15 Albums that Changed My Life

I stole this from Antonio. These are basically my favorite albums and a few of them have changed the way I think about music.

1. Abbey Road - The Beatles
2. Purple Rain - Prince
3. Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
4. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
5. Speaking In Tongues - Talking Heads
6. Ten - Pearl Jam
7. Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
8. Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones
9. Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
10. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
11. Is This It? - The Strokes
12. Aquemini - Outkast
13. OK Computer - Radiohead
14. Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
15. The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths

Academy Awards Recap

Considering all of the hype surrounding the Academy Awards with the new format and all I gotta say they were just okay. Hugh Jackman wasn't that good of a host I think it would have probably been better if they would have gotten a comedian to be the host like they always do. I liked the stage and how it was much closer to the audience as opposed to year's past. A few highlights of the Oscars for me were Ben Stiller making fun of Joaquin Phoenix, Jack Black's comment on how he does voice work for Dreamworks and then uses the money to bet on Pixar at the Oscars, and Judd Apatow's short film with Seth Rogen and James Franco.

As for the presentations of the awards I really don't like the new format for presenting the acting Oscars by having a past winner talk about a current nominee. If the producers wanted to bring down the length of the telecast they should have just done the clips like they always do. I also found it odd that they had Reese Witherspoon presenting the award for Best Director couldn't they have just gotten someone who had won the award before instead of an actress? I did like the way they went through some of the technical Oscars pretty quickly though.

As for the winners themselves I got 19/24 right which is better than I did last year. I think I only got 15 or 16 right last year. I was a bit disappointed Mickey Rourke and Waltz With Bashir didn't win but that's about it. Anyways thats pretty much all I really have to say about the Oscars.

Coming soon an entry about something completely different.

81st Academy Awards Predictions

Here are my predictions for tomorrow night's Academy Awards.

Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
Best Actress: Kate Winslet – The Reader
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Director: Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy – Slumdog Millionaire
Best Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black – Milk
Best Original Score: A.R. Rahman – Slumdog Millionaire
Best Original Song: Jai-Ho – Slumdog Millionaire
Best Animated Feature: Wall-E
Best Foreign Film: Waltz With Bashir
Best Documentary Film: Man On Wire

I am not even going to bother with the categories for the Tech Awards and Short Films. They are the most wide open and the awards that most people who watch the Oscars care about the least.

My First Post

Hello everyone,
I have decided to start a blog. I dunno if I will end up using this a whole lot I just want to give it a try. I am thinking about making this be a place to post random thoughts about things and maybe even some movie and music reviews.