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The 2005 JMA Winners

Since 1999, I have done my own version of the Grammy Awards mixed with the Video Music Awards where I pick my favorite album, follow up album, video/song, and new artist in music for each year. This should not be taken seriously, these are just based on the albums and music(from the artists I know and love) that I bought or listened to this year. Artists like Coldplay, Foo Fighters, or Beck are not included on this post because I didn't even listen to their latest albums. So here are the 2005 winners, according to me.

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
MESMERIZE- SYSTEM OF A DOWN
JMA Award winner- Best New Artist 1999




















FOLLOW UP ALBUM OF THE YEAR
(Albums that are somewhat better than the last release)
t.A.T.u.- DANGEROUS AND MOVING
JMA Award Winner- Best New Artist of 2003





















SONG(S)/VIDEO(S) OF THE YEAR
TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET Chapters 1-12
R. KELLY




















BEST NEW ARTIST
????
I'll think about this one later because it seems that no new group came out and totally amazed me like others in the past years. With most new artists, or at least artists new to me, I only heard one song such as:
Different- Acceptance
Gravity- Embrace
Slide- Mark de Clive-Lowe
There are a couple artists I would highly consider.
1. Fall Out Boy- I can tell they didn't come, or start, out this year, but probably a lot of people didn't know them before 2005 either.
2. James Blunt- I like the current single "You're Beautiful" but another song named "Goodbye My Lover" totally had me wanting to burst into tears, which I like, after hearing him perform it on SNL.
So I don't know about which one should be the choice, I'll just have to see what these artists do later and then I'll decide the 2005 Best New Artist.

Along with System of A Down & t.A.T.u., here are the other nominees for album of the year.



311's Don't Tread On Me- Excellent album, but I don't want to be too biased on my favorite group every year. 311 has won several JMAs in the past including 1996, 1999, and 2003 Album of The Year.

Family Guy Live In Vegas- Very funny and it's cool to include a comedy album in the category. What a year it's been for Seth MacFarlane and the creators of the popular FOX show: the show comes back funnier than ever and this CD is released.

Daft Punk's Human After All- Probably would of won Album of the Year if it was longer and it had better songs. It absolutely doesn't measure up with their previous release, Discovery from 2001 which won Best Album for that year. I think they made it too quick, it does have two really amazing songs: Human After All & Robot Rock

My Favorite Film of the Year- This Divided State

I did not include this film on my post named "The Best, Middle, and Worst Films of the Year that I Saw" (a couple posts down) for a couple reasons.
1. I have huge reasons for loving it which include witnessing most of the events of the film as they were happening, going to the school that the film takes place, being obsessed with the story from the start, and finding myself on one of the special features on the DVD after I bought it on the September DVD release date.
2. On that post I wanted to list major motion pictures that played in theaters all over the country and save this film for a separate post.

Now that I have that out of the way. I was excited about this movie ever since I read that director Steven Greenstreet was making it in my campus newspaper. I RSVP'd and attended the February 3rd, 2005 premiere at the Ragan Theater @ Utah Valley State College. It was a very enjoyable experience because I got to laugh and get extremely pissed off at the whole story all over again.

If you don't know the story or what the hell I'm talking about, here's a very good summary.
A raw and riveting examination of the heated "red versus blue" rift in the nation, This Divided State begins in September 2004 with the presidential election fast approaching and the State of Utah ready to declare itself "Bush Country" once again. However, this complacent state of Republican majority was rocked when Utah Valley State College announced that liberal filmmaker Michael Moore would speak on their campus two weeks before the election. Within 24 hours of the announcement, a media frenzy descended upon the school as angry community members and religious leaders shouted protests, pointed fingers, and quoted Mormon scripture. Some even claimed Mooreπs arrival would bring the Apocalypse.
The student body representatives who had invited Michael Moore soon were inundated with hate mail, death threats, and claims that they had committed "treason." An effort to Other students who supported Mooreπs right to speak were labeled "liberal," "anti-Mormon," or just simply "evil." Spearheading the anti-Moore campaign was Kay Anderson, local millionaire, Sunday School teacher and self-appointed community spokesperson. Mr. Anderson made local headlines when he attempted to bribe the college administration, during a public forum, with a personal $25,000 check in order to cancel Michael Mooreπs speech.
Attempting to calm outrage, the college invited FOX News pundit Sean Hannity to speak a few days before Moore. But this was to no avail. The controversy continued to explode into a full-blown war of political and religious differences and, within days, lawsuits were filed, resignations occurred, and friendships were torn apart.

