Space Balls

Did you guys hear about the space shuttle that got launched today? Probably you did but didn't pay much attention because, like, space is kind of played out. Remember how galaxy photos were the coolest thing in the world for like five months? And then it made it's way to, like, Urban Outfitters or whatever, and then it was over. But that isn't the point of this, nor is the fact that if we put some of that NASA money into fuckin' Africa we could actually make real changes on earth. The point is that I'm in Florida. And Florida is where space shuttles come from. And it was so exciting!
Everyone started getting super psyched about 10 minuted to launch. We were watching it on TV. And then they started the countdown! And then we saw these sparks ignite the fuel! And then everyone booked it outside because WE COULD SEE IT IN THE SKY! We're in Florida! We're right by it! I think it's in Tampa or something!
It was like seeing a comet, except, uh, in the opposite direction. And with a huge trail of smoke that didn't go away for hours. And can you see a comet in the daytime? I don't know. I don't think I've ever seen a comet. But I've seen a rocket! And that's even kind of cooler because there's PEOPLE in it! Awesome! Totally Awesome! I bet comets are awesome, too! And shooting stars! And hot air balloons!
Goooo team things-in-the-sky! Let's stay up all night and watch meteors this summer!

VICE (hey! relatives and other grownups! don't read this one!)

I really mean it, stop reading this now if you are related to me or are my parent's' friends or anything like that! No grownups allowed!

I started smoking. How did this happen? Because, obvious, it's a stupid idea. Cancer, etc. Here's what happened. I am stressed out beyond belief. First of all, The new girl (only 2nd newest, now. We got 3 new people this week. Henceforth she will be known as "the awful girl") is literally the worst person I have ever met in my life. She fakes sick or injured every day. She has called me "the biggest bitch in the world" (screamed it at me, actually) three times. (Her reason why she thinks I'm a bitch? Because I "talk all smart all the time." That's because I AM smart you fucking moron! That's not condescension,! It's reading books other than the fuckin "Twilight" saga! She is horrible. Awful awful awful. I don't think I've ever hated someone like this before. And HATING someone and being called names and having her talking behind my back telling other people not to hang out with me (of course they laugh in her face, EVERYONE hates her and I am generally well liked) is, like, really stressful. Finding a job is stressful. Never having any time by myself except when I'm asleep (and there is still a monitor in the other room) is stressful. Also stressful is that ANOTHER near-retarded person told me I talk too smart and it's annoying (this one is a staff member. I have helpfully provided a few quotes from her to illustrate her extreme dumbness: "You've got to nip that problem in the BUTT." "Rome wasn't built OVERNIGHT." "We'll figure that out when we cross that bridge." This is just a small sample. She talks that way, seriously, in every sentence she speaks. Oh, and she thinks "pizzeria" is pronounced "pizz-A-ria" and she gets super pissed and defensive when people try to correct her. Idiot.) Stressful! And I can't BELIEVE how much cigarettes help. It's like night and day.
Plus, most of my friends here smoke. I know most of my friends at home smoke, too, but we're not all forced into close quarters all day every day back at home. And I was allowed to smoke pot at home. I just want to be with my friends... and some dudes.
Yes, dudes. It has finally reached the point where I can not longer stand to be away from boys. I loooove them! And I feel shitty about it because, uh, still technically married? But dudes? Not like, I hella need to get fucked or anything. I just want to see some boners! Bonerz R Beautiful! And really, I am just desperate for male attention and affection. And I need to know this stuff, anyway. I never really learned how to flirt. I was in a serious relationship since I was 18! So, I need to prepare for my crappy new life as a SINGLE WOMAN. And this is a good place to practice because we're all together all the time. Plus, well, there's pretty slim pickin's, as far as other girls go. Pretty much all the other girls here either have something going already, are sexually traumatized, or are even grosser than me. (I know! Can you even believe it! Naw, I'm just playin'.) People always say, like, "oh, any guy will have sex with anybody" but... is that even true? How does this WORK? Why don't I KNOW this shit?
So, there you have it. Vices. I haves them, and they seem to be progressing in number and size. I'm supposed to be getting betterrrr. I don't want to end up happily turning tricks for cartons of smokes!

