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The Princess Bride is very good.. for all the reasons El said... but Casablanca tops my list every time. This movie is brilliant... has a great plot, a beautiful love story, and so many subplots you have to keep track of.... and it's funny too!! All the cliches that people find in there are only cliches because the movie made them so popular.
Also Fred & Ginger type movies are great for miserable days when you're curled on the couch and can't do anything else... just escape. I was watching Royal Wedding one night.. and I was totally immersed in the unreality .. then my text message alert went off. I literally jumped several inches in the air... almost fell off the couch. Reality is scary.
*trying to get back on track*
Kiss Me In The Car
Car!
Ride Like The Wind
Posted by: Kafaleni | March 26, 2005 at 03:27 PM
Lab, why Princess Bride? Yeah, what Eleanor said. Also, Westly is so CUTE! ;-)
And I'm a hopeless romantic, and love the thought that, (approximate quotes) "This is true love. You think this happens everyday?" and "Death cannot conquer love."
It used to be the Husband's and my movie. Normal couples have a song; we had a movie. Makes me think of better times. Ok, on second thought, I don't think I like the movie anymore.
Posted by: neophyte | March 27, 2005 at 06:05 PM
Kiss Me in the Car
Come Away with Me
Favorite movie? Memento. Weirdest darn thing I ever saw, took about 15 minutes to figure out that everything was playing backward. And if you didn't stay alert and actively think, you got lost. I love movies like that, where you have to do more than just sit back and stare.
Posted by: Alex | March 27, 2005 at 06:41 PM
Come Away With Me
Everywhere You Go
Posted by: Kafaleni | March 27, 2005 at 11:50 PM
I had the same experience with Memento, Alex. Great movie. Have you seen "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels" and "Snatch"? They are both Guy Ritchie movies. I loved Brad Pitt as an Irish gypsie.
My favorite movie of all time is the Godfather.
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | March 28, 2005 at 06:25 AM
If Louisville wins the championship, then Ustick #2 will win this group's challenge.
If Illinois beats Louisville, then I win the challenge [Exception: Michigan State beats Illinois in the champtionship. Then it ends with a tie: Cbol and Higgy.]
If Louisville beats Illinois, but doesn't go on to win the championship, then Higgy wins.
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | March 28, 2005 at 08:14 AM
If Louisville wins the championship, then Ustick #2 will win this group's challenge.
If Illinois beats Louisville, then I win the challenge [Exception: Michigan State beats Illinois in the champtionship. Then it ends with a tie: Cbol and Higgy.]
If Louisville beats Illinois, but doesn't go on to win the championship, then Higgy wins.
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | March 28, 2005 at 08:14 AM
More than Godfather 2, Lab?
Posted by: Eleanor | March 28, 2005 at 09:50 AM
Godfather 2 is my second favorite movie.
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | March 28, 2005 at 10:15 AM
It's my first choice, Lab, and second is The Right Stuff and third is Armageddon, which I know almost everybody thinks is crap, but I don't care!
Leavin' on a Jet Plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Posted by: Eleanor | March 28, 2005 at 03:31 PM
*getting game back on track*
Everywhere You Go
Over The Rainbow
Posted by: Eleanor | March 28, 2005 at 05:49 PM
In honor of our very own Wolfie:
Wolf's A' Howlin'
Posted by: neophyte | March 28, 2005 at 06:12 PM
How Marvin Eats His Breakfast
Posted by: neophyte | March 28, 2005 at 11:54 PM
I almost watched Armageddon once. Saw just enough of it to get some good lines, but missed the ending. Okay, I wouldn't say I exactly *missed* the ending... I just didn't watch it. I found that I couldn't care less what happened. But that's a *me* thing. There are many more movies that I don't like than those I do like. I don't go to the movies for the same reasons as everybody else, just like I don't listen to music or read books for the same reasons. Heck, I don't think I even cook for the same reasons. heh heh
In my mind there is a big difference between a list of the "best" of something and your "favorite" something. We had a discussion at work one time where we were trying to come up with the best rock albums of all time. When someone made a suggestion for the list, we would talk about it and ask questions to see if they really thought it was a "good" album or just one they liked a lot. The problem, of course, is that if someone likes it a lot, then it is good to him. I guess we were trying to distill it down to qualities that make an album good from a critical sense.
