Oscar noms are in:

I predict a song and dance opening number with Chris Rock arriving on a plane singing the chorus from Learn to be Lonely. After a mock crash landing he will search for Neverland, which seems to be neither in Jack Nicholson's grin nor Kate Winslet's cleavage. Rock foregoes his quest and start looking for wine instead, allthewhile a chorus of 500 hundred gospel singers hum Look to Your Path. On his way he meets a female boxer who kicks his ass but Rock, smitten, sings bits of Accidentally in Love. Finally he morphs into Ray, singing Believe and the entire segment finishes with an instrumental version of Al Otro Lado Del Rio, which, since it is in Spanish, no one can understand the words of anyway.

I actually really like Chris Rock and hope that he can make the thing take off just ever so slightly.


-- Posted something long and celebratory about Anton Corbijn yesterday which Blogger, true to nature, got rid of immediately. Suffice it to say that I am extremely fond of Corbijn whose work is almost cheesy, existing just on the right side of cliche. Watch:
Depeche Mode's Barrel of a Gun .
Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence .
David Bowie as Jesus.
Tom Waits (always).
Even the lump of (dare I say) crap that is U2's Electrical Storm is given a lovely treatment, video-wise.

Anton Corbijn. The mood-aligner.
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