John and Yoko: (I will never write about this ever again)

We went and saw an exhibition of John Lennon's art work and it was beautiful and touching. There was this series of "erotics" of naked Yoko or John and Yoko having sex and all that. I'd never seen these works before. Really different than the usual doodle-y things he does. I looked at everything so hard, I got so close to the paintings. I was in there a good half hour longer than everyone else.
And then, I went outside and I cried and cried and cried. John and Yoko were very big symbols to me and my John. They represent an ideal, perfect love that was able to overcome and obstacle (existing marriage, drug addiction, public scrutiny and disapproval, racial barriers, the fucking Beatles, a fucking government conspiracy, and even death). And they were perfect inspirational artistic muses for each other. And they loved each other, and their cat, and later on their little boy.
And Jon and I felt like that, like our partnership was written in the stars and that just by being together we could change the world. He was my strange, small Asian love. Look, we even made t-shirts.
And then it started to change. And then he left. And I'm not saying I didn't do anything nasty, because I did. But he's the one who left.
And I did everything to bring him back Even though things weren't good at the end, I knew we could make it better. I mean, even the Ono-Lennon's had their famed "lost weekend", where Yoko made John date her assistant and he kept showing up at clubs wearing a maxi pad on his forehead. They fixed it. They wanted to fix it and they did. Not all the methods I used to try to get Jon to fix things with me were positive ones, but at least I tried. He didn't try.
As of last week, it's officially over.
Seven years together, three months of marriage. It's strange to really, really hate someone who you also love more than anyone else in the world.
And Valentine's Day is the anniversary of our first date. We went to a party in Davis that was themed "Sex and Violence" and I dressed up as Uma Thurman in "Pulp Fiction" with a mark for where to stab me with a hypodermic needle full of adrenaline. Jon didn't dress as anything, he took too much cold medicine. It was all OK, though. It was wonderful.
It's also the anniversary of the first time we had sex. (They were co-occurring events). Yes, we lost our virginities to each other). He was so sweet. "The Mars Volta" was playing.
The fact that this person, the person who has been the very most important person in my adult life, has gone, seems pretty much unimaginable. I'm shocked, I'm heartbroken, and I guess I need a new boyfriend? Sorry about that flippancy. I don't know, it's just... my desire for male approval is sky high. But if HE ever, EVER is with someone else, I'll lay down and die. That is the very worst thing that could ever happen. I would rather the world ended.
I know he will be pissed I wrote this. I don't care. I need to be honest and open for this one. My heart hurts. I can't care about what he wants me to do anymore, because no matter what I can't change his mind about me. Jon, what happened to John and Yoko? I thought we'd always have Valentine's day.

Casting Director

Being a casting director has been kind of a back-of-my-mind dream since I was in grade school. I don't even know how it came into my mind, but it still sounds enormously appealing.
I just love judging things! Oh dear, that sounds terrible. Maybe it is? Well at least I'm finding a good outlet for my shameful desires. One thing I love to do is watch Miss America on TV and pretend like I'm one of the judges! And say, like, "I like her but her teeth are too big or "TOO MUCH SPRAY TAN!" or whatever. It's like casting for Miss America. I also like to finish a book and then immediately create a dream cast for the movie adaptation. And when I was 9, I was the 4th grade panel member for our school talent show auditions. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.
I'm very abreast of fashion and pop culture, so I guess I know what kind of looks are "in" (oh god, that sounds moronic). I watch movies like a madwoman and I even used to act (uh, a long time ago), so I def. know what constitutes good acting. And I'm opinionated as all hell. I could totally do this!
So, what I did was, I e-mailed every casting director in Florida, asking if I could do an unpaid internship with them. ANd tomorrow? I'm going to e-mail every casting director in San Francisco. And then? God help me, I'm going to e-mail every casting director in LA (this will take forevvvvverrrr). But I think this really might be what I want to do! I want to shuffle through head-shots ALL DAY!
Careers I've decided upon since I got here (3 months):
Staying a photographer, psychologist, psychiatric nurse, comedy writer, and now casting director. And I've got events planner and model booker on the back burner. IS this crazy, manically switching from thing to thing? Or is it, like, growth, ie finally my options and passions and talents, albeit about 8 years later than normal? It doesn't feel bad.

