Go forth, fellow Oscar-watchers, and read them! Read all of them!
Edit: Complete List of Winners and my Tweets, reposted for prosperity and for the benefit of anyone watching the Oscars on DVR (please excuse the wonky spelling):
* - My fearless prediction is that the Dictator thing will be the only spontaneous/interesting moment on the red carpet.
* - My other fearless prediction: "The Artist" wins all the things. Even though it was much better when it was animated and titled "The Illusionist"...
* - Methinks Nick Nolte's crows would consider him their pet human.
* - Also "Warrior" is excellent and you should see it. #BlatantOscarSnubs
* - God, there's another 1/2 hour of this? Get to the part about movies winning things!
* - (Plays with her Audubon Guide to New England app. LOL random animal sounds.)
* - When are they going to stop talking about clothes already???
* - Not that I am in any position to talk, but Brian Grazer is an odd-looking man.
* - OTOH, I am digging Chris Rock's 'fro.
* - OMG almost time!
* - I still can't choose between Morgan Freeman or Sir David Attenborough for who should narrate my inner running monologues.
* - Random Bieber!!!
* - Should note that's the only part of "The Help" I've seen...
* - Glad to see "Hugo" get cinematography
* - And for best art direction! Hmmm...
* - Hell of a montage going right from "Titanic" to "Twilight". #WhyThisGenerationFails
* - Oscar-nominated Madonna movie. #Things80sComediansWouldPointOut
* - And a million Harry Potter fans cried out...
* - D'aww at Brad Pitt waxing nostalgic about a monster movie.
* - Welp. Good jarb offending all of China, Sandra Bullock.
* - The Oscar goes to the woman involved in the SECOND-best moment of scatological humor in the bunch!
* - OK, the Christopher Guest Gang focus group bit was hilarious.
* - And a win for Team Fincher!
* - The Oscar-nominated Transformers 3. #ThingsModernComediansWouldPointOut
* - Yay Hugo!!!
* - Cirque Du Soleil is all like, f--- you, we got your 3-D right here!
* - Meanwhile George Clooney 's date is all like "I'm not familiar with the kind of thing I'm seeing...?"
* - For reals, Cirque Du Soleil are amazing and anyone who disagrees can go right to hell.
* - Brace yourselves, here comes the intro to the Best Animated Film award...
* - No, animation is hard if you're the person who is ACTUALLY DOING THE ANIMATION!!!
* - YEAAAH!!! The only award I was in any way emotionally invested in and my fab film won!
* - Emma Stone , WTF?
* - 0.0 #ActuallySurprisingOscarWins
* - Incidentally, this is where I should note that I was hating Michael Bay before it was cool.
* - D'awww Christopher Plummer
* - Yo, fellow Leo DiCaprio fans: let's school them little Twilight fans when Titanic 3D comes out.
* - And that's how you keep all the Muppet fans in suspense.
* - Though I have to say, with all the dancing birds, my 12-year old self would have gone nuts over Rio
* - And now I live on a planet where both The Muppets and Flight Of The Concords (on a technicality) have Oscars.
* - And now I live on a planet where Dean Shelton has an Oscar #EarthIsTheBestPlanet
* - And special effects legend Doug Trumble won an Oscar !!! But not during this broadcast. #SpecialistFilmmakerGhetto
* - Best. Callback. Ever. #ScorseseDrinkingGame
* - Yaaaaaay!!!
* - The only other award I was emotionally invested in and my favorite won again!!!
* - Best Director already?
* - I like the traditional Polish Christmas ornaments Merryl Streep is accessorizing with
* - James Earle Jones ALSO won an Oscar! Also not during this ceremony.
* - Here comes the sad part so get out your hankies...
* - This must be how adults felt towards us kids born in the late 70s with our Ataris and pocket calculators. #SamsungSmartTVAd
* - Uggie was robbed!!! #BlatantOscarSnubs
* - This is as good a time to note that we are going to hear a LOT of interesting comments on Pharrell's house band.
* - This is also as good time to note that times like these, I regret my sensitivity to high frequencies... #WTFTechnicalGlitches
* - Seriously, those are some nice Christmas ornaments.
* - Hurry up Tom I'm running out of wine!
* - D'aaaaaw, Uggie!!!
* - BTW, if The Artist win surprises you at all, welcome to being disillusioned with the Academy.
* - Seriously, am I the only one kinda bothered by the fact that it's THE SAME THING as Chomet's "The Illusionist"? #AnimationAgeGhetto
* - Ah well. A fine night to celebrate the Art of Film.
