…some kind of way out of here….

I was looking for something in my old livejournal and I saw that I took a myers-briggs personality test my senior year of high school and posted the results. I took it on May 2nd, 2005 and got this:

You Are An INFJ

The Protector You live your life with integrity, originality, vision, and creativity. Independent and stubborn, you rarely stray from your vision – no matter what it is. You are an excellent listener with almost infinite patience. You have complex feelings, and you take great care to express them. In love, you see relationships as an opportunity to connect and grow. You enjoy relationships when they are improving and changing. You can’t stand stagnation. At work, you stay motivated and happy… as long as you are working toward a dream you support. You would make a great photographer, alternative medicine guru, or teacher. How you see yourself: Hardworking, ethical, and helpful When other people don’t get you, they see you as: Manipulative, weak, and unstable

So I thought HM, It’s been 5 years since then. I wonder if it has changed? So I just did it (truthfully) and I got this:

You Are An INFJ

The Protector You live your life with integrity, originality, vision, and creativity. Independent and stubborn, you rarely stray from your vision – no matter what it is. You are an excellent listener with almost infinite patience. You have complex feelings, and you take great care to express them. In love, you see relationships as an opportunity to connect and grow. You enjoy relationships when they are improving and changing. You can’t stand stagnation. At work, you stay motivated and happy… as long as you are working toward a dream you support. You would make a great photographer, alternative medicine guru, or teacher. How you see yourself: Hardworking, ethical, and helpful When other people don’t get you, they see you as: Manipulative, weak, and unstable

Kind of nifty how that works out..

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Here are my final predictions. Updated on 3/7 9 AM, lols. Now with commentary! I also added a line for who I would give the oscar to if it were entirely up to me on a few of these…

Lead actor
Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart
I think it’s pretty obvious Jeff Bridges will win. He’s “America’s treasure” or whatever and he hasn’t won an oscar yet.
My winner: Colin Firth. COME on, A Single Man was his greatest performance EVER.

Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds
This dude is super scary. I look forward to seeing him in more movies this year.
My winner: Christoph Waltz

Lead Actress
Sandra Bullock in Blind Side
Ugh. It seems she’s got a lock on this unfortunately. I just don’t like her and most of her movies. I personally thought she looked sucky in this part from the trailers, but I haven’t seen the movie so whatever.
My winner: Carey Mulligan because 1) I actually want to see An Education 2) She was on the greatest episode of Doctor Who ever 3) I actually want to see An Education not because of #2

Supporting Actress
MoNique in Precious
I think she’s won every single award so far. I’m sure she deserves it but I haven’t seen Precious yet.
My winner: Would probably be Monique if I’d seen it but since I haven’t, Anna Kendrick.

Animated Feature
Up
I think it’s entirely possible with the voting system that a lot of categories could go entirely in wacky unexpected directions and Fantastic Mr Fox could beat Up, but it doesn’t seem THAT likely.
My winner: Up

Art Direction
Avatar
Avatar in some of these categories is kind of bizarre because it’s entirely CG. You have to wonder if the voters will embrace that an entirely CG piece is art directed just the same as one shot in a house. I think that if they do take the leap, it would be in this category.
My winner: Avatar

Cinematography
The Hurt Locker – Barry Ackroyd
This category was by far the most elusive. I just watched Hurt Locker last night and decided to pick that one. I was debating between that, Avatar, and White Ribbon. I’m not sure voters will go for Avatar since so much of the camera placement and shot construction relied upon the visual effects people – at this point, cinematography in a movie like Avatar is still a grey area. The White Ribbon won the ASC award, but that’s voted on by a bunch of cinematographers who have actually seen it. I think a more well known movie will get a lot of the vote from people who don’t really know good cinematography. However, I think it’s totally deserving to win.
My winner: The Hurt Locker

Costume Design
The Young Victoria
I haven’t seen ANY of the nominees, but period movies usually win this. The older the better
My winner: The Young Victoria

