Still chipping away at the diversions

I’m also still chipping away at the broken links, and I found myself fixing a link on post shown below in some fancy intra-blog link style that you may never see again. No idea how that happened.

The post from 2010 is similar to the AFI best movies posts, in which I beat myself up for the dozens of classic movies I still haven’t seen, only this is just the best per the New York Times.

I Think This Still Puts Me In the 90th Percentile

In summary, I hadn’t seen five good movies …

1. Raging Bull
2. Midnight Cowboy
3. Rebel Without A Cause
4. Goodfellas 
5. Shampoo

… and five good TV shows …

1. Deadwood
2. Homicide: Life on the Street
3. The Shield
4. The Wire
5. Wiseguy

(First I’m horrifed I hadn’t seen Goodfellas. I have seen that movie at least four times since then.)

I still have not seen Rebel Without a Cause and Shampoo.

But I didn’t even try the TV shows, except for The Wire. I really enjoyed that.

I have a long weekend next month. Certainly, I could knock out those two movies. Of course, who knows what might happen if I see every movie on these lists? I might gasp out “It is finished” and perish.