Is it just me, or did the two director/producers of No Country For Old Men have a lover's tiff?

Seriously, though! They didn't look at or physically acknowledge each other the whole time they were accepting the award! Not even when it was announced! I was flabbergasted when they talked about making movies together since they were kids. Maybe looking at each other would have been Too Much or something. BUT STILL. It was very odd.

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So today I managed to deviously subvert the iTunes Music Store and download the Gossip Girl pilot for free, even though they weirdly took it down within a few hours of posting it. And, ha, I totally liked it. Carrie Bishop from Veronica Mars is in it! And also Penn Bagdley, who I have a possibly illegal crush on. Three weeks ago I said that I'd probably drop Chuck, Gossip Girl and Moonlighting like hot potatoes. Now that I will totally be watching Chuck and Gossip Girl (YES, I HATE MYSELF!), it would be kind of hilarious if I end up loving Moonlight.

Correction: My sister watched Private Practice's first episode and liked it a lot, even though she'd already been subjected to an earful by me. And then I watched again, and really, it is fine. I mean, it is not super bad or anything. I think I just expected... I have no idea what exactly. More Addison? She was really not in it as much as I expected her to be! I don't know. I think I just do not particularly like any of the supporting characters. Which is okay. After all, I watched Grey's Anatomy with my roommates back in the day and hated everyone until Addison showed up and was awesome. It will be like old times!

I am eagerly awaiting the VM fandom explosion about how Kristen Bell wasn't smiling widely enough at the Emmys. THAT BITCH! Probably she bathed in Jason Dohring's tears before the show.

Britney was TERRIBLE tonight! I was embarrassed for her. Her outfit was skimpy in a completely unflattering way, she didn't even bother to synch her lip synching, and saying her dancing was unenthusiastic would be kind. It's like she's lost all of her confidence. And then Sarah Silverman was her hateful, unfunny self. Whoever turned off Pete Wentz's mic is MY HERO. And when it became apparent that this was going to be the Worst. VMAs. Ever. (which is no small feat), I turned it off. (Although, Chris Brown's performance was pretty damn awesome.)

You guys, I think Britney is done. Stick a fork in her. Etcetera.

Anyway. Do I have any friends, aside from la_dauphine, who are/were R.A.s or have experience dealing with roommate (not suitemate) issues? If you'd be comfortable letting me run some questions by you, please let me know!

Oh, man. I am pissed off about the Emmys. I hope Grey's wins. Because that would be HILARIOUSLY INAPPROPRIATE. I hope they show the part where Meredith DROWNS FOR NO REASON in their Emmy reel!

So far, stepliana is winning my Movie Cap Game. I've been impressed with how many caps you guys recognized, but I've got to say that there's one cap no one has even attempted to guess that has me a little concerned.

( In which I disagree with a critic who claims that the Oscars gives guy movies the shaft and talk about Obligatory Network-Mandated Romances )

Addison's Anatomy news!

+ TV Guide reports that if Kate Walsh's spinoff flops, she has an express ticket back to Grey's Anatomy. Apparently she had them put it in her contract.

+ There's lots of speculation as to who will be the showrunner. I'm hoping it's Krista Vernoff and worrying that it might be Marti Noxon. Or they might bring in somebody from the outside. Suggestions?

+ The Star is not really a publication I'd put a lot of stock in, but they seem to have good GA sources; they broke Chokegate and then they broke the T.R. Knight stuff. Now they're reporting that the cast of GA seemed "instantly resentful" of Kate Walsh over her spinoff. I find this hard to believe because I don't understand why any of the other actors would care. Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey are already the "stars" of their own show, Isaiah Washington should just be glad that he still has a job, and I can't imagine why any of the actors who play interns would think they might get their own show.

+ Katherine Heigl called off contract and salary negotiations, because Touchstone won't pay her as much as they pay Isaiah Washington or Sandra Oh.

+ Paul Adelstein is rumored to have been tapped for a part on Addison's spinoff. (Did you guys know that he's married to Liza Weil?)

Speaking of the AA's cast, do any of you have any fantasy casting bids? As soon as I heard about the show, I hoped that Standoff would get cancelled to free up Ron Livingston. I love him so much, and I think he'd be excellent opposite Kate Walsh.

