Official Great Works Draft (4 Viewers)

[wikkidpissah]

for Uncle Humuna:

21.12 ShamWow, invention

writeup later.

oops....am i too early? (not the 1st time i said that....)

 

[Uncle Humuna]

for Uncle Humuna:

21.12 ShamWow, invention

writeup later.

oops....am i too early? (not the 1st time i said that....)

Excellent for cleaning up humuna and hummus spills . . .

 

[rodg12]

El Floppo, has timed out. UH, you're up if you're still around (unless you want the ShamWow pick to stand ).

 

[wikkidpissah]

Make-up pick:

21.5 - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46, Edvard Grieg, Composition [3]

an almost perfect midpack selection in compositions - extramusical significance, juuuust enough structure & complexity to be serious & not one but two iconic themes for the Fantasia/Bugs Bunny crowd. a near certain (remember, my list will be going against that of a co-judges for the final score) 15+.

 

[Mister CIA]

21.12 - Astral Weeks by Van Morrison, Album

 

[wikkidpissah]

by message from Humuna (f'reals):

21.13 Three Gorges Dam (Building/Structure)

Write up to follow . . .

 

[krista4]

21.12 - Astral Weeks by Van Morrison, Album

 

[Uncle Humuna]

21.13 The Three Gorges Dam and Powerplant (Building/Structure)

The Three Gorge Dams is the largest dam in the world, as wide as the Golden Gate Bridge and twice as tall, capable of generating 18 gigawatts of hydro-electric power.

picsLength - 1.3 mi (7,661 ft)

Height - 610 ft

Volume of Concrete Used - 35,600,000 cu yd

Weight of Steel Used - 463,000 metric tons (enought to build 63 Eiffel Towers)

Volume of Earth Moved - 134,200,000 cu yd

Cost - $39 Billion

Number of Generators - 34

Electrical Generation Capacity - 22.5 gigawatts (=15 nuclear power plants)

Reservoir Capacity - 9.3 cu mi

Reservoir Surface Area - 403 sq mi

Number of Locks - 2

Stages per Lock - 5

Lock Dimensions - 918 ft x 114 ft x 16.4 ft

 

[rodg12]

Skipped

21.10 - Thatguy (timed out)

21.11 - El Floppo -(timed out)

21.14 - Misfit Blondes - OTC until :17

21.15 - Bob Lee Swagger - On Dec

21.16 - Scott Norwood - In The Hole

21.17 - DC Thunder

21.18 - Genedoc

21.19 - Tirnan (autoskip if not here in first 5 minutes)

21.20 - Yankee23Fan

22.01 - Yankee23Fan

22.02 - Tirnan (autoskip if not here in first 5 minutes)

22.03 - Genedoc

22.04 - DC Thunder

22.05 - Scott Norwood

 

[Abrantes]

21.12 - Astral Weeks by Van Morrison, Album

As good as (almost) any album selected so far. Love Van The Man.

 

[anborn]

21.13 The Three Gorges Dam and Powerplant (Building/Structure)

The Three Gorge Dams is the largest dam in the world, as wide as the Golden Gate Bridge and twice as tall, capable of generating 18 gigawatts of hydro-electric power.

picsLength - 1.3 mi (7,661 ft)

Height - 610 ft

Volume of Concrete Used - 35,600,000 cu yd

Weight of Steel Used - 463,000 metric tons (enought to build 63 Eiffel Towers)

Volume of Earth Moved - 134,200,000 cu yd

Cost - $39 Billion

Number of Generators - 34

Electrical Generation Capacity - 22.5 gigawatts (=15 nuclear power plants)

Reservoir Capacity - 9.3 cu mi

Reservoir Surface Area - 403 sq mi

Number of Locks - 2

Stages per Lock - 5

Lock Dimensions - 918 ft x 114 ft x 16.4 ft

nice one here. ridiculous structure for sure.

 

[Abrantes]

Skipped

21.10 - Thatguy (timed out)

21.11 - El Floppo -(timed out)

21.14 - Misfit Blondes - OTC until :17

21.15 - Bob Lee Swagger - On Dec

21.16 - Scott Norwood - In The Hole

21.17 - DC Thunder

21.18 - Genedoc

21.19 - Tirnan (autoskip if not here in first 5 minutes)

21.20 - Yankee23Fan

22.01 - Yankee23Fan

22.02 - Tirnan (autoskip if not here in first 5 minutes)

22.03 - Genedoc

22.04 - DC Thunder

22.05 - Scott Norwood

Man, it would be nice to advance enough just for me to be on the list. :(

 

[krista4]

21.14 When We Were Kings - Documentary.

Link.

