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Counting Down The Hours — Approaching 700 posts, I have looked back on my blog and marveled at the peculiar, downright strange way things have worked out since its inception in April of 2005. Counting Down the Hours started as a daily journal, where I would bore what few readers I had with meaningless information. I would constantly talk about my classes, something few college students seem eager to do, so maybe that was interesting to my parents, but other than that I don't think anyone cared about the special guest speaker in my 11 o'clock class. ...

Top 10 Uses of Pop Songs in Movies
Scene-Stealers — This week’s user-submitted Top 10 comes from a guy I know very well. Cameron Hawk, from Lawrence, KS, is a singer/guitarist in  The Dead Girls. It’s only appropriate then that he rings in on the ongoing debate in our Top 10s about music in movies. If you have a Top 10 idea you’d like to submit, email me at info@scene-stealers.com. I know the sitegoers here are movie-obsessed freaks because I’ve seen the comments we get on these Top 10s and we’ve had lots of great user-submitted Top 10s recently. Now it’s your turn to weigh in. If you have ...

Movies We Love: Almost Famous
Film School Rejects — Almost Famous (2000) “I am a Golden GOD!” Synopsis William Miller (Patrick Fugit) is on the verge of being a 15 year-old high school graduate when he gets the break of a lifetime. Rolling Stone Magazine sends him on tour with Stillwater, a rock band on the rise. While on tour he gets to know the band members, including lead singer Jeff Bebe (Jason Lee) and incendiary guitar hero Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup), as well as one of the famous band-aids, Penny Lane (Kate Hudson). All this, while getting advice from rock critic Lester Bangs (Philip Seymour Hoffman) ...