While most people are just a little depressed about their weight and use a weight loss supplement to cope with it, or they are depressed about finances and decide to get an extra job. Some people get to a point that they just can't take it at all anymore and contemplate suicide.
What's odd about this situation? For some reason a person thought that they were going to tell Demi Moore they planned on committing suicide through Twitter.
"Getting a knife, a big one that is sharp. Going to cut my arm down the whole arm so it doesn't waste time," said the message sent to Moore by a user of the social networking site.
"Hope you are joking," wrote back Moore.
"Gbye...gonna kill myself now," the woman responded.
If you spend enough time on the internet it seems hard to take this kind of thing seriously. People say things such as this quite often to get a rise out of people, or to get a couple laughs.
Apparently this wasn't a fake cry wolf post. A San Jose police spokesman said the department had received a number of calls from Twitter users about the suicide threat and sent officers to the 48-year-old woman's home.
Moore's husband, Ashton Kutcher, Twitted his congratulations.
"Wifey reported a suicide attempt based on a...tweet she got and saved someones life. The woman is in the hospital now."
Publicity stunt, or real deal? You make the call ;).
Saturday, April 04, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
How Much do Dancing Stars Earn?
One show I have ever watched, and frankly never will is Dancing With the Stars. Waht was I going on about again? Oh yeah...I'll bet you wonder how much these celebs make for their appearances on the show. Let's just go out on a limb ad say that it is probably more than you do to actually work a year.
Of course all these celebs are independent contractors and need to worry about getting a health insurance lead so they ought to make a ton right?
According to the contract filed in court between Shawn Johnson and BBC Worldwide Productions, which makes the show, the gymnast is being paid a guarantee of $125,000 to do the show, Access Hollywood has learned. The guarantee covers training, the first two weeks of the show and her appearance at the finale.
ohnson will receive $10,000 for getting through the third and fourth weeks of “Dancing.”
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As a frontrunner in the competition, who has scored high marks since the start of competition, she only stands to gain more as she takes on the ballroom with professional partner Mark Ballas.
For weeks 5, 6 and 7, Johnson will take home $20,000 a week. She'll earn $30,000 for weeks 8 and 9, and if she makes it to weeks 10 and 11, Johnson will earn $50,000 a week, for a grand total of $365,000.
Of course all these celebs are independent contractors and need to worry about getting a health insurance lead so they ought to make a ton right?
According to the contract filed in court between Shawn Johnson and BBC Worldwide Productions, which makes the show, the gymnast is being paid a guarantee of $125,000 to do the show, Access Hollywood has learned. The guarantee covers training, the first two weeks of the show and her appearance at the finale.
ohnson will receive $10,000 for getting through the third and fourth weeks of “Dancing.”
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As a frontrunner in the competition, who has scored high marks since the start of competition, she only stands to gain more as she takes on the ballroom with professional partner Mark Ballas.
For weeks 5, 6 and 7, Johnson will take home $20,000 a week. She'll earn $30,000 for weeks 8 and 9, and if she makes it to weeks 10 and 11, Johnson will earn $50,000 a week, for a grand total of $365,000.
Kids Still Don't Know Crap About Music, or Movies
Headlines for the Kid's Choice Awards tend to say things like "The Jonas Brothers, and Twilight Own Kid's Choice Awards". Silly kids. This music isn't for anyone.
Others who were in attendance and winning awards were Joe "I suck" Jones, Tiffany "lulz pop music" Tight Pants, and our personal favorite Brian "I'm old as dirt and sold out and finally won an award" Sellout.
Now after the weekend comes Cyber Monday where people can buy all the stuff that will let them spew the fandom that nobody cares about.
Others who were in attendance and winning awards were Joe "I suck" Jones, Tiffany "lulz pop music" Tight Pants, and our personal favorite Brian "I'm old as dirt and sold out and finally won an award" Sellout.
Now after the weekend comes Cyber Monday where people can buy all the stuff that will let them spew the fandom that nobody cares about.
