Tuesday, October 5, 2010

List 06: 100 Anime Series To Watch

Hola Internet-Land! Today's list was possibly the easiest one to write so far (and yes, I am well aware that it is only the sixth list I've written, but...shush...that's what...), mainly because I have a lot of friends with a lot of anime between them...In fact, the most difficult thing about this list was leaving some space open for others to make suggestions!

So, I really don't think I have a lot to prattle on about here...other than the fact that I'm going to be very very very busy watching all of these series all the way through! Oh yeah! And please, continue to add suggestions for me - one of the great things about anime is the fact that sometimes there are fantastic titles that are almost entirely unheard of...

Without further ado, my internet friends, the list of 100 anime series to view!
  1. Cosplay Complex
  2. Sailor Moon
  3. Cardcaptor Sakura
  4. Lucky Star
  5. Pugyuru
  6. Air
  7. Bakemonogatari
  8. Chaos Head
  9. D.N.Angel
  10. Afro Samurai
  11. Angel Beats
  12. Angelic Layer
  13. Astro Boy
  14. Black Lagoon
  15. Blood+
  16. Bokurano
  17. Boogiepop Phantom
  18. Chobits
  19. Chrono Crusade
  20. Cosplay Complex
  21. Darker Than BLACK
  22. DearS
  23. Demashitaa! Powerpuff Girls Z
  24. Descendants Of Darkness
  25. Devil May Cry
  26. Disgaea
  27. Dual
  28. EF - A Tale Of Melodies
  29. Elfen Lied
  30. Ergo Proxy
  31. FateStay Night
  32. Final Fantasy Unlimited
  33. Fruits Basket
  34. Furi Kuri
  35. Gakuen Heaven
  36. GreenGreen
  37. .hack//SIGN
  38. Halo Legends
  39. Hayate No Gotoku
  40. He Is My Master
  41. I My Me! Strawberry Eggs
  42. Innocent Venus
  43. Inukami
  44. Kamen No Maid Guy
  45. Kanokon
  46. Kashimashi - Girl Meets Girl
  47. Kurau Phantom Memory
  48. Loveless
  49. Master Of Epic - The Animation Age
  50. Melody Of Oblivion
  51. Mirage Of Blaze
  52. Mnemosyne
  53. Mouse
  54. Mushishi
  55. Narutaru
  56. Ninja Nonsense
  57. Noein
  58. Onegai Teacher
  59. Onegai Twins
  60. Paranoia Agent
  61. Pita Ten
  62. Platonic Chain
  63. Psychic Academy
  64. Ragnarok
  65. Renkin San-Kyuu Magical Pokaan
  66. Samurai Pizza Cats
  67. Sasami - Magical Girls' Club
  68. Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
  69. Serial Experiments Lain
  70. Shadow Skill
  71. Shakugan No Shana
  72. Shingetsutan Tsukihime
  73. Sora No Otoshimono
  74. Soul Link
  75. Spice And Wolf
  76. Street Fighter II V
  77. Suki Na Mono Wa Suki Dakara Shoganai
  78. Tayutama - Kiss On My Deity
  79. Tonjou Tenge
  80. Texhnolyze
  81. This Ugly Yet Beautiful World
  82. Tsubasa Chronicle
  83. Xenosaga
  84. Yami No Matsuei
  85. Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro Na - Crescent Love
  86. Zombie Loan
  87. Bubblegum Crysis Tokyo 2040
  88. Elemental Gelade
  89. Gurren Lagann
  90. Hanoukyou Maids 
  91. Death Note [Recommended By Stylez]
  92. Trinity Blood [Recommended By Apterous Angel]
  93. Code Geass [Recommended By Andrew]
  94. Puny Puny Poemi [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  95. Read Or Die [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  96. Detective Conan [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  97. Master Keaton [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  98. Gunsmith Cats [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  99. Ouran High School Host Club [Recommended By Enceladus]
  100. Cowboy Bebob [Recommended By Alydd]

Monday, October 4, 2010

List 05: 100 Great Artworks To View

Hey everyone! So here I am with another list - this time about the wonderful world of ART!! In creating this list, I had a couple of prerequisite pieces that I obviously had to see - I mean, can you imagine making a list such as this and not adding something like The Starry Night, The Venus de Milo, or The Mona Lisa?! I mean, my cousin has seen The Mona Lisa, and has told me that it is somewhat overrated, but still - it's The Freaking Mona Lisa. To compile this list without some of these pieces would be a crime against culture.

