no, he had to, as they say, make it look real. nobody respects a boxer who takes a dive without getting hit; he had to look like he was trying to stay in it, even if he (clearly) was trying to get voted off.

i missed a lot of what syesha was saying while she was crying because as soon as she started comparing the suffering of the civil rights' protesters to her fame whoring, everyone in my home starting screaming profanities at her.

he was brilliant on 'how i met your mother,' even if he sounded more irish than canadian.

yeah, i'm not rooting for anyone really anymore. who there is really 'YOUR AMERICAN IDOL!' i like castro well enough, but do any of them even seem capable of being someone like kelly clarkson or even fantasia?

fuuuuck
why do people like david cook? i'm fucking mystified. i'm sorry for his brother and everything, but family pain doesn't magically pull your silly comb-over nickelback rock into listenable territory. i never thought daughtry's songs were particularily good, but at least he can sing! he reminds me of pony…

jason's choice
two real questions for andrew lloyd webber week : what song will jason mumble his way through and can he manage to get eliminated before this shit gets real? he's pretty much my favorite at this point and his main goal in life should be to dodge making the final 3 at all costs. then he can just make…

for modern horror, i loved 'cabin fever'. this review reminded me that one of my favorite things about it is that eli roth starts off introducing a stereotypical horror movie cast : boy scout, easy girl, goes-too-far guy, virgin mary, rogue. then he spends the rest of the film tearing those characterizations apart,…

for modern horror, i loved 'cabin fever'. this review reminded me that one of my favorite things about it is that eli roth starts off introducing a stereotypical horror movie cast : boy scout, easy girl, goes-too-far guy, virgin mary, rogue. then he spends the rest of the film tearing those characterizations apart,…

i've been wrong
many times, films i recommend age badly, but i've been pushing 'lost highway' on people since i dragged friends to see it in college three separate times, so it's nice to see it get some credit here. especially when 'mulholland drive' felt so disjointed, yet got such acclaim, when, as its been pointed…

kevin smith online
arguing about kevin smith online is like trying to fuck yourself in the ass : you'll never reach your intended target and seriously, are you that gay?

archuleta sucks the life out of me. the whole rick-moranis-in-'strange brew'-esque 'ah, geez, i'm just so lucky to be here, oh, wow' bit would be more believable if he hadn't been performing on stage since he was 4. at least sanjaya had an anarchist, destroy-the-show streak that made his abominable performances into…

beyond ubiquitous
i work at a video store where we are forced to listen to the same previews (and music videos) every hour; sometimes twice an hour, if we're extra lucky. so i have now heard 'put it on my tab . . . put it on my tab *post-quip song clip*' roughly 240 times at my job (40 hours a week * 6 weeks…

yeeaaaaah
'a lot of groups play the exact same style of indie-rock today, but there's a recklessness, an oddness, a desperation - in short, a punkness - missing from band of goddamn horses or whatever.'

yeeaaaaah
'a lot of groups play the exact same style of indie-rock today, but there's a recklessness, an oddness, a desperation - in short, a punkness - missing from band of goddamn horses or whatever.'

pandas
most of the ads were just sad, but that panda one really was offensive. my dad : '3 million dollars so they can offend asians?'

dilemma
i'm sure as a professional critic, there is some impetus to see films widely spoken of (i.e. 'the wackness'), so as to have a justifiable opinion. but, my unsolicited opinion is to always see the unknown film; you'll end up seeing films like 'the wackness' eventually anyway, and i would envy the opportunity…

the hell
were the wga hoping that 2 shows so reliant on pre-written segments would fail so badly that viewers (and paramount etc.) would understand how vital the writers are to these shows? i can't imagine why else the guild would deny stewart & co, arguably people who would serve as their best mouthpieces, a deal…

am i an idiot
or did keith phipps mean 'Its form changes, but not its essence' instead of 'Its essence changes, but not its form'? i can't figure out if it's reversed or not.

once again
i spend three years obsessing over sterling hayden and then rabin posts about him, continuing to thwart me at every turn. curse you, rabin, curse you!

boring, but
the two movies that captured my college experience best were 'the rules of attraction' and noah baumbach's 'kicking and screaming,' and it is that latter that i think helps me understand why there aren't more intelligent films about the heady rush of an expansive universe of wisdom laid at your feet for…