I opted for the Grammys tonight instead of BSG because I figure I don't need to hate Helo more than I already do. The performances were mostly fun. The Police were awesome. Beyonce was great. I was impressed with Carrie Underwood, who I swear did not used to be that good. John Mayer sounded great with John Legend and Snorah Jones II. Christina Aguilera hilariously oversang, as she always does. But, dude! No amount of confetti could have made the Red Hot Chili Peppers not boring. I am embarrassed to admit that I couldn't figure out what movie Gnarles Barkley dressed up as.

But as usual, the nominations and awards were egregiously out-of-touch. There's always one really HUGE thing that they do to prove their irrelevance. Last year it was not doing anything at all to honor the Ramones. This year, I can't pick:

1. The Roots being robbed. Game Theory was an incredible album -- hands down the objectively best album in the Hip Hop/Rap nominations. Ludacris? Chamillionaire? WTF?

2. The Rock Album of the Year nominations list was pathetic. Terrible!

3. Madonna beating out Goldfrapp for Dance Album of the Year. Craziness!

4. "Dani California" winning a ton of shit, when it blatantly and shamelessly ripped off "Mary Jane's Last Dance." It was ironic that they shared a category with Tom Petty.

I'm happy for the Dixie Chicks (they swept ever.er.y.thing!), but Natalie Maines was right; their multiple wins were more of a message to Bush and the Nashville establishment than awards for excellence. Even though their album was pretty excellent.

1. Chandra Wilson won the SAG for her portrayal of Dr. Miranda Bailey on Grey's Anatomy!

2. The PC/Mac ads have been such a hit in the U.S. that Apple has started a localized campaign of identical ads in the UK and Ireland. I like them, but not nearly as much as the Japanese ads. (I would love it if someone could tell me what the PC's body padding in the first one is all about. m00nface or thermopylae_h, maybe?)

3. I uploaded the new Vanessa Hudgens single, "Say OK." I mostly had keenai in mind, but anyone who has a soft spot for the Radio Disney subgenre of pop music should take note. I know Buena Vista is a soulless machine, but this track really caught my attention and held it. I adore it!

4. Do you think being able to sing passably is a prerequisite to working on a Disney project nowadays? I noticed that they even made that poor little girl from Bridge to Terebithia record a medicore track and a quickie promitional music video. And what does this mean for the Disney stars who are totally cute but really *really* have no business in music? (Ashley Tisdale, I'm looking at you!)

5. I've been meaning to ask those of you who keep up with the OP-ED sections of your local newspapers... is the new Jimmy Carter book about the Israeli-Palestinian mess generating a lot of letters to the editor, editorials, debate, etc? It's all anybody seems to write in to the AJC about these past two months and I'm interested to know if this is a really big deal or if it's confined to Georgia.

6. It totally cracks me up that James Blunt is moving to Switzerland to avoid paying U.K. taxes on the 10 million dollars he made this past year.

( More Isaiah Washington fallout )

Oh yeah! I meant to say that I loved Meryl Streep's acceptance speech last night!

And finally I just wanna say, the reason you could see The Devil Wears Prada is because it was playing on every theatre screen across America -- and that was because they were playing it. And if you can't see Little Children or Pan's Labyrinth or The Queen or all these great movies that I've just seen -- Volver, Notes on a Scandal, Sherrybaby -- then you have to go down to your theater manager and ask him why! 'Cause its amazing how much you can get if you [in Miranda Priestly's voice] quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it!

I'm taking the speech to heart because I bitch and whine about not being able to see this or that all of the time. My white, white, white GA county's theatre didn't even bother to play Dreamgirls for a single week! But usually I'm complaining about not getting stuff like Perfume or Match Point, etc. But never even once have I thought to complain.

OH YEAH! And Barack Obama officially formed a presidential exploratory committee (or something), and he has a nice video up on his site about why he's running for president. Pretty presidential stuff, no? I'd vote for him.

What the shit motherfucking fuck?! In what alternate universe is "My Humps" the best Hip Hop video of 2006?!

MTV is such a bunch of douche bags, seriously.

Pink IS a stupid girl, okaaaiiiy?

