Oscars

25Feb08

I’m no oscar buff.  I like to think of myself as well versed in films, but that’s generally limited to a bunch of movies no one else really likes, those weird twisted ones that never even get close to nominated (how’d they pass up Sunshine for…. I don’t know, any category.  It was super awesome.)  I did not seeing Atonement, I’ve never heard of the Diving Bell and the Butterfly, didn’t get a chance to see There Will Be Blood, and everyone who liked The Golden Compass must have been high, which makes sense.  Jon Stewart was no Billy Crystal.  There’s probably no one else right now that would be a better choice than Jon Stewart, but still.  That was as lame as the Daily Show is getting.  Which writers are back? Cause As much as I didn’t want to see “Enchanted” before, after listening to every fucking song from it performed on stage, I want to see it a thousand times less.  Don’t care that I’m not target audience: annoying is annoying.   On the music front, though, The Swell Season performed their hit song “Falling Slowly” from “Once” and was AWESOME.  They rock, especially Glen Hansard with his shitty, old ass guitar.  So good.  To think like a year ago NO one knew who those guys were.   The performance from Autumn Rush, “Raise It Up” was super awesome, enough to make me want to see the movie.  I don’t know her name, so forgive me, but that little girl was outstanding. Good for Juno for winning best screenplay.  Even as a strictly heterosexual male (despite rumors), I really enjoyed that movie.  And I feel like that will surely make Kimya Dawson (half of The Moldy Peaches) at least partially famous. Hey and I actually saw the big winner of the night, No Country For Old Men.  Still don’t get the title.  That was the right pick.  It was such a great, vicious movie. And that was the Oscars.  I do like the little clips they do of past winners before each award, and like every other year, that was probably the highlight of this years. Real quickly though:  Didn’t Superbad come out during 2007?  I mean, come on!         

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