It is Time To Vote In The 2009 Gummy Awards!
I am excited to announce, in partnership with our sister site, stereogum.com, the opening of this year's Gummy Awards ballot boxes. It is time once again to come together as a family and determine through the democratic (sort of) process what our majority-rule favorite things in this world are at least at the moment. Again this year, in addition to Stereogum's music categories, we have some pretty exciting Videogum-related categories to vote on:
- Best Movie
- Best TV Show
- Best Web Video
Neat! We were going to offer a "Best Kiss" category, but apparently MTV has trademarked that important award. Probably. I don't actually know whether or not the "Best Kiss" category is a trademark owned by MTV, but I do know that it is a ridiculous category for an award, and that MTV doesn't even make any sense anymore. It's a channel about stupid people? And the M stands for MySpace? I don't know.
The way the Gummy Awards work is, as always, simple. Just go to gummyawards.com and use the simple auto-fill fields (special thanks to SkyNet for the mind-reading technology) to vote in each category. You can also write-in any candidate if your selection does not seem readily available. The only category in which you must choose from a fixed, pre-determined list of nominees is the Web Video category, for the same reasons as described last year. One lucky winner will be selected at random, and boy oh boy, "lucky" is the right word! (Who wrote this post? Alfalfa?) This year we are giving away an Apple TV, and one bottle of 2007 Peanut Riesling, and Gummy voters' top 50 albums of the decade on vinyl courtesy of Insound, for the music-loverz.
One vote per person, and voting is open until 6PM EST, 12/2/2009. Good luck! And most of all: have fun! (Voting on-line? How do you have fun doing that? You won't know until you tryyyyyy!)
Posted by Gabe at 5:00 PM in Awards, Contests
Tags: The Gummy Awards
can i just write in pete yorn & scarlett johansson's "break up" over and over to skip to the web video part?
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Terms and Conditions were established for just such outside-the-box thinking.
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Everybody, please don't forget to vote for Love Is The Answer by Barbra Streisand as album of the year. Thank you and lots of love. ♥♥♥♥♥ http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?a=7476
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I don't know what's funnier: that you also posted this on Stereogum or the fact that you have a -3 score. Those guys seriously have no sense of humor.
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I'm so afraid of posting on stereogum ever. There are so few comments that are in the positive points range it's ridiculous.
"THIS BAND SUCKS (-5)"
"You don't have any sense of what music is supposed to be, this album has something for everyone (-10)"
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No Mark Gormley?
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I had to vote for "man smoking in the shower"... I forgot about how that guy was basically the best guy!
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Damn, Gabe, I was having a rough day (too little sleep, too much disappointment), and then you put together my dream list of 2009. Cats that play music, kids that pretend to sing, pumpkinheads that pumpkinhead. Thank you.
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Umberto Eco says lists are the ultimate in cultural connections with others who share similar values, who question common definitions of culture and rail against societal constructs anarchistically.... anyway, I'm not your guys' teacher, read it for yourself.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,659577,00.html
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LINDSAY ROBERTSON FOR INDIE ROCK CRUSH 2K9
On an unrelated note, where's David After Dentist? This awards show is already a sham.
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I'm kind of new here, so are we voting for best or "best" (i.e., actual best or ironic best)? can any of us even tell the difference anymore?
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what's the difference?
(talkin' 'bout my generation!)
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wow HOW did i not even SEE the second sentence of your comment? FUCK is that how short my attention span is now? my generation DOES truly suck. i'm just going to go kill myself, thanks........
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Peanut Wine over the Apple TV please and thank you!
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and just today I learned how to make peanut juice!
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Topher Grace is indie rock, right?
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If It's Always Sunny doesn't win best TV show, there will be LOTS OF DRY HEAVING.
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Sunny's been sort of weak this season. tonight's episode killed though.
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Sweet Pic.
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I didn't know who to vote for for indie boy crush. I just put Peaches when I didn't know the answer.
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Ultimate Muscle better win web video. It is the single greatest piece of media ever created.
