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Shop to rent Pembroke Road, Ruislip, HA4
The property is arranged as a ground floor lock-up shop and has frontages to Windmill Hill and Pembroke Road with a splay frontage onto the corner. The accommodation can be let in its current configuration or there is potential for it to be divided (details on request).
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Restaurant to rent Pembroke Road, Ruislip
Double shop unit of approximately 1370 sq ft offered in good order previously used as a restaurant/takeway A3/A5 use with a substantial amount of equipment still in place. Offered with gas central heating and air conditioning situated in this prominent position close to the junction of Victoria ...
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Retail Property (out of town) to rent Victoria Road, South Ruislip
Two large and deep shops of approximately 2057 sq ft with good frontage currently inter-connecting half way down and potentially useable as two separate shop units. Situated in this prominent position close to South Ruislip underground and overground Station, other local traders and Sainsbury.
Marketed by Andrew Pearce, Commercial. Telephone: 020 8868 2424 Local call rate
Serviced Office to rent Field End Road, Ruislip, HA4
Built in 2000, units range from small one or two-person business offices to spacious fully functioning workshops suitable for a range of heavier uses. Rental includes everything - apart from low-cost metered gas and electric, optional digital phones and broadband.
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3 bedroom house to rent Ruislip
A fabulous 3 bedroom detached family home situated close to Ruislip/Ruislip station with it`s shops, restaurants amenities and tube stations. Comprising of spacious lounge/dinning room area with a good sized conservatory at the back of the house. A galley kitchen offered wall mounted and floor st...
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3 bedroom flat to rent Ruislip
A beautifully presented three bedroom ground floor flat, ideally located for Ruislip and Ruislip Gardens tube stations, the A40 and Ruislip High Street. This larger than average property comes to the market in superb decorative order and consists of three double bedrooms, good sized lounge, fitte...
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3 bedroom house to rent Columbia Avenue, Eastcote, Middlesex, HA4
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2 bedroom terraced house to rent Dulverton Road, Ruislip, HA4
A neatly presented two bedroom extended mid terrace family home available from 1st August 2013.
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2 bedroom terraced house to rent Ruislip
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3 bedroom terraced house to rent Columbia Avenue, Eastcote, Middlesex
Well-presented three bedroom house located in a quiet residential cul de sac conveniently set within a10 minute walk to Eastcote Tube Station and High Street. Benefiting from a downstairs cloakroom, spacious living room which opens out to a private rear garden, two double bedrooms and one single ...


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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
The Nerd Who Made It
49 comments:
- jlo said...
I hate when you post things like this. It makes me so sad. Yet, I am happy because you are a great BFF...even if you are a recovered nerd.
Can you believe I was first to post? That never happens!! - April 14, 2009 at 8:38 AM
- Jenn @ Juggling Life said...
My best friend in elementary school was your twin. The days we spent playing hopscotch were some of the best days of my life. I like to think I ran some pretty good interference for him with the bullies too.
Thank goodness like can change. - April 14, 2009 at 8:43 AM
- Martha said...
The Nerd who Not Only Made it, Excelled At IT!!
- April 14, 2009 at 8:53 AM
- Grandma J said...
Oh Jason, I hate it when you make me cry...then laugh...then cry again.
If I had been in your class, I would have beat the crap out of those mean kids. Then I would have asked you to let me copy your homework. Ummm, but either way I'd be your friend.
BTW, what about your church friends? I'm not LDS, but I've never met a mean Mormon. - April 14, 2009 at 9:06 AM
- Kelley with Amy's Angels said...
Did you ever see the Friends episode where Monica goes out on a date with Chip Matthews--Rachel's high school boyfriend? If you remember, Monica was the "fat girl" in high school and was picked on all the time. As she grew up and lost weight, Chip asks her out.
Monica goes and realizes that while she changed, Chip did not. When she got home she told Rachel, "Remember how I wanted to go out with Chip Matthews in high school? well, tonight I DID go out with Chip Matthews in high school."
The bottom line is--those that were picked on grow up and "make it" like you did. Those that picked on us? Most of the time, they don't. I hope those from that time of your life see you now and see how you "made it".
I hope they also realize what they missed out on!! : ) - April 14, 2009 at 9:11 AM
- Kelly said...
I think you more than made it! It's sad that you had to hide away parts of yourself to fit in. I think we all do it in a way, but it's still sad.
- April 14, 2009 at 9:12 AM
- Lacking Productivity said...
Few people know how incredible they are, especially before 20. I suspect we are all a little greater than we think we are.
- April 14, 2009 at 9:17 AM
- Katy said...
I had a knock-down, drag-out fight (yelling, not hitting) with Thing 2 last summer because he wanted to leave the house in shorts, a t-shirt, sandals AND WHITE SOCKS UP TO HIS KNEES. No son of mine is going to be caught dead going out in public looking like that!!
The poor child (as well as Thing 1) doesn't realize that by dressing somewhat "cool" he might be able to mitigate his nerdliness with his peers. But I know! Their sister and I help them to dress well/cool but they keep their own idiosyncrasies and good grades because that's who they are. It balances nicely!
And accutane is God's gift to those of us who suffer from horrific acne. Amen and Praise the Lord. - April 14, 2009 at 9:21 AM
- Gary Rith Pottery Blog said...
I wouldn't want to revisit junior high or high school EVER again. I remember realizing in my mid-20s I could be myself and it was blissfull. (I know your story and you had some difficult things to overcome alright)
Wish I lived down the street from you guys, Jason, because the next drink would be on me. - April 14, 2009 at 9:43 AM
- Twenty Four At Heart said...
I love you! I was MISERABLE in high school. I was surrounded by MEAN GIRLS. It was horrid. I didn't come into my own until I left for college. Life can be so hard when you're a kid!
- April 14, 2009 at 9:51 AM
- Predo said...
I think we walked in the same shoes! Having said that, I have checked on all those mean people in my past and guess what. Their lives suck! It is almost like they can not get past the high school football era. They are locked in the "Married with children, Bundy" way of life.
I am very thankful that I was strong enough to hold out for the life that was awaiting me, and I am thankful you did too!
You are no longer a NERD dear friend, you are a wonderful man and you are changing the face of tomorrow! It is my honest pleasure to know you! - April 14, 2009 at 10:03 AM
- M said...
Ohh...glad you were able to overcome all that and have some fun in life!!
Your post made me remember my best friend Tommy in elementary school...we always played together and I taught him how to run so he didn't look so funny. Although looking back I don't think he was gay I just think is mom was too in control of his life. We went to different Jr. High schools and I never knew what happened to him...I hope he made it!
Funny my post today was about my son...who isn't a nerd in that kind of way...but he likes math...uh! - April 14, 2009 at 10:04 AM
- Busy Bee Suz said...
WOW. I think I just realized that I am partly a nerd. NO sports. NO recess? Ill fitting clothes?
What the hey? Why did it take me 41years to figure this out.
It does break my heart that you had to suffer so much adversity at such a young age. BUT it also has made you the kind, loving, FUNNY as heck and compassionate person you are today. And that is why you have so much love in your life now. Even from folks you don't know. ;0
Hugs, suz - April 14, 2009 at 10:05 AM
- ChiTown Girl said...
Oh, my heart is breaking for Young Jason. But, all those awful experiences made you the incredible man you are today. {{{hugs}}}
- April 14, 2009 at 10:13 AM
- Faiqa said...
High school? Been there. Got the T-shirt. Never, ever going back.
The thing about being "cool" in high school was that it came at that terrible price of hiding who you really wanted to be in favor of garnering the approval of others.
"Others" who, in the grand scheme of things, were just not up to par with those who we deemed "nerds."
I find it incredibly sad that some people still haven't let go of that need to please the crowd... and thus miss out on the really good stuff (and people) in life.
So, your story makes me very happy. - April 14, 2009 at 10:25 AM
- Baby Favorite said...
