& the nominees for...

78th annual Academy Awards are:

As per usual, the nominees are & my predictions are noted. Let's see how many I get right this year....

Best Picture
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck
Munich
ed note: While I haven't seen this movie yet... I'm pretty much rooting for BBM for every single category...

Best Actor
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Terrence Howard, Hustle & Flow
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix, Walk the Line
David Strathairn, Good Night, and Good Luck
ed note: While I want Heath to win, I'm pretty sure PSH will. He's won every major award this season so far...

Best Actress
Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents
Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
Keira Knightley, Pride & Prejudice
Charlize Theron, North Country
Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line
ed note: Wow... Keira Knightley got nominated. That came totally from left field!

Best Supporting Actor
George Clooney, Syriana
Matt Dillon, Crash
Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man
Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
William Hurt, A History of Violence

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, Junebug
Catherine Keener, Capote
Frances McDormand, North Country
Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener
Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain
ed note: What casual Dawson's Creek viewere would've thought that Michele Williams would ever get nom'd!?! If you haven't seen Constant Gardener, you should...

Best Director
George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck
Paul Haggis, Crash
Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Bennett Miller, Capote
Steven Spielberg, Munich

Best Adapted Screenplay
Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, Brokeback Mountain
Dan Futterman, Capote
Jeffrey Caine, The Constant Gardener
Josh Olson, A History of Violence
Tony Kushner and Eric Roth, Munich
ed note: Val from The Birdcage is a writer?

Best Original Screenplay
Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco, Crash
George Clooney and Grant Heslov, Good Night, and Good Luck
Woody Allen, Match Point
Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale
Stephen Gaghan, Syriana
ed note: Tough call... Clooney may

Animated Feature
Howl's Moving Castle
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Mockery is a new form of flattery

Or perhaps not - I guess it would depend on you you're talking to.

While I didn't really like her last album, I have been anticipating Pink's newest stuff. Always liked how she wasn't like all the pop princesses that were around when she originally broke out on the scene. She always had that "fuck you" attitude, which I appreciate because I have a potty mouth & say that quite frequently...

EW's Popwatch reports that her latest video is supposedly on MTV now, but you can also see it @ YouTube.

Gotta love how she makes fun of the current pop/paparazzi princesses. Some may think Pink is brilliant for making fun of Mary Kate, Lindsay, Jessica & Paris (What a society we live in! I can name 4 female first names & you'll know exactly who I'm talking about!), whereas others will say it's contrived. Nonetheless, you've gotta admit that it's sorta humourous.

Let's get ready to rumble!!!!

Was over at TV Filter and saw that East Coast/West Coast rap rivalry has been revitalized in the form of online video clips.

You must have been living under a rock if you haven't heard or seen the SNL Chronic-WHAT-cles of Narnia rap starring Andy Samberg & SNL's resident MC Chris Parnell.

In retaliation, the West coast team of Mark Feuerstein (of Caroline in the City fame... if you can call it fame) and Adam Stein has started a rap battle.

While not as catchy as the Chronic-WHAT-cles of Narnia rap, it is a funny piece of aural and visual pleasure. ;)

You sceam, I scream...

We all scream for Veronica Mars!

OK, so it doesn't quite rhyme, but damnit, the hiatus b/n the last episode and tonight's ep has been WAY too long.

Rob Thomas actually directs tonight's ep, "Donut Run." Clever title... that is if you remember that Lily's nickname for him was Donut... The Chicago Tribune talks to him about his experience directing for the first time. Heads up... there are spoilers in it, but Maureen Ryan does an excellent job of noting when there's a spoiler.

Read at your own risk. You have been warned.

The weirdest mergerpartnership...

I'm sure you've heard by now... UPN & WB will no longer be, effective fall season of 2006. Instead, open your arms out for CW!

So, when I first received the CP article about it, first thing that came to mind was, WTF? Rather than trying to save their floundering networks, the two networks, which are owned by CBS and Warner Brothers respectively, will join forces together to be the "5th" network. WEIRD... Slowly, as the day went by, more articles came out, more correspondance w/ my hermano about the subject took place & I started to get scared... Ok, "scared" isn't really the *right* word... Concerned?

Was I going to be able to get CW? Initial reports had the Seattle WB affiliate picking it up... which I don't get. Nor do I get the KTLA, the LA WB affiliate. After some investigation, Hermano found out through Wiki that it'll actually be picked up by Seattle's UPN affiliate... PHEW!

