Movieline Open Thread: What Are You Thankful For This Year?
Happy Thanksgiving! Or, you know, Happy pre-Thanksgiving. However you want to commemorate the day before our nation's oldest original holiday ritual, remember to count your blessings -- be they loved ones, health, wealth, Anne Hathaway salvaging SNL's season... you name it. They're in your life and in your culture, often interfacing in powerful ways. Let's all gather now to give thanks. The turkey won't get cold, I promise.
I'll get started with what's admittedly an incomplete list in no particular order (apologies to anyone/anything I've omitted):
· Pepperidge Farm Goldfish.
· Health (for now).
· Academy screeners, especially Animal Kingdom.
· The prospect of another Paul Thomas Anderson movie at some point or another.
· Loving, responsible parents married 36 years this week.
· Smart, capable, conscientious coworkers.
· A job (for now).
· The Awl, The Hairpin, The Smiths Project and the other increasingly rare joys of Webgoing.
· Bourbon. It used to matter which, but not so much anymore.
· Robert Duvall ("Living Actors" bracket).
· Joseph Cotten ("Deceased Actors" bracket).
· Grace Kelly ("Any Actors" bracket).
· Nice publicists. You know who you are.
· A pair of New York City's friendlier, more upstanding landlords (for now).
· The unfailingly consistent, satisfying quality of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese -- particularly the "Thick & Creamy" variety, but sometimes "Spirals," too.
· My proximity to ambitious artists from whom I've learned so much over the years. I am very thankful.
Your turn!
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1. My beautiful baby daughter, who will be celebrating her first Thanksgiving.
2. My lovely wife, who not only gave birth to said baby daughter, but also surprised me with the The Larry Sanders Show box set just because she knew I wanted it.
3. Two brothers and three sisters, all lovely people.
4. Our daughter has had a chance to meet her full complement of grandparents.
5. Billy Wilder
6. The Christmas tree on the spire of the Capitol Records building.
7. Craft Beer
8. Vinyl records
9. Criterion Blu-Ray
10. The so-far undefeated season of the #1 ranked Oregon Ducks
1. That my lovely wife doesn't have any desire to watch Glee.
2. Oh, and that she agreed to marry my punk ass.
3. The Rock.
4. Underworld released a new album this year.
5. Not having a job, like a sucker. (Wait....)
my wonderful puppies and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Same as every year: Iman, Vanity 6, and a job that lets me make Jean-Claude Van Damme references whenever I want.
(Friends and family are nice too.)
1. My new nephew who'll be just shy of 3 weeks old on his first Thanksgiving tomorrow.
2. My sister and brother-in-law, my dad and my mom, who just emailed me to tell me she's taking me shopping for slippers on Friday (seriously).
3. Friday Night Lights
4. migraine medicine
5. Alex O'Loughlin (I just discovered him this year with Hawaii Five-0. Yummy!)
I would like to know which "The Rock" The Winchester is referring to: The movie or the wrestler?
I'm thankful to have a website that lets me bitch and be funny (sometimes) about stuff that in the grand scheme of things is completely pointless....thanks Facebook!
Louis's A-List recaps. No one can make a Rowlf from Muppet Babies reference like he can!
My wonderful fellow commenters.
Movieline in general.
Im thankful for Chris Rosen's mom
Frances McDormand
Dianne Wiest
Tilda Swinton
Mark Ruffalo
Emmanuel Lubezki
Olivier Assayas
Does it really matter? Both are worth being thankful for.
Raymond Chandler novels.
My parents, who did a good job.
My girlfriend, who liked me enough to let me follow her to France.
All cinema, good and bad. But especially Ernst Lubitsch.
My brother, who is more or less my role model.
The fact that I have a writing job. And this site in general.
Movieline commenters who make me laugh.
Cheap wine. Also coffee.
French people who have been nice enough to let me hang out with them.
Nicolas Cage and Tom Cruise