It's a wonderful night for Oscar (PM)

Well, you've heard K's thoughts on a bunch of movies she hasn't seen, I'm pretty sure you don't need to hear mine. I will say I would really like to see Birdman and Boyhood. But I haven't seen either. I'm not much interested in most of the other nominated films because I expect they would largely bore me. I don't know if it is that movies have gotten shit or that the reality of life after 35.5 years has numbed me to their effect but I can barely remember the last time a film really blew my mind, let alone made me blow my wad. I have actually seen The Grand Budapest Hotel. It was pretty good, but nothing was blown as a result. It was no Royal Tenenbaums. Me, I guess I'd like Boyhood to win too, just last night I was thinking about how I can't wait for Baby to be old enough to enjoy School of Rock and thinking about how Richard Linklater has made some really good films. And I spent so many minutes in my youth thinking about how cool it would be for a movie to be made the way Boyhood was, the same people over a long time. But, obviously I haven't seen it so who am I to say what should win.

Sure, I'll watch the Oscars. You know I love NPH. And I love a hunk. And a pretty dress.

I guess Oscar night is about hopes and dreams. (Or so I can imagine some idiot saying.) I have hopes and dreams. Hope that the presenter list will be full of hunks. Dreams that some day a movie will make me feel something again. And that one day someone will  look as beautiful as Michelle Williams did that year in the yellow dress. You know, like K said.

Friday Favourites (PM)

And don't forget all those song and dance numbers he does at award shows. Those are great.

Personally, I find How I met your mother so shit that even if they replaced the cast with Ewan MacGregor, Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen, etc. etc. etc., I would still hate watching it, when I inevitably tuned in to watch it every night, then flicked over to GO or whatever to watch digital repeats of it.
Notwithstanding this dislike of NPH's show, I appreciate him and I appreciate that you love him enough to make How I met your mother work for you, Mate.


And in much the same way that J's favourite thing about Barbra Streisand is how much I love her, personally I really love how much J loves NPH.


I realised the depth of her love just the other day when I used the hash tag #? in an email. 
I used it because I felt that it really expressed what I wanted to say, and I thought she would find it amusing. Little did I know that NPH had used this hash tag one time, and J had found it deadset hilarious. I just thought it was an amusing hash tag!
She replied with something along the lines of
"hey, great use of the NPH hash tag, I'm totally going to write a Friday Favourites about him".




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Friday Favourites: Neil Patrick Harris (AM)

So, it's Friday and I thought I would celebrate with a Friday Favourite! Today the lucky guy is Neil Patrick Harris. I don't know why, but I just really dig this guy. Let's try and figure out why.

Firstly, dude played Doogie Howser. Lesser men would not have recovered from such a youth, but this guy, he doesn't seem broken by it at all.

Secondly, @ActuallyNPH does the most adorable tweets. This is kind of embarrassing to admit, but when I was having a really terrible week recently NPH’s tweets really cheered me up. I mean, check them out:

Also, the guy makes How I Met Your Mother, an otherwise kind of nauseating show, kind of watchable. So watchable I once spent a strange Saturday watching it back to back for about 7 hours. I guess I was in a pretty weird place back then. Sure, I like Jason Segel as much as the next person, but NPH is what really works on that show. The only thing really. God, Allison Hannigan, why couldn’t you just stay Willow forever?!

Which of course brings me to Dr Horrible’s Sing Along Blog.  NPH meets Joss Wheedon meets the Internet. What a beautiful ménage à trois !

All these are fine reasons I guess, but really I think that when it comes down to it, Neil Patrick Harris just has a certain je ne sais quoi. And that's why he is totally my Friday Favourite for today.