Dive into the archives.
- Punch Trunk
I’m getting depressed looking at my own website, so I’m basically making this post in order to bump my Ledger post down.
This is Punch Trunk (1953), an oft-forgotten but intriguing one-off by Chuck Jones. Like many of my generation, my first real encounter with the Looney Tunes brand of animation was on Saturday afternoons in [...]
- Broken.
Apologies for what must seem like an opportunistic post: my friend Pam noted one time that she had trouble reading my blog sometimes because of how often it turned into celebrity obituaries.
But really here - I’m at a loss.
Heath Ledger seemed invincible, like he’d always be with us - a stable font of emotional and [...]
- Oscar Nominations, Livejournal Style
+ Young(ish) actors doing good: Casey Affleck for Best Supporting Actor, Sarah Polley for Best Adapted Screenplay, Saoirse Ronan for Atonement - I would’ve nommed the dyspeptic Romola Garai, myself, but Ronan does a pretty terrific job in the good half of the movie.
+ Surf’s Up getting a Best Animated Feature nomination - [...]
- Glib Piece of Shit Treated to ‘Serious’ Op-Ed in Paper of Record
Are you fucking kidding me, people?
“Hey presumably intelligent New York Times reader - you liked this crap. Here’s a load of bullshit so you can justify it to yourself.”
Courtesy of my roommate Tyson, from Sunday’s New York Times, we get the sort of inane bullshit op-ed the likes of which makes me Ray Carney angry. [...]
- I’m a Day Late But…
GO HUCKABEE GO
Please please please. I’d love to see Huey Long 2.0 rock and roll his way into the General Election. The electoral map would go so blue you’d swear we just sank in the ocean.
- A Top Ten, and then Ten More
So Reverse Shot came out with their/(our?) Top Ten list last night.
I’m proud to say I was asked to submit a list as part of the process. Here’s what I submitted:
1. I’m Not There (Haynes)
2. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Mungiu)
3. Regular Lovers (Garrel)
4. Syndromes and a Century (Weerasethakul)
5. Away from Her (Polley)
6. [...]
