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Haven't said anything on the travesty that was the Oscars last night because I haven't had a chance, not to mention was too pissed off last night. I was at work for the entire thing, so had to watch it while attempting to serve people pizza. When they announced the best picture, the customer at the counter, my co-worker and I just stood there and stared in shock and horror at the screen. Of all the things I expected to happen last night, that was the last thing on my mind. I've heard little really good about Crash; some say it's 'thought provoking', most say it's heavy handed, flashy, and makes you feel good about doing your 'moral duty' by thinking about 'deep issues' like racism. Not to say that racism isn't an important issue, of course, but from what I gather the movie hits you over the head with a proverbial mallet to tell you that racism! is! bad! Evidently telling the audience exactly what to think is preferable to subtlety these days.

This article sums it up nicely:

http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/turan/cl-et-notebook6mar06,0,7860992.story?coll=cl-turan

Still can't quite believe it. I was pretty much certain that BBM would win, but even if it didn't I wouldn't have been quite as pissed if a movie I've heard is any good had won. I might see Crash on DVD, just so I can say with some personal experience that it didn't deserve to win... And I still want to see Capote and Good Night and Good Luck, which from what I hear are both far more deserving than Crash. Someday I'll have seen all 5 Best Picture nominees before the Oscars... though after this year I've gotta say I'm pretty disillusioned with the Academy.

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The Ultimate LiveJournal Obsession Test
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MemeSheepage	31.58% Easily amused	27.9%
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Bahaha. Pretty accurate. XD Especially the "easily amused" part.

I've been ridiculously lazy today. Haven't done any work on the essay I planned to have done by Wednesday. Did finally watch the Fullmetal Alchemist movie, though. It was nice to finally see what happened after the series finale, even though I haven't been a fan in monthes... thinking I should def re-read and catch up on the manga sometime, prob over summer. Did little else... went out for dinner because our living room/kitchen reeks of popcorn and I wanted to gag whenever I went in there... so no cooking for me tonight. Yes, I hate popcorn. I'm a strange person. *hangs head* I don't even mind the taste so much, in small doses, but I don't like the smell. After yet another dinner at Pie R (after having had 2 pieces of pizza yesterday while on shift...), went to the library and attempted to work on essay for about half an hour before rainbowpegacorn called and I thought "hell with it, the library's closing in an hour anyway so I'm going back to my dorm." Have spent the hour since I got back doing the meme above, and looking for cheap Farscape DVD sets. They're $150+ CDN at Futureshop/Amazon/etc, but I can get them pretty cheap on Ebay, even new ones (there were several ~$80 CDN Buy It Now auctions). $80 is steepish for a DVD set (Buffy and Angel ones go for ~$60, for example), but it's not outrageous like $150. I remember the Babylon 5 ones were about that price in stores... Anyway, not going to buy them anytime soon, but it's nice to know that the option is there if I ever want to.

Goblet of Fire tomorrow! ^__^ Going with rainbowpegacorn downtown tomorrow (yeah, yeah, I know I should be writing my essay... shaddup) to buy it, either at Futureshop or Chapters (I have a gift card at Chapters, so it really depends on the price... I have several things I may use that gift card for). Defintely getting the 2-disc version, of course, although it's more expensive. Seems ridiculous that they're releasing 2 separate versions.. usually there's only one or the other, and I think the other HP DVDs were 2 discs though I'd have to check.

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Totally pointless post:

Bwahahaha.

Drunk Jake post-Oscars. How adorable and hilarious is he?? Made me feel somewhat better after last night. XD