Directing
Katheryn Bigelow
I can see how Bigelow is getting so much attention and I do think this is her year entirely. Sure, James Cameron spent a fortune and a billion years of his time on Avatar and moved filmmaking to a whole nother level, but the craft of directing isn’t about that. It’s commendable, but I think the performances Bigelow got out of her relatively unknown-ish actors in Hurt Locker, and the realistic intensity she crafted, beats out the other films. And I loved Up in the Air, so it’s hard to skip over him for me, but HL was bad ass.
My Winner: Katheryn Bigelow

Documentary Feature
The Cove

Documentary Short
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant

Film Editing
Avatar
I heard these editors on a live chat Avid held, and I think they might win it.

Foreign Film
El Secreto de Sus Ojos

Makeup
Star Trek

Original Score
Up – Michael Giacchino

Original Song
The Weary Kind

Picture of the Year
Hurt Locker
I can see what the hoopla over this film is about. I do think it most accurately captures what Oscar wants for “best picture” and I’ll be really surprised if anything beats it. Second place – Up in the Air.

Animated Short Film
A Matter of Loaf and Death

Live Action Short Film
The New Tenants

Sound Editing
Avatar
Come on, they had to create all those bizarre sound effects.

Sound Mixing
Hurt Locker
The sound on this movie scared the poop out of me. The end.

Visual Effects
Avatar
Really?

Adapted Screenplay
Up in the Air
I can’t imagine anything will beat this…

Original Screenplay
Inglourous Basterds

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I’ve seen a lot of talk in various places today about the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. In fact, I heard a bit on NPR about it. It’s like the universe wants me to blog it. I was like hey universe, I’ve got important sitting-around-time to take care of, but Universe was like DO IT MAN, so here I am.

I don’t think I have to say that I support the full repeal of the policy. It was a stupid compromise to begin with and we finally can get rid of it. I don’t know about you, but I have a huge problem with this:

“I know you volunteered to serve your country, sacrificing your life to protect our country and our freedom, but you’re a flamer so you need to leave.”

Really? REALLY?

I absolutely cannot put into words how it makes me feel when I hear religious people contemplating whether they should or shouldn’t support homosexual people. It’s like listening to people contemplating pieces of meat. Gay people are PEOPLE. PEOPLE who happen to be gay. They didn’t say hey, I’m a dude and I’m gonna get with a dude even though it’s a horrifying sin. It happens.

To lump gay people in with sexual predators and criminals, or people who cheat on their significant others, or any other number of bad sex related things, is incredibly offensive. You hold a lesbian couple in the same regard as a person who commits bestiality? How terrifically screwed up.

“But the Bible condemns it.” The Bible says a lot of stuff that you don’t pay attention to, and there are different interpretations of such passages. I’ve read them and I think it’s pretty clear what they’re saying (hint: NOT condemnation of homosexuality).

It’s NOT wrong. And no, I don’t feel this is up for discussion. Homosexuality is not bad. It is not wrong. Adultery is wrong. Molestation is wrong. Rape is wrong. Homosexuality is not wrong. Bisexuality is not wrong. Transexuality is not wrong. Being transgendered is not wrong. Human rights cannot be an opinion. If it were up to the public vote on human rights issues, do you think any number of changes would have occurred? Maybe with an extra 30 years tacked on.

Not long ago, we had separate drinking fountains for blacks. People used religion as a shield against feeling racist against black people. Now we’ve (kind of) moved past that era, and we’re on homosexuality. And you know, a lot of more forward thinking countries don’t GIVE a SHIT about this subject like the US does. They laugh at us for being so hung up on something like sexual preference. Crap like this keeps us from making real progress. Think about that when you are spending so much time thinking and praying over how you should treat gays: you could just accept it and move on and do something with real value!