One observation that I did make whilst searching for ways to beef up the list is that there are a lot of religious pieces out there, and it seems that every person on the face of the planet with an opinion about which artworks I view believes that my life is incomplete until I've born witness to them. One of the most ludicrous additions to said lists was a seemingly incessant demand for me to head to Texas to see The Rothko Chapel. Now, I'm not saying that all modern art is high-wankery (a term I highly endorse), but for someone to list it alongside The Sistine Chapel on a list of 20 of the most important artworks one could see in one's lifetime is just...well...I can't find words to express what that makes me feel, but I'm sure it has something to do with being pretentious...

Anyway, here is my list - if you have any other suggestions then please add them! I am loving how many suggestions I'm getting from you guys!!
  1. The Madonna Of Chancellor Rolin - Jan van Eyck
  2. The Burial Of St. Lucy - Caravaggio
  3. Aristotle With A Bust Of Homer - Rembrandt
  4. Mont Sainte-Victoire From Les Lauves - Paul Cezanne
  5. Moses - Michelangelo
  6. The Adoration Of The Magi - Leonardo da Vinci
  7. The School Of Athens - Raphael
  8. Nympheas - Claude Monet
  9. One: Number 31 - Jackson Pollock
  10. Funerary Mask Of Tutankhamun
  11. Sistine Chapel - Michelangelo
  12. The Scream - Edvard Much
  13. The Starry Night - Vincent van Gogh
  14. Guernica - Pablo Picasso
  15. Las Meninas - Velazquez
  16. The Dance II - Henry Matisse
  17. The Elgin Marbles
  18. Danae - Titan
  19. The Mona Lisa - Leonardo DaVinci
  20. Aphrodite of Milos (The Venus de Milo) - Alexandros Of Antioch (Potentially)
  21. Nighthawks - Edward Hopper
  22. Improvisation 30 (Cannons) - Wassily Kandinsky
  23. Painting With Green Center - Wassily Kandinsky
  24. Nude Under Pine Tree - Pablo Picasso
  25. L'Homme Qui Marche I - Albert Giacometti
  26. The Old Guitarist - Pablo Picasso
  27. The Child's Bath - Mary Cassatt
  28. Jacques And Berthe Lipchitz - Amedeo Modigliani
  29. Day Of The Gods - Paul Gauguin
  30. Greyed Rainbow - Jackson Pollock
  31. Tanktotem No. 1 - David Smith
  32. Bathers By A River - Henri Matisse
  33. In The Circus Fernando: The Ringmaster - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  34. Portrait Of Balzac - Auguste Rodin
  35. The Red Armchair - Pablo Picasso
  36. Seated Woman - Pablo Picasso
  37. UNESCO Reclining Figure - Henry Moore
  38. America Windows - Marc Chagall
  39. A Sunday Afternoon On The Island Of La Grande Jatta - Georges Seurat
  40. The Thinker - Auguste Rodin
  41. David - Michelangelo
  42. The Gates Of Hell - Auguste Rodin
  43. The Death Of The Virgin - Caravaggio
  44. Three Black Cats - Maud Lewis
  45. The Brooklyn Bridge - Joseph Stella
  46. Dempsey And Firpo - George Dellows
  47. Meditative Rose - Salvador Dali
  48. Tournee du Chat Noir - Steinlen
  49. Nudge Descending A Staircase - Marcel Duchamp
  50. The Angelus - Jean-Francois Millet
  51. Washington Crossing The Delaware - Leutze
  52. Orange And Yellow - Mark Rothko
  53. Christina's World - Andrew Wyeth
  54. Irises - Vincent van Gogh
  55. The Peaceable Kingdom - Edward Hicks
  56. The Horse Fair - Rosa Bonheur
  57. Femme - Pablo Picasso
  58. Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose - John Singer Sargent
  59. Human Proportions (Vitruvian Man) - Leonardo da Vinci
  60. Soft Watch At The Moment Of Explosion - Salvador Dali
  61. The Persistence Of Memory - Salvador Dali
  62. Sunflowers - Vincent van Gogh
  63. Three Musicians - Pablo Picasso
  64. The Lady Of Shalott - Waterhouse
  65. Three Flags - Jasper Johns
  66. View Of Toledo - El Greco
  67. Blue Nude - Pablo Picasso
  68. Cafe Terrace At Night - Vincent van Gogh
  69. Master Bedroom - Andrew Wyeth
  70. The Young Martyr - Paul Delaroche
  71. Figure Five In Gold - Charles Demuth
  72. Campbell's Soup Cans - Andy Warhol
  73. Blue Poles - Jackson Pollock [Recommended By A Tall Dark Stranger]
  74. Summer At Carcoar - Brett Whitely [Recommended By Hopstar72]
  75. Self Portrait In The Studio - Brett Whitely [Recommended By Hopstar72]
  76. Possessed - Albert Tucker [Recommended By Hopstar72]
  77. The Ecstasy Of Cecilia - Mark Ryden [Recommended By Hopstar72]
  78. Waldspirale - Friedensreich Hundertwasser [Recommended By Hopstar72]
  79. Nerang River Pool - William Robinson [Recommended By Hopstar72]
  80. Painting 1946 - Francis Bacon [Recommended By Hopstar72]
  81. First Letter Of St. Paul IV - Peter Gardiner [Recommended By Hopstar72]
  82. Solarization - Man Ray [Recommended By Hopstar72]
  83. Madonna - Edvard Munch [Recommended By Hopstar72]

