GSTL Dopy

So, my GSTL and I had a bit of a disagreement today. I can't stand carts. I hate having to do that but I do it and I don't complain to everyone about it. I just do it. I hate carts like I hate the FAA for my medical certificate ordeal. Anyway when I went to work on Tuesday, I got "Oh my god Derek's gonna come today and everything has to be perfect." Derek is our district manager for Target. And of course, he didn't show up. I come to work on Friday and, "Oh sweet Jesus, God Almighty, Derek's coming tomorrow and if the store isn't completely perfect, the apocalypse will come and we'll all die!" So Friday night, I wound up staying at work for an additional 40 minutes making sure that there were no carts in the entire parking lot, taking the trash back to the back room, and a bunch of other mundane tasks that cart attendants are supposed to do that I can't stand. The next day I had to open and I wasn't thrilled about that. Leaving work at 10:45 and having to be back at 8am isn't fun especially when your roommate keeps you up by talking on the phone at three o'clock in the morning. But anyway, now it's Saturday; judgement day and the first thing I get at 8am is "In case you forgot what I told you last night, Derek's coming today and if everything isn't just perfect, we'll all die and the apocalypse will come. I need y ou to go outside, get on you hands and knees and pick tiny pieces of trash and debris off of the ground that the overnight crew left outside. Walk around the parking lot and get all the trash off of the ground. And come back when you're done." Now I'm really pissed cuz its like I saw you less than 12 hours ago and I remember what you said to me; I'm not an idiot but I just brushed it off. As the day went on, we got busier and busier which I wasn't really concerned with because we're one of the busiest stores in the district and I've learned to deal. The carts were kind of low and I came back in with a line and she says to me "You're going to get more carts right Kevin?" --- No you dumb fuck I'm actually going to go ride around on top of this cool cart mover thing and not do any real work. I didn't actually say that. I kept it to myself. As the day went on, every time I would come through the door, I'd get "You're going to get more carts right Kevin?" So now she's really starding to get on my nerves because It's like I'm an idiot and I'm not. The the worst thing that could possibly happen does. The remote control on the cart mover stops working which means it takes two people to operate rather than one. I had some ideas on how to fix it. I had to plug the cart mover in and take the batteries out of the remote and put the batteries back in. While this was going on, the person who was covering my break is outside pushing carts manually. I went over to Guest Service because the person at Guest Service called me over there. I came back over to the cart mover to unplug it from the charger and I get. "Kevin you can't stand here all day and try to fix it you need to either get it working or go help pushing carts." Now I'm like where the FUCK is this coming from because I had informed my obviously perfect and infallable boss EXACTLY how I was going about trying to fix the cart mover. She has a radio too so she should have heard me being summoned by Guest Service. Anyway, the time between me plugging in the cart mover and unplugging it had to have been about 3 mins tops. I told her "Well I have to unplug it before I turn it back on to see if it will work." "Kevin, why have you been copping an attitude all day whenever I ask you do to something?" I guess she was puzzled I decided to help her -- "Beacuse you're treating me like an unintelligent three year old that doesn't know how to do his job. You're asking me every time I come in here whether or not I"m going to get more carts; what else would I be doing? Honestly. You didn't even give me a chance to unplug the cart mover before you yelled at me about not helping Melissa." "Well, it's my job to make sure the front end looks brand and that we have enough carts. It's my job to follow up and I was just reminding you that Melissa was outside pushing carts." -- All of this I am aware of but the fact is I know she's outside pushing carts and I'd already told you this was the last thing I was trying and following up doesn't mean you hound me every thirty seconds about it. We didn't talk anymore the rest of the day. I left a note for her boss. I need to talk to her because apparently Jody thinks I'm thick. I really hate shopping carts. If I never see another shopping cart as long as I live, I will have lived a good life. I want to see other stuff. just not shopping carts. Oh and the apocalypse never happened. Derek never showed up. There was a fire at our Butler, PA store. He has more important things to do than worry about a square inch of paper on the ground next to the trash can.

