Matt Willmore

Here are the list of the AFI Top 100 movies and the Oscar Best Picture winners; ones I have watched since this began (or watched before and remember well) are crossed off.

AFI Top 100 Movies

1. CITIZEN KANE (1941)
2. CASABLANCA (1942)
3. GODFATHER, THE (1972)
4. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
5. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
6. WIZARD OF OZ, THE (1939)
7. GRADUATE, THE (1967)
8. ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
9. SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993)
10. SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952)
11. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
12. SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
13. BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, THE (1957)
14. SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
15. STAR WARS (1977)
16. ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
17. AFRICAN QUEEN, THE (1951)
18. PSYCHO (1960)
19. CHINATOWN (1974)
20. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST (1975)
21. GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (1940)
22. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
23. MALTESE FALCON, THE (1941)
24. RAGING BULL (1980)
25. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)
26. DR. STRANGELOVE (1964)
27. BONNIE & CLYDE (1967)
28. APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
29. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)
30. TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
31. ANNIE HALL (1977)
32. GODFATHER PART II, THE (1974)
33. HIGH NOON (1952)
34. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)
35. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)
36. MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)
37. BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE (1946)
38. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
39. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)
40. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
41. WEST SIDE STORY (1961)
42. REAR WINDOW (1954)
43. KING KONG (1933)
44. BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (1915)
45. STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, A (1951)
46. CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A (1971)
47. TAXI DRIVER (1976)
48. JAWS (1975)
49. SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937)
50. BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)
51. PHILADELPHIA STORY, THE(1940)
52. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)
53. AMADEUS (1984)
54. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)
55. SOUND OF MUSIC, THE (1965)
56. M*A*S*H (1970)
57. THIRD MAN, THE (1949)
58. FANTASIA (1940)
59. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955)
60. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
61. VERTIGO (1958)
62. TOOTSIE (1982)
63. STAGECOACH (1939)
64. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)
65. SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE (1991)
66. NETWORK (1976)
67. MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE (1962)
68. AMERICAN IN PARIS, AN (1951)
69. SHANE (1953)
70. FRENCH CONNECTION, THE (1971)
71. FORREST GUMP (1994)
72. BEN-HUR (1959)
73. WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)
74. GOLD RUSH, THE (1925)
75. DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990)
76. CITY LIGHTS (1931)
77. AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)
78. ROCKY (1976)
79. DEER HUNTER, THE (1978)
80. WILD BUNCH, THE (1969)
81. MODERN TIMES (1936)
82. GIANT (1956)
83. PLATOON (1986)
84. FARGO (1996)
85. DUCK SOUP (1933)
86. MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935)
87. FRANKENSTEIN (1931)
88. EASY RIDER (1969)
89. PATTON (1970)
90. JAZZ SINGER, THE (1927)
91. MY FAIR LADY (1964)
92. PLACE IN THE SUN, A(1951)
93. APARTMENT, THE (1960)
94. GOODFELLAS (1990)
95. PULP FICTION (1994)
96. SEARCHERS, THE (1956)
97. BRINGING UP BABY (1938)
98. UNFORGIVEN (1992)
99. GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER (1967)
100. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)

