"The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

U2 3D was AWWWWEEEEESOME!

Here's what a real rockstar looks like gwaking at Bono:


oh yeah....hott. :)

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Yes Yes!....and oh YES!

It's Oscar Time AGAIN!
Oscar Nominees are in!


Here they are:
1. Best Picture:
"Atonement"

"Juno"

"Michael Clayton"

"No Country for Old Men"

"There Will Be Blood"


2. Actor: George Clooney, "Michael Clayton"; Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood"; Johnny Depp, "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"; Tommy Lee Jones, "In the Valley of Elah"; Viggo Mortensen, "Eastern Promises."

3. Actress: Cate Blanchett, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"; Julie Christie, "Away From Her"; Marion Cotillard, "La Vie en Rose"; Laura Linney, "The Savages"; Ellen Page, "Juno."

4. Supporting Actor: Casey Affleck, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"; Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men"; Hal Holbrook, "Into the Wild"; Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Charlie Wilson's War"; Tom Wilkinson, "Michael Clayton."

5. Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, "I'm Not There"; Ruby Dee, "American Gangster"; Saoirse Ronan, "Atonement"; Amy Ryan, "Gone Baby Gone"; Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton."

6. Director: Julian Schnabel, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"; Jason Reitman, "Juno"; Tony Gilroy, "Michael Clayton"; Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men"; Paul Thomas Anderson, "There Will Be Blood."

7. Foreign Film: "Beaufort," Israel; "The Counterfeiters," Austria; "Katyn," Poland; "Mongol," Kazakhstan; "12," Russia.

8. Adapted Screenplay: Christopher Hampton, "Atonement"; Sarah Polley, "Away from Her"; Ronald Harwood, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"; Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men"; Paul Thomas Anderson, "There Will Be Blood."

9. Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, "Juno"; Nancy Oliver, "Lars and the Real Girl"; Tony Gilroy, "Michael Clayton"; Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava and Jim Capobianco, "Ratatouille"; Tamara Jenkins, "The Savages."

10. Animated Feature Film: "Persepolis"; "Ratatouille"; "Surf's Up."

11. Art Direction: "American Gangster," "Atonement," "The Golden Compass," "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," "There Will Be Blood."

12. Cinematography: "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," "Atonement," "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," "No Country for Old Men," "There Will Be Blood."

13. Sound Mixing: "The Bourne Ultimatum," "No Country for Old Men," "Ratatouille," "3:10 to Yuma," "Transformers."

14. Sound Editing: "The Bourne Ultimatum," "No Country for Old Men," "Ratatouille," "There Will Be Blood," "Transformers."

15. Original Score: "Atonement," Dario Marianelli; "The Kite Runner," Alberto Iglesias; "Michael Clayton," James Newton Howard; "Ratatouille," Michael Giacchino; "3:10 to Yuma," Marco Beltrami.

16. Original Song: "Falling Slowly" from "Once," Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova; "Happy Working Song" from "Enchanted," Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz; "Raise It Up" from "August Rush," Nominees to be determined; "So Close" from "Enchanted," Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz; "That's How You Know" from "Enchanted," Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz.

17. Costume: "Across the Universe," "Atonement," "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," "La Vie en Rose," "Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street."

18. Documentary Feature: "No End in Sight," "Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience," "Sicko," "Taxi to the Dark Side," "War/Dance."

19. Documentary (short subject): "Freeheld," "La Corona (The Crown)," "Salim Baba," "Sari's Mother."

20. Film Editing: "The Bourne Ultimatum," "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," "Into the Wild," "No Country for Old Men," "There Will Be Blood."

21. Makeup: "La Vie en Rose," "Norbit," "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End."

22. Animated Short Film: "I Met the Walrus," "Madame Tutli-Putli," "Meme Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)," "My Love (Moya Lyubov)," "Peter & the Wolf."

23. Live Action Short Film: "At Night," "Il Supplente (The Substitute)," "Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)," "Tanghi Argentini," "The Tonto Woman."

24. Visual Effects: "The Golden Compass," "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," "Transformers."

Although I would LOVE LOVE LOVE! to see Johnny Depp win for "Sweeny Todd"
and Ellen Page win for "Juno"...

...here are my official 2008 predictions!: (last year i was 100% correct!) :)

Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis for "There Will be Blood"

Best Actress: Cate Blanchett for "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"

Best Supporting Actor: Hal Holbrook for "Into the Wild"

Best Supporting Actress: Saoirse Ronan for "Atonement"

AND...
Best Picture: "There Will be Blood"

I guess we will soon find out! Tune in: Sunday February 24, 2008.
Only 33 days...and counting... :)

see...even the kids get it!

