"Go Back, To Those Gold Soundz..."

So after reading the Oscar winners on my iPod in my Economics lecture this morning, it appears I may have been right on a few! Best Director, Picture, Supporting Actor and Visual Effects were my correct picks. I'm very disappointed, however, that Fantastic Mr Fox didn't win Best Animated Feature. The Academy should have watched the DVD extras and that would be that, the work that went into making the film, basing Mr Fox's tree on Roald Dahl's house and the great idea of recording the sound outdoors and in a farm gives the film a personal touch that shows Wes Anderson really cared about the source material. At least Up was a worthy winner. I'm seeing Crazy Heart on Saturday, so will eagerly await seeing Jeff Bridges' apparently standing ovation-worthy performance. Mrs Jesse James herself, Sandra Bullock, won best actress, making history by winning a Razzie and an Oscar in the same year. She turned up to the Razzies with DVDs of All About Steve (the offending film) and gave everybody in the crowd a copy. Tres cool.



If, for whatever reason you haven't seen the new trailer for Iron Man 2, I do suggest you do it now. The briefcase suit is epic, Mickey Rourke looks very convincing as the Russian villain (apparently doing half of his dialogue in Russian, which is impressive) and Sam Rockwell, who was fantastic in The Green Mile, and I haven't got round to seeing Moon yet, but I eagerly await it. Also, RDJ is as awesome as always, and I still think Don Cheadle is a better James Rhodes than Terrence Howard, as good as he was in the original. Here's the trailer link, and it's Trailer 2 you want: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/ironman/

And in other upcoming film news, although I haven't seen the original, Tron: Legacy has a trailer out today, and 2 words should make you want to see this: Jeff Bridges. I'm sold already, the look of the film is just a bonus!

http://www.program-glitch-esc.net/ is the link for the trailer, watch and enjoy...

I'm going to backtrack to last weekend for a minute, because I have a new favourite Beatles album - The Beatles. Listening to it on the way back from North Berwick made the drive that much easier, and Happiness Is A Warm Gun is now one of my favourite tracks! A tip from me, The White Album is perfect for road trips...

Speaking of road trip albums, one I wished had came out earlier is Quarantine The Past, Pavement's Best Of collection. While I have all of their albums already, I wanted the greatest hits for the car. It too is an amazing driving album, that would probably be best for driving in the summer, I felt that way at least. It even made sitting in traffic at Larbert Cross almost bearable!

Well, I'm offski, bought Battlefield: Bad Company 2 yesterday, and it isn't going to play itself!

Darren out, saying "if you can make God bleed, people will cease to believe in him..."

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Now playing: Pavement - Summer Babe (Winter Version)
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