
BEST PICTURE
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Tommy Lee Jones in "In the Valley of Elah" (Warner Independent)
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson’s War" (Universal)
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse)
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Amy Ryan in "Gone Baby Gone" (Miramax)
My criteria for these picks was based on me cutting and pasting all the nominations from a
list on Varietys web page and then randomly deleting 4 out of 5 of those picks.
Science!
You know , when you do a search on the internet for Awards Shows,
you find all kind of interesting stuff!
I guess you already know where I am going with this, but I highly suggest you
take a moment to see just how far the Adult Film Industry has come. ( I kill me. )
http://www.avnawards.com/index.php?content=galleries
Now I am not sure where you were on January 12th, but I was glued to the network airing
of the 25th annual AVN awards.
Let me tell you something, this is a "Classy Event" with David Navvaro and Artie Lang making guest
appearances , its downright mainstream.
There are more categories at this awards show than the Oscars by far.
The actors , actresses, producers, well just about everybody you can see in the photo's just seem
happier than the so called main stream performers at the Oscar ceremony.
As I scrolled down the winners list, I realized this is truly an ethical honest awards ceremonies where
plain old folks judge each other for there work and not for all the petty Hollywood politics.
Who could argue that the awards were given where due when you glance at just a small
few winners from the list...
Who could argue this one?
| Best Fem-Dom Strap-On Release | |
| Title | Babes Ballin' Boys 17 |
| Company | Pleasure Productions |
| Best Sex Scene in a Foreign-Shot Production | |
| Actor(s) | Gianna, Vanessa Hill, Sarah James, Marsha Lord, Poppy Morgan, Kelly Stafford, Jazz Duro, Omar Galanti, Kid Jamaica & Joachim Kessef |
| Title | Furious Fuckers Final Race |
| Company | Rocco Siffredi/Evil Angel |
| Hall of Fame | |
| Actor | Brittany Andrews |
| Actor | Jay Ashley |
| Actor | Skye Blue |
| Actor | Jake Jacobs |
| Actor | Angel Kelly |
| Actor | Dyanna Lauren |
| Actor | Michael Raven |
| Actor | Raylene |
| Actor | Ruby |
| Actor | Alexandra Silk |
| Actor | Angela Summers |
| Actor | Tasha Voux |

Well, its day three since the shoulder surgery. At last count I have slept maybe 6 hours since I woke up
after surgery on Wednesday.
Not sure why I am reacting this way to meds, but the fun part of the fabled "Oxy" buzz we hear so much
about is long over and now I am just down right giving myself the creeps.
Last night when I finally thought I could get a couple winks in around midnight, I immediately got the bed
spins and then fell into a semi sleep / hallucinatory state where I think I had portaled my self into one of the
worst all time low budget horror flicks from the 1970’s , "Let's Scare Jessica to Death," that my wife and
I had watched a couple weeks ago. My nightmare was much scarier than the actual movie and involved me
being chased by Sony Bono and Robert Goulet whom had whisked me off to an abandoned farm in the
Catskills where they dressed me up in a mini skirt with high black gogo boots and made me stand on a
coffee table and repeatedly sing and dance "These boots were made for walking" by Nancy Sinatra.
It was awful.
The shear terror propelled me out of the nether world and back to an all nighter with the remote,
that concluded with the sequel to Saturday Night Fever, " Stayin’ Alive", now I know why
John Travolta was virtually invisible for the next ten years, wow, what a career wrecker that film was.
Anyhow, I had the 7 am kickoff of fishing shows to now look forward to.
If you were not aware, the 2008 Bass Masters kicked off yesterday and ESPN is there to capture all the glory.
The leader board looked like this at the end of yesterday, with New Jerseys own at the forefront. Go Mike!
Michael Iaconelli: 22 pounds
Scott Rook: 21 pounds, 10 ounces
Charlie Hartley: 20 pounds, 3 ounces
Terry Scroggins: 18 pounds
Kevin VanDam: 17 pounds, 8 ounces
Cliff Pace: 17 pounds
Alton Jones: 15 pounds, 6 ounces
Aaron Martens: 15 pounds, 2 ounces
Kotaro Kiriyama: 14 pounds, 8 ounces
Kelly Jordon: 14 pounds, 8 ounces
Dave Wolak: 14 pounds, 8 ounces
Then something occurred to me!
Who gives a shit!
The bass masters is truly where life imitates art if you consider Will Farrell movies ( that I love) art.
You heard it here first but 5 will get you 10 that sooner or later there will be a movie parodying the
"Bass Masters" counter culture, and it will star Will Farrell and Ben Stiller or any of the shameless
comedians from that genre’ that I have grown to admire and respect.
Lets ask a question to the programming guys at all the outdoorsy TV stations.
What the fuck?
I get it your in the business of selling advertising. I can respect that. The Bass guys spend big bucks,
as do the offshore anglers and the Hunters, but whats happening to fly fishing on TV?
Every week I get to watch Chris and Melissa Fischer and their awesome life and chef living the dream,
however, its very clear they really are into to snorkeling and spear fishing. I mean how much of the crap
is really selling in the outdoors market? Yes, Melissa is cute and a good sport, but she’s not that hot to keep
the show running all these years, I just don’t get it.
So back to fly fishing shows. There has been no shortage of them, but there has definitely been a
downward trend towards regular programming. A new show comes on; its great, and then you never see it again.
Now there is a trend of E Zines and Fly Fishing videos on the net. They are great, but the reality is,
I want to sit in my lazy boy and watch it on TV.
So here it is, Fly Fishing advertisers, help me, please!
Pick a show any show, sponsor it, lock in a time and count your money.
Sure fly fisherman are fickle, but we are still in the big picture just as vulnerable to the secret brain waves broadcast
through TV advertising.
Please, please, please save Saturday and Sunday morning.
Hey I have to go, the gang from Laugh In are at the front door and we are all going to Denny’s for breakfast,
and I need to snort another Vicodin.
Ralph
Well, yesterdays surgery went well...
I was under the knife for about 2.5 hours, and apparently got more than I bargained for.
Aside from removing an odd shaped bone spur they also repaired some cartilage tear that was not anticipated,
so recovery is going to take a little longer than I anticipated.
Bone Spur....
Regardless, I was in recovery room for a couple more hours, shamelessly eating pound cake and
cheesy crackers to my hearts delight, and was sent packing with my Oxy script and made haste to the CVS.
We all know last night was the well anticipated lunar eclipse, something I have been anxious to see.
Luckily for me pain killers have a Paradoxical effect and totally wire me.
So me and some post surgical buddies took a walk up to the top of the reservation to try and film the eclipse.
I have an awful camera that was useless, but i did get about an hour of video.
Since I am wired and a one arm bandit I did the best I could to edit this down to about 5 minutes, including
all my new hippie friends who were also up there to howl at the moon.
I was going to do the cliché mix with Dark Side of the Moon dubbed in , but I'm just to lazy.
I have included a moon song list, you can do it yourselves!
Ralph
pick a song, any song ....
When you get caught between the moon and
Moondance
Dark side of the moon
Moonshadow
Moonriver
Shine On Harvest Moon
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Bad moon rising
Harvest moon
Mad man moon
Man on the moon
Moonchild
Moonlight mile
Mountains of the moon
Picasso moon
Yellow moon
Standing on the moon
Walking on the moon
Shoot down the moon
Mr. Moonlight
Moonchild
Children of the moon
Bark at the moon
Bad side of the moon
Fly me to the moon
Moonlight serenade



