I watched the Oscars last night as I do every year. I’ve seen so few movies that there was only one of all the movies nominated for anything that I had seen: Once, nominated for best song. Because I hadn’t followed all the nomination hype I had’nt even known it was up for it. Then I got giddy because itwas so remarkable. So I sat with both toes and fingerse crossed hopinng they would win (and then I changed that to hoping that none of those dreadful songs from Everlasting won (ugh, all totally packaged those pieces) because I didn’t want to be wishing against the cute 11 ear old involved in the other song.) Anyway, I was thrilled for them when they won.
If you haven’t seen Once, go and rent it. It’s is a lovely little film, very low budget, but all the yearning and confusion are so well done. After I’d seen it I wanted to invite the characters over for coffee to find out what they were up to, but seeing the musicians/actors from the film singing one of the many songs from it was and winning the Oscar was almost as good.
fyI: the backspace key on my home computer is broken so if some of t my typing over the next few weeks is abysmal, that is why. Just can’t get the same flow when you have to go back, highlight & delete.
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