Monday, February 25, 2008

Falling Slowly

Here is the clip of this beautiful song that won Best Original Score. The lyrics (below) are poignant to me today.



I don't know you
But I want you
All the more for that
Words fall through me
And always fool me
And I can't react
And games that never amount
To more than they're meant
Will play themselves out

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you have a choice
You've made it now

Falling slowly, eyes that know me
And I can't go back
Moods that take me and erase me
And I'm painted black
You have suffered enough
And warred with yourself
It's time that you won

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you had a choice
You've made it now

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you had a choice
You've made it now
Falling slowly sing your melody
I'll sing along

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Academy Awards Recap

Well, the Oscar party (read: Ann and Brad go to the Stahleys and watch it on their new giant TV) just got done and I decided to recap because I took some notes of highlights. This is my attempt to emulate IBBB (see "Celebrity..."link at right).

*Note 1: this is significant that I am doing this because my spacebar is busted and sometimes i have to hit it several times for it to work. iMac, here I come.
*Note 2: SPOILER ALERT. Ifyou don't want to know winners,stop reading.

Red carpet highlight: Gary Busey accosts Jennifer Garner and she doesn't even try to hide her fear. It was a mix of crazy + I want to be sure to get on camera.

John Stewart is ALWAYS funny. He's still my original Jewish boyfriend.

I love that Enchanted had 3 nominations and they reenacted them. The Amy Adams performance (of the3)was the best, mainly because she was so good in the film.

We learned that celebs have wrinkles and Brad is not the only person in the world with crows feet(ok, HE learned).

The food was tasty: wraps, pizza, raspberry tart, fruit and cheese plate, chocolates, and spaghetti squash, which Brad said was too crunchy.

My favorite of the night: my NEW Jewish boyfriend Seth Rogen and his mini-me Jonah something-of-other are introduced as Halle Berry and Dame Judy Dench and spend their monologue arguing over which of them is more Halle-like. They are funny and the clip will make my blog if it ends up on YouTube.

Javier Barden wins best supporting actor, the first of several wins for the film, and I am thankful that I saw it. He was REALLY good.

We play a new game called "Seen It". It is similar to the shout-out-the-name-during-the-montage game. They showed every film that won best picture and we yelled "Seen it"if we had seen it, "Own It"if we own it, and a few times we added "LOVEd IT". It was funny.

John Stewart is funny. It's like he has a hidden camera in our place. After the film editing award,he says "Someone just took the lead on their Oscar pool based on a guess." Funny thing is: I had actually seen the movie and knew it would win.

Once: I liked this movie, Brad and Nic did not (in fact, hated it). I LOVED the main song and thought it would win. After mocking the song, Brad and Bill did NOT get a point for picking a winner--I did: it won best original score. The girl didn't get to share her speech so they let her come back after the commercial to say live your dreams, this is for all of the independent artists and musicians. It was sweet.

Final highlight:as expected, Diablo Cody won for her screenplay for Juno. I wish Ellen Page had won best actress but knew that was a long shot, so at least the woman who created the character Juno won. And her acceptance speech was sweet.

It was all anticlimactic from there. No Country for Old Men won everything, and it deserved it. And I vowed to watch more movies this coming year because I had barely seen anything up for awards this year.

**I am going to kill my spacebar.**

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

another video

One of my coworkers just shared this with me. Apparently my training was a little earlier than this clip and they've been watching it in coach training around here. It's way funny.

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Saturday, February 02, 2008

ok, ok, ok

turbotax/intuit may have just redeemed themselves with good customer service and refunding me. next weekend (after getting my refund) i will try a new option.

i just wanted to know TODAY if i am going to have to pay in to help me decide if i can buy some new boots. i'm going to buy the boots anyway because i have had ocd about them for 4 days.

problem solved.

Friday, February 01, 2008

ugh

i really hate technology. i hate doing taxes and i'm way stressed about doing them with this condo purchase on this year's return. so tonight i decide to just do it now and get it done and i decide to buy turbotax, which i have used EVERY YEAR for the past 4 years. on my mac. no problems. so i go to open the little icon after buying and downloading the software and it tells me "system incompatible". after scouring the turbotax website, i discover they require mac os 10.4 or newer. well, i HAVE THAT, i just can't effing install it on my computer because my computer has no memory because it's old. grr. so i'm waiting for an e-mail back to see if i'm going to be charged the $45. i'm tired of online software ordering being tricky with the buyer and hiding the software requirements. this could be $200 now that i've basically thrown away. sure, i should've looked for the details, but i've never had any problems before so i wouldn't think this year would be any different. you'd think they'd post it if there are any limitations...that's the kind of service they provide, USUALLY. that's why i keep going back.

i'm going to chose to be completely irrational and blame this on george bush...it has to do with my taxes, which have to do with him. it will make me feel better if i can blame this on him. :)