Obligatory Oscars Post, and What It has to do with History

Marie Antoinette won a much deserved Oscar for Best Costume Design. While I found the film vapid, the costumes were both incredibly accurate and delightfully inaccurate, with contemporary touches such as a whimsically placed Converse All-Star.


The luminous Catherine Deneuve was wearing a dress from my favorite spring couture collection, John Paul Gaultier, which was based on the Virgin Mary. She looked elegant even wearing a dress with a stabby heart and glitter blood.






The Death Montage gets me every time. That’s when the recap everyone involved in the Industry that has passed away in the last year. I always tear up. And then I think about how strange it is, to have these moving images of people that no longer exist. And how after I am gone, there will be images of myself that what still exist long after my physical body. I don’t know what to make of that.

At least, like The Fug Girls, I'm consistantly relieved to find out Gene Wilder is not dead.

And Gael Garcia Bernal makes my heart hurt. Sigh.