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Oct 18 2007
Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off!
Shiny! I just got my special edition Serenity in the post. It had to come all the way from Amerikay, but it is shiny shiny shiny.
I just gotta find time to watch it now.
As you may have guessed from the lack of posting- hang on, that isn’t strictly true as I have posted a few reviews, but there have been less of my ramblings than usual, so I’ll reword that sentence: As you may have guessed from the reduction in my ramblings I’ve been a little busy lately. Yeah, more students around at work and whatnot, but that isn’t really the issue. I could easily post at home, no, I’ve been preoccupied with visiting pound shops and buying crap. Why, I hear you ask[1] . Well that is easy; we are holding a football awards night out tonight. And as the Organising Committee[2] I’ve been run off my feet coming up with award categories and deciding on who should win and getting prizes. And what wonderfully crappy prizes they are! Although who knew it’d be so hard to find something costing €2 and doctor related. Weren’t there like hundreds of crappy stethoscopes[3] about when you were a kid? Anyways, despite harrowing setback like that, and the fact that Hickey’s was closed by the time I got there last night and so couldn’t get the ribbon for the medals, I have every confidence that tonight will be a total success. Or at least a drunken night. I’ve been saving up my weekly unit limits and reckon I can get totally pissed and come to no harm.
That is the way it works right? As a ladddeeeee I get what, 14 units a week? And I haven’t had a drink in two and half weeks, and so I get to have 35 units. Thats a lot of vodka and diet coke.
Work tomorrow will be fun.
Oh, and the interests of staying positive let us not mention the ROI’s performance at Croke Park last night. Discretion and valour and all that.
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Jan 25 2005
Oscar time again, can you believe it?
And the nominations are:
Best picture
- The Aviator
- Finding Neverland
- Million Dollar Baby
- Ray
- Sideways
- I’m guessing The Aviator will win this, the only other one I’ve seen is Finding Neverland, which was good, but the money is still on Mr. Hughes
Best director
- Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
- Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
- Alexander Payne - Sideways
- Taylor Hackford - Ray
- Mike Leigh - Vera Drake
-Again I’ll go with Scorsese, it’s be nice to see Alexander Payne win though.
Best actor
- Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda
- Johnny Depp - Finding Neverland
- Leonardo DiCaprio - The Aviator
- Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby< ?li>
- Jamie Foxx - Ray
-this is a toughie. I’d like Depp to win. He was very good in Finding Neverland, but DiCaprio was great as Hughes too. And have heard that Foxx is fantastic in Ray. Still I’m hoping for Depp to get it. Then again, have some great reviews of Hotel Rwanda, and that may be a very Oscar-worthy film.
Best actress
- Annette Bening - Being Julia
- Catalina Sandino Moreno - Maria Full of Grace
- Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake
- Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby
- Kate Winslet - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
-I’d say Hilary Swank will win, but who knows. The only one I’ve seen is Kate Winslet, and while she was good I don’t think the role was good enough for an Oscar.
Best supporting actress
- Cate Blanchett - The Aviator
- Laura Linney - Kinsey
- Virginia Madsen - Sideways
- Sophie Okonedo - Hotel Rwanda
- Natalie Portman - Closer
-yet another who knows.
Best supporting actor
- Alan Alda - The Aviator
- Thomas Haden Church - Sideways
- Jamie Foxx - Collateral
- Morgan Freeman - Million Dollar Baby
- Clive Owen - Closer
-purely for his work on Ned & Stacy I;m hoping that Thomas Haden Chruch gets it.
Best original screenplay
- The Aviator
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Hotel Rwanda
- The Incredibles
- Vera Drake
Best adapted screenplay
- Before Sunset
- Finding Neverland
- Million Dollar Baby
- The Motorcycle Diaries
- Sideways
Best foreign film
- As It Is In Heaven (Sweden)
- The Chorus (France)
- Downfall (Germany)
- The Sea Inside (Spain)
- Yesterday (South Africa)
Check out The Guardian for more, and for a link to a downloadable Oscar predictor.
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