Menopause: The Musical

I have something very horribly embarrassing to announce. The staff MADE me go to a play called "Menopause: The Musical". And then I kind of liked it.
First, let's talk about all the things that are really very WRONG about me kind of liking "Menopause: The Musical". First of all, the topic. Back in the day my mom used to have, like, this medical support group in our house and I thought it was SO DORKY. I mean, who needs that? I certainly didn't have a puberty support group meeting in our house. "Puberty: The Musical could be cool, though, but only if they were making fun of it. Not if they were, like, trying to empower the pubescent. Ok, let's get back on topic, though. I think all those women always complaining about their menopause are wimps. I HAVE hot flashes (it's from my meds). It's annoying but it's not life alteringly horrible. And getting your period straight-up sucks. It's the worst. I will be so goddman happy when I stop getting my periods. I half want to get a hysterectomy after I'm done having kids and then just take hormone replacements. Just get all that junk out of there. So, yes, the people in "Menopause: The Musical" are def. makeing a mountain out of a mole hill. Of course, I don't ACTUALLY know what I'm talking about.
Then there were the songs. Oh lord, the songs. None of them were original music, but rather re-tooling of oldies. It was pretty brutal. Actual example lyrics: "I'm havin' a hot flash/ a tropical hot flash" (that's "Heat Wave"), "If you wanna know/ where the fat cells go/ it's in my hips" ("The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss")). I mean, that is so DORKY! They had the soundtrack for sale! Imagine if your roommate bought that and played it all the time and actually liked it for serious. You might have to kill them.
But then, yes, shamefully, I enjoyed myself. I can't help it! I love all musicals! If a kick-line starts, I'm happy. So, just letting everyone know: I'm a total nerd-face.

Weight Watchers

I started "Weight Watchers". But I'm already cheating in my little book. I'm a Weight Watchers phony! It works on a "points" system, where each food is worth a certain amount of points, and you have a limited amount of points you can use a day. I kind of hate it.
I've lost 25 pounds since I got here, but once you lose 25 pounds in 3 1/2 months, you start feeling like you don't reeeally have to try anymore, because you've already lots. But I want to be able to go on a hike! I want to wear REGULAR SIZED CLOTHES, for god's sake! Check out what I looked like in college (also the VERY 2003 posters on the wall!)
Buying plus size clothes is a nightmare. You've basically got 3 options. There's Lane Bryant, which is expensive clothes for middle-aged women, Torrid, which is embarrassing clothes for phony alternative fat 15 year olds, or the internet, which has awesome things but shipping can get expensive and half of the time when it gets to you the garment doesn't fit. Check out examples of these clothes. It will make you feel bad.

Lane Bryant

Torrid

Internet
But I'm still starting to lose motivation. So I guess I've just got to keep on truckin', truckin' on down the line.

