The Nominees Are:

The Academy Award Nominees:


Best Motion Picture of the Year Nominees:
Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Diana Ossana, James Schamus
Capote (2005) - Caroline Baron, William Vince, Michael Ohoven
Crash (2004) - Paul Haggis, Cathy Schulman
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) - Grant Heslov
Munich (2005) - Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Nominees:
Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote (2005)
Terrence Howard for Hustle & Flow (2005)
Heath Ledger for Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Joaquin Phoenix for Walk the Line (2005)
David Strathairn for Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Nominees:
Judi Dench for Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)
Felicity Huffman for Transamerica (2005)
Keira Knightley for Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Charlize Theron for North Country (2005)
Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Nominees:
George Clooney for Syriana (2005)
Matt Dillon for Crash (2004)
Paul Giamatti for Cinderella Man (2005)
Jake Gyllenhaal for Brokeback Mountain (2005)
William Hurt for A History of Violence (2005)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Nominees:
Amy Adams for Junebug (2005)
Catherine Keener for Capote (2005)
Frances McDormand for North Country (2005)
Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener (2005)
Michelle Williams for Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Best Achievement in Directing Nominees:
George Clooney for Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
Paul Haggis for Crash (2004)
Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Bennett Miller for Capote (2005)
Steven Spielberg for Munich (2005)

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Nominees:
Crash (2004) - Paul Haggis, Robert Moresco
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) - George Clooney, Grant Heslov
Match Point (2005) - Woody Allen
The Squid and the Whale (2005) - Noah Baumbach
Syriana (2005) - Stephen Gaghan

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published Nominees:
Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
Capote (2005) - Dan Futterman
The Constant Gardener (2005) - Jeffrey Caine
A History of Violence (2005) - Josh Olson
Munich (2005) - Tony Kushner, Eric Roth

Best Achievement in Cinematography Nominees:
Batman Begins (2005) - Wally Pfister
Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Rodrigo Prieto
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) - Robert Elswit
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) - Dion Beebe
The New World (2005) - Emmanuel Lubezki

Best Achievement in Editing Nominees:
Cinderella Man (2005) - Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill
The Constant Gardener (2005) - Claire Simpson
Crash (2004) - Hughes Winborne
Munich (2005) - Michael Kahn
Walk the Line (2005) - Michael McCusker

Best Achievement in Art Direction Nominees:
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) - James D. Bissell, Jan Pascale
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) - Stuart Craig, Stephanie McMillan
King Kong (2005) - Grant Major, Dan Hennah, Simon Bright
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) - John Myhre, Gretchen Rau
Pride & Prejudice (2005) - Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer

Best Achievement in Costume Design Nominees:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) - Gabriella Pescucci
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) - Colleen Atwood
Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005) - Sandy Powell
Pride & Prejudice (2005) - Jacqueline Durran
Walk the Line (2005) - Arianne Phillips

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score Nominees:
Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Gustavo Santaolalla
The Constant Gardener (2005) - Alberto Iglesias
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) - John Williams
Munich (2005) - John Williams
Pride & Prejudice (2005) - Dario Marianelli

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song Nominees:
Hustle & Flow (2005) - Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman, Paul Beauregard ("It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp")
Crash (2004) - Michael Becker, Kathleen York ("In the Deep")
Transamerica (2005) - Dolly Parton ("Travelin' Thru")

Best Achievement in Makeup Nominees:
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) - Howard Berger, Tami Lane
Cinderella Man (2005) - David LeRoy Anderson, Lance Anderson
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) - Dave Elsey, Annette Miles

Best Achievement in Sound Nominees:
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) - Terry Porter, Dean A. Zupancic, Tony Johnson
King Kong (2005) - Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges, Hammond Peek
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) - Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Rick Kline, John Pritchett
Walk the Line (2005) - Paul Massey, Doug Hemphill, Peter F. Kurland
War of the Worlds (2005) - Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Ron Judkins

Best Achievement in Sound Editing Nominees:
King Kong (2005) - Mike Hopkins, Ethan Van der Ryn
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) - Wylie Stateman
War of the Worlds (2005) - Richard King

Best Achievement in Visual Effects Nominees:
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) - Dean Wright, Bill Westenhofer, Jim Berney, Scott Farrar
King Kong (2005) - Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers, Richard Taylor
War of the Worlds (2005) - Pablo Helman, Dennis Muren, Randy Dutra, Daniel Sudick

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year Nominees:
Corpse Bride (2005) - Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Hauru no ugoku shiro (2004) - Hayao Miyazaki
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) - Steve Box, Nick Park

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year Nominees:
Bestia nel cuore, La (2005) - Cristina Comencini (Italy)
Joyeux Noël (2005) - Christian Carion (France)
Paradise Now (2005) - Hany Abu-Assad (Palestine)
Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage (2005) - Marc Rothemund (Germany)
Tsotsi (2005) - Gavin Hood (South Africa)