So wrong. Now I'm going to have to give you a high score. :(

 

[Postradamus]

OK all just throw me on a 15 minute clock from here on out. If I'm up and not around for 15 just go ahead, same if the clock is off. :( Nice picks today.

 

[krista4]

Thanks, guys. I was really happy to get that one. Sorry, I think the draft slowed up a little with me. The time difference kind of messed things up. I'm coming back Tuesday morning, so if I am up before noon EDT on Tuesday, feel free to skip me after 30 minutes.

:( I really thought Sunday morning that it might come to me again by Tuesday.

 

[anborn]

 

[TidesofWar]

Lets Go, while We're Young!

On My Draft Board..............

Nigel Tufnel

Pornography - keeps people like Otis at home and out of my way

2 AM Krystals

Princess Leia's Hairstyle

Kaboom Cereal

 

[Bob Lee Swagger]

21.15 - Album - "IV" - Led Zeppelin

Sorry for the holdup, something screwy's going on at my house. Took IV as opposed to (spotlighting removed) for commercial success and lasting impact of the tracks.

 

[TidesofWar]

21.15 - Album - "IV" - Led ZeppelinSorry for the holdup, something screwy's going on at my house. Took IV as opposed to (spotlighting removed) for commercial success and lasting impact of the tracks.

Oustanding - Top Notch!! Wanted this one myself, and IMO superior to some of the selections so far.

 

[El Floppo]

21.11 Play, Long Day's Journey into Night- Eugene O'Neill

Was sitting on this and Antigone for too long. Don't want to lose this one too- IMO along with one other (off the top of the head), the last of the remaining modern classics left. Write up later.

 

[anborn]

21.15 - Album - "IV" - Led ZeppelinSorry for the holdup, something screwy's going on at my house. Took IV as opposed to (spotlighting removed) for commercial success and lasting impact of the tracks.

Oustanding - Top Notch!! Wanted this one myself, and IMO superior to some of the selections so far.

ditto this. quality album. norwood/anbo's pick coming up....

 

[El Floppo]

Put me on the 15 minute clock too.

 

[El Floppo]

21.15 - Album - "IV" - Led ZeppelinSorry for the holdup, something screwy's going on at my house. Took IV as opposed to (spotlighting removed) for commercial success and lasting impact of the tracks.

Oustanding - Top Notch!! Wanted this one myself, and IMO superior to some of the selections so far.

ditto this. quality album. norwood/anbo's pick coming up....

s

 

[anborn]

Team Norwood/Anborn picks...

21.16 - Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand, 1897) - Play

The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of 12 syllables per line, very close to the Alexandrine format, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura. It is also meticulously researched, down to the names of the members of the Académie française and the dames précieuses glimpsed before the performance in the first scene.

The original Cyrano was Constant Coquelin, who played it over 410 times at Porte-Saint-Martin and later toured North America in the role. Richard Mansfield was the first actor to play Cyrano in the United States in an English translation. The longest-running Broadway production ran 232 performances in 1923 and starred Walter Hampden, who returned to the role on the Great White Way in 1926, 1928, 1932, and 1936. He passed the torch to José Ferrer, who won a Tony Award (and a subsequent Academy Award four years later) for playing Cyrano in a 1946 Broadway staging, the highlight of which was a special benefit performance in which Ferrer played the title role for the first four acts and Hampden (then in his mid-sixties) assumed it for the fifth. Other notable English-speaking Cyranos were Ralph Richardson, DeVeren Bookwalter, Derek Jacobi, Richard Chamberlain, and Christopher Plummer, who played the part in Rostand's original play and won a Tony Award for the 1973 musical adaptation. Kevin Kline played the role in a Broadway production in 2007, with Jennifer Garner playing Roxane and Daniel Sunjata as Christian. A taped version of the production was broadcast on PBS in 2009.

The play has been translated and performed many times, and is responsible for introducing the word "panache" into the English language.

A kiss, when all is said,--what is it?

