Currently (2020): Does anyone else have a thing for lamps? I love unique lamps and especially vintage lamps. Whenever I watch a TV show or movie, not only am I paying attention to the characters; I am also paying close attention to the décor including the lamps.

Just because it’s unique doesn’t mean I will like it though. I have seen some downright ugly lamps that are begging to be put in a yard sale.

The lamp below belonged to my grandfather. It was in our attic the entire time I was growing up because the cord was bad. When we bought our house from my dad, he left it in the attic. I asked Kevin if he could rewire it. I should have known that he would be able to get the job done. In 2013, the lamp was given new life.

You can watch Kevin rewire it in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=094QACE84BM

This is a close-up of the picture in the center:

The next two lamps were bought at local antique shops. They were inexpensive and all we had to do was choose new shades and finials for the top. What amazes me to this day is that the white lamp on the left has the exact same picture as the one above that came from our attic.

Here is a close-up of the picture on the red lamp:

The next one looks plainer in the picture than it is in reality. It wasn’t expensive and it wasn’t antique, but it does go with the room. We found it at Garden Ridge of all places. The store is now called At Home, but it will always be Garden Ridge to me. They have an excellent selection of lamps, shades and finials. This is where we found the shades for the antique lamps above. Anyway, this lamp has a light purple hue to it which doesn’t come across in the picture, but is very pretty in person.

The last lamp is one that we refer to as “the monkey lamp”.

It isn’t an antique lamp, but it was a tad expensive. We bought it almost twenty years ago at Kirkland’s. I am so glad that I bought it because, in my opinion, it fits in perfectly with this house and it’s very unique.

I am curious, does anyone else love lamps or have a special one that you would describe to me?

From The Past: April 15, 2004

Premiere Magazine has come out with their list of the 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time. The ones with the asterisk are the ones that I have actually seen.

1. Vito Corleone of The Godfather*
2. Fred C. Dobbs of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
3. Scarlett O’Hara of Gone with the Wind*
4. Norman Bates of Psycho*
5. James Bond of Dr. No*
6. Annie Hall of Annie Hall
7. Indiana Jones of Raiders of the Lost Ark*
8. Ellen Ripley of Alien*
9. Jeff Spicoli of Fast Times at Ridgemont High*
10. Gollum of Lord of the Rings*
11. Margo Channing of All About Eve*
12. Charles Foster Kane of Citizen Kane
13. Atticus Finch of To Kill a Mockingbird*
14. Randle McMurphy of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest*
15. Hannibal Lecter of The Silence of the Lambs*
16. Robin Hood of The Adventures of Robin Hood
17. Dorothy Gale of The Wizard of Oz*
18. Carl Spackler of Caddyshack*
19. Rick Blaine of Casablanca*
20. Virgil Tibbs of In the Heat of the Night
21. Susan Vance of Bringing up Baby
22. Travis Bickle of Taxi Driver
23. Eathan Edwards of The Searchers
24. The Little Tramp of Mabel’s Strange Predicament
25. Gordon Gekko of Wall Street*
26. E.T. of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*
27. Marge Gunderson of Fargo*
28. Captain Quint of Jaws*
29. Daphne/Jerry of Some Like it Hot*
30. King Kong of King Kong
31. Norma Desmond of Sunset Boulevard
32. Holly Golightly of Breakfast at Tiffany’s*
33. Ratso Rizzo of Midnight Cowboy
34. Bonnie Parker of Bonnie and Clyde
35. Dr. Evil of Austin Powers*
36. Alex Forrest of Fatal Attraction*
37. Jake Gittes of Chinatown
38. Willy Wonka of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory*
39. Michael Dorsey/Dorthy Michaels of Tootsie*
40. The Terminator of The Terminator*
41. Jane Craig of Broadcast News
42. “Dirty” Harry Callahan of Dirty Harry
43. Forrest Gump of Forrest Gump*
44. Jules Winnfield of Pulp Fiction*
45. Mary Poppins of Mary Poppins*
46. John McClane of Die Hard*
47. Mrs. Robinson of The Graduate*
48. John “Bluto” Blutarsky of Animal House
49. Chance the Gardener of Being There*
50. Blondie of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly*
51. Freddy Krueger of A Nightmare on Elm Street*
52. Howard Beale of Network
53. Ninotchka of Ninotchka
54. Frank Booth of Blue Velvet
55. The Dude of The Big Lebowski
56. Alan Swann of My Favorite Year
57. Tom Powers of The Public Enemy
58. Phyliss Dietrichson of Double Indemnity
59. Lt. Kilgore of Apocalypse Now*
60. George Bailey of It’s a Wonderful Life*
61. J.J. Hunsecker of Sweet Smell of Success
62. John Shaft of Shaft
63. Carrie White of Carrie*
64. Rocky Balboa of Rocky*
65. Edward Scissorhands of Edward Scissorhands*
66. Navin Johnson of The Jerk*
67. Inspector Clouseau of The Pink Panther
68. Alex DeLarge of A Clockwork Orange
69. Terry Malloy of On the Waterfront
70. Judy Benjamin of Private Benjamin*
71. Rev. Harry Powell of The Night of the Hunter
72. Lloyd Dobler of Say Anything*
73. Norma Rae of Norma Rae*
74. Tony Montana of Scarface*
75. Dr. Strangelove of Dr. Strangelove
76. Tony Manero of Saturday Night Fever*
77. Annie Wilkes of Misery*
78. “Mad” Max Rockatansky of Mad Max*
79. Hans Beckert of M
80. Sam Spade of The Maltese Falcon
81. Aurora Greenway of Terms of Endearment*
82. Jack Torrance of The Shining*
83. William Cutting of Gangs of New York
84. Darth Vader of Star Wars*
85. Stanley Kowalski of A Streetcar Named Desire*
86. Melanie Daniels of The Birds*
87. Captain Jack Sparrow of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl*
88. Raymond Babbitt of Rain Man*
89. Sandy Olsson of Grease*
90. John Malkovich of Being John Malkovich
91. Mrs. Iselin of The Manchurian Candidate*
92. Dil of The Crying Game
93. Harry Lime of The Third Man
94. Rose Sayer of The African Queen*
95. Oda Mae Brown of Ghost*
96. Tommy DeVito of GoodFellas*
97. Ace Ventura of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective*
98. Antoine Doinel of The 400 Blows
99. Kevin McCallister of Home Alone*
100. Roger “Verbal” Kint of The Usual Suspects