* - I'll be back for the Jimmy Kimmel show. Until then, go watch "The Illusionist".
* - Not gonna lie. I'd watch the hell out of "Movie The Movie".
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Live-Blogs Are Always a Good Idea! Trish Live-Blogs the 2012 Golden Globes!
Yes, because my other attempts at live-blogging things went over so very well. Unless something spectacular happens during the Arrival Special Thing, we'll get rolling at 8:00 PM EST. as always, please do not say anything about the spelling.
Until then, here's what I spent my day making:
This is based off a concept that's been sitting around in my imagination since I was a teenager. Yeah, I was a strange person back then. Like anything's changed.
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Award Commentary!
7:17 - I still can't get over this: The Golden Globe nominated "Gnomeo and Juliet".
7:22 - Evan Rachel Wood's dress should be in our upcoming Art Evolved gallery.
7:25 - Walt Disney Pictures presents "John Carter: Based on the Novel 'Nothing in the Title to Do With Princesses We Swear'"!
7:27 - RE: "Big Miracle" First thing I thought of was this, from the very ending of The Animated Films of Don Bluth, courtesy of John Cawley's website:
A SONG OF THE ICE WHALE - This tale... was based on the incident in the arctic when whales were caught in the ice. Countries around the world spent millions of dollars to free the whales before they would perish.
7:35: The imaginary freshmen college girl from 1998 inside Carson Daily is flipping out right now.
7:36: "Yeah, I'm in a genuinely scary-looking Gothic horror film. It's still probably not going to cause as many nightmares as that thing under the bench in 'Deathly Hallows part 2'." - D. Radcliff
7:39 - You don't have to introduce Kathryn McPhee to us, NBC. Please stop doing that.
7:46 - Funny how the prettiest animation goes to commercials about birth control and antidepressants.
7:48 - Well, and the Disney commercials. Derp.
8:06 - And we're off! I am glad I am DVR-ing this whole thing since I missed much of Ricky Gervais' speech. Which, by the way, if anything he says offends you, like deeply, please re-evaluate your life.
8:08 - Man, I need to get my butt in a theater and see "Hugo". And "The Muppets". And "The Artist". And "Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol". Yeesh, I think I may be part of the problem...
8:10 - Christopher Plummer for Best Supporting Actor! This happened while I was typing the above stuff! Now I remember why I hate Live-Blogging! I'm not gonna mention the winners again unless they do something interesting; you can look that up later.
8:13 - Laura Dern better mention "Jurassic Park" somehow...
8:21 - I maintain that the Globes are the most fun awards to watch. There are technical mistakes like crazy and EVERYONE IS FED LOTS OF WINE. (My poison of choice for tonight. Oh, hey Kate Winslet won something!)
8:38 - If you are surprised that "Game of Thrones" didn't win, welcome to being a fantastic fiction fan, kid. It never gets any easier.
8:45 - Adam your music is bad and you should feel bad! Seriously, I cannot wait to only have to hear Maroon 5 on "Back to the Zilches Friday Night".
8:47 - Even Leo thinks "The Artist"'s composer is the cutest thing.
8:48 - Seriously, I can't let it go: THE GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATED "GNOMEO AND JULIET"!?!
8:50 - And as a nice anticlimax of sorts, Madonna won. Have no idea for what movie, though.
8:51 - Wait... wait, so Madonna MADE a movie?!? Well, on behalf of every humoridian from the era of "Shanghai Surprise" and other not-good movies involving Madonna, I say (ahem) HOLY SH*T, AN AWARD-WINNING MADONNA MOVIE!?!
9:00 - Well, thanks, Seth, you just made things way more awkward than they were before. Also, "My Week With Marilyn" is a comedy.
9:10 - Thanks to the Magic of DVR, I can not miss whatever it is that I just missed right now!
9:12 -
(But is it me or did the announcer seriously mispronounce the name of the show and the character?)
9:16 - Congrats, editor, on making "Moneyball" look interesting. Now brace yourselves, here comes the introduction for Animated Film...
9:18 - And the Motion-Captured TinTin for the WinWin. How badly do you think the guys at Cartoon Brew are crapping themselves right now?
9:23 - D'oh, forgot I could fast-forward the commercials!
9:27 - OK, that was adorable.
9:27 - Woah, actors from genre shows are winning stuff tonight! Young fantastic fiction fans, enjoy this.