An oath that's ratified,--a sealed promise,

A heart's avowal claiming confirmation,--

A rose-dot on the 'i' of 'adoration,'--

A secret that to mouth, not ear, is whispered,--

I don't think this pick needs more of a writeup. If you haven't seen this play, do yourself a favor and go do it.

 

[krista4]

21.11 Play, Long Day's Journey into Night- Eugene O'Neill

Was sitting on this and Antigone for too long. Don't want to lose this one too- IMO along with one other (off the top of the head), the last of the remaining modern classics left. Write up later.

Not many picks the past couple of days, but each one has been stellar.

 

[Bob Lee Swagger]

21.15 - Album - "IV" - Led ZeppelinSorry for the holdup, something screwy's going on at my house. Took IV as opposed to (spotlighting removed) for commercial success and lasting impact of the tracks.

Oustanding - Top Notch!! Wanted this one myself, and IMO superior to some of the selections so far.

ditto this. quality album. norwood/anbo's pick coming up....

s

Thanks, guys.

 

[Abrantes]

21.11 Play, Long Day's Journey into Night- Eugene O'Neill

Was sitting on this and Antigone for too long. Don't want to lose this one too- IMO along with one other (off the top of the head), the last of the remaining modern classics left. Write up later.

A plague on your house.My Play shortlist is properly bombed out and depleted.

 

[El Floppo]

Team Norwood/Anborn picks...

21.16 - Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand, 1897) - Play

The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of 12 syllables per line, very close to the Alexandrine format, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura. It is also meticulously researched, down to the names of the members of the Académie française and the dames précieuses glimpsed before the performance in the first scene.

The original Cyrano was Constant Coquelin, who played it over 410 times at Porte-Saint-Martin and later toured North America in the role. Richard Mansfield was the first actor to play Cyrano in the United States in an English translation. The longest-running Broadway production ran 232 performances in 1923 and starred Walter Hampden, who returned to the role on the Great White Way in 1926, 1928, 1932, and 1936. He passed the torch to José Ferrer, who won a Tony Award (and a subsequent Academy Award four years later) for playing Cyrano in a 1946 Broadway staging, the highlight of which was a special benefit performance in which Ferrer played the title role for the first four acts and Hampden (then in his mid-sixties) assumed it for the fifth. Other notable English-speaking Cyranos were Ralph Richardson, DeVeren Bookwalter, Derek Jacobi, Richard Chamberlain, and Christopher Plummer, who played the part in Rostand's original play and won a Tony Award for the 1973 musical adaptation. Kevin Kline played the role in a Broadway production in 2007, with Jennifer Garner playing Roxane and Daniel Sunjata as Christian. A taped version of the production was broadcast on PBS in 2009.

The play has been translated and performed many times, and is responsible for introducing the word "panache" into the English language.

A kiss, when all is said,--what is it?

An oath that's ratified,--a sealed promise,

A heart's avowal claiming confirmation,--

A rose-dot on the 'i' of 'adoration,'--

A secret that to mouth, not ear, is whispered,--

I don't think this pick needs more of a writeup. If you haven't seen this play, do yourself a favor and go do it.

Fantastically written play and a solid pick (probably a "more important" play than my previous pick). I've read it and seen this onstage a couple of times and just can't get past the concept and the 3's Company plot device.

 

[Genedoc]

21.11 Play, Long Day's Journey into Night- Eugene O'Neill

Was sitting on this and Antigone for too long. Don't want to lose this one too- IMO along with one other (off the top of the head), the last of the remaining modern classics left. Write up later.

Wouldn't have made it back to you. Great, great pick.

 

[Tirnan]

21.11 Play, Long Day's Journey into Night- Eugene O'Neill

Was sitting on this and Antigone for too long. Don't want to lose this one too- IMO along with one other (off the top of the head), the last of the remaining modern classics left. Write up later.

A plague on your house.My Play shortlist is properly bombed out and depleted.

I am in the same boat! I'm about to pull the trigger on one most probably haven't heard of but that is historically significant. My most people haven't heard of this list is getting stomped each round. I can't seem to find the village idiot in the crowd which always makes me consider that it must be me.

 

[wikkidpissah]

Team Norwood/Anborn picks...

21.16 - Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand, 1897) - Play

ouch - reeeeally wanted this one, but thought i could get a coupla tech pix in 1st. hate you much.

