Post Grammy blog posts have looked very similar to each other for the last decade or two. People complain about voters favouring certain genres, ignoring huge talent and being downright stupid in awarding ray Charles the Album of the Year award over Kanye’s College Dropout. This year may spark a similar level of interest from … Continue reading
Author Archives: Sam Atkins
Are ‘Saw’ style moments making good games great?
var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push([‘_setAccount’, ‘UA-11176202-2’]); _gaq.push([‘_trackPageview’]); (function() { var ga = document.createElement(‘script’); ga.type = ‘text/javascript’; ga.async = true; ga.src = (‘https:’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘https://ssl’ : ‘http://www’) + ‘.google-analytics.com/ga.js’; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); As you know by my Best Game of 2010 list, Heavy Rain is a phenomenal experience. … Continue reading
Grammys 2011 Predictions Overview
So there are the main 4 awards set to be given on the night, which makes my Wishes/Predictions look something like this. My predictions are in brackets and yellow. Album of the Year – The Fame Monster – Lady GaGa – (Recovery) Record of the Year – Empire State of Mind – Jay-Z Feat. Alicia Keys – (Empire … Continue reading
Who should win Best New Artist at the 2011 Grammys?
Here we are, the final award in the big 4 set to be given out on Sunday. Best New Artist has become a great indicator of future commercial success, winners like Christina Aguilera, Amy Winehouse and even The Beatles leaving the show with the award. Following the major controversy caused last year when the artist … Continue reading
Who should win Record/Song of the Year at the Grammys?
The 2nd most important awards of the night for any artist/songwriter, a song has to be produced or written to perfection to garner a nomination here. Looking down the nomination list, 3 tracks make appearances in both, proving that you can pull off magic in both areas of the process. I’ll take a look at … Continue reading
Which album deserves Album Of The Year at the Grammys?
With the Grammys a week away, I decided that I would spend my Sunday listening to all 5 nominated albums and give my views on whether each is a deserved nominee/winner and my prediction for who will walk away with the award on the night. I’ll go through each album in alphabetical order, then close … Continue reading
A Huge Thank You!
This blog post is little more than a huge thank you for making January the blog’s most successful month yet. I’m looking forward to increasing page views even more during 2011, and I hope that I can create a solid base of readers. Here’s to the rest of 2011! – Posted using BlogPress from my … Continue reading
Brit Awards 2011 Predictions/Wishes: International Awards
Next batch of Brit Award nominees. Less awards to choose this time round, but still as many tough decisions and baffling omissions from the nominees. International Male A definite two horse race here, there’s one deserving winner, and one who isn’t. Eminem and Kanye West have both received this award three times before so whoever … Continue reading
Brit Awards 2011 Predictions/Wishes: British Awards
As judged by the articles that have been viewed most on 808sandformulae, you all know i love a good list, and in turn a good award show. I’m always interested to see whether any music award shows actually get it right (as in, agree with me), even though I understand how unimportant they actually are. … Continue reading
Why I’m sick of seeing Reiko ‘Michelle Dessler’ Aylesworth in my favourite TV shows.
After watching this weeks episode of Hawaii Five 0, one of my favourite new shows from 2010, I was surpised to see Reiko Aylesworth making a brief appearance. Best known as Michelle Dessler in 24, I got the same strange sense of deja vu as when I saw her making breif appearances elsewhere. She … Continue reading
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