Today is the one week anniversary of the 2008 Academy Award nominations being announced.  The nominees for Best Picture are Milk, The Reader, Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Frost/Nixon.  I have made a tradition of watching as many of the Oscar-nominated movies before the big show as I can.  I have done a cursory look at Seattle theaters to see how to work this quest and I think it is possible.  I am talking about this here just in case other people had already started this quest and I could just hop on their train or if other people wanted to hop on my train.

Milk is playing at the Landmark Egyptian Theatre. The Reader is playing at the Landmark Harvard Exit. Slumdog Millionaire is playing at the Majestic Bay Theatre, the Landmark Harvard Exit, and the Columbia City Cinema.  Frost/Nixon is playing at the Majestic Bay Theatre, Landmark Metro Cinema, and the Regal Meridian 16.  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is playing at the Regal Meridian 16, the Landmark Neptune Theatre, and the AMC Loews Oak Tree 6.

Btw, I am Thomas and I am new here.

There are several things that I look forward to every year and I gotta tell ya, Hump! is right there at the top. Sure it may seem weird sitting around a theater with a bunch of strangers watching amateur porn (and, to be honest, it is at first) but it is also fun and often hilarious and something that is great to be a part of. Not to mention, how perfect is it that it coincides with the start of Halloween festivities this year?

Tickets went on sale this morning and as of now there are still seats at four different times on both Friday and Saturday. However, all past three Hump!s have sold out, so if you want to go, get over to Brown Paper Tickets now and reserve your spot. [bpt]

Viral marketing hits Seattle tonight. Anyone and everyone who hass been following all the viral marketing surrounding The Dark Knight, will meet at the following coordinates: 47°36’37.30″N 122°20’38.29″W at T minus 5:50 (or so), as described on this website. Word on the street is that everyone who shows up will be following clues that will lead to a preview of the as-yet unreleased trailer (read the clues: TRAIL+ER) of The Dark Knight.