Driving (Tuesday Twosome):

1. Rain or Snow?
Never actually driven in the snow. I imagine it would be more dangerous if the roads froze over..

2. Music from the radio or compact disc?
I don't have a cd player in my car. Not a real priority at the moment.

3. Yellow light: "slow down" or "go faster" ?
Depends how close to the intersection I am :)

4. Freeway or feeder road?
Freeways if they're moving. Even if they're not, a slow constant pace is better than stop start.

5. Road Rage: "what's that?" or "Heck yeah, and you better not get in my way!"
I was very calm today. Surprised even myself. Must keep it up.

I've been meaning to do this for ages, go through IMDBs Top 250 movies and note which ones I've seen so I can go see the rest that I haven't yet. JC inspired me to actually get around to it :) I've seen 77 of the IMDB top 250

1. Godfather, The (1972)
2. Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
3. Godfather: Part II, The (1974)
4. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, The (2003)
5. Lord of the Rings: Two Towers, The (2002)
6. Casablanca (1942)
7. Schindler’s List (1993)
8. Shichinin no samurai (1954)
9. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
10. Citizen Kane (1941)
11. Star Wars (1977)
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
13. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
14. Rear Window (1954)
15. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
16. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
17. Memento (2000)
18. Usual Suspects, The (1995)
19. Pulp Fiction (1994)
20. North by Northwest (1959)
21. 12 Angry Men (1957)
22. Fabuleux destin ‘Amelie Poulain, Le (2001)
23. Psycho (1960)
24. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
25. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
26. Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
27. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
28. Goodfellas (1990)
29. American Beauty (1999)
30. Vertigo (1958)
31. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
32. Matrix, The (1999)
33. Apocalypse Now (1979)
34. Pianist, The (2002)
35. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
36. Some Like It Hot (1959)
37. C’era una volta il West (1968)
38. Taxi Driver (1976)
39. Third Man, The (1949)
40. Paths of Glory (1957)
41. Fight Club (1999)
42. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) (Spirited Away)
43. Boot, Das (1981)
44. Double Indemnity (1944)
45. L.A. Confidential (1997)
46. Chinatown (1974)
47. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
48. Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
49. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
50. M (1931)

51. Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
52. All About Eve (1950)
53. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
54. Se7en (1995)
55. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
56. Cidade de Deus (2002)
57. Raging Bull (1980)
58. Rashmon (1950)
59. Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
60. Sting, The (1973)
61. Alien (1979)
62. American History X (1998)
63. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
64. Leon (The Professional) (1994)
65. Vita bella, La (1997) (Life Is Beautiful)
66. Touch of Evil (1958)
67. Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
68. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
69. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
70. Wo hu cang long (2000) (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)
71. Great Escape, The (1963)
72. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
73. Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
74. Amadeus (1984)
75. Modern Times (1936)
76. Annie Hall (1977)
77. Ran (1985)
78. Jaws (1975)
79. On the Waterfront (1954)
80. Braveheart (1995)
81. High Noon (1952)
82. Apartment, The (1960)
83. Fargo (1996)
84. Sixth Sense, The (1999)
85. Aliens (1986)
86. Shining, The (1980)
87. Strangers on a Train (1951)
88. Blade Runner (1982)
89. Metropolis (1927)
90. Duck Soup (1933)
91. Finding Nemo (2003)
92. Donnie Darko (2001)
93. General, The (1927)
94. Toy Story 2 (1999)
95. Princess Bride, The (1987)
96. City Lights (1931)
97. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
98. Great Dictator, The (1940)
99. Lola rennt (1998) (Run Lola Run)
100. Notorious (1946)

101 Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
102 Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989)
103 Full Metal Jacket (1987)
104 Rebecca (1940)
105 Mononoke-hime (1997)
106 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
107 Big Sleep, The (1946)
108 Graduate, The (1967)
109 Manhattan (1979)
110 It Happened One Night (1934)
111 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
112 Deer Hunter, The (1978)
113 Patton (1970)
114 Searchers, The (1956)
115 Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
116 Glory (1989)
117 Yojimbo (1961)
118 Ladri di biciclette (1948)
119 African Queen, The (1951)
120 Philadelphia Story, The (1940)
121 Forrest Gump (1994)
122 Bringing Up Baby (1938)
123 Cool Hand Luke (1967)
124 Ben-Hur (1959)
125 Green Mile, The (1999)
126 Shrek (2001)
127 Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
128 Hable con ella (2002)
129 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
130 Unforgiven (1992)
131 Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
132 Stalag 17 (1953)
133 Gone with the Wind (1939)
134 Grapes of Wrath, The (1940)
135 Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
136 Wild Bunch, The (1969)
137 Straight Story, The (1999)
138 Christmas Story, A (1983)
139 Elephant Man, The (1980)
140 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
141 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
142 Hustler, The (1961)
143 Platoon (1986)
144 Back to the Future (1985)
145 Young Frankenstein (1974)
146 Lost in Translation (2003)
147 His Girl Friday (1940)
148 Monsters, Inc. (2001)
149 Die Hard (1988)