My personal story about the whole thing is that I love Michael Moore and what he does. When I heard from my parents that he was coming to my school, it was like hearing my favorite music group was coming to my city to do a concert. So immediately I got my free student ticket to Michael Moore's speech which was funny cause the ticket lady said to me "Are you sure this is what you want?" All the events between getting my ticket to going to the speech was pure chaos at its best. I saw the "Anti-Moore Rally" and the "Anti-Hannity Rally" take place luckily because I was on my lunch break at school. Without getting into every scene, my opinion on the whole story is it was a big deal over nothing. The school lost donations, the enrollment went down, and most other major changes to school were slightly blamed on the incident. On the other hand, the end of the world didn't come and it brought attention to the school, and at the time it made school a very cool place to because people had something to talk about. Ever since then, school for me has been sort of boring.

Anyway, here's my little review of the film. I wish they put more of the "Anti-Hannity Rally" in the DVD special features first off. This is because there was a guy who said fuck a few times and then a guy came up and said something like, "You should be ashamed of yourself," which was funny. I was sort of disappointed in how they changed the ending from the screening at the premiere to the DVD release. I liked how the filmmakers orignally put a clip of Michael Moore on The Tonight Show telling Jay Leno that Bush won the 2004 election because "Bush got more jokes." Not that I'm conservative, because believe me I'm not, but the whole way he said it was funny.

About Kay Anderson (The obvious antagonist in the film). The guy is not the Mayor of Orem City, my father, my church bishop, the President of Utah Valley State College, or President of the LDS church. So I think he and his wife should move next to Brigham Young University, have a Caffeine Free Diet Coke with a smile, and shut the mother fucking hell up. He had only one good point throughout the whole thing which was that the school would likely lose donations.
I really like how the film showed how much of a dick Sean Hannity is and how polite and tolerant Michael Moore is because he probably did research on the mormons who make up most of the population on location. Oh by the way, free speech works because we know when not to keep our mouths shut and something should definitely be said.

And about Sean Vreeland, the guy should not be doing a "controversial" petition in the middle of the UVSC student center if he's not ready for people to ask why the hell he's doing it. "Read it and sign if you agree" is not good enough. He needs to discuss the reasons why the petititon is such a brialliant idea or go do something else. I remember Vreeland at the time saying that people shouldn't listen to Michael Moore because he's not a college graduate. Well neither was he at the time so that comment just plain sucks ass.

The film captured all the different events very well and not leaving any huge details out. I also love the little scenes outside of the school about a Michael Moore look-a-like and talking to a guy who was in the U.S. Army dressed up as a stormtrooper which makes me laugh because a proud soldier ends up being a Star Wars character. I thought the visit to a place called "Moore Pizza" was good because the guy look so excited to have somebody actually being there. Those and the numerous other shots of places around Utah Valley show what kind of place it is very well.

The film is supposed to be unbiased but in a way it isn't. Yes, both sides get their say and there's no narration in the film but the filmmakers did pick what things to put in it and the questions asked by the director to Kay Anderson and Sean Hannity were to trap them and make their "side" look dumb in my opinion. Not that I hate that but it's good to point out. I loved that a montage of newspaper clippings and other items in the press was displayed in one sequence.

I love the choice of music which is very important in my book. The music was strong in getting the emotions out whether it be calm, angry, or sad. The editing and sound don't bug me cause as long as I can tell what's going on and what people are saying, it's all good to me. The film has plenty of memorable lines. My favorite quote is, "This guy's not evil," said at the public discussion panel portion of the film about Michael Moore as a person.

So as you can see, I have a huge bias for this movie and I recommend it to anyone that is interested. I bought my sister who lives near Washington D.C. a copy and I'm pretty sure she enjoyed it. For more details and a bunch of other stuff, go to the film's website.

RICHARD PRYOR- Dec. 1, 1940--Dec. 10, 2005

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Peanut Butter Jelly Time

Movie Review- Mobsters & Mormons

NOTE- This will be the first and LAST Mormon Movie of any kind I will review on this Blog

I put that note there because I hate to see these movies but I see them anyway because I'm curious about what they have to offer. One reviewer said that this movie was a step up compared to the other mormon flicks. Still, I don't like mormon movies (especially the comedies) because they are highly stupid and very embarrassing because of the place that I live. What's worse, especially with this movie, is the people in the theater talking throughout the movie about how each stupid ass line reminds them of a particular person or thing.

