WEEKEND RECAP: On Friday and Saturday the evenings, I talked with friends at two East Village bars very close to my home. During the days I enjoyed the sun in Tompkins Square Park. Today’s photo was ably snapped by Colleen while she, Walker, Lauren and I watched the Oscars. I mostly did the puzzle while it was on, but I did sit up and take notice for certain pairs of things. The rest of the thoughts today are based on our reaction to the show.<\/p>\n
The Oscars are the most overblown self-righteous, self-congratulatory, and self-centered piece of shit of which we watch every minute. If they could make it worse, we would probably tape it and rewatch immediately afterward.<\/p>\n
“Best Supporting Actress is the only way fat girls can win awards,” commented someone in the room.<\/p>\n
Every time “Chicago” would win, they would replay that g**d*** “All that Jazz” song and it became unbearable almost immediately. Musicals would be wonderful if not for all the f***ing singing.<\/p>\n
Like a newborn puppy, Renee Zellweger cannot open her eyes. And she’s beat.<\/p>\n
Eminem won the award for coolest guy by not performing his nominated song, not even showing up, and then winning. I could have been second coolest by not watching.<\/p>\n
Jennifer Connolly is the most beautiful woman in Hollywood today. <\/p>\n
Things that sucked: The condescending way that Susan Sarandon says anything, actors who refer to themselves as “artists”, Barbara Streisand, and industry jokes.<\/p>\n
And finally, not to toot my own horn which is something I’m loathe to do, but we each made picks before the show started and the winner was me. I correctly predicted best director, actor, and actress—all pulled from my ass because I don’t watch films until they make it to HBO. My prize was a hearty handshake and a pat on the butt by the door as I departed.
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WEEKEND RECAP: On Friday and Saturday the evenings, I talked with friends at two East Village bars very close to my home. During the days I enjoyed the sun in Tompkins Square Park. Today’s photo was ably snapped by Colleen while she, Walker, Lauren and I watched the Oscars. I mostly did the puzzle while it was on, but I did sit up and take notice for certain pairs of things. The rest of the thoughts today are based on our reaction to the show.
\nThe Oscars are the most overblown self-righteous, self-congratulatory, and self-centered piece of shit of which we watch every minute. If they could make it worse, we would probably tape it and rewatch immediately afterward.<\/p>\n
“Best Supporting Actress is the only way fat girls can win awards,” commented someone in the room.<\/p>\n
Every time “Chicago” would win, they would replay that g**d*** “All that Jazz” song and it became unbearable almost immediately. Musicals would be wonderful if not for all the f***ing singing.<\/p>\n
Like a newborn puppy, Renee Zellweger cannot open her eyes. And she’s beat.<\/p>\n
Eminem won the award for coolest guy by not performing his nominated song, not even showing up, and then winning. I could have been second coolest by not watching.<\/p>\n
Jennifer Connolly is the most beautiful woman in Hollywood today. <\/p>\n
Things that sucked: The condescending way that Susan Sarandon says anything, actors who refer to themselves as “artists”, Barbara Streisand, and industry jokes.<\/p>\n
And finally, not to toot my own horn which is something I’m loathe to do, but we each made picks before the show started and the winner was me. I correctly predicted best director, actor, and actress—all pulled from my ass because I don’t watch films until they make it to HBO. My prize was a hearty handshake and a pat on the butt by the door as I departed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}