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| Tuesday, October 18, 2005 12:05 AM |
| It's not late. No. No. It's just early. |
 by Fëanor |
- It's IMDB's 15th anniversary, so everybody wish them a nice Happy Birthday! They're really an indispensable resource when it comes to any kind of information you can think of about movies. To celebrate their anniversary, they've put together a little history of their site, and of movies in general, from 1990 through 2005. But for me, of course, the most interesting part is the list of the top 15 movies from that time period, put together based on individual top 15 lists sent in by all their editors. The main list is actually a pretty good one; there's nothing really embarrassing on it. I'd replace Spirited Away with Princess Mononoke, and probably make one or two other little changes, but all in all, well done!
- Speaking of lists, WXPN's list of the 885 All Time Greatest Albums is finally complete. The large amount of Beatles in the top ten is mildly disappointing, though certainly not altogether shocking. Really the only totally unexpected entry in the top ten (for poppy and I, anyway) was The Clash's London Calling. And I thought the top two albums would be the other way around, but it was Abbey Road that took the top spot and not Sgt. Pepper's.
My top ten list shares only two albums with XPN's top ten (those being, for those of you too lazy to figure it out for yourselves, Springsteen's Born to Run and Dylan's Blood on the Tracks), but all of my top ten did show up on the list somewhere (with the glaring exception of Genesis's Nursery Cryme, despite the inclusion of such far inferior efforts by Genesis as Wind and Wuthering), and XPN's ten is still quite respectable and certainly nothing to scoff at.
I'm planning on writing another story about all this for Phillyist now that it's over, so I guess I'll stop wasting precious words on it here...
- On a completely different note, have you noticed that many stomach pain medications (you know, stuff like Pepto-Bismol) have started to list, amongst the various symptoms that they claim to treat, "fullness?" Um, hey, I've got a surefire treatment for fullness. Stop eating so damn much, fatty!
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