Tap In!

Oh, the Oscars. We hosted a small soiree and I even provided a prize for the person with the most correct answers out of the six main categories. I think more time was given to eating and critiquing the fairly boring costumery--I think Mme. Cotillard looked fabulous, but I do have a soft spot for brunettes with pale skin who can rock a red lipstick. I wasn't crazy about the Jennifer Garner extravaganza where, I swear, she was interviewed six different times on the red carpet--but I was amused to find out she was pawed by Gary Busey! That's so 1980s Oscar-antics.

But on to the movies--I was thrilled that the Coen Bros. won, as I think "No Country for Old Men" was one of the best movies I've seen in a very long time. The bleakness, the dark humor, the cinematography, the bowl cut--I can't say enough. So many people have asked me if it would be "too violent," and that's a hard question to answer. I think of it as more Hitchcock than Scorcese in terms of violence, but I tend to view "very violent" as gory, baseball bat beating, slasher films, violence against women, creepy David Fincher/David Cronenberg brutality. Not the swift clean violence of a good Coen Bros. flick. Also, the "Once" performance was so sweet and I nearly got choked up listening to the Irish-accented acceptance speech. It is rare I miss Dublin, but that film and those characters definitely made me long for the long rainy walks and kind-hearted Irish fellows.

In other news, we have fully "tapped in" to The Wire and I can't say enough about it. It is honestly, the best show I've ever seen on television. Like "The Godfather" but with more gritty realistic characters--and, dark gallows humor to boot. I'm sad it's in the final season, but alas, in the immortal words of Pony Boy vis a vis Robert Frost, "nothing gold can stay."