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There was a hushed confidence about Albert Brooks this morning. Oscar nomination was in the bag, right?

He tried to follow his usual morning routine: Walking Jack, cleaning up, reading the Hollywood Reporter. Then he hopped in his Lexus — no need to be ostentatious — and drove down to Morty’s, where he ordered a cup of coffee and poached eggs. The TV was turned to the Oscar telecast, and when his name didn’t come up, he did his best to mask the disappointment. In one smooth motion, he picked up his knife, wiped it, and ran it down the arm of the nearest patron, slicing the brachial artery and staining the floor with blood. “It’s done,” he said. That fucker von Sydow was next.

SEE WHICH OF YOUR FAVORITES WERE NOMINATED FOR OSCARS THIS MORNING! 

Movies 

1. Melancholia
2. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
3. Midnight in Paris
4. Drive
5. Super 8
6. Beginners
7. Moneyball
8. The Descendants
9. Margin Call
10. Page One: Inside Brian Stelter’s Twitter Feed

    ??.  The Tree of Life

Movies (Sight Unseen)

• The Adventures of Tintin
• The Artist
• A Dangerous Method
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
• Martha Marcy May Marlene
• A Separation
• Shame
• Tabloid
• We Need to Talk About Kevin
• Young Adult

Albums

1. Bon Iver, “Bon Iver” 
2. The Roots, “Undun”
3. The Weeknd, “House of Balloons”
4. Drake, “Take Care”
5. Fleet Foxes, “Helplessness Blues”
6. Destroyer, “Kaputt”
7. M83, “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming”
8. Childish Gambino, “Camp”
9. Kate Bush, “50 Words For Snow”
10. Fitz and the Tantrums, “Pickin’ Up the Pieces”

Songs

1. “Helplessness Blues” by Fleet Foxes
2. “Midnight City” by M83
3. “Origins” by Tennis
4. “Calgary” by Bon Iver
5. “House of Balloons” by The Weeknd
6. “Marvins Room” by Drake
7. “Anything At All” by Hey Champ
8. “Suicide Demo for Kara Walker” by Destroyer
9. “Lotus Flower” by Radiohead
10. “Don’t Gotta Work It Out” by Fitz and the Tantrums

“uncreative writing, in all of its forms is haunted. because it presents just as it is. because it cannot help how it is because of the world it exists in. because we cannot ignore where it came from in the first place, because of the methods by which i came upon this text and why this one and not the other. all of these things are entwined with the social-economic-cultural structures of everyone/everything it involves – writer, uncreative writer, reader, text. what does this text tell you about me – i didn’t write it but i passed its transmissions through my body and there are bits of me stuck to its surface.”

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‎”In other news: Frustrated with the current crop of candidates, GOP officials have reportedly decided that, the hell with it, they’ll just fucking nominate Ronald Reagan again. According to sources, the RNC is developing advanced hologram technology in order to render a lifelike avatar of the popular former president — based on his appearance in the film “Cattle Queen of Wyoming.” Strategists believe the cowboy look will effectively neutralize Rick Perry’s popular addle-brained gun-slinger persona. Likewise, a more youthful Reagan hologram would supposedly play better against a barely-50 Barack Obama in the general election.

“Also, you know, the Alzheimer’s thing.”