Plan B

We had protesters at Target. The were protesting Target not carrying Plan B or the "Morning After Pill" because we are violating women's rights by not carrying it @ Target Pharmacy. They starting handing out material outside the store and they were happy to protest until our manager came out and said "We'd be more than happy to fill your prescription if you take it to the pharmacy. Apparantly the 20 dumbasses had us confused with Wal*Mart. Target does carry Plan B.

Damn

http://acrosstheboard.blogspot.com/2006/02/dude-what-happened-to-your-car.html

Profound

"We stand here today no longer as rivals or adversaries. We are no longer foes but friends. Friends who work together so that the hopes of our societies, and indeed world, may be made manifest. We stand here today on this common ground, with the common goal of attaining common good; professing our faith in and allegiance to this new system of international order, this renewed, reformed and restructured international body of law. The past may have fractured the bonds of humankind which should have held us together as one people, but the present and the future will make those bonds evident as we work together on the great tasks which remain before us: tasks of promoting peace and security, tasks trumpeting human rights and sustainable growth, tasks heralding technological advancement and societal values, the task of working towards a 'Moral Progress' of sorts. We stand here today unquestioning about the origins of the values that we promote; whether they are God-given, man-made, or something entirely different. Here and now we dedicate ourselves to a movement greater than any movement undertaken in history. Its justification is a concept which each member of this body recognizes for its own reasons, and recognizes for the good of all humankind." - Daniel Edward Lewis

With his ASS

This guy made these with his ASS

Far-right UK party to print Muslim cartoon

By Chris Johnson and Kate HoltonWed Feb 22, 12:38 PM ET

The far-right British National Party (BNP) said on Wednesday it would distribute leaflets showing a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad, a move Muslim groups said would provoke protests and was "playing with fire."

A spokesman for the tiny fringe party, which has no seats in parliament but a handful on local councils, said its use of the image was not intended to cause offence, but illustrated how Islam and Western values did not mix.

The party says it is not racist, but its leader Nick Griffin and another activist are due in court on race-hate charges in October.

The cartoon is one of 12 which first appeared in a Danish newspaper and were later reprinted in other European countries, sparking violent protests across the Islamic world. Many Muslims believe it is blasphemous to depict the Prophet.

At least 50 people have been killed during demonstrations around the world, and a Pakistani Muslim cleric last week offered rewards amounting to more than $1 million to anyone who killed any of the Danish cartoonists.

The cartoons have not been published by the mainstream press in Britain.

The content of the leaflets can already be seen on the BNP's Web site and the leaflets will be circulated ahead of local elections in May.

The leaflet asks "Which Do You Find Offensive? A cartoon of Mohammad with a bomb for a turban or Muslim demonstrators calling for terrorist attacks on Europe and the 'extermination' of non-Muslims?"

"PLAYING WITH FIRE"

"By showing you just how mild and inoffensive the cartoon is, we're giving you the chance to see for yourself the huge gulf that exists between the democratic values that we share, and the medieval views that dominate Islam, even supposedly 'moderate' versions," the leaflet said.

The party spokesman said the BNP wanted the cartoon to provoke debate. "We published the cartoon not to offend individual Muslims -- that's most important -- but to make a stand for freedom," he said.

The move drew immediate condemnation.

"The BNP are playing with fire and there can be no doubt they are doing this in order to try to raise tensions and provoke conflict," the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said.

"We would urge all British Muslims to not fall into the trap laid by the far right," added MCB spokesman Inayat Bunglawala.

"British Muslims should refuse to be provoked and continue to keep all protests peaceful and firmly within the law."

Around 15,000 Muslims staged a peaceful protest against the drawings in London last week.

A demonstration earlier in the month provoked outrage after masked men held up placards calling for the beheading of those who insult Islam, and praised the London bombings last July which killed 52 people.

Ian McCartney, chairman of the ruling Labor Party, condemned the leaflets as "straight out of the Nazi textbook."

The BNP commands a fraction of the support of far-right parties elsewhere in Europe but has several seats on local councils, mainly in poorer areas with large ethnic populations.
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The picture above is from a peace rally. They're fuckin crazy.

