Rockin’ the new strings
Epiphone ES-335
Quote of the Day [3.22.10]
“[T]he emotional core of opposition to reform was blatant fear-mongering, unconstrained either by the facts or by any sense of decency.”
Paul Krugman, “Fear Strikes Out” NY Times, Monday March 22, 2010
Bracket Has Ceased
Darn! And we only just begun. It looks the way I filled out my bracket is just like burning money. You have any money I can burn, too.
UPDATE: 8:47 PM
Not completely blown up, but if that G’town-Ohio score holds up that might just sink the ship right there. G’town. How phony! CapSwell why did you trick me?
Oh yeah, just as I said yesterday? F’ the Irish!
UPDATE: 10:32 PM
I can’t watch anymore. My hearts all a flutter. Just lose. Just win. Just keep that bracket going.
CapSwell laments not rooting for his team. It’s because you can’t be too emotional to make your picks. You just have to be cold, calculating. That way you can say it was the numbers that made you fill out your bracket that way. Here’s hoping CapSwell’s other brackets are doing alright.
She’s Out of Your League
She’s Out of Your League makes explicit the conceit of the Macho Chick Flick: “How does he end up with her?” It’s right there in the title. A hottie, 10, hooks takes out the nerdly 5, they hit it off, and believe that they are right for each other. Will they believe to make it right? Will their friends spoil it? Are they really meant for each other? And can a 5 make himself into an 8 to get close enough to dating a 10?
Of course, it rom-com land, they end up together. The reason to watch is to find out what their obstacles are.
I like Jay Baruchel. He starred in the underappreciated Apatow tv show, Undeclared. It reminded me of college at the U, and that was 7 years out ten years ago. Yet, he is pretty much annoying here. He’s too nerdly. No girl would dig that. When you think of him that way, then he was perfect for the role.
This movie falls into the Apatow, guy rom-com except that it didn’t have any of his repertoire company except for Baruchel. I kept trying to figure out which character would be played by an Apatow member. There’s a Jonah Hill/Seth Rogan guy, the fast talking friend. There’s a Jason Segal role and a Paul Rudd role. It seemed like the producers scrimped on the stars and with second rate actors.
Alice Eve is attractive. But she’s not the hottest girl out there. I wonder if that was the way it was supposed to be.
2 of 5 stars.
Deep Thoughts Vol. LXCMXXIV
On the drive home tonight, I listened to the radio. Tuned into the local classic rock station which was celebrating music from 1983. Said music is classic rock like classic rock was when I was in high school. 20+ years to the music of the 80s just as back in the 80s it was 20+ years to the Beatles, the Stones and the Who.
Hey! Beer here!
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Originally uploaded by felixdaacat.
Looking at the Orioles and hoping that spring training is going to be nothing like the regular season. Except the bats. Not the pitching. And definitely not the losing.
Anyway. I was searching for spring training pictures and came across this set from last season’s penultimate game. We were at this game. So let’s play, “Where’s BrowserMetrics?” Squint real hard and find us.
And the Oscar went to…
The preliminary count of the winner of the BrowserMetrics Oscar Pool in Imax 3D. I still have to tabulate the votes and make sure that my math is correct. Or I can look at the Seeds count.
Looks to be Jeremy Benthem aka The Seed.
I actually got the most points but I am ineligible for the prize.
I’d like to thank you, my participants, for making this fun. It’s you who make it all worth while.
UPDATE 12:34 AM EST
I think this is the final correct tally.
BrowserMetrics 37
Jeremy Bentham 33
Wyman Lee 30
Riss 25
Marge 23
CapSwell 22
Akeshia 22
Annie 22
Oscar Pool Ballots
I think I’ve closed the google form, here’s the link to the
final submissions. It’s what I’ll be using to tally up the scores. And it looks like I’m gonna have to start putting your names in the hat because they all look the same.
So who’s live blogging this? Or better yet, who’s hosting the live chat? And if you join twitter you may see some of my own bitter tweets.
UPDATE 9:46 PM EST
I forgot to add that I don’t actually win if I do get the most points.
The count so far:
UPDATE 10:03 PM EST
I’m building a lead! Suckers! :p
UPDATE 10:30 PM EST
Heh heh Hurt Locker winning sound!
UPDATE 10:38 PM EST
UPDATE 11:12 PM EST
The Hurt Locker is looking to be the winner of the night! But its gonna come down the the foreign picture to make or break the Oscar Pool.
UPDATE 11:19 PM EST
It looks as if the two time defending champion, riss, has been dethroned. I believe that it is the Wyman who may take her crown. But we still have to do the tabulating of results.
UPDATE 11:50 PM EST
Sandra Bullock looks to give Jeremy Benthem the winning hand.
UPDATE 11:56 PM EST
And it looks to be Jeremy Benthem’s! Unless he gets shot…
Shutter Island
Shutter Island is Martin Scorsese doing his thriller thing. It is based on a Dennis Lehane novel as if that means anything to you. Lehane did a few novels that have been turned into movies perhaps you’ve heard of Mystic River or of Gone Baby Gone. He’s a man of New England, and Scorsese is a man of New York. How does this affect any thing? I don’t know but my review is suddenly going off the rails into a different reality…
Shutter Island is about two federal marshals conducting a manhunt on the eponymous island mental institution looking for an escaped patient. She was supposed to have disappeared without a trace. The wardens have no idea what happened.
Unfortunately, it may take you awhile to figure out what the twists and turns in the movie’s plot. Or if you’ve watched a lot of movies, you’ll expect the unexpected.
Scorsese works in a genre that seems out of his interests. But, he did do the Val Lewton retrospective for Universal. And he does bring some of the extraordinary creepiness that was trademark of Lewton. In fact, the strangeness of the film reminded me of The Curse of the Cat People. It’s not what it seems which was the same for both films.
One thing: don’t watch with your psychiatrist mom she’ll know everyone’s crazy and complain that it’s just like work.
3 of 5 stars.