No liveblog this year

[halphasian]

I enjoyed liveblogging the Oscars last year, but I didn't get home until 20 minutes into the show tonight and I think I would have quit out of boredom after about an hour anyway. So let's just get all bullet-pointy:

• I saw The Hurt Locker. I don't see what the fuss is all about. It was competent and it was intense. But at no time did I want to

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They can't be too surprised

[anonymous]

Hey e, I was one of the punters who went to see Avatar to see the visual effects and stay part of the loop. My department head in the Music Faculty had seen it and recommended it with super-dooper enthusiasm which, by previous accounts, did more to warn me off going rather than propel me into the cinema. It was all that I expected, really. The story really was terrible and the leading man (although Australian) was the picture of the bull-headed 'American marine' left-thinking Aussies love to hate. That he wanted so quickly to get into the pants of some weird-looking blue creature really just cemented the stereotype (he, he). g xx