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here's my blow-by-blow of the oscar's for all those who enjoyed my grammy's commentary!

the red carpet in all its glory:

• kate winslet is beautiful, so vintage, and that dress is killing me (why is she always so perfect?!). i love that she's the youngest to be nominated for so many awards.
• SJP looks very carrie bradshaw (which i now know after having my first SATC experience last night with the ladies). and matthew broderick looks very nervous.
• tim gunn is about to drool all over mr. valentino.
• comparing the oscars to the prom to make it relevant to vanessa hudgens and zack efron. hilarity.
• okay, if people knock miley cyrus and her dress this time, i'm gonna kill someone. she looks awesome. it's young, fresh, appropriate, elegant, and people just need to get over themselves.
• penelope is wearing serious vintage. like, a 60 year old dress vintage. proof that beauty is timeless, and i need to start shopping in thrift stores.
• jeez, this award show is so...pompous compared to others.
• so the red carpet was officially a disappointment. way too many movie stars sneaking in the back entrance so as not to show off their dresses before the main event. haters.
  

the main event:

• oh, hugh. i love your accent. it's okay if you were an australian, playing an australian, in a movie called australia, hosting.
• it takes some balls to perform show-tune style live. cheesy, but apt and quite funny, mr. jackson. and who knew anne hathaway could sing?!
• meryl streep is a badass. plain and simple. bad. ass.
• best supporting actress: penelope cruz. it was the dress. lol.
  
• the milk acceptance speech will break your heart.
• the uniform of the oscars this year seems to be the white, strapless, sparkly dress.
• oscars are dragging.
• costume designer for the duchess seemed like he just inhaled a very large xanax before his acceptance speech.
• i love when winners say "'so and so' really should be up here with me..." and then just go on with their speech. because the rest of that sentence actually says: "...but i didn't want to share the spotlight so i didn't ask them to come up."
  
• ROBERT PATTINSON IS AT THE OSCARS! and looking HOT introducing the romance movies of 2008 (including twilight! holla!). i wasn't feeling the short hair originally. it's growing on me (no pun intended). that was by far the [most unexpected] highlight of the oscars for me. is that sad?
• natalie portman is rocking her pink dress. and ben stiller is out of control. i don't get it, could someone explain?
  
• that's 2 for slumdog millionaire.
• james franco. drool. massive, massive drool. (does anyone else think he's a dead ringer for jeff buckley?)
• there goes beyonce, singing "at last" again. etta james needs to just punch her in the face and be done with it.
• best supporting actor: health ledger. can i just start crying now? okay, crying.
• the oscars needs some performances to break up the monotony. just saying'.
• it's will smith. where has will smith been? besides making bad movies like "hancock"?
• that's 3 for slumdog.
• lol. that's 4 for slumdog millionaire!
• omg. that's 5 for slumdog.
• well, i asked for performances. i got performances.
• i'm sorry, i may be the only one, but i can't stand john legend.
• 6 for slumdog millionaire. should i just stop keeping track and assume they'll win every single one?
• i have a huge crush on liam neeson. and the slumdog actress's dress is beyond words.
• slumdog took best director. that's 7. so far. are we surprised? no.
• did you know nicole kidman was born in hawaii? i loooove her. one of the most statuesque women.
  
• the women presenting best actress blow my mind.
  
• anne hathaway was nominated for a best actress oscar?! nice. she's made absolutely all of the right moves with her career so far.
  
• halle berry is untouchable. but can i please have her boyfriend/baby daddy? lol.
  
• best actress: kate winslet. so great. i should watch "the reader". and i love that she asked her dad to whistle so she could find him in the audience.
• best actor: sean penn for milk. "yes, totally deserved it!" is the consensus in the room i'm in. best acceptance speech EVER.
  
• update: rpatz is sitting behind mickey rourke. looking quite edward-ish if i do say so myself. smile for once, would ya?!
• i'm going to guess best movie now before they present it: slumdog.
• was i right? yep! slumdog millionaire takes best movie!

overall, a pretty good show. there are definitely some slow moments, but it didn't seem as long as the grammy's. sorry, too lazy to find the links! just google it!

thoughts regarding the glitz and glam

so this post is gonna be a little different. i'm watching both the E! pre-show and the grammy's, and i thought i'd just post my thoughts as they come during the show. it'll be like you're all watching the grammy's with me!

*note: the links may not go to the right pictures after a while b/c they've been updating the photos and changing everything around online. sorry!*

• is it just me, or is katy perry super cute? the bubble-gum pink dress and lipstick is working for her. as is the glam 'do. and does anyone else think she looks a lot like hilarie burton?
• "you don't take sand to the beach" - paris hilton, whose dress is as short as her hair.
• why was ryan seacrest being such a douche to taylor swift?!
  
• uh-oh. did chris brown go ike turner on rihanna?
• HOLY SHIT U2 OPENED! love love love love love. favorite. band. EVER. also, i love that bono feels he can act a fool just because he's bono. at least now we know that bono can't really dance.
• i find it odd that no one really "hosts" the grammy's anymore. it's just really a bunch of different presenters. saves us the painfully unfunny jokes, i guess.
  
• whitney's out of rehab?! too bad she can't sing anymore. what an american tragedy. and did she get plastic surgery?! wait, is she HIGH?!
• al green, justin timberlake, keith urban, and boys to men as back-up. nice save, grammy's.
• now, i love carrie underwood. but she needs a new album like ryan seacrest needs a punch in the face. but i gotta love her glitter mic's.
  
