2008 - Academy Awards-if you can't say anything nice, blog about it...

It's easier to say nasty things than nice things. Sunday's Academy Awards show proves that. First off, this show is the same, it's always the same. It will never be any different. Hugh Jackman was the so called host, his opening musical number was lame, Anne Hathaway needs to eat some chips and dip, she looks very unhealthy. The show drags on endlessly once again. People producing this show and the Motion Picture Academy in general refuse to rethink this boredom, the endless lists of awards for technical achievements, the short films, the lame introductions are always the same. I drifted away to the computer to cruise the Internet for a while. Jackman returned with a musical number apparently staged by "Australia" director Baz Luhrmann. It's a disjointed mess, melding a piece of one song into another, vintage Luhrmann no doubt about that. Still no main awards but it's getting hard to remember at this point. The "Pineapple Express" guys showed up with a comedy bit where they play stoners watching the 2008 comedy films, they laugh their way through "The Reader", a movie I will never see and that's OK with me. They confuse "The Love Guru" with "Slumdog Millionaire", now that was funny I've seen "Slumdog Millionaire". That dead guy Heath Ledger, finally wins his Academy Award. Heath can use this award as a bargaining chip for his future salary demands or maybe not. Hopefully this will finally bury Heath. My wife and I drift off to bed, she turns on the TV in the bedroom and finishes the show. I fall asleep. When I wake up in about an hour or so, I ask her how the rest of the show went. She tells me that Kate Winslet won her award, which is only fitting, since Winslet has been kissing every person's ass that she can during awards season. My wife tells me that Sean Penn won for "Milk", apparently the Mickey Roarke road show finally came to an end, hopefully Mickey's got "The Wrestler II more wrestle" lined up. My wife tells me that "Slumdog Millionaire" won. Maybe that means that Danny Boyle can finally fix his tie and button his dress shirt, I'm puzzled why he is constantly wandering around with his tie half undone. Maybe the half undone tie symbolizes the intensity and seriousness yet lack of pretentious that he has as an artist. The next morning I wake up and realize that I haven't blogged about anything for a few days, I have a bunch of half started posts in the draft stage, I need to write something this week. I'll write about the 2008 Academy Award show, because if you can't say anything nice come hang out with me.