"My show is on"

YES YES YES YES YES!!

From Home Media Magazine:

Shout! Factory will release Sports Night: The Complete Series — 10th Anniversary Edition, a new eight-DVD collection of the Emmy-winning 1998-2000 comedy-drama series created by Aaron Sorkin (screenwriter of the recent Charlie Wilson’s War). The set is slated to hit shelves Sept. 30

It's important to understand this. Comedy Central got syndication rights, I chuckled at a few jokes at 2 AM and after spotting a now laughably fat DVD package of the whole series at the now non-existent Suncoast at the Deerbrook Mall, expressed interest in it to my mother on a whim. And on a similar and well-intentioned whim, I recieved the set for Christmas '02. This was the beginning of my romance. Sports Night quickly stole the keys to a special compartment of my heart, unlocked by an extraordinary truth held by words. They attacked, they penetrated, they delighted, they moved, they lived. These words came from the hands of Aaron Benjamin Sorkin. To get a more complete picture of my mind, Aaron Sorkin was Bruce before Bruce was Bruce. He held the same place. So if The West Wing was his Born to Run then Sports Night was his The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle; loose, rambunctious, thrilling, imperfect, over-reaching, stunning, falling beauty. And before he would make his Human Touch in Studio 60, he wrote the words that soared higher than they had any right to. Good music is nothing without the right players, so luck would have that he and Tommy got blessed with television's best little garage band of a cast around. Dana, Casey, Dan, Natalie, Jeremy, Issac, they lived. They lived because of Felicity Huffman, Peter Krause, Josh Charles, Sabrina Lloyd, Joshua Malina, and Robert Guillame, conducted under the mastery of Tommy Schlamme. These are the ones responsible for the moments, the nuggets you can't put a price on. They're responsible for Jeremy telling many many people, for Casey's decision to turn around, for Eli's Coming, for Natalie's outrage not concerning a videotape, for Dan's unsinkable pursuit of Rebecca, for Issac's singing, for Dana's everything. They loved, they gave, and I was full of their grace. I am. All in all, not a bad show.

"A fair fight"

How do we bridge the gap? How do we bridge the gap between a reality and a dream. When is actual life and ideal life ever aligned? Seldom to none, is how much. So how do we achieve what all the most lovely fairy tales encouraged us to do, how must we proceed to make our dreams and our reality one in the same? One must shift from its current position. One must rise or one must fall. I understand the way it goes, make no mistake. I know of no princes or princesses. I know my friends, my family, the people with hearts and minds of certain conviction that try their best to live the way they see fit. I'll take it.

How many times I've wasted time this year

1.02.08 - Shoot 'Em Up C-
1.03.08 - Once B+
1.06.08 - Edward Scissorhands w/ Kelsey B-
1.07.08 - Blade Runner w/ Cory & Jordan C+
1.08.08 - Paris Je 'Taime w/ Kelsey B-
1.09.08 - There Will Be Blood w/ Jared B+
1.16.08 - Almost Famous A
1.20.08 - Cloverfield w/ Jordan and Kelsey B
1.23.08 - Imitation of Heaven B+
3.12.08 - Gangs of New York C+
3.19.08 - American History X C
5.09.08 - The Negotiator B
5.11.08 - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead A-
5.12.08 - Philadelphia B+
5.13.08 - Ratatouille (R) A- w/ mom
5.14.08 - Boogie Nights (R) B
5.15.08 - Transformers C
5.16.08 - Southland Tales C+
6.10.08 - Dan in Real Life B+
6.19.08 - In The Land of Women C
6.21.08 - Walk Hard A
6.28.08 - WALL-E with Katie and Jill A
6.30.08 - Nine to Five C-
7.03.08 - Walk Hard with Mom and & Dad A
7.11.08 - Kill Bill: Volume 1 with Kelsey B
7.12.08 - Kill Bill: Volume 2 with Kelsey B
7.17.08 - The Dark Knight with Jordan, Nicole, Cory, Grant, Kelsey, and Katie A-
8.15.08 - Tropic Thunder with Mom & Dad B-
8.26.08 - Hard Candy (R) with Megan & Ashlee A
8.27.08 - Hamlet 2 with Sarah, Hannah, Katie, Megan & Ashlee C+

ILOVETHEMALL

Kristin Wiig is the sexiest woman operating on television. I've long resisted the belief that the ability to be funny, to evoke something as humbling an experience as laughter, is directly related to intelligence. It just seemed to easy and I didn't want to fall into the trap of looking for the wrong things. Katie and I were talking over weekend when there a few hours spare to talk about these things. Katie says funny and smart are related. The argument makes sense to a degree. There must be a certain pre-requisite of emotional intelligence to it. A massuse goes to massuse school to know all the right pressure points, so clearly the funny one's got to know something about the head and heart to know what warrants a laugh from a fellow human being. Understanding is so important. Kristin understands that we're put-off by better-than-thou conversation-topper, we sympathize in laughter and mercy with the overly nervous girl in a woman's suit, and we kinda just love the middle aged woman who can get excited at the mere insinuation of the mundane. Kristin understands a piece of our humanity and through whatever training she had, she learned how to manipulate her body, her voice, and her face to let us become aware of this understanding that she possesses, and we're genuinely caught off guard and it's a gift to us and we're humbled by it. And even if all that's crap and she's just an idiot, she's actually wicked hot so we're all saved. What's gonna happen to us?