My department is participating in a Fantasy Football-esque competition that centers around a healthy lifestyle. So I've been downing 64 oz of water a day, and running to the little lady's room the rest of the day increasing my steps so I have to wear a goofy pedometer, and I'm trying to maintain my exercise obviously not at this second. The great thing about going on a trip is that I'm going to kick ass in the walking category but fail miserably everywhere else. I'm going to Italy and I'll be drinking wine, not water, thank you very much!
Speaking of Italy, we finally got the last of the actual trip details finalized. We're heading to Rome the weekend I fly in and then to London the next weekend. I'll have the week to explore Milan. I still cannot believe I'm going!! I'm beyond ecstatic to be in one of the Fashion Capitals of the World and stare in the windows of Armani and Versace because I dare not go in as a mere peasant of somewhere so fabulous. I'm going to take in as much of the fashion scene as I can.
Speaking of fashion, I really love how my whole post actually ties together! recession, or no recession, there is no excuse for boring fashion at the Oscars. I will primarily be talking about the women as the men are either eh, blah, or nice save for Daniel Craig who looked every bit Bond and made me a little envious of his tailor, holy smokes. I know a lot of people ragged on Miley Cyrus, but I liked her dress. The square neckline was flattering, she wasn't showing too much cleavage for her age, and the petals around the dress were so pretty. I loved the color and it was a perfect, youthful, look for her finally!.
I wasn't a big fan of Evan Rachel Wood's "Hi, I'm Marilyn Manson's girlfriend and have-no-sense-of-my-own-style-so-I-borrowed-from-his-ex" phase and have been pleasantly surprised at her recent award show gowns though her posing still reeks of Von Tease. Her Elie Saab tiered black dress was incredible at the Golden Globes and she followed up with an equally fabulous Elie Saab ivory dress, with beautiful wrapping detail in the bodice.
Natalie Portman rarely misses and she looked fantastic in a lavendery-pink Rodarte strapless gown. It has the similar wrapping detail as Wood's, but with some added finishing peaking out from under the layers in the bodice. The color worked brilliantly with her skin tone and the dress didn't overpower her petite frame. I loved it. Alicia Keys also wore a beautiful pink-y dress but at the moment I cannot find a picture of her to describe it well. You'll just have to trust me that she looked stunning, as always.
Amy Adams also looked fantastic. She had that red Carolina Herrera dress with the beautiful black piping to really make the detail in the bodice stand out. I also loved the pleat in the center front of the dress. The jewels grew on me the more I looked at them, but I would have wore something a little less chunky. The colors were beautiful but I thought the size of it competed with the detail in bodice too much. Ah well. She looked gorgeous either way.
I enjoyed the new format of the Oscars it made it feel a hell of a lot faster don't you think? minus the unnecessary fast-cut from Jennifer Aniston, presenting on stage with Jack Black, to Angelina Jolie, sitting in the audience. What the hell else is she supposed to do but have a cheesy grin on her face as her tabloid-nemesis is on stage with her Panda co-star? Honestly. I love ABC, but give me a break. Whoever ordered that cut should get a slap upside the head for his insensitivity. I'm watching the Oscars, not E!
Hugh Jackman was an interesting choice as host. I do love musicals but I got up and did dishes during his opening song. I haven't seen any of the Best Picture nominees so I wasn't really interested in hearing about them, not to mention Wolverine singing about them. I loved how they had the same presenters for similar awards and the past winners saying wonderful things about this years nominees.
I did shout out during the Best Picture category "Wall-E! Dark Knight!" Because I think those two films got jipped out of a nomination. This is why no one watches the Oscars. When you spend all night showing us clips of action/comedy movies that the entire world went and watched, yet the Academy doesn't nominate them for anything significant, hello? You think there might be some massive divide between Academy snobs and people who go to movies to be entertained? I think so.
My reasons why I didn't see any of the Best Picture Nominees:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button : it looked like a role Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett took just because they knew it was Oscar material. Any time an actor/actress goes through a physical transformation, they get an Oscar nomination. Nicole Kidman in The Hours? Charlize Theron in Monster? Halle Berry in Monster's Ball? Uh huh, yeah.
Frost/Nixon : I might watch this someday, but it didn't really grab my attention when I saw the few previews. I kept thinking it was something I'd like to watch whenever it came on Netflix.
Milk : Ok, this is one I really wanted to watch and just didn't. At first, I didn't want to see it because of Sean Penn, then I learned James Franco was going to be in it. Now I'll watch it once it gets to Netflix. Hopefully as a "watch instantly" option.
The Reader : I knew it was about a retired Nazi guard. I couldn't get through all of Schindler's List so I wasn't sure if I could watch another Holocaust movie.
Slumdog Millionaire : There was a ton of hype around this movie once award season started and that made me not want to see it. Usually if critics are raving about it, it's not worth seeing. That's one I might see on Netflix too though, I've heard good buzz about it recently from co-workers.
I have successfully avoided working out at a decent hour thanks to watching the President's speech and then blogging.
"After all, tomorrow is another day." - Scarlett O'Hara
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