I remembered, then I forgot. (And if I forget, who else would remember?)

Last Friday was this blog’s second birthday.

Leaving things so late I could only get a birthday cake which had originally been made for someone called Lila. It was the only cake that the shop had when I visited today.

I don’t think that Blog will mind since Blog likes cow print. Blog would have preferred a deeper shade of pink, but Blog will eat pink bits first. Blog would like to offer you all a slice of cake.

(Pic source)

Earlier today I was looking for a pic from the movie Casablanca for my previous post, and saw the following dress in the image search.

Intrigued, I clicked on it and explored the site, which was a showcase of wedding dresses by Stephanie Allin. Some of the dresses are so alluring that they almost make me want to get married (or at least have a wedding night).

I also like that several of the dresses have women’s names, so for £1500+ I could become Celeste or Louisa, Jacqueline or Gina, Nina or Siena, or even Havana.

Ben tagged me to take part in this meme. I won’t tag anyone else, but if you want to have a go, feel free.

Get the American Film Institute’s 100 Years… 100 Movies list and answer the following questions:

1) Your favorite 5 movies that are on the list:

Casablanca
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
The Wizard of Oz
Star Wars

2) 5 movies on the list that you didn’t like at all:

The Graduate (I fell asleep during it)
On the Waterfront (I lost interest after a while)

Those were the only two I could find, and I probably just wasn’t in the right mind-space to appreciate them.

3) 5 movies on the list you haven’t seen but want to:

Psycho
Chinatown
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
The Silence of the Lambs
Some Like It Hot

4) 5 movies on the list that you haven’t seen and have no interest in seeing:

Citizen Kane (actually after seeing this review I’m considering renting it)
Apocalypse Now
All Quiet on the Western Front
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Mutiny on the Bounty

5) Your favorite 5 movies that aren’t on the list:

Secretary
Little Miss Sunshine
Die Hard
The Matrix
Collateral

I’ve limited myself to American movies, in the spirit of the original list.

Every so often, while I was working at the evil uni I would send myself a package of books from Amazon. After I stopped working there and my finances went to hell I stopped treating myself to books from my wishlist on a regular basis.

I’d forgotten how nice it is to receive a massive pile of books, so this morning I revelled in that happy bibliotastic feeling when I received these inspirational texts. Yes, there’s a theme to my selections.

And there’s more to come.

But I ain’t got wings

Learning to Fly by Tom Petty

Love this song, and the video. For some reason in my confused memory I thought that Johnny Depp had appeared in it, but apparently not.