Back!

Joshtarts is back. It's been too long, my friends.

And to kick things off, I am presenting my flickchart.com movie list after surpassing 10,000 ratings! I am quite proud of it. It is still not done (I doubt it will ever be done) and I saw Inception the day I finished it. Because I was still cleaning my brain off the floor, I didn't feel comfortable including it in my rankings just yet.

Without further adieu, my top 25 movie list: (click here for a full list)

1. Iron Man
2. The Princess Bride
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. Donnie Darko
5. Forrest Gump
6. Fight Club
7. It's a Wonderful Life
8. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark
11. Being John Malkovich
12. Back to the Future
13. Return of the Jedi
14. Aliens
15. Home Alone
16. A Beautiful Mind
17. Taken
18. The Sound of Music
19. The Bourne Identity
20. Shaun of the Dead
21. Apollo 13
22. First Blood
23. Casino Royale
24. Office Space
25. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Visit flickchart.com to do your own movie rankings and visit me (meathook) when you're there.

April Fool's Day

Prank Ideas from Neatorama

Geeky Prank Ideas from MAKE:

Another one from MAKE:

Top 10 Pranks from Jim Halpert

Top 100 Pranks of All-Time

Google's Virgle Mars Prank

100 Things We Didn't Know Last Year

Ok this is pretty interesting. A lot of the things in this list are pointless and irrelevant to anything, but the list does makes some interesting points.

100 Things We Didn't Know Last Year

13. Tony Blair does not keep a personal diary.

39. The secret to happiness is accepting misery.

64. King Tut had buck teeth.

70. IP addresses will run out in 2010.

90. Chickens can be diagnosed with depression.

Roger Ebert's Best Movies of 2007

The year's ten best films and other shenanigans


Go Juno and Across the Universe!

Reuter Pictures of the Year 2007 (My favorites)

Tears run from the eyes of U.S. President George W. Bush during a ceremony in honor of Medal of Honor recipient Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham in the East room of the White House in Washington, January 11, 2007. Cpl. Dunham was killed when he jumped on a grenade to save fellow members of his Marine patrol while serving in Iraq.

A bicycle burns on an unattended property near Del Dios Highway in the Rancho Santa Fe area of San Diego, California October 23, 2007.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton listens to his wife, U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, speak at a campaign fund-raiser in Washington March 20, 2007.

A person burns in a minibus shortly after a bomb attack in Baghdad, January 21, 2007.

Arsenal's Thierry Henry controls the ball as David Bentley of Blackburn Rovers looks on during their FA Cup fifth round soccer match at the Emirates Stadium in London February 17, 2007.

Senator Barack Obama stands in front of Senator Hillary Clinton as they arrive for U.S. President George W. Bush's annual State of the Union speech to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington January 23, 2007.

Members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team appear at a news conference at the University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, April 10, 2007. The team and school officials held the news conference after U.S. radio personality Don Imus made racial slurs about the team on his radio and television show.

Words painted onto the wall of a house are illuminated by car lights on a deserted street in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana, August 18, 2007.

Victoria Beckham throws out the first ball before an MLB game between the New York Mets and the Los Angeles Dodgers in Los Angeles, California, June 11, 2007.

Bolivian President Evo Morales controls the ball at the 19,500 feet (6,000 meters) high snow-covered Sajama peak, the highest in Bolivia, during a match with soccer fans to protest FIFA's ban on international soccer matches at venues over 2,500 meters above sea level, June 12, 2007. FIFA says matches in oxygen-thin conditions are a health hazard and distort fair play. The ban means Bolivia,Peru, Ecuador and Colombia would not be able to host international football matches, including World Cup qualifiers, in some of their largest cities. Morales is leading efforts to have the ban overturned, saying it is "nonsensical" and "discriminatory".

Bosnian Muslims cry beside a coffin of their relative prepared for a funeral near Srebrenica July 10, 2007.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin fishes in the Yenisei River in Siberia as he makes a tour together with Prince Albert II of Monaco, August 13, 2007.

Boston Red Sox pitcher Jonathan Papelbon celebrates winning the World Series against the Colorado Rockies in Game 4 of Major League Baseball's World Series in Denver October 28, 2007.

A student cries as she looks at Norris Hall at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, April 17, 2007. Norris Hall was the scene of 30 of the 32 killings on the campus. Virginia Tech senior Cho Seung-Hui opened fire on students and staff in an apparently premeditated massacre, leaving the sprawling rural campus reeling with grief and shock.

The Best of 911 Calls

Danna showed me this video clip of strange 911 calls and I thought it was hilarious. It's kind of scary knowing there are people like this living amongst us. (It's also very sad that people are this dumb and ignorant.)

The Best of 911 Calls

Best and Worst of 2007 Movies / Movies in 2008

I came across this extensive list of all the upcoming movies for 2008, and it looks like it's going to be a better year in movies than 2007.

But as I made the list of movies that came out this year, I second-guessed that statement. There were some personal instant classics this year. I guess I'll have to wait and see if this next year can out-do movies like 300, Juno, Hot Fuzz and Grindhouse.

Movies I Liked This Year: (Ranked in order of how much I liked it)
1) Juno


2) 300


3) Knocked Up


4) Grindhouse


5) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix


6) Blades of Glory


7) The Number 23


8) Hot Fuzz


9) I Am Legend


10) The Bourne Ultimatum


BONUS: Across the Universe (A Must-See), Black Sheep, Transformers



(Ones I haven't seen, but know I'll like:) ( No order)
1) No Country For Old Men


2) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street- I saw it finally and liked it. I will probably never see it again because it was too-musical-y for me. But I did like it.


3) Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

4) The Golden Compass
5) Enchanted
6) Southland Tales
7) Lions for Lambs
8) The Kingdom- The hype was overrated. I liked it, but the big hype for it caused a slight disappointment for me when I saw it.
9) Hot Rod
10) Sicko


11) Fido
12) Once


Movies I Thought that were Ok: (Ranked in order of how much I liked them)
1) Ocean's Thirteen
2) Live Free Die Hard (Action-packed)
3) Hairspray (It's only ranked here b/c I would feel like less of a man if it was ranked with the
movies I liked)


4) License to Wed ( I secretly liked this one too)
5) The Simpson's Movie (Just a long Simpson's episode, but still very funny)


6) 1408 (Weird)
7) 30 Days of Night


8) National Treasure: Book of Secrets
9) I Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
10) Superbad (Raunchy)


Ones That I Disliked: (Ranked in order of stinkiness)
1) Spiderman 3
2) Ghost Rider
3) Alpha Dog
4) Norbit
5) Shrek 3
6) Shooter
7) Rush Hour 3
8) Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
9) Hostel and Saw Sequels (all of them)
10) Because I Said So

Movies I'm excited to see this New Year: (Ranked in order of anticipation)
1) Be Kind Rewind


2) Burn After Reading
3) The Box
4) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

5) Semi-Pro


6) Wall-E


7) Valkyrie
8) The Happening
9) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
10) The Fighter
11) The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
12) 21


13) The Incredible Hulk
14) Where the Wild Things Are


15) Hellboy 2: The Golden Army

Why 2008 Will Be An Awesome Year For Movies