If two people – ANY two people – are in a committed relationship, who are you to judge them? And you can say that you’ll shine God’s love onto them all you want, but you know that deep down, you are constantly thinking GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY and thinking about ways to “save them”.

Guess what? They aren’t the ones that need saving.

Filed under: Uncategorized on February 15th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

I feel like I should blog, but I’m not sure what about because I forgot, so I decided to hit up the one minute writer for a prompt. I didn’t notice the Friday Fiction prompts before. They’re typically done in longer than a minute, it seems, but they’re still super short. So I’m picking one and going with it. Who knows, maybe it’ll be adaptable into a screenplay.

So the prompt for this is “ten”. Remember, this is just a solid 5 minutes of impromptu writing, so it carries no guarantees.

Alexander Hamilton gazed about the room.

She rubbed her thumb over his face. The perfectly curled ceremonial hair seemed to contrast the messy, small efficiency that surrounded her.

The girl sat on her futon bed, surrounded by things strewn about. A magazine. Textbooks. Some papers. Laptop. Bills. Mostly bills. The studio was a box with a window, a desk, and little more. The closed door hinted at more, but only a small bathroom and kitchenette lay beyond it.

The girl sat perfectly indian style on the bed, looking at the ten dollar bill in front of her. She moved her hand back into her lap. She seemed far away as she met Alexander’s gaze back.

My last ten dollars, she thought.

How did this happen? Didn’t I plan? How can I survive the week on ten dollars?

The girl was young with light skin and dark hair. Her face was blank, but her eyes were disappointed. Disappointed in herself, mostly. In the corner of her room, out of sight, was a framed degree. She thought about all that time and money she spent in college. All that work for a better life.

And now I have ten dollars for 6 days. Not even $2 a day.

She decided to make a list of everything that wouldn’t be paid this week.

Car Payment – $200
Student Loan Payment – $145
Groceries – $50
Gas – $20

She stopped. She was overwhelming herself and hadn’t even gotten to the tough ones. Internet. Electricity.

I can’t go to work if I don’t have gas in my car. I can’t live in here without electricity. Can I go 6 days on bread and peanut butter? Yes, but the bread is going bad.

Stop.

She surveyed the room. Her belongings. Very few. Framed photos and signs of friends and family are absent. No one to help me, she thought.

She glanced back at the stiff, new ten dollar bill. Then she glanced out her window. The snowy wonderland outside beckoned mysteriously. It seemed so rich and new. So pristine. There was a whole world outside her tiny box and her tiny problems. She rose up from the bed, letting the papers fall where they may. Alexander hit the floor face down.

She opened her window, her only window, and stuck her head outside into the cold afternoon air. A biting wind blew her hair back. She seemed to take in this world and replace her own, if only for a moment. She closed her eyes and breathed the cold. She let the cold air into her mouth and lungs, nipping at her nose and eyes. The cold was pure, nearly unbearable pure.

She leaned back inside and slammed the window shut. Stood for a moment, returning her sense to the stuffy box she knew as “home”. She walked slowly back to the bed, a new glint in her eyes. Was it hope? Inspiration? Confidence? Or was it acceptance?

She returned to the bed, grabbing the thin, papery ten dollar bill as she sat back. She leaned against the wall and laid Alexander across her lap. She grabbed a pack of cigarettes from her side and took one out – the last one. Lit it. Took a drag. The smoke danced around Alex’s face. She lifted the bill up and held it between in thumb and forefinger delicately, looking closer and closer at the presidential portrait. He kept the same blase expression no matter what she felt. She felt a twinge of jealousy for a moment.

She took the lit cigarette out of her mouth and ignited the corner of the bill. The paper hesitated, then grabbed onto the fire and fueled it. The bill slowly transformed from currency to ash. The girl held the bill and watched it burn. Her face had warmed, but her eyes remained cold and determined.

Alexander’s face was turned to dust, but somehow he didn’t care.

