We're alive, we swear!

Things have been uber crazy around here. We had sworn to ourselves we were going to be better this semester. Turns out that was a lie. We could give you excuses. Part of it had to do with the fact that we were so excited to see each other after my five month stint of living in another country that we forgot about this site. Part of it also has to do with my hellish class schedule, rush consuming my life, Katie's new job, and Katie's grad school apps. But we're here. We swear.

We've honestly been spending much of our time on the two most important events of the month of March: The Oscars and The Twigmans.

The Oscars have thrown us this year. The nominees...well, I'll analysis this in another post. I've been spending over a month trying to figure out the logic of some of the noms and I just can't. Also, the new ten best picture nominations thing has seriously destroyed us. Our bank accounts are bitching at us. We don't have enough time to see all of these, and we're trying to cram them all in. Keep a look out for my predicted wins and my win wish list (these are two very different things; screw you, Avatar).

I know, get excited. The Twigmans are back. For the record, we've bee putting a lot of hard, hard work into getting the nominations put together for this site's awards. However, we've been coming up empty on some categories, so if you have any ideas for awards, feel free to give us suggestions. Really, please help us out. We do have some awards already sealed: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Makeup, Best Use of a Previously Written Song in a Movie, and Best Drop of the F-bomb. We're still debating some categories. We'd love to hear your nominations for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress (desperately lost on this one), Best Technical Explosion, and Best Use of Pyrotechnics. We've also been debating on adding some new categories, so if you have any ideas let us know.

We're also excited to announce the inception of something new. This currently untitled thing will be our way of expressing our disgust/horror/hatred of certain movies/people as a result of movies that came out in the year 2009. If you know us, you can guess who we'll be slamming this year and who will not win a single Twigman.

Keep an eye out for posts. We may even Live Blog the Oscars.

~Lauren