What's even worse than being a recovered nerd is being a recovered nerd who never KNEW she was once one until reading this post!
My mom made my clothes, too, I hated sports, and I was always Teacher's Pet even though I never tried (or even wanted to be). I remember having to ask my mom what being a "Goody Two Shoes" meant when I was called it by a classmate one day. Fortunately, the bullying wasn't much worse than that, though, and I kind of outgrew my nerdiness by Jr. High. Somewhow.
My heart goes out to you, Jason, and even moreso to the a**holes who missed out on knowing you because they were so ignorant and closed-minded. Their loss.
You are a gem. - April 14, 2009 at 10:35 AM
- Liz said...
I must be living under a rock because I've never heard of acutane. But now that I have adult acne, thanks to the wonderfully changing hormones caused by pregnancy and breastfeeding for about 5 years, I will look it up.
A very touching and honest post. - April 14, 2009 at 10:52 AM
- Jan said...
I'm going to have both of my sons read this - mainly because Oldest Son is a nerd who made it, and The Young One is a nerd who is making it; he's in the last year of middle school and is fervently looking forward to high school.
Now if I could just get my guilt-ridden, devoutly Catholic gay best friend to read your story, you'd have a trifecta at the Sushi Bar.
You rock, Jason. You really do. - April 14, 2009 at 10:58 AM
- foolery said...
Every time I read your words I smile, even when they are truly sad, because you are so perfectly YOU. I think that's more rare than you realize.
When I wrote the Nerd post yesterday (thanks for the great comment and the link, by the way), I was embracing and chuckling at the Nerd I was, am and always will be. I don't have a problem with it. All school up through high school was actually good because there were plenty of Nerds to hang out with. It was college that was lonely and isolating.
Back to full-time Nerddom. And you are a treasure, Jason. : )
-- Laurie @ Foolery - April 14, 2009 at 11:10 AM
- Justine/Justiney/Tiney said...
That's right baby. You've come a longggggggggg way! No longer a nerd, but a hunky, studly guy with a great life! Of course, part of it came full circle, 'cause you're right back in school! LOL
Justine :o ) - April 14, 2009 at 11:13 AM
- HappyWifeHappyLife said...
Jason, you made it through the fire and now you are a compassionate loving human being and THAT, my friend, is a beautiful thing!
My son is in middle school right now and let me tell you... the bullying STILL goes on. There's one kid who picks on him and the Mama Grizzly in me wants to take this kid's effing HEAD OFF with my TEETH (yes, I said it and I MEANT it!!), but my son says "Mom, let me handle it". It's a rite of passage, I guess. But boy, it's tough. I would not go through those middle school/jr. high years again for all the money in the world. - April 14, 2009 at 11:53 AM
- Miss M said...
My favorite people are the nerds. I tried to be "cool" in high school, only to embrace my inner nerd in college, then I gave birth to a nerd, and now I am married to a nerd and have nerdy friends. Nerds are cool. I suppose that makes me a nerd that made it too!?
- April 14, 2009 at 12:06 PM
- Rebekah said...
Every minute spent in your bunchy underwears and (dear god) homemade jeans (your mother was SUPER SPECIAL!!) was another honing moment creating Jason as himself. You seriously couldn't have turned out cooler, and I'm glad you went through it to get to the man you are now! Every sucky minute. :D Great post!
- April 14, 2009 at 12:10 PM
- Cheri @ Blog This Mom! said...
So you and me? Twinsies. My mother made all of my clothes, all of them. And we were very poor. Very. Poor. Also? I wore glasses and had bushy eyebrows. Now add to that all of the secrets about my home life that I was required to keep, and no wonder that I, too, excelled in my school work. I really loved the validation that being the good student provided.
Did you see Napoleon Dynamite?
Okay. Enough heavy stuff. Let's talk about something else? Like the picture of you and Bossy under the caption "Jason Loves Bossy." It's getting old. I think it is time to put up a picture of me under the new caption "Jason Loves Cheri." Thanks for hearing me out.
I'll leave now. - April 14, 2009 at 1:52 PM
- sista #2 said...
My mother made my clothes.
I peed the bed.
I had zits.
I had to wear big ass corrective saddle shoes.
I did horrible in school.
I sooo wanted to be cool but I wasn't.
And you made me cry.
Kids can be so cruel.
#2 - April 14, 2009 at 2:26 PM
- Jason, as himself said...
Awww, you guys! You're the best friends ever. If only I knew then what I know now, I would have had some hope!
Just a couple of things:
1-Grandma J, 95% of the kids in my school were Mormon. So, yes, the Mormons were the ones doing the bullying. You've never met a mean Mormon? Wow. You're lucky. Not to say that they were all mean by any stretch of the imagination. Many of them were great. But my worst moments weren't actually at school. They were at CHURCH. That's where the kids were the meanest.
2-All of you girlfriends who would beat the crap out of anyone that was mean to me, with all of your good intentions, would only make matters worse. "Ohhh, look, the fem has to have his GIRLfriends stick up for him. What a pussy."
3-I think I agree with those of you who say that all of those experiences helped mold me into who I am today. And overall, I'm really happy about who I've become and the life I lead. - April 14, 2009 at 3:08 PM
- oreneta said...
Glad you made it. Maybe those junior high erections is why the kids now want to wear their pants so so loooowwwww, nothing like a waistband with the entire weight of the jeans plus pocket contents to keep things in order.....sort of a modern day sporran, no?
- April 14, 2009 at 3:29 PM
- Manic Mommy said...
Weird hair, incredibly insecure (I looked at the ground when I walked), good grades. Thank God I wore uniforms or it would have been worse.
I like to call us late bloomers. Great job, fellow nerd! - April 14, 2009 at 5:48 PM
- Katy said...
Jason, I have to say, having a girl stick up for you seems to be acceptable when it's your sister. Just last month daughter threatened a neighbor kid with "I'm gonna beat the shit out of you if you don't leave them alone - no one makes fun of my brother but me!" and GLORY GLORY HALLELUJAH the nasty little scab is leaving the Things alone!
So advice for all the nerdlings - find a big sister with her black belt. - April 14, 2009 at 5:59 PM
- Beth said...
My husband calls me his nerd. With affection and love and stuff.
- April 14, 2009 at 6:19 PM
- Shawn said...
My oldest son was upset that the other kids considered him a 'nerd' because he's smart and not good at sports.
I told him to be glad, that nerds grow up to rule the world. The popular kids tend to peak in school, the nerds keep growing and make the biggest changes to this world as adults.
I told him that I'm very proud to be the mom of a nerd and knew that he had a great heart and great potential to be whatever he wants to be.
He left happy. - April 14, 2009 at 6:35 PM
- Shawn said...
Of course, I also threw in that the richest man in the entire world was certainly considered a nerd in school.
He rather liked that one. - April 14, 2009 at 6:48 PM
- thezeninyou said...
My heart goes out to you... My brother was horribly teased too...flaming red hair, acne, overweight, honors classes and in the marching band!!! But in the end he made it too...after he went to collage and no one gave a rats ass! :)
- April 14, 2009 at 7:27 PM
- smiles4u said...
In one post you sparked tears, anger and happiness out of me. You know I think this already but I will say it again. You are amazing. That you took all that shit and let it make you into the amazing person you are today, instead of bitter and mean, rocks! It's because of bullies like you described here, that I got into so many fights in school. I couldn't help it.
The sad thing is, some of those mean kids/bullies grow up to be adults that do the same. Mean people really suck.
Jason, you have more than made it! - April 14, 2009 at 7:30 PM
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- Fantastic Forrest said...
Thank God you survived it. I just read the saddest story about a young man who didn't. I wondered if you saw it too, and if it prompted you to write this post.
I was a nerd too. But I never had to put up with the total meanness you and this boy did. - April 14, 2009 at 8:47 PM
- Ree said...
