Category: Moving Media

  • Grammy 2010 Nominations

    Well, I certainly don’t keep track with Grammy Awards anymore, so should I be adding the event to my Award Season calendar? Or should I just wait to run into it when it’s airing?

    Grammy nominations were announced last night, and I’m glad I’m not the only one wondering why are the Grammy nominations so similar to MTV, the AMA and every other music-related award show? Just take a look at the General Field nominees to see what I’m talking about.

    Record of the Year
    Beyonce – Halo
    The Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
    Kings of Leon – Use Somebody
    Lady Gaga – Poker Face
    Taylor Swift – You Belong with Me

    Album of the Year
    Beyonce – I Am… Sasha Fierce
    The Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D
    Lady Gaga – The Fame
    Dave Matthews Band – Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King
    Taylor Swift – Fearless

    Song of the Year
    Lady Gaga – Poker Face
    Maxwell – Pretty Wings
    Beyonce – Single Ladies
    Kings of Leon – Use Somebody
    Taylor Swift – You Belong With Me

    Best New Artist
    Zac Brown Band
    Keri Hilson
    MGMT
    Silversun Pickups
    The Ting Tings

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  • Annie Awards 2010 Nominations?

    Say what?

    I’m really pissed right now.

    The Annie Awards (that’s the best animation awards) just announced their nominees, included for Best Animated Feature are, of course:

    • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
    • Coraline
    • Fantastic Mr. Fox
    • The Princess and the Frog
    • The Secret of Kells
    • Up

    Yup. That’s it. Say WHAT? Where’s Mary and Max?

    You mean to tell me that THE best animated film of the year doesn’t get recognition from its own medium? Yeah, whatever. These are the awards that declared Kung Fu Panda better than WALL-E, so maybe we should be talking about actual technical animation than actual film.

    The whole list of nominees is here.


  • 2010 Independent Spirit Awards Nominations!

    I totally messed up the date on my calendar xD
    I thought it was gonna be tomorrow.

    Anyway, some surprise, and some not so surprise.
    You might have seen a few already~~~

    Spirit Awards will be handed out on March 5th, 2010 at 8pm. PST.

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  • Amy’s Experiment Awards *Update 2*

    Here’s the main idea post.

    And yes, I made it passed the 48 films. I’m nearly on my film #70, I think.

    Since it’s nearly December here, and it’s December already in several places. It’s time for a reminder because I haven’t heard from many of you, and I promised to remind everyone.

    • You’ve got all this month to watch films to complete your 48 film-count.
    • Your nomination list should be sent by January 7th 2010.
    • Nominations categories are the same as the Academy Awards, except;
      • no Best Foreign Film category.
      • no shorts (documentaries, animated or live-action)
      • no Documentary Features either.
    • Nominations are announced on January 10th 2010
    • Voting for a winner ends on January 28th 2010
    • Winners are announced January 31st 2010.

    So grab and Academy Award nomination list, fill in the blanks except for the categories specified above, and send them my way. ;P


  • Rocko’s Modern Life – Non-Official Release Vs. Torrents

    I received a notification on my email that Amazon was going to begin selling The Best of Rocko’s Modern Life: Volume 3 this week. First of all, I wasn’t aware that Volume 1 and Volume 2 were on the market. Then I read properly. It’s not an official release! It’s on DVD-R, so they won’t play on many DVD players. And they’re edited! And you gotta pay over $20USD for those volumes.

    So that’s about $60 for just three volumes.
    The Best of Rocko’s Modern Life – Volume 1
    The Best of Rocko’s Modern Life – Volume 2
    The Best of Rocko’s Modern Life Volume 3 (2 Disc set)

    Now, is that fair? As a consumer, and as a fan of the show?

    No, I don’t think so.

    So this is a link to the complete 4 seasons of Rocko’s Modern Life.


  • Glee Quote of the Week – S01×11 – Hairography

    Sorry for the late post on Glee.