Manateeeees

Do you like manatees? I sure like manatees. They are all chubbed out and have little eyes like a hamster! I do not like the show "South Park", but they occasionally make jokes about manatees and those are golden. Like once they suggested that "Family Guy" is written by manatees, which makes sense, because manatees are very stupid. That's OK with me, though! Also my favorite singer/songwriter Kimya Dawson is a manatee! So manatees are grrrreat!
That is why I lobbied so hard for us to take a trip to Blue Springs. Florida is full of manatees (one of it's few charms) and Blue Springs is the best place to see them, at least around these parts. But the sucky thing is that they mostly onlyhang out when it's cold, and it, like, isn't. There were 11 manatees that day, but sometimes there are more than 200! I saw 4. But at least they were real manatees!
Manatees look like this:


What I saw looked like this:

Except much further away.
But...manatees! Still!
I also had fun with some Villa people. We saw a dead fish and thought it was a dead baby manatee! We are retards. Baby manatees are like 4 feet long when they're born. This fish was like 1 foot. And it was a fucking catfish. Oh, we're dummies. Just like manatees!
Final thought:

Oscar Predictions! Part deux

Directing
“Black Swan” Darren Aronofsky
“The Fighter” David O. Russell
“The King's Speech” Tom Hooper
“The Social Network” David Fincher
“True Grit” Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
The Academy loves the Cohen brothers. You probably do, too, if only for "The Big Lebowski" or maybe "Raising Arizona". They've already won this award once, for "No Country For Old Men" (that movie sucked). But they may throw them a bone with this one because "True Grit" was a surprise blockbuster and they love it when movies make a lot of money. Money gives the Oscars a boner. I saw the movie and I liked it but, you know, I like the Cohen brothers. They're good dudes, even if I'm not totally enthralled by them. The reason I want to see David O. Russell to win is because DAVID O. RUSSELL IS A CRAZY PERSON! Have you seen him freak out at Lily Tomlin on the set of "I Heart Huckabees"? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Qls1rAfYs go watch it! What weird shit will he say at the podium? THE WEIRDEST SHIT! But he won't win because everyone in Hollywood totally hates him.

I'm crazy!

We win evvverything!

Documentary (Feature)
“Exit through the Gift Shop” Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz
“Gasland” Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic
“Inside Job” Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
“Restrepo” Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
“Waste Land” Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley
"Exit Through The Gift Shop" was totally manipulative, I will admit it. But I just kind of let myself go there and it was kind of exhilirating. I am glad there is such a person out there as Banksy. He's basically just a prankster masquerading as an artist, and I find it delightful. He just plays jokes all the time! It's great! But, are they really going to give an Oscar to someone who's face you aren't allowed to see? Probably not. All the other nominees are, like, political and a total snore. But "WasteLand" was political AND weepy, which means OSCAH. Oh, the academy is so sensitive, boo hoo hoo.

Outsider 4 Life?!

Please stop filming me



Foreign Language Film
“Biutiful” Mexico
“Dogtooth” Greece
“In a Better World” Denmark
“Incendies” Canada
“Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi)” Algeria
"Biutiful" is the only one anyone really watched, so it will win. Because it has a movie star and a famous director and, yes, it will totally win. It's also the only movie here that has any other nominations (for Javier Bardem). Oh man will it ever win. But I watched the trailer for "Dogtooth" and hoooly lord Jesus does that look good. (I admit that it was just a trailer. I haven't, uh, actually seen any of these movies). I need to go get Dogtooth. You too.

I am married to Penelope Cruz, and that is all that matters

Is it awesome? I think it is probably awesome.

Makeup
“Barney's Version” Adrien Morot
“The Way Back” Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
“The Wolfman” Rick Baker and Dave Elsey
In "Barney's Version" they did fake facial hair. In "The Way Back" they did sunburns. Um, how does any of that compare with making a fucking WOLFMAN? Monster making versus adding some color to Colin Farrell's cheeks? Doy ahoy.

