26.2.04
While Calvin Klein frantically puts together Scarlett's dress, Wolfgang Puck irons out the final details of the Governor's Ball, and Nicole Kidman purges the last of her Sunday brunch, I will contribute to the spectacle that is the Academy Awards (Sunday, ABC, 8 p.m.) with my list of winners:
Best Actor Who will win: Sean Penn
He's had two strong "acting" movies this year, and even though he's pissed off a lot of the studio execs, voters pretty much see him as a performance master.
Who should win: Bill Murray
He was shafted for Rushmore, hilariously tragic in Lost, and other than that, I just want to hear another acceptance speech from him. (See: Golden Globes)
Best Actress Who will win: Charlize Theron
The Academy loves pretty girls who turn ugly for a role (See: Nicole Kidman, Halle Berry), and rewards them with a statue. She's won the Golden Globe and the SAG in this same category.
Who should win: Charlize Theron
Naomi Watts also did a good job of turning ugly, but pound for pound, hair for stringy hair, Watts has nothing on Theron.
Best Supporting Actor Who will win: Tim Robbins
He didn't get a statue for directing Mystic co-star Penn in Dead Man Walking, which is crazy. The Academy also likes giving statues to power couples, and Sarandon already has one from Dead.
Who should win: Alec Baldwin
He's consistently great in everything, even if the movie turns out to be crap. He won't get it because he is too commercial for this category.
Best Supporting Actress Who will win: Renee Zellweger
If she doesn't win this year, she'll take the Julianne Moore prize for always being nominated and never winning. Zellweger was the second best thing in Cold Mountain, next to Jude Law's eyelashes. This will be her consolation prize for losing last year to Kidman. (Sidenote: In October, I said that I thought she was the most mis-cast of them all.)
Who should win: Renee Zellweger
Like Theron, she's swept the Golden Globes and SAGs for a good reason. Some are predicting Shohreh Aghdashloo as an upset winner. I'm sure she did a fine job and all, but c'mon, Zellweger kicked ass.
Best Director Who will win: Peter Jackson
If only because the Academy knows that the Kodak Theatre will break out into riots otherwise. Going into this award season, I kept saying that the Academy wouldn't give the precious to a fantasy film *and* its director; it was going to be one or the other. Even The Godfather couldn't pick up director and picture. I'm still kinda clinging to that, but not as tightly as before. Jackson pretty much secured his fate with the DGA win.
Who should win: Peter Jackson:
Jackson should win just for feeding all of the Uruk/Orc extras for the Battle of Pelennor Fields. Plus, any man who can keep his sanity after working on a project for ten years deserves a homoerotic trophy.
Best Picture Who will win: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King I know sheer spectacle and size don't always amount to wins (See: Saving Private Ryan v. Shakespeare in Love), and Mystic could be this year's Shakespeare. I can just see the presenter's eyebrows lifting and me screaming at the TV. But it's time. The jury was out for the first two for the Academy. The third one comes with a pretty little bow and Viggo on top. It's time.
Who should win: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King It was a damn good movie on its own. Add in Fellowship with a pinch of Towers, and you've got one small bite enough to fill the stomachs of a full-grown Academy (sorry, sorry).
And it's not just because as a Braves/Red Sox fan, I'm biologically required to now that he's a Yankee. I hate him because he screwing up the entire game of baseball.
In his three years at Texas, the Rangers never finished better than third in the AL Central, never finished with a record above .500, and never made the playoffs, and it was completely his fault. Sure, he was hitting home runs and fielding his position better than anyone since Cal Ripken Jr. But he crippled the Rangers when he took a $252 million dollar contract from a smallish market team, knowing that by paying his contract they would not be able to afford any other half-decent players. You can't win with one superstar and 24 no-names (aside from Rafael Palmeiro, but he's old and broken down and doesn't count). OK, so maybe the Rangers owner shouldn't have offered $252 million. But Rodriguez took the money.
In his press conference, he said that he is now only concerned with winning. That he's already got all his personal accolades - MVP awards, batting titles, and what have you. Well that's really big of you, Alex. Now that you've used the Rangers to propel you up, you abandon them in favor of the Yankees.
And what the hell, Yankees? Could you possibly be more obvious in your attempts to buy the World Series ring? You already have one of the best shortstops in the game, now you're taking Alex Rodriguez at THIRD BASE? Bullshit. The Yankees are going to start phasing Jeter out, mark my words. He'll be traded within 3 years.
I'm going to laugh so hard when the Yankees fail to win the World Series this year, because I hate every single person wearing those pinstripes. Especially Alex Rodriguez.
16.2.04 January 28, 2004 - UNC 68 NCSU 66 SuperJen4 (9:58:00 PM): isn't our little freshman, Mike O'Donnell cute?
agntkoala (9:58:24 PM): he's 12. talk to me when he hits puberty.
SuperJen4 (9:59:32 PM): I think he's totally adorable. Also, it's weird seeing the guys in the red jerseys. it's nice they pair them up with the black shoes
SuperJen4 (10:04:14 PM): that's my girl perspective on bball
agntkoala (10:04:23 PM): heh
SuperJen4 (10:04:38 PM): and we can be friends cause i didn't offend you or your team
agntkoala (10:07:54 PM): yeah.