Friday, March 06, 2009
Heroes Will Continue Next Season According to NBC Execs
Well...that's news I guess. Not sure I am looking forward to it or not. This show to me has gone so far downhill that I don't even really enjoy watching it anymore. It has gone from a bit interesting and entertaining to completely ridiculous.
"Heroes" fans aren't entirely in the clear yet, though: A renewal isn't a deal until it's a deal. If the show takes a sudden dire ratings turn, the network still has time to reevaluate this strategy. But barring something dramatic happening, NBC is not deterred by the current ratings and will bring back "Heroes" for a fourth round.
Isn't a surprise at all that the ratings are plummeting. The show is just getting bad. Characters aren't even enjoyable to follow anymore. Other than Sylar there just isn't much to care about there since characters like Nathan Patrelli seem to be split personalities and doing things their character never would have done even at the beginning to THIS season.
Plot holes and inconsistencies everywhere.
Most of the characters are useless. Claire is getting to be just annoying. That's hard to do when you are that sexy too whether she is Solo Slim, or not. Her character is just plain silly. She goes from the focal point in season one with the "Save the Cheerleader" BS to being a complete moron.
Wow...a guy that can breather underwater. That IS entertainment! Ugh...this show needs a whole lot to repair itself since the writer's strike.
"Heroes" fans aren't entirely in the clear yet, though: A renewal isn't a deal until it's a deal. If the show takes a sudden dire ratings turn, the network still has time to reevaluate this strategy. But barring something dramatic happening, NBC is not deterred by the current ratings and will bring back "Heroes" for a fourth round.
Isn't a surprise at all that the ratings are plummeting. The show is just getting bad. Characters aren't even enjoyable to follow anymore. Other than Sylar there just isn't much to care about there since characters like Nathan Patrelli seem to be split personalities and doing things their character never would have done even at the beginning to THIS season.
Plot holes and inconsistencies everywhere.
Most of the characters are useless. Claire is getting to be just annoying. That's hard to do when you are that sexy too whether she is Solo Slim, or not. Her character is just plain silly. She goes from the focal point in season one with the "Save the Cheerleader" BS to being a complete moron.
Wow...a guy that can breather underwater. That IS entertainment! Ugh...this show needs a whole lot to repair itself since the writer's strike.
Beatles McCartney, Starr to play N.Y. charity show
I guess it is flashback week for the music industry. Just after hearing aobut Michael Jackson performing for 120 shows in London, I see that Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr are ready to perform together again as well.
Former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will perform at a New York concert next month to help raise money for a program that encourages troubled children to meditate, organizers said. Wow.
Sure it is great there will be a concert with these legendary Beatles, but what kind of cause is this? I'm sure it is pretty easy to meditate in their luxury hotel rooms, but meditation for troubled kids is a cause now?
The event will benefit filmmaker David Lynch's eponymous foundation, which says it has provided scholarships since 2005 for more than 60,000 students, parents, and teachers around the world to learn to meditate.
The lineup also includes Sheryl Crow, Donovan, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder, blues-folk musician Ben Harper and techno star Moby. Tickets, priced between $79.50 and $504.50, will go on sale on Monday.
Either way that's a pretty kick ass line up.
Former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will perform at a New York concert next month to help raise money for a program that encourages troubled children to meditate, organizers said. Wow.
Sure it is great there will be a concert with these legendary Beatles, but what kind of cause is this? I'm sure it is pretty easy to meditate in their luxury hotel rooms, but meditation for troubled kids is a cause now?
The event will benefit filmmaker David Lynch's eponymous foundation, which says it has provided scholarships since 2005 for more than 60,000 students, parents, and teachers around the world to learn to meditate.
The lineup also includes Sheryl Crow, Donovan, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder, blues-folk musician Ben Harper and techno star Moby. Tickets, priced between $79.50 and $504.50, will go on sale on Monday.
Either way that's a pretty kick ass line up.
