I got this from Maha this morning and it made me cringe and laugh at the same time:

The story is this - a girl was out with friends having drinks on King Street (in Toronto). This guy approaches her and won't leave her alone - saying how cute she is. She finally gives in and hands the guy her business card.

The attached is an MP3 file of not one, but TWO voicemails this guy left her. I have NEVER heard anything like this before. This goes down in the history books.
Have a listen.

June 18th was the Sony Global Volunteer Day. We spent the morning down at the Ballona Wetlands pulling out non-native plants. We cleared so much the Friend of the Ballona Wetlands were impressed.










  Not the biggest billboard in LA but I had to post this just b/c of my obsession with Ben Barnes.


 

 

Part One

Part Two

Hello everyone. I'm procrastinating.  I'm supposed to be transcribing the Lee Pace roundtable I went to last week.  Instead I'm posting the video I took today roasting in the So Cal sun of "Caspian".  Enjoy it and my running commentary if you can make it out.  I've got a late night date with Lee.  Oh while we're on the subject of my new baby daddy, see The Fall when it comes out, if it comes out near you.  It's haunting and breathtaking.  And the scenery ain't bad either.

 

These are from various phones, hence the questionable quality.


 
I was in Alexandria, VA this past weekend for the GB.net convention.  Hats off to the event organizers, they outdid themselves.  The evening went off seamlessly.  I have to thank my hostess the incredible T (not pictured here ;-)) for opening her heart and home to me as well as filling me up with Bison Chip Dip.

I've got tons to do for M&C this week of which I will keep you updated.  In the meantime, keep it real peeps!

 

My Thanks to parlancefor posting this on her LJ.  I will be participating in the strike and I urge all LJ users to read up and participate.

The one-day content strike is on for this Friday, March 21, from midnight GMT to midnight GMT.

Yes I'm well aware that a real update is in order.  Sadly I won't have anytime for a couple weeks. I have four reviews in as many weeks so any free time I have is spent doing that.  At the very least I wanted to post the slide show I made of the photos I took at the Oscar red carpet.  My thanks to daisybuttercupfor her hard work cleaning and watermarking the pictures. Overall I'm so pleased with the shots I got.  There are those few, those blurry few that nag at you but you get over it.  

Happy St Patrick's Day to my fellow Irishmen.  I'll be back in a few weeks with one hell of an update.

Matt, the head of Global Green, his wife and Sebastian

 

Bill Maher


Michelle Branch



Glen and Marketa (from the movie Once)







 

Damien Rice 



 I've got incredible news for those of you who aren't aware: I'm going to be in the red carpet bleachers for the Oscars tomorrow!  My thanks to Alicia for inviting me I've rented a Nikon D80 and borrowed a sweet lense from my friend Jennifer.  So hopefully this time tomorrow night I'll have some photos for you all to feast on.  For those of you interested I'm thinking of wearing my Kelly green sweater so look for me.

I've got four movies I'm reviewing over as many weeks.  I'll update you on those later along with other relevant tid bits.  In the meanwhile, good Oscar Sunday to you all.  I'm predicting No Country for Old Men Best Pic, the Coens for Director, Daniel Day Lewis for actor (though there may be a sympathy nod for Tommy Lee in there), Julie Christy for Best Actress (though it should go to the astonishing Marion - rent that if you haven't already!), Javier and Ruby Dee for Best Supporting, and the unstoppable Pixar for the best animated though Persopolis is incredible. We'll see how I fared.

Later alligators!

Yes I know I owe you all a real update and there is one coming, I swear!  This was just too irresistible:

From mystik_rose.

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line (unless the first line reveals the song title) from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.  (I put in a couple second lines too since some of these are tough)
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!  

If not here you go: Rest in Peace Heath.

 

,  racefanand gracieandbuddyfor a Creation “Money grubbing bastards” Con for Supernatural. All together we should have a group of 9 running around Schaumburg, IL for a couple days. Both the Winchester boys are scheduled to be there Sunday so start collecting bail money now. </div>

Last night jet_ss, daisybuttercup, Merri and I ventured over to The Arclight to see the one and only big sceen showing of the Director's Cut of Troy. Director Wolfgang Petersen was there to do a Q&A before hand.   For those of you who haven't read about the details of the DC there are an addtional 30 minutes added back into the film. Most of that is extended scenes allowing for character development. There are a few new scenes including one between Hector and Paris at the very beginning and an introductory scene with Odysseus.  Since it's an unrated version the violence is back in and the love scenes are a litle sexier.  In fact during the post-hot sweaty sex scene with Paris and Helen I was eating popcorn at the exact moment the camera pulled back even further to reveal even more of Mr Bloom (sorry still no sight of his little archer) and I did a quick intake of breath and swallowed a poporn kernel whole!  I thought jet_sswas going to have to give me the Heimlech Maneuver.

