Well after last nights miserable attempt at an award ceremony (I have noticed them spiraling downwards recently) an epiphany occurred to me. This morning it was only reinforced when I heard that the awards ceremony had the highest ratings since so many years ago. As I was forced to watch the drivel they call the Oscars (I was at Laurens house and her family is the all American wake up with “This Morning” and read People magazine family), I was faced with the fact that the world was watching, and encouraging, people, the same as themselves being awarded for reading. Yeah for them, they have looks and can read! Man I think I had the second half covered by 3rd grade. And yet we sit around and continuously show these people that their “profession” actually matters. This is obviously what is going on as they actually think I give a shit about their viewpoints (ahem, Alec Baldwin you are 6 years overdue for leaving this country). So basically I watched the red carpet where fake person 1 convinced fake person 2 to come and talk to them. Fake person 1 gushes over fake person 2’s amazing look of the evening and proceeds to lay the same blab onto every other fake in the crowd. This is followed by the room of fakes giving Chris Rock a standing ovation, for what, I have no idea. Chris Rock proceeds to go into some racial blather and political crap about bombing Banana Republic. I swear I was about to get up and leave 10 minutes into the thing but I only get to see my fiancée so often so I stayed. The only thing that Chris Rock said that I could agree with was the whole actors awarding actors thing. Seriously that’s what the whole thing is about, the Hollywood elite recognizing the Hollywood elite for reading lines in front of a camera. Oooooh toughy, now come here and differentiate Bernoulli’s equation for me Leonardo. So the show goes on and the one moment I enjoyed was Robin Williams upstaging the whole Oscars in his 5 minute intro to animated shorts. As for the movies, well ya know being a conservative and seeing a pro-euthanasia movie get so much recognition is just fan-fuckin-tastic, really. Next we will be recognizing these actors for their superb work in drug induced pedophilia movies! (yes I know the documentary was about that, but it didn’t glorify it). Now the media is all ahuff about who was wearing what and this and that and really……I could give a shit. So in a nutshell, if you ask why people torrent and don’t care about the MPAA, it’s because they would gladly pay for a movie if we didn’t know that it would just be going to some other left wing politico doing what almost every human can do….read or lie in Michael Moore’s case. And the MPAA is just a bunch of Hollywood elite trying to save their asses from actually having to get a job that actually requires some neurons to fire. Now indy films, I believe that they should be supported as those are hard working people trying to get their ideas on the screen. They usually don’t cost that much and you rarely see the cast/directors repeat success. In fact if the torrent assault continues it may force movie companies to face the facts that everyone, with a little training can read in front of a camera and for a lot less than the multi million dollar babies out there. This would be a good thing as then I wouldn’t have to put up with the “beautiful” people in their own world being convinced that we want to know what they eat, drink and what cell phone they use. Oh well that’s my 10 cents, and no I don’t know why I am so avidly against Hollywood.

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