Then it was announced that they would have 30 hours of programming b/n existing UPN & WB shows. Which shows would be picked up? Obviously Gilmore Girls as it is the #1 ranked show on the WB and probably America's Next Top Model as I believe it's UPN's #1 ranked show. But what about all their other shows - in particular, Veronica Mars (*user sings* I'm watching you!!!!!!)? While I could care less about Smallville being renewed, I would like to see Supernatural back for a 2nd season. Sorta like X-Files-ish, which I'm sure the die hard X-Files fan would call blashphemy. Or as CityTV calls it... something or other, but w/ hot guys, which I can't really deny. Jensen Ackles *is* hot!

Go & do your civic duty...

& vote today! Well, if you're Cdn anyway. If you don't go to the polls and make your voice heard, you have no right to EVER complain about our government. Here's to hoping that we do not move backwards in all our policies by electing a Conservative gov't... *sigh*

Also... on a side note, a big happy b-day to Kelly Kapowski! How I remember the days when I wish I was her. ;)

I spoke too soon...

Looks like there is a good possibility that VM may not be returning next year... I think it's time for me to boycott television. :\

The coming together...

of two of my favourite things. Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels.
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles. Oops, sorry, got carried away there w/ the Sound of Music.

So... two of my favourite TV things are Arrested Development and Veronica Mars. MSN's TV Filter reporters that both George Michael & Maeby will be making a spcl guest appearance on on VM!!!! OH - the excitement! & no, they won't be playing cousins. VM has the best guest stars & best story lines. This is a lil premature, but damnit, if that shows not back next yr...

Speaking of next yr... as Val & various other bloggers have reported, AD is most likely not going to be back on Fox next year. I'm still holding out that ABC or Showtime picks it up - although I do think AD on ABC is a weird combo. & while I'm at it... how stupid is it for Fox to pit the seriesseason finale against the Olympic OPENING ceremony? Yeah... we're not cancelling AD, say the Fox execs. *sigh* Even, I being a huge AD fan since day 1, will be watching the opening ceremonies. Anywho... TV Filter also put up some fantabs shots of the series finale on their blog. If you don't want spoilers, don't look, but you've gotta check out the way they framed the pic of William Hung!

YUM - breakfast of champions

I live in the suburbs and in fact, I live in a small strata community that's mostly families w/ children and seniors. So, you can imagine my surprise when I got to my bus stop and saw one of my neighbours smoking up - we're talking 7:10 *a.m.*

Yum, yum, yum. Pot in my tum. Kinda sad that some ppl need pot to start off their day. A pot of coffee is one thing, but actual pot? :\

UPN get's *N Sync

Gawd... I'm witty, eh? ;)

Anyway, what a long week it's been. There's been so much that I want to blog about, but I just don't have the time. Work's been C-c-c-c-c-RAZY!

Looks like *N Sync's not totally dead. While it still looks like the boyband won't be reuniting any time soon due to T-Lake's huge ego, two of them will be seen on a television near you. UPN is developing an "Odd Couple"-type show for Joey Fat-one & Lance "I wanna be an astranaut" Bass.

Put up your hand if you'd be willing to watch it.... *blogger reluctantly puts up her hand* What can I say? I'm either a sadist a teeny bopper @ heart.

Avril Lavigne - glam gal & rep of Canada's musical talent?

It's old news now, but we all know that Avril has "grown up" & along w/ that comes a more mature look. Gotta admit, I think she looks pretty damn good. The haute couture works well w/ her features & I prefer it over her thick, thick eyeliner look. Now if we can only do something about her fiancé, Deryck's look.

For those Olympic die-hard fans, as myself (I am sadly quite addicted to the Winter Olympics events every four years & I'm expecting my life to be revolving around the Torino Games, you know that the closing ceremonies typically is the symbolic passing of the torch to the next Winter Games host city. The end of ceremony will have performers from that city representing its culture, etc.

As 2010 is the next games, there will be a large Cdn contingent. & what Olympic closing ceremony doesn't feature a musical artists? Well, VANOC just distributed a release announcing that Avril Lavigne will be the artist that will be representing Canada at the closing ceremonies... I'll be the first to admit that I've got her first album & I like Sk8er Boi and all of her other head bopping tunes, but to represent the musical talent that our country possesses!?! & a better Q that my hermano posed - why not an artist FROM Vancouver? Of course, that means they would use either Sarah McLachlan or MichelMichael Bublé - but still more talented than Avril.