Michael Jackson Announces Concert Dates
The infamous King of Pop in more ways than just music announced yesterday that he would be playing his :final curtain call" in London this year. Jackson, 50, revealed the details of the concerts at a news conference in London, where he said he would perform 10 shows at the O2 Arena, beginning July 8. “When I say this is it, I mean this is it,” Mr. Jackson said, according to Reuters. “I’ll be performing the songs my fans want to hear.”
Jacko hasn't performed since 2002 where he held a benefit concert. He appeared on stage in 2006 at the World Music Awards where some audience members echoed boos.
I wonder how successful this tour might be. I still assume that many can forgo their personal thoughts of Jacko and just enjoy his music, but the backlash has to be huge for such a tour. Pulling out the mold killer to dust off his old CDs might get a few back in the mood for such a concert. His music is still recognized as some of the greatest ever, but the man himself is more or less considered, for lack of a better phrase, "freak show".
Jackson has been accused, and paid off families in connection with being accused of molesting underage boys, outbid Paul McCartney for his own songs in a highly publicized fight, he has stiffed financial backers in recent years, and has changed his appearance so drastically through plastic surgery in his lifetime that he is almost unrecognizable at this point. He's even making news as he is suing to get some memorabilia back. Still...hearing Thriller, Beat it, Billy Jean, and other classic pop tunes will surely bring back memories of the better times for die hard fans.
Jacko hasn't performed since 2002 where he held a benefit concert. He appeared on stage in 2006 at the World Music Awards where some audience members echoed boos.
I wonder how successful this tour might be. I still assume that many can forgo their personal thoughts of Jacko and just enjoy his music, but the backlash has to be huge for such a tour. Pulling out the mold killer to dust off his old CDs might get a few back in the mood for such a concert. His music is still recognized as some of the greatest ever, but the man himself is more or less considered, for lack of a better phrase, "freak show".
Jackson has been accused, and paid off families in connection with being accused of molesting underage boys, outbid Paul McCartney for his own songs in a highly publicized fight, he has stiffed financial backers in recent years, and has changed his appearance so drastically through plastic surgery in his lifetime that he is almost unrecognizable at this point. He's even making news as he is suing to get some memorabilia back. Still...hearing Thriller, Beat it, Billy Jean, and other classic pop tunes will surely bring back memories of the better times for die hard fans.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Sperm Donor Claims He is Father of the Octuplets
I guess there is always someone that will claim anything when there is likely some cash involved. Especially since TV news shows do little to no due diligence in checking people out these days. Instead they let them make any claim they wish and as long as they think it will get ratings they will promote it as the truth until they get called on it. Pretty much the case here from all the reports out there from everyone with common sense.
Same goes here and it appears this guy is a joke.
In an interview airing Monday morning on ABC's Good Morning America, the man – whose identity the network will reveal on the broadcast – says Suleman brought him to donate sperm at the clinic where she received in vitro fertilization.
Suleman has denied that the man is the father of her children.
Suleman's representative, Victor Munoz, tells PEOPLE, that the man interviewed by ABC is not the sperm donor who fathered the babies. "The real sperm donor knows who he is. This guy is definitely not the one," says Munoz. "It's kind of comical. Nadya's not sure why he's doing this."
Same goes here and it appears this guy is a joke.
In an interview airing Monday morning on ABC's Good Morning America, the man – whose identity the network will reveal on the broadcast – says Suleman brought him to donate sperm at the clinic where she received in vitro fertilization.
Suleman has denied that the man is the father of her children.
Suleman's representative, Victor Munoz, tells PEOPLE, that the man interviewed by ABC is not the sperm donor who fathered the babies. "The real sperm donor knows who he is. This guy is definitely not the one," says Munoz. "It's kind of comical. Nadya's not sure why he's doing this."
Saturday, February 21, 2009
The Conan O'Brien Show is No More
Last night The Conan O'Brien Show had it's last episode. Conan O'Brien has packed his luggage and will be getting a few months off before he takes over The Tonight Show that Jay Leno has been hosting since Johnny Carson retired. O'Brien has hosted his own show since 1993.
