And I love it when the music gets hopeful. : )

The world in 3-D is pretty damn fantastic after 33 years of everything looking flat : ). I should have gone to see “Avatar”.

I nearly didn’t go myself for much the same reason. But I thought it would be worth it to see the 3-D and I have to admit, it was. I’ve seen a number of 3-D films and this was the first that didn’t give me a headache. Visually, it was a stunning piece of work. I would have been just as happy had it been a travelogue of an imagined world without the hackneyed plot.

I am so bad on this, actually, that I couldn’t even tell you which award is for what medium — TV or movie, etc. I do know that I hoped that ‘The Lovely Bones’ would get an award of some kind because I really enjoyed it. It totally defied what I thought it was going to be, which was cool. Additionally, Peter Jackson has a sopooky way of taking almost exactly what is in my mind in terms of visual imagery and projecting it onto the screen. The surreal imagery in ‘The Lovely Bones’ is what my mind looks like all the time. It was fun to see it on screen.

My magic for today was that I wasn’t told that I didn’t look disabled when I asked for a wheelchair to get from my doctor’s end of the hospital to the lab at the other end of the hospital. I think this is a testament to how utterly crappy I look today : P.

I can’t wait for your award night. Clue me in so I know when to watch. : )

Congratulations to K. Bigelow–that’s another door that has been kicked down.

I had a large moment a couple of years ago when a play of mine was produced in a city not far from where I live. This event taught me a lot about what artistic success means. Opening night, parents were there. They were happy and somewhat proud, Especially my dad. On the other hand, my partner of ten plus years threw a tantrum in the car on the way home.

When someone takes home the statue, there is so much we don’t see.

And yes, yay for Kathryn Bigelow.

I cannot tell you how relieved I am that “Avatar” didn’t win. It’s even better than a relatively “small” picture beat it out, which tells me that storytelling is still more important than glitz. Even better that a “groundbreaking technological achievement” was beaten out by a groundbreaking human achievement.

One day an SF film will win the big awards, but I truly hope it will be a real science fiction work, with a heart and a mind, and not some big budget eye-fest written by twelve monkeys with a Cliffs Note and twenty typewriters. I really enjoyed “Avatar” while watching it. Later, I thought it was crap. I imagine a lot of people did. That’s not good SF.

But wonderful news for Kathryn Bigelow. Kudos.

And one day, m’dear, you’ll be up there all sentimental and thanking people and holding a little statue with a lot of meaning. It will happen.

And I also found her comments re violence interesting because I really don’t completely understand people’s enjoyment of it.