It's Oscar night and I have a terrible rash on my balls. Both are equally as annoying and irrelevant.Weather cast reports huge smug cloud passing over the Oscars. Meanwhile in Syria. There is more plastic wrap at the Oscars then there is in my kitchen. I would rather jam pins in my eye balls than watch the Oscars.
I love movies. I prefer the ones minus the CGI. I want real acting. I want emotion. I want it to be believable. I sway towards old school. Like Jimmy Stewart, James Cagney, Jerry Lewis, Donna Reed and Bette Davis. Modern actors I like Johnny Depp, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Rachel Weisz and Kate Winslett. There is not many after that. I sway towards directors after that. Their work regardless of the actors seems to be much better. You can't have Steven Spielberg on that list. I love just about every Tim Burton movie. You can't go wrong with Martin Scorsese, John Hughes, James Cameron and Robert Zemeckis. Then we have Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Peter Jackson and Quentin Tarantino.
I separate my admiration for movie making from being one of those screaming people. I used to watch these award shows with the red carpet arrivals. I try to understand that level of fandom. I really can't. To stand there screaming at people sounding like an insane person is not on my to do list. There was only one time I ever asked for an autograph. I was eleven. It was a professional baseball player. I never did get them to sign my glove since he was mobbed by other kids. I tried. I don't remember being necessary distraught over it. Asking for autographs to me is a form of lowering yourself. That person is human just like you. I don't have this strong urge to meet anyone like that.
I do know what having one of those crushes is like. If you're a sensible person it usually passes after a while. It's a combination of someone being attractive to you both in mind and spirit during a time of your life when no one else seems real. But it's not real. This only has happened once in my life. It's embarrassing to even admit it. You don't know this person. You never met them. You've never been in their presence. They do not know you exist. You have a crush on them anyway. That kind of thing is just crazy. I've been in that mindset. When it's over you end up feeling like a loser. You'll never be there again though. I'm not the only one that this has happened to. I at least have some solace in knowing I'm not the only dork out there.
These award shows are boring. As I've grown older I began to realize there are far more important things we should be watching on TV. I either watch an hour of it if there isn't a good movie on or if there is nothing interesting on the educational channels I watch. There are a lot of atrocities going on all around the world. Spiritually I feel we should get those things in order prior to playing. The world has been playing for a long time while bad things have happened. If we can give children time outs for bad behavior why not adults? We've been bad. You could say things like this takes our minds off those things. That it's some good thing. The opposite is true. It's making us forget we have real issues that we are not fixing. An award for a actor or director doesn't solve this.
There are twenty-four hour entertainment channels. There are twenty-four hour news channels. There are twenty-four hour music channels. There are twenty-four hour educational channels. There should be twenty-four hour humanitarian channels. Heck put these actors on there to talk about the world's problems and maybe those screaming people will gain some perspective.
I love movies. I prefer the ones minus the CGI. I want real acting. I want emotion. I want it to be believable. I sway towards old school. Like Jimmy Stewart, James Cagney, Jerry Lewis, Donna Reed and Bette Davis. Modern actors I like Johnny Depp, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Rachel Weisz and Kate Winslett. There is not many after that. I sway towards directors after that. Their work regardless of the actors seems to be much better. You can't have Steven Spielberg on that list. I love just about every Tim Burton movie. You can't go wrong with Martin Scorsese, John Hughes, James Cameron and Robert Zemeckis. Then we have Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Peter Jackson and Quentin Tarantino.
I separate my admiration for movie making from being one of those screaming people. I used to watch these award shows with the red carpet arrivals. I try to understand that level of fandom. I really can't. To stand there screaming at people sounding like an insane person is not on my to do list. There was only one time I ever asked for an autograph. I was eleven. It was a professional baseball player. I never did get them to sign my glove since he was mobbed by other kids. I tried. I don't remember being necessary distraught over it. Asking for autographs to me is a form of lowering yourself. That person is human just like you. I don't have this strong urge to meet anyone like that.
I do know what having one of those crushes is like. If you're a sensible person it usually passes after a while. It's a combination of someone being attractive to you both in mind and spirit during a time of your life when no one else seems real. But it's not real. This only has happened once in my life. It's embarrassing to even admit it. You don't know this person. You never met them. You've never been in their presence. They do not know you exist. You have a crush on them anyway. That kind of thing is just crazy. I've been in that mindset. When it's over you end up feeling like a loser. You'll never be there again though. I'm not the only one that this has happened to. I at least have some solace in knowing I'm not the only dork out there.
These award shows are boring. As I've grown older I began to realize there are far more important things we should be watching on TV. I either watch an hour of it if there isn't a good movie on or if there is nothing interesting on the educational channels I watch. There are a lot of atrocities going on all around the world. Spiritually I feel we should get those things in order prior to playing. The world has been playing for a long time while bad things have happened. If we can give children time outs for bad behavior why not adults? We've been bad. You could say things like this takes our minds off those things. That it's some good thing. The opposite is true. It's making us forget we have real issues that we are not fixing. An award for a actor or director doesn't solve this.
There are twenty-four hour entertainment channels. There are twenty-four hour news channels. There are twenty-four hour music channels. There are twenty-four hour educational channels. There should be twenty-four hour humanitarian channels. Heck put these actors on there to talk about the world's problems and maybe those screaming people will gain some perspective.
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