And best movie goes to/ thanks for watching
The last post tonight!!!! Thank you so much for your attention (and is Diane Keaton drunk???), although this was a clear sign of my OCD and of my lack of things to do (not true, i have a lot of stuff to do. But Oscar night is Oscar night), I loved doing it!! Thanks for reading, seriously. Even if it was just one person.
And yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Departed won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so glad they agreed with me that this movie, although it is ridiculously violent, is excellent. So, why haven't you watched it yet?
And did Babel go home empty handed?? Not one award? Come on.. that's pushing it.
So, thanks again, and sweet dreams!!
Scorcese!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, thank god!!!!!!! His face before they announced it was just sad!!!! But yeeeey, Scorcese!! You finally won!!!! And that's kind of what his face said when they called his name. His first (!!!!) Oscar. Justice in the world.
ps: he is sooooooo short!!!! And being hugged by a bald Jack Nicholson must be the most frightening thing in the world.
The last king
Ok, now the posts will be on super rapid speed. Reese Witherspoon really benefited from divorce. But why (!!!) didn't Ryan Gosling/ Leonardo DiCaprio win best aaaactor!!!???? They both deserved it. But ok, when I see The Last King of Scotland maybe I'll change my mind. But for now, bu-hu.
Poor Leo. Stood up to clap and everything.
And let's see the director.
the biggest gold star EVER!
Am I dreaming or did "Little Miss Sunshine" win Original Screenplay? Beating Babel? That's amazing!!! It's not just because it is a happy movie that it can't be as meaningful as a drama.
And now, after ten thousand categories that are, hmm, not thaaaat interesting, here we go. Helen Mirren, magnificent in "The Queen". And she lost her earring!!! And when she reffers to the Oscar as a "gold star". I love the british. And she thanked the queen!!! For her hair style. That is just so... british humor?
best actress in a supporting category
George Clooney. Dot.Jennifer Hudson for best supporting actress. Now, this would be fair anyway. I haven't actually seen the movie, but she has won everything else, so i am supposing she is excellent in it. Otherwise, Little Miss Sunshine or both actresses from Babel deserved it. But woman, what the hell!!! Don't you turn your back on George Clooney!!!!
Strike one
ooooh, come on!!!! The Devil Wears Prada didn't win costume??? Give me a break. Nothing beats those clothes, and aaaaall those shoooes!!!! And please mind that the presenters were both in the movie. And they looked so disappointed. And did I hear correctly or did the winner (Marie Antonniete, which still isn't out in Brazil) inspire herself by french desserts?
OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOD!!! TOM!!!!! where is katie????
(and ok, the title should be strike 2, since Alan Arkin was a surprise as well)
"Valium does work"
Congratulations to The Departed, best adapted screenplay. Yes, it's violent. but it's gooooood. AND it has Jack Nicholson, and Leo, and a bunch of other heavyweights. And I love the writer just for saying that line (title) as an Oscar thank you.
update, due to request
hahaha!!! ok, ok...
Pan's Labyrinth won makeup and art direction, so far. And Alan Arkin woooon!!! Yeeeeey!!!! he deserves it, for playing the porn and heroin addict in Little Miss Sunshine. Could anything complete that family better?
Thanks for watching, honey!
worst dressed
and why on earth is Jack Nichilson bald? Sympathy for Britney?
oscars!!!!!
helloooooo people!!!! Oscar!!!!yeeeey!!!ok, first things first. What is Penelope Cruz thinking in that dress?? And Kirsten Dunst... oh god, just wrong, wrong, wrong. A lot of wrong dresses (Beyonce and whatever the hell is hanging on her dress, Nicole's Kidman parrot). Kate Winslet and Maggie Gyllenhall (impressivly enough - but minus the fur, please) are my winners so far. 
And Pan's Labirynth winning the first award!! Great!! 2 now!!!!! After that horrible awkard music number.. why don't they just cut out the first part of the Oscars? It's just so embarrassing....
gooo australia!!!
and just when you think the world makes no sense at all, you hear that people in Australia threw trash on Paris Hilton. The sanest people in the world.
