So,
was I just
oblivious
(the answer is yes)
to the rate hike?
I thought it was in
June.
Not on Sunday.
Thank god I just bought my
Unlimited.
God bless the unlimited card,
and it making life be great in
18 minute intervals.
I'm gonna ride the trains
all Sunday
to watch people through fits.
Mmmm.
Sounds like fun.
(again, from Monday, when this was fresh and relevant)
Hey, people of
Anywho.
But the best part - no more Oscar speculation and people thinking that well...read the first part of this. Hooray movies!
Now I will sit at home and enjoy my "Viva Pedro" collection I bought on DVD. Sweeeeeet.
(last three posts were created on Monday, but I forgot to actually post them)
Okay, the mean bigiated side comes out. I'm in painful shoes today so my mood is not being enhanced by blistered feet (but that's part of life, eh?).
Another subway, WTF? Why do the little middle aged Chinese women with eight bags of groceries at 8:30 in the morning take one step into the subway car and just stop. They just stand there, facing the inside, right in the middle of the doorway and only an inch from the door.
What the hell is this? What is this? When and where is that acceptable? Not even in China. Maybe you are so amazed of the space left in the subway car compared to the meat packed conditions of Chinese public transportation, but I don't care. Move! Again, I'm in four inch heels. I can't just stand there with a foot between the car and platform. Have you seen those platforms, they're made of flimsy wood. Just move and don't look surprised when people are passing by you.
What is this?!?! Why does this happen all the time?
(PS: I know you speak English, I heard you! Don't play that card!)
I find the idea that
Broadway
isn't a street, or an avenue
or anything,
unsettling
(like wet toast and small mariachi band)
It's just
Broadway.
One of myI predict.
And admittedly,
I'm good at this stuff,
Obama is going to be like good old #10
Eli Manning in the 4th quarter.
At the last minute
when you think the team will go down
you have 30 seconds left.
They're gonna try and grab onto Obama,
his gonna wiggle his way out of a bad grip on his shirt
and he's gonna make it.
Not gonna get tackled,
but rather
win the game at the last minute.
And with 1 second left on the clock,
Clinton's gonna demand a final gasp
and it will be pointless.
She's grumble
and groan.
But nothing will stop the parade.
VOTE OBAMA '08
(I waited 4 years to vote for him and I can't wait to do it again in November)
Apparently
and I think these reports are
wildly
exaggerated,
about 3 million people
were at the ticker tap parade for
the New York Giants
in downtown Manhattan
(which is a relatively small area).
That's about the
entire population of
Manhattan and Queens
combined.
The atmosphere was like
a frat house,
of some accounts,
in the subways.
Still go glad I don't take the 6.
But what I found most interesting
was this article
about the term "ticker-tape parade".
It's easy to figure out,
but interesting nonetheless.
As you can see here
the ticker tape was flying.
Actually, it was just lazily ripped up office documents.
Doesn't seem
too smart
for the financial district and City Hall.
Most years I feel this category shows off the amazing achievements in international film making. Only one entry per country allows countries like France and Italy not to dominate the category. Past amazing winners have included The Barbarian Invasions (one of my favorite films, amazing since I thought The Decline of the American Empire was unbearable and obnoxious), No Man's Land (even though it won over Amelie), All About my Mother (via la Pedro!) and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (among many others obviously).
Dear People of America: Juno is good but horribly overrated! This category, I feel, is up for grabs. People will get their panties in a twist if Juno doesn't win and I wouldn't be surprised if Diablo Cody won (especially because she is an attractive ex-stripper with hipster tattoos and taste in music - wacky!). Ratatouille was good but not Oscar script worthy. Lars and the Real Girl hasn't been getting awards so, no on that one. Michael Clayton is too serious to win this category - the Oscar has recently been given to people like Charlie Kaufman, Pedro Almodóvar, Sophie Coppola, Alan Ball and Quentin Tarantino - all for scripts very unique and Sundance-y. Tamara Jenkins is nominated for the Savages and wrote and directed one of the my favorite film Slums of Beverly Hills. My vote = Tamara Jenkins, especially since the Academy loves anything with Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman (as do I) and with this film they get a double punch.
A woman playing a man?! Insane. Cate Blanchett is of course getting rave reviews for I'm Not There and the Academy loves gender benders. But Ruby Dee is old and has been acting since the '40s and the Academy loves giving people awards for just still be alive. Saoirse Ronan is too young and Tilda Swinton has done better work. Amy Ryan might steal the award because the Academy loves drug addicts and generally awful human beings. My prediction = actually no one really cares about this category because of the Supporting Actor category but I say Cate Blanchett and she will look fabulous accepting the award. cx
To be honest I find this category a little lackluster. I don't think there was one really amazing part for actresses this year. Cate Blanchett for The Golden Age - that's a joke right? Ellen Page - that's another joke. Have you ever seen her interviewed? She is Juno, she wasn't acting, she just wore a pregnant belly. Marion Cotillard - glad she was nominated, I feel she's been a little overlooked because she's not very well known stateside. My prediction = Julie Christie for Away from Her. The Academy loves Alzheimer's victims and come back actors (she won her first Oscar in 1966) and has generally been forgotten since then. However, I would love if Laura Linney or Cotillard took it instead.
win because no one wants to hear another fucking smug speech - I could live without) but they have a snowball's chance in hell on winning although I think it's great that they nominated because they are great actors. But Daniel Day Lewis made There Will be Blood. I just saw it last night - in Times Square which equals idiots everywhere but that's another story. Although Anderson's movie is great Daniel Day Lewis is almost too good an actor. Paul Dano, Dillon Freasier and Ciaran Hinds are all amazing yet unfortunately overlooked, although they shouldn't considering they all held their own opposite Day Lewis (or is it just Lewis? Mmmmm...?) On a side note: prediction for future - give Paul Dano one more amazing role and he will be nominated for an Oscar. He's an amazing actor who is almost there. Day Lewis is best when Daniel Plainview is on the edge of extreme violence. I'll write more about it later. But yes - My prediction = Daniel Day Lewis (and the true love of my mother's life) will get his much deserved second Oscar this year.
I love the Cohen brothers. I really do. I'm glad No Country was good because I thought The Ladykiller, Intolerable Cruelty and The Man Who Wasn't There were just unbearably forgettable. They have been getting a lot of press for having the best film of the year but P. T. Anderson, as I mentioned before is overlooked for no reason whatsoever. He is an amazing director. Julian Schnabel is showing himself to be a great director with Basquiat (which a lot of people didn't think but take Courtney Love out and it would have been perfect) and Before Night Falls. Anything that takes him away from throwing porcelain plates on a canvas is good in my book. My prediction = In an upset Schnabel will win. But if Anderson won, I would be very happy as well.
ImprovEverwhere
Are the most genius,
subversive
and
generally amazing
people in New York.
My favorites:
'Meet a Black Guy'
and their most recent
'Frozen Grand Central'
These people are the
reason
the people on the subway
in Borat
don't really looked
that
surprised.