I bet I don't have that list anymore. Let me check.
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | March 29, 2005 at 06:17 AM
Good discussion, Lab - in the end it's pretty much subjective, don't you think? I guess in music though, for people who are educated in that regard, there are criteria - but even if an expert labels something "the best", if you don't enjoy it, what difference does it make?
BTW, there's a new Moat:
http://weblog.herald.com/column/davebarry/archives/014686.html
Posted by: Eleanor | March 29, 2005 at 06:46 AM
I went through my notes from late 1999 / early 2000 and I can't find it. I think that's when we had this discussion. Apparently I didn't find it note-worthy.
I do remember that these three albums were at the top:
"Dark Side of the Moon" - Pink Floyd
Untitled, often called "Led Zeppelin IV" - Led Zeppelin
"Back in Black" - AC/DC
"Master of Puppets," Metallica was on the list, I think. And "The Joshua Tree," U2 had to be on the list, too.
I'd add "Smile," Brian Wilson to the list today.
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | March 29, 2005 at 07:14 AM
Oh...I see. Sounds a bit tough, b/c I thought those two things overlapped.
Anyway...
How Marvin Eats His Breakfast
Back in the Saddle
Posted by: Alex | March 29, 2005 at 10:54 PM
RANDOM COMMENT:
El - I LOVE Armageddon!!! I cried like a baby... and I have good memories of that summer and the friends I saw it with that enhance the movie for me.
I have tooo many movies I love to play favorites, and every time I think I HAVE picked my faves, a new one comes out that adds itself to the list... the ones I can always go back to though, are:
Gone With The Wind
Princess Bride
Moulin Rouge
Sleeping Beauty
Fear and Loathing
... and Babe. :)
No offense, but I think it's kinda amusing that you'd try to come up with a list like that, despite the whole thing being based on personal tastes.
... Actually, from a musical standpoint, it IS possible. There are certain things that make the greats GREAT... in a way that even those that don't like it can acknowledge.
Its the same with anything, really. Yes, a lot of it IS subjective, but Lab was spot on with his appreciate v enjoy comment...
An easier way to look at it would be this: Ask anyone, and most people would say that Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Bach, Strauss and the like were Great ... History has been saying it... People know who they are even if they don't like Classical Music. They were musical genius', which is apparent even tot the untrained ear...
There are just so many options today when trying to decide that it seems overwhelming and impossible to try and say the __ Greatest ___ ... but time will tell. And the things that make bands like U2, Pink Floyd & Zepplin (to borrow from Lab's list) Great will rise to the top.
*wondering if this entire post makes any sense*
*confusing self*
*wandering over to Beaver Moat to try and un-confuse self*
Posted by: Just | March 30, 2005 at 08:12 AM
A GOOD DAY TO BEGIN ANEW!
April in Paris
Posted by: Eleanor | April 01, 2005 at 10:56 AM
*invoking Pregnancy Rule*
April in Paris
I love Paris in the Spring.
Posted by: Just | April 01, 2005 at 11:58 AM
Hiya El. :)
Posted by: Just | April 01, 2005 at 12:01 PM
Hiya El. :)
Posted by: Just | April 01, 2005 at 12:01 PM
ACK!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Just | April 01, 2005 at 12:12 PM
I love Paris in the Springtime
Evergreen
Posted by: Eleanor | April 01, 2005 at 12:32 PM
I stand corrected...
Evergreen
Nine-to-Five
Gotta run... have a stupendous weekend! ;)
Posted by: Just | April 01, 2005 at 12:52 PM
*Invoking the Lab& The Wench's Happy First Anniversary Rule*
This rule states that songs do not necessarily have to follow a theme (or any rules) if we are wishing our friends congratulations, good tidings or (not in this case but in case it ever comes up) commmiserations to our fellow Labbies .. So Happy Anniversary Lab and Wench. May you both live to be ancient, toothless and blissfully happy together.
Evergreen
When I Fall In Love
Posted by: Kafaleni | April 01, 2005 at 01:07 PM
I didn't mean to scare everybody off. Sorry about that.
Next on the hit list...
When I fall in Love
Love Is a Many-Splendoured Thing
Posted by: Kafaleni | April 02, 2005 at 08:10 PM
Love Is a Many-Splendoured Thing
Gonna End Up Alone Again
(yes it is TOO a song; I'm just not through writing it yet; CAR!)
