Our head legal asst tried to convince our boss today to pay me a salary instead of treating me as an independent contractor. Didn't work, but so so sweet of her!

"In the 21st century, 13 races is a career. Back in the day (Affirmed), it was preparation for the Derby."- "Jerardi: Union Rags remains at top of the Kentucky Derby list," Dick Jerardi, DRF

and I got my first Breeders' Cup trifecta. My Miss Aurelia, Grace Hall, and Weemissfrankie in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (11/4/11). chalk, chalk, chalk, but it still ends paying $101.20. I'd take that!

squee! i was doubtful about jeff daniels, tho paper man was very good. but sorkin, oh sorkin. i love him so much! i really liked the promotional bit of the first pt. i liked emily. some familiar bits, but still looks interesting. oh that dialog.

gonna need me some hbo.

hmmm nice thought to kick off the season with (since the opening day lineup is likely to be pretty uninspiring). "if you predicted on opening day of 2010 that the Giants would win the World Series, you are allowed to take no credit. That team didn't win it. Another one did."- Andrew Baggarly, "Lincecum scraps slider to save elbow"

judge ruled against our opposition to summary judgment, but my boss isn't making me appeal it (yay!). 2 hr will signing (aka longest signing ever!). insane wind. Boe beginning insane afterwards. Smash renewed (yay!). Giants go 9 with one hit (ONE HIT!). plus 3 errors, pathetic. left this guy at opposing's attorney's office voicemails the past three days. he refuses to call me back. call me back fucker! i hate people who don't have their name on their voicemail. woman called us today thinking we were a school. that's a new one.

( Best Picture winners I've seen )

so 24 out of 84. 29%. I'm okay with that.

btw since i started rating the year's movies in 2003, the Academy has gotten it right at least twice: 2006 - "The Departed" and 2011 - "The Artist".

Claire's facebook post about the AFI's top 100 inspired me. i would like to work on that, but i already have so many movies to watch. I thought i would figure out how many exactly i have on all my different lists.

Netflix (disks): 13
Netflix (instant queue): 33
Library: 47
DVR: 7
Gifts: 7
Hand Me Downs: 40

plus I'm working on 100 of George Clooney's favorite movies from the years 1964 to 1976.
http://www.parade.com/celebrity/slideshows/editors-pick/george-clooney-top-100-movies.html
Discovered The Day of the Jackal b/c of that list. such a good movie!

I also want to do all the Best Picture winners.

so 147+. not as bad as i feared.

It takes a great deal of confidence to admit that you need help. As Q said to Picard after Picard asked for help, “That was a difficult admission. Another man would have been humiliated to say those words. Another man would have rather died than ask for help.”


In your own job, you’ll probably never encounter a situation where you have to convince the government to recognize a new sentient species. (If you do have that job, though, that’s awesome and please email me for an interview.) But in leadership situations, there are a number of temptations to do the wrong thing to make yourself look better, whether that’s cutting corners to beat a schedule or gaming numbers to make your results look good. It’s in those times we should look to Picard as an example of maintaining our integrity, no matter the short-term costs. In the long-term, integrity is what matters.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/03/13/five-leadership-lessons-from-jean-luc-picard/

I love analyses of Star Trek.

"415- Jack Clark, Lincecum"- Duane Kuiper

now that's how phone numbers should be given.

wikipedia your Dirty Dancing page sucks! i knew it had been rereleased before 2007. no way i was in high school when i saw it in theatres. thank you EW for clearing up that there was a tenth anniversary rerelease. hehe so i must have been no older than 10-11 when i first saw it. i really wish i could remember when i first saw Pretty Woman. I know I saw it and then we didn't watch it again for years. I'm guessing I first watched it when it first came out on video, so maybe 1991, six years old? could that be right? needlessly to say, my rents sooo didn't restrict what movies i saw. it so amused me in high school when some peeps parents were just letting them start to watch R movies around senior year.

what brought this about is that i've been going through my box of movie tickets. Dirty Dancing was on a list of movies i saw in theatres but didnt have a ticket for (along with She's All That, The Jungle Book, My Best Friend's Wedding, Little Women, Mansfield Park, Star Trek: Insurrection- sesly Insurrection was 1998? how is it 14 yrs old? i feel old now!). hmm i wonder if we saw Insurrection on Christmas? It did come out in December. I've also been working on my list of Christmas movies and I'm missing 1996-1998. and wth happened in 2009? how do i not have a ticket for then. grrr. and of course i didnt write anything about christmas 2009 on livejournal. now its off to my diary to see if i wrote anything about christmas in 1996-1998.

so I'm getting ready to announce my top ten list for 2011, still need to watch Beginners and Green Lantern (not that i think Green Lantern will be one of the 10 ten movies of 2011, but I'll give it a chance), but i thought i would go ahead and announce 2010. now i now you're thinking, isn't it a little late? see, what happened was i was all set to announce my list right before the golden globes, i was just going to watch Animal Kingdom first. so i get like 20 mins in and it was amazing, so good, and then the dvd freezes. so i had to go back on the waiting list at the library to get a new dvd, and didn't get it back until August. of course like 5 mins after i start it again, they kill my fav character; and it didn't suck after that, but it just wasn't awesome anymore. so newasy, didn't really seem to make much sense to announce my list in August, thought i would just wait until next yr and do it with 2011. so here we go:

1. Inception
2. The Social Network
3. The Town
4. Fair Game
5. The American
6. The Tourist
7. The Fighter
8. The Other Guys
9. Date Night
10. Alice in Wonderland

note the Best Picture winner, The King's Speech? not on my list! it's a perfectly good movie, just nowhere near the best of 2010!

honorable mention: The Way Back, this amazing, true story will blow you mind. they WALKED from Siberia to India. crazy!
not a real fan of the trailer, http://youtu.be/87kezJTpyMI, but def check out the movie.

