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I don't think I've ever seen a two-character movie that I didn't like.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 07:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never met a man I didn't like.

― Will "Fag" Rogers (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 07:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Hard Candy's good - kind of Oleanna to the Nth degree.

Really? I wrote it off but that makes me want to see it. Maybe.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy first morning of work in '07, dudes.

New Year's - Robbie Fulks was pretty great. It was incredible, those guys basically wrote a whole musical just for the NYE show. Comedy, satire, top 10 pop songs revue, props (!), etc. Then welsh rarebit at 3van's house, drunken acoustic jam session (pennywhistle/guitar/hand drums), bed at 6 am. I had big plans to have everyone over for brunch but I had a pretty epic hangover. The works.

Drinks: beer, homemade cherrywine, beer, beer, beer, beer, champagne, gin & tonic, beer, beer

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

i've never liked a man i didn't meet.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

That's funny, both my 1+-year relationships have begun online. Not to say that either was a fantastic idea, I 'spose.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

All my fantastic ideas have begun online.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy first morning of work in '07, dudes.

Same here.

Feels really weird, though. Half the office is still out, and I have nothing to do. I was amped for work this morning, then... blah.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm bald?

― jw (ex machina), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi jon.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Not yet.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Half the office is still out, and I have nothing to do. I was amped for work this morning, then... blah.

Exactly

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, I saw a van with yooper bumper stickers and Texas plates, please explain?

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

The constitutional right to unhindered interstate travel, I'd wager.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Could have been my friend's older brother, he lives in TX. Dunno if he drives a van though.

But really, we get around, so it could have been anything. That and people seem to like to go up there to vacation a lot. Silly tourista fudgies!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, I have a yooper bumpersticker and IL plates, which causes more consternation among certan UP folx than most people would expect.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

On my flight out of GR I was seated next to a nice young woman from Manistique who now lives in upper Mass = you people DO get around!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

ok fuck this. I'm taking a loooong lunch, starting... now.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Man, the managers here are ASSHATS. They've managed to piss off the professional society whose journals we publish to the point that they're (the society) issuing an RFP to see if they can get a better deal from other publishing houses. This is what we get for treating an ostensible non-profit like a profit-maximizing monetization machine. THANX DUDES

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I am swamped. The upside is that it's almost lunchtime.

What I meant to start out with was... HELLO! HAPPY NEW YEAR! WOO HOO! * streamers *

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

happy new year, Chicago! just got back into town last night!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't really like 2-person movies as much as others. I'll have to think about this further, but it may be b/c in order to make up for the variety of voices they tend to have overly-clever dialogue and restless cinematography. They make me wish I was watching a play instead of a movie.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

While it's on my mind I would like to express my utter disgust with The Goodbye Girl and Sportsnight. Their snappy, lively, witty dialogue arouses in me the urge to kill.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, Jesse. you're, like, the anti-me. I love overly-clever dialogue. and Sports Night. I suspect I would dislike The Goodbye Girl, though, because isn't Richard Dreyfuss in it?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_Night ?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, that Sports Night. though, to be fair, overly-clever dialogue can be godawful, viz. everything else Aaron Sorkin has ever done.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, that show.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

See I kind of liked The West Wing for the first few seasons but I have never met anyone (ok, check that: one person who was just a giant sports nut, and now you) who honestly liked Sports Night. Just thought it a little odd, but to each their own when it comes to bad TV. (for example, I watched several episodes of Heroes last night)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Sports Night is not bad tv! I mean business! I was under the impression that no one liked it because no one actually watched it.

I like bad TV, too, but Sports Night is not it.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Fans of two-person movies should rent Conversations with Other Women when it comes to DVD. I thought it was fantastic, one of my favorite films of this year, with strong performances from Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart, engaging in clever, flirtatious back-and-forths for 80 minutes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I never saw Sports Night, but I was under the impression that it was a lamented classic that never got the ratings it deserved, a la Arrested Development.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Sports Night is not about sports.

I would guess that people could defend SN by saying it was "intelligent" etc, so I would think it doesn't fit into the generally-accepted canon of Bad TV. But it defines bad entertainment for me.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

how I defend SN (I guess this is of interest to nobody except maybe Jesse, so sorry everyone!):

it did a really good job of drawing out complex and indidvidual relationships between each of its characters and everybody else. it drew a social picture really well and remained more or less faithful to it. I admit, though, that I dig super-mannered dialogue and I get why many people don't.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

uh, I meant "individual"

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I am not arguing about what constitutes bad TV on the internet :)

xpost: west wing did that too, at least at first

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

My ex would not shut up about Sports Night, Goodbye Girl, and All in the Family, all of which I dearly hate and which are now evidence of how it could never work between us.

xpost--I haven't seen SN since '01 so my critique (beyond "hated it") will be pretty flimsy, but I suppose I didn't like the way it dealt with relationships because it used really broad strokes and the writers cared more about hearing their own voices than giving the characters' their own. Yeh, I think that covers it-- Goodbye Girl and SN are like watching a puppet show.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Dinner with Andre

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked Sports Night, but every subsequent Sorkin show I've seen has annoyed me. Go figure.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

The reason I even brought this up is that Hard Candy was in the same vein--the characters were not believable because they were way too exaggerated, especially the girl. The problem was that it was hard enough to buy that this girl could be so cunning and smart, but impossible when her dialogue and acting did nothing to betray the fact that she was 14 y.o. I would have probably really liked it if that had been corrected and she had been made to seem like a child putting on being an adult. As it stands, the only reason I have to believe that she is 14 is that it's stated. It reminded me of The Good Son in that way.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

it used really broad strokes

agree to disagree.

the writers cared more about hearing their own voices than giving the characters' their own

anyone on a Sorkin show speaks Sorkin, so that's fair. I do think there were character-appropriate variations in Sports Night, but, like I said, I do get why people dislike his stuff. I get it a lot better after latter-day West Wing and fucking Studio 60.

xpost: omg, Jordan, you and I are totally alone on this SN superiority!

I love My Dinner with Andre.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Sayjal is pimping the FF through email.

I should watch the WW, this might work better in drama.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/342895819_c2dcad05b5_o.jpg

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

xp first four seasons are fucking solid imo

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a character on there who I'm told I resemble. Press secretary?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

she's the greatest, Jesse! CJ, played by Allison Janney. best Sorkin character ever, probably.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm guessing it's probably this dude:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/7/70/240px-Joshua_Malina.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

No, no. It's a man who wears glasses.

Yes, him. And now that I see that picutre, I'm reeealy not happy.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude's character was a total shithead too.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

During his tenure on The West Wing, Malina was known to the rest of the cast as a tireless prankster. It is said he coated telephones with Vaseline and reset producer Alex Grave's iPod menus to Mandarin Chinese. It is also said he stole some of Bradley Whitford's letterhead stationary and used it in an elaborate prank.

How come actors are always pulling pranks? Makes for good talk-show fodder?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, right. that actor was great on Sports Night, but I wasn't watching West Wing anymore when he arrived.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

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