It's suposed to be siding

i can't take pictures for shit

I Was Only Trying To Get The Bushes

it's really starting to get annoying

I really suck

Another Bomb

I'm pretty sure i'm not cut out for this

My Only Decent Shot

but it seems like no one's listening

Get Real

This tenderly romantic film tells the story of Steve, a young man in a British prep school, as he struggles with coming out and falling in love with the class jock, John... who, amazingly, falls in love with him as well.

Munich

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.

Capote

In 1959, Truman Capote, a popular writer for The New Yorker, learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Halcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the story material, Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, In Cold Blood. To that end, he arranges extensive interviews with the prisoners, especially with Perry Smith, a quiet and articulate man with a troubled history. As he works on his book, Capote feels some compassion for Perry which in part prompts him to help the prisoners to some degree. However, that feeling deeply conflicts with his need for closure for his book which only an execution can provide. That conflict and the mixed motives for both interviewer and subject make for a troubling experience that would produce an literary account that would redefine modern non-fiction.

A Truly Beautiful Thing

A tender love story set during a hot summer on a South-East London housing estate. Jamie, a relatively unpopular lad who bunks off school to avoid football, lives next door to Ste, a more popular athletic lad but who is frequently beaten up by his father and older brother. Such an episode of violence brings Jamie and Ste together: Sandra (Jamie's mum) offers refugee to Ste, who has to 'top-and-tail' with Jamie. Hence, the story tells of their growing attraction for one another, from initial lingering glances to their irrefutable love, which so magnificently illustrated at the end of the film. In deals with the tribulations of coming to terms with their sexuality and of others finding out, in light of Sandra's unwavering loyalty and defence of Jamie and the fear of repercussion should Ste's family find out. The plot is set against sub-texts of Sandra's desire to manage her own pub, and thus escape the estate, and of her new relationship with her hippy boyfriend Tony; and of Leah, the brassy girl next door who has been expelled from school and spends her time listening to Mama Cass records and tripping on a variety of drugs.
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Gay or straight, this is one of the finest movies ever made about self discovery and teenage love. Albeit the end is a little wishful and optimistic, the characters and situations are perfectly developed and realized, ringing true in almost every scene. This movie makes me smile on every level...from the way the two boys discover their affection for one another, the wonderful comedy relief from the next door neighbor Leah (and her relationship with the entire tenement population), and the perfect choice of soundtrack music from Mama Cass that, at times, seems written specifically for certain scenes and works on both a nostalgic and familiarity level. This movie gets better with every viewing...and I'd love to see what happened to each of the characters in a sequal. http://www.daveant.net/btfanfic/authors/phil/NIR_Screenplay_Ver2.htm

Crash

Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a black police detective with a drugged out mother and a thieving younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the distracted district attorney and his irritated and pampered wife, a racist veteran cop (caring for a sick father at home) who disgusts his more idealistic younger partner, a successful black Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with racist cop, a Persian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his shop, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter who is afraid of bullets, and more.

Good Night, and Good Luck

In the early 1950's, the threat of Communism created an air of paranoia in the United States and exploiting those fears was Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin. However, CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow and his producer Fred Friendly decided to take a stand and challenge McCarthy and expose him for the fear monger he was. However, their actions took a great personal toll on both men, but they stood by their convictions and helped to bring down one of the most controversial senators in American history.

Munich

What If.....

the Constitution doesn't include the phrase "separation of church and state." That phrase actually comes from an 1802 letter from President Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association, which was concerned that Anglicanism might become the official (or established) denomination of the new government. Jefferson tried to reassure the worried Baptists no such "establishment" skullduggery was afoot.
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If Anglicanism were the state religion of the United States, capital punishment would not be legal.

They CAN'T do that

Coldplay's announcement at last night's Brit Awards that they will be taking a break has signalled to many the end of the band completely.

Singer Chris Martin announced as the band were accepting their second award of the night for Best Album that: "This means so much to us, especially now. It's going to be a few years before you see us again."

He added: "People are fed up with us - and so are we."

Friends and sources are now claiming that Martin is putting the band on hold to spend more time with his wife Gwyneth Paltrow and their baby Apple. The couple are expecting another child in April.

