Ceetar

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: A lot of them sound intriguing. The Girl Directed and written by David Riker (USA, Mexico)�World Premiere From the director of La Ciudad comes this moving drama about a single mother (Abbie Cornish) caught in emotional quicksand after losing her job and custody of her son. Desperate to earn cash for her custody battle, she makes the daring choice to help smuggle illegal immigrants over the border. A deep connection to a young Mexican girl will take her on a life-changing journey and force her to confront her past. In English, Spanish with subtitles. This one sounds like Frozen River South. Well, the world's full of repeated ideas. That one any good?

They seem to have released someof the movies. Some of them look interesting. First Winter Directed and written by Benjamin Dickinson (USA)�World Premiere In this extraordinary debut feature, a blackout of apocalyptic proportions strands a group of Brooklyn hipsters in a remote country farmhouse with no heat and no electricity during the coldest winter on record. At first, it�s all sex and drugs and acoustic guitars. But as the days go on and the food supply dwindles, struggles of power, jealousy, and desire threaten the group�s ability to work together in order to survive. The Girl Directed and written by David Riker (USA, Mexico)�World Premiere From the director of La Ciudad comes this moving drama about a single mother (Abbie Cornish) caught in emotional quicksand after losing her job and custody of her son. Desperate to earn cash for her custody battle, she makes the daring choice to help smuggle illegal immigrants over the border. A deep connection to a young Mexican girl will take her on a life-changing journey and force her to confront her past. In English, Spanish with subtitles. Postcards From the Zoo (Kebun Binatang) Directed by Edwin, written by Edwin, Daud Sumolang, and Titien Wattimena (Indonesia)�North American Premiere Acclaimed Chinese-Indonesian director Edwin (Blind Pig Who Wants To Fly) returns with a gorgeous, dreamlike fairy tale set inside Jakarta�s wondrous Ragunan Zoo. Abandoned in the zoo as a little girl and raised among the wild menagerie, Lana finally embarks outside the peculiar confines she has always known�and into the seedier side of Jakarta�when she falls in love with a charming magician. In Indonesian with subtitles. Death of a Superhero Directed by Ian Fitzgibbon, written by Anthony McCarten (Ireland, Germany)�U.S. Premiere, Narrative Donald is a teenager with extraordinary talents, wild daydreams, and a bright future as an artist of fantastical graphic novels. But when Donald discovers that a very real enemy is trying to kill him, an unorthodox psychologist tries to help him find the light in an otherwise dark world. Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Andy Serkis star in this exceptionally honest drama about discovering life, love, and death. A Tribeca Film release. This one may be misleading.. I can't tell. The Fourth Dimension Directed by Harmony Korine, Alexey Fedorchenko, and Jan Kwiecinski, written by Harmony Korine, Alexey Fedorchenko, Jan Kwiecinski, Oleg Loevsky, and Yaroslava Pulinovich (USA, Poland, Russia)�World Premiere, Narrative A motivational speaker named Val Kilmer (played by Val Kilmer) delivers a sermon at a roller rink. A Russian scientist builds a time machine in his apartment. Four friends stumble upon an abandoned village in the Polish countryside. All are in search of the fourth dimension�whether they know it or not. Weird, ominous, cool, compelling: These three short films could only be inspired by the creative vision of Harmony Korine and Vice Media�s Eddy Moretti. In English, Polish, Russian with subtitles. Francophrenia (or: Don�t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is) Directed by Ian Olds and James Franco, written by Ian Olds and Paul Felten (USA)�North American Premiere, Narrative James Franco stunned the film world when he committed to a regular gig on General Hospital, but the Oscar�-nominated actor had a clever trick up his sleeve. While shooting a key GH episode, Franco brought along a film crew. TFF award winner Ian Olds (Fixer, 2009) then repurposed Franco�s behind-the-scenes footage into an experimental psychological thriller set amid the spectacle of a celebrity�s escalating paranoia, creating a mind-bending exploration of identity. Rubberneck Directed by Alex Karpovsky, written by Alex Karpovsky and Garth Donovan (USA)�World Premiere, Narrative Months after a one-night-stand-gone-nowhere with a sexy coworker, sad-sack Boston scientist Paul still finds himself increasingly consumed with obsessive thoughts toward his uninterested colleague. As his impulses become increasingly irresistible, and the repercussions of his actions snowball, the tension mounts. Indie stalwart Alex Karpovsky directs this slow-burn psychosexual character study. This one's topical for most of you. Town of Runners Directed by Jerry Rothwell (UK)�World Premiere, Documentary Over the past two decades the small, rural Ethiopian town of Bekoji has been the unlikely home to numerous Olympic champion long-distance runners, whose athletic success has paved the way for a generation of young Ethiopians searching for a better future. With a keen artistic eye, TFF award winner Jerry Rothwell (Donor Unknown) follows two teenage track hopefuls who face the challenge of growing up and striving for greatness in a developing nation. In Amharic, Oromo with subtitles.

