subject and then looks up that subject in the indices. If it finds an index entry with the subject you typed, it goes to the node to which that index entry points. You should browse through that node to see whether the issue you are looking for is described there. If it isn't, type , one or more times to go through additional index entries which match your subject.
The i command and subsequent , commands find all index entries which include the string you typed as a substring. For each match, Info shows in the echo area the full index entry it found. Often, the text of the full index entry already gives you enough information to decide whether it is relevant to what you are looking for, so we recommend that you read what Info shows in the echo area before looking at the node it displays.
Since i looks for a substring, you can search for subjects even if you are not sure how they are spelled in the index. For example, suppose you want to find something that is pertinent to commands which complete partial input (e.g., when you type TAB). If you want to catch index entries that refer to "complete," "completion," and "completing," you could type icompletRET.
Info documents which describe programs should index the commands, options, and key sequences that the program provides. If you are looking for a description of a command, an option, or a key, just type their names when i prompts you for a topic. For example, if you want to read the description of what the C-l key does, type iC-lRET literally.
If you aren't sure which manual documents the topic you are looking for, try the M-x info-apropos command in XEmacs, or the M-x index-apropos command in the stand-alone reader. It prompts for a string and then looks up that string in all the indices of all the Info documents installed on your system.
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If you know a node's name, you can go there by typing g, the name, and RET. Thus, gTopRET would go to the node called `Top' in this file. (This is equivalent to t, see 1.8 Some intermediate Info commands.) gGo to nodeRET would come back here.
Unlike m, g does not allow the use of abbreviations. But it does allow completion, so you can type TAB to complete a partial node name.
To go to a node in another file, you can include the file name in the node name by putting it at the front, in parentheses. Thus, g(dir)TopRET would go to the Info Directory node, which is the node `Top' in the Info file `dir'. Likewise, g(xemacs)TopRET goes to the top node of the XEmacs manual.
The node name `*' specifies the whole file. So you can look at all of the current file by typing g*RET or all of any other file with g(filename)*RET.
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If you begrudge each character of type-in which your system requires, you might like to use the commands 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., 9. They are short for the m command together with a name of a menu subtopic. 1 goes through the first item in the current node's menu; 2 goes through the second item, etc. In the stand-alone reader, 0 goes through the last menu item; this is so you need not count how many entries are there.
If your display supports multiple fonts, colors or underlining, and you are using XEmacs' Info mode to read Info files, the third, sixth and ninth menu items have a `*' that stands out, either in color or in some other attribute, such as underline; this makes it easy to see at a glance which number to use for an item.
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Info buffer in a new XEmacs window by typing M-n. The new buffer
starts out as an exact copy of the old one, but you will be able to
move independently between nodes in the two buffers. (In Info mode,
M-n runs the XEmacs command
In XEmacs Info, you can also produce new Info buffers by giving a numeric prefix argument to the m and g commands. C-u m and C-u g go to a new node in exactly the same way that m and g do, but they do so in a new Info buffer which they select in another window.
Another way to produce new Info buffers in XEmacs is to use a numeric
prefix argument for the C-h i command (
info) which
switches to the Info buffer with that number. Thus, C-u 2 C-h i
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nil (try default directory). If not
initialized Info uses the environment variable
INFOPATH to
initialize it, or
Info-default-directory-list if there is no
INFOPATH variable in the environment.
If you wish to customize the Info directory search list for both XEmacs
Info and stand-alone Info, it is best to set the
environment variable, since that applies to both programs.
