2/24/10

Live Bands

This list is more for my own record keeping purposes, but it goes along with my previous post. These are the bands that I have seen live in concert. The first list are the bands I saw willingly. These are bands I like. I've ranked them in the order I enjoyed the concert.

1. Ludo (x3)
2. Bowling for Soup
3. Mury (x2)
4. Sum 41
5. The Offspring
6. Madina Lake (x2)
7. Without a Face
8. Social Distortion
9. Single File
10. The Airborne Toxic Event
11. Unwritten Law
12. Green Day
13. Blink-182 (x2)
14. Linkin Park
15. The Higher
16. Billy Talent
17. Jimmy Eat World
18. The Starting Line (x2)
19. Say Anything
20. Madison Lights
21. The Used
22. Alkaline Trio (x2)
23. The Graduate (x2)
24. Just Surrender
25. My Chemical Romance (x3)
26. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
27. Tommy and the High Pilots (x2)
28. There for Tomorrow
29. 30 Seconds to Mars (x2)
30. Victim Effect (x2)

This second list is for the curious folks who like to know what bands opened for the bands above that I was forced to listen to in order to get to the good stuff. These bands range from mediocre to terrible. In no particular order:

Manchester Orchestra
The Architects
Stamps
Sparks the Rescue
MuteMath
Neon Trees (x2)
Amber Alert
Escape the Fate
King Niko
Drive By
Coheed and Cambria
Chiodos
Eye Alaska
Schoolyard Heroes
Street Dogs
Allred (x2)
Blackhounds
Franz Ferdinand
Taking Back Sunday
Chester French
Broke City (x2)
Billy Boy on Poison
Cursive
The Dear & Departed
Oh, Be Clever

2/22/10

Best Picture Nominees 2010

Since the Academy Awards had decided to raise its nomination count to include ten movies, it seems like the perfect chance to rank them according to quality!

1. Up
2. Up In The Air
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. District 9
5. The Blind Side
6.An Education
7. Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
8. The Hurt Locker
9. A Serious Man
10. Avatar

And, in case you were wondering since they are not all on my top of the year list, all but the last two deserve the nomination.

Best of the Oscar Shorts 2010

Here is a ranking of the 2010 Academy Award nominees for best dramatic short films (live and animated) in order of best to worst:

1. La Dama y la Muerte
2. Wallace and Gromit in 'A Matter of Loaf and Death'
3. The New Tenants
4. French Roast
5. Istället för Abrakadabra
6. Miracle Fish
7. Kavi
8. Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
9. Logorama
10. The Door

Biggest Snub:
Partly Cloudy