…So you’re telling me these gays *haven’t* ever met a neat lady? :(

Goes without saying that the great state of Wisconsin made me happy today, and feeling particularly proud of the turnout and (yes, expected) blowout in my beloved Dane County. Forward!

15 years since I competed to this at the World Irish Dance Championships and it STAYS at the top of my running playlist. Nothing sounds more like 2009.

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Cannot get this track out of my head or out of my rotation:

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From last week: I joined my friends on @oscarwild.bsky.social to sigh heavily about the state of Best Original Song and other auditory categories. We now have three (3) people rooting for Diane!

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This week I caught up with Mike Leigh’s HARD TRUTHS, a film I’ve been in the tank for since it announced early last year. Happiness is just one of many intense emotions it brings me. A highlight: the presence of a bouquet of flowers and its treatment by three separate characters. Mike Leigh 4ever

Omg a mirror-image experience: during my intermission tonight a group of older women were like “And now this got a lot but that Emilia Perez got the most! I’m so looking forward to seeing that one.” A real before/after between us.

"The Journey" from "The Six Triple Eight"
"Out of Oklahoma" from "Twisters"
"No Better" from "Ultraman"
"Kiss the Sky" from "The Wild Robot"
"Harper and Will Go West" from "Will & Harper"

3/3

"Let It Roll" from "The Garfield Movie"
"In Time" from "His Three Daughters"
"The Idea of You" from "The Idea of You"
"Claw Machine" from "I Saw the TV Glow"
"Beyond" from "Moana 2"
"New Brain" from "Smile 2"

2/3

Ahead of tomorrow's Shortlist announcement, here's my preferred lineup. What I'd give to have a lineup of these otherwise extremely non-Oscary movies...

"Electric Energy" from "Argylle"
"Compress/Repress" from "Challengers"
"Custer Park" from "Dandelion"
"Mi Camino" from "Emilia Perez"

1/3

Devastated to say that no, her songs were either not submitted or (more likely) not eligible. Justice for “Release”

At the… other… end of the list is this Matthew Morrison stunner from what appears to be a vanity project for the director’s daughter?

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My #1 song in the list with a bullet is the Ariana DeBose / Boy George song from, yes, ARGYLLE. Get into it

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You and I, sir, have very different taste :) I might like “Winter Coat” if it were sung by someone else!

Gonna spotlight some important gems today… Did you know there’s an eligible song from Megalopolis? Sung by one “Vesta Sweetwater” (Grace VanderWaal in character)

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We've got our typical buckets represented:
- Documentary end credits
- Animation
- Indie original musicals
- Faith-based films
- Singer-Actors contributing to their own movie
- Compilation soundtracks
- Christmas!
- and Diane Warren