Sunday, October 3, 2010

List 04: 100 Comic Books/Graphic Novels/Manga/Webcomics To Read

Rounding out my segment of reading themed lists is possibly my favourite of the printed media - comics. When some people hear you say comic books, all they think of is small weekly four panel strips that appear in the newspaper on Sundays, and that are targeted at children or the asinine. There is, however, so much more to this medium than that - for one thing you have to know whether you're talking about a weekly strip, a monthly publication, a graphic novel, a Japanese manga, a webcomic...the list goes on...

I've started to compile here my list of comics (mostly graphic novels and magna) that I want to finish however, given that Bathurst (the place I currently live) has no comic book store (well, not anymore - it had one, but it closed down *sadface*) I'm relying on suggestions for now. One thing that will help boost this list, however, is a trip to Kinokuniya in Sydney - that place is the best book shop I HAVE EVER LAID EYES ON!

Anyway, enough of my prattling for now - I'll save that for when I actually complete an item - here is a list! Please make suggestions, I love hearing what others think, and appreciating what you guys like!
  1. Hollow Fields
  2. Sabre Marionette J
  3. No Need For Tenchi
  4. Death Note
  5. Ouran High School Host Club
  6. Doctor Who - The Forgotten
  7. Johnny The Homicidal Maniac
  8. Squee
  9. The Sandman [Recommended By Siobhan]
  10. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Universe
  11. Ranma 1/2
  12. Fate/Stay Night [Recommended By Roo]
  13. Great Teacher Onizuka [Recommended By Roo]
  14. Bottle Fairy [Recommended By Roo]
  15. Read Or Die [Recommended By Roo]
  16. Powers [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  17. Watchmen [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  18. Umbrella Academy [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  19. Fables [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  20. Calvin & Hobbes [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  21. Strangers In Paradise [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  22. Usagi Yojimbo [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  23. Hellblazer [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  24. Stormwatch [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  25. Authority [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  26. Invincible [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  27. League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  28. Bone [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  29. Love & Rockets [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  30. Suicide Squad [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  31. Transmetropolitan [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  32. Planetary [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  33. Popcorn Picnic (Webcomic)
  34. Shortpacked (Webcomic)
  35. Patches (Webcomic)
  36. Kick-Ass
  37. Runaways
  38. Akiko
  39. The Books Of Magic
  40. Fanboy
  41. Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind
  42. 8 Bit Theatre (Webcomic) [Recommended By Alydd]
  43. How I Killed Your Master (Webcomic) [Recommended By Alydd]
  44. Comissioned Comic (Webcomic) [Recommended By Alydd]
  45. Red String (Webcomic) [Recommended By Alydd]
  46. From Hell [Recommended By Noni] 
  47. Dragon Ball [Recommended By Jarrod] 
  48. V For Vendetta [Recommended By Jarrod]
  49. Sin City [Recommended By Jarrod]
  50. 300 [Recommended By Jarrod]
  51. DM Of The Rings (Webcomic) [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie] 
  52. Books Of Magic [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  53. Global Frequency [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  54. Narbonic (Webcomic) [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  55. Scenes From A Multiverse [Recommended By Sarcastic Cookie]
  56. Maus: A Survivor's Tale [Recommended By Hopstar72]