And thank goodness you did, because the world would not be the same without the Jason we know and love!
- April 14, 2009 at 9:17 PM
- mo.stoneskin said...
Deep down do you attribute your good grades to the homemade underpants?
- April 15, 2009 at 4:31 AM
- Katrine said...
Jr. High was terrible for your self esteem, but this blog must do wonders for it. Everyone loves you! I was seriously thinking about mom's designer jeans today. Remember all the patterns she made for the pockets?
- April 15, 2009 at 6:48 AM
- thevinylvillage said...
awww...there are similarities to my own childhood here. Only my mom didnt make my underwear.
You should have hit those mean kids with a hotdog. - April 15, 2009 at 6:52 AM
- VERNACULAR said...
Jason, you do have a kindness and generosity about you. You give to all of us (virtual) people, and make us feel valued.
I'm glad that you're a teacher, because you can spot the nerds and the name-callers, and you can make it as right as you can make it.
This writing is wonderful. THANKS! - April 15, 2009 at 8:54 AM
- FrankandMary said...
My experience has been that the bullies grown up to manage a run-down cat house or a McDonald's in a realllly bad area, while the nerds make it in later life. But still, I teared up on this.
The needs of our hearts, seems some of yours have been fulfilled. And what better teacher to have? I am sure your students are lucky(and know it).
~Mary - April 15, 2009 at 12:09 PM
- g said...
I love this. Homemade JEANS? Seriously, JEANS? She must have been a good seamstress! those flat-felled seams are Hard.
I love what you discovered as a key to success - to be kind and interested in other people. Isn't that the universal key to success? would that I were better at remembering this.
I was a girl who wore glasses in elementary school - hideously thick cats-eye glasses. And even though I got contacts at 13, I always felt I was a girl with glasses.
When I got out of school and went to college and then went to NYC and worked in theatre, I was surprised that I was actually not such an awful creature, after all. I look at old pictures of me and I am amazed. I had no idea at the time, but I looked pretty damn good.
As for you - you went through some tough things, but you never lost sight of that funny, but important lesson from Ann Landers, that says it all. Be kind, care about other people. - April 15, 2009 at 8:24 PM
- karengberger said...
This is why we love you: you are so honest and are able to share what makes you who you are.
Think about how lucky the kids you teach are, to have a teacher who KNOWS and UNDERSTANDS what it is like to be different. Though each one of us is unique, I think some of us have an easier time "fitting in" to the world. I was different, too, and it was difficult. But being loved helps us accept ourselves, and the sooner we do that, the more authentic we can be-- and the less we hurt ourselves (and others), if you know what I mean. Those bullies would be blown away by your courage now! Bless you. - April 16, 2009 at 10:11 AM
- Leanne said...
Reading this brought me hope today and made me happy. Thank you.
My daughter tells me nerds are cool now.
I love this story. I think I've blocked out high school. I have no memory of what I was. Sad that. - April 16, 2009 at 11:51 AM
- Joanie said...
Indeed. You've not only made it, you made it your own.
Da Goddess
dagoddess.com - April 17, 2009 at 9:39 AM
- Life with Kaishon said...
I was crying in the beginning. And shouting for joy at the end! I am so glad you overcame that trauma and went on to become the VERY great man that you are today! I admire and respect you very much!
- April 17, 2009 at 11:56 AM
- The Girl Next Door said...
You amaze me with your resiliance (SP? too lazy to check). I wish we were in school together - I would've totally been your bud and kicked other people's butts. I hated it in school when anyone was mean to anyone else.
Kudos to you for Rising Above it all. - April 18, 2009 at 6:42 PM
- JCK said...
You have such a wonderful success story, Jason!
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1. | Thomas Edison | ||
A fictional sexual manuver where a lightbulb is placed in the women's vagina and the friction from the anal sex she is recieving lights up the bulb. It's kinda dark in here. How about the Thomas Edison?
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Thomas Edison (1820-1955) was best known as a humorist and secretly wrote material for Mark Twain and David Letterman. In his spare time he worked in the Patent Office and ghost-wrote Albert Einstein's relativity papers. It has been alleged that he inherited a method for sexing bees from his mother, Mother Teresa, although the evidence points to him having developed it himself in the early 1700s. In 1877, journeyed with his youthful "ward" Henry Ford to Mars, landing outside The Fabled City of Z'la and encountering the High Martians. During the next 12 years, he reched a period of maximum creativity, in which he invented the black people, the Spinning Rectangle, and Snow Cones. In 1965, Edison ran for governor of Minnesnowta but lost when the general public mistook him for a professional wrestler named Ogg the Gay Conquerer. Collaborated with TimeCube to debunk Albert Newton. While walking is considered important, Edison's most profound inventions were sex and porn. Porn is the top suspect responsible for the Internet Crash of 1864.
Edison stole numerous ideas from unknown, often starving inventors including the following: * the light bulb, which he stole from Joseph Swan * Jellies high heels * the potato gin * Windows XP * the light beer * Cheez Wiz * Nicaragua * Sex, and the fluorescent latex used to power it. * Taco bell * Gravity * Opposable Thumb It truly is something to marvel at; the origins of the bubb... |
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The homosexual act of 1 partner inserting a lightbulb in the ass of another. After having shards of broken glass in his asshole, Mike will think twice before he lets Bill Thomas Edison him again.
4. | Thomas Edison | ||
A Thomas Edison occurs when one takes a light-bulb,
inserts it into a woman's vagina, consequently followed by attaching a car battery to her nipples. Attach the positive to the left nipple, and the negative to the right nipple. Then, after a desirable electrocution, you smash the light-bulb inside her, and insert your penis in her vagina. The Thomas Edison was the most fun I've had in ever.
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OK, everyone gives Thomas Edison crap for being credited with the invention of the lightbulb, even though he wasn't the first to come up with that idea, but I feel that that is undeserved because he has a further 1,092 patents under his name, including the video camera and the phonograph. So suck on that, haters. Thomas Edison invented 1,093 things. How many have you invented?
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Honestly, not one mention of the actual man Thomas Edison on the entire site? Thomas Edison invented EVERYTHING, show a little respect!


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By Mr. Sciortino of Medford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 490) of Carl M. Sciortino, Jr. and others for legislation to require the disclosure to parents of standardized student assessments from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Education.
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Entertainment great Merv Griffin died today, Sunday, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He was 82.
Griffin, right in photo above, made in his last appearance in The Jewish Journal in June, when he was photographed with Fred Hayman, center, and Placido Domingo, left, at a ceremony marking Fred Hayman week in Beverly Hills.
RIP, Merv. Ooooooooooooh.
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August 8, 2007 | 10:57 pm
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Sometimes I wish I had more time to watch TV.
Not really. All the kewl video is on the Internets:
From TMZ.COM:
"Big Brother" Shiksa Learns Jews Have Jewish Names
Posted Aug 8th 2007 11:59AM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: TV
Relations between Israel and the "Big Brother" house are strained today, after a somewhat anti-Semitic rant from crybaby housemate Amber hit the Internet this week. Oy vey!
Where to begin, already? First of all, Amber said the majority of Jews she knows are "selfish." She then went on to say that her mom and sister explained to her that one can tell who is Jewish based on "their last name" and "by their nose."
more @
Of course, the ADL's Abraham Foxman has to issue a statement. Luckily, he just borrows from my post about hate on the WWW (see below).
It's part of the unintended consequences of the communications revolution. Anybody can say what they do - but reality shows are now giving license to these expressions of anti-Semitism. Now, all of a sudden, the world is privy to their bigotry and it's on national television… then enhanced on YouTube.
Ya think?
—Dennis Wilen
August 7, 2007 | 2:17 am
Posted by JewishJournal.com
An anti-Semitic Web site is first on Google when you search for 'Jew,' and e-mail about the issue is making the rounds again.
