So, Sid, my good friend and consistent bad influence has asked me to help him get an album cover for a band he knows. The cover involves boats, alcohol, and snow, so naturally he thought of me. However, I haven't been able to find a good source of empty liquor bottles that look appropriately ancient, so I've spent the night watching the Academy awards and trying my hardest to finish three pints of potent potables.
I love the Oscars. Its a personality flaw I'm sure, but I love watching brilliant talented people get recognized for their efforts. Its a pretty rare Oscar night that doesn't find me crying at least a half-dozen times. It was great to see recognition finally for Ennio Moriconne, Marty Scorsese and Helen MIiren. An d it was kind of great to see Peter O' Toole (for my money, the greatest actor of the last 50 years, excepting maybe Brando) get screwed yet again, as there's something beautiful about seeing the most brilliant be denied year after year. (Which isn't to say Forest Whittaker doesn't deserve it, but O' Toole has consistently been incredible with the misfortune of being put up against, Gregory Peck in "Mockingbird", De NIro in "Raging Bull", Kingsley in "Gandhi", Brando in "The Godfather", and John Wayne 30 years after his first nomination in "True Grit". Can't a guy get a break? )
Anyway, as usual I enjoyed the show (not the preshow I hate that red carpet bullshit) and seeing incredible people get told they're incredible and make really bad speeches. At the moment however, my glass is still full and I'm only 1 1/2 pints in, so I'll say good night to all, and a special wish for Peter O' Toole that maybe next year or the year after will finally be his year.
..."and trying my hardest to finish three pints of potent potables."
SOME PEOPLE might produce a picture of empty alcoholic bottles by buying full bottles, pouring their contents into temporary, alternative vessels, take the pictures, reunite potable and bottle, and consume at a reasonable and safe rate.
SOME PEOPLE might... I don't know who they are... not me, I like your approach.
Anyway, is there going to be an entry about the newest Red Wings players or should I muse about it here? I really am of two minds about the situation.
Oh, and yeah, TAKE THAT, Peter O'Toole! you greatest-living-actor-legend bastard! No award for you! Give them all to that American Idol person, because you stink! Lifetime acheiveent award? Are you kidding me?! LIFETIME ACHEIVEMENT AWARD?!? No fucking way! The year YOU get nominated a lifetime acheivement award, they'll ditch the category completely and give your statue to "From Justin to Kelly" as the retroactive Best Picture award that it so richly deserves!
It's the little things like "potent potables" that make me smile and glad that I watched SNL when it was good.
Yeah, that emptying them into another container is *totally* cheating. What the hell is wrong with SOME PEOPLE, anyway?
I was just thinking this morning that I would like to write about the Wings trading for Satan. (And I don't mean Miroslav). So yeah, I'll write something up and you can add your feelings there.