56th Grammys - My Picks

1. RECORD OF THE YEAR

Get Lucky....PLEASE not Imagine Dragons


2. ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Good Kid, M.A.A.D City


3. SONG OF THE YEAR

Same Love...not happy if they win buuut


4. BEST NEW ARTIST

Ed Sheeran

5. BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE

Royals

6. BEST POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE

Blurred Lines

Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. & Pharrell

7. BEST POP INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM

Summer Horns...random guess don't know these guys.

Dave Koz, Gerald Albright, Mindi Abair & Richard Elliot

Label: Concord Records 

8. BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM

Unorthodox Jukebox

Bruno Mars

Label: Atlantic

9. BEST DANCE RECORDING

Sweet Nothing

Calvin Harris Featuring Florence Welch

10. BEST DANCE/ELECTRONICA ALBUM

Settle (I think this is the best but Daft or Caliv might get it)

Disclosure

Label: Cherrytree/Interscope Records

11. BEST TRADITIONAL POP VOCAL ALBUM

To Be Loved (doesn't he always win these?)

Michael Bublé

Label: 143/Reprise

12. BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE

I'm Shakin' (kinda thinking Dragons might get this one :/)

Jack White

Label: Columbia Records/ Third Man

13. BEST METAL PERFORMANCE

In Due Time (guess)

Killswitch Engage

Track from: Disarm The Descent

Label: Roadrunner Records

14. BEST ROCK SONG

Doom And Gloom (it's the fucking stones!)

Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, songwriters (The Rolling Stones)

Label: Universal Music Enterprises; Publisher: Promopub B.V.

15. BEST ROCK ALBUM

...Like Clockwork

Queens Of The Stone Age

Label: Matador

16. BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM

Lonerism

Tame Impala

Label: Modular/Interscope

20. BEST URBAN CONTEMPORARY ALBUM

Unapologetic

Rihanna

Label: Def Jam Records

22. BEST RAP PERFORMANCE

Swimming Pools (Drank)

Kendrick Lamar

Track from: Good Kid, M.A.A.D City

Label: TDE/Aftermath/Interscope Records

23. BEST RAP/SUNG COLLABORATION

Holy Grail

Jay Z Featuring Justin Timberlake

Track from: Magna Carta...Holy Grail

Label: Roc Nation

24. BEST RAP SONG

F***in' Problems

Tauheed Epps, Aubrey Graham, Kendrick Lamar, Rakim Mayers & Noah Shebib, songwriters (ASAP Rocky Featuring Drake, 2 Chainz & Kendrick Lamar)

Track from: Long.Live.ASAP

Label: RCA Records / Polo Grounds Music; Publishers: ASAP Rocky Music Publishing LLC/Sony/ATV Songs LLC/Mavor & Moses LLC/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing, Inc./Herbilicious Music/Black Fountain Music/Livewrite/EMI Blackwood Music, Inc./Ty Epps Music/Top Dawg Music/Hard Working Black Folks, Inc./WB Music Corp

25. BEST RAP ALBUM

Yeezus

Kanye West

Label: Def Jam

67. BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, NON-CLASSICAL

Random Access Memories

Peter Franco, Mick Guzauski, Florian Lagatta & Daniel Lerner, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer (Daft Punk)

Label: Columbia Records

68. PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSICAL

Dr. Luke

• Bounce It (Juicy J Featuring Wale & Trey Songz) (S) • Crazy Kids (Kesha) (S) • Fall Down (will.i.am Featuring Miley Cyrus) (S) • Give It 2 U (Robin Thicke Featuring Kendrick Lamar) (S) • Play It Again (Becky G) (S) • Roar (Katy Perry) (S) • Rock Me (One Direction) (T) • Wrecking Ball (Miley Cyrus) (S)

69. BEST REMIXED RECORDING, NON-CLASSICAL

Summertime Sadness (Cedric Gervais Remix)

Cedric Gervais, remixer (Lana Del Rey)

Label: Interscope/Polydor UK

81. BEST MUSIC VIDEO

Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film (seems to me Jay's got this one in the bag)

Jay Z

Mark Romanek, video director; Shawn Carter & Aristides McGarry, video producers

Label: Roc Nation

I DIED ON THE 405

This is a memoir on how to epically fail in life, love, and in Los Angeles.

Make sure to never go out, ever.

If you do end up being out, make sure to sit in a corner and smoke cigarettes and talk to no one.

Be really closed off. Don’t let any in. Don’t show any signs of real emotion. Avoid getting into really serious conversations.

If something seems like it’s too good to be true, it is.

Stand for nothing. Don’t become a part of anything. Just be alone.

Make sure to walk away from opportunities where you feel like you could make something happen.

Blow off people that are trying to hang out and become friends.

If you have a job, don’t really try that hard. Come in late and leave early. Stay up all night and be really tired. Just troll Facebook all day on your work computer.

Don’t exercise. Don’t eat. Smoke cigarettes.

Live in a shitty apartment with no parking in a neighborhood you are afraid to walk around at night in. Don’t invite anyone over, ever.

Don’t support or believe in anyone else’s dreams.

Hate on all new music and art.

Make sure to tell everyone how awful your life is.

Have a lot of regrets and hold grudges.

Don’t try to learn anything new.

Max out all credit cards. Don’t pay taxes. Collect unemployment.

Make people think your life is really awesome, but in real life have nothing.

Don’t learn from mistakes, keep making them. Repeat all above steps.

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Coachella SNAIL

I have PCDS. Post Coachella Depression Syndrome.

I mostly miss the snail...

TAXES

Are the worst!!

Every year I wait until closer to the deadline. I miss when my parents accountant did my taxes and the good old days when I was a dependent.

These days I have no clue what I'm doing.

In 2012,  I worked multiple part time jobs, cashed in a retirement plan, and collected unemployment. I thought this would be the year I would do the taxes myself on TurboTax. NOPE.

Last year, I went to H&R Block and they charged me about $250 to enter TWO FORMS into a computer. I could have done that.

The year before that, my CFO said he would help me with my taxes only things still got messed up.


HELP!!!

I SINK AND THEN I SWIM ALL NIGHT

WORK

Finding a new job used to come very easy for me. I used to think I was a natural born hustler. Always knowing what I wanted and how to find it and how to get it. Now, I'm not sure what to do. I'm in a really weird position, not at all at where I thought I would be. It's time for me to move in another direction, but which direction? I wish there was someone who could just tell me where to go and how to get there, but in life there are no guarantees. Forging ahed used to be so exciting, now it's just kind of scary, like walking through an unknown forrest at night scary.

LIFE

1. Figure out what you want.*

2. Don't stop until you get it. **










* The figuring out can be Very difficult. May take time and exploring and questioning and the same conversations over and over again, but that's all OK.

**Also Very difficult. At times, you may feel it's easier to just accept a current situation or just give up completely. But Never Ever give up, in the end it will be worth it.