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    Thursday, May 19th, 2011
    12:18 am
    omg
    W

    Holy fuck, Bob's THIRTY.

    Happy birthday, dude. But wow.

    -Willlo
    Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
    11:07 am
    Well, in that case...
    B <--Hey, Willlo, remember when we did this?

    Seeing as how we're back on this thing, I might as well say hello to all both of you still not using tumblr or blogspot. Uh.

    ...

    Um.

    ...

    Osama's dead.

    --Burb out <--and this?!

    P.S.: I'm posting the mood below just in case Carolyn still reads these.

    Current Mood: quixotic
    Sunday, May 1st, 2011
    12:38 am
    *Looks around nervously*
    Is... is everyone gone?

    Yes?


    Excellent... )
    Friday, April 30th, 2010
    8:46 pm
    WHAT HAVE WE COME TO
    W

    OH GOD IF I HAD WAITED THREE AND A HALF MORE HOURS TO POST, THERE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN A SINGLE POST FOR APRIL.

    And this is a rather weak post, at that.

    -Willlo
    Sunday, March 21st, 2010
    10:29 pm
    YES.
    W

    This might have to be my new homepage, forever. It just seems appropriate to initiate browsing with this.

    http://welcometointernet.org/

    -Willlo
    Monday, March 8th, 2010
    9:56 pm
    NEED MOAR MEDIA
    W

    Hey, all two of you that still read this, remember the media consumables post I've done twice before? (once covering Sept 06-Sept 07, the other covering Sept 07 through the end of 2008.) Well, this is 2009's. As I correctly predicted in the last one, these are mainly for you, Future Will. (It freaks Future Will out a little when he reads these, having forgotten that Past Will wrote them.)

    Click it, Future Will. I know you're going to. BECAUSE YOU'RE MEEEEE. )

    -Willlo
    Sunday, March 7th, 2010
    4:41 pm
    Oscar predictions!
    W

    The Oscars are tonight!

    I've often tried to watch all five Best Picture nominations for a given year. I've never succeeded at this. Well, for the first time, I've seen five Best Picture nominations. ...unfortunately, there are ten nominations this year. Sigh. I actually managed to see 8 of them — I'm missing A Serious Man and Blindside.

    Also, it looks like Best Picture is the major contested race. Will it be Avatar or Hurt Locker? Based on all the other awards given this season, it'll be Hurt Locker. But honestly, having seen both? Hurt Locker's great, but I think Avatar should win.

    Anyway, here are my picks for the wins! (I've capitalized my picks.)

    UPDATE [3/8/10]: I've gone and italicized the actual winners. I got 12 out of 21. 6 of those correct guesses were the major 6, but that's not too fancy since most critics agreed on all but Best Picture (which really Avatar deserved more than Hurt Locker, and REALLY neither picture was the absolute best in the category. But Hurt Locker absolutely nailed their marketing and were able to present themselves as the antithesis to Avatar. I think it should have gone to Avatar for how revolutionary it is, but even purely on quality I rank Up and Up in the Air more deserving than Hurt Locker. Hurt Locker IS good, but only Academy politics made it "best." Anyway, 12 out of 21. The upsets for adapted screenplay and the two sound categories didn't help me. :/ Alas!


    Performance by an actor in a leading role
    JEFF BRIDGES IN "CRAZY HEART"
    George Clooney in "Up in the Air"
    Colin Firth in "A Single Man"
    Morgan Freeman in "Invictus"
    Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt Locker"

    Performance by an actor in a supporting role
    Matt Damon in "Invictus"
    Woody Harrelson in "The Messenger"
    Christopher Plummer in "The Last Station"
    Stanley Tucci in "The Lovely Bones"
    CHRISTOPH WALTZ IN "INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS"

    Performance by an actress in a leading role
    SANDRA BULLOCK IN "THE BLINDSIDE"
    Helen Mirren in "The Last Station"
    Carey Mulligan in "An Education"
    Gabourey Sidibe in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
    Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia"
    [This is probably the most debatable acting category. Sandra Bullock's the favorite, but there's talk Meryl Streep can pull off a surprise win.]

    Performance by an actress in a supporting role
    Penélope Cruz in "Nine"
    Vera Farmiga in "Up in the Air"
    Maggie Gyllenhaal in "Crazy Heart"
    Anna Kendrick in "Up in the Air"
    MO'NIQUE IN "PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL 'PUSH' BY SAPPHIRE"

    Achievement in directing
    "Avatar" James Cameron
    "THE HURT LOCKER" KATHRYN BIGELOW
    "Inglourious Basterds" Quentin Tarantino
    "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" Lee Daniels
    "Up in the Air" Jason Reitman

    Best motion picture of the year
    "Avatar"
    "The Blind Side"
    "District 9"
    "An Education"
    "THE HURT LOCKER"
    "Inglourious Basterds"
    "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
    "A Serious Man"
    "Up"
    "Up in the Air"



    Best animated feature film of the year
    Coraline
    Fantastic Mr. Fox
    The Princess and the Frog
    The Secret of Kells
    UP
    [Though I have to say, having seen all of these but Kells, it was a fantastic year for animation.]