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Could we also give away a Spazzie for best spaz attack? 2009 has pretty much been year of the spaz. Probably. I don't really get how the Chinese Calendar works. But anyhow, that would be a fun award!
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I've been holding onto my I VOTED sticker from the local elections a couple weeks ago. I finally feel like I earned it.
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Because I'm under 21, does that mean I'm not eligible to win the non-alcoholic prizes? If I win (I won't win) you can have my nicely aged wine, Gabe!
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Best TV show = "Oprah" doesn't work?
Best movie was "Balloon Boy", but what the blog is "Grizzly Bear"?
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I don't really feel qualified or informed enough to vote. and though that never stopped me on the political side, it give me pause here
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ugh. wel i'm definitely drunk enough to vot.e ICE AGE 3! BEST MOVIE OF TEH YEARS!
right? i haven't seen it yet. but the best right?
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So I know this is America and all and we have a constitutional right to a secret ballot, but I thought it would be fun to share our picks. These are mine:
Best 3 albums (in order): The Antlers, Dirty Projectors, St. Vincent
Music Video: Two Weeks
Crush: Annie Clark (St. Vincent) (I saw her here in Portland w/ The National and fell in lurve. She had a great set... from what I could hear. Portlanders don't really go to shows to see bands and hear music. They go to talk as loud as they fucking can :()
New Act: The Antlers, of course. Seriously guys, this record is James Franco eating pie, unless earnest, irony-free emotion makes you feel icky (I know folks who feel uncomfortable listening to it, and those people suck balls).
Best Album of '00s: Funeral
TV Show: Always Sunny
Movie: In the Loop
Web Video: I had to go with the dude in the shower. That guy is having way too much fun for me not to get on board. I need to watch that at least once a month just to remember to be happy.
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That is a goddamn eyesore to read. Sorry.
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"This is America"
This is not America. This is the WORLD. I apologize to our monsters in other parts of the world.
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I forgive you, because you picked The Antlers.
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I've been hanging around Videogum so long that Stereogum comments are starting to read like YouTube dribble. Barf.
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HA! I voted for U2 and Pearl Jam as 2 best albums of the year. Now I'm just going to sit back and watch Stereogum collapse in on itself like a neutron star.
Album of the decade: Rubber Factory by The Black Keys.
Indie rock crush: Ben Nichols from Lucero. YUMMYY
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I have to remember things from a whole several months ago? That was tough. As for best music video, they still make those? I had to go for Lady Gaga Bad Romance because I honestly think its the only one I've seen this year.
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album of the decade The Moon & Antarctica if you put anything else you're a commi
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I know I'm not going to win any Grizzly Bear hugs saying this, but I think the best video has to go to Kanye (insert Kanye "I'ma let you finish..." joke here.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2bCc0EGP6U
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OH.MY.GOD. I can't believe it me this long to realize that I know the guy who agreed to produce Jeff Dunham's wines. Can I still be friends with him knowing this exists?
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maybe he's doing it ironically?
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* took me
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I was born in 1975 so I'm not sure how this works. I'm voting, right? I'll send it again if this doesn't work.
1: John McCain
2: I liked that movie with Jim Carey
3. Friends
4. Sarah Palin pardoning the turkey. That turkey is lucky! Nom Nom Nom! LOL!
Also mom says call dad.
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DAD... Get offa my Sites!!!!
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Wait some minutes - we don't get to vote on any of The Worsts(tm)?
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Where's the Videogum comment of the year award?!
I'd like to vote for whoever made that fake Twitter status image for the MonkeyKisser CatLover about the pussy still owning his bananas. It was so hilarious that I still remember it. True sign of a classic.
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Love is the Answer.
Streisand, everybody. Let's do this.
Striesand
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Whoops. I voted for best film and TV show of the decade instead of the year. IF YOU'RE WONDERING WHO THINKS THE BEST FILM OF 2009 IS ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND IT IS ME, MINIFIGS. Sorry, StereoVideogum.
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