Two people here at JewishJournal.com got the e-mail last week and both asked me what was up. I told them not to worry, it was old news (from 2004), not to get the 'Heebie Jeebies.'
The Heebie Jeebies—1932—the Boswell Sisters
But it really was new to them, so I thought some of you guys might want to learn more too.
Here's some background from the Anti-Defamation League and the response from Google.
The gist: We know about it, we're working on it, there's not much we can do about it. Please stand by.
The hate site everyone writes about is only the tip of the iceberg. The Web is filled with everything imaginable (both good and bad), and some things unimaginable.
Sometimes it seems to me there are people (robots?) who do nothing but post hate and propaganda to message boards all day long, all week, like it's a full time job to blame the Mossad for 9/11 or berate the 'Jew World Order' for everything from Communism to Capitalism.
The hate on the venerable Yahoo! News message boards caused Y! (disclosure: I once worked there) to close down their message boards entirely.
The videos I see every night when I cruise YouTube.com are a swamp of hate.
What to do?
My response is to "represent"—the more I see that bad stuff, the more I want to put the good stuff up on the Internets.
That's the reason I started our JewishJournal.com YouTube Channel. Positive, fun, interesting videos. Rabbis, rockers, rebels.
No hate. No anti-anything. Just the wild wonderful world of Jews, Judios, and Yehudim.
Tell your friends.
—Dennis Wilen
August 5, 2007 | 12:39 pm
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Music is a universal language, and sometimes it has Hebrew lyrics!
Check out these versions of Hava Nagila from Texas, Bollywood and Thailand:
Hava Nagila Texas Style (Featuring Juan & Pancho)
Bollywood Hava Nagila—with subtitles in Hebrew and Russki
Hava Nagila Thai Style
All these videos are favorites on JewishJournal.com's YouTube Channel.
—Dennis Wilen
August 4, 2007 | 2:48 pm
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Video: Michael Shermer scrutinizes the idea of 'hidden' messages in the Torah.
It's just numerology, says Shermer, and serves as a supreme example of pattern-seeking (and finding) behavior of which we humans are so skilled.
While pattern recognition helps us pick out predators hidden in the foliage, sometimes wishful thinking makes us see things that aren't really there. So-called 'hidden messages' in the Torah, says the publisher of Pasadena-based 'Skeptic' magazine, are neither hidden nor messages.
Advocates of traditional Jewish numerology—gematria—don't care what Shermer thinks.
Here's Shermer's argument:
August 2, 2007 | 2:00 am
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A year ago, Naveed Afzal Haq shot up the offices of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle in a rampage that killed one worker and seriously injured five others.
I'd recently started as Web Director for JewishJournal.com and rushed to figure out how to add a breaking news story to our home page.
After I did the news thing ("If it bleeds, it leads") I began to wonder what kind of security precautions we had at The Journal's headquarters in a Koreatown office block. Noone knew then if it was an isolated incident (it was) or part of a coordinated attack against Jewish institutions across the country.
Was a combination door lock, security camera and intercom system enough? Should we hire a guard? Was I a paranoid fool with delusions of grandeur AND a persecution complex?
Even paranoid people can have enemies, of course, so I still stop, look and listen when I navigate the building's eerily silent carpeted hallways.
But I've not taken off the GI Star of David I wear on a chain around my neck.
And I never will.
—Dennis Wilen
July 31, 2007 | 12:38 am
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The 'mama loshen' made it to the White House Monday, voiced for the gaggle by Presidental Cantor Tony Snow.
Regarding continued investigations of Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, Snow said:
"Well, what's interesting is that there have been all these hearings on the Attorney General and yet nobody has really laid a glove on himâ¦
"At this point, we have hundreds of hearings that have produced bupkis….
Bupkis! The Yiddish word literally means 'beans,' but signifies something that's of little real value/worthless.
So who taught Snow Yiddish?
We're betting he studied "Yiddish With George and Laura" like a yeshiva bochur studies the Babli.
—Dennis Wilen
July 30, 2007 | 12:36 am
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Interesting post from a blogger in Singapore responding to the question âCan Someone Tell Me Why Our Scholars arenât as smart as the Jews?â
After repeating the 'smart Jew' stereotype (which he calls 'positive') he gets to
The difference in Jewish History most likely comes from the demand on LITERACY placed upon the Jewish Community for the pride that was taken in being able to disseminate the Torah by the community. But while literacy does not necessarily make you smarter, on the whole it does make getting access to collected information easier, which is a huge asset when it comes to obtaining the right knowledge that society requires.
The Torah is the secret?
The medium is the message?
Na'aseh v'nishma?
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Traditionally this is one of those periods in the year when I get obnoxiously, nerdily excited about something many discerning film buffs dismiss as irrelevant: the Academy Awards, where overpaid buffoons receive the acceptance of their similarly overpaid buffoonish peers in the form of a gilded trinket. My enjoyment of this ceremony and all of the nonsense surrounding it flies in the face of serious film criticism, but then so does my love of garish and noisy explodofilms, and I guess that means I'll never get that job at Sight & Sound, WOEZ.
This year is a bit different. Aside from a blip caused by this excellent and informative Tom Shone piece about the Academy voters, RL problems have taken some of the steam out of my usual preparation for the ceremony, and we won't even be having our traditional Oscar party this year, where a bunch of lovely folks come around to eat Pringles, set off party poppers at 4 in the morning (::panics::), and shout insults at the thoroughly dreadful Sky Movies Oscar show presenters Claudia "I haven't seen it yet" Winkleman and Mark "I haven't seen it either but I bet it's crap" Dolan. Sorry guys, it would have been fun, even with those endless Moet-sponsored inserts from England. Besides, would there be anything quite as thrilling as this in this year's ceremony? I think not.)
Maybe it's a lucky escape for all of us. Watching the ceremony is seriously damaged by enduring these ninnies wonk on about things they do not understand. Watching the Golden Globes earlier this year was a truly disheartening experience, the only entertaining aspect of it being Jessica Stevenson-Hynes cashing a paycheck for turning up at the studio and then crocheting for four hours (seriously, she just got her crocheting equipment out and got on with it) while Sky's fashion correspondent and that stand-up comedian who looks like he's taking a break from getting rejected by hot girls at fresher's week blithered on about how The King's Speech has to win everything just because it's British and if it fails we'll all die because our self-worth has somehow become inextricably linked with its baffling worldwide success.
Maybe that's another reason why I'm not looking forward to the ceremony as much as usual. For the illumination of readers who live outside the UK, it's fair to point out that all you hear about right now is King's Speech King's Speech King's Speech 24/fucking/7, and it's ruining my enjoyment of everything. It's not a terrible movie, per se. It's just unsurprising and overdirected. British movies revel in these "loser overcomes adversity" plots, applying them to every subject imaginable, though at least we can be glad Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush didn't have to end up naked like the cast of The Full Monty or Calendar Girls. King's Speech is no exception to this reliance on the rote and cliched plot template, though much of my irkety feelings about the damnable box office colossus is aimed at the final scene.
Audiences across the country might be weeping openly at King Thingy's triumphant pronunciation of "thet scahhndrel Mestah Hetlah", but the scene is so badly edited it really does seem like Tom "Off-Kilter Composition" Hooper is saying the final speech was delivered with such adversity-conquering power that Britain went insane with joy at their monarch getting it finished in a reasonable amount of time, instead of thinking "Oh shit, we're going to war and we're going to be bombed to blood-drenched ribbons and our sons are either going to die or be traumatised for the rest of their lives, oh God, oh God, oh God." No no, our lips were too stiff for all that: huzzah for our imperial leader's newfound confidence! That'll make digging an Anderson shelter in the back yard and living on birdseed and gravel for ten years all the more fun.