9:29 - Surreal IRL Discussion of the Night (so far): My dad trying to convince me that when the announcer said that Jessica Lange won a Golden Globe for "King Kong", they actually did mean the Dino DeLaurentas 1970's monstrosity. When I am Queen, I will perform an Inception on everyone so that when they are about to whine about how they hate the Peter Jackson version, the shower scene from 70s!King Kong plays on an endless loop in their heads.
9:31 - Oh shizz, Madonna just Goth-served Ricky!
9:39 - WAAAAAY-after-the-fact cherring over Clair Danes winning for "My So-Called Life". I need to revisit that series.
9:40 - I just realized that I should have based Victoria the Deinonychus Angel's... "wings"... after Madonna's...
9:41 - So now that "Bridesmaids" exists, can we stop seeing everyone in Hollywood being so surprised when it turns out that women like to go to movies with more than three female lead characters? Because I swear I started seeing this as a kid when "Waiting to Exhale" was in theaters and it should have ended there.
9:47 - Confession: Speaking of movies with more than three female lead characters. I have not seen "The Help" in it's entirety. I have only seen the sh*t pie scene. That was enough for me.
9:55 - And now, many kind words about Morgan Freeman. I've nothing sarcastic to say about this.
10:03 - Incidentally, "RED" is a pretty damn good movie if you've missed it.
10:04 - Also, you can tell if a new acquaintance is worth a damn if they start weeping openly if you show them a clip from "March of the Penguins". If they don't, forget 'em.
10:10 - Have to admit, "John Carter" looks pretty badass. I'm actually rooting for it not to bomb.
10:13 - Out-loud "D'aaaaaaw"-ing at Scorscese's win, Leo's reaction, and the well-deserved Brian Selznic shout-out.
10:17 - Pretty sure at this point that the only people who'd classify "Glee" as a comedy are people who have never watched an entire season of the show.
10:24 - Disconcerting Phrase of the Night: "From the UPCOMING film, 'Total Recall'!"
10:36 - Repeat: this is why this is the Best Awards Show.
10:38 - Every endangered species of bird just went "what" at Merryl's mixed metaphor. And Merryl's Mixed Metaphor is a good name for a band.
10:40 - Calling it now: "the Artist" is going to be this year's "The King's Speech". But awww, Uggie!
11:00 - Just realized that "Tree of Life" was nominated for nothing at all. Huh.
Until then, here's what I spent my day making:
This is based off a concept that's been sitting around in my imagination since I was a teenager. Yeah, I was a strange person back then. Like anything's changed.
-----
Award Commentary!
7:17 - I still can't get over this: The Golden Globe nominated "Gnomeo and Juliet".
7:22 - Evan Rachel Wood's dress should be in our upcoming Art Evolved gallery.
7:25 - Walt Disney Pictures presents "John Carter: Based on the Novel 'Nothing in the Title to Do With Princesses We Swear'"!
7:27 - RE: "Big Miracle" First thing I thought of was this, from the very ending of The Animated Films of Don Bluth, courtesy of John Cawley's website:
A SONG OF THE ICE WHALE - This tale... was based on the incident in the arctic when whales were caught in the ice. Countries around the world spent millions of dollars to free the whales before they would perish.
7:35: The imaginary freshmen college girl from 1998 inside Carson Daily is flipping out right now.
7:36: "Yeah, I'm in a genuinely scary-looking Gothic horror film. It's still probably not going to cause as many nightmares as that thing under the bench in 'Deathly Hallows part 2'." - D. Radcliff
7:39 - You don't have to introduce Kathryn McPhee to us, NBC. Please stop doing that.
7:46 - Funny how the prettiest animation goes to commercials about birth control and antidepressants.
7:48 - Well, and the Disney commercials. Derp.
8:06 - And we're off! I am glad I am DVR-ing this whole thing since I missed much of Ricky Gervais' speech. Which, by the way, if anything he says offends you, like deeply, please re-evaluate your life.
8:08 - Man, I need to get my butt in a theater and see "Hugo". And "The Muppets". And "The Artist". And "Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol". Yeesh, I think I may be part of the problem...
8:10 - Christopher Plummer for Best Supporting Actor! This happened while I was typing the above stuff! Now I remember why I hate Live-Blogging! I'm not gonna mention the winners again unless they do something interesting; you can look that up later.
8:13 - Laura Dern better mention "Jurassic Park" somehow...
8:21 - I maintain that the Globes are the most fun awards to watch. There are technical mistakes like crazy and EVERYONE IS FED LOTS OF WINE. (My poison of choice for tonight. Oh, hey Kate Winslet won something!)