Oscar Best Picture Winners

• 2010 - “The King’s Speech”
• 2009 - “The Hurt Locker”
• 2008 - “Slumdog Millionaire”
• 2007 - “No Country for Old Men”
• 2006 - “The Departed”
• 2005 - “Crash”
• 2004 - “Million Dollar Baby”
• 2003 - “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”
• 2002 - “Chicago”
• 2001 - “A Beautiful Mind”
• 2000 - “Gladiator”
• 1999 - “American Beauty”
• 1998 - “Shakespeare in Love”
• 1997 - “Titanic”
• 1996 - “The English Patient”
• 1995 - “Braveheart”
• 1994 - “Forrest Gump”
• 1993 - “Schindler’s List”
• 1992 - “Unforgiven”
• 1991 - “The Silence of the Lambs”
• 1990 - “Dances With Wolves”
• 1989 - “Driving Miss Daisy”
• 1988 - “Rain Man”
• 1987 - “The Last Emperor”
• 1986 - “Platoon”
• 1985 - “Out of Africa”
• 1984 - “Amadeus”
• 1983 - “Terms of Endearment”
• 1982 - “Gandhi”
• 1981 - “Chariots of Fire”
• 1980 - “Ordinary People”
• 1979 - “Kramer vs. Kramer”
• 1978 - “The Deer Hunter”
• 1977 - “Annie Hall”
• 1976 - “Rocky”
• 1975 - “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
• 1974 - “The Godfather Part II”
• 1973 - “The Sting”
• 1972 - “The Godfather”
• 1971 - “The French Connection”
• 1970 - “Patton”
• 1969 - “Midnight Cowboy”
• 1968 - “Oliver!”
• 1967 - “In the Heat of the Night”
• 1966 - “A Man for All Seasons”
• 1965 - “The Sound of Music”
• 1964 - “My Fair Lady”
• 1963 - “Tom Jones”
• 1962 - “Lawrence of Arabia”
• 1961 - “West Side Story”
• 1960 - “The Apartment”
• 1959 - “Ben-Hur”
• 1958 - “Gigi”
• 1957 - “The Bridge on the River Kwai”
• 1956 - “Around the World in 80 Days”
• 1955 - “Marty”
• 1954 - “On the Waterfront”
• 1953 - “From Here to Eternity”
• 1952 - “The Greatest Show on Earth”
• 1951 - “An American in Paris”
• 1950 - “All About Eve”
• 1949 - “All the Kings Men”
• 1948 - “Hamlet”
• 1947 - “Gentleman’s Agreement”
• 1946 - “The Best Years of Our Lives”
• 1945 - “The Lost Weekend”
• 1944 - “Going My Way”
• 1943 - “Casablanca”
• 1942 - “Mrs. Miniver”
• 1941 - “How Green Was My Valley”
• 1940 - “Rebecca”
• 1939 - “Gone with the Wind”
• 1938 - “You Can’t Take It with You”
• 1937 - “The Life of Emile Zola”
• 1936 - “The Great Ziegfeld”
• 1935 - “Mutiny on the Bounty”
• 1934 - “It Happened One Night”
• 1932/1933 - “Cavalcade”
• 1931/1932 - “Grand Hotel”
• 1930/1931 - “Cimarron”
• 1929/1930 - “All Quiet on the Western Front”
• 1928/1929 - “The Broadway Melody”
• 1927/1928 - “Wings”

1. 1987 - Return to Horror High
2. 1987 - Grizzly II: The Predator
3. 1987 - Combat Academy
4. 1988 - Return of the Killer Tomatoes
5. 1990 - Red Surf
6. 1992 - Unbecoming Age
7. 1993 - The Harvest
8. 1996 - From Dusk till Dawn
9. 1996 - One Fine Day
10. 1996 - Curdled
11. 1997 - The Peacemaker
12. 1997 - Batman & Robin
13. 1998 - The Thin Red Line
14. 1998 - Out of Sight
15. 1998 - Waiting for Woody
16. 1999 - Three Kings
17. 1999 - The Book That Wrote Itself
18. 1999 - “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut”
19. 1999 - The Limey
20. 2000 - The Perfect Storm
21. 2000 - “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
22. 2001 - Ocean’s Eleven
23. 2001 - Spy Kids
24. 2002 - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
25. 2002 - Solaris
26. 2002 - Welcome to Collinwood
27. 2002 - Starbuck Holger Meins
28. 2003 - Intolerable Cruelty
29. 2003 - Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
30. 2004 - Ocean’s Twelve
31. 2005 - “Good Night, and Good Luck”
32. 2005 - Syriana
33. 2006 - The Good German
34. 2007 - Michael Clayton
35. 2007 - Darfur Now
36. 2007 - Ocean’s Thirteen
37. 2008 - Leatherheads
38. 2008 - Burn After Reading
39. 2009 - Fantastic Mr. Fox
40. 2009 - The Men Who Stare at Goats
41. 2009 - Up in the Air
42. 2010 - The American
43. 2011 - The Ides of March
44. 2011 - The Descendants
45. 2011 - The Muppets
46. 2012 - Gravity

