A good friend of mine, Mikey, over at the www.the-reviewer.net is sponsoring a Fantasy Oscar Pick contest. Basically you pick your winner for each category and accumulate points for each that you get correct, who ever gets the most points wins a free blu-ray or dvd copy of any of the nominees.
For more information and to enter go here.
After the award show, I’ll be sure to post who i thought would win, who i thought should win and who actually won!
Make your picks here
Favorite Movie of the Year: Inception
Worst Movie of the Year: The Last Airbender
Best Director of the Year: Christopher Nolan – Inception
Best Screenplay of the Year: Black Swan
Most Overrated Movie of the Year: Twilight: Eclipse
Most Underrated Movie of the Year: Kick-Ass
Trippiest Movie of the Year: Black Swan
Best Comedy of the Year: Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Best Horror Movie of the Year: Shutter Island
Best Animated Movie of the Year: Despicable Me
Best Sci-Fi Movie of the Year: Inception
Best Special Effects of the Year: Tron: Legacy
Biggest Disappointment of the Year: Clash of the Titans
Biggest Surprise of the Year: Easy A
Best Actor of the Year: Leonardo DiCaprio – Shutter Island
Best Actress of the Year: Natalie Portman – Black Swan
Best Supporting Actor of the Year: Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Inception
Best Supporting Actress of the Year: Mila Kunis – Black Swan
Breakthrough Performance of the Year: Tom Hardy – Inception
Favorite Celebrity of the Year: Conan O’Brien
Coolest Character(s) of the Year: Arthur – Inception
Best Music in a Movie: Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Favorite Movie Poster of the Year: The Social Network
Best Trailer of the Year: Tron: Legacy
Best DVD of the Year: Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Best Action Sequence of the Year: The Town – Final shootout
Most Memorable Scene in a Movie : Toy Story 3 – Andy says goodbye
Best T&A of the Year: Mary Elizabeth Winstead – Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Best Line of the Year: The Social Network – “I’m 6’5, 220 pounds and there are two of me.”
(*) = Actually Won
(<3) = Should have won (if there is no <3, then I disliked all of the nominees)
Record of the Year:
* Need You Now, Lady Antebellum
Nothin’ On You, B.o.B. feat. Bruno Mars
Love The Way You Lie, Eminem feat. Rihanna
F*** You, Cee Lo Green
<3 Empire State of Mind, Jay-Z and Alicia Keyes
Album of the Year:
<3 * The Suburbs, Arcade Fire
Recovery, Eminem
Need You Now, Lady Antebellum
The Fame Monster, Lady Gaga
Teenage Dream, Katy Perry
Song of the Year:
* Need You Now, Lady Antebellum
Beg, Steal or Borrow, Ray LaMontagne and the Pariah Dogs
<3 F*** You, Cee-Lo Green
The House That Built Me, Miranda Lambert
Love The Way You Lie, Eminem, feat. Rihanna
Best New Artist:
* Esperanza Spalding
Justin Bieber
Drake
Florence and The Machine
Mumford & Sons
Best Pop Vocal Album
* The Fame Monster, Lady Gaga
My World 2.0, Justin Bieber
I Dreamed a Dream, Susan Boyle
<3 Battle Studies, John Mayer
Teenage Dream, Katy Perry
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
* Lady Gaga, Bad Romance
Sara Bareilles, King of Anything
| Beyoncé, Halo (Live)
Norah Jones, Chasing Pirates
Katy Perry, Teenage Dream
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
* Bruno Mars, Just the Way You Are
Michael Bublé, Haven’t Met You Yet
Michael Jackson, This Is It
Adam Lambert, Whataya Want From Me
<3 John Mayer, Half of My Heart
Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals:
<3 * Hey, Soul Sister (Live), Train
Don't Stop Believin' (Regionals Version), Glee Cast
Misery, Maroon 5
The Only Exception, Paramore
Babyfather, Sade
Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals:
* Imagine, Herbie Hancock, Pink, India.Arie, Seal, Konono No. 1, Jeff Beck & Oumou Sangare
<3 Airplanes II, B.o.B, Eminem & Hayley Williams
If It Wasn't For Bad, Elton John & Leon Russell
Telephone, Lady Gaga & Beyoncé
California Gurls, Katy Perry & Snoop Dogg
Best Dance Recording:
* Only Girl (In The World), Rihanna
Rocket, Goldfrapp
In For The Kill, La Roux
Dance In The Dark, Lady Gaga
Dancing On My Own, Robyn
Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals:
<3 * Tighten Up, The Black Keys