Now all we need is for David Letterman to retire so we don't have to listen to his stale jokes anymore. O'Brien is clearly the best show of the 3 the last several years, and will do just fine as the new Tonight Show host.
“This is where they invented television,” O'Brien told Bush. “This is a temple to broadcasting and I leave this place with a heavy heart. It’s been an amazing home to me. I’ve been doing it for 16 seasons and it’s time to change. I think Eric Clapton said, ‘Change or die!’ You’ve gotta move, you’ve gotta evolve, you’ve gotta change. And I think the L.A. chapter will be fascinating because man, am I a fish out of water in Los Angeles and man, that could make some good television.”
“We’re really excited, we have an amazing set up on the Universal lot and we actually kicked the ‘Desperate Housewives’ out of their studio,” he said with a laugh. “We’ve since made up. And that was fun, let me tell you. But now we’re all friends. We lunch together almost every day.”
Now all we need is for David Letterman to retire so we don't have to listen to his stale jokes anymore. O'Brien is clearly the best show of the 3 the last several years, and will do just fine as the new Tonight Show host.
“This is where they invented television,” O'Brien told Bush. “This is a temple to broadcasting and I leave this place with a heavy heart. It’s been an amazing home to me. I’ve been doing it for 16 seasons and it’s time to change. I think Eric Clapton said, ‘Change or die!’ You’ve gotta move, you’ve gotta evolve, you’ve gotta change. And I think the L.A. chapter will be fascinating because man, am I a fish out of water in Los Angeles and man, that could make some good television.”
“We’re really excited, we have an amazing set up on the Universal lot and we actually kicked the ‘Desperate Housewives’ out of their studio,” he said with a laugh. “We’ve since made up. And that was fun, let me tell you. But now we’re all friends. We lunch together almost every day.”
Monday, February 09, 2009
2009 Grammy Winners
Not going to go into the whole "Grammy Experience" with my thoughts on this one. I didn't watch the show this year so there isn't much reason for me to blabber on about my fraudulent thoughts regarding the show. I didn't make the trek and survive the week to cover the event so I will just give you what really matters.
2009 Grammy Award Winner List:
Album of the Year: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand
Best Rap Album: Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: John Mayer, “Say”
Record of the Year: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Please Read This Letter”
Best New Artist: Adele
Best Rock Album: Coldplay, Viva la Vida
Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Rich Woman”
Song of the Year: Coldplay, “Viva la Vida”
Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group: Sugarland, “Stay”
Best R&B Album: Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Hudson
Industry Icon Award: Clive Davis
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Rick Rubin (Death Magnetic, Home Before Dark, Mercy, Seeing Things, Weezer)
Best Rock Song: Bruce Springsteen, “Girls in Their Summer Clothes”
Best Rock Instrumental Performance: “Peaches En Regalia,” Zappa Plays Zappa, Featuring Steve Vai & Napoleon Murphy Brock
Best Metal Performance: Metallica, “My Apocalypse”
Best Hard Rock Performance: The Mars Volta, “Wax Simulacra”
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Kings of Leon, “Sex on Fire”
Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance: John Mayer, “Gravity”
Best Alternative Music Album: Radiohead, In Rainbows
Best Pop Vocal Album: Duffy, Rockferry
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Coldplay, “Viva la Vida”
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance: Adele, “Chasing Pavements”
Best Pop Instrumental Album: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Jingle All The Way
Best Pop Instrumental Performance: Eagles, “I Dreamed There Was No War”
Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books): Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth (Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood)
Best Contemporary R&B Album: Mary J. Blige, Growing Pains
Best R&B Song: Ne-Yo, “Miss Independent” (Mikkel S. Eriksen, T.E. Hermansen and S. Smith, songwriters)
Best Urban/Alternative Performance: Chrisette Michele Featuring will.i.am, “Be OK”
Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: Al Green Featuring Anthony Hamilton, “You’ve Got the Love I Need”
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Al Green Featuring John Legend, “Stay With Me (by the Sea)”
Best Female R&B Vocal Performance: Alicia Keys; ” Superwoman”
Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: Ne-Yo, “Miss Independent”
Best Rap Song: Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major, “Lollipop” (D. Carter, S. Garrett, D. Harrison, J. Scheffer and R. Zamor, songwriters)
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: Estelle Featuring Kanye West, “American Boy”
Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: Jay-Z and T.I. Featuring Kanye West and Lil Wayne, “Swagga Like Us”
Best Rap Solo Performance: Lil Wayne, “A Milli”
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Natalie Cole, Still Unforgettable
Best Country Album: George Strait, Troubadour
Best Country Song: Sugarland, “Stay” (Jennifer Nettles, songwriter)
Best Bluegrass Album: Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute to 1946 and 1947
Best Country Instrumental Performance: Brad Paisley, James Burton, Vince Gill, John Jorgenson, Albert Lee, Brent Mason, Redd Volkaert and Steve Wariner, “Cluster Pluck”
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Killing the Blues”
Best Male Country Vocal Performance: Brad Paisley, “Letter to Me”
Best Female Country Vocal Performance: Carrie Underwood, “Last Name”
Best Reggae Album: Burning Spear, Jah Is Real
Best Hawaiian Music Album: Tia Carrere and Daniel Ho, Ikena
Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand
Best Traditional Folk Album: Pete Seeger, At 89
Best Traditional Blues Album: B.B. King, One Kind Favor
Best Contemporary Blues Album: Dr. John and the Lower 911, City That Care Forgot
Best Long Form Music Video: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, “Runnin’ Down a Dream”
Best Short Form Music Video: Weezer, “Pork and Beans”
Best Classical Album: Weill, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Producer of the Year, Classical: David Frost
Best Classical Crossover Album: The King’s Singers, Simple Gifts
Best Classical Contemporary Composition: John Corigliano, composer, Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan(JoAnn Falletta, conductor)
Best Classical Vocal Performance: John Corigliano, Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan
Best Small Ensemble Performance: Spotless Rose, Hymns to the Virgin Mary
Best Chamber Music Performance: Elliott Carter, Pacifica Quartet, String Quartets Nos. 1 and 5
Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (Without Orchestra): Gloria Cheng, Piano Music of Salonen, Stucky, and Lutoslawski
Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (With Orchestra): Hilary Hahn, Schoenberg, Sibelius: Violin Concertos (Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor)
Best Choral Performance: Sir Simon Rattle, “Symphony of Psalms”
Best Opera Recording: Weill, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Best Orchestral Performance: Shostakovich, “Symphony No. 4,” Bernard Haitink, conductor (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
Best Engineered Album, Classical: Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago
Best Electronic/Dance Album: Daft Punk, Alive 2007
Best Dance Recording: Daft Punk, “Harder Better Faster Stronger”
Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album: Kirk Franklin, The Fight of My Life
Best Traditional Gospel Album: The Blind Boys of Alabama, Down in New Orleans
Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album: Gaither Vocal Band, Lovin’ Life
Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album: CeCe Winans, Thy Kingdom Come
Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album: TobyMac, Alive and Transported
Best Gospel Song: Kirk Franklin, “Help Me Believe”
Best Gospel Performance: Mary Mary, “Get Up”
Best Latin Jazz Album: Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Song for Chico
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard
Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group: Chick Corea and Gary Burton, The New Crystal Silence
Best Jazz Instrumental Solo: Terence Blanchard, soloist, “Be-Bop”
Best Jazz Vocal Album: Cassandra Wilson, Loverly
Best Contemporary Jazz Album: Randy Brecker, Randy in Brasil
Best New Age Album: Jack DeJohnette, Peace Time
Best Comedy Album: George Carlin, It’s Bad For Ya
Best Polka Album: Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra, Let the Whole World Sing
Best Contemporary World Music Album: Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju and Giovanni Hidalgo, Global Drum Project
Best Traditional World Music Album: Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu
Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album: Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, Live at the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Best Native American Music Album: Come to Me Great Mystery—Native American Healing Songs
Best Norteño Album: Los Tigres del Norte, Raíces
Best Banda Album: Joan Sebástian, No Es de Madera
Best Tejano Album: Ruben Ramos and the Mexican Revolution, Viva la Revolucion
Best Regional Mexican Album: Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, Amor, Dolor Y Lágrimas: Música Ranchera
Best Tropical Latin Album: José Feliciano, Señor Bachata
Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album: 45, Jaguares
Best Latin Pop Album: Juanes, La Vida…Es un Ratico
Best Musical Show Album: In the Heights
Best Musical Album for Children: They Might Be Giants, Here Come The 123s
Best Spoken Word Album for Children: Bill Harley, Yes to Running!
