kerewin's whine cellar

Happy Mister Foster New Year!

Now that I don't wait tables and merely sell wine to restaurants, I have New Year's Eve free. Which means a quick jaunt down to Portlandia to have a fine night with great friends, then a nice weekend with family.

Happy New Year! This year is finally over with.

Answers

1. “You mean, you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword, and we'll try and kill each other like civilized people?” The Princess Bride
• 2. “Mary hates me. I've never been popular with the ladies.”
  “Maybe if you stopped stealing their panties.” Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• 3. “Oh my God, I'm getting pulled over. Everyone, just... pretend to be normal.” Little Miss Sunshine
• 4. “If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.” Gosford Park
• 5. “A guy works all day, he don't want to look at his plate and ask, ‘What the fuck is this?’ He wants to look at his plate, see a steak, and say ‘I like steak!’” Big Night(I think this was the hardest quote, I should have gone with something Louis Prima!)
• 6. “Today's forecast? Dark and cloudy, and chance of drive-by.” The Forty-Year-Old Virgin
• 7. "You shoot off a guy's head with his pants down, believe me, Texas ain't the place you want to get caught." Thelma and Louise
• 8. "In time you'll drop dead and I'll come to your funeral in a red dress!" Moonstruck
• 9. "You want more mysterious? I'll just try and think, "Where the hell's the whiskey?" Lost In Translation
• 10. "If anything happens to me, you tell every woman I've ever gone out with I was talking about her at the end. That way they'll have to reevaluate me." Broadcast News
• 11. "Not so funny meow, is it?" Supertroopers
• 12. "Don't you just want to feel that cozy little box grip down on your johnson?" Sideways(I couldn't not have a wine movie, right?
• 13. "Some hate the English. I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers." Trainspotting
• 14. "That's why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they'd call them something else." Sixteen Candles
• 15. "It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?" Blade Runner

Merry Christmas!

All Right Byrne, Here's Your Two Hours

Google is so much my friend that I had trouble not cheating on this "test." It was fun and interesting and doing it myself was HARD! and fun. So here you go:

Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
Post them here, without the titles, for everyone to guess.
NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search or other search functions.

Feel free to answer in the comments.

1. “You mean, you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword, and we'll try and kill each other like civilized people?”
• 2. “Mary hates me. I've never been popular with the ladies.”
  “Maybe if you stopped stealing their panties.”
• 3. “Oh my God, I'm getting pulled over. Everyone, just... pretend to be normal.”
• 4. “If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.”
• 5. “A guy works all day, he don't want to look at his plate and ask, ‘What the fuck is this?’ He wants to look at his plate, see a steak, and say ‘I like steak!’”
• 6. “Today's forecast? Dark and cloudy, and chance of drive-by.”
• 7. "You shoot off a guy's head with his pants down, believe me, Texas ain't the place you want to get caught."
• 8. "In time you'll drop dead and I'll come to your funeral in a red dress!"
• 9. "You want more mysterious? I'll just try and think, "Where the hell's the whiskey?"
• 10. "If anything happens to me, you tell every woman I've ever gone out with I was talking about her at the end. That way they'll have to reevaluate me."
• 11. "Not so funny meow, is it?"
• 12. "Don't you just want to feel that cozy little box grip down on your johnson?"
• 13. "Some hate the English. I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers."
• 14. "That's why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they'd call them something else."
• 15. "It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?"

You think you know a movie and then you go and look at the quotes and realize it has been some time since you last saw it. I think everyone should do this if you have ten minutes times fifteen movies to spare. I guess "they" don't call it an internet addiction for nothing.

New York Times Notable Books

100 Notable Books of the Year

I am currently sifting through these titles to see if there are some books I am interested in. Somehow in the digital age I have moved away from the amount of reading I used to do. Time to get back on that horse.