Items From My Oscar To-Watch List Continue To Get Crossed Off...

Soo... Here's An Oscar Update:

Movie Count:

Seen: 27

Unseen: 33

1. American Sniper
2. Aya
3. Begin Again
4. Beyond the Lights
5. Big Hero 6
6. The Bigger Picture
7. Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
8. Boogaloo And Graham
9. The Boxtrolls
10. Boyhood
11. Butter Lamp (La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak)
12. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
13. Citizenfour
14. Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
15. The Dam Keeper
16. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
17. Feast
18. Finding Vivian Maier
19. Foxcatcher
20. Glen Campbell...I'll Be Me
21. Gone Girl
22. The Grand Budapest Hotel
23. Guardians of the Galaxy
24. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
25. How to Train Your Dragon 2
26. Ida
27. The Imitation Game
28. Inherent Vice
29. Interstellar
30. Into the Woods
31. Joanna
32. The Judge
33. Last Days in Vietnam
34. The Lego Movie
35. Leviathan
36. Maleficent
37. Me and My Moulton
38. Mr. Turner
39. Nightcrawler
40. Our Curse
41. Parvaneh
42. The Phone Call
43. The Reaper (La Parka)
44. The Salt of the Earth
45. Selma
46. A Single Life
47. Song of the Sea
48. Still Alice
49. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
50. Tangerines
51. The Theory of Everything
52. Timbuktu
53. Two Days, One Night
54. Unbroken
55. Virunga
56. Whiplash
57. White Earth
58. Wild
59. Wild Tales
60. X-Men: Days of Future Past

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So, as of 8:10pm on Feb. 19, 2015, I still have 33 movies to go.

I'm being realistic with the fact that I know there's no way I'll be able to see all of them... There's no way... Unfortunately, so many of the movies haven't even been released, so there's no way I can see them! Oh well! I've seen more nominated movies now than I I've ever seen before.

Oh Won't You Stay With Me, Cause I Won't Back Down...

MUSIC.

I hate when I get fooled by Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama," and think I'm about to be graced by "Werewolves of London," by Warren Zevon...

Werewolves of London

VS.

Sweet Home Alabama

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Like, I know they aren't the same song. If you listen to each of them, right after another (the beginnings), you can hear the differences, but they are just soooo similar still.

It's so cruel when I'm listening to the radio & I get super pumped for 5 seconds and then realize "Werewolves of London" isn't the song that's actually playing... I don't care that SHA came first... WoL is better... Sry.

BUT! That's not even the worst part...

You know what's worse?

WHEN THE SONG IS NEITHER OF THE TWO.

That's right.

Sometimes you get double-fooled and the song is actually "All Summer Long" by Kid Rock...

My hopes were up.. and then BAM.

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Another one that is literally an actual copy...

Rixton's "Me & My Broken Heart"

VS.

Rob Thomas' "Lonely No More"

Like......... The actual same. Bye.

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Okay, I'm not claiming that they are literally chord-for-chord playing the same exact song throughout the entirety of both songs....

BUT...

The chunks of some of the chord progressions/cadence of parts of the song are seriously too close to not be compared & rightfully so...

**I am also not claiming to be a music expert, clearly...Just an avid music listener/cruel-nit-picky person...

I think this is incredibly relevant right now though.

SAM SMITH vs. TOM PETTY(win)

Tom Petty just successfully sued Sam Smith for Smith's, "Stay With Me" sounding much too similar to Petty's, "I Won't Back Down."

I wasn't convinced at first... Then, I found this:

Whew.

You can definitely hear it.

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But honestly, music has been around for so long... Things are bound to sound similar every once in a while.

Whoops.

Anyway, I found this cool website:

www.soundsjustlike.com

If you go there, you can listen to a bunch of different songs that people have compiled that sound similar. There's a forum below where people comment & it's just really neat to see all the songs over the years that have been "copied."

Well, judge for yourself!