17 movies seen in theatres. ah final qrt of law school and bar exam.

it all started with this:

so then peep started coming up with really awesome summaries of other shows:
The Colbert Report: "The tragic tale of a gay man's cover. And his spilt personalties."-rehime

AC 360: "This fascinating new nature program documents the habits of a rare silver pony rarely found in captivity."-politicette

Countdown with Keith Olbermann: "A magical ogre desperate for love tries to woo a beautiful princess with his knowledge of the forest kingdom."-politicette

26 The Tuning of Violins
19 Dublin Sky
16 Casey
15 Walk away
12 Darkness

hmmm. i think my ipod is lying to me a bit (i have listened to the affirmation songs more than 7 times, cmon), but pretty right. wasn't expecting The Tuning of Violins to lead the pack, but it his the most happy song. :)

Stoke on Trent. how is that the name of a town?

@darrenhayes: Staggering home to London. Brrr! It's cold in here! I said there must be some Clovers in the atmosphere. ;)

I love gay men.

I don't know why watching a show about a drug addict lawyer helps, but it does. R.I.P. Mike Schlax.

hehe can you tell what i like from a movie? already seen the 5 nominees for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published. (go Moneyball!)

so i kinda dropped the ball, should have seen something last weekend, but it just didnt work out. so my picks, based on what i saw:

Best Motion Picture - Drama
The Descendants (2011) (Did Not See)
The Help (2011) (DNS)
Hugo (2011/II)
The Ides of March (2011)
Moneyball (2011)
War Horse (2011)

should have been nominated: Margin Call

Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
The Artist (2011)(DNS)
Bridesmaids (2011) (DNS)
50/50 (2011) (DNS)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
My Week with Marilyn (2011)

should have been nominated: Larry Crowne

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
George Clooney for The Descendants (2011)(DNS)
Leonardo DiCaprio for J. Edgar (2011)
Michael Fassbender for Shame (2011)(DNS)
Ryan Gosling for The Ides of March (2011)
Brad Pitt for Moneyball (2011)

should have been nominated: Lucas Black for Seven Days in Utopia, Martin Sheen for The Way, Bradley Cooper for Limitless

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Kenneth Branagh for My Week with Marilyn (2011)
Albert Brooks for Drive (2011) (DNS)
Jonah Hill for Moneyball (2011)
Viggo Mortensen for A Dangerous Method (2011)(DNS)
Christopher Plummer for Beginners (2010)

I haven't been able to see Beginners yet, but I hope Plummer wins it. I saw My Week with Marilyn and Moneyball, and neither Branagh or Hill deserve it.

should have been nominated: Christoph Waltz for Water for Elephants

Best Director - Motion Picture
Woody Allen for Midnight in Paris (2011)
George Clooney for The Ides of March (2011)
Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist (2011)(DNS)
Alexander Payne for The Descendants (2011)(DNS)
Martin Scorsese for Hugo (2011/II)

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
The Artist (2011): Michel Hazanavicius (DNS)
The Descendants (2011): Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash (DNS)
The Ides of March (2011): George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon
Midnight in Paris (2011): Woody Allen
Moneyball (2011): Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Stan Chervin ,/b>

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama
Claire Danes for "Homeland" (2011) (DNS)
Mireille Enos for "The Killing" (2011) (DNS)
Julianna Margulies for "The Good Wife" (2009)
Madeleine Stowe for "Revenge" (2011) (DNS)
Callie Thorne for "Necessary Roughness" (2011)

should have been nominated: Kyra Sedgwick for "The Closer"

Granted, Carnage, A Dangerous Method, Shame, Albert Nobbs, W.E., and Machine Gun Preacher haven't opened in Sacramento, so it's not all my fault.

The most watched scripted network shows (Sept-Dec):

1. NCIS (CBS, 21.4 million)
2. Two and a Half Men (CBS, 18.9)
3. NCIS: LA (CBS, 17.4)
4. Big Bang Theory (CBS, 16.61)
5. Modern Family (ABC, 15.066)
6. The Mentalist (CBS, 14.6)
7. Criminal Minds (CBS, 14.4)
8. 2 Broke Girls (CBS, 13.6)
9. Mike & Molly (CBS, 13.56)
10. Unforgettable (CBS, 13.532)

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/12/27/most-and-least-watched-shows-of-fall-updated/

kinda makes me said NBC is nowhere on the list. you used to be so good! I watch NCIS, NCIS: LA, Modern Family, and I've started season 1 of The Mentalist.