Not a big truck

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Top 10 Nicolas Cage moments in The Wicker Man. Enjoy.*

*Francis Michael Bello is not responsible if viewer chokes on food while watching above video due to the hilarity of its content

5. Burn After Reading
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3. Wall-e
2. The Dark Knight
1. Slumdog Millionaire

Honorable Mentions: Milk, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Tropic Thunder

Yet to see: Rachel Getting Married, The Wrestler, Revolutionary Road, Doubt, and some documentaries.

But honestly, past the number 2, there weren’t great movies as there were last year. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a film I got a giant problem with: closing in on a 3 hour time frame with pointless and flow-breaking scenes. That being said, numbers 1 and 2 are absolutely phenomenal. I guess the point I’m trying to make is that there’s a huge gap between number 2 and 3.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KANI2dpXLw[/youtube]

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If you’re into technology and what not. You might be aware of the massive trade shows going on right now in San Francisco  and Las Vegas. SF is hosting a new Macworld Expo and Vegas is home to the annual CES. If you haven’t been following them… you probably should. They’re where new stuff happens. The links above are to Google News searches with all the goodies from each show. It’s a start.

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Elephants can paint? Who knew. Preeeetty cool, though.

This isn’t particularly recent, but it’s an interesting and fairly unique list for one of my favorite genres.

5. Blade Runner (1982)
4. Wings of Desire (1987)
3. Brazil (1985)
2. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
1. Metropolis (1927)

Full list with descriptions.

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Yeah, it’s an ad campaign to get tourists into Nova Scotia and not a real phone. Also, it cost about 300K of tax-payer money to make. Nice. (more…)

New Year’s Resolutions are usually vapid and mostly go incomplete and forgotten about a week or two into the brand new year. I suggest a new system to rely upon for you “resolutions” this year. Make a list of things you should do to improve the quality of your life during the next year. Don’t make them vague or un-doable. Simply make a list of things to accomplish. Revise this list throughout the year; add new items as you go and mark through the things you feel you’ve actually accomplished.

Keep the list on you as part of your pocket journal or hipster-PDA to remind you everyday of what you hope to create and do in this brand new year.

For a small example, here’s mine:

• Learn Python and/or PHP
• Slow Down
• Go to more parties
• Read more
• Spend less time doing nothing
• Create more
• Start meditating again
• Finish what I start

Andrew posted the “Too much candy” girl a couple of days ago. She reminded me of another video I had seen before, wonder if it’s the same girl.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd2izv5JBcE[/youtube]

Guess she did eat too much candy.

Last night I was in Madison Square Garden watching My Morning Jacket. During intermission, a clip from The Great Dictator played on the huge screens. This is that clip.

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Good luck in 2009.