Duh The Wolfman

Music (Original Score)
“How to Train Your Dragon” John Powell
“Inception” Hans Zimmer
“The King's Speech” Alexandre Desplat
“127 Hours” A.R. Rahman
“The Social Network” Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
"Social Network" will win! Because a famous person did it! Yes, Trent Reznor still counts as famous. I don't personally recall the score for Social Network. But I still want it to win because I like it. Can I just talk for a minute about the scores which I do remember in this category? Because they were so horrible? "The King's Speech" (damn you, King's Speech!) had almost no music. It was strangely silent. Are they trying to give out nominations for RESTRAINT now? It's like Obama winning the NObel Peace Prize for not being George W. Bush. "Well at least he didn't do anything HORRIBLE! Doing nothing is almost the same as doing good things!" It's redonk, "The King's Speech" better not win. I hope it loses everything! (It won't). The other awful score in this list is "127 Hours". Now, I loved "127 Hours" (Fraaancooo!). But it was so NOISY! There was, like, x-treme club music going on throughout the whole thing. I'm too old for that crap. Turn it down!

See? I AM still culturally relevant!

Visual Effects
“Alice in Wonderland” Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1” Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi
“Hereafter” Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojansky and Joe Farrell
“Inception” Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
“Iron Man 2” Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick
Ugh, Inception. Wake me up when it's over. But everyone thought it was soooo mind-bending, and I guess most of that was due to special effects. Maybe they would have been more interesting to me if that movie had any imagination whatsoever. Harry Potter, on the other hand, is raaaad and it was the best one ever and we should just throw awards at it. In reality this is the only category that it has a chance in. It will probably win some next year, after the last movie comes out. Remember how they did that with "Lord Of The Rings"? Ok, well, I do.

always rad

always overrated

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
“127 Hours” Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
“The Social Network” Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
“Toy Story 3” Screenplay by Michael Arndt; Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
“True Grit” Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
“Winter's Bone” Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini
Wow, another one that they probably will actually get right! The dialogue in "The Social Network" made nerds seem like rock stars. It blew my mind. Loved that shit! Because it was one of the best reviewed movies of the year, but probably not going to get a ton of Oscars, they will probably give them this one as a consolation prize. More on this later.

WRITING!

Writing (Original Screenplay)
“Another Year” Written by Mike Leigh
“The Fighter” Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson; Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
“Inception” Written by Christopher Nolan
“The Kids Are All Right” Written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
“The King's Speech” Screenplay by David Seidler
Seriously, "Inception" blows. How do people think that movie was so brain-bending? Haven't they ever had a freaking dream? And weren't they way more crazy and complex than that snoozy movie? It had a bunch of my favorite actors in it and I still totally hated it. But, again, most people thought it was all twisty and deep (wrong). So it will win, for those false, false reasons. On the other hand, I don't know how much people thought about the writing in "The Fighter" because they were probably too caught up in the AWESOME ACTING. But, you know, Christian Bale's crack-fueled rants couldn't exist without starting with a talented writer , OK?

ooh der are so many layers!

we talk like actual people!


Best Picture
“Black Swan” Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver and Scott Franklin, Producers
“The Fighter” David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Mark Wahlberg, Producers
“Inception” Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers
“The Kids Are All Right” Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte and Celine Rattray, Producers
“The King's Speech” Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers
“127 Hours” Christian Colson, Danny Boyle and John Smithson, Producers
“The Social Network” Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
“Toy Story 3” Darla K. Anderson, Producer
“True Grit” Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
“Winter's Bone" Anne Rosellini and Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Producers

My relationship with all this is obviously pretty complicated. I obsess over the academy awards, all the while HATING how they do things. They are idiots, but I love them, So, because of my love, I am choosing this moment to be kind to them. I think that, maybe, just maybe, they won't fuck this one up. Most sources agree that "The King's Speech" is the front-runner. But I really believe that somewhere in their cold black heart, the Academy knows that "The King's Speech" is a smarmry, predictable, Oscar-baiting snooze-fest from hell. Where as the social network is enthralling, timely, important, and wonderful. They must know! They've got to know. DOn't give out Oscars for the most grandiose award lobbying (I'm looking squarely at you, Harvey Weinstein). Give Oscar to, omg, films with friggin ARTISTIC MERIT! (Whaaaat?) But please, dudes. Please please please let me get what I want this time. I know I said "consolation prize" for writing. If it doesn't win for writing, it has to get Best Picture or... I don't know what I'll do. It's going to get very violent.
Other nominees that I would be OK with winning:
The Fighter, 127 Hours, True Grit, Winter's Bone
Other nominees who, if they win, will cause me to throw a shoe at the TV:
Inception, Black Swan, The Kids Are Alright, Toy Story 3

Goooo Team!