February 15, 2004 - NCSU 78 Duke 74 SuperJen4 (11:00:15 PM): I'll give you some props. JJ is decently hot in person.
minivan5000 (11:00:22 PM): hahaha
minivan5000 (11:00:26 PM): he is
minivan5000 (11:00:28 PM): good game tonight, though
minivan5000 (11:00:31 PM): you guys deserved it
SuperJen4 (11:00:40 PM): we have this thing about playing in the RBC Center
SuperJen4 (11:00:54 PM): we're undefeated there this season
minivan5000 (11:02:05 PM): i know, that's great
minivan5000 (11:02:24 PM): we're undefeated in Cameron too
minivan5000 (11:02:30 PM): but we're renowned for our crazies
minivan5000 (11:02:38 PM): maybe you guys should be called something
Jenny, Sarah, and Paul. Three friends who go to three different ACC schools with good basketball teams. None of this "My team kicked your team's ass" bullshit.
And now, some classic romantic movie lines that you wish your boyfriend would rip off:
''I am a drunk. And I know you're a hooker. I hope you understand that I'm a person who is totally at ease with this.'' --Nicolas Cage to Elisabeth Shue in ''Leaving Las Vegas''
''Well, aren't you the sweetest space toy I ever met!'' --Jessie the Cowgirl to Buzz Lightyear in "Toy Story 2"
''You make me want to be a better man.'' --Jack Nicholson to Helen Hunt in "As Good as It Gets"
''Swoon. I'll catch you.'' --Ralph Fiennes to Kristin Scott Thomas in ''The English Patient''
''Do you think... you might agree not to marry me? And do you think not being married to me might maybe be something you could consider doing for the rest of your life?'' --Hugh Grant, after just jilting another woman, to Andie MacDowell in ''Four Weddings and a Funeral''
''I will find you!'' --Daniel Day-Lewis, promising to return for Madeleine Stowe, in ''The Last of the Mohicans"
''Look at her. I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss.'' --Raul Julia about wife Anjelica Huston in ''The Addams Family"
''I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.'' --Billy Crystal, after breathlessly confessing his affection to Meg Ryan, in ''When Harry Met Sally...''
''I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen.'' --John Cusack, about ex-girlfriend Ione Skye, in ''Say Anything...''
''I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography... and... long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. [Pause] Goodnight.'' --Kevin Costner to Susan Sarandon in ''Bull Durham''
''...maybe the problems of two people don't amount to a hill of beans, but this is our hill, and these are our beans.'' --Leslie Nielsen to Priscilla Presley in ''The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!''
''As you wish.'' --Former servant Cary Elwes to his former mistress, Robin Wright, in ''The Princess Bride''
''I'll be right here.'' --E.T., pointing to Henry Thomas' heart before leaving on his spaceship, in ''E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial''
''I love you.'' --Carrie Fisher to Harrison Ford in ''The Empire Strikes Back''
''I know.'' --Ford, in response
''Love is, is too weak a word for the way I feel -- I lurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you.'' --Woody Allen to girlfriend Diane Keaton in ''Annie Hall''
''I'm the man that you presumably love. I'm part of your life. I live here. I'm real. You can't switch to another station.'' --William Holden to Faye Dunaway in ''Network''
''Katie, it was never uncomplicated.'' --Robert Redford to Barbra Streisand in ''The Way We Were''
''But it was lovely. Wasn't it?'' --Streisand, in response
''I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends.'' --Dustin Hoffman to his illicit older lover, Anne Bancroft, in ''The Graduate''
''The only question I ever ask any woman is 'What time is your husband coming home?''' --Paul Newman to Patricia Neal in ''Hud''
''I used to live like Robinson Crusoe -- I mean, shipwrecked among eight million people. And then one day I saw a footprint in the sand and there you were. It's a wonderful thing, dinner for two.'' --Lonely Jack Lemmon to his girl Friday, Shirley MacLaine, in ''The Apartment''
''I never knew it could be like this.'' --Deborah Kerr, while rolling on the beach with Burt Lancaster, in ''From Here to Eternity''
''I pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution.'' --Peter Bull to Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn in ''The African Queen''
''I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe I even loved you before I saw you.'' --Montgomery Clift to his ideal woman, Elizabeth Taylor, in ''A Place in the Sun''
''I like that. I'd like more.'' --Lauren Bacall, when she's kissed by Humphrey Bogart, in ''The Big Sleep''
''If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life.'' --Humphrey Bogart to Ingrid Bergman in ''Casablanca''
''You should be kissed. And often. And by someone who knows how.'' --Clark Gable to Vivien Leigh in ''Gone With the Wind''
10.2.04
OK, so let's say that, hypothetically, one is in one's room listening to Whatever and Ever Amen. And then, hypothetically of course, one's roommate walks into the room in the middle of "Fair" and turns on Oprah on her TV. Hypothetically, her TV has a headphone jack, and she also assumedly has a mouth with which to ask one if it would bother one to have Oprah on while one is enjoying Ben Folds Five's finest album (yes, it would). Again, this is all speculation, but in this hypothetical situation, neither of these options were exercised.
Now, wouldn't that be hypothetically a little rude?
4.2.04
At my last glance, the blog has 9525 views. I think we should plan a party for when it reaches 10K. It will give everyone an opportunity to party with the "Girls gone mild" ladies of the blog. Ideas? Thoughts?
2.2.04
Things I learned while watching Super Bowl XXXVIII:
-That I've been speaking the English language incorrectly all these years. I learned this from listening to Phil Simms, who, as the top color analyst for a national network, surely knows how to speak better than I.
-That, "you know it's an ugly football game, so you just deal with the situation what it is," according to Simms.
-That Julius Peppers is "a star waiting to happen." Also from our friend Mr. Simms.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's like saying LeBron James is "going to be a good player."
-That, while the Patriots and Panthers exceeded all expectations, Simms, considering his performance on the night, apparently shares his son's penchant for choking in the big game in Texas.
-Stewart Mandel, SI writer, on Captain Obvious, part-time dumbass Phil Simms
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