Best Documentary, Features Nominees:
Darwin's Nightmare (2004) - Hubert Sauper
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) - Alex Gibney, Jason Kliot
Marche de l'empereur, La (2005) - Luc Jacquet, Yves Darondeau
Murderball (2005) - Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro
Street Fight (2005) - Marshall Curry

Best Short Film, Live Action Nominees:
Ausreißer (2004) - Ulrike Grote
Cashback (2004) - Sean Ellis, Lene Bausager
Síðasti bærinn í dalnum (2004) - Rúnar Rúnarsson, Þórir Snær Sigurjónsson
Our Time Is Up (2004) - Rob Pearlstein, Pia Clemente
Six Shooter (2005) - Martin McDonagh

I realize most of my readers probably don't give a fuck about the Oscars...but you can suck it! Laters for now!

A Man of Substance

Hannibal Lecter: You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed? Pure West Virginia. What's your father, dear? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamb? You know how quickly the boys found you... all those tedious sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars... while you could only dream of getting out... getting anywhere... getting all the way to the FBI.
Clarice Starling: You see a lot don't you doctor. Why don't you turn that high-powered perception at yourself and tell us what you see, or, maybe you're afraid to.
Hannibal Lecter: A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti. **slurps**

- The Silence of the Lambs

I'm posting today only because I figured I'd do something better with my time than sit here while eating some 99 cent oatmeal cookies and drinking my water with lemon. I recently gave up soda completely. I also meant to abolish any and all unhealthy snack food from my diet, but when you see a package of oatmeal cookies for that cheap, it's difficult to abstain. I began my newly improvised diet at the new year mainly stemming from a sense of disgust at how and what I chose to consume in my first semester away from home. Oh, and maybe being greeted by your grandmother at the airport over X-mas break with a "You got fat..." might have something to do with it too.

Grocery shopping alone isn't the best thing for somebody with a sweet tooth. Although ever since I've been back in Denton I feel proud that I'm able to withdrawal most of my indulgences. I guess I could, however, just look in my closet and see all the stacked empty boxes of Little Debbie snacks to gain some inspiration not to be a fatass. My metabolism is slowly diminishing and it's terrifying...I hope this means I don't have to start working out.

Wow, I keep surprising myself -- I just wrote two paragraphs in under five minutes! I think I'm more surprised that I didn't use a curse word though. FUCK!....ah, much better. (ps: fatass is a title, not a curse word)

Classes haven't started kicking my ass, but then again, I haven't reached an exam week yet. I think it's possible to single out which courses may stress me out the most so I'll try to keep on my toes this semester. My professors seem okay right now, although I have a one-sided Political Science teacher who openly admits to "accidentally" slipping his opinion into everything. And it sucks even more when his opinion differs greatly to yours. Another one of my professors' names is Boshorat Ibragimova. Try saying that ten times....fuck, try saying that once!

Not that many pictures today but it's quality not quantity, right? Enjoy.

I should stop trying to take pictures out my window while driving.


A little pottery barn-esque, but whatever...I thought it looked neat.



Laura's old roomate's cat, Lilly, trying to get along with Riley. Or not.


I like this picture


Trying way too hard to be artistic


M-M-M-Mi Cocina!! Love this place...I wish they had them in SA.


Shana's birthday partay last Friday!


LaShana...Shana's other personality. (only when drinking)


A few partiers


Well, I'm off to go watch a couple hours of pre-SAG Award red carpet coverage on E! I'm such a media whore. Peace and laters for now!

The Freethinking Minority

Joel: Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I'm back! I took a break from posts while I was home in San Antonio for the holidays. I didn't take my PC with me, and God forbid my parents ever finding a link to my blog in the internet history. Ha, I bet they totally read it weekly but just don't tell me. Somebody elses's parents found this recently and "weren't impressed" by me. Sorry, didn't know that was what I was supposed to be doing...impressing people. Fuck that.

Damn, a lot sure can happen in a month. I guess I didn't really do much over the break. I did do a lot of sleeping in, relaxing, seeing movies, and hanging with my buds. One night we (Alex and I) were able to get most of the old band nerds back together for a night filled with nostalgia. It's insane seeing how much everybody has changed, and how much everybody hasn't changed. Alex and I seem to live completely different lives, but when we get together it's like we're 16 again. (See pictures below)

I'm currently eating a huge bag of heavily salted shelled peanuts. They are quite delicious, but I suck the salt off the shells and my tongue feels like it's been rubbed with sandpaper. I'm smart.