Which is not to say I hated it entirely. It's pretty difficult not to enjoy the seemingly now-legendary performance from Colin Firth, who is commendably spiky and unlovable as the spiky and unlovable monarch. The cast is generally very good, though Guy Pierce's accent is hilariously distracting and Timothy Spall's genial take on Churchill is a poor choice. It would have been much better had it been directed by someone who wasn't so eager to draw attention to his work. Mr. Hooper, please stop with the maddening camera-frippery please please please. Your first movie – the far superior Damned United – was similarly marred by showy compositions, and it just makes you look a bit silly. You're never going to have to go back to directing episodes of EastEnders now, so you don't have to prove you're the next Orson Welles. And look! Mark Lawson thinks that your time in the TV trenches makes you and your partner-in-overcompensating-visual-splurge Danny Boyle more capable than David Fincher and Darren Aronofsky! So congrats, one temporarily senile media pundit says that you've made it. Now please use the centre of the frame like a grown-up, okay?
So yeah, the worrying possibility of a King's Sweep has soured me on the awards this year. I'm not crazy enough to assume that my favourites of the year – Black Swan and Inception – would win much, but I'd be perfectly happy with The Social Network winning a bunch of stuff. The topicality of it has made many see it as a movie that will date badly, but I think it says enough about our approach to relationships and interactions that it will fare better than previous tech-movies (who can watch, say, War Games and not laugh at the LP-sized floppy discs). I'm also hoping for some love to be thrown at The Kids Are All Right: it can be dismissed as light indie fare but I think it's a better crafted movie than that, and earns all of its emotional payoffs with enough invisibly deployed effort that many US indie movies of the past few years couldn't even begin to imagine. I'd also be very happy to see a surprise deluge of naked gold men all over the Coen Brothers' triumphant True Grit, a film that ranks up there with their very best.
My sourer impulses hope for a shut-out of ADHD Boyle's predictably empty 127 Hours, which is little more than a grisly advert for Humanity that relies almost exclusively on Sigur Ros' Festival to generate any emotion amid the frenetic and mostly random frame-shuffle: classic Boyle, then. Despite my adoration of James Franco (so, so good here, and very amusing in his Green Hornet cameo), there's little else to praise in 127 Hours. Oh, the photography is very nice. But still, Boyle has even less to say here than usual: the message of the movie seems to be "don't die if you can help it, and be a little nicer to your mom". Okay, thanks for the advice, go away now. It would also be nice to see Alice in Wonderland receive none of the technical awards it was nominated for just because I hate it so much (and yes, I'm using hate in the non-hyperbolic sense that I actually do hate it: properly hate it and get red-mist-angry whenever I think about it), but the technical categories were the only ones where I thought it was worthy of praise. That's a tough one that won't matter at all as I doubt it will win anything even though the Academy likes to pat successful movies on the head for being profitable, no matter how inexplicable or undeserving that success is.
So anyway, who do I think will win, and who do I think should win, and who do I think was unfairly shut out? See below for further details.
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Who Will Win: Colin Firth – The King's Speech
Fairly obvious. His ascendance to Oscar glory wasn't even damaged by the weird attempt by some unscrupulous scoundrel to stymie him by pointing out that King Whats-His-Name was a huge fan of Hitler (he had all of his albums, even his ill-advised dubstep experiment Das Reichbeat). The only thing that could stop Mr. Firth from winning this year would be for him to reveal he used a stunt double in THAT SCENE in Pride and Prejudice as he didn't want to get his britches wet.
Who Should Win: Colin Firth – The King's Speech
I used to be a Colin Firth agnostic, but this performance – and his adorable humility in the face of overwhelming praise – has made a believer of me. I'll be just as pleased at his inevitable win as all of the journalists who will be able to print "GOD SAVE THE KING!" on the front page on Monday morning.
Who Should Have Been Nominated: Ben Stiller – Greenberg
I don't think anyone nominated this year should be excluded. Even the fact that Biutiful is an appalling movie can take anything away from Javier Bardem's impressive work. Nevertheless, I think Stiller's bold and detailed performance deserves more praise than it got. Ah well.
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Who Will Win: Geoffrey Rush – The King's Speech
I think the initial rush of enthusiasm for Christian Bale's bold work in David O. Russell's annoyingly conventional The Fighter has passed, though not because of anything Bale did or didn't do (though not taking out ads of himself with his current Jesus 'do with the word "Consider…" above it was a good move, ahem ahem). The Weinsteins are going all out with the promotion for The King's Speech, as they always do, and I think it will swing it for Rush. Which is no crime. He's very entertaining in that movie, though he sadly does not top his most towering and haunting performance as Casanova Frankenstein in Mystery Men.
Who Should Win: Christian Bale – The Fighter
But seriously, Bale's performance is more than worthy of the nod. After a couple of years of harassing cinematographers and being overshadowed by his co-stars, this amazing transformation into a haunted and hyperactive loser on a redemptive path is initially showy enough to attract attention but allows for the development of quiet notes later in the movie that knocked my socks off. It reminded me of why I was thrilled when I heard he was going to be Christopher Nolan's Batman many years ago: because he's a really, really talented actor and has incredible screen presence when given some room to breathe. That is the main reason I'm not shouting from the rooftops about John Hawkes, who will surely now get the work he deserves after wowing us as the amoral scumbag Teardrop Dolly in Winter's Bone.
Who Should Have Been Nominated: Zach Galafianakis – It's Kind of a Funny Story
As feeble as this movie is, Galafianakis' unshowy stillness in the centre is the only thing that stays in the memory after the credits roll. I would have been miffed to see Fleck and Boden's twee failure be recognised, but it would have been worth it to see Galafianakis receive his due (and not Due Date, which is what the poor bastard ended up with).
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Who Will Win: Natalie Portman – Black Swan
This is possibly the strongest category this year, and yet there is still a frontrunner. While everyone else is preparing bunting for King Colin, I'm expending all of my energy rooting for Natalie. Let's hope No Strings Attached isn't her Norbit.
Who Should Win: Natalie Portman – Black Swan
I was impressed by all of the performances in this category (and was especially glad to see Nicole Kidman remind us of why she is such a fascinating actress with some very strong work in the heartbreaking Rabbit Hole), but even so, there is only one that can win. I think the only people who would be more upset if she lost would be all of the Marvel marketing folks who will have prepared countless Thor posters bragging that it stars two Academy-Award-winning actors (and Kat Dennings) in its line-up.
Who Should Have Been Nominated:
Let's see: Catherine Keener for Please Give, Kristin Scott Thomas for Partir, Rachel Weisz for Agora, Greta Gerwig for Greenberg, Carey Mulligan for Never Let Me Go, Emma Stone for Easy A (I'm 100% serious), Julianne Moore for The Kids Are All Right (it would split the vote against Annette Bening, but it would have been nice anyway), Marion Cotillard for Inception, Angelika Papoulia in Dogtooth… The list goes on and on. What a year for incredible performances from actresses.
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Who Will Win: Helena Bonham Carter – The King's Speech
You'll note a trend developing here. I'm really convinced there's going to be a landslide for The King's Speech, certainly in the top tiers, and this – or a win for Geoffrey Rush – would be the first sign that Hollywood has gone Monarchy-Mad. Melissa Leo screwed the pooch with her ill-considered campaign (though if she felt the Paramount marketing department were letting her down she's perfectly entitled to do something about it, I guess), and it's going to cost her. Plus her performance was really cartoony: even more so than Bonham Carter's silly Queen Mom with her clipped tones and humourlessness and no mention of all that Nazi sympathising, of course.
Who Should Win: Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit
I guess? I don't know, this is a tough category. I don't think I loved any of the performances here (whereas the best actress category is overloaded with greatness), though I haven't seen Jacki Weaver's work in Animal Kingdom (released in the UK two days ago FFS). I did enjoy Steinfeld's funny turn in True Grit, and if Bridges isn't going to win (and Matt Damon isn't even going to be nominated, which is bullshit), then this is where the acting praise should fall. Amy Adams was okay in The Fighter, but I'm never very keen on seeing her play working class folks (don't get me started on Junebug). So yeah, Steinfeld gets my vote and a shrug.
