Oscar Party Proper

First blog so let’s go right to the glitzy heart of movies, of Tinsel Town, of Hollywood, of The Academy Awards with blazing red carpets and blinding star power.

Now, I’m not even a regular follower of the Oscar’s. As an Award, its habitually off the mark.  As performance, wildly uneven and often bogged down under its own hubris. Yet the Oscars remain the defacto Award of Awards. Next to perhaps the Nobel Prize, the Oscar has come to define our very concept of Award, the statue itself the defining awards statue. Like it or lump it, the Oscars is anchored in our collective mindset.

So I’ll be watching this year. In fact I’ll be dressing up and going down to the Rio Theatre’s free admission live feed presentation to watch it on the big screen. I don’t even know who’s nominated but that doesn’t matter, because they’ll let me know. I don’t care for the host but I’ll have a glass of campaign at the ready. It’s a long, glitzy, ceremonial ritual but that’s fine, I plan to schmooze and flirt my way through the doldrums.

It’s also a chance to be in a place with hundreds of other movie fans, to talk, debate and discuss with the casual drunkenness that lends itself so well to conversation.  I love movies. I came to Vancouver for the movie business. I’m going to watch the Oscar’s in one of this cities few remaining movie houses. I’m here making movies, may as well aim for an Oscar while I’m doing it.