An argument
between Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood:
There’s nothing like a petty squabble between celebrities to send folks searching. Ideally, the tiff involves vapid starlets arguing over who started the purse-dog trend, but Clint Eastwood telling Spike Lee to “shut his face” makes for a perfectly acceptable substitute.
Do you think it’s a wise thing to be ticking off Dirty Harry? Maybe Spike Lee is feeling lucky. He does have a point though. I’m not sayin’. I’m just sayin’.
This isn’t an Is It Just Me that I came up with but I think it’s a pretty good one and rather appropriate with the pinnacle of the NBA season, the NBA Finals, starting tonight.
Is it just me or do Mark Cuban (owner of the Dallas Mavericks) and Emperor Commodus look like they could be brothers?
An excerpt from yesterday’s Shine on Yahoo! entertainment blog post:
Call me ignorant, but I do not understand the fascination with John Mayer. I suppose he’s somewhat attractive. I know that his smash hits like “Your Body is a Wonderland” and “Waiting on the World to Change” are supposed to get under my skin with their tender and positive messages. But there’s something I can’t get past. It’s not that his voice irritates me, or that I think he’s undeserving of his Grammy awards. It’s not that the specific male pop singer/guitarist thing has never appealed to me (if a guy does pop, I’d prefer he was more straight up about it a la Justin Timberlake)—there’s just something about John Mayer’s overall person that annoys me beyond description. He seems arrogant, cocky and completely phony.
Why you hating on my boy John Mayer? Don’t hate. Appreciate. He can’t help if his game is smooth like butter. JM’s game is so tight he need not speak in his own defense. His songs do the work for him. Singers have been getting in women’s pants with a little help from their songs for years. He obviously has some redeming qualities or all these women wouldn’t be lining up to go out with him. Yeah, his new doo is a bit out there but I still like him a lot. On a side note: Is it just me or does he look like Marc Anthony’s younger, slightly less malnourished/emaciated looking brother?
This is unbelievable. Actually it’s not but roll with me here. What’s the point of convicting someone of a crime if they’re not even going to server any jail time? According to the article Nicole didn’t even make it to a jail cell. Why waste the tax payers money? Why go through the whole charade of bringing her to court, convicting and sentencing her then toting her down to the jail to be processed, booked and get her picture taken. That seems totally pointless. It looks like a glorified photo op for both the LA County Sheriff’s office (Look at us we’re being tough on crime! Celebs get the same treatment as the regular Joes.) and Nicole Richie herself (Hey Paris look! I’m like going to jail and stuff. Just like you!). What’s sad is this “treatment” is attributed to over crowding in the jails. I don’t know if it really had to do with that or if it was due to her celebrity status but the whole episode seems ridiculous to me. 82 minutes in jail. People spend more time waiting in line at the DMV for pete’s sake.
And in the is it just me department, is it just me or does she not take the exact same mug shot every time she gets arrested. Only the clothes are different. Witness exhibit A (above) and exhibit B (right). Direct head on stare. Head tilted slightly forward. Sheepish smirk. I wonder if a fashion photographer taught her that pose.
Mandy’s attempts at facial earnestness border on cheesiness but the song itself is alright.
Here’s Wikipedia’s list of every song featured in one of Apple’s iPod commercials, including the date, artist and model. So, just in case you forgot to download one, here’s your chance.
My wife and I have put together an American Idol vocal no-no list. The no-no list is comprised of singers who’s songs Idol hopefuls should avoid like the plague. Basically if you don’t have the pipes to pull the song off don’t sing it. We started to compile the list last season. I had never watched American Idol before and was thoroughly surprised at the tremendous talent of some of the folks and the overwhelming lack of talent of most of the folks. During the audition portion of the show we kept seeing person after person try to sing songs by the folks listed below. The vast majority of them crashed and burned. So we put together this list along with some rules or guidelines to be followed if you’re crazy enough to attempt a song by one of the list members.
American Idol Vocal No-No List
Aretha Franklin
(or Re-Re as my wife calls her)
Patti Labelle
Whitney Houston
Celine Dion
Mariah Carey
Mary J. Blige
Christina Aguilera
Amy Lee*
Jennifer Hudson**
No-No List Exception Requirements
A person can qualify to sing a song from a listed artist IF they meet the following requirements.
You’ll notice we haven’t included any men on the list. We’ve given it some serious thought but have been unable to think of any male vocalists who’s sound and voices are so far above everybody else as to make them worthy of inclusion on the list.
* Gina Glocksen sang Call Me When You’re Sober by Evanescence (with Amy Lee on Lead Vocals). Technically this is a list violation but since it occurred during the round of 24 and not during auditions it’s sort of okay. She made it her own realizing that she was not and never will be Amy Lee. That meets requirement #2.
** LaKisha Jones can flat out blow. She received an automatic exemption the first time she opened her mouth to sing on the show. I thought J-Hud was on the stage when LaKisha sang And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going. Got goose bumps right there. The same thing happened when she sang I Have Nothing by Whitney Houston. The list does not apply to LaKisha.
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Kanye West – Runaway (Full Length Video)
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This is Kanye’s epic 35 minute full length Runaway video. I just finished the whole thing. Dang. I don’t really know what to say about it. Weird would be the obvious thing to say but it’s Kanye so weird goes without saying nowadays. The whole thing is visually stunning. Very beautiful. It was fun to watch though I can’t say I’ll ever subject myself to watching it again. I’m left with a sense of what was the point? Maybe that’s over thinking it though. Maybe the point is there is no point. It’s art for the sake of art. I’m cool with that. All in all I liked it. Kanye is brilliant. Crazy as all get out but brilliant. That’s all I can say.