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05:31 pm
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Oscar Predictions
Well, the Academy Awards come on in a few hours so I thought I'd get my predictions up here, I guess more for posterity's sake than anything else. Hopefully I can gloat about how many I got right later on tonight. I might flesh out my reasons a stuff later, but these are just the quick and dirty picks because I'm in a rush.
BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis has this one locked up I think. At least he deserves it. It'd be cool to see Viggo win, but it's not gonna happen.
BEST ACTRESS
This one's a little tougher. I'd like to see Ellen Page win, but I think it's down to Julie Christie and Marion Cotillard. I wouldn't even consider Christie if she hadn't gotten the SAG award, so I'd say it's gonna be Cotillard.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
My heart says Hal Holbrook, my head says Javier Bardem. Much as Holbrook winning would be a feelgood story, I'm glad that he seems genuinely happy just to be nominated because Bardem has all the momentum (plus he did a pretty good job too).
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
I hope it's not Ruby Dee cause she was in American Gangster for like 10 minutes. Much as I love Cate Blanchett, I think Tilda Swinton is gonna take it here. She was great as the witch in the Narnia movie and pretty good i Michael Clayton, so there you go. This is a notoriously tricky category to call though.
BEST ANIMATED MOVIE
Let's get something straight, I loved Ratatouille, but if this doesn't go to Persepolis I'm gonna have to start a riot.
SCREENPLAYS
Original is a lock for Diablo Cody. Adapted could go to the Coens for NCFOM, or to Atonement.
ORIGINAL SONG
Well, there's three songs from Enchanted, and I hope it gets it because I really liked the movie. As for what it wins with, "Happy Working Song" has a delicious satirical bite to it, but I'm pulling for "That's How You Know" just for that scene in the movie and the sheer over the top ridiculousness of it.
ORIGINAL SCORE
Atonement has to get a few Oscars, and I think this is gonna be one of them.
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Man, this is kind of tough. I'll give this one to Atonement too, just because the others don't strike me. MAKEUP
Ladies and gentlemen, Norbit is nominated for an Oscar. Despite that I think (or hope) Pirates of the Caribbean gets it.
COSTUME DESIGN
I'm gonna give it to Elizabeth, because man, there were some costumes in that movie!
ART DIRECTION
Atonement again, why not?
BEST DIRECTOR
I think this is gonna go along with Best Picture, so I'm going to say the Coen Brothers will take it for No Counry for Old Men, but if Juno comes on strong, then Reitman takes it.
BEST PICTURE
I'd say No Country for Old Men, although i people choose a lighter thing, Juno it is. A possible dark horse is There Will Be Blood.
Current Mood:  excited
Tags: academy awards
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01:30 pm
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Ugh
18-1. I've been feeling kind of depressed all day. Totally crushed. For someone who isn't a rabid football fan, this is surprising. I guess I just wanted to see the home team make history. Tom, Wes, Randy and the gang are all still good with me though.
Plus, I have to hand it to the Giants. They played awesomely. I've always liked goofy Eli a lot more than his brother, so good on him. When he broke away from what I was positive was a sack, my jaw was on the floor. What gets to me is not the players, but the fans (or maybe those who became "fans" of the Giants two weeks ago). Pretty much everyone else in the US besides New England wanted the Patriots to lose, and called them stuff like "The Evil Empire" and that they were the "bad guys" in this.
Oh well, how long till next season, where we can try to go undefeated again. :P
Current Location: Cafe Talesai, Campus Center
Current Mood:  depressed
Current Music: concourse bustle
Tags: football, patriots
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08:13 pm
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This journal is un-dead!!! or undead, whichever is cooler
Ok, I am officially resurrecting this journal. Awesome posts soon to follow, I promise this time, lol.
(Man, looking over some of these old posts, wow I'm a bit different now in some ways.)
Current Location: comfy in my room
Current Mood:  giddy
Current Music: Bleach - Happy People
Tags: the return
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10:32 am
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The Man Behind The Facepaint
I told you guys that I would allow you to bath in the radiant light of the puissant Warrior's inelecutable theorums. Below are fun links to start you off on Spring Break. Oh, and sorry Anthony, it's actually Destrucity, not Destructivity.
