Dude
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I also thought that A Single Man and Crazy Heart would sneak in, since I didn't picture District 9 getting noticed.
Agreed. Crazy Heart was totally Best Picture nod worthy, as was The Wrestler last year. Best damn movie of last year by far.
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Number 9... Number 9... Number 9...
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I'm rooting for The Dude to win one for Crazy Heart.
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You might wanna move that capo from 2nd to 5th fret to be in the proper key. Otherwise not too bad.
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Anyone who takes a work of art as a reason to kill someone is dangerous, no matter how quiet and composed they seemed. The work itself is not dangerous.
LouieB
Exactly. I don't recall the passages in Catcher that describe in detail how to stalk and kill beloved entertainers.
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Best Picture
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air
Actor in a Leading Role
Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart”
George Clooney in “Up in the Air”
Colin Firth in “A Single Man”
Morgan Freeman in “Invictus”
Jeremy Renner in “The Hurt Locker”
Actor in a Supporting Role
Matt Damon in “Invictus”
Woody Harrelson in “The Messenger”
Christopher Plummer in “The Last Station”
Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones”
Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds”
Actress in a Leading Role
Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side”
Helen Mirren in “The Last Station”
Carey Mulligan in “An Education”
Gabourey Sidibe in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
Meryl Streep in “Julie & Julia”
Actress in a Supporting Role
Penélope Cruz in “Nine”
Vera Farmiga in “Up in the Air”
Maggie Gyllenhaal in “Crazy Heart”
Anna Kendrick in “Up in the Air”
Mo’Nique in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
Animated Feature Film
“Coraline” Henry Selick
“Fantastic Mr. Fox” Wes Anderson
“The Princess and the Frog” John Musker and Ron Clements
“The Secret of Kells” Tomm Moore
“Up” Pete Docter
Art Direction
“Avatar” Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
“Nine” Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
“Sherlock Holmes” Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
“The Young Victoria” Art Direction: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray
Cinematography
“Avatar” Mauro Fiore
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” Bruno Delbonnel
“The Hurt Locker” Barry Ackroyd
“Inglourious Basterds” Robert Richardson
“The White Ribbon” Christian Berger
Costume Design
“Bright Star” Janet Patterson
“Coco before Chanel” Catherine Leterrier
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Monique Prudhomme
“Nine” Colleen Atwood
“The Young Victoria” Sandy Powell
Directing
“Avatar” James Cameron
“The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow
“Inglourious Basterds” Quentin Tarantino
“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels
“Up in the Air” Jason Reitman
Documentary (Feature)
“Burma VJ” Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
“The Cove” Nominees to be determined
“Food, Inc.” Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
“The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers” Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
“Which Way Home” Rebecca Cammisa
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I have a feeling the whole spectacle of the Grammys, which has about as much to do with music as fish have to do with playing basketball, is the reason the band steered clear.
"It's All About the Fans" Grammy interviewer girl doesn't quite get that. I like how she pratically tackles Mikeal.
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Those are some nice cameras, too.
Yeah, not my first inclination to bring to a sweaty punk rock gig.
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From Rolling Stone - Elton giving the guys a standing O:
Indeed, when it came to a sludgy onslaught of guitars, the evening boasted some of the best that modern day artistry can offer. Mellencamp, backed by a stellar house band consisting of Burnett, musical director Don Was, and longtime drummer Kenny Aronoff, kicked things off with a gritty version of “Down By the River,” Silver Lake indie rockers Everest, who are signed to Young’s Vapor Records, delivered “Revolution Blues” by request, while Wilco’s gloriously brash rendition of “Broken Arrow” prompted Elton John to give a standing ovation, which he proudly pointed out to the band backstage following the performance. Earlier in the night, Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy told RS,”We rehearsed this song for two days. The guys in our crew said it was the first time they’d ever seen us rehearse in three years.” He added that they’d chosen “Broken Arrow” because it’s “really episodic and strange and when you hear it, it’s pretty obvious that Wilco has taken a lot from this one song.”
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I believe Wilco played some opening gigs for Crow in '95.
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Leon Russell
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Sheryl, Norah & Beck:
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Hanging with Sir Elton & Beck
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John gives a nice little interview:
http://www.grammy.com/videos/person-of-the-year-interviews-john-stirratt
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The Twitterverse is abuzz with their performance tonight. They covered Broken Arrow and apparently, the crowd loved it. Here's some Tweets below:
Lefsetz: Wilco's doing Broken Arrow, faithfully, even with Mr Soul intro. First act not to use a TelePrompter, you can tell the difference.
spinaltap: Musicares update: Wilco is the best so far!! The intensity and passion is awe-inspiring, the musicianship is without peer, I am overwhelmed!