we got any more fence-sitters? we've got 9, so one more to even it out would be nice (although it's not head to head so it don't matter real much, 9 is rather poetic)

bmfc1 wrote: I'm in so long as the draft isn't the 23d or 24th. You threw me with the thread title. I think we're almost settled on 3/22 at 8:30

Ceetar wrote: http://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/209/home is the league home page. the password is Hietpas http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hietpjo01.shtml

Worst comes to worst I'm sure a twitter begging would get us one or two more. Anyway, anyone want to 'practice' and fill out my other team for me on Saturday 3/10 at like 5?

I don't think we need 12, although I don't see any clear indication either way. Go ahead, invite them. Sell them on 3/22 though.

8:30 start a problem for anyone else? Do we want to put a end/postpone time on it if we're not done, or push through until we have ~30 players? Mon 3/12 and Thursday 3/22 so far are the days we're all free (though someone still missing)

think max is 12 anyway, although I fail to see why it can't go to 30 other than no one really wants to have to draft Willie Harris. There were more than 6 of us here that wanted in right? *pokes around* hey you! Let's give them a couple more days/this week to sign up, then we'll fill out the league with outsiders (And maybe convert them to insiders?) Do we want to target a draft day one night during the week of March 12-16th? say..the 15th at 8pm? or how about this: http://www.doodle.com/xp637kg2xn65mnn3 I blocked off the two workweeks in mid-march, maybe we can find a time we're all free?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I think Twitter made it look worse because 3/4 of the jokes made online are funnier than anything-- ANYTHING-- they put on screen last night (and honestly, AMPAS and NARAS and the NFL should thank GOD that Twitter and real-time social-networking exist-- they're the only reason live-televised events still draw decent ratings). The truly shocking thing about his Sammy Davis impression isn't that it was in blackface-- it's that he was aiming to get laughs with a SAMMY DAVIS JR. impression. I'm pretty sure I heard a J. Edgar Hoover drag joke in there, too. Put another way: when you start longingly wondering what a post-1980s Eddie Murphy and Brett F*cking Ratner would've done with this show, you know you're watching something poorly conceived. oh, not just this one. Things that I think are at least passingly interesting get routinely slaughtered on Twitter. It's like amateur hour. There seems to be this sense of obligation to these events that don't exist any more. Many people watching (me included, although if my wife didn't put it on, i wouldn't have) hadn't even seen half the movies. Maybe I'm just a curmudgeon, but I imagine it stems from the people interested in a particular part of a show aren't tweeting about it, they're watching, and the people that don't find it interesting use that time to complain.

metirish wrote: Billy Ctystal in black-face and then Octavia Spencer winning was inspired....... awful show made tolerable by having a laugh on twitter....the sound was awful too, what was up with that ABC? I think Twitter made it worse, though I couldn't stay way. In fact, I have yet to come across any 'popular' TV event that's not routinely sarcastically criticized on Twitter.

metsmarathon wrote: we getting any more teams? scheduling wise, i can basically do any night after the first week of march, except the 14th, 20th and 21st. the first week of march, i'm a single parent. the other three days are for volleyball playoffs. We've got..6. yeah, would like 2 more at least. 8 is a round number right? Were there others of you that are joining that haven't yet? Also if someone wants to get a feel for the draft, I sorta accidentally claimed a team in another league that has a couple of players already, but I probably can't make their draft so if someone wanted to get a feel for it, and do me a favor..

themetfairy wrote: OMG - this Cirque du Soleil production is horrendous! 100 times better than Criss Angel: Believe. just saying.

