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1. READY, SET, GO

When does your speech actually start? When you arrive at the lectern? Does it begin with the first utterance of a sound or word? No. Your presentation begins the minute the emcee begins to talk about you. The audience automatically sweeps the crowd searching for the speaker. Keep poised and confident. Remember all eyes are on you!

2. RISE TO THE OCCASION
The emcee announces your name, and the audience breaks out into applause. Now it’s time to rise to the occasion. All eyes are on you, watching you. Gracefully rise out of your chair, stand tall, and slowly walk toward center stage. Take your time walking. The more time you take walking, the more status your audience will subconsciously give you. Let the audience’s clapping carry you to the stage as if you were gliding on a magic carpet. Remember to watch where you are walking. There could be cords and wires on the ground or chair legs in your path. Any one of these obstacles could cause you to have a nice trip. If something awkward should happen on your way to the lectern, remain calm and use humor. Using humor connects people and is more effective than using self-deprecating remarks. Let your audience know that there’s nothing to worry about, you’re okay, and the show will go on. I remember seeing Robert Allen, famous author and millionaire, fall off the stage moments after he arrived. Instantly, he jumped back up on stage and poked fun at the hotel stage lighting, which had caused his fall. Allen’s humor set the audience at ease, and they roared with laughter at his quick wit.

3. THE MOMENT BEFORE
Now, you can see your way clear to the lectern. The closer you get, the more nervous you feel. Not to worry, I have a theatre secret for you. Ever wonder how actors can just walk on stage as if they’re already in motion? It’s easy; they use techniques. One popular technique is called the moment before. The moment before is a trade secret actors use to create action before they walk on stage so they enter already in motion. The moment before is that moment right before you walk onto the stage. Actors create an action or simply a thought to propel themselves into the moment. So to keep your butterflies in check, as you are walking to the lectern, use this technique. For example, an actor might be thinking, “Yuk, I see a big spider!” For the speaker, you might be thinking to yourself as you hear the applause, “They love me”; “I’m going to give a great speech!” These simple statements will do two things. First, you’ll already be active and ready to deliver your speech. Second, you’ll give your mind something to do other than think about how nervous you are. Consequently, you’ll eliminate any signs of nervousness—for the time being anyway.

4. LECTERN VS. PODIUM

You made it to the lectern. Before we continue, let me say this about the lectern. The lectern is not a podium, and a podium is not the same thing as a lectern. The most common mistake speakers make is calling the lectern a podium. Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary’s defines a lectern as “an upright desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer,” whereas a podium is “an elevated platform for an orchestra conductor or public speaker.” Podium comes from the word Podiatry, the profession dealing with the care of feet. An easy way to remember this is to think of a podium as a platform where you put your feet. This trick could save you from the embarrassment of confusing the words podium and lectern.

5. WHEN YOU ARRIVE

Okay, you have finally arrived at the lectern on the podium after what seemed like a very long walk. Before you utter a word, take time to adjust the microphone and prepare yourself. Stand 10 to 12 inches behind the lectern. Take a moment to scan your audience with your eyes as if in one smooth, wave motion with a genuine smile. Take a beat before you speak. Breathe and then start with your opening line. Taking this moment will instantly put you at ease and help you to connect to your audience.

6. THE OPENING

The first words out of your mouth should be an attention grabber! The best speeches are organized into three parts, a beginning, a middle, and an end. Your opening line must grab your audience’s attention and arouse interest in your topic. Examples of a good opening are

1. Enrolling questions
2. Staggering statistical statements
3. Statements of declaration

Once, I heard a speaker begin his speech with “I’m late, I’m late, I’m late!” He said it with such emotion that the audience could actually feel his frustration with being late. Another statement of declaration used by a young college student was, “I’m tired of being a grunt!” That one turned heads. Whether you choose to start with a statement of declaration, enrolling questions, or a staggering statistical statement, make it appropriate for your audience and tie it back to your speech topic.

7. DON’T LET THEM SEE YOU SWEAT

Whatever you do before, during and after your speech do not apologize! A common mistake new speakers make is to begin their speech with an apologetic statement. “Sorry, I’m late.” “Forgive me for not being prepared.” “I’m so nervous.” These statements are self-sabotaging. Don’t do it. No one has to know that you’re nervous and, quite frankly, the audience won’t know it unless you tell them. Furthermore, most symptoms of nervousness don’t even show. For instance, your audience can’t see your sweaty palms, hear your heart racing, or feel your soaring butterflies in the pit of your stomach. So don’t tell them.