8:38 - If you are surprised that "Game of Thrones" didn't win, welcome to being a fantastic fiction fan, kid. It never gets any easier.
8:45 - Adam your music is bad and you should feel bad! Seriously, I cannot wait to only have to hear Maroon 5 on "Back to the Zilches Friday Night".
8:47 - Even Leo thinks "The Artist"'s composer is the cutest thing.
8:48 - Seriously, I can't let it go: THE GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATED "GNOMEO AND JULIET"!?!
8:50 - And as a nice anticlimax of sorts, Madonna won. Have no idea for what movie, though.
8:51 - Wait... wait, so Madonna MADE a movie?!? Well, on behalf of every humoridian from the era of "Shanghai Surprise" and other not-good movies involving Madonna, I say (ahem) HOLY SH*T, AN AWARD-WINNING MADONNA MOVIE!?!
9:00 - Well, thanks, Seth, you just made things way more awkward than they were before. Also, "My Week With Marilyn" is a comedy.
9:10 - Thanks to the Magic of DVR, I can not miss whatever it is that I just missed right now!
9:12 -
(But is it me or did the announcer seriously mispronounce the name of the show and the character?)
9:16 - Congrats, editor, on making "Moneyball" look interesting. Now brace yourselves, here comes the introduction for Animated Film...
9:18 - And the Motion-Captured TinTin for the WinWin. How badly do you think the guys at Cartoon Brew are crapping themselves right now?
9:23 - D'oh, forgot I could fast-forward the commercials!
9:27 - OK, that was adorable.
9:27 - Woah, actors from genre shows are winning stuff tonight! Young fantastic fiction fans, enjoy this.
9:29 - Surreal IRL Discussion of the Night (so far): My dad trying to convince me that when the announcer said that Jessica Lange won a Golden Globe for "King Kong", they actually did mean the Dino DeLaurentas 1970's monstrosity. When I am Queen, I will perform an Inception on everyone so that when they are about to whine about how they hate the Peter Jackson version, the shower scene from 70s!King Kong plays on an endless loop in their heads.
9:31 - Oh shizz, Madonna just Goth-served Ricky!
9:39 - WAAAAAY-after-the-fact cherring over Clair Danes winning for "My So-Called Life". I need to revisit that series.
9:40 - I just realized that I should have based Victoria the Deinonychus Angel's... "wings"... after Madonna's...
9:41 - So now that "Bridesmaids" exists, can we stop seeing everyone in Hollywood being so surprised when it turns out that women like to go to movies with more than three female lead characters? Because I swear I started seeing this as a kid when "Waiting to Exhale" was in theaters and it should have ended there.
9:47 - Confession: Speaking of movies with more than three female lead characters. I have not seen "The Help" in it's entirety. I have only seen the sh*t pie scene. That was enough for me.
9:55 - And now, many kind words about Morgan Freeman. I've nothing sarcastic to say about this.
10:03 - Incidentally, "RED" is a pretty damn good movie if you've missed it.
10:04 - Also, you can tell if a new acquaintance is worth a damn if they start weeping openly if you show them a clip from "March of the Penguins". If they don't, forget 'em.
10:10 - Have to admit, "John Carter" looks pretty badass. I'm actually rooting for it not to bomb.
10:13 - Out-loud "D'aaaaaaw"-ing at Scorscese's win, Leo's reaction, and the well-deserved Brian Selznic shout-out.
10:17 - Pretty sure at this point that the only people who'd classify "Glee" as a comedy are people who have never watched an entire season of the show.
10:24 - Disconcerting Phrase of the Night: "From the UPCOMING film, 'Total Recall'!"
10:36 - Repeat: this is why this is the Best Awards Show.
10:38 - Every endangered species of bird just went "what" at Merryl's mixed metaphor. And Merryl's Mixed Metaphor is a good name for a band.
10:40 - Calling it now: "the Artist" is going to be this year's "The King's Speech". But awww, Uggie!
11:00 - Just realized that "Tree of Life" was nominated for nothing at all. Huh.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Princess Mia meets Carlos the Dwarf - the 2011 Oscars Live Blog!
Oh, why not. Oscar night comes but once a year and I live-blogged the male-equivalent television event after all.
So here's how this is (hopefully) going to work. I will try to start after 6:15 PM EST, which is about the time the award coverage begins locally. I will make no predictions. I am not even that emotionally invested as my favorite movies have no chance whatsoever of winning anything big (for example, Best Picture is essentially a race between "Social Network" and "King's Speech"). I will merely take the awards as they come and make comments that you will hopefully find hilarious.