Info-mode is called. By default, it contains
the hook
turn-on-font-lock which enables highlighting of Info
files. You can change how the highlighting looks by customizing the
info-menu-star, and
info-title-n (where n
is the level of the section, a number between 1 and 4). To customize
a face, type M-x customize-face RET face RET,
where face is one of the face names listed here.
font-lock-mode is non-
nil, menu items and cross-references pointing to visited
nodes are displayed in the
info-xref-visited face.
nil, XEmacs puts in the Info buffer a header line showing
the `Next', `Prev', and `Up' links. A header line does
not scroll with the rest of the buffer, making these links always
nil. Setting
it to a value that is neither
nil nor
t produces an
intermediate behavior, hiding a limited amount of text, but showing
all text that could potentially be useful.
nil value, SPC and BACKSPACE (or
DEL) keys in a menu visit subnodes of the current node before
scrolling to its end or beginning, respectively. For example, if the
node's menu appears on the screen, the next SPC moves to a
subnode indicated by the following menu item. Setting this option to
nil results in behavior similar to the stand-alone Info reader
program, which visits the first subnode from the menu only when you
hit the end of the current node. The default is
nil, isearch in Info searches through multiple nodes.
nil value, allows Info to execute Lisp code
associated with nodes. The Lisp code is executed when the node is
selected. The Lisp code to be executed should follow the node
delimiter (the `DEL' character) and an `execute: ' tag, like
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Racing, Mix Tapes, Blogs and Twitter
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I read alot of bike blogs and I also follow quite a few people on Twitter but its always amazing to see how all the technology comes together.
I read Barry Wicks blog and a few days ago he wrote about creating a mix tape for Lance Armstrong.
Then Lance twittered about it on the way to the start of the race. What's kinda funny is that one, Lance got the mix tape and two he has no idea who Barry is.
Neal Rogers, of Velonews fame, then replies to Lance via twitter. Its pretty cool to see all the different technologies tied together.


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When your friend is driving your pregnant wife around, and is such a terrible driver you are worried that your baby might come out pre-shaken, ie sloshen baby syndrome.
You crazy bitch, slow down so the baby doesn't get sloshen baby syndrome.
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Diving Into Vintage Swimming Books
We can't think of a better way to celebrate the beginning of summer than splashing through vintage books dedicated to the art of swimming and diving. Although the techniques may be dated, we can't help but fall in love with these covers depicting swimmers, divers and swimming techniques from yesteryear.
Several of the featured books were written by Sid G. Hedges (1897 – 1974), a prolific author focused on books and articles geared towards young people. Some of Hedges' most popular titles include: Swimming: How to Succeed (1950), Crawl & Butterfly Swimming (1954) and The Book of Swimming and Diving (1938).
Cool off with this delightful selection of vintage swimming books.
Swimming; In All It's Branches by T.W. Sheffield (1924)
Swim at Home: A Guide to Home Swimming Pool Building (1953)
Swimming; How to Succeed by Sid G. Hedges (1950)
How to Swim by Capt. Davis Dalton (1899)
Swim: Teach Yourself to Swim! by Margaret Penton Hamilton (1936)
Swimming – How to Succeed by Sid G. Hedges (1933)
Competitive Swimming & Diving by D.A. Armbruster (1942)
The Book of Swimming and Diving by Sid G. Hedges (1938)
Modern Swimming and Diving by Sid G. Hedges (unknown date)
How Well Do You Swim? by Sid G. Hedges (1936)
Swimming by Sid G. Hedges (1933)
Swimming Simplified by Lyba & Nita Sheffield (1931)


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April 11, 2008
The seventh-ranked UCLA men's volleyball team lost in four games Friday night at Stanford's Maples Pavilion, confounding its chances to host a quarterfinal playoff match next weekend.
Stanford won 24-30, 30-27, 30-20, 30-28 in two hours before 921 fans. The victory raised the Cardinal's record to 16-10 overall, 11-10 in league play. The Bruins fell to 16-13 overall, 11-10. Both teams are tied for fifth place, a loss behind Pepperdine with one match to play.
The Bruins managed to contain two of Stanford's top three hitters, but allowed freshman Spencer McLachlin and seldom-used junior Jesse Meredith to hurt them. McLachlin hammered 22 kills (.365) and scored 25.5 points, including the final two points in Game 4 to clinch the victory. Meredith came off the bench and pounded 10 kills (.450) and provided clutch defense with five digs.
