I am ridiculously excited about the upcoming season of Survivor (starts this Thursday on CBS!) where past players will be back in two tribes consisting of the "heroes" and "villians".

( Here's my take on the players )

Okay, so remember last year's Oscars when they had five previous winners of the acting categories each praising the nominees? Like Halle Berry, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Shirley McClaine, and Sophia Loren each praised Kate, Merly, Anne, Angelina, and Melissa and welcomed Kate into their little club.

So I was thinking...if they do that again (highly doubtful though), does that mean in the Best Supporting Actress category, will Penelope Cruz (last year's winner in that category) be praising....herself!?!? (A nominee in this category that year).

LOL, I can just see it now:

"When I saw myself in Nine, I couldn't help but think of what a treasure I am to the acting community and to the world of art. I amaze myself more and more with each role I choose and I'm proud to call myself a fan of...myself. I am so, so, so awesome."

LOL!!! That would be so, so, so awesome if that happened. It would never happen though.

It snowed again last night and it's snowing now. Grrrrr! And it snowed A LOT last night, not just a dusting. I am so sick of all this damn snow! I know it's winter and I live in Ne-fucking-braska, but can't a girl catch a break? Like seriously? And the weather was being so good during the latter part of January. Sure, there were a couple times it snowed, but it was only less than half an inch. But now we're back to a few inches of the shit coming down. By this time, all this snow won't melt until May or June! I am so sick of snow, that it's starting to make me nauseous just looking at it! Seriously! You know how when they play a popular song on the radio all the time and you're just like ENOUGH! I can't stand this anymore! Well, that is exactly how I feel with all this damn snow! Except you can't make it go away.

What makes it even worse is that I left my shovel and snow brush thingy in my car which is in the shop and my dad only has an ice scraper in his. I did get out my broom to dust my car off. And if I crash my dad's car, I am in so much shit! I hate driving in snow; it makes me so paranoid and stressed! UGH! FUCK FUCK FUCK!

Can't we just skip to spring already? Please?

Okay, I really don't pay that much attention to the Grammys (I never watch them), but even I must admit I'm also shocked that Taylor Swift's Fearless won Album of the Year. Not because it isn't a good album (I own it, I love it), but because I read she's the youngest person ever to receive this honor and it's also the first time a first-time nominee won this. That's why I thought it would go to Beyonce or Dave Matthews Band.

A lot of people are saying she only won because of the whole Kanye West controversy and okay, I can kind of see where they're coming from. He did certainly make her more well-known to those who may not have been familiar with her. (Heh, and I wonder what Kanye thinks of Grammy-winning Taylor Swift?) I feel bad that Taylor is getting a lot of backlash for her award because she seems like a sweet girl, is a good role model for young girls, and she writes her own songs and plays the guitar. Now she's shit at singing live...maybe they can work on that?

But these people who are hating on her shouldn't blame Taylor...they should blame Kanye West (as they are the ones that believe he is the reason she only won in the first place). I think the Kanye factor did cross some voters' minds, but c'mon! Just because Kanye was a douche (like always), I find it hard to believe she only won out of pity. Like I said, I think Kanye did make people more aware of her and they probably saw she's a talented girl. But like I said, I don't pay attention to the Grammys so I have no idea if they're notorious for awarding popularity or talent.

Best Picture:

"Avatar"
"The Blind Side"
"District 9"
"An Education"
"The Hurt Locker"
"Inglourious Basterds"
"Precious"
"A Serious Man"
"Up"
"Up in the Air"

I got 7/10. Not bad. I had Nine, The Hangover, and Invictus instead of District 9, A Serious Man, and The Blind Side. BTW, The Blind Side seemed to come out of nowhere. I certainly had a WTF!? reaction when I saw it listed. It was a decent movie, not Oscar-worthy though. It was more like a made for TV movie than anything. Of course Cameron is rooting for it to win and thinks it has a chance. :::rolls eyes::: I told him if that movie wins I will give him fifty dollars because it ain't happening! I've only seen half of the movies on here (though I did rent Inglorious Basterds so I'll be seeing that soon), but there really isn't one movie I'm rooting for like there was when I watched the 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006, and 2009 Oscars. Hopefully by the time I do my predictions I will have seen more movies to get a better feel of which one I like the best.

