Huge fan. My earliest memories will always be connected to Richard Scarry’s Best Storybook Ever. The very first story I ever read aloud all the way through with no help was ‘I Am a Bunny’. It was about a little guy who lived in a tree and enjoyed identifying the colors of the rainbow in nature. Green frogs, yellow chicks, orange leaves, etc.
Forgetfulness
by Billy Collins (b. 1941)The name of the author is the first to go
followed obediently by the title, the plot,
the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel
which suddenly becomes one you have never read,
never even heard of,It is as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor
decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain,
to a little fishing village where there are no phones.Long ago you kissed the names of the nine Muses goodbye
and you watched the quadratic equation pack its bag,
and even now as you memorize the order of the planets,Something else is slipping away, a state flower perhaps,
the address of an uncle, the capital of Paraguay.Whatever it is you are struggling to remember,
it is not poised on the tip of your tongue,
not even lurking in some obscure corner of your spleen.It has floated away down a dark mythological river
whose name begins with an L as far as you can recall,
well on your own way to oblivion where you will join those
who have even forgotten how to swim and how to ride a bicycle.No wonder you rise in the middle of the night
to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on war.
No wonder the moon in the window seems to have drifted
out of a love poem that you used to know by heart.
(via Thane Tierney)
An ongoing list that’s growing daily. I’ll lose count if I don’t start keeping track of things.
— Under Angels
— Rocky
— Raiders of the Lost Ark
— The Matrix
— The Sixth Sense
— Jacob’s Ladder
— The Shawshank Redemption
— Thelma and Louise
— Boyz n the Hood
— The Usual Suspects
— Pulp Fiction
— The Game
— Sea of Love
— The Wizard of Oz
— Star Wars
— The Empire Strikes Back
— Return of the Jedi
— Platoon
— Back to the Future
— A Beautiful Mind
— Forrest Gump
— Fight Club
— Little Miss Sunshine
— The Godfather
— The Godfather Part II
— The King’s Speech
— The Hangover
— Rear Window
— American Beauty
— Jaws
— Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
— Die Hard
— Lethal Weapon
— The Truman Show
— Ordinary People
— Identity
— What Lies Beneath
— Airplane!
— Sunset Blvd.
— Chinatown
— The Graduate
— When Harry Met Sally…
— Being John Malkovich
— Taxi Driver
— The Terminator
— Blade Runner
— The Abyss
— Meet the Ghouls
— It’s a Wonderful Life
— White Christmas
— Citizen Kane
— Bridesmaids
— The Breakfast Club
— The 40 Year Old Virgin
— Groundhog Day
— Kramer vs. Kramer
— Good Will Hunting
— The Perks of Being a Wallflower
— Donnie Darko
— The Others
— Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
— Tootsie
— Django Unchained
— Reservoir Dogs
— Source Code
— Ghostbusters
— Breaking Bad (pilot)
— Kangaroo Time
— This is 40
— Frozen
— Raging Bull
— Ghost
— Michael Clayton
— Alien
— Aliens
— Wedding Crashers
— Frailty
— Fast Times at Ridgemont High
— Office Space
— Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
— Some Kind of Wonderful
— Dumb and Dumber
— The Imitation Game
— Legally Blonde
— E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
— Before Sunset
— Psycho
— Sideways
— The Princess Bride
— ¡Three Amigos!
— Strangers on a Train
— North By Northwest
— The Prestige
— Galaxy Quest
— Zodiac
— A Christmas Story
— Nightcrawler
— Bruce Almighty
— Crown Jules
— Birdman
— Big Eyes
— Whiplash
— Prisoners
— Requiem for a Dream
— Foxcatcher
— Training Day
— Insidious
— The Hateful Eight
— Inglourious Basterds
— Ghost Signs
— The Big Short
— Spotlight
— The Exorcist
— Poltergeist
— Se7en
— Ouija
— Halloween
— The Conjuring
— The Ring
— Manchester by the Sea
— The Shining
— The Babadook
— The Girl on the Train
— La La Land
— Get Out
— The Founder
— Network
— Star Wars: The Force Awakens
— Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
— The Shape of Water
To be continued…
