THAT WAS ACTING. THANK YOU.

So continuing its destiny of one day becoming universally accepted as one of our country's only legitimate news sources, The Daily Show this week was invited to sit in on its first official White House press briefing.

As CNN's Political Ticker reported Wednesday, the Daily Show's John Oliver is on his way to the White House:

The White House briefing room is getting a visit from the Daily Show Wednesday. Correspondent John Oliver is speaking with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and several members of the press corps at the White House for an upcoming segment for the Comedy Central show.
The Washington Times' Jon Ward was there for Oliver's appearance, and has the details:

As we sat in the White House briefing room waiting for Robert Gibbs to emerge and begin the daily briefing, John Oliver stood in the back of the packed room against a wall on the left side and pretended to fall asleep or nod off while the Daily Show cameraman taped him from across the room. I wonder if that will be cut into their package and shown as if he is doing that while Gibbs is answering questions.

Fierce.

In equally exciting news, the trailer for what I have long been anticipating, Tarantino's latest venture, Inglorious Basterds, has already made its way to the interwebs and I couldn't be more stoked to see the final product start to come together.

August seems so far away...


So we finally made it to Coraline the other night.. (Lesson learned, to avoid the masses, and bridge and tunnel mobs of children, go to the Arclight on a weeknight as opposed to The Grove on a Saturday afternoon of opening weekend..)

It's tempting to go on for hours about the profound experience I had watching this special, timely piece of cinema.  And while those who are unfamiliar with the source material (Neil Gaiman's brilliant graphic novel) may be a little jarred at first by the world of this film and while the last act may hit a few pacing problems, the overall intent of Coraline proves uniquely profound and special. I can feel myself about to go off on this but I will leave that to those who've already astutely chimed in. Go see this movie, now.  (A-)

So I'm counting the days to this weekend.  Valentine's Day should be nice, we're doing a trip up to Santa Barbara on Sunday to see my girl Sam and the rest is up to us ;)