There are many techniques to reduce nervousness and many books written on the subject. These books are full of tricks as simple as deep breathing exercises to the more complex methods such as hypnotherapy. However, I believe there is only one technique that really
works. Remember the three rules of real estate? Location, location, location. The three rules of public speaking are practice, practice, practice. The best way to reduce and eventually eliminate nervousness is practice. Get up and speak whenever you get the opportunity. Rehearse your speech and get up and deliver it to your audience. The more you speak, the less nervous you will be. So remember, don’t ever let them see you sweat, even if you are.

8. TREAT THE LECTERN AS YOU WOULD A CHILD

Never leave the lectern unattended. You would never walk away and leave a child alone in a supermarket or in a train station, would you? No, that would be absurd. Yet, how many times have you seen emcees announce the speaker and just walk away? Every member of the audience feels this public display of awkwardness. Not to mention the speaker having to either cover up or make up for the lack of interaction. And how about the speaker who ends his speech and marches off the stage, leaving the lectern alone? The emcee quickly and perhaps awkwardly rushes to take charge of the situation. When the speech is over, the speaker should return the lectern to the emcee. It works both ways.

In either case, this poor protocol can easily be avoided if you remember to treat the lectern as a child and never leave it unattended. Let me make myself clear. I’m not saying that you should deliver your entire speech from behind this wooded barricade. No. When the lectern is turned over to you as a speaker, you are free to move about, returning to the lectern from time to time as needed. I’m referring to when you are finished with your speech. Wait patiently at the lectern, enjoying the applause, until the emcee takes charge of the lectern. Think of a relay race where the runner passes a baton to another runner before slowing her pace. Once the baton is passed, the passing runner is finished.

If your job is to introduce the speaker, after you announce his name, stay at the lectern until he arrives. In the United States, it is customary to shake hands as a professional courtesy. Stay at the lectern and greet your speaker; then gracefully leave without upstaging your guest. Since not all emcees and speakers will have read this article and know what to do, tell them; explain it to them before the event and eliminate a potentially awkward moment.

Never touch the lectern inappropriately. Most of us would never dream of hitting, grabbing, or leaning on a child. Yet, I see speakers sprawled all over the lectern as they speak. Often new presenters are so nervous they grab the edges of the lectern so tightly their knuckles turn white. Then there are those people who beat or pound on the lectern to drive a point home, leaving the audience feeling very defensive. The major problem with treating the lectern this way, outside of offending your audience, is that it distracts your audience and prevents them from hearing what you have to say. It helps to stand 10 to 12 inches behind the lectern to avoid the temptation of touching it inappropriately.

9. LOVE MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY THANK YOU

Remember Love Story? It was a popular movie made in 1970 starring Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw. In one scene, Ryan’s character, Oliver Barrett IV, and Ali’s character, Jennifer Cavilleri, have a love spat and Jennifer takes off. After combing the city all night looking for Jennifer, Ryan finds her sitting on the doorstep of their apartment. Oliver apologizes. Jennifer with tears streaming down her cheeks looks up at him and says, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” That’s right! And when it comes to thank-yous, the same is true for speakers. You have just given a brilliant speech. The audience loves you. The audience wants more. And you end it with “thank you.” Thank you? Why are you saying thank you? It’s the audience that should be thanking you! End your speech with a
powerful statement that moves your audience into action. Develop an ending your audience will remember. Create an ending that compels your audience to say “thank you” to you. Or better yet, an ending that already says, “You’re welcome.”

These are just a few of the secrets that professional speakers use to deliver powerful presentations. By using these simple techniques, you too can command your audience’s attention, keep their interest, and move them into action. You’re now ready to speak.

Horror movies are basically scary, chilling and daunting. They are generally based on imagination of incredible happenings and mysterious events, also sometimes based on scientific experimentation and psychological statistics of eerie ideas. Most of them are made with false vision of existence of mysterious characters possessing supernatural powers or ghostly attitude.