Posted by: neophyte | April 02, 2005 at 08:18 PM
neo, neo, where have you been??????
I missed you!
Posted by: Eleanor | April 03, 2005 at 01:27 PM
Gonna End Up Alone Again
Ain't It the Truth
Posted by: neophyte | April 03, 2005 at 07:15 PM
Ain't It the Truth
Hope Fails
Posted by: neophyte | April 03, 2005 at 08:27 PM
Hope Fails
So I'll Pretend
Posted by: neophyte | April 03, 2005 at 08:28 PM
So I'll Pretend
Dream
Posted by: Kafaleni | April 04, 2005 at 01:31 AM
There's an annoying *pshht* coming from my radio every few minutes this morning. grrr
Oh yeah, BASAEBALL SEASON! Woo hoo!
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | April 04, 2005 at 04:53 AM
Dream
Maggie May
Posted by: Eleanor | April 04, 2005 at 06:41 AM
Maggie May
You Wear it Well
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | April 04, 2005 at 07:10 AM
You Wear It Well
Lookin' for Love in All The Wrong Places
Posted by: Eleanor | April 04, 2005 at 01:31 PM
Lookin' for Love in All The Wrong Places
Search and Destroy
Posted by: neophyte | April 04, 2005 at 05:36 PM
Yeah Yeah Yeah
Posted by: neophyte | April 04, 2005 at 07:09 PM
There's an annoying *pshht* coming from my radio every few minutes this morning. grrr
Just a thought Lab: it might be because you're opening your beer too close to the karaoke microphone. Happens to me all the time.
Posted by: ¿wysiwyg? (MBE-LP) | April 04, 2005 at 09:17 PM
Yeah Yeah Yeah
How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously
Posted by: neophyte | April 04, 2005 at 09:38 PM
How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously
You're My Inspiration
(neo, did ou get my e-mail?)
Posted by: Eleanor | April 05, 2005 at 06:06 AM
There's no crying in baseball!
Very Belated: CONGRATULATIONS ON THE ANNIVERSARY WENCH-N-LAB! (WWBAGNFARB!)
You're My Inspiration
If You Think I'm Sexy
Posted by: Mr.Fishair | April 05, 2005 at 06:55 AM
pssst - Mr. Fishair - I think it's Do You Think I'm Sexy. And the answer is yes! :)
Do you Think I'm Sexy
You Light Up My Life (sorry about that!)
Posted by: Eleanor | April 05, 2005 at 10:44 AM
Aww, Thanks Ele. That's so sweet. And yes, you caught me.
You Light Up My Life
Little Miss Can't Be Wrong ;)
Posted by: Mr.Fishair | April 05, 2005 at 12:31 PM
Why Can't You Behave
Posted by: neophyte | April 05, 2005 at 06:43 PM
Why Can't You Behave
Because
Posted by: Kafaleni | April 06, 2005 at 12:43 AM
Because
Every Picture Tells a Story
Posted by: Eleanor | April 06, 2005 at 07:56 AM
Key Quote: "Don't put yourself in that position to get rear-ended. You can get yourself hurt or killed."
People, I can't stress this enough, You've got to LUBRICATE!
Posted by: Mr.Fishair | April 06, 2005 at 09:41 AM
oooooooooooops!
um
[random comment?]
No.
Ok, Ok, wrong thread.
Every Picture Tells A Story
Some Might Say
Posted by: Mr.Fishair | April 06, 2005 at 09:46 AM
Some Might Say
Say It Isn't So
(this may be my first "theme" post!)
Posted by: Eleanor | April 06, 2005 at 05:39 PM
Since I can't figure out whether to go with Eleanor's Say it Isn't So or Lab's TV (thought that wasn't strictly part of the game) I guess I could try to morph it into Say It Isn't So on the TV... or The TV Says Is Isn't So...
but I'm afraid I can't think about playing because... I'm sorry to have to be the one to break it to you... but...
.
.
.
.
the Pope died. He is Very Very Dead. And even his World Tour is over.
Now we move on to The Royal Wedding In the News.
