American Idol: Twenty Become Sixteen

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Predicted eliminations: Jason Yeager, either Robbie Carrico or Luke Menard; Alexandrea Lushington and Kady Malloy. Let’s see how wrong I am this week!

American Idol: Top Ten Girls

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The Telegraph Picks 50 Essential Crime Writers

UK’s Telegraph picks 50 crime writers you should read before you die. More for my reading list yay!

Featured Video: I Drink Your Milkshake on SNL

Daniel Plainview wants to drink your milkshake. Literally. In the form of SNL’s Bill Hader’s spot-on impersonation of Daniel Day-Lewis (and his impersonation of Daniel Plainview). This clip? Better than There Will Be Blood itself. But then, I am biased. No Country for Old Men’s Anton Chigurh also makes [...]

American Idol Top Ten Guys

I didn’t liveblog (or indeed blog at all) the results show last week–Thursday night is dinner-and-margarita-night. ;) I didn’t do very well predicting the guys who got kicked off, but I wasn’t particularly surprised either. The girls who left were both in my bottom four. Didn’t turn out too well for either [...]

Scattered Oscar Thoughts

I didn’t liveblog the Oscars because I was busy hosting an awesome Oscar party with awesome people at it. It was the most fun ever. And it only made it better that the Academy got most everything exactly right! I got 14 out of 24 categories right (that’s after I changed my [...]

Bye Bye Blackbird - from Fosse

I just posted my January recap with reactions to Bob Fosse’s film All That Jazz and the stage revue Fosse celebrating his work, so it makes sense to have some featured video of his work. This is the group number “Bye Bye Blackbird” from Fosse (originally from Liza With a Z, a show I [...]

January 2008 Reading/Watching Recap

The good part about being home from school for the first half of January? LOTS of time to watch LOTS of movies. The bad part about going back to school for the second half of January? No time to write about all those movies from the first half. This is why I [...]