I think I'll name it Bob.

[apocalypsos]

Oh, for crying out loud, this car thing is going to give me an ulcer at this rate. It's sure doing a hell of a job fucking up my sleep, that's for damn sure. *headdesk*

I don't know. At this point I think I'm just annoyed I've already made an insurance payment and am set up to make a car payment at the end of the month on a car I don't yet have. And yesterday my brother made some comment about having five hundred bucks and maybe lending it to me, but (while I'm grateful he was willing to) I shot him down. The last thing I need is for my mother to go ballistic over me borrowing money I'm going to be good for in a week from my little brother. I'm just really anxious to get the damn car so I'm not driving Joe Bag O'Lugnuts back and forth to work with his monstrous pile of faults when it could start snowing at any minute.

On the bright side it's five a.m. and something like sixty degrees outside. Oh, YAY. Granted, it probably won't last past noon if the weather forecast is any indication, but I'll take what I can get for now.

While I'm here, Premiere's 20 most overrated movies. While it's really hard to agree that every movie on that list is overrated, I was really thankful that 2001: A Space Odyssey is on there. Good, 'cause I can't stand that movie.

Comments

[revenantrose.livejournal.com]

I was so, so glad to see Mystic River on that list but I gasped when Moonstruck popped up. Man, if that woman wanted to talk shit about Moonstruck at a dinner with my family she'd leave the house looking like the girl in your icon.

[beanarie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I really don't get why they put Moonstruck on there, especially since they acknowledged that the Oscars it won were well-deserved.

[loopychew.livejournal.com]

Thankfully, A Beautiful Mind was on there. I will dispute the presence of Clerks on the list, however.

[beanarie.livejournal.com]

Big ups to the dude who put Monster's Ball on there. I didn't see the point of that movie at all.

[jellicle.livejournal.com]

I was really thankful that 2001: A Space Odyssey is on there. Good, 'cause I can't stand that movie.

Same here.

[idadebeautreux.livejournal.com]

I dispute the fact that Chicago, Wizard of Oz, Gone With The Wind, American Beauty, and Fantastia were on the list, and Titanic, the CRAPPIEST "great movie" EVER, was not. That list was put together obviously by someone with no taste.

[beanarie.livejournal.com]

DUDE. Truer words were never typed. I don't think I've ever been able to watch more than a few minutes of that movie without wanting to find every one of the actors and smack them in the head.

[meredevachon]

I prefer to think they couldn't find anyone to write the rebuttal for Titanic. Because it certainly belongs on the list.

[idadebeautreux.livejournal.com]

You know, that idea has a ring of truth to it like it came straight out of the Gong Show. I bet that really is why it wasn't on the list.

[phillyexpat.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of the movies are displaced, but I'm glad there's someone else out there who doesn't think The Wizard of Oz, Field of Dreams, or A Beautiful Mind (especially having read Sylvia Nassar's wonderful biography of John Nash) are brilliant films.

I loved 2001, but I love image heavy films (though I wasn't a fan of Mallick's The New World, though I liked The Thin Red Line). And I especially love Kubrick. But, I was watching Kubrick when most kids my age were watching glorified crap, so it's ingrained as a childhood memory.

[crevette.livejournal.com]

Cancel your insurance as of the date your vehicle went the way of the Dodo. They will refund you your unused premium.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Dude, Fantasia?! Don't crap on my childhood like that!

Some people just can't appreciate the finer points of dancing hippos. *sniff*

-blue

[slashfairy.livejournal.com]

Boy, i'm not gonna look at the list, because I never agree, but the car... Bob, as in "What about Bob?" (Speaking of movies, after all.)

The one time I broke down and bought a new never-before-owned car it was the 'lemon' year (which of course only shows up in repair histories after the fact) and cost me as much in work over the course of owning it as the loan to buy it did. (Sigh.)

I've come to the conclusion that all cars cost the same amount of money in the long run, if you cost out either the amount of time you spend earning the money for the loan, the repairs, or worrying about the loan or the repairs. As Bob Heinlein said, TANSTAAFL (There ain't no such thing as a free lunch).

I keep dreaming, though...

[sleepyaardvark.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with 2001???? *growls*

Of course, the book was much better (they usually are), but the movie wasn't THAT bad.

*kicks you*