I'm a big Don Hertzfeldt fan. "I am so proud of you" was excellent and should have made the list.

FANCY
He is Legend does an excellent cover of Fancy. It's kind of hard to find, though. They don't change any of the lyrics despite having a male lead singer. The whole thing reeks of awesome.

New Found Glory
They also have a cover of "My Heart Will Go On". I'm endorsing neither the band nor the song. Just sayin' that's out there.

I just took it as marking the end of an era. It reminds me a little of American Graffiti. We're know it's taking place in 1963, and some characters mention their plans for the fall. As audiences we know that there's an event coming up that will change everyone's lives in some way. It's definitely calculated, but it's…

I really like Every Man for Himself. The Moth on the other hand was awful.

Season Two opens with Desmond's eye opening. And Season Three opens with Juliet's eye. I wou;dn't be surprised by that at all.

In Big Fan, it feels like more of a punch line. Like the whole movie is building up to something much darker and harrowing, but then it's just paint ball. This book does the same thing, but it feels more incidental here. I suppose that's because there are so many characters and plots and two more chapters afterwards.

It's planned out really well. If season one had been as complex as later seasons, no one would have cared about the characters because you wouldn't have been able to get to know them very well.

Chihuahuas scare the fuck out of me.

Pontypool, bitches!

I feel helpless
Seriously, between this and the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling, I'm feeling a little overwhelmed by big business.

I don't think it was a negative, but it prevented me from relating to most of the characters. In fact, I think it made me like Joe Pope and Lynn Mason much more because they were the perceived outsiders. I suspect that was the intention to a degree.

I think the "we" voice distanced me from the characters as well. I mean I can still relate to being part of an office and occasionally referring to office business in the first person plural. It did not seem unnatural to me at all. But I like to think of myself as independent and my own person with individual…

"She definitely has breast cancer."
This is also a line in this month's Wrapped up in Books selection, THEN WE CAME TO THE END. I couldn't help but laugh when I came to that line. Damn you, Tommy Wiseau!

I wouldn't say that. But I won't argue with anyone who does.

I like this movie.
And I like the write-up.

Only three sci-fi movies have ever been nominated for Best Picture: A Clockwork Orange, Star Wars and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.

Echo and the Bunnymen. That's going to be awesome.

I haven't seen Book of Eli, but I'm really hoping we get to a point where we can stop slapping the word "porn" onto any genre we don't like. I'm kind of sick of it.

If I Picked the Winners . . .
Best Motion Picture - Drama: The Hurt Locker
Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy: all these movies suck, so I would campaign for a write-in vote for A Serious Man.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama: I haven't seen jeff Bridges' performance yet, so I have to say…