The 28-year-old singer apparently later told Brits host Chris Evans: "You had a break, so are we."

Coldplay landed a record deal in 1999, and have recorded three award-winning LPs: Parachutes, A Rush of Blood to the Head and 2005's X & Y.

The Speech He Never Gave

We in this country, in this generation, are--by destiny rather than choice--the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of "peace on earth, good will toward men." That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: "except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." -Prepared remarks for a JFK speech to be given November 22, 1963. Never Given

War

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by wind and water and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war--or war will put an end to mankind. - John F. Kennedy, September 25, 1961

For All You IE Users

By Gregg Keizer
TechWeb.comThu Feb 9, 2:15 PM ET

Internet Explorer users can be as much as 21 times more likely to end up with a spyware-infected PC than people who go online with Mozilla's Firefox browser, academic researchers from Microsoft's backyard said in a recently published paper.

"We can't say whether Firefox is a safer browser or not," said Henry Levy, one of the two University of Washington professors who, along with a pair of graduate students, created Web crawlers to scour the Internet for spyware in several 2005 forays. "But we can say that users will have a safer experience [surfing] with Firefox."

In May and October, Levy and colleague Steven Gribble sent their crawlers to 45,000 Web sites, cataloged the executable files found, and tested malicious sites' effectiveness by exposing unpatched versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox to "drive-by downloads." That's the term for the hacker practice of using browser vulnerabilities to install software, sometimes surreptitiously, sometimes not.

"We can't say IE is any less safe," explained Levy, "because we choose to use an unpatched version [of each browser.] We were trying to understand the number of [spyware] threats, so if we used unpatched browsers then we would see more threats."

Levy and Gribble, along with graduate students Alexander Moshchuk and Tanya Bragin, set up IE in two configurations -- one where it behaved as if the user had given permission for all downloads, the other as if the user refused all download permission -- to track the number of successful spyware installations.

During Levy's and Gribble's most recent crawl of October 2005, 1.6 percent of the domains infected the first IE configuration, the one mimicking a na�ve user blithely clicking 'Yes;' about a third as many domains (0.6 percent) did drive-by downloads by planting spyware even when the user rejected the installations.

"These numbers may not sound like much," said Gribble, "but consider the number of domains on the Web."

"You definitely want to have all the patches [installed] for Internet Explorer," added Levy.

In the same kind of configurations, Firefox survived relatively unscathed. Only .09 percent of domains infected the Mozilla Corp. browser when it was set, like IE, to act as if the user clicked through security dialogs; no domain managed to infect the Firefox-equipped PC in a drive-by download attack.

Compare those figures, and it seems that IE users who haven't patched their browser are 21 times more likely to have a spyware attack executed -- if not necessarily succeed -- against their machine.

Most of the exploits that leveraged IE vulnerabilities to plant spyware were based on ActiveX and JavaScript, said Gribble. Those two technologies have taken the blame for many of IE problems. In fact, Firefox boosters often point to their browser's lack of support for ActiveX as a big reason why its security claims are legit.

Levy and Gribble didn't set out to verify that, but they did note that the few successful spyware attacks on Firefox were made by Java applets; all, however, required the user's consent to succeed.

Microsoft's made a point to stress that Internet Explorer 7, which just went into open beta for Windows XP, tightens up ActiveX controls by disabling nearly all those already installed. IE 7 then alerts the user and requires consent before it will run an in-place control.

Good thing, because one of the research's most startling conclusions was the number of spyware-infected sites. One out of every 20 executable files on Web sites is spyware, and 1 in 25 domains contain at least one piece of spyware waiting for victims.

"If these numbers are even close to representative for Web sites frequented by users," the paper concluded, "it is not surprising that spyware continues to be of major concern."

The moral, said Levy, is: "If you browse, you're eventually going to get hit with a spyware attack."

Could This Be The Downfall?

Libby: White House 'Superiors' OK'd Leaks
By TONI LOCY, Associated Press Writer2 hours, 2 minutes ago
A former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney told a federal grand jury that his superiors authorized him to give secret information to reporters as part of the Bush administration's defense of intelligence used to justify invading Iraq, according to court papers.

Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said in documents filed last month that he plans to introduce evidence that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff, disclosed to reporters the contents of a classified National Intelligence Estimate in the summer of 2003.

The NIE is a report prepared by the head of the nation's intelligence operations for high-level government officials, up to and including the president. Portions of NIEs are sometimes declassified and made public. It is unclear whether that happened in this instance.

In a Jan. 23 letter to Libby's lawyers, Fitzgerald said Libby also testified before the grand jury that he caused at least one other government official to discuss an intelligence estimate with reporters in July 2003.

"We also note that it is our understanding that Mr. Libby testified that he was authorized to disclose information about the NIE to the press by his superiors," Fitzgerald wrote.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan refused to comment. "Our policy is that we are not going to discuss this when it's an ongoing legal proceeding," he said.

William Jeffress, Libby's lawyer, said, "There is no truth at all" to suggestions that Libby would try to shift blame to his superiors as a defense against the charges.

Libby, 55, was indicted late last year on charges that he lied to FBI agents and the grand jury about how he learned CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity and when he subsequently told reporters. He is not charged with leaking classified information from an intelligence estimate report.

Plame's identity was published in July 2003 by columnist Robert Novak after her husband, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, accused the administration of twisting intelligence about Iraq's efforts to buy uranium in Niger. The year before, the CIA had sent Wilson to Niger to determine the accuracy of the uranium reports.

Wilson's revelations cast doubt on President Bush's claim in his 2003 State of the Union address that Niger had sold uranium to Iraq to develop a nuclear weapon as one of the administration's key justifications for going to war in Iraq.

On Thursday, Sen. Edward Kennedy (news, bio, voting record), D-Mass., said Cheney should take responsibility if he authorized Libby to share classified information with reporters.

"These charges, if true, represent a new low in the already sordid case of partisan interests being placed above national security," Kennedy said. "The vice president's vindictiveness in defending the misguided war in Iraq is obvious. If he used classified information to defend it, he should be prepared to take full responsibility."

In the summer of 2003, White House officials — including Libby — were frustrated that the media were incorrectly reporting that Cheney had sent Wilson to Niger and had received a report of his findings in Africa before the war in Iraq had begun.

In an effort to counter those reports, Libby and other White House officials sought information from the CIA regarding Wilson and how his trip to Niger came about, according to court records.

Fitzgerald, in his letter to Libby's lawyers, said he plans to use Libby's grand jury testimony to support evidence pertaining to the White House aide's meeting with former New York Times reporter Judith Miller.

During the meeting with Miller on July 8, Libby also discussed Plame, Fitzgerald said. "Our anticipated basis for offering such evidence is that such facts are inextricably intertwined with the narrative of the events of spring 2003, as Libby's testimony itself makes plain," the prosecutor wrote.

Miller spent 85 days in jail for refusing to discuss her source.

Bored.Outtamymind

So,

I'm sitting here in this dumb computer literacy class and we're about to take a test/quiz and i totally forgot about it. I'm really scared I'm gonna fail it - not. Speaking of computer literacy, I haven't actually kept myself up to date on all of the new technological advances like PCIe or PCI Express for graphics card. Last I'd heard we were using AGP 8x. And what's with the AMD 64 Semperion and all the other processors, I don't know how they relate to each other or anything like that anymore. I used to just not anymore. That's of no concequence though, I'm pretty sure I won't need computer building skills to pass this class. Prof's back I think I'd better go now. I'm out

- Didles

Go The Distance

I have often dreamed, of a far off place,
Where a hero's welcome, would be waiting for me,
Where the crowds will cheer, when they see my face,
And a voice keeps saying, "this is where I'm meant to be."

I'll be there someday, I can go the distance
I will find my way, if I can be strong,
I'll know every mile, will be worth my while,
When I go the distance I'll be right where I belong.

Down an unknown road, to embrace my fate
Though the road may wander, it will lead me to you,
And a thousand years, would be worth the wait
It might take a lifetime, but somehow I'll see it through.

