do you like good music?

I know you do. That’s why you should go to www.last.fm/user/mophreo and check out my Last.fm page.

it really was a flawless movie

Yay for the Coen Bros.

“That was beautiful.”

- Holly Hunter in “Raising Arizona”

No Country for Old Men.

No big surprise here.

So let’s see… By my count I went 8 for 17. Damn. Not even 50%. The lesson here: like Coen Bros. leading men, don’t bet on me being nearly as smart as I think I am.

Good night.

oh yeah…

Just poking my head in from watching the Oscars. So far… no big surprises really. But I have to addend my previous post. “Falling Slowly” just won for the song category. I totally called that. (well, not really, but who’s counting?)  See this post from RMP on May 23. 2007:

 The subject: “ok, so what is everyone listening to now?”

Suhwheat.

Couple you should chiggity check:

The Aliens
This Will Destroy You
The Once Soundtrack

Prediction: Once is going to be this year’s Amelie.

Paul

So that goes to show you: I’m never wrong.

some quick predictions

So I couldn’t be any later. The Oscars start in 16 minutes. But here goes:

Actor in a Leading Role:

Daniel Day-Lewis. But I think Clooney has a very good chance also.

Actor in a Supporting Role:

Javier Bardem. So yeah, I loved No Country for Old Men. It’s hard to imagine an better movie or better performance.

Actress in a Leading Role:

Laura Linney. The ladies are in the category I know the least about. But I do like Marion Cotillard’s look in Ma Vie en Rose.

Actress in a Supporting Role:

Tilda Swinton. I dunno.

Animated Feature:

Persepolis. Great comic.

Art Direction:

Atonement. It was a beautiful movie.

Cinematography:

No Country for Old Men. Although Atonement is a good pick also. The beach shot was friggin’ amazing.

Costume Design:

Atonement.

Directing:

No Country for Old Men.

Not even talking about the docs. I mean, we don’t exactly get a lotta documentary features here in Alabama. But I’m sure I’ll catch them later on.

Film Editing:

No Country for Old Men. The pacing (mark of a good cutter) was pitch perfect.

Foreign Language? See the comments above about the docs.

Makeup:

Pirates

Music Score:

Atonement

I know nothing about the songs. Take it to the Grammy’s.

Best Picture:

No Country for Old Men. Best one I saw.

Shorts? Nah.

Sound? Were there any submarine movies? Those always win the sound Oscars. Other than that? I dunno… No Country for Old Men? In both.

Visual Effects:

The Golden Compass

Writing (Adapted)

I hate picking the writing awards. I’m going to close my eyes and pick No Country for Old Men. Although Atonement is also a big favorite. (The book was breathtaking. But the things that make it such a great book were impossible to translate to the screen. Of course it was still a great movie.)

Writing (Original)

Juno. The cool little indie usually wins the writing award.

So there. Be back later to comment on the outcomes.

Pounding the pavement yet again

So the temp job I had at Seek Publishing fell through and I am now back on the hunt for a job. I have a couple of promising leads but great googly-moogly this is frustrating.

Oh, and I have a new car. It’s a Mustang. I got it yesterday and I’ve already gotten laid three times because of it.

crazy week

So I finally got a job. Yay! It’s at a place called Seek Publishing. You know those greeting cards you can get at places like Cracker Barrel that tell you all about what was going on the year you were born? That’s the kind of thing Seek publishes. I’ll be fielding calls from our business customers regarding discrepancies in their shipments. Which is cool enough.

Also, I had a wreck yesterday. I was part of a 5 car pile-up on the interstate in early morning traffic. Nobody was hurt (my neck is a little sore, but it’s nothing really) but I’m pretty sure my car is totaled. I really loved that car. Oh well…

What I’m reading now:

The Warrior-Prophet, The Prince of Nothing, Book 2 by R. Scott Bakker – I’m really getting into this series. If you like the fantasy genre at all you really should hitch your star to this guy’s wagon. Great characters, very in-depth plotting, at-a-clip pacing, and no elves or fairies. Seriously, check it out.

The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod – The first book in a Trotskyist science fiction epic. Socialist hero meets idealistic scientist working on scary memory drugs and goes on the run from an oppressive government. Oh, and there’s a libertarian Christian kid in it also. It’s chock-full of 4th Internationalist terms and stuff from Collectivism 101 but it’s really not bad at all so far. More exciting than I thought it would be actually.