'Stars' Set Up?

I don’t watch Dancing With The Stars, but I do get updates about it through the various entertainment news updates I follow and watch. Before the first episode aired I heard the line up of the celebrities participating in this new season.

Uh, hello?

Yeah, a few of the ‘stars’ they got to participate are interesting choices, but a couple don’t seem that fair. I thought having Nicole Scherzinger and Evan Lysacek were a little more than obvious as having an advantage in this particular contest. A chick from a girl music group who has dealt with music video and live performance choreography, and a dude who is an Olympic figure skater? Doesn’t seem all that fair to me, but what the hell do I know?

Oh, and the last update I viewed was saying that the very first episode left those exact two in the first and second places in the contest.

So surprised…

It seems that the entertainment draw of that show would be selecting stars that are famous for something very different than being someone who performs on a professional level in dancing or ice skating on a regular basis.

But I may just be talking out my ass because I don’t run the show, I don’t even watch it. I’ll just keep getting my updates here and there, and if (and when) either Scherzinger or Lysacek win this competition I’ll sit back in non-surprise, rolling my eyes.

Jesse James: A 'Stupid' Man...

I hate to be yet another person commenting on the subject, but my God what was Jesse James thinking??? So many people keep talking about Sandra Bullock not being his type, not having tattoos and looking like a pin up. She is a classy lady yes, but she is also a hard core bad ass woman.

The “other woman” in the incident isn’t even an exceptional beauty; she doesn’t seem to have a lot to offer other than a pair of open legs. Here Jesse is, married to a very devoted woman, beautiful, talented, and very loving, and she is making her way to the top of the world. Why throw that all in the trash for, well, trash?

Not only that, the more I learn about Sandra the more I’ve realized she is considerate and accepting of everyone equally. The work she has done with and for minorities is astounding. Off the top of your head, how many successful, wealthy influential white women can you name that put themselves really out there for the Latino-community? Yeah, stumped huh?

Relating to that exactly, how could you go to being married to a woman like that to one who has supposedly been photographed wearing clothing of a Nazi-nature and showing off tattoos related to the same subject?

To me, that is the equivalent of going from turning down a perfectly juicy steak from an upscale restaurant for a cheap fast food chain burger… that has been sitting under the heat-lamps for a few hours… and someone dropped it on the floor but decided to serve it anyway.

Its frustrating to think about and I will NEVER understand it. All I can really say is Sandra, my heart goes out to you, and Jesse: EPIC FAIL

Rushing Rush

I heard something the other day that made me crack a smile- Rush Limbaugh claiming he’d move to Costa Rica if the new Health Care Reform was passed.

Can I scream “WOO HOO” loud enough?? No, I cannot.

But we’re all familiar with the self-righteous loud mouth and his outrageous claims. I was thrilled to hear that claim, but Rush was getting his hopes up and really assumed the bill wouldn’t be passed when he was making his claims of moving out of the country.

I’m not so naïve, nor do I make silly fake plans based on my uneducated beliefs.

Knowing the way things usually play out with him, who knows if he was really against it all because he didn’t like what the reform itself would bring, or if it was just because he didn’t like the race or religion of the person presenting it.

The funniest part about the entire thing is his still being up on his pedestal. After being a loud-mouthed over-opinionated offensive individual who just berates undeserving people, who exactly does he think is taking the time to give a flying fuck about his (hopefully) making a permanent move to another country? The most logical theory I’ve come up with on this subject is “Loud-Mouth” Limbaugh caught rumor of prescription pills being cheaper and easier to obtain in Costa Rica, and he’s just using the Health Bill as an excuse to get out there to them ASAP.

I want to hear the amazing reasoning and wordplay that is used to fix this flub, how it is played out to say “he didn’t say that exactly,” or it was” taken out of context,” because at the end of the day Rush can’t leave America. Who would he bitch to? Who would he talk shit to? Nobody else would take his abuse, and someone elsewhere might actually put him in his place for mouthing off.

