I thought doing the "quotes of the week" on a day by day basis and calling it "quotes of the day" might be cool but to be honest, I have been forgetting to post (or just haven't had time to post) - so I may just keep them as "quotes of the day" but not promise to put a new one up every single day as I originally intended. Sorry.
- Steve
well, 886 titles have been entered into my movies database, leaving me with about 3-400 titles left to enter, depending on how big my collection is now (last count it was at about 1,150, but it's probably over 1,200 by now). It's so cool to have the database - the lists I can compile are cool. I have 886 entered and for those 886 titles there are 1,153 discs, and 716 are widescreen features. In total, I have 121,260 minutes worth of story on film, which works out to 2,021 hours. It would take just over 84 days to watch the 886 titles that have been entered, if you could go that long without sleeping. If you only watch 2 1/2 hours a day, it would take 808 days to watch all the titles that I've entered, just over 2 years.
So far, 63 of the above titles are foreign films on 70 discs, 58 of which are widescreen presentations. It would take 7,052 minutes to watch my foreign films (which I define as anything made outside of Canada or USA), or just over 117 hours or 4.9 days if you could stay up for that time without sleeping. If you only watched 2 1/2 hours per day, it would take 47 days to watch my foreign film collection ;).
I can also sort my movies right now by Distributor, by the year they were made and by director.
I've completed titles that appear under numbers, as well as A, B, C, D, E, F, N, O, P, Q, R, S, U, V, W, X, Y, Z... this leaves G, H, I, J, K, L, M and T left to finish. I'll probably finish T later tonight after I do some more homework.
I hope to have the remaining titles entered into the new database within the next two to three weeks (at the most - maybe sooner, depending on how I prioritize things).
Then I'll update my online list(s).
- Steve
Well, this is my first post in awhile, outside of the quotes of the week / day. I'm sorry I've been away, Virginia. School has started and that's going well - so far, I'm keeping up with the five courses I'm in. Work goes alright, I'll post an update on my Kwantlen work sometime soon, maybe on the weekend.
That's about all I have time to write. I'll post more later.
- Steve
"Remember that standard journalism legend in which two cars crash in an intersection, five people witness it, and, minutes later, all five people tell different stories about what happened? This exercise doesn't tell us anything we didn't know already: people lie, memory fails. But it does confront us with choices." - Laura Wexler, from her essay "Saying Good-Bye to "Once Upon A Time," or Implementing Postmodernism in Creative Nonfiction"
"...implementing the principles of postmodernism in creative nonfiction means taking standard journalistic operating procedure further. It means literary structures and techniques that are the formal embodiment of these principles, such that readers have not only a cerebral, but also a visceral, experience." - Laura Wexler, from her Essay, "Saying Good-Bye to 'Once Upon a Time,' or Implementing Postmodernism in Creative Nonfiction"