(disclaimer) because of feared judge tampering and attempts at bribes, all frequent contributors and friends to this place are out of the running. not that it matters as only michael maier(who doesn't even read me) would have made the first cut. thank you for understanding.
these people are cool.
neil patrick harris. over in the comments section of another blog, a person wrote that they didn't like nor seem to get the appeal of joss weedon and neil patrick harris. joss is okay, some good, some bad and i can understand that, but nph. n-p-h! got to be kidding me, right? neil patrick harris is freaking awesome and here's why. first that dude was a teenage doctor. badass. what the hell was i doing at 14...i guarantee i wasn't pretending to be a teenage doctor. sadly i was probably trying to figure out a way into some poor girls underpants. second, on that episode of the simpsons where bart gets implicated by the mob, guess who plays bart in the made for tv movie...oh yeah, neil patrick harris. third, harold and kumar. all i gotta say. fourth, he went out and made a show without the help of corporate money and put it on the net for everyone. viva la revolucion! and its a musical. and lastly give him props for being one of the few openly gay actors who doesn't constantly accept the role of "gay friend" like that stupid cracker from will and grace. and he kills the regis impersonation. totally cool dude.
stephan pastis does this awesome comic strip called pearls before swine. after the boondocks dude quit doing strips, there really wasn't alot going on in the comics section of the indy star. and then like heaven's gate opening, this little golden nugget chose to shine its brilliant light upon us. and from the first day's strip, which i haven't taken the time to find as i have it committed to memory, i was hooked. now like most strips, it isn't always good. but like the good ones, when its on, it becomes unforgetable. this jerky rat and stupid pig and smarmy zebra and ignorant ass crocodiles inhabit this world where the stupidity caused by vanity is the ultimate sin, and when one finds their way to it, they will be knocked down with jokes. these animals lay their pearls of wisdom before the swine of humanity and cut to its core with a deft precision not often found in comic strips.
gus van sant can do anything. he can do hollywood(good will hunting) he can do off-hollywood(drugstore cowboy, idaho) and he can do absolute unknown indie(elephant, paranoid park) and all of his work will be carried off with massive amounts of class and an undeniably precise and personal vision that he manages to execute perfectly almost every time. his style is impeccable, from handheld scenes of shared, if flawed, intimacy, to slow tracking shots that lull the viewer into that dreamlike feeling where time slows down and awareness(especially self-awareness) is heightened. the scene in paranoid park with the kid gliding slow motion down the locker lined hallway of his high school to the sounds of the song let me help is a work of art that makes me believe that the oscars need to start a new catagory for best use of a preexisting song in a film, just so paranoid park can be the first recipient.
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nph is awesome and anyone that says differently is wrong.
We'll see if Gus Van Sant can make Sean Penn work as Harvey Milk.
yeah that is scarry. sean penn is pretty much a bloated windbag and a trite scenery chewer at this point. plus i doubt even gus wants to see him in the shower(a little over van sants preferred age range_
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