By Jeremy Lucas | Media, Music
This last round, it’s the best songs. Previous winners include last year’s “Rolling In The Deep” by Adele, and “Little Lion Man” by Mumford & Sons. I have a wide-variety of music tastes and I tried to reflect that with this list. To make that reflection wider, you’ll find no overlap with the Best Albums
Tags: all time low, best of 2012, carly rae jepsen, frank ocean, fun, grace potter, jens lekman, jukebox the ghost, Mass Effect, of monsters and men, passion pit, philip philips, seven lions, slowdance, take a walk, the maine
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By Jeremy Lucas | Film, Media
This round, it’s the best films. Previous winners include last year’s “X-Men: First Class,” and “Inception.” So clearly, I’m easily swayed by blockbusters that can make me tear-eyed. The previous winner in the “Actor Who Got Really Good This Year” award went to Seth Rogen last year. Previous winners of “The Most Undeservedly Crapped Upon
Tags: 21 jump street, Abraham Lincoln vampire hunter, anna kendrick, beasts of the southern wild, best of 2012, cabin in the woods, channing tatum, end of watch, fat amy, jiro dreams of sushi, liam neeson, looper, magic mike, moonrise kingdom, pitch perfect, skyfall, the avengers, the dark night rises, the grey
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By Jeremy Lucas | Media, Music
The end of the year is truly the most wonderful time of the year on the Internet. Here, nerds everywhere can proclaim their favorite things in existence, and get mad at other people’s favorite things. Not wanting to be left out in declaring my favorite things from this year, I decided to make a bunch of best-of lists
Tags: alternative, beasts of the southern wild, best of, best of 2012, childish gambino, folk, hunger games, imagine dragons, john mayer, kesha, lana del rey, music, pop, psy, rap, rock, soundtrack, the killers, the lumineers, troubel, yellowcard, yonas
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By Jeremy Lucas | Documentary, Investigation
If you’re wondering where I’ve been the past few months, the answer is two-fold. First off, I’ve been living the life of a normal American who works a full-time minimum wage job at a popular fast-food chain. Secondly, I’ve been involved in the making of a documentary. Sure, it was basically made as a glorified class
Tags: college, education
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By Jeremy Lucas | Documentary, Investigation
As a medium, film has always given its viewer and maker the power to find truths about humanity by recording it and distributing it for an interested audience. But for the first few decades of its existence, these truths were contained in a fictional version of life. It wasn’t until the 1920s when people like
Tags: Cinéma vérité, documentery, education, errol morris, everest, facts, film, filmmaking, ken burns, life, newsreel, observation, thin blue line, truth
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