Week Dos

"Let's go eat a goddamn snack."
Rex Ryan

2-2 (+1 unit)
Minnesota Vikings vs. Miami Dolphins OVER 39 (2 units)
Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Tennesee Titans Titans-5 *
Philadelphia Eagles vs. Detroit Lions Eagles -6 (1 unit)
Houston Texans vs. Washington Redskins Texans -3 (1 unit)
New England Patriots vs. New York Jets Patriots -3 *
New York Giants vs. Indianappolis Colts Colts -5 **
New Orleans Saints vs. San Francisco 49ers Saints -5 (1 unit)

* Alternate picks
** Pick if either the Patriots or Titans covers

Watched: Chloe

Monday Night

"Dude, you have no Qur'an."
-Jacob Isom

2-1 (+2 units)

San Diego Chargers vs. Kansas City Chiefs Chargers -4 (1 unit)

Watched: Salesman

Week Uno

"A man has always got to get it up, and love sometimes isn't enough."
-Norman Mailer

Picking against the spread last season, I went 29-20-2. The season starts tonight but I don't have any bets until Sunday.

Green Bay Packers vs. Philadelphia Eagles Packers -3 (2 units)
New England Patriots vs. Cincinatti Bengals OVER 45 (1 unit)
Indianapolis Colts vs. Houston Texans -2.5 (1 unit)

Watched: Suspect

July

"My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity."
-Davud Lynch

Aside from working on the shoot this past month, I found the time to got to the 9:30 club with superpodcaster Jerry Dennis to see She & Him, take my father out for Birthday drinks at O'Connells, catch up with Eddie about his sobriety and take a spin in his new car, get drinks at the Flying Fish with friend and producer Chris Kiros and talk about film sets and getting older, stay out all night drinking at a club where they check you for guns and then barely make it to set the next morning, smoked some good pot and drank a handle of vodka, got a tattoo on a dare, had a great dinner with my father and his girlfriend in Georgetown, rode on the back of a Vespa, watched the 4th Season of Lost, took advantage of Hard Times free billiards until 5PM, illegally transported cigarettes across state lines, called into the 4 Horsemen podcast to talk about the shoot, and lost hundreds of dollars on Street Fighter IV. All in all, it was a pretty good month.

Watched: Inception

Celtic Pride

"And I beseech you,
Wrest once the law to your authority,
To do a great right, do a little wrong,
And curb this cruel devil of his will."
-Merchant of Venice

Basketball season ended earlier tonight with the Lakers defeating the Celtics 83-79. The Celtics were kind enough to lose within the 7 point spread. Usually when I take the points on a team I secretly wish for them to lose or else I feel foolish that I didn't take them straight up with odds (almost 3-1 in this instance). But tonight I badly wanted them to trounce the Lakers. Just like I wanted the Phillies to trounce the Yankees in the World Series last year.

I rushed home to watch them lose a squeaker after seeing Al Pacino play Shylock in Merchant of Venice in Central Park.

With money in my sportsbook account and no football until September, I have resorted to betting on the USA - Slovenia soccer game in the morning.

Watched: Re-Animator

Game 82

"Nobody's looking for a puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate."
-Being John Malkovich

Tonight is the final game of the NBA regular season.

NBA Picks

New York Knicks vs. Toronto Raptors Raptors -7.5
Chicago Bulls vs. Charlotte Bobcats Bulls -1.5
Utah Jazz vs. Phoenix Suns Suns +6

Watched: We Live In Public

The Long Good Friday

"I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it, but now that dream is over and the insect is awake."
-The Fly

12 hours at the bar yesterday. Haven't made any picks since going 0-8 one weekend in February . I won't be watching the games tonight. Instead I'm going to make linguine with Amy and watch Zombieland on Bluray.

NCAA FINAL FOUR PICKS

Duke vs. West Virginia Duke -2.5
Michigan State vs. Butler Michigan State +1.5

Watched: Greenberg