Horror film makers try to use most of their imagination in creating the situation in horrified manner in order to make the film more frightful and interesting at the same time, since the audience find illogical events more interesting and yielding with conscious mind and zeal to destroy the demon. Hollywood is popular for production of horror movies. Horror movies are always watched and admired for their unusual presentation and special arousing effects. Let me list a few of top horror movies and brief gist about them:

Psycho
Made in 1960, was the masterpiece by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the psychological misconducts, which enhanced rousing terror that become more interesting than the revolutionary supernatural events.

The Bride of Frankenstein
Made in 1935 used the most tragic figure the monster in the history of horror movies. Its maker was forced to create a mate for the monster from old body parts and the brain of a madman. The terror prevails the show.

The Night of the Living Dead
Made in1968 by George Romero. The movie is about an android girl who dispatches her dad, is one of the most horrifying sequences with plenty of chills and thrills in the horror film history.

The Exorcist
Made by William Friedkin in the year of 1973, a horror classic where a little girl (Linda Blair) experiences a demonic presence in herself, two priests are called to throw away the demon from her body. The movie is presented with terrific special effects.

Friday the 13th
Considered to be an inauspicious date, misshapenness is expected on this particular combination of day and date. The movie is about an old camp that was shut down for some time due to murder of two counselors by an unidentified killer. The camp reopens in 1980; the inmates of the camp are victimized by an adherent wearing a hockey mask and killed one by one.

The Mummy
Made in1999, uncovers the mummy of a prince Im-ho-tep who was buried alive in Egypt 3000 years ago. The mummy become alive and escapes where starts the havoc in the realm.

Dracula
Count Dracula possessed the characteristics of a vampire, soon after his attack, his victim turned insane. The movie is a horror classic with many haunting images and more like a silent film.

The Evil Dead
The horror is created by the use of an audiotape; if the tape is played, the listener faces spiteful consequences. Whoever listened to the recording in the tape turned into a deadlight.

The Sixth Sense
Made in 1999, a supernatural ghost story, where a child psychologist treats a nine-year-old boy who perceives dead people and communicates with them.

Cat People
Made in1942 by Jacques Tourneuer. An innovative and thoughtful thriller without violence but psychological tension is throughout the movie. It is the story of a woman played by Simone Simon who fears lest she falls prey to a baffling curse and turn into a deadly panther when she is emotionally aroused.

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A production house refers to a company that is in charge for the development and production of films. In some cases the production house may also be responsible for raising the funds for the film. Sometimes they also sell their products to a film studio or presenting it in a theatrical venue.

In the recent times we will find that the actors, directors, producers, writers of Hollywood have started opening their own production houses because of the fact that this gives them a good opportunity of controlling their careers. Let us go through the details of these production houses of Hollywood.

In the late 1960s Francis Ford Coppola started American Zoetrope, which was considered as an early adoption of digital filmmaking. The studio had produced the films of renowned filmmakers like Jean-Luc Godard, Akira Kurosawa, etc. In fact four films produced by this production house are included in the list of top100 film by American Film Institute. Till date the films that have been produced by American Zoetrope have received fifteen Academy Awards and sixty-eight nominations.

Columbia Pictures Industries is an American production and distribution house that is a part of Columbia Tristar Motion Picture group. This production house was established in 1924 and is working in collaboration with MGM movie studio. In the year 1989 the electronic giant Sony bought Columbia Pictures. Sony spent nearly 100 million dollar and started off with Sony pictures studio.

Some of the films that come under the Columbia Pictures are Batman and Robin, The Legend of Zorro, Spiderman, Anaconda, etc.

Paramount Pictures Corporation based in Hollywood, California was founded in 1912 and is one of the oldest running production houses of America. Paramount was the first successful nation wide distributor. The year 1980 and 1990 proved to be a fortune for Paramount Pictures because it generated hits like Flash dance, Raiders of the lost Ark, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Mission Impossible, etc.

Warner Brother Entertainment is the third oldest American production house meant for both film and television. In the late 1990, the Warner Brother obtained the rights to the vastly popular Harry Potter novels. The feature film adaptations were released in 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2005. The final adaptations will be released in the year 2010.

A Band Apart, was a production house created by a number of famous and acclaimed movie directors. The name of the production company was derived from a play on the French New Wave classic by a filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. The members of this production house include Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, John Woo, Tim Burton, Steve Buscemi and John Landis. Producer Lawrence Bender was a cofounder of the company and presently owns and runs the business. The movies produced by this production house include Kill Bill, From Dusk till Dawn, Four Fictions, and Pulp Fiction, etc.