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here are my oscar predictions with a bit of commentary. this is gonna be a long one, so i put it behind this cut. clicky clicky to read more…

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I thought the State of the Union was one of Obama’s best speeches so far. And as expected, the GOP response was just ridiculous. Instead of spending my own time and effort writing a response to their response, I found this on Facebook this morning. It is written by my smartest friend, Cameron Huffman. You’ll probably be reading his book someday. Or voting for him.

Yeah, you’re right. I should ignore everything he said about reducing the deficit, ending the wars, passing healthcare reform, improving education, building an infrastructure based off of clean energy, and ending the bullshit partisan games that are ruining this country before our apathetic eyes.

I mean what was I thinking? Charge bailed-out banks that still give out bonuses larger than their profits? Regulate the industries that freely brought the masses to their knees while lining the pockets of the few? Socialist bastard.

It’s been one whole year and has yet to wipe out the record deficit created by two wars and constant tax cuts placed into a budget unconstrained by all that “pay-as-you-go” nonsense. What the hell has he been doing this entire time? The de-regulated financial industry completely burned to the ground, I know, but still. He really should not have followed through with the bailout that the Bush administration created. So what if the majority of it has already been paid back? Would we be in an economic depression the likes of which we cannot even fathom? Well, yeah, but you bet your ass our deficit might have been a little bit smaller!

For a second I thought keeping our financial system going might have saved a job or two. Thank God the GOP opened my eyes. How wrong I was! I was even so naive as to think some of the job losses were a natural part of our country’s economic shift to a post-industrial state (in which case a revitalized emphasis on education would provide displaced industrial workers a place in our new economic structure). Obama is clearly at fault here. Put people to work rebuilding our crumbling roads, electrical grids and airports? Build nuclear power plants, wind farms, and solar panels thereby creating jobs and renewable energy we can generate ourselves? Jesus Christ, that hippy must think this is Mexico and it’s the 1960s again!

His pleas for bipartisanship were an absolute waste of breath. Work together? With people who feel differently about things than I do? Encourage a meaningful rhetoric underscored with mutual respect? This guy is crazy. It’s impeachment time. It’s almost as if he thinks government exists to serve something higher than itself. He clearly is delusional. Maybe even mentally ill. Really.

And, honestly, for him to claim that “just saying no all the time” isn’t leadership? Really, Mr. Obama? And what has just saying “Yes” all the time gotten you, sir? “Yes, we can have health care for all” “Yes, we can make it affordable to go to college” “Yes, we can become energy independent” “Yes, we can end the war and bloodshed in Iraq and Afghanistan” It got him nothing but the 6th largest margin of victory ever in a presidential election and the largest margin of victory ever for a non-incumbent. If you think that a presidential election is a true mark of public opinion, well, there is just no hope for you.

What I don’t think he understands is that most of the problems he wants to solve have been around for decades! They were passed down to us by generations of politicians unwilling to take the risks associated with making touch decisions. He really expects us to just put an end to this tradition? Mr. Obama, why do you hate America?

Listen, Obama, and listen good: People have always died because they cannot afford medical treatment. The military is something we have always blindly poured money into. We have always been willing to sacrifice any number of our rights in the name of defeating terrorism. The national debt has always grown while the gap between rich and poor has expanded. The quality of our education has always gone down. Women have always made less than men in equal positions. Homosexuals have always been forbidden from marrying. Special interests have always grown more and more influential within our government. You think we want to change that? No, Mr. Obama, we like it this way. We aren’t about to let you meddle with our way of doing things.

Bob McDonnell allowed me to see the light when he said “Today, the federal government is simply trying to do too much.” I see now how ignorant I was in expecting my government to solve the problems that have a direct impact on myself and future generations. Doing nothing is the answer (and you can’t spell “nothing” without “no”).

So, Mr. Obama, you take your socialist, left-wing, nazi, fascist, anti-American, Muslim, gay agenda and shove it up your ass.

