Nor-Easter and the Oscars
We're havin' one of those again. It's not as good as the one we had 12 or 13 years ago, actually it's no where near the equal of that one. This one got a lil' breezy and we got allot of rain, but that's been it. It did make it interesting to have going on while watching the Oscars last night.
I am pretty happy over all on who won. The only movie nominee I've seen was Ray, so now I'm going to have to watch all the others to see why they deserved the nominations.
I LOVED listening to Carlos Santana playing, The womens dresses were outstanding this year, for once no one looked like they were trying to attend nude, and they forgot to mention the death of Sandra Dee last night - whats up with that? With Chris Rock hosting, I was kinda expecting him to rough the place up, you know how he is, but he kept it tame which was good sort of, but Robin Williams coming out with tape on his mouth summed it up for us didn't he? The censors made the Oscars seem too toned down and lame... BUT Hillary Swanks and Jamie Fox's speeches were the best. They sounded very real and less like Hollywood.
It's funny how people who grew up on the outside of that place get sucked in so fast. So it's nice to see some people hold onto the realness of living. If you don't know what I mean here is an example... someone you grew up with or went to school with moves there, you either visit them or they visit you and the first thing you notice about them is their speach. They will use all the 'cool' words as if they were still in high school but add big words like a college graduate to sound more educated at the same time - this sounds so phony. The next thing you might notice is their self importance. You ask them how they are and they will spend 30 minutes telling you every detail, but forget to ask you how you are. Or how their neices/nephews are. Then they will spend 10 minutes trying to figure out what to drink on finding out the place your at doesn't carry their favorite water. And then the real kicker is how they speak to the employees... At this point, I usually just want to leave.
Having grown up in California, I can say this - there is a difference between Northern Ca and Southern Ca... and S. Ca can drop off into the ocean for all I care. It can take all the shallow people with it and please leave behind the ones who remember where they came from, and who cared about them along the way and all the tough jobs they worked to get where they are and how it felt to have a snob talk down to them. Those are the people that would best represent the rest of this country.
When the speaches got too long or too corny I went to the porch for a smoke and watched the toned down and lame Nor-Easter, life imitating Hollywood for once..
I am pretty happy over all on who won. The only movie nominee I've seen was Ray, so now I'm going to have to watch all the others to see why they deserved the nominations.
I LOVED listening to Carlos Santana playing, The womens dresses were outstanding this year, for once no one looked like they were trying to attend nude, and they forgot to mention the death of Sandra Dee last night - whats up with that? With Chris Rock hosting, I was kinda expecting him to rough the place up, you know how he is, but he kept it tame which was good sort of, but Robin Williams coming out with tape on his mouth summed it up for us didn't he? The censors made the Oscars seem too toned down and lame... BUT Hillary Swanks and Jamie Fox's speeches were the best. They sounded very real and less like Hollywood.
It's funny how people who grew up on the outside of that place get sucked in so fast. So it's nice to see some people hold onto the realness of living. If you don't know what I mean here is an example... someone you grew up with or went to school with moves there, you either visit them or they visit you and the first thing you notice about them is their speach. They will use all the 'cool' words as if they were still in high school but add big words like a college graduate to sound more educated at the same time - this sounds so phony. The next thing you might notice is their self importance. You ask them how they are and they will spend 30 minutes telling you every detail, but forget to ask you how you are. Or how their neices/nephews are. Then they will spend 10 minutes trying to figure out what to drink on finding out the place your at doesn't carry their favorite water. And then the real kicker is how they speak to the employees... At this point, I usually just want to leave.
Having grown up in California, I can say this - there is a difference between Northern Ca and Southern Ca... and S. Ca can drop off into the ocean for all I care. It can take all the shallow people with it and please leave behind the ones who remember where they came from, and who cared about them along the way and all the tough jobs they worked to get where they are and how it felt to have a snob talk down to them. Those are the people that would best represent the rest of this country.
When the speaches got too long or too corny I went to the porch for a smoke and watched the toned down and lame Nor-Easter, life imitating Hollywood for once..
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