Saturday, October 2, 2010

List 03: 100 Non-Fiction Books To Read

When people ask the question "Have you ready any good books lately?" it almost always carries the unspoken implication that the "good books" in query are pieces of prose fiction. I've never really understood this stance - the sort of stand-offish way people approach a book about something not rife with escapism and subtext, as though suggesting that a text on the culture of the ancient Minoans, or a work on the beautiful mathematical patterns around us is to be abhorred.

In fact, whilst looking for some important and interesting non-fiction work suggestion I stumbled across the following quote: "...many of the books you'll read during your college career -- and possibly in the rest of your life -- probably won't be novels. Instead, they'll be non-fiction: textbooks, manuals, histories, academic studies, and so on....Here, finding out what happens -- as quickly and easily as possible -- is your main goal. So unless you're stuck in prison with nothing else to do, NEVER read a non-fiction book from beginning to end."

This list, then, sets out to improve my palette by consuming 100 non-fiction books, whether they be biographical, scientific, historical, or anything in between - these works are here not only to entertain, but also to educate. Hopefully, by the end of this list, I've learned a great deal, and I've inspired some of you guys to read some of the books on here as well (if you already haven't!)

Once again, until the list is full, please continue to leave suggestions for me in the comments section - it's all part of making the ten thousand...
  1. More Information Than You Require - John Hodgman
  2. Guns, Germs, And Steel - Jared Diamond
  3. An Anthropologist On Mars - Oliver Sacks
  4. A Short History Of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
  5. The Paradox Of Choice - Barry Schwartz
  6. The Art Of War - Sun Tzu
  7. Bulfinch's Mythology - Thomas Bulfinch
  8. On The Origin Of Species - Charles Darwin
  9. Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
  10. How To Survive A Robot Uprising - Daniel Wilson
  11. The Abolition Of Man - C.S. Lewis
  12. The Republic - Plato
  13. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
  14. The Principia - Isaac Newton
  15. A Brief History Of Time - Stephen Hawking
  16. The Interpretation Of Dreams - Sigmund Freud
  17. Critique Of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
  18. Galileo's Daughter - Dava Sobel
  19. Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
  20. Handbook To Life In Ancient Rome - Lesley & Roy Adkins
  21. Book Of Lost Books - Stuart Kelly
  22. Eats, Shoots And Leaves - Lynne Truss
  23. Never Hit A Jellyfish With A Spade - Guy Browning
  24. Don't Swallow Your Gum - Aaron Carroll & Rachel Vreeman
  25. The Fabric Of The Cosmos - Brian Greene
  26. What To Eat - Marion Nestle
  27. How To Lie With Statistics - Darrell Huff & Irving Geis
  28. Why Evolution Is True - Jerry Coyne
  29. Consider The Lobster - David Foster Wallace
  30. Zen Yoga - Aaron Hoopes
  31. Eat Smart - Aaron Hoopes
  32. The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
  33. The Know It All - A.J. Jacobs
  34. The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
  35. Lies My Teacher Told Me - James Loewen
  36. In Defense Of Food - Michael Pollan
  37. A Distant Mirror - Barbara Tuchman
  38. The Mother Tongue - Bill Bryson
  39. Elizabeth: The Struggle For The Throne - David Starkey
  40. Last Chance To See - Douglas Adams & Carwardine
  41. This Is Your Brain On Music -  Daniel J. Levitin [Recommended By Sam]
  42. Unweaving The Rainbow - Richard Dawkins [Recommended By Sam]
  43. The Black Swan - Nassim Taleb [Recommended By Scrummitch]
  44. On Liberty - John Stuart Mill [Recommended By Alexander Bowler]
  45. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt [Recommended By Belinda Frew]
  46. Shakespeare - Bill Bryson [Recommended By Noni] 
  47. The Weather Makers - Tim Flannery [Recommended By Noni]
  48. Bubbles, Botox, & Bumbreath - Dr Karl Kruszelnicki [Recommended By Noni]
  49. Modernity & Self-Identity - Anthony Giddens [Recommended By Hopstar72]
  50. Deviance, Conformity, & Control - Sharyn Roach Anleu [Recommended By Hopstar72]
  51. Stigma - Erving Goffman [Recommended By Hopstar72]
  52. Reflexive Modernisation - Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, & Scott Lash [Recommended By Hopstar72]
  53. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins [Recommended By A Tall Dark Stranger]