I’ve been busy but some progress has been made on the list:

• #1: My colleagues and I changed our plans regarding this.  Originally we were going to get all five 10.6 tests and obtain our Apple Certified System Administrator (ACSA) cert.  Since 10.7 is now confirmed for release this summer, we’ve decided to only obtain the first two 10.6 certs (desktop and server) and then obtain all five (or however many there will be) 10.7 certs.  I updated the task to reflect that and got my 10.6 desktop certification (ACSP) on March 15th.  One down, six to go.
• #4: I ended up terminating my service with Media Temple as I wasn’t using it, and really only having it for hosting mandolux.com.  Mando has found another home now and everything now points to my Flavors.me page.  I’ve also let some domains lapse and am going to just redirect mattwillmore.com back to Flavors.me, possibly paying $20/year for the premium Flavors.me version which will allow me to still have the Flavors.me site resolve as “mattwillmore.com”.
• #15: Most of the junk is gone, organizational stuff has been procured and I just have to finish organizing and choose some lighting and wall decorations.
• #26 and #27: I’m not going to watch those that I have seen and remember well, but there’s still a lot to go.  I’ve knocked a couple out already.
• #38: The car will either be fixed or sold; we’ll know in a week or so.
• #40: I was frustrated because my electric razor couldn’t get a close shave no matter what I tried.  I realized it was poor blades; $30 later and it’s the best shave ever.  I also use a shave cream with my electric razor (no, it’s not recommended) and switched creams to Anthony Logistics’ Shave Cream.
• #44: I’m active enough on Reddit as BiscuitKnees, so this is completed.
• #60: Almost there.  I’ve learned Euchre, Hearts, Old Maid and Cribbage; Markita and I are still sitting down to learn Sequence and then we’re done with this one.

That’s it for now; more later.

This one’s pretty straightforward: read 36 books in roughly 3 years, or about 1 per month.  Here’s the ongoing progress:

1. Conspiracy of Fools by Kurt Eichenwald (in progress)
2. The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss (in progress)
3. The Long Tail by Chris Anderson
4. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Here are all applicable updates so far:

#20: Markita and I worked out today (1/16) and Thursday (1/13), so we’re good for this week.

#36: I picked George Clooney, as I’m a fan of what I’ve seen of his so far.  IMDB says that he has 42 film credits (excluding TV series appearances like his stint on ER but including movie voice roles and TV movies); I need to watch all of them again, and Markita and I watched Fantastic Mr. Fox Friday night, so that’s one down, 41 to go.

That’s all for now; more coming soon.

I’ve started my Day Zero Project, a list of 101 things that I intend to accomplish in 1,001 days.  Starting on January 1, 2011, the project will end Saturday, September 28, 2013.  I’ll update this as I complete items; italicized items are in progess.

The List

Professional/Technical

1. Get my Apple Certified Technical Coordinator certification for OS X 10.6 (2 tests) and Apple Certified Systems Administrator certification for 10.7 (5 tests)
2. Become proficient in Django (completion tied to #3)
3. Create and launch a commercial Web app
4. Consolidate and relaunch Web presence (completed August 2011)
5. Land a promotion at work
6. Get an award at work
7. Start a Mac users group in South Bend
8. Attend Macworld (completed January 2011)
9. Attend WWDC
10. Present at a technical conference
11. Write and publish an iOS app on the App Store
12. Learn HTML 5
13. Patent something
14. Commit source code to a repository
15. Redo my Notre Dame office to fit my needs

Health/Fitness

16. Drop my weight to 220 lbs.
17. Go a month without drinking soda
18. Find out if I have a deviated septum and if so, fix it
19. Straighten my teeth
20. Work out at least 2x a week for a year
21. Bike a century
22. Use Rogaine for a year

