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Alright, so. There were ... 53 titles with stars on the last list (indicating that I really liked them). The following six were also italicized, meaning that I feel stand out in my mind/heart as all-around great, great movies. I have sorted them here in order of preference, with my favorite, Junebug on top:

Junebug
I Love Your Work
Natural Route, The
Crickets
Beat That My Heart Skipped, The
Green Street Hooligans

The next list is movies that I already own on DVD (alphabetical):

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The following is a long, generally uninteresting post. It is mostly lists of movie titles that either debuted theatrically in 2005 or that I Netflix'ed in 2005. The lists are in alphabetical order and I have not yet given thought to any "top n movies" lists, I've just taken the time to compile lists of the movies I watched (or expect to watch).

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...I'm doing such strange things lately. Today I turned one $30 purchase into a brick unintentionally (a CVS "one time use" digital camcorder, now useless), and one $5 purchase into a brick intentionally (a self-hardening modeling substance which I combined with $7 in electronic bits to form a sort of USB 'dock' that the CVS "one time use" digital still cameras and digital camcorders can plug into). I created a sort of steadycam device from less than $20 of hardware, but when I bought the parts I did it from memory, and got it a bit wrong. I'll go buy a couple of pieces of additional hardware to "fix" this one, and a couple of additional hunks of metal and I'll have two steadycam devices for under $30. Of course I'll have to buy at least one more camcorder from CVS (which I don't brick) in order to make use of dual steadycams...

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I have not yet decided that it is "ready for prime-time", I'm still making tiny adjustments to it, and I need to decide how to add the oh-so-exciting free-vacation-promotion I'm implementing to try to sell more books, but I'm linking you to the page now to try to get your feedback on it.

Please, please, please, take a look at this page and tell me what you think, or that you look at it and don't think, or whatever comes to mind at all about it. If you're reading this at lessthanthis.com instead of my LJ, on-page commenting is disabled right now (because something's broken) so please email me your feedback. On LJ, feel free to comment away. Remember, a single word response is better than none!

The page is here: http://prose.modernevil.com/press.php

The idea is to sell books. Right now, the various pages I have set up just aren't selling the books, so I need something new. This is my new design. I hope you like it, and more than that, I hope it works.

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