Finally a BEST SONG I can relate to!
Returning to health is STILL happening, but enough about the bronchitis excitement (or non excitement), I woke this morning to a world that ACTUALLY awarded two artists I adore for a song I totally love--Falling Slowly won the Academy Award--holy crap!
I had about five friends say to me, "Have you seen Once yet? I thought of you." I finally did see it about a month ago, and yeah, it was so right up my alley and close to my heart, and I loved that it was totally LOW FI. I think Glen Hasnard is just awesome. So I downloaded some of the songs and about 2 weeks ago was listening to the soundtrack when I got Two e-mails within TEN minutes from friends across teh country who said, "I saw this movie this weekend, and I thought of you--have you seen it, it's called ONCE." I was like, I am LISTENING to the music right now, people! GEEZ!
I don't have a TV and the Oscar night is the only time I miss it. I went over to a friends' house last year, and I was shocked ALL OVER AGAIN by the two BORING HOURS that happens between the awards I care about. One of the things that I can always bet on post Oscars is that I will be mad about some award given to somebody, and that I won't care at all who got Best Song, because usually they SUCK or seem some weird backlash to AM radio. I remember The Good Will Hunting/Titanic year, and seeing Elliott Smith take a bow holding hands with Celine Dion, and it was just SO FUNNY. The man didn't BELONG there. He was a guitar toting sensitive punk rocker and he didn't DO costume changes like Celine or the often nominated Brian Adams. So, I am SO HAPPY that "Falling Slowly" was even nominated because it is a beautiful song that required two real indie artists and the fact that they WON just makes me beside myself.
Yay independent musicians--God Bless you! Keep wearing the same clothes! Keep writing those beautiful acoustic gems! Keep TRYING! We need you!
posted by Summer Pierre at
4:51 PM
3 Comments:
YEA! :)
I went to an Oscar party last night but went mostly for the people; as much as I like movies, I usually find the Oscars painfully boring.
At 9:30 - just an hour in - I was about cooked, but I wanted to see these two perform (i loved the flic), so I stuck it out a while. At 10, I gave up and headed for home, missing them on the drive. But YOU (yahoo), YOU found it on YouTube and you posted it so I got to see it anyway! How fab! :) (so damn glad when i heard that they won - did you see their acceptance speeches in the 'related clips' section on youtube? "make art; make art!" just brilliant ...)
:)
I remember reading an article where Glen Hansard talked about how annoyed he was about how popular The Commitments became because it was taking him away from his music - I thought that was one of the greatest things I had ever heard. He liked being in the movie but it seemed like when it was done, he was done and wanted to get back to his band. I was really happy to see that he was in another movie though.
*melanie from www.meli-mello.com
I saw Once, too, and it is absolutely wonderful and one of my kind of movies. I was so thrilled that they won Best Song. I was even more elated when Jon Stewart let (please forgive me, I can't spell her name) Mgirl :/ come back out and give her speech. Which was heartfelt and fantastic.
I'm also really happy about Diablo (sp?) winning best writer/screenplay for Juno. It was a great movie with an adorable soundtrack (check it out if you haven't already).
Those were pretty much the only two awards I care about. ;)
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