At some point…and I’m not sure what point that was, MTV went from ultra high art story telling entertainment to psychotic ADD programming, then, it went totally commercial and spawned the world of reality tv from which none of us have ever recovered. Reality tv is here to stay, unfortunately, because really, who can resist trainwrecks like “Wife-Swap” and “Dating in the Dark”?
However, before the advent of such disgraceful voyerism, there were videos like “Walking on Broken Glass”. I love Annie Lennox. There’s a woman who really “got it”. All of her videos tell a story, but then her music always tells a story too. Maybe it’s not a question of video making as much as it is a question of the quality of music. Hmm.
ANYWAY. Hope you enjoy to above video. I loved it when it came out in 1992…I love it still though I hadn’t seen it in over a decade. I love it even more now that I recognize two of the key characters in the video. Malkovich is obvious…but the big question is…what is House doing there? (Oh yes, Hugh Laurie fans, that is definitely him. If I had the time or the inclination, I’d make ”House” video and use Annie’s video for a dream sequence, LOL!!)
P.S. DJ Earworm did an AMAZING mashup of classic Annie tracks including Little Bird, SING, Why, No More I Love You’s, Shinging Light, Walking on Broken Glass and many more. Dude is amazing!!! And apparently, Annie likes his work so much, she’s featuring his video of her works on her YouTube site!
Yep…Annie Lennox. Layers upon layers upon layers of talent and creativity. She is forkin’ brilliant! And DJ Earworm’s video show’s that very, very well. :D
“Sir, we feel it is important to remind you that there are cameras EVERYWHERE just waiting to ambush you, so, just a couple of things to remember: no picking your nose, no ‘adjusting’ outside of the men’s room, and no more checkin’ out the asses of hot chicks you pass even if Sarkozy is the one pointing them out to you.”
We’ve just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50.
Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon and paramedics were unable to revive him. We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.
Michael is survived by three children: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince “Blanket” Michael Jackson II.
Jackson had 13 number one hits during his solo career.
I view Michael Jackson as someone who had a very twisted upbringing with no control over his life, then or ever. Someone like that would live a very twisted life and it seems he has.
I feel very sad for his own children, for his fans, but don’t be too deluded…the fact remains that his innocence or guilt in the first accusation has not been proved because he paid off his accusers in a way that would keep them from talking so…that leaves a huge cloud of suspicion over his head. The trial in 2005 came back with a verdict of “not guilty, on all counts” but still, his image was damaged beyond repair. The truth is, none of us will ever really know one way or the other. We can look at how he handled the accusations and yes, it does raise suspicion when he pays millions of dollars to keep an accuser quiet.
On the other hand, keep in mind his abusive father who may have been the driving force that made Michael change his appearance so drastically. Also, remember the kind of life he was forced into at an extremely early age in a time when drugs/sex were as freely available to the musical elite as was tap water.
On the good side, he was immensely talented. Fred Astaire is quoted saying, “Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That’s the greatest dancer of the century” and upon his death was further quoted saying, “I didn’t want to leave this world without knowing who my descendant was. Thank you Michael!”
He did a lot of good in the world. But, all of us is guilty of something, we all sin – it is the nature of man (or woman, as the case may be). If Michael Jackson is remembered for his humanitarian work, or for his talent, or for his sins…only time will tell.
For myself, I will remember him as I first saw him.
Amid a New York City mob of frenzied fans, Rob Pattinson collided with a taxi on the street outside the Strand bookstore downtown Thursday, according to reports.
When your “love” for any given actor/actress forces them to flee from you, take that as a hint that you may be coming on a bit strong.
Before you hyperventilate, he’s just fine…this time. Heh.
See what I mean? She doesn’t need any “enhancements”. Stay away from the collagen Brittany!! You just don’t need it sweetie. ;) Though…she is looking a little alarmed by the group of 14 year old boys crowding in on her.
You know, my town is not a big town. It’s barely even a mid-sized town. So imagine my surprise when I head over to my favorite local restaurant to pick up lunch for me and several co-workers only to find a filming crew blocking the entire street and basically keeping me from my turkey bacon avocado croissant and caramelized onion bisque (sounds good no? mmmmm…it was!).