Taking a look at this list one can gauge the importance of production houses of Hollywood. Probably without their existence Hollywood would not have been able to organize and make movies.

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Audio and Video tools in the ever-changing online world have been combined into powerful internet marketing systems for building your online business.

It is no longer a choice as to whether you should be incorporating Audio and Video into your internet marketing strategies. You absolutely should take advantage of these no-brainer systems at the moment you decide to compete as a Top Gun in your business.

Online competition in every Niche is increasing exponentially. Standing out from the teeming online masses by employing your unique voice is good for business. Fortunately, Audio is dirt cheap if you are on a budget and just starting out online.

Audio, on its own, is powerful. So don’t worry about using Video right away. Your voice is unique. It sets you apart from everyone else on the Internet. Some voices grab. Some soothe. Some excite to action. Some few can do it all. They result from practicing the Art of Persuasion.

There is one guy in particular from whom I took a three month online course in internet marketing. Whatever he recommends, I take seriously. Over time, his recommendations have proven to be totally credible and trustworthy, and, generous of heart. But it is his voice and his manner of speaking that began and sustains the relationship.

Practice? Rehearse? I just want to be personable… How hard can just being ME be? I learned it takes practice. It requires rehearsal even being just ME.

Without practice, an opportunity can be lost. The speaker or product never obtains a fair hearing. Nor a future hearing. Many of us initially fail to take Audio as seriously as it should be taken. Even if being lighthearted and competently business casual is your aim, it is essential to practice for optimum credibility and profit.

I didn’t practice for the first Teleseminar I recorded for my financial services business. I choked. I rushed. I spoke until I ran out of breath.

Surprising how could I sound so, well, phony, when I thought it would be so easy to just be Me, as if I was sitting across from a client.

Audio and Video does more than build relationships fast. Rankings matter online and Audio and Video are beloved by search engines. Take these mega-tools for granted anymore and your present rankings will suffer from the disconnect.

People do business with people, over and over again, with whom they come to know, like and trust. That is THE maxim when it comes to internet marketing.

And Voice is as personal as it gets online. The beginning of many, many profitable, long-term relationships will sprout from that part of what makes you You.

Audio takes a static website and enhances it by creating a memorable presence as your voice circles the globe, giving the world a taste of your distinct personality.

Building credibility and trust.
Warming the heart with a good story.
Feeding the soul with spiritual insights.
Inspiring immediate action time and again.
Teaching everything under the Sun, indelibly.
Helping to sell You first.

Remember, you only have seconds to intrigue a Visitor into remaining on your website or sales page long enough to get your message out, before they click away to someone else offering similar products and services.

A silent, static website can not properly share your personality with your online visitors. Converting your Visitors into Clients is difficult without your unique personality shining through, especially when competition is stiff.

Are you warm? Funny? Enthusiastic? Know your Niche(s) backwards and forwards? Are you plain-spoken? Erudite? From California or the Deep South? Have an Irish lilt?

Your voice is powerful. Actually, magical in scope. Your voice creates a visual of the many facets of the one-and-only You expressed in sound vibration.

Powerful stuff!

Cie Lowery offers tips for Artists, Authors, Realtors, Marketers, ebay sellers, using no-brainer, integrated plug & play Audio-Video systems that store data for downloading to websites, sales pages, emails, Squidoo, too. http://MyListingsAtLightspeed.com or email at: cielowery@comcast.net
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It seems that people are finally starting to wake up to the reality that video on the internet can be powerful. Whether you use video for selling your product or service, or whether you use it to promote items for sale, you’re still faced with one significant problem. How do you let others know about the video you produced?

Not much has been written about video distribution. Perhaps some figure there’s no need considering the wealth of video sharing services popping up all over the Internet. Well, I submit to you that video sharing sites might provide one avenue of distribution but, even those sites will not help you get the word out about your video if they are not utilized properly.

Here are a half-dozen tips and tricks you can use to maximize the exposure you receive from your video. Again, it doesn’t matter whether you’re promoting a product or service or whether the video itself is the product. Each of these methods, or a combination of them can work wonders in getting the recognition your video production deserves.

1) Use long-tail keywords that describe the service or product your video is promoting. You need to place these keywords in the keyword tag portion of the website the video is on and anywhere else that requests “tags” for example at YouTube.com

2) Place your main keyword in the h1 tag of the web page you have your video on and also place it in the title tag of your web page.