Food

23. Educate myself about liquor and make 20 unique drinks in a year
24. Educate myself about wine and try a new one each month
25. Learn to roll sushi

Music/TV/Film/Literature

26. Watch all of the AFI Top 100 Films
27. Watch all of the Oscar winners for Best Picture
28. Go a month without watching TV (completed September 16, 2011)
29. Listen to every Beatles song (20-some down, hundreds to go)
30. Listen to 20 albums by artists I’ve not heard before
31. Read 36 books
32. Listen to every song in my iTunes library
33. Pick an author and read their entire catalog
34. Curate my iTunes library
35. Learn all the words to a song
36. Pick an actor/actress and watch all of their movies (George Clooney; 7/46 completed, includes movies not yet released)

Personal Development

37. Create a wardrobe that I use 100% of
38. Get everything on the car fixed (sold June 2011, replaced with 2011 Jeep Compass)
39. Master the art of grilling
40. Master the art of shaving
41. Buy a house
42. Volunteer at a non-profit every month for a year
43. Donate blood
44. Join an online community and become a contributing member joined Reddit, link/comment karma approaching 300
45. Donate at least $100 to a a single charity
46. Start playing the cello again
47. Send thank you notes for all gifts and kind deeds for a year
48. Find 10 things not of mine that are broken and fix them
49. Visit 5 art museums in a year
50. Paint a room (completed March 5, 2011 - my wife & I painted our bedroom) 
51. Change somebody’s life
52. Go to driving school
53. Learn to drive stick
54. Learn more about the major religions enough to hold my own in a conversation
55. Educate myself about politics enough to hold my own in a conversation
56. Catch up with five old friends
57. Send out a family Christmas card
58. Clean my car inside and out every month
59. Plant a garden with six unique plants each season
60. Learn five card games including Euchre
61. Clean the garage and keep it straightened
62. Keep my home desk clear for a year

Marriage

63. Take my wife on an amazing honeymoon
64. Get Markita a car in South Bend (hers or not)
65. Take a week long trip every year with my wife
66. Be a better husband
67. Take 5 road trips with Markita in a year
68. Write Markita a love letter/poem/song

Just Because

69. Milk a cow
70. Create the perfect home theatre
71. Install a Mac mini in my car
72. Go to 10 county/state fairs in one summer (will have to postpone until summer 2012
73. Attend SXSW
74. Attend a Notre Dame football game
75. Buy a new watch every year
76. Buy an Apple device on launch day with cash
77. Build a home automation system
78. Drive a supercar (slated to complete this February 2012)
79. Create my own WordPress theme
80. Attend a live rock concert - completed 12/31/2010; Beach Boys concert @ Hard Rock Seminole
81. Send a care package
82. Eat a donut burger - completed September 17, 2011
83. Go parasailing
84. Catch a fish weighing at least 100 lbs.
85. Ride a motorcycle
86. Bake a pie from scratch
87. Join an of-the-month club
88. Make something electronic from Make magazine
89. Go geocaching
90. Go off the high dive
91. Appear on TV
92. Grow a Chia pet
93. Write a children’s book
94. Order every dish from a restaurant
95. Gamble in a casino - completed 12/31/2010 at Hard Rock Seminole
96. Send a message in a bottle - completed 12/30/10 somewhere in Gulf of Mexico between Florida and Cuba
97. Get my name in the newspaper

Financial

98. Eliminate all debt existing as of 1/1/11
99. Increase my annual income by $10,000
100. Pay my taxes by April 1st each year (missed by 15 days in 2011; will make up by paying by March 15th, 2012)
101. Learn enough about taxes to best position my family and not have to rely on others or software

Of all the great and amazing music I’ve ever heard in my lifetime, Maroon 5 is stuck in my head.

RT @cabel: My Windows 7 party is really going to be something special! (Apologies for this edit.) http://bit.ly/Ev3GD

Anyone recognize this artwork or the artist? Screencap is from a Geico commercial. http://tinyurl.com/nqm97x