Judging from this movie and the trailers before it, mormon movies are starting to star actors that most people will actually recognize from something else. In this case, it was lead actor Mark DeCarlo who I recognize from an episode of Seinfeld right off the bat. That was one little good thing about the movie.

The jokes suck big time. Most of them have to do with how the Mormons (and Utah) are so different than the "Mobsters" and where they come from. (fry sauce, little or no caffeinated beverages, multiple wives, etc)

The scenes that I actually enjoyed were ones between the "Mobster" son (sitting down on the left) and the chick on the right that sort of looks like an Olsen Twin. It took a break from the crappy Mafia and Mormon stereotyping and just got down to good scenes about two young people interacting and just hanging out without doing a bunch of stuff. It made me think of making fun of The OC televison show and instead call it "The UC" (Utah County).
But since it's a mormon movie, the two don't get involved romantically which sort of sucks.

It started out really bad. Then all of the sudden, it got better as it went along. There's actually parts that were really interesting. (Explosions, chases, etc) The ending is alright, thank God it wasn't really cheesy or crappy like other movies in the genre.

On a 1 to 10 scale, I would give it 6. Of course, I wish there was cursing but what the hell. It didn't leave a shitty taste in my mouth. I liked to see the numerous locations because they are in my area.

__The Best, Middle, & Worst Movies of the Year __(That I Saw). The List Is In No Particular Order

COOL MOVIES
Sin City

Batman Begins

Star Wars Episode III
The Transporter 2
Red Eye
Crash
The Longest Yard

Cinderella Man

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Coach Carter

ALLRIGHT MOVIES
Fever Pitch
The Interpreter
Flightplan
White Noise
Rebound
The Honeymooners
Hitch
Sahara
Monster-In-Law
Hostage
Are We There Yet
The Amityville Horror
Into The Blue
Just Like Heaven

DUMB MOVIES
Deuce Bigalow European Giggilo
Man of the House
The Brothers Grimm
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Kicking And Screaming
The Pacifier
Guess Who
The Perfect Man
Sky High
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Quick Stories from attending the "Holy War"

STORY #1
I attended the BYU vs. Utah college football game on Saturday November 19th, 2005 and it was a pretty good game overall. But this story takes place during halftime of the game when BYU was losing by 21 points and the fans were pissing their pants in anger.

I was sitting on the upper seats of the right stands of Lavell Edwards Stadium when I heard some loud talking between two men about three rows behind me. When I looked back to see what the two guys were talking about, a woman sitting close to them asked a dumb question. "Are you two brothers?" It was like watching a Bill Engvall "Here's Your Sign" joke come to life.
The more angry one of the two replied, "No, we're grandfathers" and then I kid you not, he flipped her off and called her a "bitch" and then used the word "fuck" in the next couple sentences.

It was one of the most funny things I've seen in a while and I couldn't believe something like that would happen on the BYU Campus. If you don't know about the school or the mormon religion then you wouldn't realize how rare this kind of thing is to see. Because it is certainly not tolerated there. That's one of the reasons I don't go to BYU for school.

Of course the woman and the fans sitting close by were pretty shocked and frustrated about what happened. They all started to torment the guy with "Don't do that, don't say that". The dumbest example of other spectators talking back was a father saying to the two guys, "I don't want my 14-year-old son sitting next to me to hear those kinds of words." I thought to myself, "Oh please, he's probably heard the words fuck and bitch about 200 times by the time he turned 14." The kid said it didn't bother him, no duh. This is 2005, not 1955.

Anyway, security took the two guys away for about 10 minutes and then they returned and nothing else really happened. The woman who got flipped off blamed the incident on people not sitting in their exact seats. I understand that because you get such little room on those ass hurting benches.

STORY #2
Earlier when the game started, some fans stood on a bench in front of my dad and I. And when they stood on it, we couldn't see the game. So my dad yelled at them very loudly. Since he doesn't yell that much, it sort of scared the begesus out of me. Then the guys got out of the way and put a motorcycle helmet and jacket down on the bench. I got so pissed at them that I wanted to grab the helmet, take it to the bathroom, and piss in it. I also wanted to throw the jacket towards the field and make the guy go get it. But I didn't do that stuff, I'm not stupid. So I just thought to myself. Stupid nerdy ass fucking dicks, sit the fuck down.

