My heart will be blessed

[clevermanka]

Not a lot about the Oscars on my Tumblr dash today. Just a bunch of dress reviews from omgthatdress, gifsets of Eddie Redmayne's and Patricia Arquette's acceptance speeches, and this amazing Sound of Music tribute from Lady Gaga.

I'm relieved to see she didn't fall down too deep a well of hot-mess-dom after Artpop. I heard reports of her Haus of Gaga support network abandoning her left and right and then...radio silence. So good to see she's doing well, her pipes are still in fine form, and I hope she puts out another album equal to Born This Way in the next few years. NGL, I would love to see her do at least one Broadway show so I could buy the soundtrack for it. madlori's take on it was particularly on point.

There was more interest than I expected about the postures I use in my home yoga practice. I'll start journaling those in more detail with my Intentional Movement Report on March 1.

Holy crap, next week is March! This Whole30 has gone surprisingly easily. Thanks a bunch, respiratory influenza!

Comments

[1-rhiannon-1.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, next week is March!

My sentiments exactly!

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

I thought about you the whole time she was singing!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Was there no love on Tumblr for John Legend and Common's performance of "Glory" from Selma, which brought the audience to tears?
I think I cried more when they accepted the Oscar for Best Song and voiced exactly what I was thinking.. "fifty years since Selma and we are still fighting"

Neil Patrick Harris said the unspoken, really, "Today we honor Hollywood's best and whitest. Sorry, brightest."

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I did see some gifsets of the Glory acceptance speech pop up later in the day.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

That's cool! With what you said and a few other humorous speeches, that sums up the highlights. I was disappointed that the crappy Hotel movie got FOUR awards. But.. Ms. Arquette, such a girl crush.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, except when she called out for gay people and POC to fight for women's equal pay in the press room (http://thegrio.com/2015/02/23/patricia-arquette-blacks-gays-white-women/). UGH.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

I inclined to think that she's just a bit dim at times, and got carried away trying to "bring us ALL together". I don't think that she deserves the "you white woman in your glory circle" smack-down from a writer whose LinkedIn mentions nothing about doing any charity work.
Patricia's out there, doing the work. I have a link to a speech of hers I planned to post last night.

I do think the author nailed it here:
If just listening to a song from Selma was enough to make the whole audience burst into ugly tears — why the hell didn’t it get nominated for more awards?

My thoughts exactly.