I was a little too preoccupied with my anniversary to post about my wedding anniversary, so I'll make it up with this post, so that I can up my sappiness quotient. Two years ago today, I went on a picnic with my girlfriend at the time, and at one point nervously fished a jewelry box out of my pocket, got on one knee, and asked my girlfriend if she ( Read more... )

Haven't posted in awhile, so I thought I'd commit to digital ether my increasingly fevered thoughts:

1) Word Geek showed himself to be a highly-accomplished self-curser by hoping for an uneventful PA election.

2) Politics will always be the metaphysical fire extinguisher to da Craw's metaphysical balls.

3) Hidden away in an attic, there is a painting ( Read more... )

I think Obama and Clinton's anti-NAFTA rhetoric in very likely a big, blustery smoke screen. They aren't going to renegotiate it in any meaningful way. Apparently advisors have been telling our neighbors that the candidates aren't really threatening tarrifs. So why the rhetoric in the first place? Is the average US citizen really that protectionist ( Read more... )

Best Original Screenplay: I liked Juno, I'm glad it won screenplay. Kids these days don't talk like the movie because kids these days are dumb.

Best Actor: DDL. That man sure can yell.

Best Director: To think, all of this is because of Evil Dead.

Best Picture: Coen Bros are gonna need a bigger mantle.

 Best Score: OK, so Atonement won. Actually, the little typewriter sound in the score was cool, so I'll let it go.

Best Short Documentary: Way to jazz it up with folks in uniform. Again, a category of movies that I can't see. (OK, it'll be on Cinemax. Which I don't get).

Best Feature Documentary: Taxi to the Darkside was supposedly a shoe in. (My ( Read more... )

Best Song redux: Nice job, Jon.

Cinematographer: Shame I'll be seeing it on a TV.

Death Report: Sort of a letdown, no really terrible losses. Foreign directors got hit hard. Shame about Heath.

Foreign Language Film: I haven't been up on this category for years. Apparently this year had some travesties (4 months something or other was overlooked). But Austria comes in strong against French aggression ( Read more... )

80 Years of Best Picture: Ohsochewy taped it so she could drill for trivia contests.

Film Editing: Another Bourne win. Those are the two big winners tonight: Bourne and France.

Honorary: He did that many films with Hitchcock and only gets an Honorary? Damn.

Sound editing: That car chase in The Bourne Ultimatum sounded so real! Pretty funny that she cued the music.

Sound Mixing: OK, I disagree with the mixing for Bourne. Sure, as we said, car chase:Very real. But there was a swooshing noise as the guy's punch missed Bourne. That doesn't really happen.

Best Actress: Blanchet winced at her portrayal, that ( Read more... )

Oh, and yeah, I'm basically doing this to fill up your Friends Page. I know there's an absence of wit on every post, but I'm hoping to make it up on volume.

That Chenowith dame's gotta set of pipes!

Are there folks watching Raisin in the Sun? I can't quite accept Puff Daddy as a serious actor. Interesting to think, though, that if they modernized it ( Read more... )