Mar 6th, 2006
Crash and burn
Hopefully Jess and Colin are over the hump now - since getting back from Scottsdale, they’ve both been down for the count. Colin has barely been able to breathe out of his nose, and Jess, well, let’s just say Jess hasn’t felt well and leave it at that.
Made for a few fitful nights of sleep, consoling C when he just couldn’t sleep without snarfing and getting ticked off about it. Not fun. He’s a trooper though, still manages to use his secret weapon for getting attention, which has been dubbed “the cute face”.
Who knows how he learned this, probably from Jess doing it to him, but if you ask him if he’s cute (or just say the word cute), he’ll roll his eyes to the side and then slowly turn his head with a little smirk on his face - a little sly look that you can’t help but laugh about, which is exactly what he wants. We’ve got some video of it, we’ll see if we can get it up here when the redesigned site goes live.
Jess and I watched as much of the Oscars as we could stand last night - what is the difficulty in pulling that show together into a two hour package that’s enjoyable to watch? My summary:
- They didn’t let Jon Stewart loose enough, and they may have lost me for future broadcasts when they so obviously clipped the commentary he made following Dolly Parton’s song - I’m sure the comments are available somewhere, but how lame is that?
- They should move every award related to guys working with major equipment to that pre-event in Beverly Hills. Move the sound editing, move the cinematography, etc. Fill the two hours (with a hard limit) to picture, director, actor/supp, actress/supp, screenplay, song (with live performances - but without the ridiculous set pieces) and score - that’s it.
- As a first time parent, I haven’t been in a movie theater since September 2004 (holy crap, is that true?), so the only one of the best picture nominees I’d seen was Crash. It was a good movie, but I’m shocked it won - even without seeing them, I can’t imagine Capote and Walk the Line weren’t better and more original pictures. I just felt like I’d seen Crash about three times before in other movies.