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): Natalie Cole, “Here’s That Rainy Day” (Nan Schwartz, arranger)
Best Instrumental Arrangement: Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, “Define Dancing” (From Wall-E) (Thomas Newman, arranger)
Best Instrumental Composition: “The Adventures of Mutt” (From Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
Best Surround Sound Album: Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on Bald Mountain; Prelude to Khovanshchina
Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: MGMT, “Electric Feel,” Justice Remix (Justice, remixers)
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: The Raconteurs (Joe Chiccarelli, Vance Powell and Jack White III), Consolers of the Lonely
Best Historical Album: Art of Field Recording, Volume I: Fifty Years of Traditional American Music (Documented by Art Rosenbaum)
Best Album Notes: Miles Davis, Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition (Francis Davis, album notes writer)
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: In Rainbows
Best Recording Package: Metallica, Death Magnetic (Bruce Duckworth, Sarah Moffat and David Turner, art directors)
Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, “Down to Earth” (From Wall-E)
Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer, The Dark Knight
Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: Juno
2009 Grammy Award Winner List:
Album of the Year: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand
Best Rap Album: Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: John Mayer, “Say”
Record of the Year: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Please Read This Letter”
Best New Artist: Adele
Best Rock Album: Coldplay, Viva la Vida
Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Rich Woman”
Song of the Year: Coldplay, “Viva la Vida”
Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group: Sugarland, “Stay”
Best R&B Album: Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Hudson
Industry Icon Award: Clive Davis
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Rick Rubin (Death Magnetic, Home Before Dark, Mercy, Seeing Things, Weezer)
Best Rock Song: Bruce Springsteen, “Girls in Their Summer Clothes”
Best Rock Instrumental Performance: “Peaches En Regalia,” Zappa Plays Zappa, Featuring Steve Vai & Napoleon Murphy Brock
Best Metal Performance: Metallica, “My Apocalypse”
Best Hard Rock Performance: The Mars Volta, “Wax Simulacra”
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Kings of Leon, “Sex on Fire”
Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance: John Mayer, “Gravity”
Best Alternative Music Album: Radiohead, In Rainbows
Best Pop Vocal Album: Duffy, Rockferry
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Coldplay, “Viva la Vida”
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance: Adele, “Chasing Pavements”
Best Pop Instrumental Album: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Jingle All The Way
Best Pop Instrumental Performance: Eagles, “I Dreamed There Was No War”
Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books): Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth (Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood)
Best Contemporary R&B Album: Mary J. Blige, Growing Pains
Best R&B Song: Ne-Yo, “Miss Independent” (Mikkel S. Eriksen, T.E. Hermansen and S. Smith, songwriters)
Best Urban/Alternative Performance: Chrisette Michele Featuring will.i.am, “Be OK”
Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: Al Green Featuring Anthony Hamilton, “You’ve Got the Love I Need”
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: Al Green Featuring John Legend, “Stay With Me (by the Sea)”
Best Female R&B Vocal Performance: Alicia Keys; ” Superwoman”
Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: Ne-Yo, “Miss Independent”
Best Rap Song: Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major, “Lollipop” (D. Carter, S. Garrett, D. Harrison, J. Scheffer and R. Zamor, songwriters)
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: Estelle Featuring Kanye West, “American Boy”
Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: Jay-Z and T.I. Featuring Kanye West and Lil Wayne, “Swagga Like Us”
Best Rap Solo Performance: Lil Wayne, “A Milli”
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Natalie Cole, Still Unforgettable
Best Country Album: George Strait, Troubadour
Best Country Song: Sugarland, “Stay” (Jennifer Nettles, songwriter)
Best Bluegrass Album: Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute to 1946 and 1947