And no, I don't know why she has those marks on her chest, or why her makeup is that badly put on. And well, it doesn't really matter.
the dog
On my way home from work, I use a very big avenue in São Paulo. It's the sort of place where you can't really stop, unless your car breaks down or the traffic is stalled (which happens quite often). About 2 or 3 weeks a go, I saw something on the side of the road. I thought it was an old bag or box. But I took a closer look and it was a dog. It was probably trying to cross the road and got run overby someone who just left him there. I pass that place everyday, and everyday the dog was there, rotting, alone. Everyday I looked at him, but I couldn't stop in the middle of the road, otherwise, besides the ticket I was gonna get, I was the one who would be run over.
When I came back from carnival, I couldn't see the dog anymore. I though somebody took it, cleaned it, I don't know, at least someone had taken it from there. And then, the next day, when I slowed down the car, I saw it. It was still there, but it had practically decomposed.
And that's the saddest I have been in a long time. Yes, I know, there are people dying in the same conditions every day, and this and that. But my heart just broke for the dog on the side of the road, that died and decomposed on the road, everything in him dying for sure, since there is no earth to absorb anything. The surest, most complete death. Just gone.
glossed over absurdity
Could these two look any more unconfortable in the picture? With their prada bags and Armani clothes, standing next to a refugee from Africa. They look like they are thinking: "I am going to kill my manager for making me come here."Poor refugee. Has to go trough hell on earth, and still has to face this.
ooops?
ok, this will be as superficial as possible. But what the hell is going on with Britney Spears? My mother told me: "oh, she shaved her head, did you see?". My answer was "mom, come on. that is not true". Little did I know. 3 tries at rehab (maybe she should talk to Amy Winehouse about this), a shaved head that now has her looking like a white supremacist, and her ex-husband suying for full custody of the kids. That is a bad, bad sign. I think it preecedes the apocalipse. And that's just baad. Baaaad, baaad, bad.
When a guy like that (google it if you don't know, because I am putting to many pictures in the post already, all very necessary) has grounds to sue you for custody of your children, something is wrong.
And then, when you think that's all, that the story is as bad as it can get, there she goes again. Attacking a photographer with an umbrella. I would post the video, but you can't see anything in it. But I mean, Jeeesus Christ!!!!!!!! What is doing?????? I always thought she was a bit crazy, but this is just too much. She is giving Anna Nicole Smith a run for her money. And that's saying a lot.
Grey's Anatomy
Have you ever seen Grey's Anatomy? If you are in Brazil, the third season started last monday, and I really think it is a series worth watching. More than McDreamy and McSteamy, the series is something worth a closer look. The writing is just fantastic. I mean, I have to give my most honest congratulations to Chandra Wilson - who has one of the best writing deals in Hollywood today. Whoever can come up with the sentence "She has my McDreamy, and my McDog. She is living my McLife" should be given an award just for that collaboration. And she manage to put a bomb inside a patient, and blow up half of the hospital, in order to gain male audience. She is, as I had said, fantastic. 
Then there is the casting, absolutely imppecable. Miranda Bailey (aka "the nazy") is unbelievable in the part. When she won the SAG award a few weeks a go, she said "thank you for giving me this award even though I look like this." And Dr. Bailey is this woman in the picture on the left, so you know she was not being really modest and asking for compliments on how she looks. In fact, there is one gorgeous girl on the show, and she is not the main actress (Meredith Grey is, well, different. pretty, but not common). Meredith, by the way, is all but the heroin. She drinks tequila shots and sleeps with (a lot of) 
wrong men. "I am always sorry in the morning" and "I am dark and twisty, so what? Does that make me the president of the depressed?" are 2 of my favourite lines from this show, apart from the heartbreaking "pick me, choose me"scene. It is just sad. She says she knows she is not supposed to do that, she is supposed to be cool, tell McDreamy it is his deciosion and she will be okay anyway, and that is what she does for the entire episode. Until that scene. And then she does what she really means in her heart. And when she tels him that he has to stop staring at her, because she ust can't breathe when he does that. The words are just so 
honest, so possible that someone would say them. She is average, problematic, and so much more convincing than Joey Potter.
And now, for the women - McDreamy and McSteamy. I am sorry, but there is no way I could write about this show 
without mentioning them. they are just absurdly hot. And although that is not the main reason to watch the show, it doesn't hurt either. And oh, last thing: the soundtrack. Good, veeery good. Drama, drama, drama. ER with better music, more concentrated drama and hotter man.
