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i eagerly await this one, just because it's danny boyle. everyone should see 'millions'.

i absolutely would.

i agree, but he needs to lay off the footnotes. i mean, shit, i just wrote a paper with fifty-nine footnotes in it, and even i don't take that habit on to the message board.

i tried getting through 'catch-22' a couple times, but i could never make it. i enjoyed it a lot, but...there was just so much of it and it wasn't going anywhere, just a series of jokes strung together. so i couldn't really get up any motivation to keep going through it. just started reading neil gaiman's 'coraline' now. it's shaping up to be very good.

why not. i'm in.

i'm totally baffled by people who like or dislike critics based on how well the critic's taste meshes with theirs. it's a tad unreasonable to expect somebody to have the exact same opinions as you on movies. who gives a shit if he gave 'van helsing' 3 stars, as long as he had specifiable reasons, a point-of-view, and good writing. that's my favorite part.

you think so? i've figured since before the tournament even started that it was going to be "day in the life" vs. "like a rolling stone" in the finals. no.

that brings back a lot of memories of early childhood games played in the bathroom with the full-length mirror.

fey's daughter is named alice zenobia? ...

i got to see bourdain speak at an authors' series here in pittsburgh. not a lot of substance to it, but he's about as entertaining a speaker as you'd think. he also seems like a genuinely nice guy and really gracious. when he was signing books & shaking hands afterwards, i told him that i use his "beirut" special in my college composition class as a good example of a video essay, and he had absolutely no idea what to say--just kind of an "oh wow, thank you" thing. he clearly didn't know what to think of the idea of people studying him as a writer. which is really too bad, cause he's a god damn good writer. he just doesn't really think of himself as one.

the fox network's 'kitchen nightmares' or the bbc 'ramsay's kitchen nightmares'? the former is really hard for me to watch, everything over-the-top and bad about fox reality shows. the latter is really involving, and actually shows ramsay to be a nice & caring guy when he wants to be.

^overexposure i think is a real problem, and the network's desperate desire to turn its cooks into stars sometimes leads to some bizarre things (who the hell was clamoring for a non-cooking guy fieri or sunny tokenblackgirl show?). but the overall strategy of putting "food living" and competitive programs in prime time is the smartest thing they ever did. no way in hell would they be as successful as they are now if it was 24 hours of cooking shows. i mean, if you think about it, there's a lot more to food than just cooking technique: there's history, there's memories, there's social status, there's a whole sense of time and place. 'feasting on asphalt' 1 and 2 did it about as well as it could be done. great show that was. and i'd much rather watch duff's assistants make a 'big lebowski' cake than watch tyler florence make coq-au-vin in an empty kitchen.

when and by whom did you get maced?

there's an einstein bros. right across the street from my house. food is okayish, but i try to stay away from it because the service is always terrible. i also don't like the fact that you can't butter your own bagel, you have to let them do it for you (and essentially drown the whole thing in grease). their coffee is a little too acidic for my taste. i eat way too many bagels, but they're all from panera. they're more like dinner rolls than bagels but i don't really mind. the asiago ones are especially good. my typical weekday lunch is two asiago bagels and coffee.

franz fanon: like adorno, but for black people! except adorno hated jazz.

re: sayles--i never liked 'lone star' that much, but 'eight men out' is really really good. so good on its own merits that you forget john cusack is in it, and years after you've seen it when your friends are trying to make lists of the best john cusack movies, you can bust it out and they'll all go, "whoa...i totally forgot about that one!" i've also wanted to see 'matewan' for a while. maybe i'll do it over christmas break, thanks to this thread.

didn't you vote for "brown-eyed girl"?