Wrong Door DUMB ASS!!!

This has got to be the picture of the day in my opinion, and shit, look at his face. I wonder if this is the face he makes when he has an orgasm? I heard about this picture this morning on the radio and after hearing the description of it, I just had to go look for it. I saw it the first time this morning on the front page of The New York Times. Then I wanted to post it today and so, here it is. Oh well, 38 more months with this dude in office, there's plenty of more jokes to cum with this guy. (Ha ha get it, the orgasm reference and then I said cum.)

More Movie Reviews

THE BROTHERS GRIMM
Well I knew I didn't REALLYwant to see it but it was OK I guess. I didn't know who or what the hell The Brothers Grimm are. But with all the fairy tale references, I made a pretty easy connection. I am not a big fan of fantasy or horror movies, so this just wasn't my bag. I got a little sleepy during the beginning so it may have thrown me off. It was like watching Van Helsing again, that blah blah blah mystery feel. Not really funny or entertaining but I still kept my eye on it. I did like the brother theme, if you don't have one then the movie doesn't feel real. Matt Damon and Heath Ledger did alright, but not as great as earlier performances from the two. So I suggest seeing it if you know what you are going to get, cause I didn't.

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
(aka, Michael Jackson and the Chocolate Factory) But seriously after watching this I'm convinced that Tim Burton should stick to his weird movies with misunderstood or odd characters and stay the hell away from re-making movies. Planet of the Apes sort of sucked and this one just can't beat the original Willy Wonka movie. It's like comparing the old Star Wars movies with the recent ones, it's hard to compare visual effects and acting because of the change in time. Johnny Depp was very..who gives a shit. The four young actors did very well in their parts. I liked how it stayed true to the book (even though I never read the book but I could tell the certain type of illustrations that have been used in Roald Dahl books was there) The changes this version had were very boring, it's not called Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory so I don't give a rat's ass about Wonka's childhood. The music by Danny Elfman really SUCKED, the movie would of been fine without the Oompa Loompa songs with all the different genres of music. Once again-Tim Burton, keep making your OWN shit, like Big Fish. Thank you

Damn You Blogspot, Let me post some pictures. Anyway, I saw the dumbest movie last night.

The Dumb movie of the moment right now is D.E.B.S.
Don't get me wrong, I love independent movies, especially the ones that were shown at the Sundance Film Festival, but this was a total waste of film.
When the premise of a movie is being told to me or when I read the little summary on the back of the DVD, that's what I want to see dammit.
It was supposed to be a good vs. Evil battle to death, or at least a secret crime fighting unit of females called the D.E.B.S. (I have no clue what it stands for) kicking some ass, chick style.
Jeez, it turned into a very dumb, boring, and irritating lesbian love story.
Before I go on, I don't hate gay people at all, this is not what this is all about. I feel good that a movie that was edited, written, and directed by a Lesbian is being put out there. Plus I saw the movie with a group of gay people and felt comfortable.
Anyway, it turned into a really stupid love story when the villain chick falls in love with one of the good guys, or should I say girls.
Another thing I couldn't stand was that the good guys sucked at being good and the bad guys sucked even more at being bad. In another movie, the D.E.B.S. could of just shot the villain bitch in the first half hour of the movie and then it would be over. No crappy lesbian love and no dumb ass story. Don't get me wrong, I'm a guy and the whole lesbian subtext of the film would of got my attention if it were another movie. But that's not what I wanted out of this movie.
Well that's my rant for now.

I suck at this posting stuff. It's been a while, Sorry.

Here I thought I could say something or bring up something slightly amusing every day, I was so wrong. It's been a while since I've posted something. I'm just busy as usual with all of my schoolwork, mostly the stuff that I have a month to complete: 1 big fat ass argumentative paper, one report about someone or something in the media, and a pretty big paper comparing two films with one common archetype or theme. The thing I should do is just complete all three of these things now and just relax through the rest of the semester, but I'm too lazy to do that.