A British Emotion
So, on the countdown to the Oscars - which, by the way, will be live blogged here, or that's my initial plan - I saw "The Queen" today. It's an impressivly vivid impression on the british, and especially on that old lady that I see every now and then next to her gooorgeous grandchildren.
I was about 11 years old when princess Diana died. Now, at that age, I can't honestly say that i understood how serious it was, or if it was serious at all. I mean, I had no relation to this woman, I had never seen her, and I didn't quite understand what was her importance in the world. For those of you who live in brazil, I heard the news of her death in the middle of the night, in one of those "special alerts" by globo. To this day, I am absolutely terrified of the sound of that. But anyway, I was shocked and sad. Why the hell? I was 11 years old!!!
Getting back to the point, the movie. Helen Mirren is spectacular. She portrays a woman nobody knows nothing about, and she does it in such a way we understand why she reacted the way she did to Diana's death. It wasn't because she didn't like her (although clearly she didn't), but it was just because she didn't know any different. People, british people, crying like children on the streets? As she says it a thousand times in the movie: "we are british. we are known for being discreet and moderate people. What is this?". She just didn't understand the people's reaction, and she acted on her best intention. She foghts for what she believes in, she fights for her traditions and for all that she knows.
Now, what is wonderful about the movie is how they can all portray their emotion in a way that is the opposite of the crying and screaming we see, or actors crying with tears and tears running down their faces. You believe them, and you can feel their sorrow (even if not for Diana, but for the clear demonstration that they did not understand or represent the british anymore). And they do not shed a tear. it is in that restraint that you see how Helen Mirren is a magnificent actress. She can make you cry without doing it herself, just by the change in her facial expression, body posture and the look in her eyes. It is beautiful. The perfect british emotion.
we were cynical in highschool
-Were we so nice and friendly when we were younger?
-No, we were cynical in highschool.Be safe, travel a lot, write us, both of you - Giu has a better excuse, since i don't really know how a medieval city and internet connect, but ok. Enjoy... I'll see you in november, hopefully. And we will "rock berlin" - and no, i couldn't be any tackier, but I just can't thnk of another expression that won't sound absurdly malicious or have a weird and uneeded double meaning. Love you to the bone. And f**king wait for me in Europe!!!
what the hell????
I have been thinking of this post for a while now. I had a question: what is the oddesting thing to you - this bizarre and freaky shark, found in japan; an SUV that has scorpion tires and that consumes more gasoline than 10 small cars together and branding a greenpeace sticker on the back window? But honestly, life beat me to the punch. There is no more sense in asking this question, since today when I turned on my computer to post, I saw it. The weirdest thing EVER. 
I mean no disrespect, but what the hell? Anna Nicole Smith just died? What? How? What the hell is it with this woman??? Just as it was absurd that her 20 year old son simply died 2 days after her daughter was born - and please, when I say he simply died, I mean exactly that. He just fainted and died - she goes and does something similar? Poor baby girl, but at least she has 2 people fighting over her can be her father. I am sorry, and my condolences, but this is honestly, the freakiest thing. Ever.
hear the latest.. only here, on betterthanfine
Yes, I know, long time no see. but I am really tired and doing this just for you (all the lots and lots of people who read this blog, i am sure). So, sit back and enjoy.
First off, I have to share this with you. Just buy it, download it, whatever. Just find a way to hear it. Here is the list:
Killers - read my mind
Phoenix - one time too many
Gnarls Barkley - crazy
Jarvis Cocker - don't let him waste your time
Scissor Sisters - i can't decide
Amy Winehouse - rehab
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - dudley
Long Blonds - once and never again
Gossip - standing in the way of control
Muse - supermassive black hole
Hot Chip - over and over
M. Ward - to go home
Justin Timberlake - sexyback
just listen to it. I swear it will be worth it. I was going to put the best ones in bold, but it's just not worth it, since it basically would be all of them.
The last post tonight!!!! Thank you so much for your attention (and is Diane Keaton drunk???), although this was a clear sign of my OCD and of my lack of things to do (not true, i have a lot of stuff to do. But Oscar night is Oscar night), I loved doing it!! Thanks for reading, seriously. Even if it was just one person.