The Bruins shut down Stanford senior Matt Ceran, limiting him to two kills, and held sophomore Evan Romero to a hitting percentage of .079 (14-11-38).
Sophomore Garrett Muagututia led the Bruins with his seventh double-double of the season: 22 kills (.300) and 11 digs. Junior Jamie Diefenbach added 10 kills (.368) and tied a career-high with 10 total blocks. Junior D.J. Stromath contributed 10.5 points on five kills (.333), three aces and five block assists. Ryan Ratelle spiked eight kills, added an ace and scored 10.5 points.
The Bruins travel to Pacific for their regular-season finale on Saturday, Apr. 13.


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|Jordan Hill?blocked six shots in the game
TUCSON--Chase Budinger and Jerryd Bayless combined for 45 points to help Arizona take control in the second half and down No. 6 Washington State Thursday night in McKale Center, 76-64.
The Cats built an 18-point lead with 13 minutes gone in the second frame, matching the Cougars' determined pace.
UA outscored WSU by a 42-33 margin in the second half?after leading by three at the half, 34-31.
Bayless led all scorers with 23 points and Budinger got hot later to net 22.
WSU was led by 15 each from Kyle Weaver and Aron Baynes.
UA big man Jordan Hill had a career-high six blocked?shots and led all rebounders with 10.


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Konami announced on April 25 that Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes has sold over a million units across all platforms.
The sales number only reflects copies ship to retailers while not taking actual sales figures and digital downloads into account.
The announcement comes a week after a study by the NDP Group found that Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes was among the best selling games in March. However it took the six spot with Titanfall, inFAMOUS: Second Son, and South Park: The Stick of Truth taking the lead.
The sales figures has surprised many experts due to the controversy regarding its gameplay time. It was reported back in February by Kotaku and an in-depth article from Game Informer, that the main story of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is expected to be about two-hours long.
The news caused a backlash among fans who felt breaking the game into two parts was a greed fuelled gimmick to milk extra cash from gamers. News sites that have reported on the rumor have had their comment section flooded with fans denouncing the game as an "overpriced demo".
Konami responded to the controversy by cutting the digital download prices for the Next-Gen console versions. It was also recently announced that the upcoming patch will include the format exclusive missions on all versions.
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is the ninth game in the official canonical and is the prologue for The Phantom Pain. Following the events of Peace Walker; Snake (a.k.a. Big Boss) has to infiltrate Camp Omega to rescue Chico and Paz.


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For about a year, weekend after weekend I remember dishing out at least $7 for parking downtown. There are those paid parking lots scattered throughout the downtown area, and plenty of them all looking for your $7, threatening that you'll get tickets from the Hartford Police Department. The thing is, they are ripoffs. The city has a great, very reasonably priced parking system already built in. You don't need to pay over priced vendors. All it takes is a little knowledge about the system.
I'm not saying they're good if there is absolutely no parking whatsoever, but chances are that most weekends, you won't need to pay for parking. Metered parking is free after 5:00pm, so if you're going out at night you don't have to worry about the meters. The majority of paid street parking actually are no meters. Most of have switched to these computerized machines that give you a parking receipt called "Pay and Display Meters". The good thing about these is that you can use a credit/Debit card on them, and pay for as much time as you would like.
Now, this may be a little old fashioned, but if you drive around for probably less than five or ten minutes, you will find a parking space for free. Downtown Hartford isn't necessarily the most happening place, and paid parking is something that can almost always be avoided. There are "no parking" signs all over the main roads, but they always say between certain hours. For example you can park directly on Main Street, and there are usually spots there, plus you will not have to pay a dime. If you're out on the town at night, chances are you CAN park in every spot on the street. So save yourself at least $7 a night, and buy yourself an extra drink. It will make the walk to the car a lot more enjoyable and you won't have paid for a small piece of pavement for the night.


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Hearts away record means they cannot drop points at home. Williams seems the most likely to score yet is inaccurate way too often.