21.11 Play, Long Day's Journey into Night- Eugene O'Neill

Was sitting on this and Antigone for too long. Don't want to lose this one too- IMO along with one other (off the top of the head), the last of the remaining modern classics left. Write up later.

i'd promised myself i wasnt taking any angry 20th C plays - cuz i simply dont like them - but this one had dropped down so far that i argued with myself over the wkend about taking it @ 21.9. good grab -

 

[rodg12]

I'll be out of the office between around 11:30a-2:30p EDT today. Just skip me for those picks.

Skipped21.10 - Thatguy (timed out)21.17 - DC Thunder (auto-skip)21.18 - Genedoc OTC until :2421.19 - Tirnan (autoskip if not here in first 5 minutes) On Deck21.20 - Yankee23Fan In The Hole22.01 - Yankee23Fan22.02 - Tirnan (autoskip if not here in first 5 minutes)22.03 - Genedoc22.04 - DC Thunder (skip if up before 2:30 EDT)22.05 - Scott Norwood22.06 - Bob Lee Swagger22.07 - Misfit Blondes22.08 - Uncle Humuna22.09 - Team CIA (autoskip)22.10 - El Floppo (autoskip if not here in first 15 minutes)22.11 - Thatguy22.12 - Wikkidpissah

 

[Genedoc]

Didn't realize I was up - I missed DC going on auto skip. Pick incoming within 5 minutes....

 

[Fennis]

I'm back in Chicago. Amazing lack of progress on this. :( Now I'm going to be forced to work instead.

Welcome back to the good ol’ USA!

 

[Fennis]

21.13 The Three Gorges Dam and Powerplant (Building/Structure)

The Three Gorge Dams is the largest dam in the world, as wide as the Golden Gate Bridge and twice as tall, capable of generating 18 gigawatts of hydro-electric power.

picsLength - 1.3 mi (7,661 ft)

Height - 610 ft

Volume of Concrete Used - 35,600,000 cu yd

Weight of Steel Used - 463,000 metric tons (enought to build 63 Eiffel Towers)

Volume of Earth Moved - 134,200,000 cu yd

Cost - $39 Billion

Number of Generators - 34

Electrical Generation Capacity - 22.5 gigawatts (=15 nuclear power plants)

Reservoir Capacity - 9.3 cu mi

Reservoir Surface Area - 403 sq mi

Number of Locks - 2

Stages per Lock - 5

Lock Dimensions - 918 ft x 114 ft x 16.4 ft

nice one here. ridiculous structure for sure.

And that badboy isnt even 100% completed yet.

 

[DCThunder]

Back. I'll have a pick shortly...

 

[DCThunder]

21.17--Het Meisje met de Parel (Girl with a Pearl Earring)--Johannes Vermeer-Painting

The "Mona Lisa of the North", this exquisite painting by Johannes Vermeer was painted around 1665 and is one of only 35 painting's attributed to him. Vermeer was a pioneer in using bright colors (blues and yellows) in his painting, not to mention imaginative uses of natural light. This painting of a young girl, with a bright blue headband and a single large pearl earring is his masterwork.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_with_a_Pearl_Earring

 

[Tirnan]

If this goes well, we should be able to drop the next 8 or nine picks fairly rapidly on the turn.

 

[Mister CIA]

21.12 - Astral Weeks by Van Morrison, Album

As good as (almost) any album selected so far. Love Van The Man.

My favorite VM songs are on albums other than this one, but as an entire work this album stands above all others. The songs string together so perfectly. One of a handful of albums that begs to be played in its entirety.

 

[rodg12]

If this goes well, we should be able to drop the next 8 or nine picks fairly rapidly on the turn.

 

[El Floppo]

Oh... growing up on it's North terminus and participating in it's 50th anniversary, I had this little tidbit of Golden Gate Bridge trivia to share (no- Krista, not the jumping thing from that horrible doc "The Bridge").

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of it's opening, the powers that be decided to close the GG Bridge for the first time to traffic and allow it be used strictly by pedestrians for a couple of hours. Officials completely underestimated just how many people were going to show up- and by the time the bulk of the crowds from either sides of the bridge walked across it's length and turned around to walk home to their original side, the bridge was swamped.

Over 250k people created complete gridlock for around an hour (I was one of the first to get across from Marin to SF and was able to get back without much problem). Worse, the weight of the crowds had flattened the arched span while at one point- and I remember this really well- too many people were walking in ryhym and caused the bridge to sway (harmonic frequency of the footsteps translated large to the whole bridge).

