Times Top 100, how i hate thee

a steeming pile

I knew this was going to annoy me-

times top 100

below is a list of 113 films i’ve seen this past decade which i’ve enjoyed more than Hidden (Cache) and the Bourne Ultimatum/Supremacy:

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
oldboy
Synecdoche, New York
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
there will be blood
amelie
the royal tenanbaums
adaptation
the diving bell and the butterfly
city of god
o brother where art thou?
donnie darko
the man who wasn’t there
a cock and bull story
gladiator
hot fuzz
welcome to colinwood
the 25th hour
man on the moon
little miss sunshine
24 hour party people
before sunset
y tu mama tambien
the fog of war
punch drunk love
dodgeball
code 46
shaun of the dead
no country for old man
the proposition
the mist
iron man
wall-e
zodiac
40 year old virgin
a history of violence
being john malcovich
blow
broken flowers
garden state
human nature
in search of a midnight kiss
intolerable cruelty
kiss kiss bang bang
moon
sexy beast
sideways
the best that my heart skipped
the orphanage
the inside man
american psycho
blood diamond
choke
juno
knocked up
old school
pirates of the carribean, curse of the black pearl
roger dodger
superbad
the prestiege
the wedding crashers
up
Pan’s Labyrinth
spirited away
2 days in paris
big fish
dead mans shoes
hotel rwanda
in the bedroom
into the wild
irreversable
let the right one in
lost in translation
master & commander
me you and everyone we know
russian ark
sin city
starter for 10
the class
the darjeeling limited
a very long engagement
made
away we go
before the devil knows you’re dead
cold mountain
confessions of a dangerous mind
drag me to hell
finding neverland
high fidelity
hunger
i love you man
kill bill
man without a past
memento
michael clayton
once
the bourne identity
the constant gardener
children of men
dave chapelle’s block party
ghost town
half nelson
in good company
jcvd
one hour photo
road trip
the descent
the pledge
the savages
the station agent
the wrestler
wonder boys
the kingdom

pron.

 

death of xxxdevil

“dear xxxdevil user,

after going back and forth and writing endless begging news which we were forced to because we are simply not able to pay the server bills completely out of our own pockets we have finally decided to abandon the tracker at the end of the month. it was a great time with you and we would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the community (with their own uploads).”

r.i.p. xxxdevil.”

aaah back in the day before adultbay et al, there was xdevil. it’s a ratio site which means you have to seed as well as leech to keep your account. the giddy thrill of becoming power users (as iamthedemonamon and i were) and the frequent changing of usernames after yet another account was banned. my current connection doesn’t really allow fast rapidshit/netload/hotfile dl’s so i’ve gone back to torrents and signed up again to xdevil and saw that notice. it’s a shame. but i don’t pay for pron.

some of the (hundred or so) comments on the site:

“so sorry to see the place have to shut down… but it does cost money afterall.

i have downloaded so much good stuff from this place, i am going to miss it. i wanted to thank all of the uploaders for all their time and effort into making this place one of the best torrent places around…

i guess i leave my ratio as…

join date (121 weeks ago)
last seen (< 1 min ago)
last checked (1 min ago)
address [snipped lol]
max. torrents 10
invites
[given]  - 0    :    [available]  - 10
uploaded 2.03 tb  (daily: 2.44 gb)
downloaded 1.54 tb  (daily: 1.85 gb)
share ratio
1.318
class power user

it’s almost unfathomable… 121 weeks, and ive uploaded 2.44gb daily?! wow. i’ll leave the torrents i’m seeding on until the place is gone. you will not be forgotten. take care everybody.

autumn”

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“thanks for everything. it was great here with you guys. i will miss you!!! take care.”

-

“ive bin here for 182 weeks ..

for staff & uppers ; a big danke merci thankyou  gracias dank u ..and i hope to see you pornlovers somewhere else  “

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“thanks for a great community and a great time !

join date (269 weeks ago”

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“coco3
ratio: 6.434
ul: 1.55 tb
dl: 245.96 gb”

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there’s also a whole bunch in german/polish.

Thanks for a great community and a great time ! JOIN date (269 weeks ago)

onewordreview

district 9

great.

kingdom come

good.

in bruges

alright.

cheers, wiki/imdb.

the great south run.

nice day for it

it was a good turn out

play.

freakin' awesome.

last week i bought this as a reward for doing something or other. have been playing a little bit here and there and i finished it today. it’s excellent and i often found myself shouting “fuck yeah i’m batman” after beating up a bunch of joker goons.

cheers, wiki.

eat.

razor clams

fresh from the fish market. grilled with some garlic butter.

korean pork chops

a ken hom east meets west recipe. good eating.

be interested in this.

crystals of influenza virus neuraminidase isolated from terns

35 years of the world’s best microscope photography.

cheers, wired science.

play.

conqueror-socialiser

take the brain hex survey.

cheers, rps.

paula.

you can't do this, you're ruining my life

a couple of weeks ago, for about 45mins, i heard and spied on a life changing argument. my flat is double glazed and even by sitting on the floor looking through the letterbox wasn’t enough, so i had to go out the back door, walk round to my neighbours house and listen to the rest through single glazed. we heard everything.

it seems paula had had a few, there was a child mentioned and it looked like he was breaking her heart. she was crying, screaming, pacing up and down, swinging her arms at him and he either stood impassively keeping his voice relatively quiet or backed away, always with his hands held behind his back.

think, well i can’t actually think of one at the moment, of any great drama/love story and the uncomfortable viewing in a film of the inevitable fight. it was all out in the open, with people walking past and they just kept going back and forth along the street.

i’m sure it’s for the best.

eat.

van scoff. aha ahahahahahahahahaha

tauntaun

braaaaainnnss. and cake.

cheers, bb.

the science teacher i want to be.

cheers, bb.

fuck.yeah.

handcuff keys

science fiction has prepared me for 3d printers, but things like this make me feel warm inside.

we’re almost there.

cheers, bb.

pron.

by matt groening

from the november issue of playboy.

she’s on the cover too.

it’s weird.

cheers, adultbay.

be interested in this.

geeks like me.

the escapist forum topic: nerdiest fact, question or answer you can think of.

oh and bb had a nice little list of nerdy ‘yo mamma‘ jokes.

i liked:

“yo momma so fat, she took geometry in high school just cause she heard there was gonna be some pi”

“yo mamma so fat, china uses her to block the internet”

check the comments too.