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After a couple, low-fi, d-i-y videos The Phorms have done a complete about face. The San Jose foursome went all out on the visuals for the title-track of their debut album, "Trapped by the Sun," enlisting actor/director, Armand Shahidi. Shahidi is know for his short, 2011 film "Bad Butch" and his forthcoming works, "American Riviera" and "Mucho Dinero."
The psychedelic feel of the Door-meets-Violent Femmes track serves as an all too fitting backdrop for Shahadi's surrealist, hallucinogenic vision, as the video's protagonist (played by Danraj Rajasansi) wanders the desert, after being inexplicable thrust therein, in search of relief. He's visited by a beautiful woman, spirit guides (played by the band memebers), mirages.
The film's closing hints at another release, due out in October of this year, "Trapped by the Moon."
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What comes after sex? According to a woman named Jennifer (who doesn't use her last name,) eating a piece of the mattress is next. On "My Strange Addition," the bizarre craving of mattress eating is highlighted. According to Seven News on Friday, the latest addition highlighted on the show has the women's family concerned as eating a mattress isn't normal.
The mattress eating woman, prefers the top, shorter section of the bed and by the time she gets down to the springs she needs to purchase another to start again. If that wasn't bizarre enough, her confession of needed to eat some of the mattress after sex to feel satisfied certainly will catch the attention of the viewers. It might make viewers cringe, but people seem to enjoy this bizarre show, which is now in its fifth season.
Some viewers might wonder what happens in the digestive process after eating a mattress. According to the woman, absolutely nothing. What she puts in her mouth comes out the same way. Her body isn't digesting or breaking down the pieces of fabric, foam or plastic she eats, which is why she eats small chunks.
"My Strange Addiction" has always brought real people's addictions to the world. Offering a glimpse into someone's life and revealing what they have to do (or eat) every day to be comforted is the reason this reality show is so popular.
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At the risk of sounding like Ebenezer Scrooge, I don't like this time of year.
Don't get me wrong, it's great to have a break with friends and family but, here in the UK, it seems like the world shuts down for two weeks. And I can't wait to get going.
Time to reflect. I feel that 2013 was a pivotal year for me. 2013 was the year when I lost nearly half of my traffic, created 5 new products and realised the importance of my personal brand (if I didn't already!)
I lost half my Google traffic in 2013
To be honest, if you'd told me 365 days ago that I would lose half of my Google traffic in a year, I'd have cried!
As you can see from the above Google Analytics screenshot, I had a gradual reduction in search traffic since the beginning of the year (complicated by a post that does very well towards the end of the year).
But, guess what? It didn't matter! I just didn't realise how unimportant Google organic traffic is to my brand. Almost every other metric, email subscribers, comments, engagement and, most tellingly, revenue, has increased.
2013 was the year I realised the importance of my personal brand and following – two factors that are mostly nothing to do with organic search.
Just think of the great bloggers you discovered in 2013? Think of the great tools, articles and sites you were made aware of in 2013? How did you hear about them? I'm guessing it was through your network, not Google search. Am I right?
People buy from people
2013 was the year I realised people need to trust your personal brand if they are going to buy your products.
Not so, maybe, if I was selling pancakes – then I would need to create the tastiest pancakes and sell them for the right price. But for those of us who are selling digital information products it's only the brand trustworthiness that matters.
People buy from people. Purchasing is an emotional decision that's not based on algorithms, conversion rates or sexy graphics.
Multiple products
One of the great mantras of Internet marketing is "test, test, test and test again". But, I was never very good at tests at school.
For me I think it's possible to get a little bit too obsessed with testing. For example, little tweaks via A/B tests on conversion pages don't make a whole lot of difference if you're not getting much traffic to that conversion page.
Another way to test is to do loads of content.
Why don't we just create products instead of testing? If you can create a product and it does really badly – there's a test right there! I'm being a little flippant here, but I don't think I can over-exaggerate the importance of action.
The importance of an email list
I have come to realise the power of my website and email list in "kickstarting" new products. Every time I published a new course or a new Kindle book I send out an email and I always got, at least, a few sales and a few positive reviews – sometimes more. This starts the product's lifestyle with a nice bit of momentum.
