Oscar History, Birdman's Hypnotic Score, and Grasping for Memories with Roots & Honey Herbs

First, here's a big shout-out to Whitney Staeb and Brooke Smith of Roots & Honey Herbs for recently turning me onto a wonderful, homemade herbal tincture called Brain Bloom. But let's backtrack. I was recently thinking of the upcoming Oscars on February 22 -- I had to look up online what edition it is, oh right, it's the 87th program -- and I found it disappointing that composer Antonio Sanchez was not nominated for his hypnotic and starkly naked, percussive based score for Birdman. Unfortunatel...