If I want healthcare I’ll go to Canada. If I want an education I’ll go to China. This is AMERICA. You just make sure I always have a job with benefits and a gun and then you shut the hell up.

Filed under: Uncategorized on January 28th, 2010 | 2 Comments »

..when you walk into a room and forget why you went in? That’s how I feel right now. I opened wordpress with the intention of blogging about something, and then I forgot why I did. I guess I’m in it now, I may as well write SOMETHING. A lot of people make the mistake of starting a blog and thinking they have nothing to say. They don’t realize that none of us have anything to say. The trick is to blog daily, weekly, whatever..regularly. You eventually have things to talk about…maybe. I’m just going to fill this entry with random thoughts of the moment.

1. I love editing in Final Cut. I am very aware of the shortcomings of FCP, but Avid and Premiere have similar or worse shortcomings. It’s exciting to be in the middle of a growing industry. When I was 15ish and reading Moviemaker magazine, there were articles about how the prospect of shooting real movies just on video is coming and how amazing that will be. I distinctly remember reading these things. It’s cool to be at a point where I could possibly process and edit RED camera footage..film quality video.
2. I hate winter. Especially January. All I want to do is sit around, eat, and sleep. It’s like hibernation. january is the WORST.
3. I have a lot of books to read and they’re all about video.
4. I really want to see Romeo and Juliet at the IRT. It just opened this week. I haven’t seen the play in its entirety since I was in it in 6th grade. I had to read it in high school but I knew it so well I doubt I actually did read it. For the record, I played Lady Montague and I had approximately three lines. That was the only play I was in that had actual costumes that didn’t suck.
5. Speaking of which, I miss being in plays. I don’t know that I could actually be in them anymore because I enjoy behind the scenes so much. And also after I quit waitressing my memorization skills have disappeared completely. It would be fun to be in a smaller play, probably. Unless I have developed crippling stage fright.
6. TV has improved so much since I was little, I think. I mean, in the 80s, would you buy a television music score and listen to it? I don’t think so. The production quality and level of storytelling is completely amazing.
7. I love editing an audio file to cut parts out or make a loop. I love when I just make a cut where I THINK it might work and it actually becomes perfect.
8. I’m still trying to figure out where to run. I am running all three of those freaking miles in May.
9. I’m hoping to be able to volunteer with the Indianapolis International Film Festival this year.
10. It’s pretty sickening how ignorant Americans are about Haiti. I mean when they say that we shouldn’t send aid there because people need aid here. Someone should try watching CNN once in a while.
11. Which leads me to my next statement. I know it’s a really cliche, young, naive, liberal thing to say but…if I had the chance, I really would move to a different country.

Filed under: Uncategorized on January 21st, 2010 | 1 Comment »

before i post this, i want to quote roger ebert on twitter: @ebertchicago “Golden Globes nominate “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” but not “Ponyo,” renewing their certification as flywheels.”

that being said, i still love awards season and here are my predictions in bold:

1. BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
a. AVATAR
Lightstorm Entertainment; Twentieth Century Fox
b. THE HURT LOCKER
Voltage Pictures; Summit Entertainment
c. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg GmbH Production; The
Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures
d. PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE
A Lee Daniels Entertainment / Smokewood Entertainment Group Production;
Lionsgate
e. UP IN THE AIR
Paramount Pictures; Paramount Pictures

2. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE –
DRAMA
a. EMILY BLUNT
THE YOUNG VICTORIA
b. SANDRA BULLOCK
THE BLIND SIDE
c. HELEN MIRREN
THE LAST STATION
d. CAREY MULLIGAN
AN EDUCATION
e. GABOUREY SIDIBE
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE

3. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
a. JEFF BRIDGES
CRAZY HEART
b. GEORGE CLOONEY
UP IN THE AIR
c. COLIN FIRTH
A SINGLE MAN
d. MORGAN FREEMAN
INVICTUS
e. TOBEY MAGUIRE
BROTHERS

