I just finished the STAND by Stephen King and it’s caused me to let the mind wander on all the books, movies etc that I really SHOULD have seen or read by now.

I mean, it wasn’t until about a year ago that I saw Sound of Music ( I know *gasp*), and only a few years before that that had I seen classics such as Casablanca, It Happened One Night, or Godfather 1 & 2.

When I first moved here I worked a couple of jobs, one of them being an employee of the now gasping for breath Blockbuster. There was a gent in cooperative employ named the BADGER. Named so because of his constant nagging to fellow cohorts and victims…err shoppers about what they SHOULD be watching. The Badger honestly knew everything about movies, and from a person that has seen A LOT, I mean EVERYTHING.
He said to me one day “I’m jealous actually.”

“Of me not seeing these movies you go on about?” I replied

“No, that you get to watch them for the first time!”

He had a glint in his eye, and a maniacal smile that caused me to watch Casablanca that very night and come back to him with that same grin of understanding that comes with watching, or reading something beyond the norm.

So with that. Here is a list of things that I have not read or seen that really, I should have by now.

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I Remember when I first cracked open the “Crystal Shard”.

After reading the Dragonlance Chronicles, Legends and subsequently being engrossed with all things Dungeons and Dragons during my formative years, I had remembered the cover from a D&D calendar that once hung on my wall. (continue reading…)