Lefsetz: Wilco sounds like a band, playing music. Tweedy's voice has found the groove. Wow, band is in the pocket. What music's supposed to sound like.
wilperro: Wilco just rockt the fuckin light out !!!! Omg!!! Amazing!!!!!!!!!
darrellbrown: Wilco kicked major butt at musiccares benefit for Neil young
strategy_samba: @Lefsetz Glad to hear Wilco nailed it, but not surprised. Best band in the country.
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Is it over?
No way.
http://www.beck.com/record_club
Dixie Beach Promenade - Senior Tweedy on vocals, Junior Tweedy on drums, Beck & Mikael & Pat on Synths, Lidell on backups.
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Matt Salinger has led a busy life starring as Captain America in this and other c-movies:
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The mystery grows: What's in author J.D. Salinger's safe?
By Hillel Italie (CP) – 8 hours ago
NEW YORK — So what about the safe?
The death this week of J.D. Salinger ends one of literature's most mysterious lives and intensifies one of its greatest mysteries: Was the author of "The Catcher in the Rye" keeping a stack of finished, unpublished manuscripts in a safe in his house in Cornish, New Hampshire? Are they masterpieces, curiosities or random scribbles?
And if there are publishable works, will the author's estate release them?
The Salinger camp isn't talking.
No comment, says his literary representative, Phyllis Westberg, of Harold Ober Associates Inc.
No plans for any new Salinger books, reports his publisher, Little, Brown&Co.
Marcia B. Paul, an attorney for Salinger when the author sued last year to stop publication of a "Catcher" sequel, would not get on the phone Thursday.
Salinger's son, Matt Salinger, referred questions about the safe to Westberg.
Stories about a possible Salinger trove have been around for a long time. In 1999, New Hampshire neighbour Jerry Burt said the author had told him years earlier that he had written at least 15 unpublished books kept locked in a safe at his home. A year earlier, author and former Salinger girlfriend Joyce Maynard had written that Salinger used to write daily and had at least two novels stored away.
Salinger, who died Wednesday at age 91, began publishing short stories in the 1940s and became a sensation in the 1950s after the release of "Catcher," a novel that helped drive the already wary author into near-total seclusion. His last book, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour," came out in 1963 and his last published work of any kind, the short story "Hapworth 16, 1924," appeared in The New Yorker in 1965.
Jay McInerney, a young star in the 1980s thanks to the novel "Bright Lights, Big City," is not a fan of Hapworth and is skeptical about the contents of the safe.
"I think there's probably a lot in there, but I'm not sure if it's necessarily what we hope it is," McInerney said Thursday. "'Hapworth' was not a traditional or terribly satisfying work of fiction. It was an insane epistolary monologue, virtually shapeless and formless. I have a feeling that his later work is in that vein."
Author-editor Gordon Lish, who in the 1970s wrote an anonymous story that convinced some readers it was a Salinger original, said he was "certain" that good work was locked up in New Hampshire. Novelist Curtis Sittenfeld, frequently compared to Salinger because of her novel "Prep," was simply enjoying the adventure.
"I can't wait to find out!" she said. "In our age of shameless self-promotion, it's extraordinary, and kind of great, to think of someone really and truly writing for writing's sake."
Some of the great works of literature have been published after the author's death, and even against the author's will, including such Franz Kafka novels as "The Trial" and "The Castle," which Kafka had requested be destroyed.
Because so little is known about what Salinger was doing, it's so easy to guess. McInernay said he has an old girlfriend who met Salinger and was told that the author was mostly writing about health and nutrition. Lish said Salinger told him back in the 1960s that he was still writing about the Glass family, featured in much of Salinger's work.
But the Salinger papers might exist only in our dreams, like the second volume of Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls," which the Russian author burned near the end of his life. The Salinger safe also could turn into a version of Henry James' novella "The Aspern Papers," in which the narrator's pursuit of a late poet's letters ends with his being told that they were destroyed.
Margaret Salinger, the author's daughter, wrote in a memoir published in 2000 that J.D. Salinger had a precise filing system for his papers: A red mark meant the book could be released "as is," should the author die. A blue mark meant that the manuscript had to be edited.
"There is a marvelous peace in not publishing," J.D. Salinger told The New York Times in 1974. "Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure."
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I give it a 3.7 out of 3.8.
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i just realized...
Horchata = The Rugrats Theme
I think you're onto something...
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Prolific? How do you figure. Not based on his actual published work at this point.
Think he was making a funny based on that "prolific" debate that was had on here not too long ago.
Catcher was great, but my favorite Salinger were his short stories collected here:
Bananafish, For Esme, Laughing Man. My dad used to read some of the more "innocent" Salinger stories to us when we were kids.
I'm hopeful there are some great books / stories to be published upon his death. He seems like the sort of guy that spent years planning for this day.
my cover of Jesus. etc.
in Just A Fan
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Hahah yeah. Understood on the vocal range thing. I admit, covers bug me when they are in significantly different keys. I'll cope somehow.