4. BEST MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
a. (500) DAYS OF SUMMER
Watermark Pictures; Fox Searchlight Pictures
b. THE HANGOVER
Warner Bros. Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures
c. IT’S COMPLICATED
Relativity Media, Scott Rudin Productions; Universal Pictures
d. JULIE & JULIA
Columbia Pictures; Sony Pictures Releasing
e. NINE
The Weinstein Company/Relativity Media/Lucamar Productions/Marc Platt Productions; The
Weinstein Company

5. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE –
COMEDY OR MUSICAL
a. SANDRA BULLOCK
THE PROPOSAL
b. MARION COTILLARD
NINE
c. JULIA ROBERTS
DUPLICITY
d. MERYL STREEP
IT’S COMPLICATED
e. MERYL STREEP
JULIE & JULIA

6. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE –
COMEDY OR MUSICAL
a. MATT DAMON
THE INFORMANT!
b. DANIEL DAY-LEWIS
NINE
c. ROBERT DOWNEY JR
SHERLOCK HOLMES
d. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT
(500) DAYS OF SUMMER
e. MICHAEL STUHLBARG
A SERIOUS MAN

7. BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
a. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS
Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation; Sony Pictures Releasing
b. CORALINE
Laika, Inc.; Focus Features
c. FANTASTIC MR. FOX
American Empirical Picture; Twentieth Century Fox
d. THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG
Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Animation Studios; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
e. UP
Walt Disney Pictures/PIXAR Animation Studios; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

8. BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
a. BAARIA (ITALY)
Medusa Film; Summit Entertainment
b. BROKEN EMBRACES (SPAIN)
El Deseo SA; Sony Pictures Classics
c. THE MAID (CHILE)
(LA NANA)
Forastero; Elephant Eye Films
d. A PROPHET (UN PROPHETE) (FRANCE)
Chic Films/Page 114/Why Not Productions; Sony Pictures Classics
e. THE WHITE RIBBON (GERMANY)
(DAS WEISSE BAND – EINE DEUTSCHE KINDERGESCHICHTE)
X Filme Creative Pool/Les Films Du Losange/Lucky Red/Wega Film; Sony Pictures Classics

9. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A
MOTION PICTURE
a. PENÉLOPE CRUZ
NINE
b. VERA FARMIGA
UP IN THE AIR
c. ANNA KENDRICK
UP IN THE AIR
d. MO’NIQUE
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE
e. JULIANNE MOORE
A SINGLE MAN

10. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A
MOTION PICTURE
a. MATT DAMON
INVICTUS
b. WOODY HARRELSON
THE MESSENGER
c. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
THE LAST STATION
d. STANLEY TUCCI
THE LOVELY BONES
e. CHRISTOPH WALTZ
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

11. BEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTURE
a. KATHRYN BIGELOW
THE HURT LOCKER
b. JAMES CAMERON
AVATAR
c. CLINT EASTWOOD
INVICTUS
d. JASON REITMAN
UP IN THE AIR
e. QUENTIN TARANTINO
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

12. BEST SCREENPLAY – MOTION PICTURE
a. NEILL BLOMKAMP, TERRI TATCHELL
DISTRICT 9
b. MARK BOAL
THE HURT LOCKER
c. NANCY MEYERS
IT’S COMPLICATED
d. JASON REITMAN, SHELDON TURNER
UP IN THE AIR
e. QUENTIN TARANTINO
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

13. BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – MOTION PICTURE
a. MICHAEL GIACCHINO
UP
b. MARVIN HAMLISCH
THE INFORMANT!
c. JAMES HORNER
AVATAR
d. ABEL KORZENIOWSKI
A SINGLE MAN
e. KAREN O, CARTER BURWELL
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

