I can’t say I’m impressed with the Grammy Awards this year, but I’m not someone who ascribes any value to the all this Oscar-type shit anyway. Norah Jones is an interesting newcomer, but certainly not album of the year in my book.
At the Bafta Awards they celebrate, and give prizes to convicted child rapists who flee the law: Roman Polanski. Sickening!
“Come Away With Me” may not be a revelation, but it beats the crap out of Nelly, Nickelback, Vanessa Carlton, and Springsteen. My only complaint is that she didn’t write the songs herself.
As for Polanski, I watched The Pianist last night and thought it was brilliant. Sometimes you have to separate a person’s personal life from their professional life.
Incidentally, Polanski’s victim feels the same way I do. In an editorial from yesterday’s LA Times, she said:
“But I believe that Mr. Polanski and his film should be honored according to the quality of the work. What he does for a living and how good he is at it have nothing to do with me or what he did to me.”
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Yup there wasn’t much to choose from given the nominees - so I’m wondering how they came up with those nominees to begin with… hehe!
Sure, there is a distinction b/w a someone’s personal life, and their career. Yes, people should be able to redeem themselves, and society should forgive mistakes etc. But in just the same way that I’m going to do what’s reasonable/feasible to avoid supporting company ‘X’ who dumps mercury into my drinking water, I’ll exercise whatever freedom I have in choosing not to support someone culpable of something so heinous. You have to start drawing a line somewhere.
Now to look at fixing the sidebar sliding down like that in IE6 ;)
Also, how about turning on HTML in comments so I can post hyperlinks?
There you go Mr. Baio. Eek! That preview window is also in need of attention… (there’s pile of stuff that I need to attend to actually, but I’m saving it all up for the Canada makeover, so please forgive the mess ‘til then).
My nominations for the Grammys:
1. Album of the year: Kid A
2. Song of the year: Pyramid Song
3. Band of the year: okay, a concession here, Coldplay.
Sorry, I spent the entire day yesterday listening to Kid A and Amnesiac and reading Martin Amis’s London Fields.
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