    This week’s quote has also to do with the screencap~~~

    glee-ep1x11-steal-it

    “How to Raise a Baby on Five Dollars a Day”

    Saw it at the bookstore. Figured I’d steal it for you.
    You know, in case you change your mind and decide you wanna keep it.

    thank you Puck and Quinn…


  • Family-Outing-Styled Hyori~

    Hahaha, it’s hard to resist Family Outing Hyori.
    So irresistibly a-dork-able Hyori. xD
    And man, that fake Afro. Totally kills me.

    And yes, I’m sad Jaesuk is leaving. No more FO. U.u

    – edit –

    Since the video was deleted from YouTube, I wonder if this new version can load. If not, you can try to check it out at Soha.vn


    Yeah, yeah. Didn’t post anything substantial today. I know.

    Watched Precious last night. *sighs* It was sad.
    Like, “want to hug you” sadness.

    — EDIT —

    Seems the video is gone from the net. :(

    Here’s something to get you by.

    — EDIT 2 —

    Lo and behold!


  • Prepare for Award Season 2009~

    I received my Independent Spirit Awards agreement over the weekend, which allows me to get screeners (of some) of the films that will get nominated for the next Indie Spirits, which I just got my notification on Google calendar. xD That means it’s nearly award season, which will bring a LOT of Nomination and Winners posts until the first week of March when the Oscars happen.

    In the meantime, here are some Academy Awards posts to keep you busy and updated.

    Hope that keeps you busy. xD


  • Must See Movies by We Are Seventeen

    We Are Seventeen has created a pretty cool motion piece with some Must See Movies.

    must-see-movies-casablanca

    Check out the video here. [needs Quicktime]


  • AMA’09 – Again, Did You?

    The American Music Awards — it’s still on, though I’m guessing there’s about 20min left. Taylor Swift is such a sweety. As for performances, were you impressed? Because I wasn’t that entertained.

    I did like Lady Gaga’s performance though, I don’t really go crazy about her music — album-wise — but her performances have been pretty cool. And her performance, alongside Whitney Houston and… yeah, even a little bit J.Lo were the best of the night, in my opinion.

    Gaga’s stage performance, alongside the energy of the song, the lights, the theatrics, the glass-breaking, the piano-playing and the bottle-breaking, I thought it was interesting.

    J.Lo’s performance — was that a comeback? — of her song Louboutins, it was kinda interesting (songs average, though). I liked the entrance to the boxing ring, and the choreography was pretty good. Note how her feet moved, instead of just jiggling her stuff. Jiggling your ham is not dancing, people. Feet gotta be moved.

    And Whitney. Oh, my. I do love a good comeback. What a voice. The song on the album was okay, but the performance brought it to that level. Loads of feeling, I miss that feeling. And those shots with the backlights, they made Whitney look pretty rocking.

    And LOL, Adam Lambert. Never seen him perform, but Maca always fuzzed about him. His performance was pretty good. He looked a little bit weird, but there were other parts that were pretty good. There was a lot of touching, including some pretending c*cksucking from a guy and a woman. And a bit of guy-on-guy action — right? coz the keyboards was a dude, right? We don’t see enough of that. They seriously cut from a close-up to a general shot when that happened.

    Other performances of the night? Janet Jackson — who was pretty okay, I guess — Black Eyed Peas, Carrie Underwood, Shakira, Rihanna, Keith Urban, Mary j. Blige, Alicia Keys solo and with Jay-Z, Eminem with 50 Cent… and Timbaland’s performance which was okay, but truly can’t stand the way he sounds any longer. He’s overdone it.

    Winners don’t really matter. No, really. I mean it.

    But congrats to Taylor Swift who won big, including Artist of the Year.

    — EDIT —

    LOL, honestly. There’s a lot of talk about Adam Lambert. I knew it. The average American Idol viewer couldn’t take that performance. A lot of self-proclaimed Lambert fans who will not be buying the album tomorrow because of the crotch on the face, the S&M stuff, and the guy-on-guy kiss. Get over yourself, people. Female performers do it all the time, and no one says anything about it. If it had been a girl doing all the crotch grabbing, and there had been a girl on girl kiss no one would have made a peep.

    Bunch of Mo’phobes.