Posted by: neophyte | April 09, 2005 at 07:48 AM
OK.. the wedding is dead.. the Pope has joined Cher on the 538th leg of her Farewell tour (his death was just a rumour so that no one would notice him getting his groove on as one of Cher's dancing boys. Cher pays far more than the Vatican does.)
Say It Isn't So
Speak to Me
Posted by: Kafaleni | April 10, 2005 at 12:20 AM
Speak to Me
Ebony and Ivory
(I've been reading old threads!)
Posted by: Eleanor | April 10, 2005 at 08:29 AM
Speak to Me
Ebony and Ivory
(I've been reading old threads!)
Posted by: Eleanor | April 10, 2005 at 08:30 AM
El ... that's soooooo wrong... Paul in weenie mode and the gloved one... still...
Ebony and Ivory
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
Posted by: Kafaleni | April 11, 2005 at 12:23 AM
I can't find anything about the Very Very Dead Pope in the news!! How am I supposed to know what's happened??
Posted by: neophyte | April 11, 2005 at 05:05 AM
You Ain't Seen Nothin' yet
Time After Time
Posted by: Eleanor | April 11, 2005 at 03:02 PM
Time Again
Posted by: neophyte | April 11, 2005 at 05:15 PM
Neo .. until further notice, The Very Very Dead Pope (who now goes by his Yahoo ID "PosthumousPope05") is working as a stockboy (ahem... the PC police tell me that the correct word is stockperson or shelf stacker) at a Walmart in Kenosha. His knees couldn't take all the step-kick work it took to be a dancing boy for Cher.
Time Again
Never Again
Posted by: Kafaleni | April 12, 2005 at 12:58 AM
Always
Posted by: neophyte | April 12, 2005 at 11:59 AM
Always
Posted by: neophyte | April 12, 2005 at 12:10 PM
Always
Spank Thru
(Neo- Behaving's just not in my Jeans, I have too much in there already I suppose)
(;-P
Posted by: Mr.Fishair | April 12, 2005 at 01:24 PM
Spank thru
Up, Up and Away
(Mr. Fishair, we wouldn't want you to "behave" - Moatettes think you're behavin' just fine!)
Posted by: Eleanor | April 12, 2005 at 03:06 PM
Up Up & Away
You Raise Me Up
Posted by: Kafaleni | April 13, 2005 at 01:00 AM
Please Baby
Posted by: neophyte | April 13, 2005 at 11:40 AM
This is a good place to come and hide from the world.
*puts on Beethoven's 7th symphany*
*reclines*
Boogers
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | April 14, 2005 at 06:43 AM
*grabs pen and journal*
*titles page "What I like about me"*
*ponders*
1. Seldom has B.O.
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | April 14, 2005 at 07:59 AM
2. Is invisible to bees.
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | April 14, 2005 at 11:35 AM
*adds to Lab's list*
2. Great sense of humor
3. Ability to think up good games
Please Baby
(dedicated to Lab*
You Light Up My Life
Posted by: Eleanor | April 14, 2005 at 11:38 AM
Awww. Eleanor is so sweet!
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | April 14, 2005 at 11:46 AM
4. Has refined taste in beer
Posted by: helping Lab list | April 14, 2005 at 02:48 PM
You Light up my Life
and (drum roll please, while I go for the Obvious Award)
Light My Fire
Did I get it? Did I? I'm so excited!!!
oh.. and
5.) spectacular buns.
Posted by: Kafaleni | April 15, 2005 at 02:13 AM
and while that last attribute may not seem like a character reference, it points to his dedication to achieving perfection. If nothing else, the view of those buns bisected by a penguin thong .................. huh? I'm sorry.. were you saying something? I was a tad.. ummm... distracted. Yeah, that's it. Distracted.
Posted by: Kafaleni | April 15, 2005 at 02:18 AM
Flame in My Heart
*takes a Tums*
Posted by: neophyte | April 15, 2005 at 04:40 PM
Just imagine one of the Moatettes being bisected. That should help.
T & P Combo
Only You
*side note and totally unrelated to this song choice.. there's a song by Ronan Keating that I HATE WITH A PASSION. It's so grammatically incorrect that I just want to cry... I think I've mentioned it before, but it bears mentioning again*
Specific example...
Girl I'm on a mission
To cure my condition
Cos' without your kissin'
My heart's just a prison
Two totally unconnected thoughts. And he has a condition. I hope he took something for it. Neil Diamond would be proud of this sort of songwriting.