150 Amores perros (2000)
151 Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
152 Grande illusion, La (1937)
153 Gold Rush, The (1925)
154 Almost Famous (2000)
155 Spartacus (1960)
156 Life of Brian (1979)
157 Charade (1963)
158 Conversation, The (1974)
159 Gladiator (2000)
160 Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962)
161 Festen (1998)
162 Magnolia (1999)
163 Smultronst�llet (1957)
164 Toy Story (1995)
165 Being John Malkovich (1999)
166 Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
167 Sling Blade (1996)
168 Insider, The (1999)
169 Roman Holiday (1953)
170 Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)
171 Night at the Opera, A (1935)
172 Brazil (1985)
173 Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)
174 All the President's Men (1976)
175 Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
176 Mystic River (2003)
177 Mulholland Dr. (2001)
178 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
179 Exorcist, The (1973)
180 Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
181 Killing, The (1956)
182 To Be or Not to Be (1942)
183 Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)
184 Ed Wood (1994)
185 Terminator, The (1984)
186 Stand by Me (1986)
187 Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)
188 Twelve Monkeys (1995)
189 Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
190 Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
191 Adaptation. (2002)
192 This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
193 Harvey (1950)
194 Gandhi (1982)
195 Trainspotting (1996)
196 Right Stuff, The (1983)
197 Miller's Crossing (1990)
198 Network (1976)
199 Ying xiong (2002)

200 Lion in Winter, The (1968)
201 Midnight Cowboy (1969)
202 Groundhog Day (1993)
203 Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
204 Rain Man (1988)
205 Others, The (2001)
206 Minority Report (2002)
207 8� (1963)
208 Laura (1944)
209 King Kong (1933)
210 Snatch. (2000)
211 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
212 Stagecoach (1939)
213 39 Steps, The (1935)
214 Traffic (2000)
215 Whale Rider (2002)
216 Hotaru no haka (1988)
217 Untouchables, The (1987)
218 Strada, La (1954)
219 Beauty and the Beast (1991)
220 Big Lebowski, The (1998)
221 Henry V (1989)
222 Rio Bravo (1959)
223 In the Heat of the Night (1967)
224 Thin Man, The (1934)
225 Todo sobre mi madre (1999)
226 Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La (1928)
227 Planet of the Apes (1968)
228 Fantasia (1940)
229 Good Will Hunting (1997)
230 Being There (1979)
231 Die xue shuang xiong (1989)
232 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
233 Beautiful Mind, A (2001)
234 Red River (1948)
235 Clerks. (1994)
236 Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
237 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
238 X2 (2003)
239 MASH (1970)
240 Man Who Would Be King, The (1975)
241 Road to Perdition (2002)
242 Sleuth (1972)
243 Quiet Man, The (1952)
244 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
245 Heat (1995)
246 JFK (1991)
247 Birds, The (1963)
248 O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
249 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
250 Ikiru (1952)

Onya Sandra for winning Survivor VII :)

And now for a Friday Five on a Monday..

1. Do you enjoy the cold weather and snow for the holidays?
Well let's see.. normally we have 30C+ days here.

2. What is your ideal holiday celebration? How, where, with whom would you celebrate to make things perfect?
Which holiday? Christmas is for family, New Years is for friends. Christmas should also include roast pork at some point, and New Years should include fireworks.

3. Do you do have any holiday traditions?
I like Christmas trees and fairy lights. And roast pork.

4. Do you do anything to help the needy?
Just through church if anything

5. What one gift would you like for yourself?
See a previous post .. probably a digital camera is highest on the list.

Titanic goes for an awfully long time on TV with all the ads. And it's way past my bed time and I have to run around all over Sydney tomorrow.

Does anyone want to go skiing? The guys I went ice skating with the other week are talking about going skiing again, but of course they'd never invite me and I don't think I could bring myself to ask if I could go. Especially not without someone to go with. *sigh* <wonders if I'll ever get to go skiing again>

eek I just stopped the video and the tv is crystal clear.. I've just been watching a tape of last night's episode of Brides of Christ, which is on channel 2, which we don't get good reception for. It was somewhat painful trying to watch it through all the snow and lines, I think I'll have to get someone to tape the other episodes - there's four left, turns out I only missed the first one.

Just saw last Thursday's ER too, which was hard to follow because they did "night shift" and "day shift" in parallel. Had to pay close attention because a lot of things that happened in the night shift parts had earlier events linked to in the day shift parts. And Romano told Elizabeth he loved her ... awwwwww :):)

And while we're on TV, they're doing a 10 year reunion for 90210 which is about to start.. I have to admit I used to watch that show. I watched it for about 5-6 years but skipped the last season or two because it was just getting too ridiculous. Actually I think I stopped watching it when Donna finally lost her viginity. egads.. I didn't realise it went for 10 years! yikes!

OK I know, it's April, but I finally decided to get around to removing the "Santa Snow" sprayed onto the lounge room window. I tried windex and a soft sponge - no effect. I tried spray and wipe with the same sponge - still no effect. So I tried the back of the sponge-scourer - scrubbing in circles trying to get the darned sticky stuff off. It had some effect, but I thought it was just smudging it into an opaque smear. It was only then that I realised to my horror that I was actually scratching big marks into the glass :(:( Needless to say I am not happy jan! So now I have this Christmas Tree-shaped patch of scratched glass right at eye level. :( Does anyone know how to polish glass?