School started up again yesterday. I was dreading the drive back up to Denton but, incredibly, I made it in 4 1/2 hours which is something to brag about. Getting adjusted to a completely new routine in less than 24 hours can do damage on one's emotions and, alas, I'm feeling the stress of classes already. I called my mom today very frustrated. I think babbled, cursed, and complained for five whole minutes. I probably just stress her out by doing that so maybe I'll resort to my blog more often to vent.

Hmmm...what else? Oh! Some great movies I saw/rented over the break that you MUST see! I gotta say that I wasn't too aroused by the idea of seeing King Kong because I usually don't get off on big FX movies like that. But I jumped on the band wagon anyway and really enjoyed it, surprisingly. It was a lot of fun...and a little depressing. I rented a few goodies as well: Mysterious Skin (fantastic...but very disturbing...NC-17) and Broken Flowers were both great. (Bobby would argue with me on the latter) I guess the only ones I saw in theaters were Kong, Family Stone (surprisingly very good...loved it), The Squid and the Whale, and Brokeback Mountain. My two favorites were The Squid and the Whale and Brokeback Mountain. If you get a chance to see them, do it!

The Squid and the Whale tells the story of two young boys and how they deal with their parents' divorce in the 1980s. It's really funny, but on the other hand very shocking, sad, and disturbingly fucked up. The father (Jeff Daniels) is a pretentious, arrogant writer with a complete lack of self-awareness whose career may be becoming shadowed by his ex-wife's. (Laura Linney) The mother is a seemingly more passive, but equally horny woman who is blamed for the divorce. Each boy sides with their "favorite" parent and soon adapt to their behaviors. It's based on the director's own experiences as a child, and has sort of a confessional vibe about it because of it. Seriously...rent this when it comes out. It's fantastic.


Brokeback Mountain was...hmm. I can't really explain it without sounding redundant. I'm sure everybody knows the basic story by now. I mean, you can't turn on your television without hearing something about it. (which is a good thing) Basically if you haven't seen it yet, then you're really missing out on one of the best films of '05...or ever. It took a while for me actually understand the movie as I had hoped to, but when it did I was blown away. It's a movie that lingers with you after you've seen it. Love isn't to be understood but to be honored and powerfully felt and Ang Lee does a great job in persuading us of this. It's a movie that gives us an honest look at the most profound connection you can have with another person. It defies categorisation and gives us an opportunity to re-write the way we look at ourselves. See this movie.


UGH! I just spent an hour and a half of my life writing this damned post. Thanks, Rachael Ray! (My eyes wandered a few times to the tv...) Enjoy these pictures....phew!

Allie's beautiful dog, Buddy


Katie, Emily, and Allie....at Chili's.


Eating at Sushi/Zushi with Alex...I'm cool.


At DaVinci's Gelato w/ Alex...Kristen would be jealous.


Haaallelujah! Haaallelujah!


Shopping at Michael's. (don't hate) I should've bought that poster...


Mary's sweet new cat, Schatzi. He's a black pussy.


The pictures loaded way out of order...so deal. This is Kim and I at Texas Roadhouse on our last night in SA. ew...


Shisha w/ Mary...if you ever go there, try their food. It's terrific.


God, we're stupid.


Actin' a fool with Brittany. I really hope somebody else's parents find this and are "impressed".


My face looks like a vagina.


This is the scariest dog I've ever seen.


Sunset outside of a restaurant



Brittany is completely sober in this pictures....pfffft! I love the random chick in the background.


Alex chillin at a party...he was my DD


Chocolate Fountain on Laura's 26th birthday...it was amazing.


Ted's (kim's boyfriend) other dog Cozzi...very cute


At TC's with Emily and Allie...yesssss


I'm in love with this picture...Although Lucky shits all over people's beds, he's still one cute motherfucker.


Mary wanted to see what it was like to make out with herself, so she made out with her Invisiline retainers. It made me all tingly inside...mmm


In Austin w/ Mary and Britt.


"That's the most pussy Patrick will ever see over the break...or in his entire life", Mary says. I love her.


I got bored and decided to eat my shit for fun. Not really, I think it's chocolate from germany. And judging by my facial expression, it had way too much sugar.


Merry Christmas!


Kimberly is special


Mike, Alex, Fall, Krista...Steph Lee was on her way.


At some nasty ass restaurant with Mary and Britt. They love it though...I guess they enjoy the taste of feces. Plus our waitress looked like a gas station hooker.


Krista's face makes me defocate in my pants. (I really need to grow up)


Brittany is a crazy bitch


Leaving you with a nice photo


PHEW! That was quite possibly the longest it's ever taken me to blog. You fuckers better comment or something because I was NOT feeling productive at all today. That took some energy...off to grab some grub! Laters for now...