And with that, I’m off to take a break from Tumblr. I need to sort… things out and deal with personal stuff so if I go MIA for awhile, know that I’m probably, maybe fine. I’m prone to getting hurt so we’ll see. I’ll still be responding to asks and whatnot but I probably just won’t be updating for a bit. Dunno how long yet. I love you all, don’t miss me too much.

100+ Movies to Watch Before I Die 

And my second challenge to myself (which shouldn’t come as a surprise since I’m studying film). This is Yahoo!’s 100 Movies You Should See Before You Die: All Time Greats & Modern Classics. Plus a few I’ve added from my peers and colleagues. Like with the books, I’m challenging myself to watch all these and also like before you’re all definitely welcome (and encouraged!) to try this challenge with me, too. Same as the other list: the movies I’ve seen will be in bold. I’ll update this periodically as I watch them (and if I feel strongly on the movie I might review it, we’ll see). And if any of you have a movie you think I should have on this list, please, let me know! I’ll add it. This is entirely up to date since the modern classics only goes up to 2009 so yes, if you recommend a movie I just HAVE to see let me know! Happy watching. <3

Note: There are likely doubles on these lists.

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The All Time Greats (in alphabetical order apparently):
1.    12 Angry Men
2.    2001: A Space Odyssey
3.    400 Blows
4.    8 ½
5.    The African Queen
6.    Alien
7.    All About Eve
8.    Annie Hall
9.    Apocalypse Now
10.    The Battle of Algiers
11.    The Bicycle Thief
12.    Blade Runner
13.    Blazing Saddles
14.    Blow Up
15.    Blue Velvet
16.    Bonnie and Clyde
17.    Breathless
18.    The Bridge on the River Kwai
19.    Bringing Up Baby
20.    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
21.    Casablanca
22.    Chinatown
23.    Citizen Kope
24.    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
25.    Die Hard
26.    Do the Right Thing
27.    Double Indemnity
28.    Dr. Strangelove
29.    Duck Soup
30.    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
31.    Enter the Dragon
32.    The Exorcist
33.    Fast Times At Ridgemont High
34.    The French Connection
35.    The Godfather
36.    The Godfather, Part II
37.    Goldfinger
38.    The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
39.    Goodfellas
40.    The Graduate
41.    Grand Illusion
42.    Groundhog Day
43.    A Hard Day’s Night
44.    In The Mood for Love
45.    It Happened One Night
46.    It’s a Wonderful Life
47.    Jaws
48.    King Kong (1933)
49.    The Lady Eve
50.    Lawrence of Arabia
51.    The Lord of the Rings
52.    M
53.    M*A*S*H
54.    The Maltese Falcon
55.    The Matrix
56.    Modern Times
57.    Monty Python and the Holy Grail
58.    National Lampoon’s Animal House
59.    Network
60.    Nosferatu
61.    On the Waterfront
62.    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
63.    Paths of Glory
64.    Princess Mononoke
65.    Psycho
66.    Pulp Fiction
67.    Raging Bull
68.    Raiders of the Lost Ark
69.    Raise the Red Lantern
70.    Rashomon
71.    Rear Window
72.    Rebel Without a Cause
73.    Rocky
74.    Roman Holiday
75.    Saving Private Ryan
76.    Schindler’s List
77.    The Searchers
78.    Seven Samurai
79.    The Shawshank Redemption
80.    The Silence of the Lambs
81.    Singin’ in the Rain
82.    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
83.    Some Like It Hot
84.    The Sound of Music
85.    Star Wars
86.    Sunset Blvd.
87.    Terminator 2: Judgment Day
88.    The Third Man
89.    This is Spinal Tap
90.    Titanic
91.    To Kill a Mockingbird
92.    Toy Story
93.    The Usual Suspects
94.    Vertigo
95.    When Harry Met Sally…
96.    Wild Strawberries
97.    Wings of Desire
98.    The Wizard of Oz
99.    Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown
100.    The World of Apu