“yo mama so fat she got her belt from gerard kuiper”

“you mama’s so fat she needs 3 different logins for her sims character”

listen to this.

rum doings

i’ve given it a few episodes before recommending it, but rum doings is worth a go. it’s part of my sunday night wind-down.

be interested in this.

i heart infographics

and

it's not really red.

two excellent graphics about exploration.

cheers, bb.

listen to this.

robin ince

without the turd of tv i’ve been enjoying a variety of audio treats.

it’s robin ince and cohost josie long (mentioned before).

twat.

or, twats.

“the review is the biggest independent inquiry into primary education in four decades, based on 28 research surveys, 1,052 written submissions and 250 focus groups. it was undertaken by 14 authors, 66 research consultants and a 20-strong advisory committee at cambridge university, led by professor robin alexander, one of the most experienced educational academics in the country.

last night the review’s conclusions were backed by every education union in england, but rejected by ministers…”

an extra 2 written submissions would have done it.

some updatin’

realise it’s been a while since a daily update so will catch up on some of the things i’ve bookmarked.

teach.

it's lily cole, but you get the idea. the chameleon is far less attractive.

i know it’s been a while, but after today, i felt like updating things.

i had an observation from an outside person who works for the local education department. her and her colleague are coming in because we’re a failing school and they’re checking all these things. her speciality is maths.

she shall be know as chameleon, because her eyes are too wide apart.

the id parade.

i know it's obvious. but, fuck you.

thought i should write this while it’s still fresh in my mind and before i drown in school work due for tomorrow.

“i do understand.” & “i cannot identify the suspect.”

play.

battlefield 1943

admitedlly it’s not all work. i do often spent the first hour when i get home eating mouthfuls of left over food between games of battlefield. god damn this game rules. i’m able to relax and shoot either japanese/americans depending on spawn and prove my domination as i sniper.

and i fucking own sniping.

lead the target. shoot. relocate.

“i’m a wizard”

it's mordor. with a d.

maybe it’s because i’m tired. but, lol.

ghetto news.

i gave a witness statement on saturday because of the ongoing nightmare that is the ghetto and i have to take part in a police line up (identify the kid on a laptop apparently). he’s 13 years old and is being an ass all over my estate. he broke his asbo (again) and they’re using my (and my neighbours) statements to get him a harsher [law something].

i [allegedly] gave a false statement to the police.

well, i say gave. it was really a process of nodding and agreeing with whatever the officer was saying. i quite clearly told him at the start of the interview that i didn’t see the guy but a few minutes later he said something like “and then you turned around and saw him, did you recognise him?” so i said yes. to be honest i did very little talking, he pretty much wrote the whole thing down. i do remember mentally marking his writing though, looking for connectives and imperative verbs. the officer was a nice guy and it seemed like we were helping the situation by going along with whatever he wanted us to. i say we, because my neighbour also gave a false statement the previous day, agreeing with the officer out of politeness really.

pc whatever said things like “so when you saw him, how did that make you feel? threatened? fearful of another crime?” etc.

for the purposes of not going to jail i’d like to say, allegedly, hypothetically, in theory and whatever else i need to so it reads like i didn’t actually lie to the police. thanks.

oh, and i have to go to court in a couple of months. i’m going to do it omar style.

teach.

it’s been a while i admit but i thought i should post something at least.

the reasons for not posting are many and i’ll keep this one short. my hands hurt for a start.

so i’m constantly tired and am working 10 hour days every day. oh, and then i come back home and do another 2-3. suckness.

class is getting better, am bonding with the kids, am glad i’ve got my class and not some of the others and i had an observation on monday – scored a good rating so that was a relief.

found out today some boy i shouted at (and made cry/beg for “another chance”) has some real issues. this is a new one: turns out his mum hired a hit man to kill his dad.

that’s what i thought – but even worse, it happened (ie he’s dead) and she’s currently in prison for it. the boy went into the care of his uncle who’s the brother of the dead guy so pretty much took out all his anger on the child. boy is now somewhere else but as you can imagine, fucked up beyond recognition. but in my defence, he was being a complete dick.

can’t remember whether i’ve written this but there’s a girl in my class with 53% attendence since september. why? because her mum is usually too drunk to take her to school in the morning so she sits on the sofa wearing her school stuff all day, hoping mum will get up. so we’ve starting going to her house to get her and bring her to school. i have to wait with her everyday to see what condition her mum is in before i let her go because last year her mum turned up drunk out of her mind. in a tesco trolley. being pushed by a man she’d just met. the police were called.

other than that things are good. the weeks are flying by and i’m not getting as much cool shit done as i’d hoped but i like the school, am learning to deal with all the new shit that’s coming my way and still getting away with as much as i can.

we’ve got an inset day tomorrow so i’ve got slightly less work to do tonight before school.