Best Supporting Actress:
Penelope Cruz, "Nine"
Vera Farmiga, "Up in the Air"
Maggie Gyllenhaal, "Crazy Heart"
Anna Kendrick, "Up in the Air"
Mo'Nique, "Precious"

My worst category; I only got 3/5. Gyllenhaal just came out of nowhere and I didn't think Nine would get any acting nods. I had Julianne Moore and Samantha Morton instead.

Best Supporting Actor:
Matt Damon, "Invictus"
Woody Harrelson, "The Messenger"
Christopher Plummer, "The Last Station"
Stanley Tucci, "The Lovely Bones"
Christoph Waltz, "Inglourious Basterds"

I got 4/5...instead of Plummer I had Alfred Molina.

Best Actress:
Sandra Bullock, "The Blind Side"
Helen Mirren, "The Last Station"
Carey Mulligan, "An Education"
Gabourey Sidibe, "Precious"
Meryl Streep, "Julie & Julia"

Whoohoo! 5/5!!!!! I am so good at this!

Best Actor:
Jeff Bridges, "Crazy Heart"
George Clooney, "Up in the Air"
Colin Firth, "A Single Man"
Morgan Freeman, "Invictus"
Jeremy Renner, "The Hurt Locker"

5/5 again! Of course, I think everybody had these five down for their predictions.

Best Director:
James Cameron, "Avatar"
Kathryn Bigelow, "The Hurt Locker"
Quentin Tarantino, "Inglourious Basterds"
Lee Daniels, "Precious"
Jason Reitman, "Up in the Air"

4/5...I had Clint Eastwood instead of Lee Daniels.

So it looks like my car needs a new transmission and it's going to take two weeks to fix it and it's going to cost $2500 to fix it. What does that spell? F-U-C-K-M-E! Well, there goes the rest of my Christmas money (and I'll still need to dip into my savings for the rest of the cost). I drove down there to get the stuff out of my car that I needed since it's going to be awhile before I get it back.

I swear, this time of the year is like I'm cursed when it comes to my cars. Just over a year ago today, I crashed my other car and now this. Ugh!

Ugh, my car has been giving me so much shit lately. Yesterday it wouldn't drive at all when I had it in drive and I could only get it around in D2. So today I drove to a place where they could look at it, praying to God that it wouldn't break down on me since this place isn't exactly close to where I live.

They haven't looked at it yet (probably won't get to looking at it until tomorrow) but they think it might need a new transmission which could cost me a couple thousand. Great, fucking great. I'm guessing from all this horrible weather I've been a little rough on my car trying to get through all this snow, but even before then my car didn't run that great all the time, so who knows what the deal is?

I'm not sure when I'll get my car back, but it wasn't until a few hours later that I realized I left two swipe cards I need for work in my car. Shit! One is to get into the building and the other is for clocking in. Do you know how fucking annoying it is to carry around those stupid cards? Now I'll just have to wait until somebody lets me in and I'll just have to fill out paperwork for clocking in. I usually just leave them in my car when I'm not at work and I just forgot about them in all the commotion of what was going on with my car.

One of the workers drove me home and later that night my parents came with two cars so I would have one of theirs for the weekend. We went out to eat at Johnny's Steakhouse where they had an entertainer crooning old Sinatra tunes and he started serenading my dad. It was pretty funny.

I asked them if they had been following the controversy about the Tonight Show and Mom said she had been reading about it, but was "too old to care". She said she didn't care for Conan and don't think he's funny! Hmph! Of course, my mom has no taste when it comes to awesomeness; she also said she didn't think The Dark Knight was that great. Oh, Mother. :::rolls eyes::: I told her about the Team Conan and Team Leno pages on Facebook and after telling her the Leno page had, like, 400 fans, I made her guess how many the Conan page has and she guesses, "10,000?" I tell her 800,000 and she goes, "Oh my God!" LOL.

Okay, I lied when I said this post was my last Heath Ledger movie review. I saw his last movie (it hurts to say that!) and thought I should add it to my collection of reviews. Can't say I saved the best for last though. :-/


( The last picture show )

So it's official: Avatar passed Titanic to be the highest-grossing movie of all time. :::ROLLS EYES:::: Now, don't get me wrong, I actually liked Avatar (although I do NOT think it should win the Oscar, but I'll post my feelings about that in a more appropriate post for that topic), but C'MON, don't you think it's a little unfair since Avatar had the 3-D prices. I mean, I know there's also inflation to think of, but still....I'm kinda pissed off about this, heh! Titanic was suppose to stay the #1 movie until I died, damnit! I don't know how to live in a world where my Jack and Rose aren't #1 anymore :-( NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

I wonder, though, if Avatar would still have beat it if it just had the regular price? If yes, then I would roll my eyes and admit defeat, but until then I say that Titanic will always be the number 1 movie in my heart!

