JACQUELINE

1. These goofy faces of bored actors are gold (via Jeze)
    
   
2. What is the Oscars really about? A pat on the back for actors and actresses who have struggled to live through that torment of a career? (Though, frankly, i feel that most competitive careers are worth deserving to be called a struggle. Living is hard.) Promotion of films that are essentially loaded commentaries on the times we are living in (Precious, Hurt Locker). I just really like the lushly grandiose arena and the complicated-looking stage with excessive stairs. 
3. We did not recognize the importance of ‘Up in The Air’ enough as a cultural representation of the ’10s! the rampant corporate impersonal nature of relationships, that question getting more relevant as ever: ‘How much is human dignity worth?’ -Is the answer nothing? Or, nothing and everything at the same time? We just have to pretend it matters even when circumstance clearly demonstrates otherwise. Pity we knew that already when we read Death of a Salesman, we just didn’t know it would stil hit us as hard! OH FUCKING SHAME.

IMC Crisis Class today turned out to be OK ie not stressful. i just have to sit there and listen and not participate, and I assure you, this luxury is very rare:

• Interesting thing the speaker points out about the Tiger Woods’ apology: Tiger hugging his mother after his speech as if signaling the public has bullied him into making a humiliation of himself in the form of that 14 minute speech! As if he is THE VICTIM, which can be partially true, of course. That passive-aggressive act is not wholly obvious but is definitely going against that big boy act of taking full responsibility. That sniffle at the end certainly makes it worse. This prompted me to finally watch the clip, leading to my few shallow observations:
• isn’t Tiger Woods such a bad actor? (Speaker insisted that Tiger’s PR should be fired. Or mayb Tiger should take acting classes?)
• He did not use the proper term sex-addiction; guess he wouldn’t want to frame it as ‘oh, friends, it’s just like alcoholism or drug addiction’, that rehab-cliche that is glitzy and fad. I felt that if he had use those specific words, it would have seemed more sincere. 
• The random buddhism talk: i s’pose that really shows the rift between the values he believes in and his natural bodily impulses that he has yet to come to terms with.

Ending on a positive note:

• mayb the times we are living in can be much more interesting than the times we did not live in. the other day I had the impulse to set fire to Proust.