How have i not seen Citizen Kane!?

I consider myself one hell of a movie buff. When i was young i spent countless hours in my Aunts basement, which had more VHS tapes the the average Blockbuster, selecting a movie and random, watching it, and then putting it back to watch another. I was the only ten year old who loved The Oscars more than Christmas, and never lost at six degrees of Kevin Bacon. It's only gotten worse from there. Now whenever i watch a movie i must first consult wikipedia and learn as much about it as possible. When the movie is finished i spend at least an hour on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) and read through all of the trivia for the film, its soundtrack, and investigate what other movies the principle actors have been in.

With all this in mind, I'm often amazed at all of the movies i haven't seen. Take for instance, Citizen Kane. I'm sure plenty of people have not seen this, especially since most movie goers cant stand the thought of sitting through anything black and white. But for someone like me this is a huge oversight. Or even better yet, The Graduate. Even my grandmother had seen it! (though she probably tried to watch it on a microwave oven).

Mo on the other hand, loves to cook. And not in the Susie Homemaker, meat and potato's kind of way. This woman cooks a new recipe for her family almost every night! her kids probably think corn dogs are exotic, and i know for a fact they eat vegetables that i can hardly pronounce. To me, making a popsicle means shoving a toothpick in some koolaid and praying to the sweet baby Jesus you can pry it out of the ice cube try when its frozen. To Mo it means making this. I shit you not. Imagine Martha Stewart with pin up girl tattoos and a slightly lower conviction rate, and you have a petty good picture of Marissa "Mo" Morden

And so it was Mo who struck upon our current endeavor. Watch all one hundred movies on The American Film Institutes must see list, and pair each one up with a sweet new recipe. We're using a random number generator to tell us which movie we are watching next, which will hopefully keep us from watching all the exciting movies first and then being stuck with nothing left but silent films from the 1930's. We've already agreed that wine will be a crucial ingredient for watching some of those. The Blog is really just a chance to share the experiance wit anyone who is interested, and share the amazing meals we are no doubt going to enjoy. I'm sure at some point i'm going to try my hand at the cooking, and i've already told Mo she is going to have to be brave and write a post from time to time. We're not quite sure how we're going to structure this thing yet, but i know we are both super excited to start.