Friday, October 1, 2010

List 02: 100 Fiction Books To Read

I love reading - I believe that literature is one of the most important aspects of a culture, and a generation should be, in part at least, definable by the literary works it produced. As I started to enter the working world, however, I found myself reading less and less. This is something that I really want to counteract - I'm legitimately upset with myself that I could possibly let my love of a good novel slip away...Well, I'm not going to let it go on any longer - I'm going to go back to the days when I could power through my reading list for the MS Readathon, and still be going strong.

Included in this list are titles that are considered "must reads" in terms of classic and modern fiction, some things so nice I want to read them again, as well as some entries that I've had my eye on for some time, but just "haven't gotten around to picking up".

The list below is, as of yet, incomplete and I am more than willing to accept any suggestions for additions. Just add them in the comments section below and (after a bit of research on the book) I will put them in the list!

  1. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
  2. The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
  3. Doctor Who And The Tomb Of The Cybermen - Gerry Davis
  4. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
  5. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
  6. The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  7. The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe - Douglas Adams
  8. Life, The Universe, And Everything - Douglas Adams
  9. So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish - Douglas Adams
  10. Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams
  11. The Illiad - Homer
  12. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  13. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
  14. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Lewis Caroll
  15. Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Caroll
  16. Wonderland Revisited And The Games Alice Played There - Keith Sheppard
  17. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
  18. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
  19. Ulysses - James Joyce
  20. Pride & Prejudice & Zombies - Seth Grahame-Smith
  21. The Book Of Atrus - Rand Miller
  22. The Book Of Ti'ana - Rand Miller
  23. The Book Of D'ni - Rand Miller
  24. Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters - Ben H. Millers
  25. Mr Darcy, Vampyre - Amanda Grange
  26. The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
  27. Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis
  28. The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader - C.S. Lewis
  29. The Silver Chair - C.S. Lewis
  30. The Horse And His Boy - C.S. Lewis
  31. The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
  32. The Last Battle - C.S. Lewis
  33. The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
  34. Sophie's World - Josteine Gaarder
  35. Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
  36. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
  37. A Spell For Chameleon - Piers Anthony
  38. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
  39. The Broom Of The System - David Foster Wallace
  40. Parallelities - Alan Dean Foster
  41. Soulless - Gail Carriger
  42. Changeless - Gail Carriger
  43. Blameless - Gail Carriger
  44. Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History Of A Dark Genius - Kevin J. Anderson
  45. Storm Front - Jim Butcher
  46. Breathers: A Zombie's Lament - S.G. Browne
  47. I Love You, Beth Cooper - Larry Doyle
