The Oscars, The Yawn  

In my opinion this was a fairly boring Academy Awards ceremony. Plus I hadn't seen any of the nominated movies yet (except for Cars and Monster House...hey, I have kids) so my interest was even less vested than normal.

But when Al Gore and Leo DeCaprio got onstage and overly-congratulated each other (I thought Al may publically kiss Leo full on the mouth as he did his wife years ago), I felt like I needed a nap!




But apparently so did Jerry Seinfeld!!!
And this was only 1 hour into the program!




The Oscar choices made no sense to me. Not in the major categories (like I said, I hadn't seen any of the movies), but in the minor categories. For example, how in the hell did Happy Feet win over Cars or Monster House for best animated feature? Is it due to a 'Global Warming Left-Wing Conspiracy'? Hmm...makes you wonder...

I didn't see Happy Feet, nor do I care to, because the thought of dancing and singing penguins just doesn't appeal. But did the director have to dress like a penguin himself? He tried to be cute and cleaver, but just ended up looking silly.




Another movie which I didn't see, Pan's Labyrinth should have won for best musical score. Although I haven't seen the movie yet (but definitely want to...badly), I have listened to the music from the movie's website. In fact, you can listen to the whole soundtrack from their Flash-based player (the controls are in the upper-left of the page). One evening at the computer I set it to play in the background, and fell in love with the movie through its music. It's so haunting and magical, and stuck with me for many days after. If you want to listen to the soundtrack to Pan Labyrinth, you can open this e-card in a new browser window, and all the tracks will play (you can also select the different tracks).

posted by Kerig 5:07 PM