Best Country Instrumental Performance: Brad Paisley, James Burton, Vince Gill, John Jorgenson, Albert Lee, Brent Mason, Redd Volkaert and Steve Wariner, “Cluster Pluck”
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Killing the Blues”
Best Male Country Vocal Performance: Brad Paisley, “Letter to Me”
Best Female Country Vocal Performance: Carrie Underwood, “Last Name”
Best Reggae Album: Burning Spear, Jah Is Real
Best Hawaiian Music Album: Tia Carrere and Daniel Ho, Ikena
Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand
Best Traditional Folk Album: Pete Seeger, At 89
Best Traditional Blues Album: B.B. King, One Kind Favor
Best Contemporary Blues Album: Dr. John and the Lower 911, City That Care Forgot
Best Long Form Music Video: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, “Runnin’ Down a Dream”
Best Short Form Music Video: Weezer, “Pork and Beans”
Best Classical Album: Weill, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Producer of the Year, Classical: David Frost
Best Classical Crossover Album: The King’s Singers, Simple Gifts
Best Classical Contemporary Composition: John Corigliano, composer, Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan(JoAnn Falletta, conductor)
Best Classical Vocal Performance: John Corigliano, Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan
Best Small Ensemble Performance: Spotless Rose, Hymns to the Virgin Mary
Best Chamber Music Performance: Elliott Carter, Pacifica Quartet, String Quartets Nos. 1 and 5
Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (Without Orchestra): Gloria Cheng, Piano Music of Salonen, Stucky, and Lutoslawski
Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (With Orchestra): Hilary Hahn, Schoenberg, Sibelius: Violin Concertos (Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor)
Best Choral Performance: Sir Simon Rattle, “Symphony of Psalms”
Best Opera Recording: Weill, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Best Orchestral Performance: Shostakovich, “Symphony No. 4,” Bernard Haitink, conductor (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
Best Engineered Album, Classical: Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago
Best Electronic/Dance Album: Daft Punk, Alive 2007
Best Dance Recording: Daft Punk, “Harder Better Faster Stronger”
Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album: Kirk Franklin, The Fight of My Life
Best Traditional Gospel Album: The Blind Boys of Alabama, Down in New Orleans
Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album: Gaither Vocal Band, Lovin’ Life
Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album: CeCe Winans, Thy Kingdom Come
Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album: TobyMac, Alive and Transported
Best Gospel Song: Kirk Franklin, “Help Me Believe”
Best Gospel Performance: Mary Mary, “Get Up”
Best Latin Jazz Album: Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Song for Chico
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard
Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group: Chick Corea and Gary Burton, The New Crystal Silence
Best Jazz Instrumental Solo: Terence Blanchard, soloist, “Be-Bop”
Best Jazz Vocal Album: Cassandra Wilson, Loverly
Best Contemporary Jazz Album: Randy Brecker, Randy in Brasil
Best New Age Album: Jack DeJohnette, Peace Time
Best Comedy Album: George Carlin, It’s Bad For Ya
Best Polka Album: Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra, Let the Whole World Sing
Best Contemporary World Music Album: Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju and Giovanni Hidalgo, Global Drum Project
Best Traditional World Music Album: Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu
Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album: Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, Live at the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Best Native American Music Album: Come to Me Great Mystery—Native American Healing Songs
Best Norteño Album: Los Tigres del Norte, Raíces
Best Banda Album: Joan Sebástian, No Es de Madera
Best Tejano Album: Ruben Ramos and the Mexican Revolution, Viva la Revolucion
Best Regional Mexican Album: Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, Amor, Dolor Y Lágrimas: Música Ranchera
Best Tropical Latin Album: José Feliciano, Señor Bachata
Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album: 45, Jaguares
Best Latin Pop Album: Juanes, La Vida…Es un Ratico
Best Musical Show Album: In the Heights
Best Musical Album for Children: They Might Be Giants, Here Come The 123s
Best Spoken Word Album for Children: Bill Harley, Yes to Running!