Who Should Have Been Nominated: Olivia Williams – The Ghost (Writer)
Ms. Williams was almost obscenely entertaining as the sour and unpredictable wife of Fierce Pierce's puppet PM, but perhaps appearing in a thriller was enough to make the voters ignore her. Or maybe there was no effort to lobby for her nomination. Whatever the reason was, it's a crime. See also a lack of nominations for Dale Dickey in Winter's Bone (so terrifying) and Rebecca Hall in Please Give.
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
What Will Win: Toy Story 3
Is there any question? I haven't seen The Illusionist, even though I liked Chomet's Belleville Rendezvous quite a bit when I first saw it, and so can't attest to its quality, but even so, Toy Story 3 is one of the richest, smartest, and cleverest films of the year, as well as being the cruellest. In a good way, obviously. Cheerleaders for The Illusionist still hope for a surprise, but it's not going to happen. This is Pixar's year. Again.
What Should Win: Toy Story 3
See above. I'm still getting over it. Lee Unkrich and Michael Arndt owe me some new tear ducts.
What Should Have Been Nominated: Tangled / Megamind / Summer Wars
It's a shame they didn't expand the list to five nominees this year, because while 2010 might not have been as impressive as the previous year for animation, it was still pretty great, even if only for Walt Disney Animation's phenomenal Tangled. It was deemed worthy of a Best Original Song nod but nothing else? Even with only three nominations I'd place this above How To Train Your Dragon which, I should stress, I liked a great deal. That said, I preferred Dreamworks Animation's other big release of the year, the irreverent but surprisingly affecting superhero comedy Megamind. It would also have been nice to see Mamoru Hosodo's paean to family life and the power of technology get on the list, but I realise that I'm now asking for the moon on a stick.
Achievement in Art Direction
Who Will Win: Eve Stewart and Judy Farr – The King's Speech
In years past I've grown frustrated with the habit of awarding this Oscar to the movie with the stateliest stately home, mostly because I prefer the flash of a fully designed set to the stultifying idea of sitting in an antiques shop trying to find the right vase for a specific period. I suspect I'm not alone in this: everyone who loves film remembers the name Ken Adams, but does anyone remember the names of the (very talented, I'm sure) production designers and set decorators on any randomly chosen period drama from the Great British Period Drama Machine? Still, King's Speech is bound to win this, with the grungy basement studio of Lionel Logue providing the only interesting set in the whole worthy film. Only Jess Gonchor's designs for True Grit stand a chance of beating it, which would be nice, as I've enjoyed her work before now.
Who Should Win: Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias and Doug Mowat – Inception
I suspect I'm only saying this because I love the idea of a rotating set so much, but I did think Inception had some lovely sets, including the team's ramshackle workspace, the grimy first level of the dream and the demolished hotel room in Cobb's subconscious. Or maybe I think True Grit should win it. I'll have to ponder that one. (No I won't. This is bloody exhausting. There are, like, a million categories!)
Who Should Have Been Nominated: Dante Ferretti – Shutter Island
Martin Scorsese's energetic movie may have been muddled and unfortunately stuck with the most glaringly obvious "twist" ending imaginable, but it as a technical exercise in ramping up suspense it was well worth the effort. On top of that it looked the BUSINESS. Part of that was Dante Ferretti's brilliant production design, a highlight being the asylum on the eponymous island with its intricate nightmarish dungeons, plucked straight from the recesses of Hitchcock's subconscious. Shutter Island may not have been a total success, partly because the movie serves the twist and not the other way around (for an hour nothing makes sense in order to hide the ending from the audience: a lethal narrative choice), but hell, it got no nominations, even in the technical categories? I guess the Academy figured that after Scorsese won for The Departed they could just forget about him.
Achievement in Cinematography
Who Will Win: Roger Deakins – True Grit
King Deakins amazes again! They should just have an award ready for him every year, and then another one for best runner-up. Truly lovely and textured work, a joy to behold. LOVE!
Who Should Win: Roger Deakins – True Grit
It's a strong category, but even though I liked almost all of the work here (with the exception of The King's Speech, though I blame Tom Hooper for that, not Danny Cohen), it has to go to Deakins.
Who Should Have Been Nominated: Shelly Johnson – The Wolfman
As weak as that film was, it was so beautiful it was almost possible to completely ignore the phoned-in performances and creaky shock-jumps. Johnson took the black-and-white photography of the original Universal monster movies as a starting point and created a beautiful modern update with flickering shadows, delicate bounced light and an almost monochrome palette that allowed the blood to stand out in all its grisly glory. It reminded me of Emmanuel Lubezki's terrific work on Sleepy Hollow (a film released in one of the strongest ever years for cinematography, with Conrad Hall and Dante Spinotti excelling on American Beauty and The Insider respectively).
Achievement in Costume Design
Who Will Win: Jenny Beaven – The King's Speech
I'm actually just saying King's Speech now as a form of temper tantrum. I'm actually not sure it will win (True Grit is a likely winner too), but I dread its dominance so much everywhere I look I see some obnoxious fish-eye close up of King Colin swallowing noisily. Ugh, I'm beginning to hate the fucking thing.
Who Should Win: Sandy Powell – The Tempest
I haven't seen it, but I'd imagine Julie Taymor would ask her collaborator to come up with something a little more interesting than something based on a design hanging in a museum somewhere. [/bitter]
Who Should Have Been Nominated: Penny Rose – Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
This misfiring Bruckheimer game adaptation managed too look great despite Mike Newell's seeming indifference (I expected more from him: maybe the focus groups ruined it, or perhaps the scale of it was too overwhelming to allow space to breathe). Part of that was Ms. Rose's lovely designs. As I know nothing about clothes I won't embarrass myself by trying to explain why I liked them so much. I just thought everyone looked really cool. Maybe I should rename this blog I Can't Believe It's Not Film Criticism.
Achievement in Directing
Who Will Win: David Fincher – The Social Network
At last I suspect the grim claws of the Weinsteins will loosen a little, and sanity will prevail, though part of me (the miserable pessimistic part) fears Hooper will win and then deliver his speech just to the side of the podium, facing the wrong side of the stage. But no, surely Fincher will finally get his trophy. Surely! The alternative is too depressing to comprehend: a Hooper win and Fincher following up The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo with a Driving Miss Daisy remake starring Brad Pitt as Miss Daisy and Jodie Foster taking on the role of kindly chauffeur/slave Hoke in order to appeal to the addle-brained sentimental twits who are ruining movies for everyone. Because come on, what the hell does one of the most impressive and intelligent directors to come out of America in the last twenty years have to do to get a goddamn Oscar? ::looks at Best Director snubs in the past:: Never mind.
Who Should Win: Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
After all that I may seem like I'm being contrary, but while I thought Fincher did astounding work wrestling with Aaron Sorkin's verbal splurge, my heart belongs to Aronofsky this year. Regular readers will be praying for me not to lose my head over Black Swan again, after writing an absurdly hyperbolic review last year, so I'll leave it there.
Who Should Have Been Nominated: Christopher Nolan – Inception
A no-brainer, surely. His ambitious screenplay has been attacked for being exposition-heavy, though there are those of us who think the exposition was actually pretty elegant considering he had to front-load the movie with about a million pages-worth of universe-explaining rules in order to make that amazing final half flow so smoothly. Whatever side of that divide you come down on, I would've thought only the movie's most vocal detractors would think Nolan doesn't deserve something for creating something so singular and odd and appealing despite being a total left-brain project without all of that lovely heart that apparently all movies require nowadays.
