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Fleeting: Costumes at the Oscar Party

As per the norm for the Oscar Party… it is preferred (though probably not required) to come in dress in costume that emulates a film that is featured during the Academy Awards.

In case you have been sleeping under some sort of rock here are the nominated films for Best Picture:

Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

So out of the above list I immediately crossed out Amour, Argo and Silver Linings Playbook due to the more contemporary nature of the content… well that and the fact that I was just too lazy to think of something really worthwhile that would be inspired by either of those films.

I also crossed out Beasts of the Southern Wild and Life of Pi because the only costumes I could come up with dealt with animals featured in either production and I just wasn’t in the mood to emulate a version of The Lion King.

Zero Dark Thirty and Argo were also crossed out for personal reasons… aka I was just not in the mood for war dramas… I lazy…. and they tend to hit too close to home.

So that left the following:

Django Unchained
Les Miserables
LIncoln

All righty then… so who, or what, did I decide to dress up as? And why?… Well I would break it down… but when I did so I came across something rather interesting between the three…

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Endeavor: Oscar Night’s Dish Inspiration

Since the Academy Awards was just a couple of days ago, one of my friends threw an Oscars Party where everything was themed in accordance to not only the nominees for Best Picture, but others as well.

I chose to create a dish for the occasion and since I was coming to the cooking party late I had minimal choices…

In the end I decided to create a dish inspired by a drama film: The Master… a film that I knew absolutely nothing about. Sometimes I am really glad that Wikipedia exists.

After reading through the summary provided I latched on a few key words:
– alcohol
– ink blots
– sex
– paint thinner
– Slow Boat to China

Yeah, I know… an interesting list. So what did I plan to do? Well originally I wanted to create a savory dish and had my mind set on make pate chaud for the Oscar Party… however, the issue i was having was how to tie that to the film that I chose.

Then after a few nights of not thinking about it, inspiration hit me… there was a jello that my mother made for parties that when created looked like a crazy mess which would actually fit with the idea and themes of the film. However, the primary ingredients for the jello included:
– coffee
– coconut
– pandan leaves

So how to invoke a feel and theme that I wanted so that it would tie in with the film?

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Fleeting: 2013 Oscars Thoughts

Seth MacFarlane… I <3 you.

Well there were others that I truly enjoyed, but honestly Seth made the show for me… behind Tina/Amy and NPH… Seth just skyrocketed up my list of award show hosts that I wouldn’t mind hosting again in any capacity.

And that’s probably because my sense of humor is dark and perverted enough to truly appreciate what he did as host of the Oscars over the weekend. Though the addition of
– Captain Kirk (the William Shatner version)
– Channing Tatum / Charlize Theron dance sequence
– Daniel Radcliffe / Joseph Gordon Levitt / Seth MacFarlane Broadway-ish sequence
– Be Our Guest…
Definitely helped him and the writers (unless he wrote a fair chunk of it himself).

Oscars 2013 – Opening Number With Seth… by IdolxMuzic

Now I had forgotten that Charlize has dance training, but I knew that Channing was more of a hip-hop dancer… you can see the lack of extensions and polish in Channing’s movement. But as a few of my friends (and me) were critiquing his dancing, one thing I did notice was that he actually had pretty strong partnering skills. He was there for Charlize in the lifts, dips, turns, etc… and that is just half the battle in ballroom dancing… but I digress.

Daniel and Joseph singing and dancing with Seth? O.M.G. that was the cutest thing I ever saw, granted Daniel was glancing down at his feet on occasion, but seriously, what’s not to love?

Oh… and did I mention the “Boobs” song? I know that if I were able to I would have been rolling on the floor in laughter.

Though I’ll admit, using Seth as opposed to a “voice from above” announcer voice was a very good call… a very very good call, if only because that meant more joking and ribbing from him and in my point of view and taste that is perfectly alright by me.

So outside of my love affair with Seth what else caught my attention?

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