14. BEST ORIGINAL SONG – MOTION PICTURE
a. «CINEMA ITALIANO» – NINE
Music & Lyrics by: Maury Yeston
b. «I WANT TO COME HOME» – EVERYBODY’S FINE
Music & Lyrics by: Paul McCartney
c. «I SEE YOU» – AVATAR
Music by: James Horner, Simon Franglen
Lyrics by: James Horner, Simon Franglen, Kuk Harrell
d. «THE WEARY KIND (THEME FROM CRAZY HEART)» – CRAZY HEART
Music & Lyrics by: Ryan Bingham, T Bone Burnett
e. «WINTER» – BROTHERS
Music by: U2
Lyrics by: Bono

15. BEST TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
a. BIG LOVE (HBO)
Anima Sola Productions and Playtone in association with HBO Entertainment
b. DEXTER (SHOWTIME)
Showtime Presents, John Goldwyn Productions, The Colleton Company, Clyde Phillips Productions
c. HOUSE (FOX)
Universal Media Studios in association with Heel and Toe Films, Shore Z Productions and Bad Hat
Harry
d. MAD MEN (AMC)
AMC
e. TRUE BLOOD (HBO)
Your Face Goes Here Entertainment in association with HBO Entertainment

16. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES –
DRAMA
a. GLENN CLOSE
DAMAGES
b. JANUARY JONES
MAD MEN
c. JULIANNA MARGULIES
THE GOOD WIFE
d. ANNA PAQUIN
TRUE BLOOD
e. KYRA SEDGWICK
THE CLOSER

17. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES –
DRAMA
a. SIMON BAKER
THE MENTALIST
b. MICHAEL C. HALL
DEXTER
c. JON HAMM
MAD MEN
d. HUGH LAURIE
HOUSE
e. BILL PAXTON
BIG LOVE

18. BEST TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
a. 30 ROCK (NBC)
Universal Media Studios in association with Broadway Video and Little Stranger Inc.
b. ENTOURAGE (HBO)
Leverage and Closest to the Hole Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
c. GLEE (FOX)
Twentieth Century Fox Television
d. MODERN FAMILY (ABC)
Twentieth Century Fox Television
e. THE OFFICE (NBC)
Universal Media Studios, Deedle Dee Productions, Reveille LLC

19. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES –
COMEDY OR MUSICAL
a. TONI COLLETTE
UNITED STATES OF TARA
b. COURTENEY COX
COUGAR TOWN
c. EDIE FALCO
NURSE JACKIE
d. TINA FEY
30 ROCK
e. LEA MICHELE
GLEE

20. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES –
COMEDY OR MUSICAL
a. ALEC BALDWIN
30 ROCK
b. STEVE CARELL
THE OFFICE
c. DAVID DUCHOVNY
CALIFORNICATION
d. THOMAS JANE
HUNG
e. MATTHEW MORRISON
GLEE

21. BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
a. GEORGIA O’KEEFFE (LIFETIME TELEVISION)
Sony Pictures Television
b. GREY GARDENS (HBO)
Specialty Films and Locomotive in association with HBO Films
c. INTO THE STORM (HBO)
Scott Free and Rainmark Films Production in association with the BBC and HBO Films
d. LITTLE DORRIT (PBS)
Masterpiece/BBC Co-production
e. TAKING CHANCE (HBO)
Motion Picture Corporation of America and Civil Dawn Pictures in association with HBO Films

22. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR
MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
a. JOAN ALLEN
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE
b. DREW BARRYMORE
GREY GARDENS
c. JESSICA LANGE
GREY GARDENS
d. ANNA PAQUIN
THE COURAGEOUS HEART OF IRENA SENDLER
e. SIGOURNEY WEAVER
PRAYERS FOR BOBBY

23. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION
PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
a. KEVIN BACON
TAKING CHANCE
b. KENNETH BRANAGH
WALLANDER: ONE STEP BEHIND
c. CHIWETEL EJIOFOR
ENDGAME
d. BRENDAN GLEESON
INTO THE STORM
e. JEREMY IRONS
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE

24. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A
SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
a. JANE ADAMS
HUNG
b. ROSE BYRNE
DAMAGES
c. JANE LYNCH
GLEE
d. JANET McTEER
INTO THE STORM
e. CHLOË SEVIGNY
BIG LOVE

25. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A
SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
a. MICHAEL EMERSON
LOST
b. NEIL PATRICK HARRIS
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
c. WILLIAM HURT
DAMAGES
d. JOHN LITHGOW
DEXTER
e. JEREMY PIVEN
ENTOURAGE

Filed under: Uncategorized on January 11th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

I actually have three blogs going right now. Well, four if you count the main nathanandkylee.com news feed I never update. They’re all for different purposes and I keep them separate. But I’ve always been a fan of the public recording of thoughts for others to access, so here are my other two blogs. I don’t mind linking them from here, but I won’t put this blog on those.

kyleesportfolio.com/blog.html is my “professional” blog where I record thoughts about my profession and keep it less personalish, more business. I could probably copy/paste that stuff here if I thought about it, but I usually don’t.

new blog, as of last night: filmgrimage.wordpress.com. it goes alongside the pro blog, but it’s a personal journey type of a thing, so it’s also to be kept separate. “film-grimage is a long journey or search of great filmic significance. A journey to a shrine of the importance of cinema, in any capacity.” But you can read about it on the site. We made the word up.

also, new life goal. nathan has decided to join me actually. this is the fourth year i will be participating in the 500 festival 5K. i’ve always walked it. we’ve always had a fair amount of ease doing so. this year, i want to attempt to run the whole thing. other internet nerds with a sedentary lifestyle have used the couch-to-5K program with great success, so i have loaded up the iphone app and i’m trying to figure out a place to run that isn’t crowded or icy. i think we can do it. it’s only three miles.

Filed under: Uncategorized on January 10th, 2010 | No Comments »

there is a hashtag on twitter going right now – #10yearsago – that i used in one of my tweets. basically i said i was 13 and had no idea what i wanted out of life. it’s been interesting to search that tag and see what other people were doing ten years ago.

but that’s not the point. i was thinking about that tag when i was coming home today. it seems that everything that has made me who i am today happened in the last ten years. i know so much development and character building happened from age 0-13, but it feels like everything i can recall has happened in the last ten years.

i think about where i was ten years ago. i was 13. i had been using a computer for a year. i hadn’t even started high school yet. i knew some of the things i wanted, but i didn’t know how i would ever obtain them. i didn’t know what i wanted to do as a career. i was always interested in the big city, and i hoped that maybe i would end up in new york. i calculated that if i went to a 4 year college, i would graduate in 2009. it seemed like forever from then. there were parts of life that i read about on the internet that seemed beyond what i would ever do – simple things that adults take for granted, like going to a really nice coffee shop, or having a hobby outside of what you could convince your parents to let you do.

i feel like despite all the obstacles that have come up and still continue to come up, i am living the life that the 13 year old me would have LOVED. i have achieved a lot of what i dreamed for. i changed everything about my life.

today, i got up at 10 am and made myself and my husband breakfast. i got ready and went to yoga at a studio downtown, and took a class led by my friend. the first friend i ever met in indianapolis, actually. then we sat while we did paperwork and chatting in the empty locked up studio, and went to find some food downtown. we navigated up and down sidestreets and talked about our favorite local places. we sat in a pub next to conseco and talked about yoga for two hours. then i came home to my cats, my nice apartment, my mac laptop and flatscreen tv and i await the arrival of friends to ring in 2010 together.

i find the fact that i’m living the life the 13 year old me would have died for to be very comforting. even though i’m not where i want to be yet, it’s nice to see some progress and take a step back to see what can happen in ten years.

here’s to being a millionare in 2020

Filed under: Uncategorized on December 31st, 2009 | 1 Comment »