I found this online and thought......uhhhhh, AWESOME!



done by some random kid that i don't know...but definitely agree with them!

GGGGGOOOOOOOOOOO ELI!

Monday, January 21, 2008

MLK Day

“But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love; ‘love your enemies, bless them that curse you’… Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?”

- Martin Luther King Jr, Letter From Birmingham Jail

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

good ole' johnny


Last March, Johnny Depp's 7 year old daughter, Lily-Rose, was in serious condition at a London hospital after E. coli poisoning caused her kidneys to fail. In the middle of filming Sweeney Todd when she fell ill, Depp abruptly left the production, effectively shutting it down for two weeks as he kept a constant vigil at her side. Yesterday, he paid a visit to the hospital again. With $2 million. The Daily Mail says:

"Johnny Depp secretly visited Great Ormond Street Hospital yesterday to donate $2 million of his own money to thank staff for saving his daughter's life. He arrived unexpectedly at the London children's hospital where eight-year-old Lily-Rose was treated last year when her kidneys failed. Last week he invited five Great Ormond Street doctors and nurses to the party for the London premiere of his film Sweeney Todd. And on November 29, unknown to the public, Depp spent four hours at the hospital telling bedtime stories to patients dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow after having his Pirates Of The Caribbean costume flown over from Los Angeles."

So, to compare, Johnny Depp shut down a $50 million movie for two weeks and wrote a $2 million check because his kid got sick, Britney Spears couldn't be bothered to drive across town to keep her kids. If this were some kind of parenting death match, Britney would be armed with a marshmallow shooter and Johnny would be riding the Cloverfield monster.

(borrowed from "I Don't Like You In That Way")

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

...and counting...

Pitchers & Catchers Report: 32 days 2 hr 52 min

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Thursday, January 03, 2008

101 Most Influential Musicians of all time...

My favorite radio station here in Denver had all their listeners vote on who they thought was the most influential musicians/groups of all time...
...Here is Martini on the Rockies VIP list:



#1 Beatles
2-Frank Sinatra
3-Elvis Presley
4-Ray Charles
5-Louis Armstrong
6-Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart
7-Ella Fitzgerald
8-George Gershwin
9-Nat King Cole
10-Billie Holiday
11-Aretha Franklin
12-B.B. King
13-Miles Davis
14-Johann Sebastian Bach
15-Duke Ellington
16-Johnny Cash
17-Rolling Stones
18-Patsy Cline
19-Elton John
20-Bob Dylan
21-Michael Jackson
22-Ludwig Van Beethoven
23-Eric Clapton
24-Stevie Wonder
25-Benny Goodman
26-Police
27-Jimi Hendrix
28-Tony Bennett
29-Chuck Berry
30-Cole Porter
31-U2
32-James Brown
33-Eagles
34-Hank Williams
35-Rodgers & Hmmerstein
36-Madonna
37-Henry Mancini
38- Irving Berlin
39- Bing Crosby
40-Charlie Parker
41-Carlos Santana
42-Woody Guthrie
43-Billy Joel
44-John Philip Sousa
45-Carole King
46-Bob Marley
47-Quincy Jones
48-Willie Nelson
49-Glenn Miller
50-Beach Boys
51-John Williams
52-Led Zeppelin
53-Hip Hop (Run DMC)
54-Simon and Garfunkel
55-Muddy Waters
56-Dave Brubeck
57-Burt Bacharach
58-Marvin Gaye
59-Pyotr Tchaikovsky
60-George Benson
61-Scott Joplin
62-Les Paul
63-Janis Joplin
64-Bruce Springsteen
65-Andrew Lloyd Weber
66-Bee Gees
67-Sammy Davis Jr.
68-Ladys Sing The Blues
Sarah Vaughan
Etta James
Dinah Washington
69-Pink Floyd
70-Barbra Streisand
71-Roy Orbison
72-Luciano Pavarotti
73-Grateful Dead
74-Fleetwood Mac
75-Van Morrison
76-Garth Brooks
77-The Folk Boom
The Weavers
Pete Seeger
Peter, Paul & Mary
78-Johnny Mercer
79-Doors
80-Chicago
81-Bill Haley
82-The Who
83-Mahalia Jackson
84-Donna Summer
85-Giacomo Puccini
86-Earth, Wind & Fire
87-Stephen Foster
88-Genesis
89-Prince
90-Leiber and Stoller
91-Dolly Parton
92-Nirvana
93-Sam Cooke
94-Robert Johnson
95-Bluegrass
Bill Monroe
Scruggs & Flatt
96-Gene Krupa
97-Jefferson Airplane
98-Iggy Pop
99-Aaron Copland
100-Louis Jordan
101-Herb Albert