Laura, your band just won a Moon Man, so I don't EVER want to hear ANYTHING about underground ever again, okay? And he thanked the Despair Faction, ha.

Sarah Silverman is an ASSHOLE.

I can't believe that Jared Leto is in a band! The bad BURY ME, MARRY ME band. The worst thing of all is that I didn't even recognize him until Jack Black said something about it. I don't think Jared Leto ages. It's kind of scary.

Even with no expectations, this was the most horrifying thing I've ever seen on TV. Thank god for TiVo. I don't really know what I'm going to talk about in discussion tomorrow. I think I'll just comment on the overt negative gender connotations of the Luda/Pharell performance, with all of the scantily clad girls dressed in green and gold and the Pussycat Dolls popping out of a safe.

( Georgia finally rules on gay marriage, and it's bad. )

And the Emmy noms are a big yawn this year. Once again Lauren Graham doesn't make the cut, but then this season was so bad that I guess she shouldn't have.

And Milo V/Alexis Bledel broke up! He says Jess is never coming back to Gilmore Girls. Oh, shoot!

Dude. Laura, your band has bad hair. Once upon a time, you made a post about how someone at UT had imitated AFI hair. I sincerely hope it wasn't the lead singer's.

Chris Daughtry is quickly becoming my new Avril Lavigne. He must be destroyed. People who (supposedly) love music do not and CANNOT pick Live (and Creed! and Fuel!) as their favorite band. They just can't! And when they do, they deserve to be mocked.

I am surprised that Brokeback Mountain won Best Kiss. Pleasantly, I guess. Hmm.

The Daily Show killed last night. Did anyone else catch the special report on the unfenced women's prison in Minnesota? Where the security expert from New York speculated that the "lesbi-ites" might get out and "dildoize" the public-at-large? *dies*

... I really have nothing else to say except that the French Revolution kicks the American Revolution's ass. And also that Marx's concept of Commodity Fetishism is so right on that it's scary. Yeah, all I've been doing is reading The Historian and reading/writing for my history classes. Young and the Restless has seriously become the highlight of my day. So looking forward to spring break.

I'd bitch more about the whole abortion ban in SD, but really. It was inevitable. If it hadn't been South Dakota, it would have been... hell, I don't know... Mississippi. I honestly don't think that the Supreme Court will strike down Roe v. Wade, but I think I've already proven that I have far, far too much faith in humanity.

Okay, now when you read this next part, please picture me with my hands waving around, like I'm beseeching some higher power to send another flood or something. Because that's totally what I would be doing if I wasn't typing.

I tuned into some cable TV last night, to see what people were saying about the abortion ban. And, wow, when did Chris Matthews go insane? I used to like him, for a pundit. Dad used to watch him semi-regularly. But now he's just... insane. He was freaking out on Al Sharpton about how Hollywood liberalism is a LIE and how Liberal Hollywood is really trying to keep The Black Man down by voting for a song like "It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp." And of course, Reverend Sharpton is all like, MARTIN LUTHER KING JR AND MALCOM X AND JESUS DID NOT DIE SO THAT THESE GANSTERS COULD DISRESPECT THEIR PEOPLE IN A NATIONAL ARENA, just like that. Seriously, becaue Al doesn't talk. He BOOMS. It would have been funny if it wasn't so over the top. And also, absurd! Yes, Three Six Mafia were on that stage as ambassadors of their race. What the hell, people?! What the hell?! The apocalypse, it commeth. There just cannot be this much stupid around for no reason.

( More on why this bothers me under the cut, but let's stick with Chris for now... )

And we all saw the clip of Chris giggling about Fudgepack Mountain (which, can he even say that on TV, what the hell?) like he could get cooties from just saying the real name. Somebody stage an intervention! He's finally lost it. Not that I can blame him really, because current events would make anyone crazy after awhile. But, seriously? Seriously?

Okay. I can understand if you didn't think Jon Stewart was funny last night. That's fine. But this? This is just mean-spirited. What is up with WaPo lately?

ETA: I just watched The Countdown, and they had a segment on Jon Stewart crashing and burning as host. They said he was awful and they showed clips like the bit where he joked "I don't really have anything here. I just thought you should know that people were saying that." (On how lots of people say Hollywood is totally out-of-touch with mainstream America, etc.) But that's totally Jon's sense of humor! He did exactly what he does on his show, and I think he was fine.