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): Natalie Cole, “Here’s That Rainy Day” (Nan Schwartz, arranger)
Best Instrumental Arrangement: Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, “Define Dancing” (From Wall-E) (Thomas Newman, arranger)
Best Instrumental Composition: “The Adventures of Mutt” (From Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
Best Surround Sound Album: Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on Bald Mountain; Prelude to Khovanshchina
Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: MGMT, “Electric Feel,” Justice Remix (Justice, remixers)
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: The Raconteurs (Joe Chiccarelli, Vance Powell and Jack White III), Consolers of the Lonely
Best Historical Album: Art of Field Recording, Volume I: Fifty Years of Traditional American Music (Documented by Art Rosenbaum)
Best Album Notes: Miles Davis, Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition (Francis Davis, album notes writer)
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: In Rainbows
Best Recording Package: Metallica, Death Magnetic (Bruce Duckworth, Sarah Moffat and David Turner, art directors)
Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, “Down to Earth” (From Wall-E)
Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer, The Dark Knight
Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: Juno
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Dead Like Me Movie Coming Next Week
Well..next week if you don't understand the internet :P.
Not sure how many people even realized that there was going to be a Dead Like Me movie. In fact I had never heard anything about it until I saw it online the other day. If you don't know what Dead Like Me is, it was a show from Showtime that had maybe a couple seasons. Nobody really ever heard of it, but it has been played on stations most people have like Sci-Fi since and many people found it to be a pretty good show.
"Georgia Lass is aloof and emotionally distant from her family and shied away from her life. After dropping out of college, she takes a job at Happy Time Temporary Services. On her lunch break of her first day, she is hit and killed by a toilet seat from the de-orbiting of the Mir space station. Probably forgetting to get a term life quote before that. She is informed shortly after her death that, rather than moving on to the "great beyond", she will become a grim reaper in the "external influence" division[5], responsible for reaping souls of people who die in accidents (many of which are of Rube Goldberg-style and complexity[6][7]), suicides and homicides."
Anyways, if you liked this show, which there were a lot of us that did, you should check the movie out. I thought it was pretty good. 7/10 probably. Only thing most people will complain about is that Rube isn't in the movie. It isn't a big deal though if you are bright enough to understand what the movie was trying to do with the reapers. The lesson they are supposed to learn, or the test theya re given.
Not sure how many people even realized that there was going to be a Dead Like Me movie. In fact I had never heard anything about it until I saw it online the other day. If you don't know what Dead Like Me is, it was a show from Showtime that had maybe a couple seasons. Nobody really ever heard of it, but it has been played on stations most people have like Sci-Fi since and many people found it to be a pretty good show.
"Georgia Lass is aloof and emotionally distant from her family and shied away from her life. After dropping out of college, she takes a job at Happy Time Temporary Services. On her lunch break of her first day, she is hit and killed by a toilet seat from the de-orbiting of the Mir space station. Probably forgetting to get a term life quote before that. She is informed shortly after her death that, rather than moving on to the "great beyond", she will become a grim reaper in the "external influence" division[5], responsible for reaping souls of people who die in accidents (many of which are of Rube Goldberg-style and complexity[6][7]), suicides and homicides."
Anyways, if you liked this show, which there were a lot of us that did, you should check the movie out. I thought it was pretty good. 7/10 probably. Only thing most people will complain about is that Rube isn't in the movie. It isn't a big deal though if you are bright enough to understand what the movie was trying to do with the reapers. The lesson they are supposed to learn, or the test theya re given.
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