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The 12 Movies Meme
The 12 Movies Meme
RC at Strange Culture wrote a post recently about Diablo Cody getting to choose 12 films to be featured at the New Beverly Cinema. Reading this news made me think a couple of things. My first thought was "jeez, they're letting anybody choose movies at New Beverly Cinema these days." And second was "this is a really good idea for a meme." RC gave me permission to run with the idea and so ...
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The Twelve Movie Meme
my new plaid pants — ... I got tagged! I love being tagged. I was reading this post at Piper's Lazy Eye Theater this afternoon and I was thinking, "Ooh, I hope I got tagged for this, it sounds fun! I'm totally gonna do it even if I don't get tagged. If Piper didn't tag me... I'll hate him. That bastard, considering not tagging me. Humph. I'll show him. An envelope stuffed with a mysterious white powder (and not the fun kind!) is totally on its way!" But then he did tag me, and I chased down the mailman and set him on fire before he could take my envelope away, and all was right with the ...

The 12 Movies Meme
Blog Cabins: Movie Reviews and Commentary Made Fun — ... Anyway, this one, as you might have figured from the title, is called The 12 Movies Meme. The idea, from the clown's mouth himself, was pulled from a ...

Once, twice, twelve times a New Beverly
DVD Panache — ... , and his new one just hatched . Of course, now it's gonna multiply like tribbles with a premise like this: 1) Choose 12 Films to be featured. They could be random selections or part of a greater theme. Whatever you want. 2) Explain why you chose the films. 3) Link back to Lazy Eye Theatre so I can have hundreds of links and I can take those links and spread them all out on the bed and then roll around in them. 4) The people selected then have to turn around and select 5 more people. My double bill picks are all related somehow, and I've provided links to past posts of mine ...

12 FILMS MEME
D.C.GIRL@THEMOVIES — ... in a meme started by Piper over at Lazy Eye Theatre. This was inspired by The Beverly Cinema's recent move to allow Diablo Cody to select 12 movies to run there. ...

12 Movies Meme
Boy on Film — I just saw this on Low Resolution, so I had to steal it. It's the 12 Movies meme from Lazy Eye Theatre, and the rules are: 1) Choose 12 Films to be featured. They could be random selections or part of a greater theme. Whatever you want. 2) Explain why you chose the films. 3) Link back to Lazy Eye Theatre so I can have hundreds of links and I can take those links and spread them all out on the bed and then roll around in them. 4) The people selected then have to turn around and select 5 more people. So, without further ado. ...

I’ve been tagged by The 12 Movies Meme.
Burbanked — Leave it to my blog-pal Piper to roust me out of the too-much-working, non-blogging malaise I’ve been experiencing lately by tagging me with one of his ever-loving movie memes. What a rascal! In Lazy Eye Theatre’s ...

12 Movie Meme
Fataculture — ... like Ms. Diablo Cody, what would you pick? Naturally, there are so many that narrowing down the options is almost impossible. Apparently its not. I also went a little overboard, but I was a little overs when I typed this, got over that, and then was just bored and finished it off when I woke up. The rules are simple: Choose 12 Films to be featured. They could be random selections or part of a greater theme. Whatever you want. 2) Explain why you chose the films. 3) Link back to Lazy Eye Theatre so Piper can have hundreds of links and she can take those links and spread them ...

The Front Row Film Festival
From the Front Row — I had been contemplating some kind of From the Front Row film festival blog series thing, when along came Piper from Lazy Eye Theatre with the 12 Movies Mem . I'm not usually a fan of blog-a-thons and things of that nature. But since I was already on the same wavelength, I thought what the hell. Here are the rules: 1) Choose 12 Films to be featured. They could be rand om selections or part of a greater theme. Whatever you want. 2) Explain why you chose the film s. 3) Link back to ...

The 12 Movies Meme
He Shot Cyrus — ... is hosting the 12 MOVIES MEME. I had the honor of being selected in the first group of writers. Here's the mission: Diablo Cody got to program 12 movies at the New Beverly Cinema. If she can do it, we can do it. ...

12 Movies Meme
Big Mike's Movie Blog — ... , which originated from Piper at Lazy Eye Theatre. The game is simple. Pick twelve films that break into six double features and explain away. Then tag five more people. So, here are mine, in no particular order, but in the order to be played. Here are the movies of my life. ...

12 Movies Meme
1416 and Counting — ... Soooo, my dearests, Piper over at Lazy Eye Theatre (I seem to be mentioning Piper quite a bit lately, no?) tagged me for the 12 Movies Meme, where the rules are as follows: ...

The Shoddily-Conceived Film Festival
Coosa Creek Cinema — All, right, copper — uh, Fox — you got me. You tagged me with Piper’s Fake Film Festival meme. Here are the rules: 1) Choose 12 Films to be featured. They could be random selections or part of a greater theme. Whatever you want. 2) Explain why you chose the films. 3) Link back to Lazy Eye Theatre so I can have hundreds of links so I (Piper) can take those links and spread them all out on the bed and then roll around in them. 4) The people selected then have to turn around and select 5 more people. So without further ado, ...

12 Movies in 3 Days…
Cinexcellence — …if I had to make you watch them. The craziness started with Piper and has worked it’s way down to me via Nick . Here be the rules (more like guidelines than actual rules): 1) Choose 12 Films to be featured. They could be random selections or part of a greater theme. Whatever you want. 2) Explain why you chose the films. 3) Link back to Lazy Eye Theatre so I can have hundreds of links and I can take those links and spread them all out on the bed and then roll around in them. 4) The people selected then have to turn around and select 5 more people. So far, from what ...