Supposedly engineers in a cal-trans helicopted watched in horror, not knowing whether the bridge would even hold in those conditions for which it hadn't been designed (people per/sq.ft. density is much higher than that for cars)- again supposedly- taking bets about whether they were about to witness the worst disaster in human history. Supposedly (again) they made the decision not to try and evacuate the bridge for fear for creating a stampede.

Horrifyingly, the bridge collapsed killing all aboard.

 

[Tirnan]

While we wait for Genedoc, I offer a whimsical interlude from a play I assume no one will select...

http://www.avenueq.com/videoclips.html

I invite you to witness the greatness of "The internet is for Porn" and offer it as explanation for the sudden disappearance of the Genedoc at the moment of his pick.

NSFW (language)

 

[DCThunder]

21.13 The Three Gorges Dam and Powerplant (Building/Structure)

The Three Gorge Dams is the largest dam in the world, as wide as the Golden Gate Bridge and twice as tall, capable of generating 18 gigawatts of hydro-electric power.

picsLength - 1.3 mi (7,661 ft)

Height - 610 ft

Volume of Concrete Used - 35,600,000 cu yd

Weight of Steel Used - 463,000 metric tons (enought to build 63 Eiffel Towers)

Volume of Earth Moved - 134,200,000 cu yd

Cost - $39 Billion

Number of Generators - 34

Electrical Generation Capacity - 22.5 gigawatts (=15 nuclear power plants)

Reservoir Capacity - 9.3 cu mi

Reservoir Surface Area - 403 sq mi

Number of Locks - 2

Stages per Lock - 5

Lock Dimensions - 918 ft x 114 ft x 16.4 ft

nice one here. ridiculous structure for sure.

And that badboy isnt even 100% completed yet.

It's also a massive ecological and social disaster. Over 1.3M people were forced to relocate because of the resevoir, 1,300 cultural or archeological sites will or have been innudated, there are several endangered species of fish and a freshwater dolphin which will be wiped out, the dam sits on a seismic fault line and the lake will fill up with sediment in 20 years or less. Other than that, it's a wonderful thing.

 

[El Floppo]

21.17--Het Meisje met de Parel (Girl with a Pearl Earring)--Johannes Vermeer-Painting

The "Mona Lisa of the North", this exquisite painting by Johannes Vermeer was painted around 1665 and is one of only 35 painting's attributed to him. Vermeer was a pioneer in using bright colors (blues and yellows) in his painting, not to mention imaginative uses of natural light. This painting of a young girl, with a bright blue headband and a single large pearl earring is his masterwork.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_with_a_Pearl_Earring

This would rate REALLY high if I was judging this cat... beautiful to see in person. That dutch dude was a genius.

 

[Genedoc]

If this goes well, we should be able to drop the next 8 or nine picks fairly rapidly on the turn.

This end hasn't been holding things up.

With this pick, I'm legitimately torn. There are 6 or 7 things which all should have been taken by now, some of which are in categories I need, others not so much. Still, seeing the amazing value that Antigone and Long Day's Journey Into Night were, I've decided not to pick for team need yet and just keep hammering away where I see great value. I'll start throwing stuff in "wildcard" if I have to. That said, I'm taking another movie. It's one that shouldn't surprise any of you who've followed the draft. IMHO, it's the masterpiece of one of the greatest directors in history AND it's the masterpiece of one of the greatest actors in history. It's an unpleasant story told beautifully and frankly. Widely regarded as one of the finest films ever made. Genedoc and Bonzai are pleased to select....

21.18 - Raging Bull - Movie

Select scenes

Closing monologue

Also, with Casablanca, Vertigo, and Raging Bull in the fold, we should be able to close out with Gigli and finish top 3.

 

[El Floppo]

While we wait for Genedoc, I offer a whimsical interlude from a play I assume no one will select...

http://www.avenueq.com/videoclips.html

I invite you to witness the greatness of "The internet is for Porn" and offer it as explanation for the sudden disappearance of the Genedoc at the moment of his pick.

NSFW (language)

I am not a fan of musicals and had to be convinced by more than a couple of people who's taste I trust to see this. Hilarious and brilliant and a must-see for anybody visiting. IIRC, the show starts with a song called "everyone's a little racist" and goes up/downhill from there.

Sesame Street was filming directly across from our apt last week and I ran over with our 2yo son to watch a little of Murray- the entire time I couldn't help but think of the depravity of Ave Q.