I know he doesn't need me to defend him and probably doesn't care that people think he did a bad job. But these people should at least know his work and style before they assume that he was choking when he was actually just doing his usual thing.

Bah. My new iMac has a dead pixel almost directly in the middle of the enormous screen, about three inches from the top. It's bothering me. I guess this means I am going to have to make a trip into Atlanta to the Apple Store so people can roll their eyes at me; I already got this from the Nintendo people. But I can't stand dead pixels. They try to say that 1-2 dead pixels are within the production standards for LCD screens, but if you're going to pay so much money for a computer or TV or portable video system, why would you put up with that? This is supremely annoying.

Also, seeing Crash win Best Picture irks me on every level. That movie is not about race - it's about racial stereotypes. And it doesn't challenge them in any way - it validates them. The prejudices depicted in the movie are challenged by only the most extraordinary and melodramatic of circumstances. There is nothing true-to-life or profound in the movie. How is that groundbreaking? How does it contribute positively to racial dialogue in America? How does it transcend your average, anvilicious blockbuster? I don't think it does. Whatever, Academy.

Also! Vampires do not exist. Vampires do not exist. Vampires do NOT exist. *is a little creeped out*

ETA: OMG, this pink dead pixel is pissing me off so much. I only have the one, though, and Apple doesn't fix it unless I have at least 4-5, apparently. I cannot believe I paid 1400 for a computer with a stupid pink dot in the middle of the very expensive LCD screen. HATE.

ETA2: I am thinking about going to the Apple Store anyway and whining about how even though there's just the one, that it's exactly in the middle, at exactly my eye level and how I can simply not function with the dead pixel. I whine well.

Worst VMAs in recent memory. Kelly Clarkson was horrible and Coldplay was not that good. The Green Day album was a billion years ago and it was weird to see them win everything. Puff Daddy was lame, as per usual. Common is awesome. 50-Cent is going to die. Hilary Duff looks awful. Jamie Fox is even more of an ass than he was pre-Ray. I cannot believe Paris Hilton thinks she's releasing an album.

Something is wrong when MC Hammer delivers the best performance of the evening.

I bet whoever ended up with that diamond watch gets mugged the minute they step onto the street; it is Miami after all.

Funniest moment? Hard to choose. Either it was Fat Joe poking fun at G-Unit or the crowd chanting "Kobe! Kobe!" at Shaq. Hee!

Jesus. I have homework I really don't want to do. I won't be in bed before 3am tonight, and I gots to be up by seven thirty. Ew.

[ETA] Finished at 4:08am. Guh. They should give me my Bachelor of Arts in Bullshit.

Yay for John Mayer and double yay for Green Day. They've come so far.

Renita and I got a kick out of Kanye. Obviously his only competition was Jay-Z, and he totally deserved to win, but Renita and I were rooting *against* him because he's a complete asshole and totally arrogant. His speech was for people like us; when he said "everyone's talking about what I would do If I didn't win this," Renita and I totally looked at eachother and giggled. And then he said: "I guess we'll never know," all like: in-yo-face-BITCH. Yeah, whatever. You're still an asshat, Kanye.

What does it take to make me hate "Across the Universe?" A stage full of grandstanding recording artists butchering one of the most beautiful songs ever written. I really didn't think it was possible to murder that song, but they did. Good Lord.

I'm so sick of people capitalizing on Ray Charles's death. Makes me ill. And it's load of BULLSHIT that his album won Album of the Year. It's so fake, it's so greedy, and it pisses me off.

Janis Joplin tribute? Ray Charles tribute? Tsunami tribute? Excuse me! What the hell about the Ramones? Two members died this year? Why not a tribute to one of the most influential punk bands of all time? Whatever. Like I said, the Grammy's don't matter even a little bit. They don't even scratch the surface of music, and they probably never will.

Almost forgot. Bright Eyes was product placed in Jack & Bobby tonight. Yeah, all about the music, fo' real! Just when I was ready to check out Digital Ashes, too. Now I have to resist for a little while longer.