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The never-ending conversation on life, liberty, and sequential art…

…with Shawn Levasseur.

Archive for February, 2004

More music.

Posted on February 29th, 2004 by Shawn L.

Right now “A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow” is being performed. This must be the first time in Oscar history that a song is being performed in character. (ooh wait, I forgot about the opening number in “Beauty and the Beast” which I believe was a practice run in the preparation of the […]

Soundtracks…

Posted on February 29th, 2004 by Shawn L.

Howard Shore won “Best Score” for Return of the King. I recongized more of the names in this category, in no small part to the fact that on my XM radio, I’m always listening to the “Cinemagic” channel, which always shows the composer’s names on the display along with the film titles. This is the […]

“In memoriam…”

Posted on February 29th, 2004 by Shawn L.

Now there’s the annual roll call of those who passed on since last Oscars… I didn’t know Michael Jeter had passed on, or that Buddy Hacket was dead for real this time (there was a sitcom that made a joke about a mistaken report of his death, they ended the show with a “in memory […]

Documentaries…

Posted on February 29th, 2004 by Shawn L.

The closest thing to a Fuyvish Finkel award nominee goes to the guy who just accepted for “Fog of War”. “I’d like to thank the Academy for finally recognising my films!”. The political statement I think took it out of the running for the Finkel award. But considering the film this award went to, it […]

Sarcasm mode ON

Posted on February 29th, 2004 by Shawn L.

Every techichal award “Lord of the Rings” has been up for, it has won…. The acting must have stunk because no actors were nominated… Sarcasm mode OFF

“Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses…”

Posted on February 29th, 2004 by Shawn L.

I disagree… Wow.. Those glasses Liv Tyler put on to read the teleprompter… I don’t know why, but they made her look hotter… Note about last year’s Oscars. The one nominated song that wasn’t performed was Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”. And it won… I feel they should have found someone to perform it, even if Eminiem […]

Huh???

Posted on February 29th, 2004 by Shawn L.

Okay…. Does anyone know why Tom Hanks was intoduced to “Hail to the Chief”??? Great tribute to Bob Hope. My favorite line of his about Oscar night, “… or as it’s known in my house… Passover.”

We interrupt this Oscar blogcast….

Posted on February 29th, 2004 by Shawn L.

To note that I’ve gotten my 500th hit !!! Thats… what 5 seconds of traffic for instapundit…

Oscar blogging…

Posted on February 29th, 2004 by Shawn L.

More Pete Rose jokes that don’t get a laugh… Don’t these people ever watch ESPN???

Oscar blogging…

Posted on February 29th, 2004 by Shawn L.

Best joke in the opening film that didn’t get a laugh… (Sword to his throat) “I admit I bet on baseball!!!”

Oscar Blogcast 2004

Posted on February 29th, 2004 by Shawn L.

I’ll be blogging the Oscars tonight… Making snide commentary when (in-)appropriate. I could make “my predictions”, but EVERYONE does that… I’d probably end up just regurgitating the “conventional wisdom”. I entered into ABC’s online contest, but I threw in a few longshots that I don’t think will win, but could be plausible upsets, and make […]

RSS Newsfeeds… making subscription easy…

Posted on February 22nd, 2004 by Shawn L.

From Jeff Jarvis’ BuzzMachine Dave Winer spoke at Microsoft a week ago and he was asked what he wants the IE group to do. From Joshua Allen’s notes:A: Two main things: 1) Make it easy to subscribe to a feed with a single click, regardless of users choice of aggregated. Needs browser support, cooperation of […]