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Well, that was a long but really unpredictable and lovely Oscars.  There were a lot of underdog winners.  It actually was more indie-flavored than ever, with more foreign talent than ever claiming the gold.  A trend, I suppose.  So many ridiculously talented people that I admire getting honored.  If only there had been more room at the table for the brilliant Paul Thomas Anderson.  But he'll get his later, for sure.

In honor of the awesomest music at the Awards shows this weekend...I give you Kimya Dawson and Glen Hansard/Marketa Irglova.

Vids of Kimya Dawson's Acoustic Set in Berkeley from last week.

Vid of Hansard/Irglova performing at Oscars. How fantastic was it that they let Marketa come BACK OUT onstage to give her speech? I don't recall that ever, ever happening at the Oscars before. Or any awards show. Classy. I liked seeing how much love ONCE was getting from the crowd, too.  Here's an (edited together) vid of their speeches:

“I think we’re at a time where there are two movie businesses that run on parallel tracks and they have very little to do with each other.  What has happened is that there used to be a kind of movie that we used to think of as a big Academy movie, which was that flagship movie with big movie stars and big filmmakers and frequently it was a period movie, frequently it was a romantic movie or a kind of epic, and those have just gone away.  In a way, I don’t think that has been a bad thing.”

-- Scott Rudin, producer NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN; executive producer THERE WILL BE BLOOD

ETA: my dad and I were discussing the winners, and little did I realize what a gossip hound my father is!  LOL.  He just told me about Oscar winner Tilda Swinton's triangle relationship with two men.  That is soooooo European, I love it.