The Top 10 coolest alcoholics on television

Whenever I think that I should drink less alcohol, or maybe even stop drinking at all, being the television junkie that I am I immediately think about all those characters who make drinking look so cool on some of my most beloved shows. It's true, these people are so cool and popular, so funny and sympathetic, because they drink and are very nonchalant about it. They influenced and encouraged me in a bad way with their weekly antics over the years. But this should not be read as denying responsibility for my own actions please. But it really feels right to, with my first real entry after more than a year, - by keeping in mind the dangers and often sad realities of drinking at the same time - nethertheless honour all those loveable heavy drinkers on my favourite shows,

The Top 10 coolest alcoholic characters on television 

Honorable Mentions

I have been planning to do this list, and who would be in it and who in which spot, for at least two and a half years, so the honorable mentions are characters who didn't make the list because I had never watched their respective series when I first composed the list (but now I have). But they are definitely good enough that they would deserve a spot.

1. Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) on "Game of Thrones" 

Everybody's favourite dwarf - actually everybody's favourite character on the show - is almost always seen with a glass, bottle or animal hide full of (Dornish) wine in his hands when he's not whoring. Or when he's whoring. As always, I'm a little bit different than everybody else and he's not my absolute favourite character of all of them in the show. He didn't mean that much to me in Season 1, but by Season 3 he had grown on me. Anyway, this little drunk has the sharpest wit in the Seven Kingdoms, he speaks the truth when others don't dare, and he really likes to party. What could possibly be wrong with that?

Enough with Oscar guessing and Happy Birthday wishing - let's get to the good stuff!

The title says it all. I've started this blog in 2014, and last year I was not very active. My last posts were all Oscar and Golden Globes guessing, and I announced to write about how I did in guessing later - which I never did, there is no point to doing it now (for last season!), and there was not really much of a point to planning to do it in the first place.

I want to give this blog another try though, and I really want to find my own voice for it. There is one post I'll be doing soon that I've been planning to do for some time. Guessing Oscars and celebrating celebrities' birthdays... that's something everyone can do, and many people do it better than I. I guess that's the reason why I did it... and then I didn't do it anymore.

PS: I also write reviews on letterboxd, if you're interested, please click the link to my profile there on the sidebar.

Oscar night is about to begin...

...and I still haven't analyzed how I did on my nomination predictions, and not even how I did on my Golden Globe nomination predictions. I'd still have one or two things to say about either, but should I really still do it?

Anyway, in a little more than two hours the Oscar show with Barney Stinson himself will start (no, I do know Neil Patrick Harris is more than just that. That e.g. he has hosted the Emmys how many times)... oh, that makes me realize, I'll have to charge my iPhone, because I need to check Twitter for comments about the show all night long, as I did the last years since I registered with Twitter.

But I'm getting digressed: I just guessed the winner for all 24 categories, which I used to always do in private back when IMDb still had that ballot to fill out online and print, but this year it seems there not having it. I did it anyway, though I have absolutely no idea to be honest in most of the "less important" category, and I want to make it public, so here goes:

Last minute Oscar nomination predictions

I never find time for this blog, I've been planning to write a recap on how I did with the Golden Globe nomination predictions, and which ones surprise me and so forth, and another article I've been planning for ages, but I don't come around.

Meanwhile the Golden Globes have been given out, but I still will comment on the outcome later, together with the outcome of today then.

Because today is Oscar nomination "morning" (well, it will be afternoon where I live, hence the quotation marks.

Predicting the winners would be easy in the six categories I really care to think about. There is really only one real question mark, which is Best Actor. I can perceive both Michael Keaton and Eddie Redmayne as the most likely winner.

This year's Golden Globe winners for Best Actor - Comedy/Musical and Best Actor - Drama (pictured above) both seem to have a really good shot at the Oscar.

Predicting the nominees seems a lot tougher, at least if you don't want to go with the most likely and unimaginative lineups by default for the acting categories. I hate to go with these, though it seems between 1-3 of them always turn out like this in the end.

So without anymore rambling, here are my predictions. I will honour my guesses who will and won't translate to the Oscars that I included in my Globe predictions, though in some cases I think otherwise. I will add a small note when that's the case.

Last minute Golden Globe predictions

I'm a sucker for awards season, though the prediction game is always really tough for me. Most of the time, I haven't even seen any of the movies that will win nominations yet - it's the same this year. This is in part due to some of the movies not coming to the theatre before the Oscars are over here in Germany, and in part due to me not going to the movie theatre nearly as often as I would like to. I most regret not seeing "Gone Girl", because it really sounds like a great suspenseful movie that I could totally love from what I've heard. Therefore I will include a picture of this film, just to make the post more colorful.

Another reason is that I don't experience any of the buzz, campaigning etc. first hand, like people living in the US seem to do. So all I can rely on is what I read on websites dedicated to the subjects. Still, normally I kind of get drawn in early on, but this year I resisted to get involved the least bit, and just read the guesses on my favorite blog from time to time.

But now, with the Golden Globe nominations only a few hours away, I can't resist anymore.

The Golden Globes are extremely tricky, with the Comedy/Musical categories, because some of the movies that will land here eventually are not in the awards conversation at all before. With the limited exposure to the conversation and to some of the movies, there is also a danger that I put the movies or actors in the wrong category in my guesses. But they are also extreme fun, because sometimes the Globes nominate people that the Oscars would never nominate.

So enough babbling already, here are my rather uneducated last minute guesses:

Chloe Moretz on "My Name Is Earl"

It must have been years since I first saw an episode of "My Name Is Earl". I've seen many episodes, I've watched it almost regularly for some periods, then not for some time, never anything close to religiously. But there definitely is something to it. Chloe Moretz arguably started becoming a bit of a household name for me even before I've seen the movie that made her immortal in pop culture, "Kick-Ass",  which finally signed the deal for me, but probably long after my first round of watching "Earl" quasi regularly. When I started to really kind of get into Chloe, post Kick-Ass, checking out a couple of movies more or less because of her, I noticed that appearently she also was in an episode of that show. I've seen some episodes occasionally since then, but never got around to see the one with her. Lately, there are re-runs of the first season again in my country, and appearently her episode is in the first season, and damnit! I already missed it, it seems!

So one of these days, I decided to search for it on the internet, and there I got the answer to the big question that I had never actually asked: what could ever be cuter than Chloë Grace Moretz? (If you should doubt that she is that cute, and/or consider it weird that I dedicate a whole post on my blog to her cuteness, please check out this guy's posts on IMDb...) The answer is of course: A very young, super-cute, pre-teen Chloë Grace Moretz! Check out all her scenes in the aforementioned "My Name Is Earl" episode in the link below (underneath the cute pic), and tell me that she isn't totally adorable!

http://vimeo.com/36339526

R.I.P. Robin Williams (1951-2014)

It's 0:40 a.m. on the 13th of August where I am as I start writing this [it's actually 9:08 p.m. now that I'm finally posting it, as I just couldn't f**king manage to get the "Posterized" part right last night, and finally did go to sleep much too late out of frustration], and I really should be going to sleep, as I have to work tomorrow (well, today, actually), but even if I don't know if anyone reads my blog - and I am still too shy to actually try anything to promote it - I feel it has to be today.

Robin Williams died on August 11th, but due to time lag, it was already August 12th here when I heard it, around 7:30 a.m. when I was driving to work this morning. It is still hard to believe that he is dead, but that will change within a few days.

Whenever a celebrity dies, other celebrities, friends, former co-workers, or just attention whores, will point out what a kind person the deceased was. It's nice though, when they have a little story to tell for evidence.