Experience UnSpun

After watching 27 Dresses last night (which I enjoyed by the way), I got to thinking about those movies we love, but might be embarrassed to admit that we watch. I starting Googling "guilty pleasure movies" and discovered the Amazon-sponsored UnSpun community. This is basically a place to list your opinions on topics from Best Food at the Beach to Worst Cell Phone Carriers. Create a new list, vote on existing ones or just marvel at the variety of things people spend their time catorgorizing.

UnSpun Guilty Pleasure Movie List
1. Titanic
2. American Pie
3. Dirty Dancing
4. Mean Girls
5. Showgirls
6. Bring It On
7. The Notebook
8. Clueless
9. 10 Things I Hate About You
10. Police Academy

By the way, my favorite guilty pleasure film is 13 Going on 30.

Image Generators, Rollyo and Pandora - Oh My!

So much to explore, so little off-desk time. As you can see, I found an image generator to match my blog theme. Unfortunately there wasn't room on the marquee for that other library classic, Indiana Jones and the Last Card Catalog.

A few of my other web adventures included creating my own Rollyo search engine - Stories in Motion. I included websites and databases such as IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Fandango, BAFTA, and The Sundance Channel to meet my film surfing needs.

Pandora was fun, but a little frustrating. Apparently the only artist out there that musically resembles the talented John Mayer is Jack Johnson. (Not quite the same league in my opinion, but, oh well.) And what may you ask is the movie connection for either of these artists? Among other ventures, John Mayer wrote and performed "Say" from the The Bucket List and Jack Johnson contributed a large chunk to the Curious George soundtrack.

Tag, you're it, Lars!

Originally uploaded by TiVo_epaper

I did my tagging on Amazon. One of the items I chose to practice on was the movie, Lars and the Real Girl. As other users' tags indicated, it was a quirky, poignant, original film about a delusional young man and the community that supports him through a very unique healing process (that's my tag). Not everyone agreed with my assessment of this film; some called it overrated, dull and shmatzy (?) To each his own of course, but it was interesting to find tagging being used as a very short-hand form of film critique. Watch out Ebert and Roeper.