    Achievement in art direction
    "AVATAR"
    "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"
    "Nine"
    "Sherlock Holmes"
    "The Young Victoria"

    Achievement in cinematography
    "Avatar"
    "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
    "THE HURT LOCKER"
    "Inglourious Basterds"
    "The White Ribbon"

    Achievement in costume design
    "Bright Star"
    "Coco before Chanel"
    "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"
    "NINE"
    "The Young Victoria"

    Best documentary feature
    "Burma VJ"
    "The Cove"
    "FOOD, INC."
    "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers"
    "Which Way Home"

    Achievement in film editing
    "Avatar" Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
    "District 9" Julian Clarke
    "THE HURT LOCKER" BOB MURAWSKI AND CHRIS INNIS
    "Inglourious Basterds" Sally Menke
    "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" Joe Klotz

    Best foreign language film of the year
    "Ajami"
    "El Secreto de Sus Ojos"
    "The Milk of Sorrow"
    "UN PROPHETE"
    "The White Ribbon"

    Achievement in makeup
    "Il Divo"
    "STAR TREK"
    "The Young Victoria"

    Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
    "Avatar" James Horner
    "Fantastic Mr. Fox" Alexandre Desplat
    "The Hurt Locker" Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
    "Sherlock Holmes" Hans Zimmer
    "UP" MICHAEL GIACCHINO

    Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
    "Almost There" from "The Princess and the Frog" Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
    "DOWN IN NEW ORLEANS" FROM "THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG" MUSIC AND LYRIC BY RANDY NEWMAN
    "Loin de Paname" from "Paris 36" Music by Reinhardt Wagner Lyric by Frank Thomas
    "Take It All" from "Nine" Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
    "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from "Crazy Heart" Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

    Achievement in sound editing
    "AVATAR" CHRISTOPHER BOYES AND GWENDOLYN YATES WHITTLE
    "The Hurt Locker" Paul N.J. Ottosson
    "Inglourious Basterds" Wylie Stateman
    "Star Trek" Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
    "Up" Michael Silvers and Tom Myers

    Achievement in sound mixing
    "AVATAR" CHRISTOPHER BOYES, GARY SUMMERS, ANDY NELSON AND TONY JOHNSON
    "The Hurt Locker" Paul N.J. Otttosson and Ray Beckett
    "Inglourious Basterds" Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
    "Star Trek" Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
    "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson

    Achievement in visual effects
    "AVATAR" JOE LETTERI, STEPHEN ROSENBAUM, RICHARD BANEHAM AND ANDREW R. JONES
    "District 9" Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
    "Star Trek" Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton

    Adapted screenplay
    "District 9" Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
    "An Education" Screenplay by Nick Hornby
    "In the Loop" Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
    "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
    "UP IN THE AIR" SCREENPLAY BY JASON REITMAN AND SHELDON TURNER

    Original screenplay
    "The Hurt Locker" Written by Mark Boal
    "INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS" WRITTEN BY QUENTIN TARANTINO
    "The Messenger" Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
    "A Serious Man" Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
    "Up" Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy



    I left out the short film categories because I know absolutely nothing about the selections, and it would have just been a blind guess.

    Yay for Oscars tonight!!

    -Willlo
    Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
    9:28 pm
    ::))
    W



    -Willlo
    Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
    8:38 pm
    OMG I HAVEN'T POSTED IN FOREVER
    W

    WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME WHY HAVEN'T I POSTED IN A BILLION YEARS.

    Things I have done recently:
    - Seen several Broadway shows
    - Designed a couple of shows
    - Spent three weeks working in SC
    - Starting dating a sweet girl
    - Learned how to de-frame and frame sketches properly
    - Cheered the winning team in the BCS and Super Bowl
    - Yelled at Bob for not telling all of you about his writing gig at Pixelated Geek
    - Fallen even more in love with Lost in its final season
    - OMG SURVIVOR LOVE LOVE LOVE
    - Looked up grad degrees in computer science (wtf?!)
    - Let my Hulu queue start accumulating dust
    - Gotten addicted to the Dark Tower series
    - Played a bunch of Assassin's Creed
    - Projectile vomited all night long
    - Made plans to go to PAX East!
    - Tried way too many quizzes on Sporcle

    Things I haven't done recently:
    - Finished my taxes
    - Watched any of my Blockbuster Online DVDs that are sitting her
    - Remembered to watch How I Met Your Mother
    - Sent out resumes
    - Gone grocery shopping
    - Done a stats post, or any sort of post for that matter on here
    - Bought new shoes since my black shoes and sneakers are both looking pretty rough
    - Breakdanced
    - Backed up my computer
    - Seen Strother (will be soon rectified)
    - Successfully balanced everything I want to do in life


    Blarf.

    I mean, I still have on my wall To-Do List "Weekend update." That's something I wrote on there back in JULY to post on LJ about my 6 busy weekends in a row. Now I'll never remembeeeeerr... :(

    Anyway, two and a half AWESOME music videos I found today:

    "70 Million," Hold Your Horses!

