Zawmer
Your wise friend that you wish would post more stuff.
Oh, you poor thing
You know that cliche from action movies…
…where bad things are going down, but the cute little animal makes it out in the nick of time? The War Horse is an entire movie of that cliche.
As sappy as it is, I really quite liked the movie in general. It’s kind of stunning to look at.
So now that I’ve seen all nine Best Picture nominees, here’s how I’d rank them:
- Hugo
- The Artist
- Midnight In Paris
- War Horse
- Moneyball
- The Help
- The Tree Of Life
- Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
- The Descendants
I’ll post my actual top ten of the year pretty soon; I still have a teeny bit more catching up to do.
The greatest feeling in the world…
…is having a trip planned!
Today I made it official that I’m taking a brief trip to NYC in September for the purposes of seeing a single Broadway show, for which I have paid $360.
Yes, that’s just the price of the ticket. Just my ticket to the show. Our four tickets combined were $1442.50.
Yes I’m serious, and yes I still expect you to interpret this posting as a sincere expression of giddiness at having a trip planned!
My friend Jenny is a HUGE Trey Parker/Matt Stone fan, and she’s been gushing about their musical The Book Of Mormon non-stop since that was a thing one could do. There was never going to be any stopping her from making a pilgrimage to go see this show, and I’ll be damned if that enthusiasm hasn’t rubbed off on me and our other pals! So we bought third row tickets today to see a performance of it in September.
SO expensive, I know, but I also know that the four of us that are going are going to have a great time. After booking the trip, I went to my favorite restaurant, and ordered my favorite meal, and realized that having this trip to look forward to for the next seven months is already worth that price.
I may be a little out of touch here, but I’m having trouble understanding what it is that is Super Bowl-related where three grand is an advertised sale price.
Do you get to have the Super Bowl all to yourself?
President John Tyler's grandchildren are still alive
What? WHAT? This can’t be true. SERIOUSLY, Mental Floss? If this is true, it is completely amazing.
Bollywood By Way Of Finland of the Day: Finnair provided passengers aboard a recent flight to Delhi with some unexpected in-flight entertainment: Flight attendants doing a Bollywood-themed dance in honor of India’s Republic Day.
[slog.]
Say what you will about thedailywhat, but they always have the scoop when it comes to dancing flight attendants.
Here’s a NSFW (but catchy!) song from Trey Parker & Matt Stone’s musical, The Book Of Mormon.
The main characters are Mormon missionaries who have been sent to Uganda, and this song is when they’re first meeting the locals. An obvious nod to “Hakuna Matata”.
It’s called “Hasa Diga Eebowai”. Again, NSFW.
41
Sure, it’s cool and all that it’s my 41st birthday, but there’s a much cooler numerical milestone coming up. The one that comes 25 days AFTER the 41st birthday.
If none of you will take the bait & show off that you know the significance of 25-days-after-the-41st-birthday, don’t worry. I’ll be sure to post some exaggerated exitement over it 25 days from now.
My only real birthday tradition is to go to a movie, and I think today I’ll make it Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close, in honor of its unexpected Best Picture nomination. Anyone out there seen it already?
President Obama, yelling at Presidential Candidates after they do nothing to stop the booing of gay soldiers.
(Source: gerardthehomosexual)
Test GPOY
My immediate reaction to the Oscar Nominations
Jonah Hill is now an Oscar Nominated actor.
Gary Oldman is now an Oscar Nominated actor. FINALLY. Like I tweeted my friend Jodi, Tinker Tailor is a tough sit-through, but I’m still stoked that Gary Oldman finally has a nomination.
Melissa McCarthy is now an Oscar Nominated actress!
Jim Rash, the kooky dean from Community, is now an Oscar Nominated screenwriter (The Descendants). So, for that matter, is Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids).
Best Actress is a pleasingly competitive category this year, with Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady), Viola Davis (The Help), Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs), Michelle Williams (My Week With Marilyn), and Rooney Mara (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo).
Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close nominated for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor?! I guess I should see that one after all.
No nominations for lust objects Ryan Gosling & Michael Fassbender. Fine with me, though I haven’t seen Shame or The Ides Of March.
Under new voting rules, there could have been anywhere from five to ten best picture nominees, depending upon how many first-place votes the movies got on the nomination ballots. There ended up being nine nominees. I think that’s fun; they’ll be keeping that rule around, I think.
Bret McKenzie from Flight Of The Conchords is now an Oscar Nominated songwriter, and there are only two nominations in that category!
I hate that I like this
Sorry this is basically a sony ad, but the results ACTUALLY freaked me out.
I’m sure there are a ton of these around, but this was the first I’ve seen.
Stare at the red dot on her nose for 30 seconds.
Look at the ceiling and blink really quickly.
WHAT THE FUCK BRAIN!?!?!?!
WHAT
THE
FUCK….
Throwback Thonday - I don’t know or care which day is designated as nostalgia-photo-post-day; Kai just sent me this so I’m posting it. It’s me with Dave and Kai in 1995. We are amazed at how scrawny we are, as well as the scrawniness of the gas prices faintly visible in the distance ($1.13/$1.24).
Here’s a friendly reminder:
-You cannot be sexist toward men. Sexism is based on a system of oppression. You CAN be discriminatory, rude, inconsiderate, and/or prejudiced against men but you CANNOT be sexist toward them.
-You cannot be racist towards white people. Racism is based on a system of oppression. You CAN be discriminatory, rude, inconsiderate, and/or prejudiced against white people but you CANNOT be racist toward them.
This is not difficult.
I call bullshit. It’s not impossible to be sexist toward men and racist toward white people. This person just hates racism and sexism so much that s/he wants the definition to exclude the most common perpetrators as potential victims, and wants to insult anyone who doesn’t agree (“This is not difficult”).
Racism against non-whites and sexism against non-males is a CONSIDERABLY larger problem than it is against whites and males. But it doesn’t help the problem to tell whites and males that they can’t possibly be victims of it too, especially in such a condescending, prejudiced way.
(Source: revelandrioton)
