Cinematic Features for the Holidays

As everyone is still in the Christmas mood (Hello boxing day sales for belated gifts :D), why not indulge in some festive cheer ? My pick of movies to watch:

Love Actually
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
Home Alone 1, 2 & 3
Edward Scissorhands
Black Christmas (1974)
Gremlins

Honourable mention:
Die Hard
Jack Frost ('98 &'96)

Yehhhh !

He's in Fall Out Boy, you better call him !

A belated Merry Christmas to all, and to all a thoroughly exciting playlist of Christmas songs to help you reminisce of the great food you ate/prepare you for the coming birthday of Jesus '10 :

Wake up and open presents!
The Matches - December is for Cynics
A Change Of Pace - Christmas on the Coast
Danger Radio - Baby, It's Cold Outside
The Downtown Fiction - Forgot It Was Christmas
Secret Secret Dino Club -Cool Guy Doing Christmas Stuff
Secret Secret Dino Club - Woah Christmas Tree

Christmas lunch with the classics
The Aquabats - Holiday Road Car
Jimmy Eat World - Last Christmas
The Hoodies - All I Want For Christmas Is You
The Almost - Little Drummer Boy
Sugarcult - Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Happy Christmas (War is Over) covered by Damien Rice, Street Drum Corps or Thrice (All good covers)

The aftermath aka the wind-down period.
Emery - The Last Christmas
Bright Eyes - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Death Cab for Cutie - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Brand New - Oh Holy Night

And chuck a little bit of From First To Last - Christmassacre in there to liven up any (let's-trash-this-place type) party.

Featuring some of your favourite words

There are several reasons why I spend so much time at the video store. Well actually, no, there's only really two:
1. I really dislike watching movies on my laptop, and
2. I do not have the financial income to support my film addiction in the form of personally owned DVDs.

"Duh, yes. How can you hate laptop movie-watching ?"
Once again, several reasons:
a. The screen is too small; I can't absorb the details
b. The sound is inadequate, but that could possibly be put down to the fact that my laptop speakers are crappy and I broke my stereo connection wire (Boo.)
c. I get highly distracted by the infinte amount of things to do on the internet, and therefore miss sections of the movie, often important ones (Most of the time from lurking FB/IM-ing various people)
d. (I can't remember d)
However, my intense dislike can be put aside when, after 3 years of being released, a movie has still failed to be brought to Australian shores (Damn this isolation !) Cue scene of Charlton Heston on a beach. The Hamiltons & The Deaths of Ian Stone shall soon be mine, Bwahahaha.

On a lighter (less creepy, maniacal) note though, I can now cross new epilator, pretty sandals and ps3 off my current wishlist. More last minute christmas shopping at Chaddy with Cattie & Amy (and possibly more) so, should be good.

Ultimate attempting to get to sleep song: Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy
"Who's that casting devious stares in my direction ?"