Anyway, I saw that SKY HIGH movie. Yikes! Talk about your average shitty Disney channel quality movie. It has every cliche of superheroes, high school, and friendship that makes the film so fucking predictable and not to mention DUHHHM. I realize that I was going to react this way before I saw it, but like most movies I just said, "what the hell, I'll see it." My New Years resolution from this year was to see more movies this year than any one before and I've done this by seeing anything no matter how crappy it looks. At the end of the year I will rank all the movies I saw from the very good to the very terrible. Stay tuned

The Monopoly McDonalds game is over thank God, my total winnings from the whole experience was $29 in Best Buy Bucks that I used to get R. Kelly's Trapped in The Closet Chapters 1-12 DVD and Blink 182's Greatest Hits CD, three ringtones that I'll never get probably, and a free song from iTunes that I already used to get Korn's new single Twisted Transistor, and a bunch of the same free food at McDonalds that I DON'T WANT including breakfast sandwiches (breakfast is my least favorite meal), small drinks (Coke products in a small cup doesn't compare to the many cans of Pepsi at my home), and McFlurrys (I don't care about that germ covered M&M creamy bacteria filled ice cream shit).

Goodbye for now

Retro Television

I went to a website recently where people enter the shows that they watched in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. The site is retrojunk.com. Here are the shows that I spotted and remembered as the shows I watched as a young one. Most of them were on Nickelodeon.

The Adventures of Pete & Pete
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Bananas In Pajamas
Bobby's World
Beakman's World
Camp Candy
Dennis the Menace
Doug
Eureeka's Castle
Garfield and Friends
GUTS
Inspector Gadget
MTV Celebrity Deathmatch
Muppet Babies
Rocko's Modern Life
Salute Your Shorts
Today's Special
Wild and Crazy Kids

I know that there are plenty more shows, but those ones made me react in the biggest way.
Makes me say "Oh Yeah, I Remember That!"

A Real Un-Patriotic American, not to mention a bitch.

That bitch Ann Coulter is at it again. For those who don't know her, she is a controversial conservative analyst who is known for being a little crazier than the other analysts you see on TV. Here's a few samples of her dumb ass mouth and the shit it says.

"The torture at the Iraqi prison just goes to show that women shouldn't be in the military"

"My only regret of the Olklahoma City bombing is that they didn't blow up the New York Times building"

"We should invade the Middle East, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity"
and numerous other stupid sayings.

Today I heard the latest quote from Ms. Coulter.
"Democrats are whining so much that frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment"

Meaning she doesn't like one of the things that make this country a good one.
Well you know what, I love my free speech. I god damn fucking son of a bitchin shit ass bastard ass god damn asshole mother fucking love it so much that it allows me to say those things whenever I want, except when I'm in church. That long necked, atom's appled whore should just enjoy her free speech so that she can continue to say all of this bull shit. But I know that's her thing, she just sits all day and pans liberals and democrats. There's people who say she's hilarious, those people are brainless fucks who don't know their ass from their elbows. My point is not liking a part of our fucking constitution is pretty un-patriotic compared to not liking the war in Iraq. Screw all those who still say that.

I'm Back after a few days.

Sorry for not posting anything new for a while, I've just been sitting around doing nothing and thinking about a essay I have to turn in on Wednesday. I have completed it, but I know that the the teacher, I don't want to call him a professor in this case, won't like it because his opinions and all that other English crap will get in the way of his grading. But I don't really care at this point, this essay has been haunting me for a while now and just doing my best and turning it in on time is all I can ask for. A bigger and more important essay has been assigned, and I want to shift my energy to that instead of this dumb causal analysis paper.
In the essay, I'm arguing that the news is too much entertainment-oriented meaning that the news is too sensational. Too much human interest and scandal BS. The kind of stories that really piss me off is missing people, fake kidnappings, feeding tube bullshit that should be more of a family issue than a national covered story, celebrity hook-ups and break-ups, intolerance for opposing political views, and outrage over Janet Jackson's tit popping out while the camera is 400 feet away which means it's pretty damn hard to see it really well. The main point is that this kind of news should be presented on different programs than the network nightly news and 24 hour cable news.

Anyway, I'm tired and I want to go to bed and sleep off all of this thinking about a stupid paper.
By the way I spent 20 of my Best Buy Bucks on the upcoming R. Kelly DVD Trapped In The Closet Chapters 1-12, which is by far the best music video(s) of this year. If you haven't heard or seen it, it's really interesting if you like music with a good storyline.

Good night bloggers, I have enjoyed your comments that don't advertise a web site that I will never go to. Just thought I'd get that point across.