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A rant, my day, and linkspam

Wow. So a couple of our students this week were sitting in the lounge, joking about Osama bin laden. shaving his beard and moving to Utah. (As if anyone who wasn’t blindingly pale wouldn’t stick out like a sore thumb). Anyways, haha right? Then one of them goes on to say, I bet you half of New Zealand would thank Osama, given the chance. 

 

Hold on. 

 

First off – Bush was a lame duck president the first 9 months of his tenure. He couldn’t get a bill through congress if he had wanted to – which was why he took vacation for a huge chunk of that time. Because of September 11th, Bush acquired unheard-of levels of power, eroded civil rights, started 2 wars, and increased our national debt by trillions. So thanking Osama shows an absolute lack of understanding of how the world works. 

 

Secondly, you want to thank someone for nearly 3000 deaths? Leaving more than 3000 children without a parent? Exposing hundreds, if not thousands, of rescue workers to critical levels of air pollution? That, to me, shows a complete disregard for human life and lack of common decency. Asshole. 

 

Ok – I feel somewhat better now. 

Joined a gym yesterday (yay)! I have a session with a trainer on Sunday and I’m going to beginners pilates tomorrow. 

  

Man, I laughed till I cried with the Daily Show coming back. Yaaay! Also – did I miss this in all the Craig coverage, or was the DS the only one to show it?

 

Ack – I have 3 movies rented tonight that are due back tomorrow. I smell late fees. (I started watching His Girl Friday the other night, but then 4 people came into the living room and started talking, so I had to put that on hold. I kinda need to hear the dialogue on that one.) Also – if I come in and say “yay! the daily show is back from a 2 week vacation! I’m so excited! It’s my favorite show!” does that sound like, “please try to talk to me now. I’m not listening to anything.” I mean, really. I’m around all evening, but I just want to be left alone for 20 minutes during the Daily show – is that so much to ask?

 

The creative arts emmy winners. Why you should care; the guest winners – Leslie Caron (man – I SO want to see that ep of SVU), Stanley Tucci, Elaine Stritch, and John Goodman. Dexter won for its BRILLIANT opening titles sequence (getting ready in the morning is creepy, no matter who you are, but particularly if you are a serial killer). Planet Earth won 4 awards, including cinematography and best non-fiction series. Mom – you’ll be happy to know Jane Eyre won 2. And the Office won best single-camera editing (yay!). 

 

I also really like that House won for outstanding prosthetic make-up. (The non-prostheitc make-up went to Deadwood). How I Met your Mother won outstanding art direction for a multi-camera series (huh what now?). Corteo (which I have seen twice – I LOVE Cirque) won for picture editing for a special. South Park got outstanding <1 hr animated program for Make Love, Not Warcraft. The ‘my musical’ ep of scrubs got an award. CSI got best sound mixing (CSI gets no love - seriously. Oh well - they all make millions upon millions).   

And apparently the creative arts emmys gives out a commercial award? Now I want to see the AmEx – Animals ad.   

I forget if I already posted this, but Tash showed it to me. I think it’s her wee Dublin accent that cracks me up. 

Oh so true (fugging Shia).  

Monday Morning Poll: Does a Hollywood Strike Concern You? 

From Cleolinda: 

Tribal fishermen held after whale killed with machine gun. Wait, what?  

27 Aquatic Lifeforms You Never Caught While Fishing. 

I Stay Home K? Mah tummeh hurt. 

Joan Didion, Terry Gross to be honored.  

Gaiman Joins Clarion Workshop Faculty. 

John August: MTV, an intervention. 

 

Rumor Alert: Possible Casting for Young Voldemort in “Half-Blood Prince” ; Daniel Radcliffe Speaks with a Forked Tongue (AHHHHH). 

 

Brad Pitt and Ang Lee get booed in Venice.  [Yes, and they booed Marie Antoinette at Cannes. Film fest snobs are so weird.] 

 

Naomi Watts on Funny Games and The Birds. Did I just forget that they’re remaking The Birds ? Can I be appalled all over again? 

 

Wait, They’re Remaking ‘Total Recall’? Wait, Minority Report was originally a remake of Total Recall ?
  

Penn and Damon in Van Sant’s Harvey Milk Biopic? [Here’s the link for what I was talking about before]  

Viggo Mortensen in talks for Cormac McCarthy’s ”The Road’.’ Oh, Christ, I’m actually gonna have to see it now. 

trailer_spot: Iron Man, Romance & Cigarettes, Sukiyaki Western Django, Atonement ; There Will Be Blood, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, National Treasure 2, Cleaner, Transsiberian.  

Francis Ford Coppola, a Kid to Watch. 

10 Funniest MPAA Rating Reasons (“PG for mild language and brief video images of violence and sexy dancing”). 

Affleck & Phoenix Expecting Second Child. It took me way too long to figure out how this was even possible.



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One response to “A rant, my day, and linkspam”

  1. Karen says:
    September 13, 2007 at 4:02 pm

    Jane Eyre won 3! (not 2) Is Toby or Ruth Wilson (Jane) up for an Emmy? Toby was up for a whatever-the-Brit-version-of-an-Emmy-is, but lost.

    He wuz robbed….

  2. Karen says:
    September 15, 2007 at 11:41 am

    More exciting news that’s linked to HP: “the highly-anticipated film “Sweeney Todd,” which features several actors from the Harry Potter films including Alan Rickman (Severus Snape), Helena Bonham Carter (Bellatrix Lestrange) and Timothy Spall (Peter Pettigrew).” from the Leaky Cauldron.