It's facinating and depressing to hear Director's talk about how the studios so confine them.  Petersen was getting it from all sides to keep the movie middle of the road: "not too violent, no nudity we want that PG-13 rating!"  And the violence is back in full force. The sacking of Troy in particular is brutal.  They had to scrap the original soundtrack when test audiences hated it.  So he hired James Horner 5 weeks before the movie opened to rescore. Horner would literally be writing something in LA, it would get overnighted to London to Wolfie and put on the film, no time to tweak or change.  For the DC the music editor changed things around a bit, still using the Horner score, but moved pieces from one scene to another, took music completely out of a few scenes and made the score much better. 

The strange thing is, I know it's the same film (with the same issues as before like the soap opera blocking in the scene with Paris and Helen in Paris's room) but whatever Petersen did to the footage I found the performances subtler and even understated in some cases.  The part where Hector is saying good bye to Priam and Priam calls him back to say how proud of Hector he is Bana has this restrained show of emotion that killed me.  And my favorite part, Paris cowering at his brother's feet after getting his ass handed to him by Helen's husband has a few additional moments that are incredible.  

The Director's Cut of Troy would make a great birthday present for someone we know.....

Oh, a couple movie recomendations: Into the Wild (excellent, heart breaking and heart warming). The Jane Austen Book Club (utterly adorable) and Across The Universe (kick-ass soundtrack!)

Ok, I'm going to give this another shot and see if I can't get it actually posted this time.  The last 6 weeks have supposed to have been my down-time since we were on break from the Hollywood Master Chorale.  Boy was it anything but that!  Let's look at the breakdown, shall we?

Movies Reviewed: 
1. Manda Bala
2.  the hysterial Death at a Funeral
3.  Resurrecting the Champ
and two for last Friday: I Want Someone To Eat Cheese With and my new favorite movie 3:10 to Yuma.

There is a TV section over at M&C and the editor April McIntyre wants me to write for her.  She likes my style. I know, go figure!  She created the Reilly Report and so far it's just been me spouting off about the pilots I've watched: Part One, Part Two and Part Three.  Who knows what I'll do after that. 

Speaking of TV, 

daisybuttercup and I are going to a couple of the Paley Center's TV Preview Parties.  We went to the NBC one on Saturday and will be going to the ABC one tonight.  My new favorite show is Chuck on NBC.  Be sure to check it out!

On August 27th I had a chance to go to a concert benefiting the International Myeloma Foundation.  Michael McKean and special guests Annette O'Toole (his wife and co-writer), Judith Owen, Harry Shearer, and Chris Guest performed.  It was incredible!

 

I fell in love with Judith Owen (who is Shearer's wife).  She's a little jazzy, a little folksy and very sassy. I had to run out and grab her new cd the next day.  When the guys started off their set with "Hell Hole" I though I was going to pee my pants.  They plays Folksmen songs and Tap songs.  It was one of those once-in-a-lifetime opportunities that I'm so glad I got to do.  Lord knows when these guys will perform again.

This week and next week are busy ones.  It started off with the high-larious Avenue Q yesterday with new auntie Sallie.  I'm getting the cast recording of this one for sure.  There's the Paley thing tonight.  I'm seeing the movie Trade tomorrow night, heading to the Bowl to see Pink Martini on Friday, The Director's Cut of Troy with Director Wolfgang Petersen on the 18th and then finally some muppet improv called Puppet Up on the 29th.  It's Puppet Month for Mo!  Seriously if you get a change to see Avenue Q (and not the abridged Vegas version) absolutely see it.

Ok I'm going to hit post before I lose this again.  Have a great week everyone!

I had this whole huge entry almost finished and f*cking LJ lost it.  It took me hours to do it and it's all gone.  I don't know if I have the energy to re-type it all again.