Oscar Predictions!

I shouldn't care about the Academy Awards because they are stupid, self-congratulatory and rarely make the correct decisions. But I do, I do care. I have cared immensley since I was 7 years old. And every year, I like to make predictions! I am a geek! So, here are my Oscar predictions. I took out categories that I don't know ANYTHING about like sound mixing and short film animations and what not. The name in bold is the one I think is going to win, the name in italics is the one I think SHOULD win. The catagories are alphabetical order, except best picture which I will do last.

Actor in a Leading Role

Javier Bardem in “Biutiful”
Jeff Bridges in “True Grit”
Jesse Eisenberg in “The Social Network”
Colin Firth in “The King's Speech”
James Franco in “127 Hours”
Did you guys SEE "The King's Speech". Yaaawn. Totally one of those movies made just for Oscar related reasons. The reason Colin Firth is going to win is because they love giving Oscars to actors who play people who have a disability, are historical figures, or who really hate Nazis. Colin Firth's role had all three. And last year he was nominated for "A Single Man", which he was quite good in, despite the fact that it was a pointless movie, and sometimes they give out awards just to make up for slights from previous years. James Franco was obviously better, he carried the entire movie "127 Hours" and he was sad and funny and great and the movie was basically just "don't you love James Franco?" to which everyone answered a resounding "YES!". But he won't win because a) the Academy probably doesn't think he's seasoned enough and b) he's hosting the show so people are probably worried that this will be some kind of interference. At least he's hosting, so everyone can still get a full dose of Franco. And definetly look for him to win one within the next five years.

yesss (but no)

nooo (but yes)


Actor in a Supporting Role

Christian Bale in “The Fighter”
John Hawkes in “Winter's Bone”
Jeremy Renner in “The Town”
Mark Ruffalo in “The Kids Are All Right”
Geoffrey Rush in “The King's Speech”
If Christian Bale doesn't win this, the academy is even more retarded than I previously thought. He's pretty much swept the other award shows, he's always done consistently good work (except in Batman, he sucks in Batman), and he acted the SHIT out of that role. Was it over-acting? Maybe. But it was still hella entertaining and believable. So he'll win. These other bozos don't stand a chance. Ok, Geoffrey Rush stands a small chance, but if they go in that direction, I will kill them. His character was so two dimensional and lame and his nose terrifies me.

Only man in the game

Actress in a Leading Role

Annette Bening in “The Kids Are All Right”
Nicole Kidman in “Rabbit Hole”
Jennifer Lawrence in “Winter's Bone”
Natalie Portman in “Black Swan”
Michelle Williams in “Blue Valentine”
Natalie Portman is EVERYWHERE all of a sudden. She just bulldozed her way to the top of the a-list this year. I haven't seen "Black Swan" because it sounds really gross, but she has been winning all the other awards and they never give awards to people from movies no one really saw (that means ALL the other nominees in this category). Michelle Williams should win, though. I haven't even seen "Blue Valentine", I just know she is always amazing and she is lovely and I just want her to win because I like her. I'm going to try to see the movie this weekend and it will no doubt prove my suspicions that she is awesome at acting and at being cool.

Yaaay!