OH MY GOD there are so many reasons he should leave the country. For once could he stay true to his word? Could he make one other person in this world happy OTHER than his own selfish self? Sadly, I doubt it will ever happen, but a girl can dream.

Commercialization

Lately I’ve been seeing some pretty interesting commercials. I know the point of commercials- to catch the attention of a select group of people to advertise some product or service, usually for sales. However, some commercials are kind of ridiculous in their presentation (in my personal opinion).

For example: Play Doh commercials

I’ve seen several commercials advertising this great little carpet-ruining tub of fun recently, (maybe it hasn’t been several, its probably been the same commercial but they all look the same to me) where the newest fun with the Play Doh was food-themed. Ice cream with sprinkles and decoration, burgers with all the fixins’ including pickles, all those great things and such. After seeing kids playing and laughing and putting together all these tasty-looking little Doh morsels of delight, putting them all nicely on a plate with great culinary presentation, they must end the commercial itself with a voice saying, “Play Doh, fun to play with, not to eat!”

Uh, this particular play-thing has an age recommendation of ages 2 years and up. Have they ever even seen a two year old child play? The majority of what they do when playing is place things in their mouths. Hell, I was 9 and my mom told me she’d give me a dollar if I ate a marble-sized chunk of Play Doh (easiest dollar I ever made). With that being said, with the starting age being two to play with Play Doh, it being made to look a lot like food and possibly parents making stupid barters with their kids, the “suggestion” at the end of the commercial probably isn’t enough. OR we could just stop making things we SHOULDN’T eat look like things we LOVE to eat… hmmm?

As long as we’re on the subject of commercials I don’t like…

Love Stride Gum, their ad gimmick, not so much. I pretty much don’t like to be told what to do, especially by people I don’t know. And while enjoying a piece of refreshing gum I don’t really have the desire to feel threatened. Their ads basically tell people to “Spit it out and chew a new piece already or we’ll find you.” Yeah, how about stay out of my damn breath-freshening business, thank you very much. I will chew it if, when, and how I want, and I don’t appreciate you being all up in my TV telling me how to be livin’ my life (or chewing my gum rather).

Now you got me goin, I’m gonna go get myself a Play Doh hot dog and freshen up afterward with a piece of gum...

A Jesse by Any Other Name...

So over the years I have realized that Latino men named “Jesus” (HEH-soos) that venture to The States decide to go by “Jesse.” Well, the majority of them do, for whatever personal reasons, its easier for Americans to remember or pronounce or whatever, or to appease Christian Americans.

I personally think its silly if you actually like your name. This goes for ALL people that immigrate here, it makes me sad when people just kind of throw away their past, their history, their heritage by just adopting an “American” version of their name, or just choose a new name.

I won’t get too into that, because that isn’t even my subject, I could go on and on about that. And I probably have no room to talk, I am dying to change my name.

I’ll switch gears, because I’m not in a serious mood…

So, back to the original thought, about Latino men named “Jesus” that end up going by “Jesse,” it just got me thinking- way back in the day when Jesus was around and people called him Jesus, were there maybe times that he was just like “Oh, you can call me Jesse,” ? What about when people started realizing who he was, if anyone were to kneel before him and called out “Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior” there may have been a time or two when he corrected their formality with “Hey, my Father is the Lord, you can call me Jesus… Well, Jesse…” Right?

Just a thought.

Isn't Life Already 3-Dimensional?

Can anyone give me an answer to this: What is the new obsession with 3D/Real D movies? And it can’t be “It rakes in more money.” It seems like everything and anything coming out lately has extra special effects to it.

I wonder to myself, is society so desensitized to excitement that this is the new method to battle people’s lack of enthusiasm for movies? Its probably because movie sales are tanking because downloading pirated copies is so much easier and cheaper, and you can’t illegally download awesome Real D effects to watch at home. It could also be the original statement I made, to make the already insane ticket prices at the box office that much more expensive. Its all related, one of those cycles I suppose.