And I won't look back, I can go the distance
And I'll stay on track, no I won't accept defeat
It's an uphill slope, but I won't lose hope
Till I go the distance, and my journey is complete

But to look beyond the glory is the hardest part
For a hero's strength is measured by his heart

Like a shooting star, I will go the distance
I will search the world, I will face its harms
I don't care how far, I can go the distance
Till I find my hero's welcome, waiting in your arms

I will search the world, I will face its harms,
Till I find my hero's welcome, waiting in your arms

Brokeback Mountain

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Ang Lee had just returned to his home in New York Tuesday after taking his children to school and hoped to steal a few moments of sleep.

That plan was foiled when the news broke about 8:35 EST that his "Brokeback Mountain" led the Oscar pack with eight nominations, including his citation for best director.

Although "Brokeback's" string of guild nominations had positioned it for Oscar glory, Lee admitted, "we were hopeful, but there was a little anxiety, so this is very good."

As the movie -- which skeptics initially warned might play only to a narrow demographic -- has slowly spread across the U.S., Lee said: "It gives me lots of hope and has taught me a big lesson -- that I should never categorize people. Certainly, I've come to realize that there are more gay people out there than I realized. And I also think the movie speaks to people who are very thirsty and hungry to see something with true emotion and some complexity."

Lee was particularly gratified when "Brokeback" recently opened in his homeland, Taiwan, where it was rated as suitable for moviegoers 12 and older. It opened as the No. 1 film, he noted, and "all kinds of people have gone to see it."

The film's star, Heath Ledger, was in a Los Angeles hotel bed with new wife and "Brokeback Mountain" co-star Michele Williams and their baby daughter, Mathilda, when they heard the news of their Oscar nominations.

"Supporting my partner and enjoying this awards season for her makes it so much more bearable," said Ledger as Williams made calls from another room in their suite. "It means you're not wrapped up in your own nomination. It's exciting, and I'm extremely proud of her. It's sweet. I'm also excited for Jake (Gyllenhaal) and Ang (Lee) and the movie, which is really beautiful, and Annie Proulx, the creator of this story. The biggest reward of this movie was my two girls: I was given a family, which is bizarre."

Williams, meanwhile, said the couple "might get a baby-sitter and go on a date."

Speaking from the set of "Zodiac," supporting actor nominee Gyllenhaal said he was asleep when his agent called him with the news.

"I try not to have expectations. I had given up expectations in the past little while, and it's done me a lot of good. I think it's good to leave your expectations at the door. I feel that way about my birthday, I feel that about Christmas, and I feel that way about this."

One of the first calls "Brokeback Mountain" cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto received after the Oscar nominations was from a popular radio station in Mexico City, his hometown. "It's an exciting day -- we have two Mexican cinematographers nominated," Prieto said of his colleague Emmanuel Lubezki, nominated for "The New World."

Prieto started work on "Brokeback Mountain" right after shooting Oliver Stone's "Alexander."

"I'd say the camera and lighting packages were 10 times smaller on 'Brokeback,"' the first-time nominee said. "That didn't make shooting 'Brokeback' less challenging. We worked on a short schedule, the weather was not cooperating, and (we had) so many locations and time periods. I just never imagined that it would get the attention it's getting. I didn't think it was the kind of cinematography that would get noticed -- we tried to be as organic and unnoticeable as possible -- so it's very exciting."

When the nominations were announced, "Brokeback Mountain" composer Gustavo Santaolalla was in London, readying himself for a Tuesday evening Barbican Hall performance of "Ayre," a collaborative work with Argentinean composer Oswaldo Golijov; Santaolalla appears Friday and Saturday in New York at Lincoln Center with Bajofondo and the Kronos Quartet. Santaolalla, whose Golden Globe-winning song "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" was ineligible for an Oscar nomination because of its brief screen time, received his first Oscar nomination for just his fifth film score after a long career as a performer, songwriter, producer and label operator.

"I started in the music business when I was 16," he said. "I've been at it since I was a kid. I'm totally aware of the speed in which things moved in this new phase. I'm excited and in a state of awe."

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter