12.31.2010

Best Films of 2010

A Prophet
Never Let Me Go
The American
Toy Story 3
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
I Love You Phillip Morris
Let Me In
True Grit
Micmacs
I'm Here (spike jonze short)
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Blue Valentine
The Social Network
The Fighter
Black Swan
Sweetgrass

Other Good Stuff: Fish Tank, Shutter Island, The Ghost Writer, Restrepo, Cell 211,
Green Zone, Greenberg, Inception, Red, 127 Hours, Robin Hood and The Town.

12.08.2010

LOST







Back in October, a group of us were up on Whidbey Island celebrating my birthday. I was just pouring my third glass of Milagro when I heard some shouting from the deck, "Over there! Out there! There's a man in the water, a man on a raft!" A few of us ran to the railing, the wolf pack charged the beach. I sloshed my drink and stumbled to the door, just catching sight of something yellow in the distance. What-the-fuck?! Was that a man in the water? How... much had I had to drink? I grabbed my camera and headed for the surf. As I got closer I could see that it was in fact a real person, on a raft made out of logs, rope and seaweed. Holy shit! A real life castaway. As he got closer to land he began babbling about living on an island, a mysterious island, that he'd been working with electromagnetic anomalies, and that there had been another incident. The sky turned green and he left the hornets nest in a hurry. He said he'd forgotten the coordinates or his map or something... and couldn't believe he'd made it back, although he was confused he wasn't closer to Australia. Frankly, it was a lot of babble. We poured him a glass of fighting cock and later let him take a swing at my Cookie Monster piñata.