new threads

because my time is so valuable (around 12 dollars an hour these days), i try to not blog everyday, and if i do a post, then i like to keep it @ around one post per day, so you know when i drop two posts in a day it can only mean one thing... good things are coming. i am ripping off dave letterman & entertainment weekly, and am starting a new thread of posts that will be about my current top ten faves in different fields. i invite all who read this blog to participate in the top ten lists. i know i enjoy reading about people faves as much as the next guy, so feel free to comment, or add ideas as to what upcoming top ten lists maybe. so with this spirit, i am starting off my first top ten list in remembrance of a great film maker who we all lost recently, mr. john hughes. tonight's top ten is my top 10 favorite john hughes movies (these are from him either being a director/producer/writer, or all the above):

1. breakfast club (need i say more/every one's fave)

2. uncle buck (my fave john candy flick ever)

3. ferris bueller's day off (the only thing matthew brodrick has done that i remember liking)

4. pretty in pink (o.m.d. soundtrack, i still the 45 of "if you leave")

5. weird science (i have always wanted to create a computer program girl since i first saw this movie, and when technology catches up with john, i will have my computer created women. amy is not computer generated women (as far as i know))

6. home alone (ac says ten percent, well ac ain't in charge anymore) note: none of the other ones even come close to making this list

7. dutch (this was the first movie i ever saw with ed o'neill in after married with children, and realized how bad of an actor he truly is, but in a good way)

8. national lampoons european vacation (nothing further needs to be said, by far the best of any of the national lampoons)

9. planes trains & automobiles (another classic with not only steve martin but john candy as the abbott and costello duo. also this movie connects joh hughes to kevin bacon without going through all 6 degrees.)

10. last but no least, well maybe.... mr. mom (outside of the first couple batman's, this was michael keaton's best work. this movie means more to me now, since i am mr. mom at home, just ask amy).

so this concludes my first installment of the top 10. so please feel free to say what you like (or dislike) about my list (as long as it's appropriate). please give me any suggestion for any further top ten lists you would like to read about. on that note good night.