Golden Globe nominations are out. Somehow Curb is not nominated for best comedy TV series and Breaking Bad not best drama series. Here’s the list:

Best Picture, Drama

• Avatar
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglorious Basterds
• Precious
• Up in the Air

Best Picture, Comedy or Musical

• (500) Days of Summer
  
• The Hangover
• It’s Complicated
  
• Julie & Julia
  
• Nine

Best Director

• Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
  
• James Cameron, Avatar
• Clint Eastwood, Invictus
• Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
  
• Quentin Tarantino, Inglorious Basterds

Best Actor, Drama

• Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
• George Clooney, Up in the Air
• Colin Firth, A Single Man
  
• Morgan Freeman, Invictus
• Tobey Maguire, Brothers

Best Actress, Drama

• Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria
• Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
• Helen Mirren, The Last Station
  
• Carrey Mulligan, An Education
  
• Gabourey Sidibe, Precious

Best Supporting Actor

• Matt Damon, Invictus
• Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
• Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
  
• Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
  
• Christoph Waltz, Inglorious Basterds

Best Supporting Actress

• Penelope Cruz, Nine
• Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
• Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
• Mo’Nique, Precious
• Julianne Moore, A Single Man

Best Actor, Comedy or Musical

• Matt Damon, The Informant!
• Daniel Day-Lewis, Nine
• Robert Downey, Jr, Sherlock Holmes
  
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (500) Days of Summer
• Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man

Best Actress, Comedy or Musical

• Sandra Bullock, The Proposal
• Marion Cotillard, Nine
• Julia Roberts, Duplicity
  
• Meryl Streep, It’s Complitcated
  
• Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
  

Best Screenplay

• Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
• Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell, District 9
• Quentin Tarantino, Inglorious Basterds
  
• Nancy Meyers, It’s Complicated
• Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air

Best Animated Picture

• Coraline
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
  
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
  
• The Princess and the Frog
  
• Up

Best Foreign Language Film

• A Prophet
  
• The White Ribbon
  
• The Maid
  
• Baaria

Best Television Series, Drama

• Big Love
  
• Dexter
  
• House
  
• Mad Men
  
• True Blood

Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical

• 30 Rock
  
• Entourage
  
• Glee
  
• Modern Family
  
• The Office

Best Actor in a Television Series, Drama

• Simon Baker, The Mentalist
• Michael C. Hall, Dexter
• Jon Hamm, Mad Men
  
• Hugh Laurie, House
• Bill Paxton, Big Love

Best Actress in a Television Series, Drama

• Juliana Margulies, The Good Wife
  
• Glenn Close, Damages
• January Jones, Mad Men
  
• Anna Paquin, True Blood
• Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

Best Actor in a Television Series, Comedy or Drama

• Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
• Steve Carell, The Office
• Thomas Jane, Hung
  
• David Duchovny, Californication
• Matthew Morrison, Glee

Best Actor in a Television Series, Comedy or Drama

• Toni Collette, United States of Tara
• Courtney Cox, Cougar Town
• Tina Fey, 30 Rock
  
• Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
  
• Lea Michele, Glee

Best Miniseries / Made for TV Movie

• Grey Gardens
  
• Into the Storm
  
• Little Dorrit
  
• Taking Chance
• Georgia O’Keeffe
  

Best Actor in a Miniseries / Made for TV Movie

• Kevin Bacon, Taking Chance
  
• Kenneth Branagh, Wallander: One Step Behind
  
• Chiwetel Ejiofor, Endgame
  
• Brendan Gleeson, Into the Storm
  
• Jeremy Irons, Georgia O’Keeffe

Best Actress in a Miniseries / Made for TV Movie

• Joan Allen, Georgia O’Keeffe
• Drew Barrymore, Grey Gardens
  
• Jessica Lange, Grey Gardens
• Anna Paquin, The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
• Sigourney Weaver, Prayers for Bobby

Best Supporting Actor on Television

• Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
  
• Michael Emerson, Lost
• Jeremy Piven, Entourage
  
• William Hurt, Damages
• John Lithgow, Dexter

Best Supporting Actress on Television

• Jane Adams, Hung
• Rose Byrne, Damages
• Jane Lynch, Glee
  
• Janet McTeer, Into the Storm
  
• Chloe Sevigny, Big Love

I think the announcement of Green Day: Rock Band is a bad idea for two reasons.