6:33 - Our local ABC affiliate is airing a fluff piece about a local Oscar party that I can't really badmouth because it is run by the Ellie Fund. Aww.
There are also a few reports from the red carpet and, my God, it's been ten years, please LET BJORK'S SWAN DRESS GO ALREADY!!! (Or, more to the point, unless you can name one Bjork song, stop picking on Bjork for being Bjork.)
6:52 - Yeah, NMH. More H. R. Fluffinstuff about movies set in Boston. Woo.
7:07 - OK, here we go. Aw, I'm rooting for Hailee Steinfeld since she's genuinely appreciative and excited to be there.
7:20 - D'aww, the story of the children's chorus.
7:24 - Ah, we have ads for upcoming movies to discuss. "Limitless" looks kinda nifty... and then it pulled the "we only use blah percent of our brain" cliche. Dammit.
7:29 - OK, between the "mom-inees", the children's chorus, and some other things, this is going to be a very "Aww"-some Oscar night.
7:47 - "Red Riding Hood" = wut
7:57 - "Source Code" looks a little dull and confusing in it's ad, but it's got Jake G. in it and it's by Duncan Jones. "Moon" was my favorite surprise last year, and critics loved it. So... why isn't the commercial mentioning this at all?
8:20 - Somebody tell me how "The Adjustment Bureau" is different from "Dark City".
8:23 - And here's your first notable instance (that I saw) of Mood Whiplash tonight! (Tom Hanks' "Philadelphia" acceptance speech vs. Roberto Begnini's... whatever you want to call that.)
8:30 - It's time it's time!
8:33 - Huh... this is Mtv-ish. I like it though.
8:38 - That was fun! I kinda wanted to see what they'd do with "Toy Story 3" though.
8:41 - Mark's strained smile = priceless.
8:42 - So the much-hyped virtual set is... nice.
8:43 - LEO WAS ROBBED! XD
8:45 - Alright, I'll watch "Alice in Wonderland" already. The art directors were very sweet.
8:47 - Woo Wally Pfister! Also Christopher Nolan's strained smile = saddening.
8:57 - LEO WON!!! (Thank you, I'm here all night.)
Also, essays will be written about Michael Douglas' presentation. Long, long, long ones.
9:02 - Oh, Justin, you so crazy.
Also, you don't know the definition of animation do you?
And we have our first potential running gag, care of Michael Douglas.
9:04 - "The Lost Thing" won! I'm so happy!!! (Seriously watch it. It will make a rainbow in your heart.)
9:05 - And as happy as I am that "Toy Story 3" was nominated, imagine if there were five nominees. Stupid weird Academy rules.
9:14 - I feel we're going to be hearing this over-orchestrated version of the spare, eerie "Social Network" score a lot tonight.
9:18 - And we are going to hear the "King's Speech" music a lot too. The question is, WHICH MUSIC WILL WE HEAR MORE!?!
9:28 - Yay Denmark!
9:32 - Yay! My other website's mascot won! (Honestly, I'm happy. It's been a long, long, long road.)
9:38 - Ugh, the president of the Academy. Here we go...
9:40 - And that was surprisingly painless.
9:41 - Nice, subtle "Fantasia" tribute here.
9:44 - I live in a world where Trent Reznor has an Oscar. This is awesome.
9:47 - Methinks "Inception" will sweep the technical awards.
9:49 - I'm right so far!
Yeah, so why the hell isn't Christopher Nolan nominated for best director again? Or does the Academy just not like him?
9:56 - Don't eff with Rick Baker. He is a legend. The nominees were a little offbeat, but it really wasn't a contest.
9:59 - I only wish there was an award for creature design. *sigh*
10:02 - Thank you for reminding me how I am so Emo for movie songs.
10:13 - Very nice, Jake. That'll show everyone who treats the shorts categories as a bathroom break.
10:17 - Ah jeez, Autotune? Really?
Also, I am a fan of the guy who directed "God of Love".
10:20 - Personal surreal experience of the night: explaining who Banksy is to mom.
10:21 - A-n-d potentially awesome Oscar moment averted. Also, I wanted "Exit Through the Gift Shop" to win. Wah.
10:31 - The Bob Hope tribute was cute, but I kinda wish they'd picked a movie to represent special effects... somehow...
And "Inception" wins! Practical effects for the waffles!
Also, Jude and Robert are so much fun together that I wondered why they'd never done a movie together. Then I remembered they did...
10:35 - Aww, Dave Fincher's editors.
10:41 - KITTY!!! OMG, IT'S SO FLUFFY! WANT!