Quoth the Warrior: "Destrucity is my approach to the world. My battleplan for living life toward its ultimate; creating an ineluctable bond between what “is”, what I "believe" and what I “ought” to do."
http://www.ultimatewarrior.com/destrucity.htm
Here is his main page and mission statement. And inspirational music.
http://www.ultimatewarrior.com/concept.htm
Explore the Warrior's "intellectual fibers"
http://www.ultimatewarrior.com/mind.htm
What is the soul of a Warrior? Find out
http://www.ultimatewarrior.com/soul.htm
Here is Warrior's recap of his appearance at UConn. As someone who is somewhat conservative himself, this utter wackiness leaves me speechless. It's teh funnay.
Basically, he gave a speech at UConn. During his speech, he spewed off such gems as "Queering don't make the world work" and "Get a towel" when an Arab student objected to something he said. When the College Republicans, who had invited him to speak, said afterward that they did not support him and regretted bringing him to the college, he felt the need to retaliate on his website.
http://www.ultimatewarrior.com/08.04.2005UConnRetort.htm
In which "Lowtax" of Something Awful is contacted by Warrior's "Director of Communications". (I actually am not sure if this guy was for real or if he ia just some guy who pulled one over on Something Awful.)
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2790
He also has a forum with fans crazier than he is, but it's down right now. :(
Remember: "No iniquity or cruelty can exceed our own if we pusillanimously ... surrender successive generations to a condition of wretchedness. Will you do in your life what will live forever?"
Current Mood: silly
Current Music: Ram Jam - Black Betty
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08:06 pm
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My Self
Lots of other people are doing this and it's a lot of fun, so I decided to do it too. The only thing is I wish I had a couple more choices to make because there were some other things I think I am too. Oh well, beggars can't be choosers.
http://kevan.org/johari?name=SilentJustice+aka+Justin
results:
http://kevan.org/johari?view=SilentJustice+aka+Justin
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Hulk Hogan - I Wanna Be A Hulkamaniac
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12:07 am
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So yeah, I'm back...
I have, through the encouragement of a few people, been convinced to resurrect this journal from the inky depths of anonymity. I've been just fine since the loooong time ago that I wrote my last post. Advancing in school and all that. In fact, this year is probably my last here and that scares me a good deal. I don't feel that I'm ready to venture out into the world just yet, plus I really love this campus and all the people here. I mostly just don't want this time to end. Once I graduate, I will officially be in the "real world". I know change is inevitable and time marches on and all that, but there is a part of me that just doesn't want to accept that. I think it's because I've always been the type to try preserving the past. I was sad when I was eleven and a tree in my grandparents' front yard got cut down because I had lived there for much of my life and it was now changed. When I move back into my dorm room every semester I set up my stuff exactly how it was last semester. I dislike when old buildings are torn down or new ones are put up in my hometown. I order the same damn thing whenever I go to restaurants. I like being in a comfortable, familiar routine. Some people like change, they even thrive on it, but I don't think I'm one of them. I DO go out and do new things sometimes, but only once I'm comfortable with the idea or someone else who is more spontaneous is there with me.
So anyway, there is this sense of coming dread mixed in with the excitement of graduating. My whole world is going to be mixed up and put back together differently. After I graduated high school I had this plan of going to college. Since I was in middle school I *knew* I was going to college, so it was just the next logical step. This is totally different. Oh well, maybe I'll go to graduate school.
Sorry for being so emo. I really am not depressed or anything. It's just something that's been in the back of my head percolating for a while. Airing it out actually helps.
So in other news, I've got all my classes finally locked in. 21 credits is outrageous, even if six of them are independent studies. I've never attempted so many before, so it should be interesting to see how it pans out. At least there's no Japanese this semester.
I went home for a day this past weekend, and from there down to Connecticut for my cousin's birthday. He just turned 9. It was really cool to see my aunt and the two little hellions if only for a little while since it's been such a long time. My aunt in particular, Laurie, has been close to a second mother to me over the years, and it was good to talk to her about stuff. Home was great too, even if I was there for maybe an hour. Seeing mom and dad, the cats and even my stupid big lovable dog was excellent.
This is sooo long! Well, it's been a while so, yeah. In the future, my posts should be shorter and more fun, so just bear with me, ok?
Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: Hirakawachi - Kimi No Kutsu
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11:11 am
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Back From The Dead Part 1
Wow, my journal was really getting decrepit there. So much stuff to catch up on. I think I'm going to have to break all the damn stuff into multiple entries (don't worry Korric, I'll try to stagger them).