Ready To Start, Arcade Fire
I Put A Spell On You, Jeff Beck & Joss Stone
Radioactive, Kings Of Leon
Resistance, Muse
Best Hard Rock Performance:
* New Fang, Them Crooked Vultures
A Looking In View, Alice In Chains
Let Me Hear You Scream, Ozzy Osbourne
Black Rain, Soundgarden
<3 Between The Lines, Stone Temple Pilots
Best Rock Song:
* Angry World, Neil Young
Little Lion Man, (Mumford & Sons
Radioactive, Kings Of Leon
Resistance, Muse
<3 Tighten Up, The Black Keys
Best Rock Album
* The Resistance, Muse
Emotion & Commotion, Jeff Beck
Backspacer, Pearl Jam
Mojo, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Le Noise, Neil Young
Best Alternative Music Album
* Brothers, The Black Keys
The Suburbs, Arcade Fire
Infinite Arms, Band Of Horses
Broken Bells, Broken Bells
<3 Contra, Vampire Weekend
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration:
* Wake Up! Everybody, John Legend, The Roots, Melanie Fiona & Commo
Nothin’ On You, B.o.B Featuring Bruno Mars
Deuces, Chris Brown, Tyga & Kevin McCall
Love The Way You Lie, Eminem & Rihanna
<3 Empire State Of Mind, Jay-Z & Alicia Keys n
Best Rap Song:
* Empire State Of Mind, Jay-Z & Alicia Keys
Love The Way You Lie, Eminem & Rihanna
Not Afraid, Eminem
Nothin’ On You, B.o.B feat. Bruno Mars
<3 On To The Next One, Jay-Z & Swizz Beatz
Best Rap Album:
* Recovery, Eminem
The Adventures Of Bobby Ray, B.o.B
Thank Me Later, Drake
<3 The Blueprint 3, Jay-Z
How I Got Over, The Roots
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals:
* As She’s Walking Away, Zac Brown Band & Alan Jackson
Bad Angel, Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert & Jamey Johnson
Pride (In The Name Of Love), Dierks Bentley, Del McCoury & The Punch Brothers
Hillbilly Bone, Blake Shelton & Trace Adkins
I Run To You, Marty Stuart & Connie Smith
Best Country Song:
* Need You Now, Lady Antebellum
The Breath You Take, George Strait
Free, Zac Brown Band
The House That Built Me, Miranda Lambert
I’d Love To Be Your Last, Gretchen Wilson
If I Die Young, The Band Perry
Best Country Album:
* Need You Now, Lady Antebellum
Up On The Ridge, Dierks Bentley
You Get What You Give, Zac Brown Band
The Guitar Song, Jamey Johnson
Revolution, Miranda Lambert
Since I started using Firefox something like six years ago and discovered tabbed browsing I began to demand this feature in every app that I use. I use pidgin for tabbed chat and now I use TotalFinder to add tabs in finder.
Before I found TotalFinder I would always have something like four or five finder windows open and would get confused and move files to the wrong window and eventually get frustrated at the time wasted.
Being the child of the internet that I am, I did a google search for “tabbed finder” and came across TotalFinder. Total finder was the answer to all of my prayers and then some.
Suddenly the clutter of all the apps I was running plus all of the finder windows I had open had been significantly reduced and on top of that I can use the visor to instantly bring up a finder window on top of everything rather than using expose to show all of my open windows and then try to figure out which window I was actually looking for.
Another note worthy feature of TotalFinder is that it will arrange all of your folders at the top of the window instead of spreading them out alphabetically amongst the other files, something that has always annoyed me.
I highly recommend this app to all users of OS X, trust me, it’s def worth the $15 to eliminate the headaches not having it can cause.
TotalFinder can be purchased here – http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/
Somehow with the “hustle” of life I managed to get behind on comics and I mean WAY behind!!! Currently I’m in the process of catching back up and hopefully should be finished by the beginning of February. My plan at that point is to begin doing my one line comic reviews on a weekly basis again. I’ve also updated the comics page on the site to list my pulls for February, so you can know what to expect for the month.
In other news, Michael and I started playing DC Universe Online and at the moment I’m def preferring it over WoW. We’ll see how long it lasts, when you’ve played Warcraft for as long as I have, it’s easy to get momentarily caught up in new games.
