Pretty much everybody who might be reading this knows this already, but I will be attending UCLA's Moving Image Archive Studies program come September. I wish I could say I've got everything worked out, but I have yet to hear from the housing lottery and need to line up some manner of work-study to help ease the shitpile of loan payments I'm gonna ( Read more... )

 As promised, here's my pre-Oscar rundown of opinions and predictions. I've seen quite a few (though I didn't manage to beat my 2008 record of most nominees viewed, and there's one in a very major category that I've yet to see), but that doesn't mean I know anything when it comes to these predictions. Hell, seeing the nominees probably mucks my ( Read more... )

So for some reason, this is the second year in a row I'll be posting my year-end lists on January 21st. Thing is, I've had most of these lists largely completed around the more timely time of January 1, but I kept feeling like I had more catching up to do. I still do, but I gotta post these at some point. It'll be just lists for now, but I may ( Read more... )

So some of you may have noticed that Keihl posted a list of his two favorite songs for every year since 1960. Let it be known that I DID IT FIRST. If you go a couple months back in my Twitter account, you can find me doing the same thing, except I did one song per year and I STARTED AT 1955. It got Keihl and I talking, and he suggested that I post ( Read more... )

Hey, you guys remember my Conesus house and how I used to have a 3rd of July party there every year? Well, the renters are out of the house now and I'm moving back in this weekend, so the party is on this year. Consider this an open invitation. I know at this point so many of the regulars live elsewhere, so it sorta bums me out to post this here ( Read more... )

If you recall last year, I was quite proud of my OscarQuest, where I managed to see all the widely-distributed feature nominees and packed all that experience into an Oscar entry. Well, I failed my OscarQuest this year, but I'm a creature of habit, so I will offer another set of predictions and opinions in anticipation of tonight's ceremony. ( Read more... )

I finally got around to posting another Examiner post, and no surprise, it's a Best of 2009 list, with 25 albums and 50 songs. I swear, someday I'll give you more details about my London trip. It may be a few months, though, and they'll be really unimpressive.

Here's the last part of the Best of the Decade project, with the ranked lists of Calle and I. Now that this project is over, I'm lost as to what I should listen to. Maybe I should start on playing catch-up for a Best of 2009 list?

Here's the conclusion of the main list.

Here's part four.