A Text Message Conversation Between Myself and My Friend Kate When I Had Already Given Up on Trying to Follow the Season Six Premiere of Lost
Alright so I was planning on writing about the Oscars, but then everyone wrote about the Oscars and I didn’t want to turn this into an Oscar blog (P.S. I’m going to start an Oscar blog), so this is kind of last minute and thrown together.
The other day, I attempted to watch the season six [...]
How not to walk out of your Oscar party in disgust
This was going to be a comment to Parrish’s post, but it got too long. And I should know better than to challenge Parrish’s views on filmic issues, since not only does she live much closer than I do to the heart of the country’s movie industry, she apparently even has screeners in her house. [...]
Popular Songs (Yo La Tengo, Barrymore Theater, Madison, 1/23/10)
My car has a cassette deck but no CD player, so unless I plug the iPod adapter into the cigarette lighter, it’s college mix tapes all the way. Little time capsules that transport me back to the 1990s faster than clove cigarettes or sandalwood oil. They’re full of the usual suspects: Nirvana, [...]
Who’s gonna win?
Oscar nominations are out. Who’s gonna win? Here are my picks: Bold for who I think will win, italics for who I think should win.
Best picture:
- Avatar
- The Blind Side
- District 9
- An Education
- The Hurt Locker
- Inglorious Basterds
- Precious
- A Serious Man
- Up
- Up in the Air
Avatar will win, which is not a travesty. [...]