milky will probably win. and/or gosunkugi, who picked sidney lumet. i wanted to see if i could come up with a half-decent roster made up of people nobody picked. here's what i came up with after half a day or so at work: directors: Zhang Yimou Raise the Red Lantern, To Live, Hero, The Road Home Francois Truffaut The 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player, Jules & Jim, Day for Night Jonathan Demme The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia Jean Renoir The Rules of the Game, Grand Illusion, Boudu Saved from Drowning Wong Kar-Wai Chunking Express, In the Mood for Love, Days of Being Wild, Fallen Angels actors: George C. Scott (Patton, The Hustler, Dr. Strangelove, Anatomy of a Murder) Frances McDormand (Fargo, Lone Star, Blood Simple) Julianne Moore (Boogie Nights, Safe, Magnolia, Vanya on 42nd Street) Yves Montand (The Wages of Fear, Tout va bien, Le Cercle Rouge) Andy Griffith (A Face in the Crowd) Maggie Cheung (As Tears Go By, In the Mood for Love, 2046) David Strathairn (Good Night & Good Luck, The Bourne Ultimatum, Eight Men Out) Bette Davis (Now Voyager, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane) Trevor Howard (The Third Man, Laura, Brief Encounter) Juliette Binoche (Blue, Cache, Chocolat) Ruth Gordon (Harold and Maude, Rosemary's Baby) Gong Li (Raise the Red Lantern, 2046, To Live) Sessue Hayakawa (The Cheat) Agnes Moorehead (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, All That Heaven Allows, Bewitched) Walter Matthau (Fail Safe, The Odd Couple, A Face in the Crowd) Richard Widmark (Kiss of Death, Pickup on South Street) Anne Bancroft (The Graduate, The Miracle Worker) John Hurt (Alien, The Elephant Man) Danny McBride (All the Real Girls, Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder) Anna Karina (Pierrot le fou, Le Petit Soldat, Band of Outsiders) Ralph Bellamy (His Girl Friday, The Awful Truth, Trading Places) Lee J. Cobb (Twelve Angry Men, On the Waterfront, The Exorcist) Julie Christie (McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Don’t Look Now, Finding Neverland) Elliott Gould (MASH, Ocean’s Eleven, The Long Goodbye) David Cross (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Arrested Development, Alvin and the Chipmunks) Laura Linney (The Truman Show, You Can Count on Me, The Squid and the Whale) Janet Leigh (Psycho, Touch of Evil, The Manchurian Candidate) Diane Keaton (The Godfather trilogy, everything Woody Allen made in the 70s) Jeanne Moreau (Chimes at Midnight, Elevator to the Gallows, Jules and Jim) Albert Finney (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Erin Brokovich, Annie) there might be some repeats of others' rosters in there.

Oh, heavens no. I'll put stock in and vitriol towards the supposed Rahm Emanuel version when it actually happens, which it won't. i don't think i ever got around to saying this before, but this obama plan is a pretty piss poor idea anyway that isn't going to fix dick, because the whole problem is that private lenders are allowed to give unfair loans to college students who either don't know better or have no other options. that shit needs to be blown up from the inside, and this helps very little. doesn't matter though, as i doubt this plan will pass anyway. higher education has a way of consistently moving down the list of national priorities.

stopped caring once i read this.

would he be your go-to voiceover narrator? if you have a movie with a scene at a video arcade, he could also have a cameo taking quarters out of the machines.

tell me more.

Google mocks my failed dreams Eh, writing is worthless as a profession. Unless you're planning to become a novelist, which you probably are since you're the most urbane dude here and you read a lot of books. But a degree in professional writing? That's bullshit and it won't get you anywhere. Well, scratch that. Won't get ME anywhere. I suppose going through the rigors of higher education will give you the benefit of more knowledge. But that piece of paper won't take you anywhere. (Yeah, I know you wanted to go to grad school. But just graduating once should mean something, shouldn't it? More and more I'm feeling like my bachelor's degree is worth about as much as passing middle school.) I'm a college graduate and my parents want me to take a job at a fucking gas station so I can pay my car insurance. Don't they know my friends are going to laugh at me? Byron the Bulb, are you black? Czech thought you were and I was like "no way, that dude's totally white." Maybe in his world, refined Caucasoids can't appreciate Weezy F. Baby, but I know what's up. i take issue with that.

Every 16-year-old kid that reads Catcher in the Rye thinks Holden is bad ass. He's the total antihero. By the time you're 18 you realize what an utter doucebag he is. Or you'll still identify with him and we'll know that you're the doucebag. Simple litmus test, really. this about sums up my opinion of 'portrait of the artist as a young man' too. yet another reason why 'ulysses' is awesome is to see dedalus get stripped of his pretenses and be outed for being a self-isolating, vagrant shitbag.

i'd agree with that, but there's a sizable gulf between "not bad" and "better than james brown, michael jackson, and mick jagger."