Hence the inclusion of Tom Hooper and David O. Russell on the list. Yes, though I love Russell's previous work his direction of The Fighter was disappointingly straight-forward here. It would be crazy to expect his usual quirkiness considering the formulaic nature of the sports movie, but Aronofsky found a way to make The Wrestler seem uniquely his. Conspiracy theories about Russell attempting to store some mainstream capital after the Nailed debacle seem more and more justified. (For the record, I liked The Fighter well enough — I'm a sucker for boxing movies, it seems — and it was well-performed. It was just kinda flat, is all.)
Best Documentary Feature
What Will Win: Waste Land
Apparently it"s emotional and universally well-liked, so why not? As with many of the categories to come, this is a bit outside my wheel-house, so I'm guessing here. I've only seen Restrepo, which is a solidly made and very depressing movie, but I don't think it will win: war is so last decade. Same with Inside Job, which I think may alienate a lot of the voters. But what do I know? I don't even know what Gasland is about, and haven't bothered with Banksy's movie even though everyone loves it.
What Should Win:
Okay, I promise I'll make more of an effort next year, because this is always a bit embarrassing. Why don't I watch more documentaries? I really like them, so there's not even an excuse.
What Should Have Been Nominated:
::depressed silence::
Best Documentary Short Subject
What Will Win: The Warriors of Qiugang
Is it bad that I'm only picking this because it sounds like it could be an action movie starring Donnie Yen? (Answer: yes, you twat.)
Who Should Win:
As I haven't seen any of the nominees in this category, it's best I just walk away before I embarrass myself further.
Achievement in Film Editing
Who Will Win: Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter – The Social Network
Some great work here, taking the excellently paced performances and making them shine, keeping the pace up. The barrage of information should be overwhelming, but Wall and Baxter control it perfectly. Not since Oliver Stone's JFK have I been so impressed by the way the audience is guided through choppy waters by an editing team.
Who Should Win: Andrew Weisblum – Black Swan
However I think this just pips it just because Black Swan is so immersive and exhausting. It's a technically perfect movie, and I would love to see everyone involved on the tech side of the movie get their reward.
Who Should Have Been Nominated: Inception
I would have thought this was a certainty, as well-liked action movies often get a cursory editing nomination as a sop to the filmmakers who won't see any other award love during the night, but apparently this doesn't warrant a mention, even considering there is so much information to impart that if it hadn't been edited as clearly and cleverly as it did the whole thing would have fallen apart. This might be the most inexplicable snub of the night, other than the sound awards, which I will get to in good time. (Note: I don't just think editing a movie well is a matter of getting all of the footage in the right order, but it's worth noting that two of this year's best films were very info-heavy and relied on steady hands and smart decisions in the editing room to keep the audience onboard.)
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
What Will Win: In a Better World
I know nothing about this as it hasn't even been released in the UK yet, but I've heard chatter about it from better critics than I who have caught it at festivals. Choosing this feels right: how often does the foreign language award go to the best known movie nominated? It's always something I've never heard of. It's science.
What Should Win: Dogtooth
Yes, I'm picking this as I've seen it, but also because it is amazing. Will it win? Will it bollocks. Too upsetting and daring to gather votes, but it's okay, I won't cry. Just as long as the execrable Biutiful loses, I'll be happy.
What Should Have Been Nominated: A Serbian Film
Kidding! Except not, because it is good. Unwatchably horrific, but good. Even more depressing than Biutiful, in fact. Isn't that why people like that artfully-presented chunk of sentimental crap? (Okay okay, I'll drop it now.)
Achievement in Makeup
Who Will Win: Rick Baker and Dave Elsey – The Wolfman
It's Rick Baker, bitches! I have no idea how good the work is on the other movies nominated, but I do know the effects here are just fab. Almost as good as Baker's ground-breaking work on American Werewolf in London.
Who Should Win: Rick Baker and Dave Elsey – The Wolfman
See above. Yes, I would like Peter Weir's first movie since the mighty Master and Commander to win something, but come on! A werewolf movie! It's the make-up genre. Surely werewolf movies should win every year. They have to put a ton of hair and teeth on people's faces! That shit is hard, you know.
Who Should Have Been Nominated: Black Swan
It's the only film I can think of that had any notable make-up in it, so I plump for that one. Red contact lenses and shoulder feathers are this year's hottest new look.
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
Who Will Win: Alexandre Desplat – The King's Speech
One of the few things I really liked about King's Speech was the traditional terrific soundtrack from Mr. Desplat, who is surely the most talented man in the world whose name almost decribes the sound made when a tomato falls on the floor. It might not be as good as his wonderful work on Fantastic Mr. Fox or Birth (surely his masterpiece), but it's still worthy of admiration. (Caveat, there's a good chance Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will win if Speech is starting to rack up the wins and Social Network is suddenly found wanting. I'm tempted to suggest that this award will be crucial in determining who will win the most big awards on the night, but I suspect I'm overthinking it.)
Who Should Win: Hans Zimmer – Inception
Though my choice will anger at least one Facebook friend who maintains the music doesn't work as a movie score at all (back off, Johnny May), I still maintain Zimmer's conceptually bold and pulse-quickening score is one of the all-time greats. The fact that it references the On Her Majesty's Secret Service score by the much-missed John Barry cements it for me. There could well be an upset on the night.
Who Should Have Been Nominated: Clint Mansell – Black Swan
Dear Academy voters, yes, Britain is sorry about the whole Pop Will Eat Itself thing, they were not great, but Clint Mansell has apparently turned out to be a massive music genius and we'd really appreciate it if you throw him some love. Fourteen thousand trailers using his music can't be wrong. Cheers, Admiral Neck. (Yes, I know, it wasn't eligible because it referenced Tchaikovsky's ballet so directly, but even so, it looms over almost everything else recorded this year like a bulging ballet-dancer's groin filled with violins and such.
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
What Will Win: We Belong Together (Randy Newman) – Toy Story 3
Surely the only way the Academy can honour the majesty of Toy Story 3 is to hand another award out for this terrific, heart-flensing ditty from the maestro. All three films have featured a wonderful song: the benefit of this one is that it's actually possible to listen to it, unlike When She Loved Me, which is still the most lethal piece of music ever recorded.
What Should Win: I See the Light (Alan Menken and Glenn Slater) – Tangled
The highlight of Walt Disney Animation's lovely fairy tale Tangled is this soaring love song fit to rival Aladdin's A Whole New World for combining emotion, theme and imagery with such satifying skill. It's the centerpiece of the movie, and seriously folks, if you hear people dismissing 3D or IMAX, this is the scene to quell the doubts. The combination of visuals and thematically resonant storytelling is one of Shades of Caruso's favourite cinema moments in years. Sorry Randy, I want that moment GILDED by the Academy.
What Should Have Been Nominated: I've Got A Dream (Alan Menken and Glenn Slater) – Tangled
As the rules for this category state that a movie can have up to two songs nominated, I would have loved to see a nomination for the other showstopper from the truly magical Tangled (seriously I LOVED IT). It's silly and broad, but it's a proper crowdpleaser, sending audiences full of kids into all sorts of gurgling paroxysms: the sort of behaviour that usually annoys a grouchy bastard like myself but merely added to the fun in this case, because Tangled is such a joyous movie. I'm going to keep banging on about this one, so get used to it!
Best Motion Picture of the Year
What Will Win: The King's Speech
What Should Win: Black Swan
In no world would this get the requisite amount of votes, unless there is a Fringe-style alternated universe where Paul Verhoeven, Dario Argento and David Cronenberg are treated with the fawning respect they deserve. As I've said before, I won't go on about it as I've already exhausted reader goodwill, and I will add the caveat that a win for Social Network would please me almost as much, but I just don't think we're going to get either. It's especially frustrating as The Social Network has been "in the lead" for so long, but something tells me the bubble has burst thanks to Harvey "Wilson Fisk" Weinstein's usual obnoxious efforts. Or maybe it was that Screen Actors Guild win. It's Crash all over again!!!
