Mecha Mummy

A guitar shard maybe?

Check out Gone Baby Gone, which is like definitive proof of what an amazing actress Amy Ryan is; she can play really sweet, likable characters like Holly or Beadie Russell on The Wire (which you should also watch because everybody should watch The Wire), and then she can also play... well, what she played in Gone Baby Gone, which is like the ultimate nasty bitch. She seriously might be my favorite actress going today, she's so good at making all of her characters so distinctive and interesting.

Fred Armisen has Barack Obama's inflections and vocal mannerisms down, and he deserves credit for that; in Thursday's debate sketch he did a great job with Obama's tendency to stretch words out when he's clearly looking for the way to articulate something he's thinking (or alternatively when he just goes "... ahhh" or "um"). Unfortunately, that doesn't change the fact that he doesn't sound a thing like him other than that (his voice is too high-pitched) and doesn't particularly look like him either. They need someone who looks remotely like Obama and most importantly can sound like the man; otherwise it's just some guy who talks in the same way Barack Obama does.

I'm in a math class right now so no write-ups, but here are my next two picks. Tilda Swinton Mark Ruffalo

Shit, I had him on my list. Good pick.

Kofi? No, he wasn't. His entire title reign basically consisted of one bland feud with Paul Burchill that went on way too long (and it only lasted like a month and a half at most to boot). Honestly, while Santino's matches are dull the Honk-a-Meter and the question of how long he can keep his hands on the belt is the first time in forever that the IC Title has felt like it meant something in a good while other than a showpiece for guys who are too good for it; Kofi as champion had potential but burned out because they had absolutely nothing for him.

-- oh, apparently I've got another two. Rock. Let's go with two of my favorite actors who've made more of a splash in TV rather than film, then. Daniel Dae Kim Michael K. Williams

... orz. Next one won't be this late, I swear, I had two quizzes to study for and didn't get a PM, so. Mos Def Michael Douglas

Let's just do the past month, between CD purchases and birthday gifts:

Yeah, he made a two-night return in this year's King of Trios tournament (which I think is going to end up my favorite event of the entire year because it was basically a wrestling geek dream weekend. What other tournament out there would feature guys from Canada, Mexico, Japan, Hawaii, Kaiju Big Battel, and a team consisting of the One Man Gang and Demolition?), where he was the mystery partner of Los Ice Creams in the first round in a losing effort against Team Mexico, and then he was in the four-way the next night. He was kind of limited (his offense was mostly just chops with some other stuff thrown in occasionally), but he was totally into the atmosphere, to the point where he took part in Los Ice Creams' most deadly, dastardly act... He busted out the sprinkles. It was really fun stuff.

If I do anything for Halloween this year I'll probably just reuse my Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight costume I made for a convention earlier in the year. I paid like fifty bucks for that damn red leather coat, I might as well get as much use out of it as possible.

Yeah, I was thinking that too. Dude is massive, and if he can actually sound like Snoop I will be dumbstruck. But at the same time, it's awesome seeing him in shit because Slim Charles was one of my favorite Wire characters, definitely my favorite who never made the main cast.

God, I just laughed out loud at the Cassidy thing this week. That subplot is spiraling further and further into the abyss of unintentional, Narm-tastic comedy, possibly the worst subplot The Shield has ever done (and the only reason I can't say that with 100% certainty is because I haven't watched the first four seasons in a couple of years).

For my fourth director, Michael Mann And for another actor in the "not a leading man/box office draw but an actor talented enough to be the focal point of the movie" category... Woody Harrelson

Ugh, the school quarter has sort of killed all of my already-limited ability when it comes to the internet stuff I'm doing, sorry for the lateness. Anyway, I figured my first pick out when in my geology class today the teacher showed The Core as an example of a bad movie that fails at science and I realized that despite the fact that the movie was atrocious, there was one man who STILL managed to pull an amusing performance out of nowhere to add to his list of great performances in actual good films. As such, my next pick: Stanley Tucci And my second pick is... well, really kind of an uneven actor with a lot of awful, awful movies on his resume, but when he's good he's very good, and Kevin Smith somehow manages to get consistently good performances out of him. And when he's bad... well. If I lose my mind like I think I'm going to there might be something more to that. Ben Affleck

Tom Wilkinson was one of those guys I was considering last round before I went with Lorre instead. Great actor, definitely a strong pick.

I'm going to the Seattle Raw and I'm considering bringing a Honk-a-Meter sign. My seats aren't great, though, because I didn't find out about the show until just last week, so it's probably not going to matter either way. Still, I'm just glad we're even getting a Raw, Jesus, how many years has it been?

... son of a bitch, that was my next pick. I seriously thought I could have waited a round on that, augh.

Did you notice that Gosunkugi's draft list lacks younger, more relatively photogenic-looking actors? Gosunkugi noticed. James Franco ... and on the entirely opposite end of the spectrum, another one of the greatest character actors of all time. Peter Lorre ... man, between Franco, Lorre, del Toro, and Buscemi I basically have the most astoundingly bleary-eyed cast possible.

Honestly, the reason why I haven't gone after any classic actors/directors other than my opening double-pick and... the second guy in my picks this time is that while I'm sure Katherine Hepburn, Clark Gable, and Billy Wilder are picks that would be great to make, I just... haven't seen enough of their stuff to truly feel like it would make sense for me to draft them. It'd feel like a pick made more on reputation rather than me being able to go "man, I loved ______ in ________ and ________." Alright, anyway. Amy Ryan I already really enjoyed everything I'd seen her in prior to this, and then I saw Gone Baby Gone the other night and was like "... oh wow, yeah, that's my next pick right there." Takashi Shimura Completing the Kurosawa/Mifune/Shimura trifecta at last.

Steve Buscemi One of the best character actors you could possibly ask for. Just brilliant in everything he does and always a highlight of pretty much everything he's in. Benicio del Toro Again, like Buscemi and Hoffman before him on my list another guy who is just fantastic in everything, and though he's not like a leading man as such he can be the focal point of the movie and carry it easily.

... ouch, Rickman. How did I not think of Rickman.

Hahaha, yeah, I had the same "... oh hey it's that guy" reaction to Josh Daniels. Swagger looked okay, though I'd like to see him in an actual competitive match for comparison.

Oh, hey, it's Noble's old theme.

-- shit, I had another round? Man, I really shouldn't have joined a draft just prior to school getting back in. Er uh anyway... Philip Seymour Hoffman Incredibly versatile, just as good at comedic roles as he is dramatic, and has worked with Lumet before. Natalie Portman A talented actress with a fairly diverse filmography who, Star Wars prequels aside, I tend to enjoy in everything she does.