First of all, had a really great summer, even though I got up at 5:30 every day. I had this wonderful job, you see. A forty-hour-a-week painting job, doing the dorm room walls in Southwest-South. Great money though (at least for me, I'm not too world-traveled). There were some really nasty rooms in some of those buildings, and Sarah, I believe I painted your old room. One of the corner ones on Washington 19th floor right? IIRC, it was in almost no need of new painting at all. There were some really great people there. One guy, named Gorki (yes, after the Russian) was this crazy guy from the Dominican Republic. He still takes classes here in fact. Anyway, he and I would have all sorts of discussions about everything while we painted, often yelled from one room to another. His favorite topic was how terrible a president Bush is, which I agree with on some aspects, but I was willing to engage him in a lively debate just because I like to argue. Overall, I found his beliefs were not a carbon copy of every other college liberal you find around here, plus he had a lot of real experience out in the world, both of which made me gain a lot of respect for him. We didn't just talk about stuff like politics though. He joked around a lot about my constant reading of fantasy novels during lunch breaks though. "Oh what does 'Harry Porter' have today? Some story about a talking horse and a magic treasure?"
I also saw a few movies over the summer. I really liked King Arthur, and I think it gets a bad rap from people. Perfectly enjoyable medieval movie if you ask me. Plus, Keira Knightley raises just about any movie she's in a few notches. I also saw Resident Evil: Apocalypse, which a lot of people also hated but I loved because it actually followed the video game quite a bit, and it was awesome to see Jill Valentine and Carlos Olivera on the movie screen. So, enjoyable despite the fact that the Nemesis was completely misused and there were a few parts where they made Jill look like an idiot so Milla Jovovich's character could look badass. All I have to say though, was that poor reporter's death was disturbing as hell! I also bought a few movies too, mostly Dina Meyer ones because I remembered that yes, I did like Dina Meyer about four years ago and I still do now. If you get a chance, watch "Stranger Than Fiction". It's an extremely underrated movie that is hilarious dark comedy for the first two thirds and dead serious for the last bit. Very strange, actually. I would have liked it to just stay funny the whole way through, but those are the breaks. I bought a ton of manga too. I'm noticing I'm buying less and less anime nowadays and more and more manga. Not least of the probable reasons is the price. Those DVDs are too damn expensive! Plus, I'm just not as big an "anime freak" anymore, which there are probably multiple reasons for.
So there you have it. A very busy summer, but when I did get the chance to relax, it was very nice. Spent a lot of time together with the family, which is always fun. Hanging out, going places, the works. It really was good to spend time with the family, but I looked forward to coming back to UMass...
Current Mood:  contemplative
Current Music: Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger
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03:35 pm
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I can do grammer gud
You are a GRAMMAR GOD!
If your mission in life is not already to
preserve the English tongue, it should be.
Congratulations and thank you!
How grammatically sound are you?
brought to you by Quizilla
This is far too amusing. To Korric, I feel honored to be in your presence. Hmm, perhaps instead you should feel honored to be in mine. Heh.
Current Mood: bored
Current Music: Super Mario Brothers - World 1-1 (in my head)
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07:39 pm
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So true, it's creepy
A nerd that gets the ladies.
"You're most like the nice guy. If you were in the anime world, that would probably mean you are surrounded by millions of attractive people all longing for your attention and love...but in the real world that generally means you are spending your Saturday nights playing Nintendo. Don't worry though, things'll look up when you get older...I think."
So I'm Tenchi, Keitaro, Keiichi, Otaru, Junta, and every other guy in a one guy/multiple girls anime who's tongue-tied, nervous, and constantly put in compromising situations? Heh, well I'm proud to be the nice guy, as much as getting bishonen would have boosted my ego. ;)
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Cowboy Bebop - Cat Blues
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04:44 pm
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Feeling good...
Today, at the Grab-N-Go, a total stranger-the card swiper lady-told me I was very polite. For some reason this made me feel very good.
It's usually the little things in life that I get the best feelings from.
Also, I'm going home for the weekend, which I have been looking forward to very very much since Sunday. It'll be awesome to see my mom, dad, sis, and even by stupid loveable dog again.
Current Mood: peaceful
Current Music: Return of the King - The Gray Havens
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10:03 am
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Procrastination! *shakes fist*
Alright, alright, I've heard from countless people and told myself many times that I shouldn't put things off. Heh, I do it anyway. But this is the LAST time, I swear. Maybe I need one of those buddies who quits with me or something like that, so I don't fall of the wagon. Anyway, I have a paper to finish, an exam today, as well as a speaking check for Japanese. I'm hoping everything works out through force of my will. Ja matta from a very stressed Emperor of the Palace of Silent Justice.
Wow, what a crappy first entry.
Current Mood:  stressed
Current Music: Gunsmith Cats - Do It Minnie May!
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