“I’m On A Horse.”

This is an amazing ad from Old Spice – and the best part? My man actually smells like that man.

Parisian Love – FTW!

This was by far the best commercial from the Super Bowl selection.

Crazy Good

When the trailer for Crazy Heart came out I told people that, to me, it looked like the country music version of The Wrestler. Having now seen the full movie I can say with confidence that I was right – and wrong. Crazy Heart is The Wrestler, only WAY better.*

I know that many folks really enjoyed Aronofsky’s film – I was one of them. However, now having seen a very similar story perfectly done it’s no contest. Also, Jeff Bridges should win for Best Actor in a Leading Role. There I said it…and I’m only saying that because I think Christoph Waltz may get placed in the Supporting Actor category.

Listen, you should see this movie. Not necessarily in the theaters, but someplace. A garage would do just fine. Just see it to watch Bridges in one of his best roles.

HOLY CRAP, I almost forgot. Robert Duvall! He’s SO good in this! That makes two incredible parts for him this year (his part in The Road was the best part of that movie). Duvall and Bridges fishing on the river in a beautiful scene about fatherhood and the prospect of forgiveness for an undeserving soul is gorgeous. Then Duvall sings a little tune and your heart kind of melts into this weird stew of “wow.”

I only saw The Wrestler once, and I don’t see myself watching it again – Crazy Heart though? I’m going to buy this one. And yes, Maggie Gyllenhaal is in the movie, but get over her weird baggy cheeks and watch it okay? Honestly, you can be so petty sometimes.

Sorry, that’s not much of a review, but I don’t want to spoil anything. It’s fantastic and I can’t say that enough.

*I also want to note that people are comparing this movie to Tender Mercies, but I haven’t see that (yet) and I am therefore unable to adequately comment.

Zack “Preppy” Morris Finally Released from Prison

“Michael Doulas takes time out from sucking to make a movie.” – Trainor

Wall Street 2

Rekindle the Romance – My Book Love Burns Hotter Than Ever

Back in November I attended the Web 2.0 Expo in New York, which was hosted by O’Reilly. While the event itself was very cool and informative, the best thing to come out of it didn’t happen until late last week. That was when I opened my email to discover that I had been named the winner of the Amazon Kindle – the exit survey contest prize. Nice.

I have heard of these Kindle things before, in fact, my dearest’s mother has one. At a lunch one day she showed me her Kindle and all its wondrous gifts – I was sold. However, the price deterred me and after all I did already have all of Jane Austen and Shakespeare’s works on my iPhone.

Yet when the Kindle arrived in the mail, my heart skipped a beat. I busted open the box and there it was – my new Book Monster. Folks, I’m in love. It is the most amazing little, nerdy, book magic machine ever.

When I was younger I always wanted the computer-book-technology that Penny from Inspector Gadget had. I was jealous. That chick could read things AND push buttons AND solve crimes. Dang it, why not me!? Well guess what you stupid cartoon – I CAN NOW, IN REAL LIFE EVEN.

One last thing. TechCrunch put out their Top 10 Reasons The Apple iPad Will Put Amazon’s Kindle Out of Business. To all of those reasons I say, NOPE. Sorry guys, I already have an iPhone and see no reason to spend $500 on a wider one. Every one of those 10 things you bring up is hogwash, including the “sexy” factor (#10). The Kindle can be sexy. I can throw a risqué brassiere on it and play some jazz. So come on, try a little harder than that.

I love the Kindle so hard already.

The Hard Age

Whenever I am going through a frustrating ordeal, my mother always offers the comforting phrase, “Well, it’s a hard age.” By this she means to say that being relatively young and unsure of the future can be tough.

Of course, now I realize that she says this to me (age 26), to her co-workers (34-67), to my sister and brother (32 and 22 respectively) and to her sister as well (65). While at first I was a bit troubled by the fact that she was recycling this wisdom – seemingly tailored just for me – to everyone, now I see it as being an absolute truth. It really is a hard age.

Whether you are trying to decide what to do professionally, who to love, where to live, how to live, when to retire – or whatever, it’s a hard age. My mom is going through the process now of planning her next journey. A woman who has always put her children first, she is at a point in her life when she can do things for herself – and I think that scares her. It scares all of us.

When are you supposed to just live for yourself? Not let the opinions of others sway your thinking or choices? Decide that from now on, what you do will be what makes you happy? Fuck, it’s a hard age.

On that note, I’m taking a walk down the Southern California shore today. I hear the waves are nice.

Turn Up the Volume

Sure, I’ve been posting mostly videos – whatever, what is YOUR problem?! Honestly, you take and take and take. You need to calm down, sit back and say, “hey, what have I written for Wynner lately?” While you reflect on that for a few minutes, I’d love for you to watch this other video. I found it inspirational, albeit a little corny.

What… lemme guess, you don’t like corn either. Jeeze!

A New Robo-Romance from Spike Jonze

Yesterday Spike Jonze’s first love story premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

I’m Here is a 30-minute love story about the relationship between two robots living in L.A. It looks amazing and I’m super excited about the whole affair.

I wanna be ‘buried’ in his chest hair…does that count?

So I know that it has been quite some time since I last updated. Give me a break, okay? We have all been busy with life and trips and life and things. Anyhow, here is a tasty teaser trailer that was sent to me via my Ryan.

ShowShow147: Ragemaster!

Miles and Katie wrap up the year that was (i.e. 2009)!

Download it HERE!