seems i messed up when posting yesterday, but that's all fixed now

if there's one thing the oscars deserve credit for, it's definitely how good they are at being boring. i mean, at least it helps that that all the important categories are stacked towards the end, so i know i won't miss much if i tune in late. as far as winners and losers go, it was disappointing. i mean sure there were people who won that deserved to win. jordan peele won best director for get out, which felt a lot like a congratulatory prize for not winning best picture. ladybird was snubbed completely, which left me feeling a bit empty. it's a beautiful coming of age film that brought me closer to tears than call me by your name. i connected to that movie far more than i thought i would. granted, i was expecting it to be good, it was far better than i thought. timothee didn't win best actor, which i'm fine with because i'm not a particularly big fan of his. the shape of water won best picture, which was a susprise to me because i had predicted the darkest hour to win. regardless, that movie was a safer choice than get out. which is funny to think that a movie about a woman falling in love with a fish is more oscar-worthy than a girl's coming of age story, or gay love, or an excellent thriller about systematic oppression of black people, but hey, what do i know, i'm not an acdemy voter. (and i never saw the shape of water)

i just don't think fish can consent. plus the lady keeps the fish-man in her bathtub, which is a very iffy thing to do. like, why weren't more people upset about that? there's all this anger surround putting a large dolphin in a large pool, but a fish-man in a bathtub is romantic and oscar-worthy? gotta thank Guillermo for his contribution to this. now i can see the hypocrisy in every animal activist. i can't be fooled. thanks, del toro. thanks, mexico

speaking of mexico, coco won best animated film. it beat out the boss baby for that distinction, but i want it to be clear, that the boss baby will never be stripped of its academy award nomination. never. years from now, when anyone refers to the boss baby, it will always be, the academy award nominated film, the boss baby. i liked coco. i recently watched it a second time. i cried some more. but i do not think the main song, remember me, was the best original song. it was better than most of the other songs except for one. sufjan stevens was robbed

i was prepared to celebrate sufjan stevens. hell, in his performace earlier in the night, i not only cried a bit, but that brief flash of emotion in an otherwise stale event illuminated my night. thank you sufjan. and, though i was upset that he did not win best original song for mystery of love (and, yes, mystery of love is better than visions of Ggideon) i know that sufjan does not need an oscar to be a great musician. he's never needed awards. any of them. because he does it from the heart, and that's all i need to say about it right now. i do not feel like emptying out my emotions for him and his music. sure the distinction would have sit nicely next to his name, but sufjan is obviously someone who cares more about people and music, than superficial awards. that's all i feel that i need to say in this blog post. goodbye