Justin's Academy Awards

So, i got to thinking about two months ago that i thought the academy was retarded on many occasions. Why? Because they have obviously given out many awards for many reasons other for than the performances in front of or behind the camera. This has caused many undeserving oscars (i.e. halle berry.) Then entertainment weekly is doing this thing called recall the gold on their website. The are doing some of the awards every five years backwards until....1980 i believe. Then i had a great idea. I love movies! And i have opinions! So i decided to do my own academy awards starting from 1980 until the present. I am not sure why i started with 1980 but i think it is because the greatest movie of the 80's was made in 1980 and did not win best picture which is still one of the biggest academy mistakes. So i have been working on this project for freaking ever...about two months. I am doing all of the four major categories and posting them on this here blog until i am finished. I have finally finished 1980. But on a side note, the 1980 best actress category sadly goes unchanged from what it originally was because i have only seen one of the movies in question and no nothing of the performances so i felt i had no right to change them. I am not sure anybody will even care but that isn't really the point. I am doing it because it is a lot of fun for me and i think chris will get a kick out of it. The winners are highlighted in red. The ones that I nominated that are different from the original nominations are italicized. Ok, on with 1980 already!!!

1980 Best Actress Nominees:
Mary Tyler Moore {Ordinary People}
Sissy Spacek {Coal Miner's Daughter}
Goldie Hawn {Private Benjamin}
Gena Rowlanlds {Gloria}
Ellen Burnstyn {Resurrection}

**Like i said, mine are exactly the same**

1980 Best Actor Nominees:
Peter O'Toole {The Stunt Man}
Robert De Niro {Raging Bull}
Jack Lemmon {Tribute}
John Hurt {The Elephant Man}
Robert Duvall {The Great Santini}

Justin's 1980 Best Actor Nominees:
Donald Sutherland {Ordinary People}
John Hurt {The Elephant Man}
Robert De Niro {Raging Bull}
Peter O'Toole {The Stunt Man}
Jack Nicholson {The Shining}

1980 Best Director Nominees:
Robert Redford {Ordinary People}
Martin Scorsese {Raging Bull}
Richard Rush {The Stunt Man}
Roman Polanski {Tess}
David Lynch {The Elephant Man}

Justin's 1980 Best Director Nominees:
Robert Redford {Ordinary People}
David Lynch {The Elephant Man}
Martin Scorsese {Raging Bull}
Irvin Kershner {Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back}
Stanley Kubrick {The Shining}

1980 Best Picture Nominees:
Coal Miner's Daughter
Ordinary People
Raging Bull
Tess
The Elephant Man

Justin's 1980 Best Picture Nominees:
Ordinary People
Raging Bull
The Elephant Man
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
The Shining

**It seriously pains me to take away best director and best picture from ordinary people because it is truly a beautiful and amazing film........unfortunately raging bull is a tad bit better.**

Birthday!

I just wanted to say that I had an awesome freaking birthday and I am so glad that everyone came! Thanks to those of you that helped pull my party together and thanks to those who travelled far to come to it. Thanks for all my great presents! I love you all!

Jesse

Party

Okay, so I don't know if everyone got all the info for this weekend, so here I am. My party is at 4pm on Saturday and it is at a church so we can play indoor volleyball. Here are directions to it:

Stake Center:
14550 S Juniper Crest Rd:
West on 134th
Left at 4800 W (2nd stop light)
Stay on this road--sharp right turns road into Juniper Crest
Stay on road straight through stop sign, stake center on left.

So, like I said, we are going to be playing indoor volleyball but those of you who do not want to play, it's totally cool because there will be games and fun people to chat with and lots of food. I really hope everyone can come!

We are leaving Cedar City at 5 tonight and will get to Salt Lake around 9. See you all tonight!

Kung Fu Idiots

IF ONE MORE PERSON FREAKING SAYS "KONG FU PANDA" ONE MORE FREAKING TIME I AM GOING TO FREAKING KUNG FU THEIR STUPID FREAKING FACE!!!! IT'S KUNG FU!! KUNG, KUNG, KUNG, KUNG, IT'S A FREAKING 'U'. STUPID REDNECK HILLBILLIES!

Movies

If anyone has a movie, almost any movie, in mind that they would like to watch this weekend, please let us know and we can bring it up with us! So, leave your requests in comments and we will try to oblige.

Amendment

But most MOST MOST of all, we want to see Amelia and Brent this weekend because we haven't seen them in SOOO long, and we miss them most terribly.

This Weekend!

I just have to say, I am so excited for this weekend! I can't wait to go to Salt Lake and see everyone! It's going to be so so fun!

Can I get a WOOT! WOOT!

Oh, this is Jesse, by the way.

My leg and I are headed to Corpus Christi

I'll admit it, i was wrong. I was wrong because of a field goal kicker. Utah lucked out. They got dominated by TCU's defense all game and TCU gave it away. But like i said before, a win is a win is a win. So none of it matters. Sadly, i have to say i am not as optimistic as chris. If TCU can't beat Utah in RES than we definitely can't. A bit pessimistic? Perhaps. But oh how sweet it would be to crash their BCS dreams. Unfortunately we never seem to upset them, it just happens the other way around. Stupid kickers making me wrong.

