Okay, this one's on request...

--As verdaderra pointed out that I haven't posted for a month and since the coffee shop is going to close and kick me out soon, here goes. I'm surprised I haven't posted in about a month. I'm regular enough I guess as far as the blogiverse goes. Where did February go? How is it now March? If we're going with that question, the greater ones go"How is it almost spring and getting warmer as we speak, what did I think I was going to be when I was 36? How off was I?"
--Was watching the news and they were discussing the "Phx Lights" which are the supernatural/alien lights in Phx that may or may not be alien lights and it was the 10th anniversary of them. They were all onto the anniversary and while calculating I realized I didn't know what they were 10 years ago 'cause I was in upstate New York at the time.
--Watched the Oscars and was fairly happy all things considered. I've given up much hope for the people winning that I want to because my heart has been broken long, long ago. Around the time when Unforgiven won over The Crying Game, The Hours lost, and Fargo didn't win best picture, and so, so many other 'are you freakin' kidding me?' moments. Braveheart, Apollo 13, and others I'm forgetting. By the time Brokeback was shafted for Crash (which I hadn't seen at the time), I wasn't all that surprised that the depressing, slow-moving, Ang Lee, heavy on the scenery and the repression, movie didn't win. Okay, granted we've come a long way from Kiss of the Spider Woman and The Crying Game, but there are ways still to go. I'm still not sure which one I wanted to win last year. I was happy when Alan Arkin won, as well, I just was. I wanted Ryan Gosling to win, but didn't think he would, and was happy when Melissa Etheridge won for the best song. Not that I love her stuff unilaterally, but I wasn't crazy about the Dreamgirls stuff. The things that I liked were the foreign film montage, the Oscar they gave to Ennio Morricone, who does many great film scores, and seeing some of his stuff, and some other stuff like that. I am a sucker for a good montage. I could've lived without Eastwood trying to translate what Morricone was saying in Italian. In a morbid way, I always have to see the "In Memoriam" montage to see who died this year. (I seem to have to do this with the award shows, the Emmys and I can't remember if the Tonys does it because I've stopped watching that one.). This year was sad for me because the kid who played the Artful Dodger in Dickens' Oliver, Peter Boyle and the creator of Scooby Doo and many of the cartoons I loved as a child also died. Okay, there were others, but I'm not remembering them right now.
--I fall into the film geek of the movie soundtrack variety. The scene in Holiday where Jack Black is breaking out all the movie soundtracks, like The Mission, Gone with the Wind, and Blade Runner, at the Blockbuster for Kate Winslet who's amused. When I saw the movie, I knew all of the soundtracks he mentioned. So Morricone did the music for Cinema Paradiso and the Mission and other movies I can't think of right now. In cataloguing my music, a good chunk of it are the soundtracks, the semi-classical ones like The Hours and Howards' End and the compilations of good tunes, like Sid and Nancy and Rules of Attraction.
--And speaking of movies, while checking my movie stubs which I keep, which I know odd, I realized I haven't physically gone to a movie in the theaters since I came back from the winter holidays. And okay, for me, that's a really long time. I kept having difficulty making up my mind what to see, none of them were ever at the right time, or I wasn't in the right mood. But, that's a long time for me. I have seen movies, but I've rented them. And while we're at it, my Dvd player has decided to die, which isn't all that upsetting so much as annoying. Like it's not playing any dvds or cds. Argggh.
--That about wraps it for right now, as I've hit a pause and the other coffee shop that I'm at is about to close. But I got some stuff done. And the other post am thinking about is more involved than I've got right now.
--And as a final ender, can anyone who's a Cameron Crowe fan or who isn't can explain why Almost Famous is so good? 'Cause I like it okay, but it's not one of my faves. My attempt at explanation is it's a guy flick, late Boomer, early Gen-x movie, fanboy of 7os rock, with bad 70s moustaches. And enough with the freakin' Elton John. I love Frances MacDormand, but she's always good. I re-watched and I like it, but it's not "my movie." Maybe it's a gut 70s reaction or something.