Ahem.
10:44 - "If I Rise" = Awesome. Every other nominated song = Meh.
But, OK, Randy Newman's fine too.
10:50 - I didn't write anything about the Best Buy ad with Ozzy Osborn and Justin Bieber during the Superbowl because it's just... sad.
Speaking of, here comes the In Memorium part...
10:57 - And thank you cheerful JC Penny and People Magazine ad for the mood whiplash. (But then, what could you air after that?)
11:01 - Home stretch everyone!
11:03 - (Pouts in sympathy for David Fincher...)
Err, I mean congrats to the man who helped my hometown's tourism a lot!
11:15 - I was just saying that I will be astonished if "Black Swan" went home with nothing. Congrats, Natalie!
11:25 - Next movie idea for Colin Firth: "The King's Gallstones". Seriously, aww.
11:32 - "And 'Crash'!"
11:36 - OMG "King's Speech" or "Social Network"?!?
And Steven answered a second after I hit "Publish". Congrats "King's Speech". Nice montage too.
Good night all, may you all get to your homes or other destinations safely, may your speeches never be cut off, and may your dreams be sweet.
D'aww, the little kids are singin'.
So here's how this is (hopefully) going to work. I will try to start after 6:15 PM EST, which is about the time the award coverage begins locally. I will make no predictions. I am not even that emotionally invested as my favorite movies have no chance whatsoever of winning anything big (for example, Best Picture is essentially a race between "Social Network" and "King's Speech"). I will merely take the awards as they come and make comments that you will hopefully find hilarious.
6:33 - Our local ABC affiliate is airing a fluff piece about a local Oscar party that I can't really badmouth because it is run by the Ellie Fund. Aww.
There are also a few reports from the red carpet and, my God, it's been ten years, please LET BJORK'S SWAN DRESS GO ALREADY!!! (Or, more to the point, unless you can name one Bjork song, stop picking on Bjork for being Bjork.)
6:52 - Yeah, NMH. More H. R. Fluffinstuff about movies set in Boston. Woo.
7:07 - OK, here we go. Aw, I'm rooting for Hailee Steinfeld since she's genuinely appreciative and excited to be there.
7:20 - D'aww, the story of the children's chorus.
7:24 - Ah, we have ads for upcoming movies to discuss. "Limitless" looks kinda nifty... and then it pulled the "we only use blah percent of our brain" cliche. Dammit.
7:29 - OK, between the "mom-inees", the children's chorus, and some other things, this is going to be a very "Aww"-some Oscar night.
7:47 - "Red Riding Hood" = wut
7:57 - "Source Code" looks a little dull and confusing in it's ad, but it's got Jake G. in it and it's by Duncan Jones. "Moon" was my favorite surprise last year, and critics loved it. So... why isn't the commercial mentioning this at all?
8:20 - Somebody tell me how "The Adjustment Bureau" is different from "Dark City".
8:23 - And here's your first notable instance (that I saw) of Mood Whiplash tonight! (Tom Hanks' "Philadelphia" acceptance speech vs. Roberto Begnini's... whatever you want to call that.)
8:30 - It's time it's time!
8:33 - Huh... this is Mtv-ish. I like it though.
8:38 - That was fun! I kinda wanted to see what they'd do with "Toy Story 3" though.
8:41 - Mark's strained smile = priceless.
8:42 - So the much-hyped virtual set is... nice.
8:43 - LEO WAS ROBBED! XD
8:45 - Alright, I'll watch "Alice in Wonderland" already. The art directors were very sweet.
8:47 - Woo Wally Pfister! Also Christopher Nolan's strained smile = saddening.
8:57 - LEO WON!!! (Thank you, I'm here all night.)
Also, essays will be written about Michael Douglas' presentation. Long, long, long ones.
9:02 - Oh, Justin, you so crazy.
Also, you don't know the definition of animation do you?
And we have our first potential running gag, care of Michael Douglas.
9:04 - "The Lost Thing" won! I'm so happy!!! (Seriously watch it. It will make a rainbow in your heart.)
9:05 - And as happy as I am that "Toy Story 3" was nominated, imagine if there were five nominees. Stupid weird Academy rules.
9:14 - I feel we're going to be hearing this over-orchestrated version of the spare, eerie "Social Network" score a lot tonight.
9:18 - And we are going to hear the "King's Speech" music a lot too. The question is, WHICH MUSIC WILL WE HEAR MORE!?!
9:28 - Yay Denmark!
9:32 - Yay! My other website's mascot won! (Honestly, I'm happy. It's been a long, long, long road.)