  48. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
  49. The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul - Douglas Adams
  50. Who's Afraid Of Beowulf? - Tom Holt
  51. Super-Folks - Robert Mayer
  52. Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter - A.E. Moorat
  53. TimeRiders - Alex Scarrow
  54. Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
  55. Northern Lights - Phillip Pullman
  56. The Subtle Knife - Phillip Pullman
  57. The Amber Spyglass - Phillip Pullman
  58. The Princess Bride - William Goldman
  59. The Divine Comedy - Dante
  60. The Wind In The Willows - Kenneth Grahame
  61. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep - Phillip K. Dick
  62. The God Of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
  63. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat - Oliver Sacks
  64. The Importance Of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
  65. Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce
  66. Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett
  67. Mort - Terry Pratchett
  68. Interesting Times - Terry Pratchett
  69. Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett
  70. Sir Apropos Of Nothing - Peter David
  71. The Toyminator - Robert Rankin
  72. The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies Of The Apocalypse - Robert Rankin
  73. Practical Demonkeeping - Christopher Moore
  74. Coyote Blue - Christopher Moore
  75. Bloodsucking Fiends - Christopher Moore
  76. Island Of The Sequined Love Nun - Christopher Moore
  77. The Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove - Christopher Moore
  78. Syrup - Maxx Barry
  79. Jennifer Government - Maxx Barry
  80. The Colour Out Of Space - H. P. Lovecraft [Recommended By Necromancy Black]
  81. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman [Recommended By Necromancy Black]
  82. Neuromancer - William Gibson [Recommended By Necromancy Black]
  83. Jesus Incident - Frank Herbert [Recommended By Necromancy Black]
  84. House Of Leaves - Danielewski [Recommended By Rozencrab]
  85. War Of The Flowers - Tad Williams [Recommended By Andy]
  86. The Name Of The Wind - Patrick Rothfuss [Recommended By Andy]
  87. The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch [Recommended By Andy]
  88. Legend and Waylander - David Gemmell [Recommended By Andy]
  89. Future Eden [Recommended By Sam]
  90. And Another Thing - Eoin Colfer [Recommended By Siobhan]
  91. Eragon - Chris Paolini [Recommended By A Tall Dark Stranger]
  92. Eldest - Chris Paolini [Recommended By A Tall Dark Stranger]
  93. Brisingr - Chris Paolini [Recommended By A Tall Dark Stranger]
  94. The Reality Dysfunction - Peter F. Hamilton [Recommended By Alydd]
  95. The Neutronium Alchemist - Peter F. Hamilton [Recommended By Alydd]
  96. The Naked God - Peter F. Hamilton [Recommended By Alydd]
  97. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby [Recommended By Noni]
  98. Macbeth - William Shakespeare [Recommended By Noni]
  99. Animal Farm - George Orwell [Recommended By Jarrod]
  100. Something From The Nightside - Simon R Green [Recommended By Paul]

Thursday, September 30, 2010

List 01: 100 Films To See

I haven't watched a lot of films - I'm the first person to admit that. So small is the list of films that I actually have seen, in fact, that my friend Trevor (after being revived because, apparently, the shock killed him) suggested the first of my 100 lists - Films I Have To See. Some of the films on this list are movies that I have already seen, however if it is on this list then I cannot cross it off until I watch it again!

Just so you know, and so Cheva gets proper credit, films 01-42 are the ones he demanded I watch...

