Substance triumphs! “Once” wins an Oscar

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“Best Original Song” was the only award that I had invested any emotional energy into at the Oscars last night. If you have not seen Once and you have any love at all for the creative process of making music, you are doing yourself a disservice. The performance of “Falling Slowly” given by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova last night, while not quite on the emotional scale of the version featured in the movie, made it pretty obvious who the rightful winners should be. And then, lo and behold, the rightful winners won! Cheers, guys!

P.S.- Good on ya, John Stewart, for letting Marketa come back out to finish her acceptance speech. [ms]