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Taking the night off

By February 22, 2009January 12th, 20267 Comments

I rather like the world-weariness with which Jeffrey Wells announces “I’ll be live blog­ging the Oscars along with every­one else.” Sure, go ahead, be one of the sheep. As for myself, I will not be doing any such thing. I live-blogged the Oscars last year, and the year before that, and I had fun, and thought I did a pretty good job…ah, but you see, the oper­at­ive word there is “job.” No one is actu­ally pay­ing me to live-blog the Oscars this year; hence, I can go back to my stand­ard oper­at­ing pro­ced­ure of attend­ing the Oscar din­ner party thrown by our good friends K. and P., where, instead of rudely hunch­ing over a laptop, I’ll relax and make wise­cracks at the TV, which is what people did before live-blogging, or twit­ter­ing, or what have you. I cer­tainly hope that all my vir­tu­al friends out there have some real humans to hang with for this entirely trivi­al but poten­tially not-unamusing event. I shall per­haps do some sort of post-mortem tomor­row. Have fun!

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7 Comments

  • markj says:
    February 22, 2009 at 11:47 am

    Have a fun time Glenn. I don’t have much interest in who wins this year. I still don’t get the fuss about Slumdog Millionaire. Would be nice to see Rourke go home with the gold though.

  • Owain Wilson says:
    February 22, 2009 at 11:53 am

    This year, like every oth­er year, me and my pals will be stay­ing up very late (or very early) to watch the Oscars. Here in the UK it begins at 1am and fin­ishes around 5am, and for us it’s this late-nightness which gives the event a cer­tain spe­cial something.
    We love to heckle the win­ners and writhe in agony at the accept­ance speeches, but there’s no irony in this house. The fact is, we love the damn thing – every awful/fantastic minute.
    I’ve heard that there’s some kind of inter­act­ive ele­ment involving the nom­in­ees. I have a sus­pi­cion that they’ll be dragged into some kind of big music­al num­ber, or some­thing equally hor­ri­fy­ing. Oh God, I can­’t wait.

  • Glenn Kenny says:
    February 22, 2009 at 12:14 pm

    @Owain: I’d love to watch the Oscars from the U.K., or Paris, some time. Enjoy!

  • Steven Santos says:
    February 22, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    I will do my part in cel­eb­rat­ing movies by watch­ing a great movie or two tonight from my DVD collection.
    I just don’t have any pas­sion­ate feel­ings about the Oscars one way or anoth­er. And, admit­tedly, the idea of watch­ing celebrit­ies get awards while most of us are strug­gling in this eco­nomy does­n’t exactly appeal to me now.

  • D Cairns says:
    February 22, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    I’ve nev­er live-blogged any­thing except one epis­ode of a TV show, which seemed ter­ribly unfair, but I’m going to do the Oscars because it helps jus­ti­fy stay­ing up ridicu­lously late in the UK to watch it, and if I don’t watch it I have a feel­ing I’m miss­ing out which is TOTALLY IRRATIONAL.

  • Gareth Higgins says:
    February 22, 2009 at 5:34 pm

    Hi Glenn – good to hear you’re tak­ing a well-earned night off from live-blogging the show. Jett Loe and I at http://www.thefilmtalk.com are not sub­ject to the same wise stra­tegic plan­ning as your good self, and so we’ll be doing what you did bet­ter last year and the year before from the aus­pi­cious sur­round­ings of Nashville’s Belcourt Theatre, where the good Tennesseean film fan com­munity raise funds to keep the art­house going while watch­ing the show on an enorm­ous flat screen – I believe it’s called a ‘cinema’. Always enjoy what you’re writ­ing on your blog – feel free to vis­it ours; and most of all, hope we all have a fun night watch­ing the awards.

  • Ryland Walker Knight says:
    February 23, 2009 at 12:55 am

    I live-blogged an A’s play­off game once. I was alone. Tonight I got to laugh with a few dif­fer­ent sets of awe­some people. Now it’s a lil iNet before a lot of bed. Can’t say I’m thrilled by a lot of the “awards” or what have you but I can­’t say I’m inves­ted enough to get worked up one way or anoth­er. Not when there’s stuff like this to look at –
    http://freenikes.blogspot.com/2009/02/no-capes-7-denis.html