Darla did an awesome job figuring out my T13 quotes. One point of clarification though, they aren’t all Canadian films. That title can only be claimed by #’s 1-5 and 7. There’s a few US & French films. Late last night I began to suspect some of these may not be Indy films. Some of them may have been intended as big screen blockbusters that just found a cult following. If that’s the case, I blame it all on my shoddy memory.
So what were they?

1. Exotica
2. Les Invasions barbares
3. Bon Cop, Bad Cop
4. Crash
5. Men with Brooms
6. Night Breed
7. eXistenZ
8. Boondock Saints
9. Bastard Out of Carolina
10. Boys Don’t Cry
11. Mississippi Burning
12. Le Fabuleux destin d’Amalie Poulain (Amelie)
13. Clerks

Movies I wish I’d included on the list in hindsight? Or, “you idiot, I can’t believe you forgot about…”

1. Margaret’s Museaum
2. Power of One
3. Babette’s Feast
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Leon – I always wach this when I need a good cry
6. Memento
7. Donnie Darko
8. Platoon
9. Shaun of the Dead
10. Trainspotting
11. Fargo
12. Sling Blade
13. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
14. The Ususal Suspects
15. Serenity

I better stop now or I’ll be at this for years…

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Welcome to the 23rd edition of the screaming pages Thursday Thirteen.

I love watching movies as much as I love to read. Independant cinema is, of course, my muse. Canadian cinema, though not as developed as British or American cinema, offers some great viewing. With that in mind, I’ve included a 13 of my favourite independant movie quotes for you to stew over and attempt to identify the movies. If no one manages to guess them all, I’ll post the correct listing of movie titles tomorrow.

Thirteen quotes from Indy movies I love. “He comes in here every other night. He has his favorite drink, and his favourite table, with his favorite dancer. Sometimes he has to wait for her, and sometimes she’s waiting for him, to protect him. She’s his angel.” “I wish that one day you will have a son like you.” “You have an accent in both languages. Who was your teacher? Jean Chretien?” “After being bombarded endlessly by road safety propaganda, almost a relief to have found myself in an actual accident.” “It’s forty-two pounds of polished granite, bevelled on the belly and a handle a human being can hold. And it may have no practical purpose in itself but it is a repository of human possibility and if it’s handled just right, it will exact the kind of poetry…” “Remember me doctor? I was dying when you had your way with me. You made me give up my secrets when I was feeling particularly vunerable…” “We’re both stumbling around together in this unformed world, whose rules and objectives are largely unknown, seemingly indecipherable or even possibly nonexistent, always on the verge of being killed by forces that we don’t understand.” “You know, you Irish cops are perking up. That’s two sound theories in one day, neither of which deal with abnormally sized men. Kind of makes me feel like Riverdancing.” “I lived in a world of shame. I hid my bruises as if they were evidence of crimes I had committed. I didn’t tell Mama. I couldn’t tell Mama.” “You don’t have to be sober to be able to weigh spinach.” “It’s ugly. This whole thing is so ugly. Have you any idea what it’s like to live with all this? People look at us and only see bigots and racists. Hatred isn’t something you’re born with. It gets taught. At school, they said segregation what’s said in the Bible… Genesis 9, Verse 27. At 7 years of age, you get told it enough times, you believe it. You believe the hatred. You live it… you breathe it. You marry it.” “I like to look for things no one else catches. I hate the way drivers never look at the road in old movies.” “Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader’s his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that’s what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.” Get the Thursday Thirteen code here! The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Be sure to update your Thirteen with links that are left for you, as well! I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 13 things. Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted! View More Thursday Thirteen Participants

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You’d think I’d have more time to read now that I’m unemployed – but it’s just not working out that way…

I’m breaking the list down into two parts. The fist list will contain paperback and hardcover books I’ve been able to find and list on Shelfari and the second list contains all the eBooks I’ve been reading that I can’t figure out how to add to Shefari yet. Their ISBN’s don’t bring up any information. If anyone knows how to get an eBook added to Shelfari, please let me in on the secret.

