RBOC: Cobweb edition

"My name is Celexo, and I'm here to recruit you!" to keep reading my blog, that is...Hello all, it's been a while, so without further ado, my random bits for the past few days:

• I just received an early birthday present the other day; is that a computer in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? No -- it's an Ipod touch. It's awesome, and I keep discovering new, cool and actually helpful tricks on it every day.
• I'm not disappointed that Sean Penn won an Oscar, I thought he was very good...but, I think that I discounted his performance because he was recreating a character, whereas Mickey Rourke was creating "Randy the Ram" from scratch. Now that I put it down on paper, I'm beginning to see all the holes in that line of reasoning -- so it's something I'll look out for in the future.
• Speaking of the Oscars, did you catch my old buddy Yo-Yo Ma playing a Bach cello suite for a Hyundai ad? This guy will do anything for a buck -- perhaps, we should be using him to bailout the country.
  
• And Cuba Gooding Jr. showed up at the Oscars, too: don't you think he felt embarrassed to stand up there with Kevin Kline, Alan Arkin, Joel Grey and Christopher Walken? And what does he do? He screams some more, this time at Robert Downey Jr. for stealing roles from black gusy.
• I went to see a preview performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's opera The Nose last night. This satire features a nose that disappears from Koyvalov's face, only to turn up later on to occupy a position of higher rank!! It turns out that this absurb concept works particularly well as a critique of the so-called "socialist" culture -- where hierarchy exists, yet everyone is equal. No wonder the opera was shut down after 16 performances!
• And finally, LOST, what more can I say? It's really getting down to the nub of things now, with John Locke caught in between two different forces -- love it!