No matter what the reason is, it makes me feel so old fashioned, or basically just old for that matter. I like my movies 2D for a couple reasons- I don’t like wearing those stupid glasses because they give me a headache, I hate feeling like my bank account is drained for 2 hours of entertainment, and I am not so simple-minded that I can’t enjoy a movie the normal way. Fucking lazy asses, movies are simple enjoyment enough, we can’t even pick up a damn book anymore because its too much effort, and imaginative brain power is too diminished to get through it. Now we have to go to lengths to further movie production to make the movie more “real” so we can have even less imagination, and if possible put forth less effort to watch a movie...

Aside from that frustration, I want to get into the 3D/Real D subject a little deeper.

I know that they have special screens or whatever to give that effect in the theaters and its never the same when you get the DVD with the crappy little red and blue celophane-lensed glasses. However, I know that there’s always technology out that us poor folk isn’t aware of, so I’m sure there’s rich folk out there privileged enough to have a special TV or projector or something to give the same Real D effect we pay out the ass for in the theater.

What I am really wanting to know is when is that going to be available to the rest of us so we can get porn-production into that? If people really want to make some serious money, that is what needs to be marketed (and I want my cut when it happens)! Who doesn’t wanna be balls-deep into a good porn and suddenly feel like the sweaty porn stars are right there with them? Could you imagine the intensity of nipple and penile-erections with that technology power? And cum-shots would be a serious climactic ending, not just because someone is having an orgasm, but because you’d actually feel like you had to dodge the damn thing.

But seriously, 3D/Real D is out of control. I just want to have comfort in watching commercials advertising movies again. Nowadays I watch a commercial, get overly excited for a movie that looks amazing, then at the end its announced “In 3D” and I say “Oh shit,” because I’m just calculating the money pouring out of my wallet.

Give me movies the old way, flat, 2-Dimensional and cheap, or give me my own Real D technology for my home, along with a few good porn vids adapted for it all.

Brown Down For Woods

It recently came to my attention that Chris Brown had an opinion about the whole ‘Tiger Woods’ media domination story, which of course I have an opinion about myself. I had an opinion over just the Tiger portion of it, and back when it happened a separate opinion of the Chris Brown part, but it miraculously mixing into one subject through the mouth of Mr. Brown is wonderful.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it all starts with Chris getting his charges for letting his fists do his talking during an argument, then this amount of time later Tiger got his mess with the cheating and marital issues, and America is still reeling from 2 of the most seemingly wholesome guys doing what we never even considered they would do. What topped the cake is Chris opening his mouth about it like someone wanted his opinion… Uh, it seems whether his fists or mouth does the communicating, it doesn’t turn out well.

If you’re still confused, I apologize for my erratic, coffee-fueled attempt at writing.

What I am getting to is what Chris Brown said, which is this:
“I think people always deserve a second chance,” Brown stated. “Whatever (Tiger’s) personal life is — and I think this goes for me and him — his personal life is his personal life. Nobody has the right to place judgment or make any judgment on somebody else's personal life when they’re not directly involved with them.”*

Comment, Tiger? Yeah, there isn’t one…

First, what the two men are facing problems with are two completely different things. Physically harming someone in a fit of rage is one thing, sleeping around is another, and I am embarrassed by Chris attempting to group the incidents.

Personal thought about Brown’s interview quote: With the charges and legal issues he has come up against, he should definitely be focusing on his own problems. Just because another famous face has encountered some problems of their own does NOT mean you get to drag that person down to where you are. Woods was making no attempts to save your ass, and he hasn’t made you his side kick yet either. Just because someone else is in the shit house, it doesn’t mean we’re forgetting what you did or lightening our opinion of it. And believe me, this didn’t change anyone’s opinion of you or make you our beloved again, not even Tiger.

Some advice in closing… er… Don’t hit your girlfriend. Don’t cheat on your wife. If you cheat on your wife you’ll have the embarrassment of getting a pat on the back and defense from someone who hit their girlfriend.

*Quote source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35569873/ns/entertainment-gossip/