Hardcover/Paperback

1. A Dirty Job – Christopher Moore
2. The Last Juror – John Grisham
3. Goal Analysis – Robert F Mager
4. River’s End – Nora Roberts
5. Rebellion – Nora Roberts
6. Don’t be Afraid – Rebecca Drake
7. Who Moved My Cheese – Spenser Johnson
8. On The Run – Iris Johansen
9. Every Which Way But Dead – Kim Harrison
10. Five Point Someone – What Not to do at IIT – Chetan Bhagat
11. One Night at the Call Center: A Novel – Chetan Bhagat
12. Jack Knife – Virginia Baker
13. The Opium Clerk – Kunal Basu
14. I, Lucifer – Glen Duncan
15. Our Iceberg is Melting – John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber, Spenser Johnson
16. The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield
17. Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris
18. Living Dead in Dallas – Charlaine Harris
19. Club Dead – Charlaine Harris
20. Dead to the World – Charlaine Harris
21. Dead as a Doornail – Charlaine Harris
22. Definitely Dead – Charlaine Harris
23. Practical Demonkeeping – Christopher Moore
24. Mind over Matter – Nora Roberts
25. Island of Flowers – Nora Roberts
26. Unfinished Business – Nora Roberts
27. Irish Thoroughbred – Nora Roberts
28. Irish Rose – Nora Roberts
29. Deja Dead – Kathy Reichs
30. Death du Jour – Kathy Reichs
31. Fatal Voyage – Kathy Reichs
32. Bare Bones – Kathy Reichs
33. Monday Mourning – Kathy Reichs

eBooks

1. Stripped – Rhonda Stapleton
2. Improper Longings – Dawn Ryder
3. High Seas Desire – Mlyn Hurn
4. Call of the Untamed – Michelle M. Pillow
5. After Sundown: Redemption – Eden Robins
6. Crime Tells: Lyric’s Cop – Jory Strong
7. Elisabeth’s Wolf – Lora Leigh
8. Malachi – Shiloh Walker
9. Mythe: Vampire – Shiloh Walker

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My last day at work was March 31st. They had 2.5 weeks notice of my impending resignation. I’ve now been unemployed for 2 weeks. For those of us keeping score, that means a month has passed since I gave notice.

During this time, my previous company hasn’t managed to notify the Investment firm holding my RRSP and Pension that I’m no longer with the company. Ergo, when I called to find out why I don’t have copies of the necessary documents to transfer the funds to a different investment account, they had no idea what I was talking about and said that according to their records, I still work for company X.

GRRRRR!

Now I get the joy of contacting the HR dept. and asking them to fax paperwork through the their investment firm so I can transfer $$ to my investment firm. I am not impressed.

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I’m not usually a big fan of stain removers. They don’t tend to work as well as advertised and cost far more than they’re worth. This afternoon, I learned that the overpriced package of Shout gel is worth it’s weight in gold – or at least cotton.

During my travels around the world, I’ve picked up shirts and t-shirts from favoured locations, restaurants, etc. Typical tourist stuff. I have one from Memphis that I adore. It always reminds me of great friends, working with FedEx, wandering Beale, great blues, and immediately brings to mind one of my favourite US cities.

This afternoon the hubby decided that rather than waiting in line a the shop for the winter tyres to be changed out in favour of the all season tyres, he’d swap them out himself. Simple enough task. Like Vanna White, my job was to stand around looking pretty and occasionally hand him tools. Unfortunately for my beloved t-shirt, the toolbox he requested was sitting in a pool of long forgotten motor oil. Upon picking the box up, the mustard yellow shirt I was wearing became soaked in the messy oil. I dropped the tool box and made a beeline for the house – threatening horrible revenge on the hubby if he didn’t clean up his oil spill and muttering about planned punishments if the stain didn’t come out of the shirt.

Flash forward to minutes of gooping Shout gel on my shirt, scrubbing, and dropping the shirt into the washing machine in the hopes the stain can be removed. Two sets of scrubbing and runs through the washing machine later and my shirt – while not completely stainless – is significantly improved. I don’t think I’ll be wearing it out in public again, but at least I don’t have to throw it out and can lounge around the house and backyard in it without be embarrassed that someone might catch a glimpse of me.

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