3) To promote your video, you can of course upload it to the video uploading services. But simply uploading it won’t do you any good unless you follow Tips #1 and #2 above. Also, you’ll want to make sure that the description you give your video contains the keywords you are targeting.

4) Write an article about the subject of your video and in the resource box encourage readers to watch the video you’ve produced about the subject. Once the article gets picked up by the search engines, the spiders will find your optimized page and video on it too.

5) Produce your video as an .exe file and upload it to software sharing sites such as Download.com. Just produce 1/2 of the video so that the viewer is forced to come to your site to see the other half.

6) Set up a free account at FreeIQ.com. They are actively looking for video content. This website is run by Brad Fallon who is a popular internet marketer and knows how to help distribute video content all over the web. Again, once you’ve signed up for a free account, go ahead and post 1/2 of the video forcing the viewer to go to your website to see the remaining half.

That’s a half dozen useful tips you can put to use right now to get the exposure your video production deserves. Start with those and I’m certain you’ll see significant traffic results.

Jay Douglas is a video infomercial production expert. Get a free video infomercial branded with your Clickbank affiliate link to promote an extremely popular product. Make extra cash.

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Since it’s inception the internet has given people a new way to communicate. New ways to share your thoughts, your interests, or whatever you want really, have been created on the web. First it was free web pages through services like AngelFire that fueled the growth of personal web pages. The, ad driven style, free websites gave users an easy way to share themselves with family and friends.

Originally a knowledge of basic web design was required, but that soon evolved into easy to use web page creation tools. Soon after blogging or online journaling gained popularity. Collaboration tools are available to allow people to work together from a distance. Today though, it is internet video that is the new way to share.

With broadband internet available for less than what dial up used to cost, more people are turning to online video to tell their story. In today’s world of connected devices, and technology all you really need is a video enabled cell phone or an inexpensive digital camera to record your videos.

Intenet video really is changing the way we communicate. Traditional phone services really aren’t required anymore. All you need is a service like Skype or even just MSN messenger. With such services two people can quickly be connected via digital video conference with only an internet enabled computer and a video camera. Best of all, unlike traditional phone service, most video communication is free.

If your preference is more to record first and display later, services like YouTube allow you to do just that. Video blogging has made huge gains in popularity these past couple years. With easy to use sites like YouTube that allow for the embedding of video in any web page, it really is ease of use that pushed the growth in popularity. Anyone with a video enabled cell phone can now record themselves, an event, or anything else they want and have it posted on the internet in minutes.

Along with the sharing of personal stories or ideas, internet video is also providing a new outlet for the more creative types. With a video camera and some ambition amateur filmographer’s, producers, actors/resses, or just someone with something to say, can now produce and upload their own videos. Amateur animators are finding it easy to share their creative genius with the world. All you need is the time and the inclination and you can show what you have to the world with video.

Although some of the major video sites have been bogged down with lawsuits from copyright infringement cases, it is to be expected as we move from old media delivery systems to knew ones. As a member of the general public internet video provides new opportunities to share, a new outlet for your creativity, and news ways to communicate. Really it is all about sharing information. The internet led a revolution in information sharing and video sharing is just the next step.

Tyler Ellison is a successful entrepreneur who teaches free internet traffic secrets and black hat internet video marketing tricks.

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Country star Carrie Underwood has vowed never to bare her midriff on stage again.
The singer, who recently admitted she’s so worried about her weight, she writes down the calorie details of everything she eats, wants fans to focus on her music career and not her body.

She tells American magazine Glamour, “I definitely don’t do stomach, because nobody wants to see that. I’d be pulling at my clothes all night. That’s not me.”

“And cleavage can be done in a tasteful manner - you can be intelligent, sexy and not have boobs everywhere.”

Shootings of the new film The Inhabited Island by the film director Fyodor Bondarchuk are in progress in the Eighth film stage of Mosfilm. This film-dilogy that is still being shot has already made a splash. The Inhabited Island is a two part screen version of the science fiction novel by Strugatsky brothers with high budget, large scale shootings and huge scope of computer graphic. By the preliminary estimate the total time of computer graphic in the film will come to about three hours (and the total time-line of the film will be equal 4 hours 15 minutes). Many scenes have been shot just in Mosfilm stages.