Posted by: Kafaleni | April 15, 2005 at 11:50 PM
Only You
Until It Sleeps
(b/c I can't)
Posted by: Alex | April 17, 2005 at 11:23 PM
Until It Sleeps
Sleep Now in the Fire
(at least ya won't be needing a blanket)
Boogers all around! For everybody!
Posted by: Mr.Fishair | April 18, 2005 at 10:15 AM
Sleep Now In The Fire
Eternal Flame.
I also found a song that if you ever need it, feel free to use it. I may not be here when it comes into play, and it's a song for all Moaties really... so if you ever have the opportunity to use "South Street Rampart Parade", you really should. Fun fact.. it's #24 of the Top 40 Mardi Gras Songs.. it comes in 8 above "Ain't no Place to Pee on Mardi Gras Day".
Posted by: Kafaleni | April 20, 2005 at 01:25 AM
Eternal Flame
Fire at Midnight
Posted by: Alex | April 20, 2005 at 07:04 PM
Fire at Midnight
More Than a Feeling
Posted by: Alex | April 21, 2005 at 05:06 PM
More Than a Feeling
Fire on the Mountain
Posted by: Alex | April 21, 2005 at 05:07 PM
Mountin' of Love
oops, I mean Mountain of Love, of course
Posted by: neophyte | April 21, 2005 at 10:03 PM
Mountin' of Love
Eruption
oooh, I mean Eruption ,of course
Posted by: Mr.Fishair | April 22, 2005 at 06:45 AM
No Doubt ;)
Posted by: neophyte | April 22, 2005 at 11:35 AM
Danger At My Door
Posted by: neophyte | April 22, 2005 at 02:45 PM
Road to Nowhere
Posted by: Kafaleni | April 23, 2005 at 01:09 AM
Next to Nothing
Posted by: Alex | April 23, 2005 at 06:28 AM
oooh.... spam!!!
*gets out skeet shooter*
*loads in viagra guy (you just know it's not a woman doing this!)*
*PULL!!*
*KABLAM!!!*
*gets back on track*
Nothing Compares To You
Posted by: Kafaleni | April 23, 2005 at 11:57 AM
In "honor" of our uninvited spammish guest:
You Dirty Dog
Posted by: neophyte | April 24, 2005 at 03:10 PM
Oh, c'mon guys! I was calling the spam a dirty dog, not you! Come back and play!
Don't Go Away Mad!
Posted by: neophyte | April 27, 2005 at 04:33 AM
The reason I haven't been posting here is because - for me, at least - it's almost impossible to think of a song while listening to the music on Susan's station!
*posted in case my absence was noted*
But I check in every day!
Posted by: Eleanor | April 27, 2005 at 09:11 AM
Don't Go Away Mad
Don't let the Sun go Down on Me
*takes a bow*
*not listening to radio at this time*
Posted by: Eleanor | April 27, 2005 at 05:22 PM
Hee hee hee! I just realized, with Lab gone for a week, we now have free reign over the Lab Moat!!
*breaks out the beer and cranks up the tunes!*
Posted by: neophyte | April 28, 2005 at 03:12 PM
*uses all of Lab's things while he is gone*
Posted by: neophyte | April 29, 2005 at 05:06 AM
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Posted by: Jü§†® | April 29, 2005 at 10:53 AM
Me & My Shadow
Posted by: Jü§†® | April 29, 2005 at 10:54 AM
*looks around*
Niiiiice, Just! Excellent choice on the redecorating! I was thinking toilet paping everything, but I must say, I think your way is better!
Lab, there've been a few changes here
Since You've Been Gone
Posted by: neophyte | April 29, 2005 at 02:26 PM
*sneaks in to use Lab's phone*
Does anybody know Marie's phone #? And Kaf's? Wysi's? Blogchik's? Bangi's? Kibby's? Oh, and we could check on Rhealist in Milan and Brian B. as he travels, too!
Excellent! This is shaping up to be a nice long day!
Posted by: neophyte | April 30, 2005 at 05:28 AM
Yeah, wouldn't you know I can't get through. Somebody help me figure out how these 900 numbers work, instead?
Posted by: neophyte | April 30, 2005 at 11:33 AM