9:38 - Ugh, the president of the Academy. Here we go...
9:40 - And that was surprisingly painless.
9:41 - Nice, subtle "Fantasia" tribute here.
9:44 - I live in a world where Trent Reznor has an Oscar. This is awesome.
9:47 - Methinks "Inception" will sweep the technical awards.
9:49 - I'm right so far!
Yeah, so why the hell isn't Christopher Nolan nominated for best director again? Or does the Academy just not like him?
9:56 - Don't eff with Rick Baker. He is a legend. The nominees were a little offbeat, but it really wasn't a contest.
9:59 - I only wish there was an award for creature design. *sigh*
10:02 - Thank you for reminding me how I am so Emo for movie songs.
10:13 - Very nice, Jake. That'll show everyone who treats the shorts categories as a bathroom break.
10:17 - Ah jeez, Autotune? Really?
Also, I am a fan of the guy who directed "God of Love".
10:20 - Personal surreal experience of the night: explaining who Banksy is to mom.
10:21 - A-n-d potentially awesome Oscar moment averted. Also, I wanted "Exit Through the Gift Shop" to win. Wah.
10:31 - The Bob Hope tribute was cute, but I kinda wish they'd picked a movie to represent special effects... somehow...
And "Inception" wins! Practical effects for the waffles!
Also, Jude and Robert are so much fun together that I wondered why they'd never done a movie together. Then I remembered they did...
10:35 - Aww, Dave Fincher's editors.
10:41 - KITTY!!! OMG, IT'S SO FLUFFY! WANT!
Ahem.
10:44 - "If I Rise" = Awesome. Every other nominated song = Meh.
But, OK, Randy Newman's fine too.
10:50 - I didn't write anything about the Best Buy ad with Ozzy Osborn and Justin Bieber during the Superbowl because it's just... sad.
Speaking of, here comes the In Memorium part...
10:57 - And thank you cheerful JC Penny and People Magazine ad for the mood whiplash. (But then, what could you air after that?)
11:01 - Home stretch everyone!
11:03 - (Pouts in sympathy for David Fincher...)
Err, I mean congrats to the man who helped my hometown's tourism a lot!
11:15 - I was just saying that I will be astonished if "Black Swan" went home with nothing. Congrats, Natalie!
11:25 - Next movie idea for Colin Firth: "The King's Gallstones". Seriously, aww.
11:32 - "And 'Crash'!"
11:36 - OMG "King's Speech" or "Social Network"?!?
And Steven answered a second after I hit "Publish". Congrats "King's Speech". Nice montage too.
Good night all, may you all get to your homes or other destinations safely, may your speeches never be cut off, and may your dreams be sweet.
D'aww, the little kids are singin'.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
2010 Great Backyard Bird Count Live-Blogging part the second!
Sunday, 2/14/10
9:19 AM - Happy Valiumtime's Day! I got up early enough to see the woodpecker "couple" again. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww........
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2:30 PM - Well, I get to record one new species so far today. There's a fluffy Mourning Dove who's been chilling out in the pile of grass clippings, probably enjoying the heat.
The Nuthatches are starting to do this again:
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Monday, 2/15/10
1:00 PM - Went out to breakfast with my family. I can add thirty Starlings and six Herring Gulls to the big list. Man, I am going to forget that today is also a Feederwatch count day.
12:04 AM - Been a long, weird day. But I got to go into Boston a little and here's the final tally for the weekend:
Habitat(s):
deciduous woods
suburban
urban
freshwater
salt water
Species Count
Canada Goose 10
Herring Gull 25
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Rock Pigeon 15
Mourning Dove 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 18
Black-capped Chickadee 3
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
European Starling 18
Northern Cardinal 1
House Sparrow 25
9:19 AM - Happy Valiumtime's Day! I got up early enough to see the woodpecker "couple" again. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww........
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2:30 PM - Well, I get to record one new species so far today. There's a fluffy Mourning Dove who's been chilling out in the pile of grass clippings, probably enjoying the heat.
The Nuthatches are starting to do this again:
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Monday, 2/15/10
1:00 PM - Went out to breakfast with my family. I can add thirty Starlings and six Herring Gulls to the big list. Man, I am going to forget that today is also a Feederwatch count day.