Film events happen in the year 2157. This is a golden age of human civilization. The Russian spaceship piloted by twenty-years-old Maxim Kamerrer is wrecked on the far inhabited planet of Saraksh. There is a post-long-nuclear-war ecological crisis on the planet, the community faces with plentiful problems, and the established peace is still very unsteady. The brave astronaut will have to get to know the mysterious country governed by Unknown Fathers — five anonymous rulers who manipulate consciousness of inhabitants using special irradiators. Here Maxim will find new friends, make enemies, gain his love, and having undergone dangerous trials, starvation, mortal danger and losses he will lead the rebellious movement by challenging five grasping rulers.Fyodor Bondarchuk is very inspired with this project: “Since my childhood I was engrossed in novels by Strugatsky brothers. So when Alexander Rodnyansky had proposed me this script I was very glad to become absorbed again by the world of this literature. In our film we invent and embody an absolutely new material world, at that it should be elaborated till small items — up to costume details.”

Vassily Vnukov
Translated by L.Erashova

Source: Mosfilm. 

This new poster from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is pretty cool, people. Mostly because it’s so reminiscent of the first three movies and it makes me hopeful that this installment is going to be good. It also makes me all nostalgic for the days when I was considering daring archaeologist as a possible career path. Those were pretty good times.

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The list of nominees for the 50th Grammy Awards reads like a who’s who of pop, rock and hip-hop royalty: Kanye, Justin, Jay, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Fergie, Nelly, 50 and the Foos all scored multiple nods, as did a host of others who actually require last names — Amy Winehouse, Taylor Swift, etc.

Shoot, even Jimmy Carter got a nomination.

But if you scour the entire field of noms — 31 categories, hundreds of artists — there is one group that is strangely missing: Fall Out Boy, who, despite topping the Billboard albums chart in February with Infinity on High, clogging rock radio with singles, touring nonstop for an entire year and generally being one of the most successful rock acts on the planet, were inexplicably overlooked by members of the Recording Academy.

And if it doesn’t make a lot of sense to you, imagine how the guys in Fall Out Boy must feel. Oh, wait, you don’t have to imagine anything … you can just read their reaction, which they posted on their blog mere hours after bassist Pete Wentz learned of the Grammy snub. And it went a little something like this:

“The first reaction is jealousy mixed with a slight sense of entitlement. We just want to be a part of your club. We feel like the Orphans in the movie ‘The Warriors,’ when we are just dying to be the Baseball Furies,” Wentz wrote. “We play the events for you and the right parties all the time (which is a bit embarrassing either for you or us, not sure which, possibly both. It’s kind of like being invited to a birthday party and then not allowed to eat the cake).”

Of course, this reaction can be viewed in one of two ways: A) “Fall Out Boy were robbed! They have every right to be peeved!”; or B) “Fall Out Boy are acting like big babies — or Kanye West. Someone should tell them just to shut up and move on.” (Honestly, both are probably correct.) So, in the interest of keeping it fair and balanced, we decided to go straight to Wentz to have him explain his side of things.

“People are reading [what I wrote] and they’re saying, ‘Oh, you’re Kanye, you’re bitter.’ And I totally admit that,” he told MTV News. “It’s interesting, because you see the same people at the same podiums year after year, and I don’t know if people who love music can relate to that. And who knows, it could be we’re up there next year. It just seems like the same people get the nominations each year, and the same people make it up to the podium, and we’re stuck in Burbank. We get to play the home version.

“I mentioned the whole ‘play the events’ thing because it’s kind of awkward when you play a Grammy party, like we did, and you don’t get nominated,” he continued. “And you think about it and you get sort of upset, but then you think about it some more and you realize that it really doesn’t matter at all.”

Wentz credited Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor with helping him get over the snub (”I’ve been reading stuff he’s written online, and it was like, ‘Wow, Trent doesn’t give a f— about any of this. Why should we?’ “) and, much like almost everything FOB go through, they’re using the situation as both a dose of humility and creative fuel.

“If people are worried about us not having anything to whine about anymore, well, now we have plenty to whine about. And if people wanted to shut us up, they should’ve just given us that f—ing Grammy nomination,” Wentz laughed. “Since they didn’t, it’s only making us want to put out a new album sooner. It’s going to be about snubs. We’re going to call it And the Award Goes To … Write that down, but please let people know I’m kidding about the title of the album.”

Source: MTV.