>Is it possible to have a favorite movie of 2008 even if it doesn’t open until Christmas Day?
Up until today, I didn’t think so.
Now after watching the trailer for the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, I think we have a contender. Plus how could you not love a movie with Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton? They could the Bush Doctrine to me and I would be happy.
I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited for Christmas!
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Score one for the short bald guys!
The finals are October 20th so I have a LOT of time to prepare….which is good for me!
Thank you all again sooooo much! I’m honestly so surprised and so happy!
Now, I have to get back to the hotel room, I told my mom I was going to go get something out of the car 
THANK YOU!
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For my mom’s first night week we really took advantage of living in Calgary. By that I mean that we sat out on the patio all day until it got too cold and then went inside and watched two movies and enjoyed some wine. This is why we get along so well.
Because my mom hates movies that are scary, have scary music, can be deemed stressful or may cause her to cry, my movie options are limited. This past christmas we watched Once and Waitress so those were out.
That left us with exactly two movies in my DVD library: About a Boy and Little Miss Sunshine, so obviously I had no complaints. Without even knowing it, my mom had made it a mini-Toni Collette marathon night, or as I like to call it: Christmas.
But as we were watching the movie we both noticed something: The movies, even though they could be more different, pretty much end the exact same way. Toni Collette’s kid wants to perform in front of people who will most likely judge and mock them, everyone advises the kid not to do it, but Collette’s character insists. The kid goes on stage anyway, people are initially apprehensive but eventually warm up. Hilarity and warmth ensue.
Not that the similarities make me dislike either of the movies, especially About A Boy, which has always been an essentially perfect movie in my eyes. Just an interesting observation. Makes me think of this.
Now if I could just some how trick my mom into watching The Sixth Sense.
>Alberta has always been a really funny place. Of course by funny, I mean obsessively conservative.
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Just wanted to give myself a little shoutout and remind everyone that this weekend is the last time to vote my round of Talk Show Idol 2. The results will be announced Monday. And hopefully, if I win, I’ll be in the finals that will be airing on October 20th.
>Wow, can you believe this is the 20th edition of Funky Friday 20th!? That is insane! And even better this Friday is going to be amazing because my mom is coming out to Alberta to visit! She hasn’t been here since December ’05, so I’m so excited to sure her all there is to see in Calgary….which means we are heading to the mountains ASAP.
My mom is here for twelve days and then I am heading back to Toronto! It’s going to be such a busy couple of weeks, so I really needed to find a song that makes it impossible to be in a bad mood while listening to it.
So I had to go waaaaay back and find a song that is over ten years old. But it’s perfect and I know you’ll love it just as much.
I hope you have a kick-ass weekend, I know that I am going to! Be safe and catch up on your TIVO, like the economy it’s only going to get worse.
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Calgary has never been closer to actually being one of Canada’s top cities. After all, we have an NHL team, we have a public transportation system (sort-of) and we have gangs. But we’ve always been missing that one single thing that makes us the big city we’ve always wanted it to be.
An Apple Store.
But this Saturday it all changes and Calgary will finally be able to properly compare itself to Vancouver and Toronto. That’s right, we are getting our first Apple Store and no Mac fans those cheap rip-offs stores that you have been frequenting the past couple of years for all your Mac purchases are not the same thing. Just you wait and see.
But I’m not here to write an ad for Apple, the point I want to bring up is this: Why is that any time there is a big new opening of a store, people always seem to line up for hours on end just to be the first ones through the door? The last time we had such a high profile opening was for H & M, when the line winded through the hallways of Market Mall with a mix of moms, their strollers and teeny boppers. Pretty much my worst nightmare.
This Saturday will probably be no different, only this time it will be computer geeks and oil & gas yuppies replacing the mothers and their screaming kids. I’m not quite sure which is worse.
The opening day line-up is something that I’ve never understood. But the line-ups are not just for stores, people also love standing in line while in costume for movies that will be shown again right after the very screening they are lining up for. But in an age of spoilers, the movie line-up is partially excusable. The costumes, however, are not.
But to stand in line for a store simply doesn’t make sense. Especially a store that obviously won’t be closing any time soon and rarely has sales worth getting out of bed for. What’s even funnier is that if you go to high profile stores just a couple of hours after their big openings, there are never any lines and you have the same choices as the people that missed their Saturday morning cartoons had.
But some people love to stand in line. Maybe it’s so they can take their kids back there some day and say that they were the first people ever to step through those doors. Or perhaps it’s because they have nothing better to do. And if that is the case, consider me a very very jealous man.
>90210 was just renewed a full season and while I still have some problems with the show, it is still miles ahead of where the original one was five episodes into it’s first season.
But I can’t help notice that something is a little off.
Am I the only that has notice that Dixon’s new best friend Navid Shirazi played by Michael Steger has been missing since the first episode? Stranger yet is that he is in the credits, yet it is Adrianna who had this week’s entire episode pretty much dedicated to her character and yet she isn’t in any of the show’s promo ads.
I was really happy that 90210 decided to include another ethnic character, too bad they don’t know what to do with him.
On a side note Michael Steger is 28 years old! Looks like someone has a case of the Zuckermans!
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Look, don’t get me wrong. I am so happy that the Fall TV season is back in action. But this has to be one of the busiest Thursday’s in recent times and I don’t know how I’m going to handle it. I realize that my problems of a busy TV schedule could easily be fixed with a satellite and time shifting but even I have my limits.
Like many things in my life I am going to have to make a list. Thankfully, I can use both Canadian and American stations to my advantage. Please note, that this schedule also makes use of TIVO.
watching
8:00- The Office (1 hour)
9:00- Survivor (2 hours-watch first hour)
10:00-Grey’s Anatomy (started at nine, but use TIVO to tape and catch up, thus not having to watch commercials)
11:00-ER (last season, i’m feeling nostalgic)
taped shows:
-second hour of Survivor
-Ugly Betty- Not really a huge fan, but watched it during the strike and I’ve decided to save it for sick/hungover days.
skipping and not really caring:
-My Name is Earl (1 hour)
-CSI (1 hour)
Things are only going to take more complicated when 30 Rock returns and Kath & Kim debut on October 2nd. What can I say, I’m a sucker for Molly Shannon.
>Okay, so it’s been a couple of days since I talked about my Talk Show Idol 2 experience that took place this Monday. I think that is because I was still digesting the whole experience.
There were four contestants on Monday and I was the third to go. I think it went pretty well, I don’t know if you listened but I was freaking nervous. I think this is because usually the stuff I do is always with other people, so it usually just involves the fine skill of banter. But hosting my own Talk Radio show is something that is completely foreign to me.
As we were coming back from the commercial break and getting ready to start my ten minutes, I honestly freaked out a little bit and for a split second I thought this was sorta what American Idol is like. Only in my case there were only a couple hundred or thousand listening and not 38 million people!
But like I said, I had so so so much fun. I got a really good reception from the judges and I had four people call in in total, so I think it was a success!
Voting opened on Monday and I think it goes to sometime this weekend. But if you want to vote, do it now so as to not miss out on your chance to win the $200 weekly draw you get entered in just for voting!
Thank you again everyone for all your support. I had a blast and I hope I get to do it again real soon!
