MOG

Yes, I, too, have been snubbed by the Oscars.

You see, I scored a feature in the year 2004, and this movie also featured an original song by me. Long Gone Daddy was its name, and Kalen Egan was its auteur - a then-enfant terrible, if you will, of Santa Cruz, now destined to become an - if you will - enfant terrible of Hollywood any day now. (He is one of the three authors of Six-Reel Shuffle, obviously the most influential blog, about anything, of all time - and I think actually it's on track to supercede, in the history books, the - by comparison - amateurish Cahiers du Cinema journal.) Anyway, it was a pretty cool movie, and had the year's best score; I'm not going to lie about it. And did the Academy even come close to recognizing me? Despite the several phone messages they left me - each one with a more desperate tone - that I did not return? No. Not at all. And look at what they nominated instead ... it's a walk in the park of mediocrity, both the scores AND songs.

You guys want to hear it? Well, here you go: Here's the whole thing! I'm proud of it, and you can both download and stream it from that link, so check it out.

But would I be done if I didn't use the revolutionary MOG player?

Here's - from the closing credits - the best song would-be-nominee for 2004, written and performed by yours truly, entitled "Quelqu'un doit arreter ceci":

I admit, it's not too representative of the score at large ... and I couldn't afford someone other than myself to sing in French, or else I might've hired someone (ABC probably could've ponied up the cash to get Celine on stage, had it been a nominee), but the movie takes some twists and turns to get to its ending, so I figured it would be only appropriate to throw a curveball. I guess the Academy doesn't like risks.