Down with my Life by Vic Barry

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

The one with Mel Gibson's new movie

F$%kin' awesome

The one with pancakes

Today is Feb 24th. The Bible; or somewhere, says we should all eat pancakes today. Pancakes for breakfast, lunch and yes, bloody dinner. What do they do in America? They eat pancakes there all the time. Even in the cinema, allegedly.

I make pancakes at home about once a month or every 6 weeks. Just for a change. Something different. And so on. Throw on some bacon and maple syrup. Drooool.And none of these bloody scrawny things. Yes, you know the ones your mother would cook. The ones that burn the skin off your lips. The ones that dont taste of anything. The ones that dont even resemble food so much that Nicole Richie would eat them. The only way to get anything out of em, is to lace them in sugar, chocolate and jam.

But, while your sitting down to your 10th feed of sugar and lemon I'll still be belting the shit out of a few egg whites. Enjoy the pancake day, and remember it's illegal to eat them any other day of the year in Ireland.

The one with Watchmen

UK reviews are starting to trundle online. Have a peek...

Total Film's Watchmen Review

Empire's Watchmen Review

A man in a beard told me it was very good and very violent. Which is always a good thing. Men with beards are great. Looking forward to the movie, but I'm wondering how many of the non-comic book fans will actually go to see the movie.

Somehow I cant imagine the local Celtic jersey wearing male and his tracksuit tucked into knock off Ugg boots oul doll, wanting to go see this. Maybe when he hears its full of violence they might, well he might. Just to get a few new moves for his own repertoire, when it comes to Saturday night on Patrick St.

And twitter is getting Watchmen'd up as well. Check out the New Frontiersman on Twitter.

Somehow dont think they same Celtic attire clad "lad" will be checking that out either. Unless of course he's there telling @Wossy to "Fuck off" or @Stephenfry "Fuck yourself". Then the subsequent conversations with the fake ugg boot wearer.

"So yeah, I told Stephen Fry to fuck himself"

"Really?"

"Yeah, and that fucker Jonathan Ross, I told him to Fuck off"

"Really, how'dcha do that babe?"

"On the Internet gurl. Ya know I'm good with the cumpooter"

"Thats amaaazzinnngg"

"Yeah, tis. How bout you get outta them Ugg boots"

"For fuck sake, they're not Uggs. They be the cheap wans, called Bluggs"

"Era whatever, let us fuck!"

"Dont fall asleep this time willaaahh"

And so on and so forth.

Monday, February 23, 2009

The one with another WTF?

2 in one day! Well here's something that wont have a happy ending. And no, it wont be the child eating the snake.

The one with human throwing

Big oul WTF?

The one with Wolverine The Musical

The one with the Oscars

Ive geeked out all over the place this weekend. First it was the blog awards with a constant does of geekness, including tweets and pics and then last night I came home, sat down with way too much lemonade and geeked the f$%k out with the Oscars. Really enjoyable time, on my own in the front room with Twitter. Sad I know. But the folks @empiremagazine, @totalfilm, @movies_ie, @rejects and @KaiMovieReviews provided some banter along the way!

Anyway, onto the Oscars, themselves. No surprises really. I'm sure plenty felt Mickey Rourke was a dead set. Given his last few acceptance speeches (particularly at the Baftas) and his want to go to WWE, I'm sure some of the Academy were saying WTF?
Its a pity though, as his performance in the Wrestler is superb. But I think Penn had a better performance as Harvey Milk. And kudos to his speech as well.

And well done to all @ Slumdog. As rightly predicted by many, unlike myself. I didn't think it would do as well as it did. Its a great flick, but the Oscars can be a little demented at times.

The Oscars this year were a little more intimate. Gone were the big sweeping stage and the 300 hundred or so tripable steps. That said, there was a little Xmen vibe about the stage at times. Wolverine kicked ass in the opening with a great song and dance number. But then it almost turned into Wolverine - The Broadway fuckin musical!

Also, I was moved, as were the whole audience when the late Heath Ledger got Best supporting actor! Wonderful speeches!

Im not a huge Ben Stiller fan, but his Joaquin Phoenix was superb and the lads from Pineapple Express were quite good as well, although hard to follow Stiller.

Anyway, heres the full list of winners.

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Richard Jenkins--The Visitor
Frank Langella--Frost/Nixon
**Sean Penn--Milk**
Brad Pitt--The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke--The Wrestler

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Josh Brolin--Milk
Robert Downey Jr.--Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman--Doubt
**Heath Ledger--The Dark Knight**
Michael Shannon--Revolutionary Road

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Anne Hathaway--Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie--Changeling
Melissa Leo--Frozen River
Meryl Streep--Doubt
**Kate Winslet--The Reader**

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Amy Adams--Doubt
**Penelope Cruz--Vicky Cristina Barcelona**
Viola Davis--Doubt
Taraji Henson--The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei--The Wrestler

BEST DIRECTOR
David Fincher--The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard--Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant--Milk
Stephen Daldry--The Reader
**Danny Boyle--Slumdog Millionaire**

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Frozen
Happy-Go-Lucky
In Bruges
**Milk**
Wall-E

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Eric Roth--The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley--Doubt
Peter Morgan--Frost/Nixon
David Hare--The Reader
**Simon Beaufoy--Slumdog Millionaire**

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
**Wall-E**

BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
**Slumdog Millionaire**