Shooting at Little Gold Men

Postatem obscuri lateris nescitis.
"You do not know the power of the Dark
Side." There are two possibilities: you
are a Star Wars geek, or you are unreasoningly
scary.


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[blame delicarose]
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Now, I didn't watch the Oscars, mostly because I don't care - my movie consumption has dropped from 20 flicks a year to 3-4. From the secondhand coverage I've gotten from all of y'all's comments (especially yours, trystbat). . .

I'm inclined to agree most with whippingboy: "It's bullshit." Rather than be honest about the quality of the first two LotR movies and give them whatever awards they earned on their own merit, they were shafted. The first one could concievably have been chalked up to "fantasy prejudice," but once the second one was as well. . . let's just say this year was anything but a surprise. . . and a whole bucket of "lifetime achievement" awards for the series being heaped on the final installation, worthy or not, essentially kicked other movies who might legitimately had a chance to the curb.

Whoever the jackasses in charge of the awards are, you made it a perfect no-win situation for anyone: give the whole load to RotK because you knew it was coming and the other movies had merit but had been stiffed, even if it wasn't deserving (thereby making this year's show a race for second place), or not give it all the awards if there was a better movie than RotK -in the last year- and thereby metaphorically negate this huge undertaking, which has fans in a justifiable tizzy over its wonderfulness.

Maybe because I don't like Tolkien's writing, I am incapable of seeing these films as a symbol of something larger or more poignant. They. Are. Movies. Great movies, to be certain. Which is still like saying you're the richest Canadian, or something.

We want to stop reading magazines,
Stop watching TV,
Stop caring about hollywood. . .

You are more than the sum of what you consume.
Desire is not an occupation.
You are alternately thrilled and desperate;
Skyhigh and fucked.
Let's stop praying for someone
To save us and start saving ourselves.
Let's stop this and start over.
Let's go out. Let's keep going.
- KMFDM, "Dogma"

Dammit, I had been in a pretty good mood. . .

The other guy came in and did some stuff over the weekend (because, shock of shocks, you can actually work without interruption when the boss is not here) and left it for me to compile. fine. so he tells the boss he's done this, who then wants to talk it to death. . . while i'm trying to do it.

how about, i fucking -do- it and give you a printout you can actually look at and ignore, instead of you keeping me from getting anything done.

and maybe, when someone else opens your mouth, they're actually communicating with you. . . "you have multiple copies of these magazines why?" is not directed at -me-, just because everyone in the office is standing around my fucking desk.