One: AC/DC is one of those old school bands that still won’t put their music up for legal download. The Beatles even more so. I can understand that with them, a special approach was probably the only way to get their music playable. Green Day has no such qualms. They already have DLC out for Rock Band. Remember back in, I’ll say 2002, when Pepsi made that push to give free iTunes songs away to help make iTunes catch on? Do you remember who was in that ad? Green Day. Plus, you’re going to tell me that the best possible followup act to The Beatles is Green Day?

Two: This sets a really unfortunate precedent. Part of the reason I hate the Guitar Hero franchise now is because they come out with a million games a year. Rock Band, on the other hand, has had this really successful streak with DLC, and that’s worked for me. We all want to have access to all of our songs without changing discs. The last thing I want are all my artists divided up into their own games. It worked for The Beatles, but their a really special band. I imagine I’d get bored of Green Day music after the second song, since they don’t really interest me for this kind of game.

So, no, I probably will not be buying Green Day: Rock Band.

Update: It sounds like all released Green Day DLC will work in Green Day: Rock Band and you’ll be able to export all the tracks into Rock Band and Rock Band 2, so at least that’s something.

I haven’t really heard any interesting rumors this off season apart from the M’s possibly going after Rich Harden. And as swell as that was, this latest one really gets me excited:

John Paul Morosi of foxsports.com

“The Mariners have made progress toward a deal with free agent Chone Figgins and are clear frontrunners to sign the third baseman, multiple major league sources told FOXSports.com. The team and Figgins’ representatives engaged in serious talks Thursday. One person briefed on the discussions said he wouldn’t be surprised if the sides agreed to a deal of at least four years over the next several days. But he cautioned that there is “nothing done” yet.”

At first I was meh. Then I read some of USSM and LL’s thoughts and I was still meh. But after thinking about who else I wanted to succeed Beltre I finally came around.

One of my favorite things to hear in baseball is “And the runner goes!”. Figgins stole 42 bases. That’s quite a bit more than any Mariner has in recent memory. The idea of an Ichiro!-Figgins 1-2 is quite appeasing. That is some serious speed.

Defensively he’s been a great 3rd basemen for most of his career and provides enough flexibility position wise that he won’t be blocking any prospects. The more I read and talk about this the more I get excited.

BUT! It is a rumor. And as reported there is nothing done yet.

The winter meetings start on Monday and I think we’ll be in for a real treat. If you’re into that kind of thing.

I put a little thing that shows Nancy’s and my Twitter tweets in the sidebar. Hopefully this slightly reduces the amount of things you have to check each day, although I hear that the hardcore Tweeters just have separate applications for that anyway. Then again, those people probably also use RSS feeds and won’t even actually even know what the site looks like any more.

I feel foolish now.

Hey gang, I just finished my final video for my Film Foundations class. The class has been running behind schedule lately, so our last video assignment was basically just the simple task of “telling a story that includes music.” Unfortunately I didn’t know that this assignment was due today until monday, so I filmed the whole thing by myself yesterday.

Anyways my latest video is essentially about myself trying to finish a paper on “procrastination” for a psychology class. When would that ever actually happen? I don’t know, maybe I’m supposed to address bad study habits? It’s kind of a stupid idea and definitely cheesy. I actually had a lot of trouble with the rule that all videos must not exceed three minutes. Not one of my better videos but it has a few chuckles here and there.

What’s sad (and I don’t mean to sound arrogant) is it’s still better than just about every other video that’s been submitted thus far. Are these the same people I’m going to have in my Editing and Streaming class? That’s like the next level. I’ve already signed up for three classes for winter quarter (strangely enough they’re all taught by the same guy who I already have.) “Editing and Streaming”, “Audio and Recording I” and “Business of Film Practices” or something is next, who knows what I’ll produce for those classes.

P.S. Oh yeah, about the progress of the first “The Morgue” sketch video project thing. It’s looking real nice, Paul and I still need to shoot one more scene and I’d imagine it would be done by the end of next week. If not that than just a few days more, should be great.

My Video

Well it seems we’ve crossed that threshold into the holiday season once again, and I’d just like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. It seems inevitable that the flow of blog posts slows down around the holidays, but I figured I’d try and post something for today. I thought I’d keep the tradition going of posting a mildly amusing Thanksgiving-related Youtube video. This is the best I could come up with, so enjoy.