Chronicide Online

I’m at the halfway point — two weeks (and two days) since the Oscar nominees have been announced; two weeks (and a day) before the actual ceremony. So how’s my Oscar Challenge going? Well.

Looking at the big six categories: I’ve only seen one Best Picture nominee…and, therefore, one Best Director nominee (Slumdog Millionaire); one Best Actor nominee (The Wrestler); one Best Actress nominee (Rachel Getting Married); two Supporting Actor nominees (The Dark Knight and Tropic Thunder); and one Supporting Actress nominee (The Wrestler again).

So of the 15 movies that comprise the top six categories, I’ve seen seven. Two more — Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Best Supporting Actress) and The Visitor (Best Actor) — are here from Netflix, so those’ll probably be knocked out today. And I’m hoping to go see either The Curious Case of Benjamin Button or The Reader this weekend, either of which would get me up to ten of fifteen, which is not a bad ratio to go with two weeks. I can do five movies in two weeks. (I think.)

To the greater tally of Oscar nominees, you can add WALL•E, In Bruges, and Iron Man to my list (which gives me two Original Screenplay and one Best Animated Film nominees, so it’s not a bad showing).

What’s tempting is the more obscure stuff. A theater near here is showing The Class and Waltz With Bashir, two Best Foreign Film nominees, and another theater is running this week only all ten Best Live-Action and Best Animated shorts. I really want to see all of those, but I don’t know if it’s worth sacrificing movie-going time that could be used for one of the remaining big six nominees to go to them, so we’ll see.

Apparently I’m not the first one to notice this:

No, not this guy:

(Ah, the ’90s…such an inspired time for creating new comics characters…)

Okay, so I kinda forgot how to log into my blog… But I’m back, baby! And the login page is bookmarked! And I wrote down my login and password! So let’s see if I start posting again…

So anyhow… Coming up: I finally answer the meme that Rob spread to me almost — lordy! — almost a month ago (that one’s about ready to go, so should be up tonight); I give you my top 12 (and, so far, only) movies of 2008; and…I had something else in my head, but I don’t remember, and probably shouldn’t get ahead of myself anyhow.

Whew!

I’m finally free from the yoke of LiveJournal. Not that LiveJournal was bad; it was actually pretty good to me. But it wasn’t what I really wanted from a blog, so it didn’t feel very encouraging to post to it. (At least, that’s the rationalization I’m using for why I didn’t post much…)

But I’ve finally got my own domain set up, and I’ve got WordPress installed (though I’m still working on the design), so I’m hoping this will kick my butt into actually using this blog.

And what am I going to put in here? Well, I haven’t decided yet, but to keep my ambitions big, these are the type of things I imagine I might do:

• Reviews - Comics, movies, books, TV…I love them all, and I want to start crystallizing my thoughts about them (right now I find I move on too easily to the next one, so they don’t stick as well as they might), and reviews seems a good way to do that. Not sure yet what format these reviews’ll take…
• Opinions - Of course; what blog is worth its salt without lots of opinion. A bit of politics, a bit of religion, a bit of sociology…whatever pops in my mind, really.
• Random Observations - Really not any different from “Opinions”, is it?
• Short Fictions - This is…a challenge for me, as I’m not entirely comfortable creating (let alone sharing!) fiction, but I’ll try to give it a try.

That’s what I’m thinking, anyhow. Watch for categories to form as these (or other) content items start appearing.

Aaaand…that’ll probably do for now. I’ve already got an idea for a first (real) post, so you’ll see that shortly. Hope to see you back, and hope to have regular new content for you to enjoy!

Chronicide Online 2.0, really, as this is (or will be) replacing the LiveJournal blog.

It’s all good, really.