Around the World in 12 Movies
Getafilm — Unbeknownst to me while I was gone last weekend, I got nailed twice for a 12 Movie Meme making its way around the interwebs, originating from Piper at Lazy Eye Theatre. I don't even know what a meme is, but Scott at ...

The Moviezzz Blog Film Festival
The Moviezzz Blog — ... Recently, Diablo Cody programmed her own film festival at the New Beverly Theatre in Los Angeles. Piper at the Lazy Eye Theatre came up with the idea to turn this into a Meme. Piper tagged ...

July's Been a Busy Month
He Shot Cyrus — ... First off, the following blogs need a huge shout-out. CultureSnob.com, Big Mike's Movie Blog, My Stuff and Cr*p, and Lazy Eye Theatre hosted blog-a-thons and movie memes I participated in. (All About Me, Batman, Rugrats, 12 Movie Meme, respectively) Blog-a-thons are lots of work, so my hat's off to these guys. Second, a huge thanks to the blogs that featured us this month. DVD Panache featured me in their Friday Screen Test series. Film Experience ...

12 Movies Meme: The Great Debate
MovieZeal — ... Piper over at the Lazy Eye Theatre has had a little “meme” going for about a week now, and Evan and I at MZ have been tagged no less than three times, so we thought we’d better do it. ...

My Film Festival
Club Parnassus — ... So not too long ago, screenwriter Diablo Cody got the opportunity to program a film festival at L.A.’s New Beverly Theater, and this gave Piper at Lazy Eye Theater the idea for a meme. Pick 12 movies to run at the New Beverly (or really, any movie theater), grouped up as double features, and explain your choices, making sure to link back to ...

If This Distracted Globe took over the New Beverly Cinema
This Distracted Globe — ... In a first here at This Distracted Globe, I’m taking a break from my usual writing regimen to participate in The 12 Movies Meme, which Pat Piper at ...

The 12 Movies Meme
Movies et al. — So now I've been tagged 3 times for Piper's 12 Movies Meme. The premise is: comically overrated screenwriter Diablo Cody has been asked to chose 12 movies to be shown at the New Beverly Cinema. If she can do it, why can't we? Thanks to Piper for this great idea, and to the lovely people at ...

Double Bills to Double Your Fun!
The Listening Ear — ... - a meme, red in tooth and claw, circling the internet in the usual manner... And Sight and Sound, probably not inspired by Diablo or Piper, though who can say, offers up their own set of ...

By One Woman's Request: The 12 Movie Meme
Termite Art — ... One P.L. Kerpius charged us here at Termite Art with creating a 12 Movie Meme in the style of the one first posted here, wherein I imagine I'm programming a twelve part movie series at the ...

Produced and Abandoned: 12 Must Sees
itsamadmadblog2 — I've been tagged by Adam at DVD Panache with another incarnation of the 12 movie meme. What originally started as this at Piper's Lazy Eye Theatre blog has completely morphed into something different courtesy of The Dancing Image.... and it's a doozy. So, what are 12 films that I've never seen, desperately want to see, and virtually impossible to find. I had bits and pieces of movies lying around over the years, but combining them (and remembering them) was a whole different animal. I'm sure this list will change if I re-write it tomorrow, but ...

Wish List Meme
The Listening Ear — ... . A variation on the 12 films meme Piper sent into the world - 12 films (1) you haven't seen - and (2) aren't available on Netflix. As usual, it's taking me forever to get this thing written - but here it is! and in time for my first item still to be true! ...

How the Heart Approaches What it Yearns
Cinema Styles — ... for another 12-movies meme and politely declined having just finished up a 12 movies meme for another inimitable blogger, Mr. Pat Piper. Then I was tagged for the same meme again by the ... hmmm, what's a good adjective I can use here... oh, I got it! - inimitable Dennis Cozzalio of ...

I've Been Meme-ing To Do This...
Eternal Sunshine Of The Logical Mind — ... came up with this latest version (apparently inspired by a post at Lazy Eye Theatre - seriously Piper, ya gotta be more careful with throwing out ideas like that...it's downright dangerous!) which asks for your top 12 movies that you want to see, nay MUST see, but cannot due to their unavailability (defined here to mean not available on either NetFlix or Canada's own zip.ca). Unfortunately, I don't keep really solid notes within my list of films I want to see. The list of 1500 or so is completely without context, descriptions or any information whatsoever about whether the ...

12 Movies Meme
Tapeworthy — ... 3) Link back to Lazy Eye Theatre so I can have hundreds of links and I can take those links and spread them all out on the bed and then roll around in them. ...

The 2009 LAMMY Nominations
The Large Association of Movie Blogs — ... with that Blog Eugene He Shot Cyrus Reel Whore She Blogged By Night Spaghetti Sauce and Sweet Peas Stop the Planet of the Apes…I Want to Get Off Best Blog-a-thon/Meme Blog Cabins - The Alphabet Meme The Dancing Image - The Holy Grail Meme Film for the Soul - Counting Down the Zeroes Filmicability - 20 Favorite Actors Meme Lazy Eye Theatre - Bizarro Days Lazy Eye Theatre - The 12 Movies Meme Only the Cinema - Early Howard Hawks Blog-a-thon Best ...