What Should Have Been Nominated: Please Give
Yes, only a few people watched it, but my other suggestion for this spot – Agora – was watched by even fewer. I seem to recall a burble of positive notices when this came out but by the end of the year no one remembered. I blame The King's Speech. [/irrational]
Best Animated Short Film
What Will Win: Day and Night – Teddy Newton for Pixar
Yes, it's the only one I've seen, but I'd be surprised if anything else won. It's a memorable and imaginative piece of genius.
What Should Win:
It's not fair to speculate, having not seen anything else (I really want to see The Lost Thing, having loved Shaun Tan's work in the past), and I can't think of any other short that should have been animated, so let's move on.
Best Live Action Short Film
What Will Win: Wish 143
I have no idea if any of these are any good, and am only selecting this one as I've heard a lot about it this week (from the predictably patriotic papers that are thrilled to bitsies every time a Brit gets nominated for anything that isn't a technical award, which is a bugbear of mine), plus the making of it has a story that will appeal to voters. I'm sure it's very good on top of all this strategic thinking.
What Should Win:
Again I haven't seen any of the other movies, so I won't predict. Usually I rely on friend-of-the-blog Mim for help on these matters as she is connected, but I haven't had a chance to talk to her about it lately. She has better things to do than give me tips about short movies.
Achievement in sound editing
Who Will Win: Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey – True Grit
Part of the reason I'm adding this is the old standby of "Well, they have to honour it somewhere", but also because the Coens always go the extra mile to make their movies completely distinct from everything else out there, and hiring Lievsay and Berkey to provide a new Western soundscape to distinguish this from every other Western in recent years was a shrewd choice.
Who Should Win: Richard King – Inception
Inception's freshness was partly down to the imaginative choices made by King: the distorted music cues, the swish of the dream machine, the crisp gun battles and explosions. This is probably just as likely to win as True Grit, but I suspect the voters will want to hand the award to someone shoring up a genre seen to be in decline as it is to praise the new. Not to disparage anyone's work here: it's another strong category, though with one egregious omission…
What Should Have Been Nominated: Black Swan
Seriously, what the FUCK happened here? How could Craig Henigan's amazing sound design and mix get missed off the roster? There were a lot of misses this year that caused some headscratching, but this is possibly the most baffling. The sound work on Black Swan was absolutely exemplary, and there is just no excuse for this snub. Okay, yes, the other nominees deserved their nods, but surely something could have been moved for this. I guess it's a good job I'll never be asked to join the Academy, because omissions like this make me wonder if I would fit in.
Achievement in sound mixing
Who Will Win: Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten – The Social Network
It's easy to miss a lovely piece of sound mixing, but one of my favourite moments in 2010 came as the fictional construct referred to as "Mark Zuckerberg" walked across campus after being dumped by his girlfriend. The melange of chatter from the students around him reflects the imminent chatter on the internet as he unleashes The Facebook – one of many clever touches by the always brilliant Klyce and his ace team.
Who Should Win: Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten – The Social Network
Either that or the work on Inception, which goes from introspective silences in the first half to increasingly chaotic clatter in the hour-long setpiece. Perversely I would also like Salt's sound team to win as well, just so that Salt could win an Oscar. That would entertain me almost as much as that crazy movie did.
Who Should Have Been Nominated: Black Swan / Shutter Island
Again, all of the sound work on Black Swan should have been given some praise, but Shutter Island's snub is similarly peculiar. The experience of watching both movies was immeasurably enhanced by the feeling that the room was alive with noise, sharp clicks and cracks peeping out from the expertly mixed ambient noises not for shock value, but merely as stabs at the amygdala. Your nerves jangled more and more as the movies progressed: a wonderfully unpleasant thing to endure.
Achievement in Visual Effects
Who Will Win: Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb – Inception
The incredibly clever and imaginative in-camera effects of Inception would probably be a sure thing most years, but as it will likely win bugger all other than a sound award, it's guaranteed to win here. I'm tempted to think the last Harry Potter movie will win big in technical stuff next year: kind of like a Return-of-the-King sop to the incredibly profitable series, which is why it won't win here.
Who Should Win: Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb – Inception
From the moment we saw Paris fold over on itself, it was obvious we were going to see something special in Nolan's action masterpiece. It doesn't matter that the Limbo effects were a bit murky and smudged: these are the visuals that caught our imagination this year. They deserve all the plaudits they're getting.
Who Should Have Been Nominated: Tron: Legacy / Black Swan
The first is a crazy FX blowout, the second has many effects that are almost invisible. As usual, I'm surprised and more than a little disgusted with the FX voters (industry folk who tend to judge on standards that we don't necessarily understand). I figured both movies were destined to be nominated (I especially loved the FX in Tron: Legacy), but as usual we get this weird curveball, the same kind of thing that saw Speed Racer and the Matrix sequels snubbed (did John Gaeta spill red wine on some voter's white carpet?), and E.T. winning in the same year Blade Runner was released. Always a weird category, this.
Adapted Screenplay
Who Will Win: Aaron Sorkin – The Social Network
The surest sure thing imaginable, no offence to all of the other fine screenplays nominated here (not counting 127 Hours, which manages to stretch nothing out – an achievement I'll grant it though it doesn't really fill the understandably threadbare story out with anything interesting). This is a tougher victory for Sorkin than you'd expect, as I'm sure there are many who think the Coens should win again. This is why I think True Grit won't win much, even though it's terrific. The competition this year (not counting King's Speech and 127 Hours) is just too strong.
Who Should Win: Aaron Sorkin – The Social Network
I have many, many problems with Sorkin's work, but I also think he's amazing. I go back and forth on this all the time. When he's good he's really really good, and when he's bad he's fucking dreadful. The Social Network is him at his best, even with all of the tics, recycling and showing-off. Sorry Coens! I thought you did a great job too.
Who Should Have Been Nominated: Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughan – Kick-Ass
Stop laughing at the back! I genuinely loved what Vaughan and Goldman did here, keeping enough of Millar's voice to make it pleasantly anarchic while tightening up his most pointless excesses and adding powerful emotional cores. The motivations of all characters were grounded amid all of the other madness, enough that I've been moved to the brink of tears each time I've watched it. Their work hasn't yet received enough praise. Or any praise, really. Except from me and a couple of other people. I'm sure this will make up for all the difficulties I'm sure they're experiencing while trying to make X-Men: First Class their own while Fox attempt to fuck it all up like they always do.
Original Screenplay
Who Will Win: David Seidler – The King's Speech
Cliched, inaccurate, sentimental, really really inaccurate, and ultimately kind of lazy, but it's a sure thing. Fuckety piss. At least it will shut out Mike "Sourdoughballs" Leigh. That's something.
Who Should Win: Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg - The Kids Are All Right
Cholodenko and Blumberg's light-yet-deeply structured screenplay is an almost pure joy, some last act clumsiness aside. This is the film's only chance to be given some Oscar love this year, but it's not about to happen. No triumph over adversity: just truth. Who wants that? ::kicks picture of Buckingham Palace into a furnace::
Who Should Have Been Nominated: Nicole Holofcener – Please Give
Holofcener's delightful screenplay is one of the many wonders of her underrated rumination on white middle-class guilt and the ways in which we try to profit off each other to get ahead. It looks like a fluffy indie comedy but it's filled with insight about modern life, all while being thrillingly well-observed and funny. Come on planet Earth! You complain about all the crappy movies being released and we've got an incredible artist and reliable entertainer standing RIGHT OVER THERE! ::points in what one assumes is the direction that leads to Ms. Holofcener:: What the hell is wrong with everyone? ::kicks picture of Windsor Castle into furnace::
Well what do you know. I start this post all agnostic and shit about The King's Speech and end up thinking it is the deformed bastard spawned by the unholy union of Crash and Slumdog Millionaire. ::sigh:: It's going to be a long night.


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