• that's 1 for coldplay.
  
• i muted kid rock. enough said.
• alright, so am i the only one on earth who actually listens when miley cyrus sings? because she can't sing. she's cute, but homegirl cannot sing! and next to taylor swift, who sounds so delicate? omg. i may have to mute this too.
• jennifer hudson is like a throwback to the singers of yesteryear. when talent mattered more than the size of your waist. she's so classy. and it's so nice to hear music being celebrated again.
• stevie wonder and the jonas brothers?! i'm gonna be honest right now and say that i don't understand the whole jonas brothers thing. talk about a wannabe hipster version of a the boy band phenom. but i guess no one understood the nsync thing years ago either, huh? what goes around... but man, stevie...what were you thinking? superstitious would have been great all by yourself.
• BLINK 182 REUNION ANYONE!? and how much do i love that mark hoppus just clowned the jonas brothers?
• that's 2 for coldplay.
• katy perry looked like a fruit basket during her performance. lol. but i think that was the idea. although she's not the best performer all in all. a bit disappointing.
• over it, kanye. but damn, your songs are catchy as hell. your hair, on the other hand? killing me. all that jheri curl/fauxhawk needs in its beginning stages is some soul glo.
  
• although i haven't fully boarded the adele train, i'm glad she won. she seems like a cool chick.
• so morgan freeman and kenny chesney are bff's now? that's not weird.
  
• robert plant (makes me want to write robert pattinson, but what doesn't? lol.) and allison krauss are owning the grammy's right now.
  
• the fact that M.I.A. is at the grammy's, and is performing, on her due date is out of control. who does that? performance kinda killed it though, i'm not going to lie.
  
• kate beckinsale is officially about an inch thick around the waist. is it okay to hate her?
  
• for the life of me, i can't figure out why i don't care for john mayer's music very much. but he won best male pop vocal, so maybe i should jump on the bandwagon.
• adele is performing barefoot, and she didn't do a costume change. that alone is commendable.
• gotta give it up to the grammy's for all the creative/strange collaborations this year. timberlake, al green and company? mcartney and grohl? sugarland and adele? radiohead and the usc trojan marching band? lil wayne and robin thicke (the wannabe timberlake)?
  
• so t.i. is my secret hip-hop crush (minus the arms dealing, obviously). just thought i'd put that out there. really loved his performance with justin timberlake. and how he is desperately trying to mitigate his sentence with his good-message songs and reality community service tv show.
• more obama love/expectations. did you not expect it?
  
• "sweet caroline...ba, ba, bahhhh! good times never seem so good...so good! so good...so good!" - neil diamond. why is this the perfect i'm-drunk-in-a-bar-in-a-foreign-country-with-a-bunch-of-my-drunk-friends song?
  
• just fyi: i feel like this is the never ending grammy awards. every time i think it's over, some new performer comes on. i'm sleepy. end already!
• new orleans still got it!
• someone get t-pain and will.i.am. a mirror, stat.
• zooey deschanel is adorable, but what is she doing at the grammy's?
• i usually love allison krauss, but this plant/krauss song is putting me to sleep right now.
• album of the year: like i said, plant and krauss killed the grammy's this year.
  

overall, a good show. ok, seriously, good night everyone!

face first

WARNING: this post is a little descriptive and unpleasant.

call them what you will: fever blisters, cold sores, herpes... whatever they are, they SUCK.

i've had these things all my life. i can actually remember times when i was a kid and all the skin between my upper lip and my nose would be covered in scabs and blisters. i'd cry and cry (both out of embarrassment and pain), and my mother would inevitably feel so bad for her second born that she'd let me stay home from school until the outbreak passed.

i don't know who passed them down to me. all i know is that i hate them (and that my older sister has recently told me that my poor beautiful nephew gets them as well, to the extent that i do). i don't have outbreaks as often as i once did, but when they do show up they make themselves count.

case in point? i've been hiding out all weekend because i have this horrendous thing on the left side of my lip. it's big. it's scabby. it's not a very attractive color. it's uncomfortably pulling at part of my skin as it dries. and honestly? every time i get them a part of me feels like that kid who used to get teased about being deformed whenever my mom deemed the blisters small enough so that i could go back to school.

so yes, i feel slightly like a ten year old, but i'm embarrassed. and i've been feeling physically ugly for the passed five days.

that probably explains my mood and this outburst, doesn't it?

v.i.n.t.a.g.e.

disclaimer: this is gonna be short, and may be just a little shallow. kinda like me! ha! (i'm joking)

so i got a pedicure this passed week for the first time since thailand. it's a nondescript place on broadway owned by this middle-aged asian woman who i just love to pieces. she smells like my grandmother. i don't know if it's her lotion or her lipstick or something, but it's uncanny.

anyway, my pedicure. i was choosing my color and kept hearing marj, linea and kendra (of the famous new zealand brown-crowd) saying that i need to be more adventurous. apparently, i never stray too far from beige or light pink.

so this time i chose red. "golden ruby" to be exact.

and can i just say that i LOVE my red toenails? everytime i look at my feet they cheer me up. is that why those beautiful women of the vintage era always wore red nail polish and red lipstick?

it's really the most amazing pick-me-up.

go and paint the world red.