12:04 AM - Been a long, weird day. But I got to go into Boston a little and here's the final tally for the weekend:
Habitat(s):
deciduous woods
suburban
urban
freshwater
salt water
Species Count
Canada Goose 10
Herring Gull 25
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Rock Pigeon 15
Mourning Dove 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 18
Black-capped Chickadee 3
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
European Starling 18
Northern Cardinal 1
House Sparrow 25
Friday, February 12, 2010
2010 Great Backyard Bird Count Live-Blogging part the first!
The Great Backyard Bird Count is here! The (second or third) most wonderful time of the year! There's still time to join in (hence the really early post). I will pop in every so often this weekend to make note of what I've seen, maybe share some field sketches.
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Friday, 2/12/10 - Feederwatch Friday First:
Downy Woodpecker 1
American Crow 3
Black-capped Chickadee 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
European Starling 1
House Sparrow 15
Now for watching the feeders on Friday. Hopefully this isn't too confusing.
11:17 AM - Three Chickadees and a small flock of House Sparrows. I'm going to set up near the window that overlooks the feeders and finish some Photoshoppery today, so you will get to enjoy my lacking the ability to type understandably on a laptop when I come and check in.
1:42 PM - Set up near the window. Counted twenty sparrows, two nuthatches, two woodpeckers, and two pigeons. Heard a flock of crows but didn't see them; will count when they come home to roost.
3:00 PM - Haven't seen many birds since the last update, but I painted a baby dragon:
Awww...
4:00 PM - About to take a mental health break from painting. Starting to get dark out. No new birds. Painted another dragon though.
In the new adaptation of Michael Ende's "The Neverending Story", the part of Falkor will be played by Jeff Bridges. :)
6:00 PM - Final tally for today:
Three Black-capped Chickadees
Twenty House Sparrows
Two White-breasted Nuthatches
Two Downy Woodpeckers
Two Domestic Rock Doves (Pigeons, whatever)
Eighteen Crows! (Big flock that, as predicted, flew home to roost.)
Not bad biodiversity for just from my window. It's now dusk, so I'll pick this up tomorrow. There is still time to participate!
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2/13/10 - Saturday
11:25 AM - I can add two Blue Jays to my tally. Also, I saw the male and female woodpeckers feeding together at the suet. Awww...
1:45 PM - I might have spotted a Sharp-Shinned Hawk a minute ago but, sadly, it flew too fast for me to verify. Here's that Fairy Dragon all finished. Had some fun with different brushes.
7:00 PM - So the only new species I can record today are:
Two Blue Jays
One Cardinal
Aside from them, the same birds from yesterday showed up again. But in the meantime, look what I made (finally):
As this post is getting a little unreasonably long, I will start a new one for Sunday-Monday.
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Friday, 2/12/10 - Feederwatch Friday First:
Downy Woodpecker 1
American Crow 3
Black-capped Chickadee 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
European Starling 1
House Sparrow 15
Now for watching the feeders on Friday. Hopefully this isn't too confusing.
11:17 AM - Three Chickadees and a small flock of House Sparrows. I'm going to set up near the window that overlooks the feeders and finish some Photoshoppery today, so you will get to enjoy my lacking the ability to type understandably on a laptop when I come and check in.
1:42 PM - Set up near the window. Counted twenty sparrows, two nuthatches, two woodpeckers, and two pigeons. Heard a flock of crows but didn't see them; will count when they come home to roost.
3:00 PM - Haven't seen many birds since the last update, but I painted a baby dragon:
Awww...
4:00 PM - About to take a mental health break from painting. Starting to get dark out. No new birds. Painted another dragon though.
In the new adaptation of Michael Ende's "The Neverending Story", the part of Falkor will be played by Jeff Bridges. :)
6:00 PM - Final tally for today:
Three Black-capped Chickadees
Twenty House Sparrows
Two White-breasted Nuthatches
Two Downy Woodpeckers
Two Domestic Rock Doves (Pigeons, whatever)
Eighteen Crows! (Big flock that, as predicted, flew home to roost.)
Not bad biodiversity for just from my window. It's now dusk, so I'll pick this up tomorrow. There is still time to participate!
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2/13/10 - Saturday
11:25 AM - I can add two Blue Jays to my tally. Also, I saw the male and female woodpeckers feeding together at the suet. Awww...
1:45 PM - I might have spotted a Sharp-Shinned Hawk a minute ago but, sadly, it flew too fast for me to verify. Here's that Fairy Dragon all finished. Had some fun with different brushes.
7:00 PM - So the only new species I can record today are:
Two Blue Jays
One Cardinal
Aside from them, the same birds from yesterday showed up again. But in the meantime, look what I made (finally):
As this post is getting a little unreasonably long, I will start a new one for Sunday-Monday.
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