attgig wrote: when are you guys drafting? I may be in depending on your schedule. I just got too much going on in my life and a draft coming up this week. I return Friday from the city of sin and can focus a bit more. what draft dates are good for people? I'm fond of a weekday night personally, less likely to have major offline-engagements. 7ish? 8ish?

metsmarathon wrote: mind if i invite a buddy of mine into the league? this is right up his alley, and it seems like we might need the help getting a decent number of teams. he's a cards fan, but we shouldn't hold it against him too much. Doesn't bother me. Should have plenty of room I imagine, although I haven't looked closely at how many we have since I'm on Vacation.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I changed my team name. I wasn't prepared to name the team when registering and so looked at the beer I was having and wrote "complex ale" right off the label. Team is now the Greenpoint Lunchladies. We will serve you a platter of nutritious asskick. heavy helping of mystery meat?

Fman99 wrote: Maybe I'm just intoxicated but hell. I've dated women less complicated than this draft/league. well yeah, the more complicated ones cost more than $9.99

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: OK, I'm in too. Took a while to find where I could sign up. Yeah, guess you have to have a fangraphs account too, and then join Otto Neu?

http://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/209/home is the league home page. the password is Hietpas http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hietpjo01.shtml

Nymr83 wrote: ok, i'm as long as its on a night where i can make it to the auction. We all do have to make it, otherwise it doesn't quite work. So that should be no problem.

metsmarathon wrote: i think the point of that is not necessarily to give the boot to your best player, but perhaps your most underpaid player. if you have albert pujols for $1, we're probably gonna vote him off. but if you have him for $100, well, if that's how you wanna spend your cap space, who are we to argue? i like it, especially for the first year as we try to figure things out. besides, maybe we'll all be gentlemanly, and vote for noone, or agree in advance to vote for noone, and if anybody violates it, then we shun them and give 'em the stinkeye. We certainly have like 11 months to decide on that.

Can that "feature" be turned off? I don't like the idea of the league forcing you to drop your best player No, unless we trusted all owners to vote 'no one'. It's supposed to maintain competitive balance. You do get a $5 discount on this player though, a hometown discount. If you successfully re-win the player at auction, you get him for $5 less than you paid. This is a post about the auction draft: http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/index.php/ottoneu-how-to-the-auction-draft/ Basically take turns nominating a guy, 15 seconds for everyone else to change the bid and reset the 15 seconds.

Nymr83 wrote: Prefer 5x5 over 4x4... No thanks on the more complicated system mentioned above. If I can see how my players did by looking at the box score on my phone I'm likely to be less interested as the year goes on. I'm firmly a "maybe" at this point... Waiting to see what the draft situation (logistics) will be and the keeper rules. If no keepers we should just go back for another season of yahoo instead of everyone creating an account and having a new website to check Can keep as many guys as you want. Can cut guys for free in the offseason. I believe you also lose one player that gets voted off your team by the other owners.

metsmarathon wrote: i think the auction is tied to the league. while that's a novel concept, it would only work with either a custom application, or an offline draft. yeah, tied to the league. We can pick a time and if people need to bail we can always suspend and pick it up another day. We do all have to get legal rosters through the draft I believe, but we can fill out the ends via free agency bidding, which is basically the same auction/bidding logic just drawn out over 2 days allowing other owners to outbid you. I'll set up the 4x4 tonight/tomorrow, and we can see if we need to add a couple of teams and pick a draft date.

Vic Sage wrote: can't we limit draft to a 25 man roster? Not 25, since you need 23 for a valid roster. But we can probably stick to 30ish and fill out the other 10 with prospects via free agency/waiver stuff since it'd probably be a waste of time to bid against each other for the legacy/minors guys. There is no automated part of it, you nominate the guy you want and then everyone has a chance to outbid you for him. I imagine this process will take longer than your typical Yahoo type fantasy draft, but I've never done it before So I don't know. Presumably the first couple of rounds will take a while as more people will raise the prices on the stars. d. A team's starting lineup consists of two catcher slots, one slot at each infield position (first base, second base, third base, and shortstop), five outfielder slot, one additional middle infielder (second base or shortstop) slot, one additional hitter from any position (utility slot), five starting pitcher slots, and five relief pitcher slots.