February 3, 2010
Raise your hand if you can’t wait for Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin to cohost the Oscars!! (ME ME ME!!) now if only i knew someone who had ABC and would let me camp out in their living room to watch the show…
Here are my Oscar predictions, 2010:
Best Picture – The Hurt Locker (please, please, please don’t let it be Avatar)
Best Director – James Cameron (c’mon, he’s put a lot into this thing, they’re not not going to acknowledge it)
Best Actor – Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart (i really wanna see this movie)
Best Actress – Gabourey Sidibe, Precious (i think they didn’t give her the Globe because they expect her to win the Oscar and wanted to give a nod to Sandra Bullock) (btw–is anyone else surprised to not see Emily Blunt in this category for The Young Victoria?)
Supporting Actor – no clue. haven’t seen any of these. possibly Christophe Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Supporting Actress – Penelope Cruz was soo good in Nine, but i think this will go to Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Original Screenplay – The Hurt Locker or A Serious Man
Adapted Screenplay – Precious or Up in the Air
All the technical awards will go to Avatar; Best Animated Full-length Feature is Up (you just can’t compete with Pixar); and Best Original Song will go to Crazy Heart.
The others? I have no idea.
February 2, 2010
can you believe i forgot about the Indian guy on 30 Rock?? Jonathan is the best!
also, someone found my blog by searching ‘indian guy on Scrubs’–which i was not aware of and can’t seem to find a picture or reference to who he is, except that he does (or did) exist.
and since i’m doing back-track on Indian actors, i’ll give a nod to that guy from Heroes and the one from Lost too. (both shows i’ve never seen so i have no clue if these characters are even still around, but whatever. they were ahead of the game on the Indian-actor train, so props)
January 31, 2010
Best Dressed only, people. I don’t have time to bitch on anyone this week.
Sandra Bullock
Drew Barrymore
Diane Kruger
January 23, 2010
Here’s the story:
I drove 8hrs to my parents house to spend Christmas–and I brought Pokers with me. He cried for the first hour and a half and wet his carrier half way there, but we made it.
Because my parents have two cats, Pokers mainly just stayed inside my room, perfectly content with the lovely views from the windows. By the end of the week he was pretty antsy so we let him come out and had (fairly) successful introductions to the other cats; they let him poke around the house as long as he stayed within eyesight but more than 10 feet away at all times.
Here he is enjoying the fruits of Christmas: Wrapping Paper.
December 8, 2009
Last week we saw Noelle and Nathan go home, and was anyone surprised? Ok, yeah maybe some people were–the judges. Surprise, surprise, the audience disagreed from the beginning with their decisions to keep these two instead of, respectively, Bianca and Victor–and the first chance we got to cut them, we did.
(Now, I’m still not clear why people didn’t like Nathan, but the judges completely ignored all the signs that people didn’t like him and instead kept him under the premise that he’s ‘an audience favorite’. Really?? Well I guess they know the truth now that he’s been sent home the first week)
From now on it’s sad to see anyone go because they’re all good dancers and enjoyable to watch. But if I had to pick, I’d say I’m getting a little tired of Ashleigh (also Ryan) and (gasp!) Russell. Who knows… Watch tonight!
November 29, 2009
Before I begin, I’d just like to say that I bawled like a baby at last week’s elimination. Victor was my favorite dancer on the show and I do not believe he should have been sent home. I know that the judges saw him as an already strong dancer, and that there was more potential and growth in Ryan and Nathan, but I just loved watching him dance each week and I will really miss him.
But… the show must go on–And now that we’re into the Top 10, it’s purely a popularity contest, people, so vote for your favorites! The judges can’t save anyone from elimination based on talent, so it’s up to the choreographers to make memorable routines and up to the contestants to seem likeable and win-worthy.
Last season, Jeanine’s win caught me totally off-guard–I really thought she’d be eliminated pretty quickly after she lost her partner Philip, but she proved me wrong!
Now that the original couples are being broken up, here’s who I’d like to see dance together: (**for particularly good couplings)
Ashleigh + Nathan
*Ellenore + Legacy*
Kathryn + Russell
Mollee + Jakob
*Noelle + Ryan*
PS. Does anyone know if the couples get picked out of a hat or if they’re assigned? Also, would they let Ashleigh and Ryan (the married dancers) be partners? (because they’re ballroom dance partners in real life)
November 28, 2009
Well, my roommate and I had a mini-Thanksgiving this year since everyone we know went home for the holiday…except us. We decided to make a small meal only of foods we wanted to eat (no green bean casserole!) and ended up with this splendid menu:
First Course
Arugula Salad with Feta and Roast Sweet Potatoes
Butternut Squash Soup garnished with Parsley
Main Course
Rotisserie Chicken (from the market. yes, is cheating, but tasted so good)
Honey-Glazed Carrots
Fresh Cranberry Sauce
Hot Rolls
Dessert Course
My Grandmother’s Famous Pecan Pie
Cranberry Apple Crumble
Butternut Squash Soup
Roast Chicken
You might notice that such Thanksgiving staples as Turkey, Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes and Gravy, Marshmallow Sweet Potatos, Green Bean Casserole (with Fried Onions), Biscuits, Cornbread, Jellied Cranberry Sauce, Pumpkin Pie, and anything with bacon or corn in it, are auspiciously absent from our table–all were vetoed by us. Ha!
It was like eating in a fancy restaurant–at home! 
November 26, 2009
How bout that for a turkey coma?
November 25, 2009
What a great night of performances! This is why I love this show–beautiful and artistic dances that show you something you’d otherwise never see. We’re down to just six couples which means that 50% of them will be in the Bottom Three tonight. It also means that at this point they’re all such talented contestants that ‘likeability’ begins to outweigh performance when it comes to voting.
It’s a tough week to predict, but I’ll try. This week I’m going solely on whether or not I liked the performance, since technicalities are negligible. Here’s a scorecard for last night–1 point = liked the performance, 1/2 point = kind of liked it, 0 point = didn’t like it.
Ryan and Ellenore: 1 + .5 = 1.5
Legacy and Katheryn: 1 + 1 = 2
Victor and Karen: 1+ 0 = 1
Nathan and Mollee: .5 + 0 = .5
Noelle and Russell: .5 + 1 = 1.5
Ashleigh and Jakob: 1 + .5 = 1.5
Which puts Nathan and Mollee at the bottom (I am so bummed! after last week I was finally and completely in their corner, and this week I just didn’t like their stuff); Also Victor and Karen (I love this couple together though! I was so looking forward to seeing them dance together this week and their first number was wonderful); And a tie between 3 other couples in 3rd place. Hmmm…. See what I mean about this week being up for grabs?? I have no idea who will be ‘dancing for their life’ tonight and who will be here next week.
PS–Congratulations to Donny Osmond and Kym Johnson over at Dancing with the Stars, who won last night. I wasn’t watching this season but I did see the finale performances from Monday night and I was really impressed with Donny and Kym… and I am NOT a Donny Osmond fan. But I have to give credit where credit is due and he was highly entertaining and made you wanna get up and dance! I also have to praise Kym for her excellent choreography over all the seasons–I’ve always been a big Kym fan because she does such an excellent job of injecting personality into routines and creating themed routines that really work for her partner. She’s also great at making her partner look good, even if they’re not capable of doing as showy stuff as other contestants. She doesn’t do a bunch of fancy footwork around them, she creates a routine to make them shine, and she deserves this trophy! (also Donny 
November 23, 2009
a Cute Overload desk calendar
Beyonce’s I am…Sasha Fierce (Deluxe Edition)
a dress from Modcloth.com
for all y’all who were wondering…