To everyone who reads this blog and loves Jesse:

Justin and I are going to be in Salt Lake City next weekend (November 14-16) because my friend Jessica is getting married--yea!--and her bridal shower is on Saturday. As some of you know, my birthday is on the 16th, so I thought since we will be up there among all of you, we should probably all get together and celebrate. I'm hoping to have a barbeque, weather allowing, and all y'all are invited! It will be Saturday the 15th at 4 p.m. in Herriman somewhere. (I will let you know where soon, hopefully, sometime). Please plan on coming, Justin and I really want to see everyone, including but not limited to:

val
brenda
val
betty
kelsey
kurt
-kids
jason
heather
-kid
amy
nic
-monsters (just kidding!)
bryan
ashley
-kid (jake)
keshia
chris
jessica
ryan
crystalle
joe

(not listed in order of importance)

Okay, so, come.

Best...News...Ever...

So not really the best news ever, but pretty close. Well, maybe not that either but it is definitely the best video game ever. Ha, yes, you are reading another post about video games. This is great though. A couple of days ago Harmonix and EA sports announced The Beatles rock band game!!!! The is going to be the greatest game ever in the world!!! Although they are adamant on saying that it is not a rock band game and it deserves its own title, the format is going to be pretty much the same. Therefore, i call it The Beatles rock band game. It comes out next holiday season. What a long year this is going to be. Now for some history. I grew up hating the Beatles. Why? That's a very valid question that i can answer in two words; Yellow Submarine. What a freaking retarded song. I heard that song when i was in fourth grade and i wanted to kill myself. Therefore without ever listening to any other Beatles songs. I continued to hate them until i met Jesse, then she made me listen to them. Wow, was i surprised at what the Beatles really sound like. I judged them based on yellow submarine (which is still to this day the only beatles song that i have heard that i don't like) which isn't even a real Beatles song. When i listened to them i could not believe the complete genius of their music. I love it. I can't wait to rock to songs like "Revolution" "Come Together" and a billion others. Here is a list of songs i really hope they put on there:

Revolution
Come Together
Let It Be
Hey Jude
She Loves You
I Want To Hold Your Hand
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (I adore this song)
Because
Something
Help!
Get Back
Michelle
Eight Days A Week
Eleanor Rigby
Helter Skelter
Ticket To Ride
Blackbird
Love Me Do
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
From Me To You
Twist And Shout
You're Gonna Lose That Girl
............and many many others that i can't think of right now.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday is the day we get ready for saturday

I am excited for thursday. I must say, i have never been excited for a tcu vs. utah game in my life, but i can't wait for this one. TCU is going to spank utah like the ugly child of the family and send them to bed with no dinner, or sheets, or blankets, and then they are going to come into the room late at night when they are sleeping and and pull that trigger. I am excited. Utah fans have not been able to shut their retarded mouths since TCU destroyed us. The funny thing to me was, all these utah fans were running their mouths after the game........but did they forget that they still had to play tcu? Maybe they should have held their tongues a little longer. Plus all these retards were harrassing BYU and blah blah blah, but what is the shame in losing to a better team? Seriously!!!!! Somebody please explain this to me! TCU is the better team and they proved that. I have never had a problem swallowing a loss if it's to a better team. They were better, they won. Pretty simple concept. But i wouldn't expect that kind of logic, or class from a utah fan. I have never met a utah fan (family excluded) that has shown any kind of class whatsoever. They have my vote for the worst fans in college football. I have been to a byu-utah game, and i could not believe the way grown men were talking to us, we were a group of twelve year deacons by the way.
Even when utah loses the ute fans will keep running their mouths with crap like "at least we didn't lose by as much as you guys did." News flash-a loss is a loss is a loss is a loss is a loss. And no, utah won't lose by as much for two reasons. 1-At this point in the season they are a better team than byu, i don't have much of a problem admitting that seeing how it is crystal clear. 2-It's in salt lake and home field is always nice to have.
Now to my team. WHERE IS THE DEFENSE?! Is it really that hard to run alongside some guy and make sure he doesn't catch the football EVERY time they throw it to him? I am pretty sure i could a better job than #4. I am adopting Bryan's method of calling him by his jersey number because he is not worth learning his name. If we don't beat San Diego St. by a trillion than will just about die. I actually might. I called this back in february though when bronco hired a defensive coordinator. I expressed my thoughts to a couple people that our defense wasn't going to be nearly as good as it had been and i said they would struggle heavily. I hate being right all the time. See, and after the TCU game i thought it would be a wake up call and the defense would start playing better. Apparently, it seems to be the exact opposite. It seems like they aren't even trying because the bcs chance is gone so they feel like the entire season is lost. I see no fire on that side of the ball. 42 points to Colorado St? I had forgotten that they were an offensive juggernaut. Texas Tech is not someone to be messed with though. Graham Harrell throws a pretty ball. TCU 24 Utah 20.

P.s. If utah wins now i am going to look quite foolish, but i really don't bank on that happening.

A few things

October is over, and we watched 56 movies, and 27 discs of tv shows in October. It seems a little ridiculous when put in this context. We had a lot of free time this month, apparently.

We did carve our pumpkins after all. This is Justin's very abstract design.


This is Jesse's pumpkin.

Unfortunately, Todd was killed Halloween night when the wind blew him off his chair and Justin ran over him with the car. He lost both legs and an arm in the accident, it was touch and go for awhile, and then he slipped peacefully away. We will miss him dearly.

More Lego Stuff

I especially enjoy the red toilet seat cover and mat.

Someone left the sink running.

Lego Animals

A puppy


A bird

A kitten

A turtle