Whateva

Actress in a Supporting Role

Amy Adams in “The Fighter”
Helena Bonham Carter in “The King's Speech”
Melissa Leo in “The Fighter”
Hailee Steinfeld in “True Grit”
Jacki Weaver in “Animal Kingdom”
Man, "The Fighter" had a lot of fucking great acting in it. I don't really dig Amy Adams that much, but she was so good in that movie! So SASSY! Melissa Leo has been winning everything for her preformance, though. It's another one of those "We should have given this to you earlier" deals, from when she was in "Frozen River". Although Amy Adams had "Junebug" so what the fuck? Melissa Leo didn't have hardly anything to do in that movie, and Amy Adams was rad and played totally against type. Melissa Leo is ALWAYS a lower-class, abrasive-looking woman. But Amy Adams usually plays someone sweet and somewhat flustered. So, there you go. They are going to mess up again.

pretty good

hella good

Animated Feature Film

“How to Train Your Dragon” Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
“The Illusionist” Sylvain Chomet
“Toy Story 3” Lee Unkrich
Toy Story 3 will win. That is a certainty. But why? Why do people love this movie so much? Why was it the highest grossing cartoon of all time? I thought it was totally one of the most inferior Pixar movies. I was bored. I didn't laugh once. Booo. The only animated movie I saw this year and like was "Tangled" but it wasn't even THAAAT great. It was just pretty good. But the other nominees might be good, I just haven't seen them, so I am unable to speculate. I have downloaded "How To Train Your Dragon", though, so maybe I will get around to watching it and then think it was awesome. Maybe? I don't know. Fuck Toy Story 3, seriously.

I don't get it

Cinematography

“Black Swan” Matthew Libatique
“Inception” Wally Pfister
“The King's Speech” Danny Cohen
“The Social Network” Jeff Cronenweth
“True Grit” Roger Deakins

Black Swan will win because it is all fancy looking. Social Network should win because they managed to make something utterly boring (computer programming and going to college) look totally beautiful. It won't win, though. Black Swan will win.

this is all fancy

but this is actually much harder to do

Costume Design

“Alice in Wonderland” Colleen Atwood
“I Am Love” Antonella Cannarozzi
“The King's Speech” Jenny Beavan
“The Tempest” Sandy Powell
“True Grit” Mary Zophres
Boring people think TIm Burton movies are sooo craaaazy and creaaative. They aren't, they suck. TIm Burton is a hack and I don't give a shit about his crappy costumes or anything else. You know what I like? Good shit. Like the costumes in The Tempest. Helen Mirren has like this crazy cape made out of rags, and through part of it Russell Brand has on a dress, and Ben Whishaw plays Ariel in it (omg he's a fox) and at one point he has like these wings and it all looks so rad! Damn you, Academy Awards! But what if True Grit won it? That would be retarded, that movie had hella boring costumes.

You are not cool. You are Hot Topic.

This is what is cool

OK, I am getting all sleepafied now so I will finish this tomorrow, staring with "Directing"

I didn't write for a little while. I am still feeling quite cautious regarding who may be reading this. So I'm just going to say a few little things or analyze pop culture events from now on. Or at least for the time being.
It's been hard for awhile. I feel like I've met my breaking point on a few different things. Lack of contact with the people at home, dealing with the people who are here. We've been expirementing with my sleeping meds, which has led to various disturbances. It's a veritable sleepy rollercoaster.
There has been DRAMA around here. One girl ran away like five times in three days. She finally got discharged, but it was way stressful. It causes the staff to kind of freak out and run around, and all treatment or whatever else ends up pushed to the side. She was a nice girl, but this obviously wasn't the place for her and everyone ended up suffering for it. I feel like being much bitchier about this topic, but, like I said, I'm nervous about total honesty right now. So let's move on to slightly bitchier things.
Everyone hates the new girl. She talks constantly, she lies, she complains. In a way it's brought the patients together, all sharing a mutual disgust. I AM trying to be proactive about it, though. I've been attempting to kind of constructively explain things to her, at the urging of my therapist. I don't really know if it's working. In fact, I don't think it is. I don't think she can see past her own nose. But whaaaatever. I'm transitioning into full time TLLC so I won't have to deal with her too much, soon enough. I hope. Oh god do I hope.