mithridatism » Site Update http://www.mithridatism.com the production of immunity against a poison by taking the poison in gradually increased doses Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:12:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Top Project http://www.mithridatism.com/2010/03/27/the-top-project/ http://www.mithridatism.com/2010/03/27/the-top-project/#comments Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:09:02 +0000 kyle http://www.mithridatism.com/?p=16 Being a fanatic of lists, especially rated lists, and a fanatic of books and films, I decided to devote some spare time to combining the fanaticisms. The Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels of the English language in the 20th century is an excellent list and I decided to task myself with reading or rereading them all. They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? published a truly astounding list of the 1,000 greatest films, based on a staggering compilation of thousands of lists from critics, historians, and film experts. I decided to saddle myself with watching all 1,000. Obviously these projects will take a long damn time to complete, especially the films list. I wanted to chronicle my experience here. This page will feature updates as I crawl toward the finish lines of these lists. Please check to see if I have died from exhaustion along the way.

Note: the lists will be maintained on The Top Project page.

Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century

I will rank the books as I read them and leave links to reviews in this space. A couple of the books I read slightly before deciding to tackle the list, so they are fresh enough to avoid the reread. I decided to start with all the books I read in high school, since nearly all of them I loved even through the fog of memory. See the Modern Library’s list for reference.

PROGRESS: 7/100

Mith Rankings

1. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
2. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
4. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
6. As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
7. The Sheltering Sky – Paul Bowles

TSPDT’s The 1,000 Great Films

Not sure how many years this project will entail or if I will ever get anywhere near completion, but it’s worth a shot, eh? I’ll try to compile rankings here until the list becomes too unwieldy. No rhyme or reason for the watching order. Unless I truly do not remember a film because I watched it when I was 10, I won’t review what I’ve already seen.

PROGRESS: ??/100

Mith Rankings

Coming soon!

]]> http://www.mithridatism.com/2010/03/27/the-top-project/feed/ 1 Gensis/Mission Statement http://www.mithridatism.com/2010/03/23/gensismission-statement/ http://www.mithridatism.com/2010/03/23/gensismission-statement/#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:12:53 +0000 kyle http://www.mithridatism.com/?p=4 Salutations, browser. In early 2000, a great man named Seth Hall asked me if I wanted to write for a website he started, called remor. Gladly I started chronicling events and items of interest. Looking back, I guess I have to begrudgingly accept the fact that remor was a weblog (the shortening of that word sends shivers through my body). We were talking about what we found interesting long before the craze caught fire and we didn’t like the label, but there’s no getting around the classification these days. Anyway, remor was a great vehicle for the history of a specific time and community. For a good six years we plugged along. What happened? Not sure, but we eventually went offline.

This site is my attempt to begin again in the same fashion. Although I do not have access to the remor database, I will attempt to port as many of the old articles to mithridatism.com as I can. It’s a laborious project to go through each of the articles in archived form, but it’s also very interesting to read each piece and look at the comments. Not all comments can be recreated here, as the archive site I use doesn’t have them all. I will repost as many as I can.

This space will be used to keep a record of things I think are interesting, as well as whatever is going on in my life at the moment. I would love to be able to turn that “I” into a “we.” If you have any interest in writing for a site like this one, please feel free to email me and we can set up an authoring account for you.

Hope you enjoy what you read.

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