It's a really good idea to incentivise people to join your email list – say that you will email them the next time you have a free course or a free book out. That is a good reason for joining a list and it's something of real value you could offer.
The importance of "2nd tier" platforms
What am I talking about here? "2nd tier" platforms are, for want of a better phrase, the online platforms that aren't huge (Google, Facebook, Twitter) but are still big.
Some examples of "2nd tier" platforms:
- Udemy
- Podcasts
- Kindle
Small personal brands like mine can't compete on the super-massive social networks – there's too much noise. However, take a step down to the next level and you have platforms that aren't huge but still have millions of people on them. This is where you can compete.
The importance of relationships
And I can't finish without mentioning the most important thing of all – and that is relationships.
I would like to thank each and every one of you who is reading this article at the moment. And thank you to those who have tweeted, shared, commented, emailed and generally engaged with me this year. There have been more of you this year than any other year in the past and I would be nowhere without your help. So thank you so much!
You can do it
You can take your personal brand to the next level in 2014. Let's do it together – it'll be fun!


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Not sure what to call it, but not "Giving Up."
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Maybe it's a hiatus? I don't know, but I'm losing some oomph.
When I started on SP in August of 2010, I had already lost a few pounds after meeting with a nutritionist, and I *have* lost weight, but it has been a long, slow slog while reading many stories of people losing 3 pounds a week. I have "officially" lost 15 pounds since August. My cousin just posted on FB that she's lost 15 pounds *this month*! Aaarggghhh.
I swear that I have been "good." I have been exercising and eating right and drinking my water, and still the weight doesn't come off. I know I'm supposed to be excited about fitting into my "skinny" jeans, and I am, but it's hard to stare at the d@mn weight tracker line and not see it moving in any meaningful way.
So, I have stopped obsessively racking up the Spark Points and tracking my eating. I still check in here, to gorge on the stories of all the amazing people and their progress [FREETHEGODDESS, I'm talking to you] but it's just not working for me. I have tried the low end of the calorie range, the high end, and everything in between. Maybe this is just what I'm going to be, and I'm never going to see the scale break that 140 like I have been hoping and working for. I just don't know what I feel about that.
In the past, after a "hiatus" in dieting, I would gain everything back, but now, I'm realizing that to do that would be a conscious choice, while in the past it wasn't. I *know* how many calories are in the foods I'm eating; I know how many fruits and vegetables I need to eat in a day, whereas in the past I just put food in my mouth and chewed. In addition, I have come to love exercising and see it as my time for "me," and that's not going away, either. I know I'm not going to wake up and mysteriously drop the last 15 pounds, but I'm just not sure what to do, and afraid of burning out.
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I hear ya. I'm going through that right now too. I have friends who started Spark over the summer and they're all telling me how happy they are because they lose between 2-5lbs a week (one actually just lost 7...). I've NEVER lost weight that fast. I was the girl who averaged .5 a week back when I was actually LOSING. But like you, I feel like I'm losing steam because Ive been stuck at the same weight since like January. I'm DYING to see the scale hit 149 and yet it's been stuck at 150 for over a month! Guess we'll just have to keep on trying and believe that we'll get to wear we want to be, just not as soon as we want to be there!
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I know how you feel! I have had to take breaks after a long period of little results despite my best efforts. I now have very small weightloss goals (2 pounds in a month), but my overall approach is simply a healthier lifestyle which, is after all, the most important part. I am making sure to eat better and exercise and I stay off the scale. I weigh in when I start to feel a change in my cloths and I am curious as to my progress.
Now that I do not obsess over calories (I still try to stay within my range but i don't RUSH to the computer to log food) and I don't beat myself up if I don't meet my mileage goal for the week I feel better about myself and am proud of the choices I make. I am a slow and steady loser as well, but as long you are giving your body what it needs you are doing right by yourself!
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Big hugs!! We all go though this!! You have done an amazing job!! Don't lose hope! You can do it!!
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