100 Movies: The Modern Classics (in chronological order)
1.    Goodfellas
2.    Misery
3.    Beauty and the Beast
4.    The Silence of the Lambs
5.    Terminator 2: Judgment Day
6.    Thelma & Louise
7.    Hard Boiled
8.    Malcolm X
9.    The Player
10.    Raise the Red Lantern
11.    Supercop
12.    Unforgiven
13.    Dazed and Confused
14.    Groundhog Day
15.    Schindler’s List
16.    Chungking Express
17.    Ed Wood
18.    Forrest Gump
19.    Four Weddings and a Funeral
20.    Pulp Fiction
21.    The Shawshank Redemption
22.    Trois Couleur: Rouge
23.    Babe
24.    Before Sunrise
25.    Clueless
26.    Heat
27.    Living In Oblivion
28.    Sense and Sensibility
29.    Toy Story
30.    The Usual Suspects
31.    Big Night
32.    Dead Man
33.    Fargo
34.    Ghost in the Shell
35.    Lone Star
36.    Scream
37.    Secrets & Lies
38.    Sling Blade
39.    Swingers
40.    Trainspotting
41.    Boogie Nights
42.    Eve’s Bayou
43.    L.A. Confidential
44.    Sweet Hereafter
45.    Titanic
46.    Big Lebowski
47.    Fireworks
48.    Out of Sight
49.    Saving Private Ryan
50.    There’s Something About Mary
51.    All About My Mother
52.    American Beauty
53.    Being John Malkovich
54.    Election
55.    Fight Club
56.    The Matrix
57.    Princess Mononoke
58.    Run Lola Run
59.    The Sixth Sense
60.    Three Kings
61.    Almost Famous
62.    Best In Show
63.    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
64.    Yi Yi
65.    Amelie
66.    Donnie Darko
67.    In the Mood for Love
68.    The Lord of the Rings
69.    Momento
70.    Mulholland Drive
71.    The Royal Tenenbaums
72.    The Pianist
73.    Y Tu Mama Tambien
74.    City of God
75.    Elephant
76.    Finding Nemo
77.    Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
78.    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
79.    Shaun of the Dead
80.    Sideways
81.    40 Year Old Virgin
82.    Brokeback Mountain
83.    A History of Violence
84.    Old Boy
85.    Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
86.    Children of Men
87.    The Lives of Other’s
88.    Pan’s Labyrinth
89.    4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days…
90.    The Bourne Ultimatum
91.    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
92.    Michael Clayton
93.    No Country for Old Men
94.    There Will Be Blood
95.    The Dark Knight
96.    Slumdog Millionaire
97.    Wall-E
98.    Avatar
99.    The Hurt Locker
100.    Inglorious Basterds

Recommendations from Others (in no particular order):
1.    Fear and Desire
2.    Killers Kiss
3.    The Killing
4.    Spartacus
5.    Lolita
6.    Barry Lyndon
7.    The Shining
8.    Full Metal Jacket
9.    Eyes Wide Shut
10.    Lady Hawke
11.    The Green Mile
12.    American History X
13.    Metropolis
14.    Breakfast at Tiffany’s
15.    Platoon
16.    Taxi Driver
17.    Braveheart
18.    Gone With the Wind
19.    Lock, Shock, and Two Smoking Barrels
20.    The Goonies
21.    Reservoir Dogs
22.    Boondock Saints
23.    Life is Beautiful
24.    Battle Royale
25.    Everything is Illuminated
26.    The Fall
27.    Last Year At Marienbad

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» 100 Books to Read Before I Die

100 Books to Read Before I Die 

Today I am making a challenge to myself. This is BBC’s 100 Books You Should Read Before You Die and while I’ve seen a lot of these lists, I really like the selection they’ve chosen. And so I’m challenging myself to read these, all 100. You’re all definitely welcome (and encouraged!) to try this challenge with me, too. The books I’ve read will be in bold, the ones I am in the process of reading will be in italics and if its a series I’ve only read a part of it will be bold italics. I’ll update this periodically as I finish books. And if any of you have a book you think I should have on this list, please, let me know! I’d love to add it. Happy reading. <3

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1.      Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2.       The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3.      Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4.       Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5.      To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6.      The Bible - Council of Nicea
7.      Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8.       Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9.      His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10.    Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11.    Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12.    Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13.    Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14.    Complete Works of Shakespeare
15.    Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16.    The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17.    Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18.    Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19.    The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20.    Middlemarch - George Eliot
21.    Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22.    The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23.    Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24.    War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25.    The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26.    Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27.    Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28.    Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29.    Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30.    The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31.    Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32.    David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33.    Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34.    Emma - Jane Austen
35.    Persuasion - Jane Austen
36.    Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
37.    The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38.    Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39.    Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40.    Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41.    Animal Farm - George Orwell
42.    The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43.    One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44.    A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45.    The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46.    Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47.    Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48.    The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49.    Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50.    Atonement - Ian McEwan
51.    Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52.    Dune - Frank Herbert
53.    Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54.    Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55.    A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56.    The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57.    A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58.    Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59.    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60.    Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61.    Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62.    Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63.    The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64.    The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65.    Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66.    On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67.    Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68.    Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69.    Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70.    Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71.    Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72.    Dracula - Bram Stoker
73.    The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74.    Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75.    Ulysses - James Joyce
76.    The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77.    Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78.    Germinal - Emile Zola
79.    Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80.    Possession - AS Byatt
81.    A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82.    Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83.    The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84.    The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85.    Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86.    A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87.    Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88.    The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89.    Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90.    The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91.    Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92.    The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93.    The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94.    Watership Down - Richard Adams
95.    A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96.    A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97.    The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98.    Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99.    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100.  Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Recommendations from Others:
1.    The Quran
2.    The Brothers Karamazou - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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» 100+ Movies to Watch Before I Die

triffidsandcuckoos:

thepurebloodprincess:

who decides what goes on the tumblr radar

like seriously

After, what, an entire month off Tumblr, this was the first thing I saw.

And I wondered just what I’d been missing so much.

transientfashion:

Summon [x]