  1. Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope
  2. Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
  3. Star Wars Episode VI - Return Of The Jedi
  4. Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark
  5. Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom
  6. Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
  7. The Shawshank Repemption
  8. The Godfather
  9. The Godfather II
  10. The Godfather III
  11. Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
  12. Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers
  13. Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King
  14. The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
  15. Pulp Fiction
  16. Schindler's List
  17. Inception
  18. Mememto
  19. Batman Begins
  20. The Dark Knight
  21. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
  22. Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels
  23. Snatch
  24. Leon (The Professional)
  25. Full Metal Jacket
  26. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
  27. Goodfellas
  28. Ciudad de Dios
  29. The Usual Suspects
  30. Taxi Driver
  31. Alien
  32. Aliens
  33. Predator
  34. The Shining
  35. A Clockwork Orange
  36. Gladiator
  37. Donnie Darko
  38. Terminator
  39. Terminator II
  40. Terminator III
  41. The Fifth Element
  42. Die Hard
  43. Blazing Saddles
  44. Duck Soup
  45. Enter The Dragon
  46. Goldfinger
  47. The Matrix (But Only The First One)
  48. National Lampoon's Animal House
  49. Princess Mononoke
  50. Howl's Moving Castle
  51. Spirited Away
  52. Seven Samurai
  53. Akira
  54. The Truman Show
  55. From Russia With Love
  56. Back To The Future
  57. Back To The Future II
  58. Back To The Future III
  59. Fight Club
  60. Beauty And The Beast
  61. Being John Malkovitch
  62. Idiocracy
  63. The Naked Gun
  64. The Princess Bride
  65. The Karate Kid
  66. Monty Python And The Holy Grail
  67. Blade Runner
  68. Godzilla Vs. Megalon
  69. The Muppet Movie
  70. Interview With A Vampire
  71. Blade
  72. Bad Boys
  73. Bad Boys II
  74. Juno
  75. What's Eating Gilbert Grape
  76. Edward Scissor Hands
  77. Airplane
  78. Grave Of The Fireflies
  79. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  80. Kung Fu Hustle
  81. Hellboy
  82. The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
  83. Bridge To Terabithia
  84. The Dark Crystal
  85. Final Fantasy - Advent Children
  86. Mary Poppins
  87. Bedknobs And Broomsticks
  88. The Adventures Of Milo And Otis
  89. Dumbo
  90. Aladdin
  91. Clerks
  92. Dracula - Dead And Loving It
  93. Little Nicky
  94. Jumanji
  95. Hancock
  96. The Super Mario Bros
  97. Mortal Kombat
  98. Pirates Of The Caribbean
  99. Pirates Of The Caribbean II
  100. Pirates Of The Caribbean III

Post The First: About My Challenge

Greetings everyone out there in Internet-Land, I have a story to tell you.

Please, sit...Scooch closer...closer...okay, no, too close. There we go.

My name is Dwaine, and I like to do stuff. I know that sounds vague, but really, I just like to be doing things. Different things. All the time, changing. I'm 24 years old, and I live in a small city in Australia, called Bathurst. I've got a Bachelor of Computer Science, with a major in Calculus, and first class honours. At the moment, I work for myself, making iPhone and iPad apps.

The other day I was doing some research for a friend - he really likes cheesecake, and I wanted to surprise him by baking him one - and I came across a list of 100 things someone had decided they wanted to bake before they die.

This got me thinking about those books and lists you see "100 things I have to do before I die", a kind of bucket list, if you will...But what would you do if you really liked lists? Well, obviously you'd have to come up with a list of lists - and so this is what I have done!

I introduce to you, the One Hundred Hundreds challenge - 100 lists of 100 things I have to do before I die. Now, I haven't fully nutted out the lists just yet - I have concepts, and some ideas of what to go into some of the lists, but I will add to them as I go (I figure, that's part of the fun!)

Some concepts that I have are concrete lists, with defined goals: 100 books I have to read, 100 films I have to see, 100 people I have to meet - lists where I define the goals before I attempt to accomplish them (admittedly, though, the goals will be mutable for some lists, for instance if a person I have to meet dies, I can no longer meet them...But it will only be in extreme situations)

Other concepts are more...fluid, shall we say, and items won't be added to the list until they are completed. Items in this category will be things like 100 lives I have to change, or 100 friends I have to make...

I'm always going to be open to suggestions for lists, or for items to add to my lists, so please let me know if you have any ideas at all (I'll credit you and everything ^_^)

Anyway, that's my awkward introductory post out of the way...For my first blog ever, I think that went okay...

Catch-ya later Internet!!