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Announcing the 2009 YOU DON'T SUCK Award winners, painstakingly selected by a panel of AudioShocker celebrity (NOT!) judges!!! Listen to the thrilling selection process as Ross, Justique, Neal, Nick, and Pete choose the following 2009 YDS champions:
Movies - 2012
Music - Lil Wayne's No Ceilings mixtape
TV - Glee
Comics [TIE!!!] - Wet Moon 5 and Majestic XII
Books - Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
As we mentioned yesterday, the polls are now open for the AudioShocker's second annual YOU DON'T SUCK Awards for Music, Movies, Comics, and TV. Much like last year, we are soliciting your picks for this past year's top sounds, sights, floppies, and serials.
Get started now by posting your nominations below in the comments section. You can also email your picks to audio, neal, or nick @ audioshocker.com or tweet them to us @audioshocker. And you can always post them on our facebook page. Hell, CALL them in (412.567.7606) if you're stoned and lazy.
Neal created this logo, and it does NOT suck
Final results will be posted Jan 1st 2010 or thereabout next year.
P.S. Anyone submitting Old Dogs, A Christmas Carol, or excessively vocodered hip hop music as nominees will be cast out from the AudioShocker kingdom forever!!! Okay, we'll probably just make fun of you... but do you really want to face our harsh ridicule??? (Perhaps Pete does)
Confusion over the X-Men's newest event, Necrosha, spills into a discussion of Ross and Nick's respective X-Men dream teams (can you already guess who makes the cuts?) and, somehow, the X-Men manage to take up the entire podcast. BUT before it's over... Ross and Nick officially announce the call for nominations for the 2009 YOU DON'T SUCK Awards! So get submitting, loyal APWRAN listeners!!! Next time: For real (as in it's actually been recorded and everything), Ross and Nick debate the ultimate superhero question: do heroes kill?
We get things started with a fun little game of F%$k One, Marry One, Eat One (FME), and spin directly into a ridiculously in depth argument over cover letters vs. resumes (wherein, sadly, no one wins). Then it's media ahoy as we talk about the following (not necessarily in this order): Secret Lives of Women and Sparky, Better Off Ted, Nurse Jackie, ABC, Dead or Alive Ultimate, reviews of Fantastic Mr. Fox and Old Dogs, The Rock in Disney flicks, old school X-Factor and Uncanny X-Men, a webcomics crossover announcement (!!!), and we close it down with Neal's review of POP!
AND... make sure to submit your nominations for the 2009 YOU DON'T SUCK Awards for Music, Movies, Comics, and TV!!! Listen to this episode for more and also check out the 2008 YDS Awards for inspiration. Then post your nominees right here in the comments section!
Welcome to the 1st Annual AudioShocker YOU DON'T SUCK Awards for 2008, where we celebrate the few pieces of mass media that didn't completely blow last year. In keeping with our "Music. Movies. Comic Books. Pop Culture. Media is kind of our thing." credo, we've carefully evaluated offerings in the categories of Music (by Neal), Movies (by Pete), Comics (by Nick), and TV (by all of us). Here are the results:
Music (Arists, Singles, Videos, and Albums)
The nominees are:
The 2008 YOU DON'T SUCK Music Winner is: The Cool Kids
Neal says: It's always hard to decide with music. This is the most subjective category there is. Lil Wayne was stellar, but vocoders prevent us from giving him top honors. Pink returned to relevance with killer singles and Vampire Weekend brought us alternative music (and a video) that didn't suck. New favorite The Ting Tings and Pete's pick Portishead rounded out our noms. I don't think you can go wrong with any of the nominees, but there can be only one winner. The fantastically hip Cool Kids know how to make a good record and their beats have ridiculous knock.
Movies (Films, Flicks, and Moving Pictures)
The nominees are:
The 2008 YOU DON'T SUCK Movies Winner is: In Bruges
Pete says: In Bruges was the best-written movie of the year and has incredible performances from its three main actors (Ralph Fiennes, Colin Farrell, and Brendan Gleeson). This is the first film from writer-director Martin McDonagh, and in that regard this strikes me as another reason to single out the film, since we can be optimistic about another strong filmic auteur (though the man is, apparently, a well-seasoned playwright) making the scene. Slumdog Millionaire and The Wrestler were excellent, but neither topples In Bruges as my pick for the all-caps not sucking distinction.
Comics (Ongoings, Minis, One-Shots, and OGNs)
The nominees are:
The 2008 YOU DON'T SUCK Comics Winner is: War Machine: Weapon of SHIELD #33-35
Nick says: I'm obsessed with War Machine thanks to this story arc. These issues (a.k.a. Iron Man: Director of SHIELD #33-35) follow Jim Rhodes after an electronic recording of Tony Stark prompts him to prepare for an impending crisis (Secret Invasion). Christos Gage, Sean Chen, Sandu Florea, Jay David Ramos, Joe Caramagna, Adi Granov, and Bill Rosemann are all in top form as they deliver the best comics of 2008. (This goes without says that I've been nursing an addiction to Marvel vs. Capcom lately and Rhodey happens to be my fighter of choice.)
Television (Shows, Finales, and Premiers)
The nominees are:
The 2008 YOU DON'T SUCK Television Winner is: Avatar: The Last Airbender
We say: Honestly, was there ever really a doubt? Avatar has been an AudioShocker favorite since before there was an AudioShocker.com! This Nickelodeon original made us sit up and take notice with its tremendous visuals, compelling story, and surprisingly mature themes. We're sad we couldn't give Chuck and Mad Men higher marks, but Buster Bluth and Don Draper would want it this way. Now we're keeping our eyes peeled for new episodes of Big Love, BSG, Entourage, and Spectacular Spidey!
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