It was a good run, though: 1998-2010

My Heart Will Go On

( Dear Internet... )

Sincerely,
Me

The Oscar nominations will be read on February 2nd (and I cannot wait any longer! Oscar nomination day is like Christmas for me...well depending on who gets nominated, haha), so I thought I would post my own predictions on who I think will be nominated in the six major categories:

( Read them here )

I know, I know, I've already commented about this, but I can't get over it!

( If you don't care about the Tonight Show drama, don't read this )

BTW, if you have a Facebook account and want to support Conan, join the group "I'm With Coco" if you haven't already. There's half a million members already! It's pretty awesome.

LOL I have no idea how to spell that word.

( Good riddance to an asshat )

I would like to direct you here where I predicted all the acting categories for film and the two movies for the Golden Globes. Now I was way off with both movies. (I predicted Up in the Air and Julie and Julia in case you don't want to watch my videos). Avatar would have been my second choice, but I'm a little surprised it won. Don't get me wrong, I really liked it, but does anyone else think that movie is NOT going to age well? I'm pleasantly surprised The Hangover won best comedy/musical. Usually those kinds of movies don't get that kind of recognition. I wonder now if it will be one of the ten movies nominated for an Oscar?

However, I did pretty good on predicting the acting awards. I got five out of six right! Yes! Hell, you could say I got five and a half out of six since while I did predict Clooney would win Best Actor, I did say that it was going to be between him and Jeff Bridges. I did MUCH better than EW. They only got three out of six. (And they got the movies wrong too). Instead of Bridges, they picked Clooney, like me; instead of Sandra Bullock they picked Carrey Mulligan (I thought Bullock's win was pretty obvious...), and instead of Downey Jr., they picked Day-Lewis. I don't know why since all the critics hated Nine...

So yeah, I'm awesome! I told Cameron and he said I should work for EW. Cameron is convinced Sandra is gonna win the Oscar, but I think Meryl is gonna win it. But I told him we'll have to see who wins the SAG and Bafta first...

...after the Olympics, anyway.

I've been following the whole controversy with Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien and I feel so bad for Conan. I don't blame him at all for taking jabs at NBC; they've been treating him like shit throughout this whole process. Now I'm not sure if this is true or just a rumor, but I heard that NBC is giving Leno back his old time slot of 11:30/10:30 (the one Conan has now). This doesn't make any sense to me because his new show at 10/9 is tanking. By the way, why did NBC think that would be a good idea anyway? Yes, I know they would save money by not making dramas, but why would people want to watch Jay's talk show (which was exactly like The Tonight Show!), then watch another late night show after the news? How boring and repetitive! I think Jay's awful ratings contributed to Conan's bad ratings. Perhaps if they had their regular dramas, Conan's rating wouldn't be as bad. What they should have done is fired Jay and let keep Conan keep The Tonight Show, then see if his ratings improved.

I didn't have much of an opinion on Leno before, but now I can't stand him! And why the hell is he acting like he's a victim in this whole thing when he's getting exactly what he wants? I don't get it. I hope celebrities refuse to go on his show and opt for Letterman or Kimmel instead. I can't believe they're doing this to Conan who uprooted his family and moved across the country to do this. Plus, didn't NBC sign a contract with him so he could do The Tonight Show for x number of years? I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not sure how that works.

I know one thing is for sure: after the Olympics are over (because I do love watching the Olympics), I will be boycotting NBC. I only watch 30 Rock and Heroes anyway and I catch them on Hulu.

Fuck you, NBC! Conan, I hope you find a better station that will treat you with the respect you deserve! TEAM CONAN!

I bought an iPhone today with my Christmas money. I am officially hip.

My ten favorite albums that came out this past decade. Greatest hits, live albums, and soundtracks do not apply. Remember, these are my favorite albums of the decade; you probably (okay, you won't) find these on any best albums of the decade lists.

( Some of these are a little embarrassing )