    "This Too Shall Pass," Ok Go
    Same song, but original video. Also cool, but not as awesome as the above one.


    Maybe more posting again soon? Maybe?

    -Willlo
    Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
    10:49 am
    Hilarity
    B



    --Burb out
    Monday, January 18th, 2010
    1:13 am
    Back in Myrtle Beach
    W

    I hear ya, Bob. And I need to do a Decembers post, Januarys post, movies post, 2009 stats post, New Year's post, and Carolyn's wedding post. Wennnnnh.

    But for the next three weeks I'm down in Myrtle Beach working on Steel Magnolias and Le Grand Cirque Adrenaline, so there goes most of my free time.

    In fact, I'm so busy, this is what the shop usually looks like:





    -Willlo
    Sunday, January 17th, 2010
    2:36 am
    HOLY SHIT BOB POSTED
    B

    Hey all -- it's been, uh, forever. I felt that lj was being neglected... mainly by me. Willlo's done a pretty good job keeping up with things despite his busy schedule; I guess my excuse is that I'm a lazy mutha-effer. So, I thought I'd do a little listy-poo to get things rolling. All you out there still in lj-land, post your top five favorite items you can win at a Chuck E. Cheese (or if you're from my era, motherfuckin' Show Biz y'all). Do this, and I'll show you mine.

    --Burb out
    Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
    7:50 am
    HAPPY NEW YEAR
    W

    Yes yes yes I know I have to do my December posts, end of year stats, and media consumed of 09 posts. If it gives you any indication of how late I'm running, this is from MARCH. What does it matter -- LJ is a ghost town anyway. I can make my own rules!

    Side note: CONGRATULATIONS CAROLYN ON YOUR BEAUTIFUL WEDDING!!!


    Okay, to the matter at hand. Last March, Bob visited. We were bored, so we went to Central Park and decided to make a video. We were able to come up with a rough idea, and then we just had Bob improvise shot after shot, with me coaching it all towards a slowly forming narrative direction. It was a nice timekiller, and I think a little different from other stuff we've done -- but hopefully still enjoyable.

    Yes, it's just over nine minutes long and that probably makes you want to die. I realize that's like four hours on the internet. But I encourage you to give it a shot! We hope you like it!



    -Willlo
    Friday, December 25th, 2009
    10:13 pm
    HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
    W

    Merry Christmas, everyone! :)

    -Willlo


    aaaaaaaaaaand UNGOAL.
    Monday, December 21st, 2009
    11:17 pm
    HOME!
    W

    I FINALLY MADE IT TO SOUTH CAROLINA!

    Off to Charleston tomorrow!

    Also, the most awesome shirt I've seen in recent memory, minuscule target audience be damned!*

    UPDATE ALSO: Geography is fun! On my last run, I juuuuust baaarely missed level 9 by 42 points (though really I probably only got that close to thankfully getting Boston, Memphis, and Miami in the set). When I first got to level 7, I might have pooped myself a little.

    -Willlo

    *Bonus font joke!
    Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
    10:45 pm
    Things
    W

    - KATHRYN WAS ROBBED! Oh, my poor So You Think You Can Dance sweetie. :( You should have won! Looks like now I can put my SYTYCD shame back in the closet and pull out my good ol' winter American Idol shame to wear. Huzzah!

    - Iron Man 2 first trailer!

    - I still love ordered lists.

    - This article presents the best reasons I've read to ever watch any Twilight movie (even if it's one that hasn't been made yet.)

    - Two work days left this decade! AAHHHH.

    - Child's Play Charity. Even if you don't have the money to contribute, check it out.


    -Willlo
    Sunday, December 13th, 2009
    11:49 pm
    Swoony for Clooney
    W

    If you get a chance, check out Up in the Air - quite good, and it's probably going to be a top Oscar contender.

    Also, a cute girl out-nerded me in math at a bar tonight. I was ashamed and aroused.

    -Willlo
    Saturday, December 12th, 2009
    11:40 am
    It wouldn't be Crimmus without this.
    W

    By this point, this video has become as ingrained with Christmas for me as that classic carol "Angel in a Centerfold."




    [EDIT: WHAT! The last three seconds cut off! But Bob's embed from last year is no longer available and in a very thorough four seconds of searching, I didn't find another. :(]


    -Willlo
    1:11 am
    Novembers
    W

    What? It's only halfway into December. Don't hate, I was busy. :(

    So, here's the big ol' November update. Maybe I'll finish the December one by February. On the good side, I actually have a picture from every single November! On the down side, I had to rely on a lot of production shots to do that.

    Anyway, take a look if'n you're interested!

    In binary, November's only the 3rd month. )

    And I just spent three or four different days getting this done and it's 1am and I'm ready for bed, so I can assure you I didn't go back to proofread. Find mistakes for bonus points!

    -Willlo
    Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
    11:36 pm
    DON'T STOP! BELIEVIN'!
    W

    I couldn't resist after the fall season finale. A little grainy, but I churned the whole thing out -- setting up lights, taking the photo, 'shopping it and and all -- in just about an hour.



    -Willlo
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