 

[Tirnan]

21.19 BUILDING/STRUCTURE The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) by the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company

Oil was discovered at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska in 1968, after explorers had been searching all over Northern Alaska since the 1950s. In 1969, Humble Oil and Refining Company sent a specially fitted oil tanker, the SS Manhattan, to test the feasibility of transporting oil via ice breaking tankers to market[1]. The SS Manhattan, fitted with a massive ice breaking bow, powerful engines, and hardened propellers successfully transited the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Beaufort Sea. The ship, its cargo holds filled with salt water, suffered some damage to several of its cargo holds. Wind blown ice forced the Manhattan to change its intended route through the McLure Strait to the smaller Prince of Wales Strait. Although the Manhattan had successfully transited between the Beaufort Sea and the Atlantic Ocean the concept was considered too risky. A pipeline was considered to be the only viable system for transporting the oil to the nearestport free of pack-ice, almost 800 miles (1,300 km) away at Valdez.

The pipeline, usually called the Alyeska Pipeline in Alaska or the Alaska Pipeline elsewhere, is a major U.S. oil pipeline connecting oil fields in Alaska's North Slope to a North Pacific seaport where the oil can be shipped to the Lower 48 states for refining.

It crosses three mountain ranges and over 800 rivers and streams; it cost $8-billion to build, and was mostly from privately funds. It took three-years, and two months to build between 1974-1977, I assume the planning stages were complicated, for they had to build seven airfields to accommodate the construction. The main Trans-Alaska Pipeline runs north to south, almost 800 miles (1,300 km), from the Arctic Ocean at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to the Gulf of Alaska at Valdez, Alaska

Construction of the pipeline through the sparsely-populated region presented significant challenges to in the terrain and the harsh environment along the route. Between the North Slope and Valdez, there were three mountain ranges, active fault lines, miles of unstable, boggy ground underlain with frost, hundreds of streams and rivers, and migration paths of caribou and moose. Deer and elk are also affected by the construction. Geological activity has damaged the pipeline on several occasions.[citation needed]

Since its completion in 1977, the pipeline has transported over 15 billion barrels (2.4 TL) of oil.

 

[Genedoc]

While we wait for Genedoc, I offer a whimsical interlude from a play I assume no one will select...

http://www.avenueq.com/videoclips.html

I invite you to witness the greatness of "The internet is for Porn" and offer it as explanation for the sudden disappearance of the Genedoc at the moment of his pick.

NSFW (language)

Saw it with the original cast in NYC. Great, great show.

 

[Tirnan]

While we wait for Genedoc, I offer a whimsical interlude from a play I assume no one will select...

http://www.avenueq.com/videoclips.html

I invite you to witness the greatness of "The internet is for Porn" and offer it as explanation for the sudden disappearance of the Genedoc at the moment of his pick.

NSFW (language)

I am not a fan of musicals and had to be convinced by more than a couple of people who's taste I trust to see this. Hilarious and brilliant and a must-see for anybody visiting. IIRC, the show starts with a song called "everyone's a little racist" and goes up/downhill from there.

Sesame Street was filming directly across from our apt last week and I ran over with our 2yo son to watch a little of Murray- the entire time I couldn't help but think of the depravity of Ave Q.

Other than video clips, I haven't seen it myself yet. I hear it is absolutely one of the funniest productions around. Living in Albuquerque I haven't seen it heading to a theater near me, but I keep hoping.

 

[El Floppo]

If this goes well, we should be able to drop the next 8 or nine picks fairly rapidly on the turn.

This end hasn't been holding things up.

With this pick, I'm legitimately torn. There are 6 or 7 things which all should have been taken by now, some of which are in categories I need, others not so much. Still, seeing the amazing value that Antigone and Long Day's Journey Into Night were, I've decided not to pick for team need yet and just keep hammering away where I see great value. I'll start throwing stuff in "wildcard" if I have to. That said, I'm taking another movie. It's one that shouldn't surprise any of you who've followed the draft. IMHO, it's the masterpiece of one of the greatest directors in history AND it's the masterpiece of one of the greatest actors in history. It's an unpleasant story told beautifully and frankly. Widely regarded as one of the finest films ever made. Genedoc and Bonzai are pleased to select....

21.18 - Raging Bull - Movie

This pick and this movie are ####### genius.