I drive up and notice ‘Hey! there’s a spot right out front! SWEET!’ then it changed to a ‘Wait a minute…ALL the spots are open…what’s going on…’ then I noticed the dude in kaki shorts and Hawaiian shirt sporting a lot of id tags and a stop sign waiving traffic to the side parking lot (about half a football field’s length away from the cafe – would have been SOOOO much nicer to park right out front *pout*). Ugh. I pull in and walk on over but as I approach the street where filming seems to be happening there is another very nice person with a lot of id tags, a clipboard, and headphones who stops me saying, “I’m sorry, we’re filming.” So I asked him, “Well, can I still get to my restaurant?” He let me through ’cause they hadn’t actually started yet.
I get to my cafe and they tell me, “Ya…it’s a Bridget Murphy film called ‘Something Wicked’.” I thought Bridget Murphy? Who the heck is that? Then someone from the back hollered “BRITTANY Murphy, geez.” So now, the title of the movie makes perfect sense, lol! though ‘Something Injected’ might make better sense. ;) (Okay…that wasn’t nice. I just don’t understand though, why a perfectly beautiful girl like Brittany Murphy has to “enhance” herself that way…don’t make no sense to me)
So anyway…I hobble outta there with two large sacks and an ice tea (juggling is an art) and just as I’m coming out I hear, “STAND BY!” They’re getting ready to role and fortunately, the camera is facing the other way- I’m in no danger of wandering into the shot. But I’m walking up the street and find that HEY! I’m watching a Hollywood film being made! And it’s kinda cool. “QUIET ON SET!” So I slow down a bit to watch them film. That’s when the 2nd guy with all the id tags and clipboard and headphones jumps out at me from nowhere and kinda scoots me to the side. He did make sure I still had a good view though. This was the scene:
Camera is set up in the middle of the street and is about three feet behind the tailgate of an old, dusty, beat up, red truck. There is some dude covered in faux-blood (looked like Robert Blanche; I *heart* IMDB, the knower of all movie-things!) laying in front of the camera on a platform. Director (Darin Scott) says, “Annnnnnd ACTION!” (Do they go to a special school and learn how to say that just right? Seems like they do.)
The truck peels out, dust flies, and bloody guy throws himself in a sideways, Captain Kirk kind of roll onto the ground where he just lays there. And twitches. He twitched a few times. It was very humorous. It looked the the second half of a scene where the bloody guy gets hit by the truck and we see him as he lays on the ground and twitches while the truck rushes off into the distance. ”CUT! We got it!”
And that was it. I came back and Googled “Something Wicked” and honestly…looks like a POS film but I’ll probably see it anyway since I saw one of the scenes filmed in front of me. Very cool!
P.S. I am determined to become a Hollywood actress in my old age…just like these gals.
…she didn’t bank on that vision being Kara DioGuardi instead of her. LMAO!!!
I didn’t watch the final American Idol so of course, when I heard about this little showdown I zipped over to Youtube and found it. How freakin’ hilarious!!! You know, it’s one thing to be deluded about one’s abilities, it’s another thing to wrap it up in sex and try to sell it. She just couldn’t sell it, not even in a bikini.
I tell ya, when you set yourself up like that…you kinda deserve what’cha get. Not only was she out-sung, she was out-classed, out-sassed and out-bikinied as well! Go KARA!!
This is the best! Kara doesn’t even pretend that this isn’t about making Bikini Kill feel retarded, and Bikini Kill is so dumb she’s like, “I don’t even know how stupid this makes me!” Mostly I just love it, because I was on Kara’s side — “Next time just show up naked” is precisely when I fell in love with her, if you remember — but A) how fun for all of them to be in on it, and B ) um, how hot was Kara DioGuardi already? I forgot how Riot Grrl obsessed I was with her twenty weeks ago, when everything she said was brilliant and funny, and I relegated her to the smarter version of Randy/Paula, but damn. She’s so Third Wave she’s like already laying out on the beach wearing a bikini and being all, “Whatever, I got SPF 5K.”
It’s so nice when your role models actually put the pedal to the metal instead of talking the talk: “Yeah, I called you a wh@re that lived off your t!ts. And then guess what, you got new t!ts. But I can still sing better than you, which we all know is the nominal point, and I’m a gifted writer, and I’m hotter than you. In about sixty ways. So when I said you were living off your body because you’re too lazy to live off anything else, I wasn’t talking shit: I could take off this dress and make some f@cking dime on it. I choose not to, because I am an artist. I’ve been there, I’ve made the choice. I’m lucky to have figured out before I was dead that there was a choice.”
“When I say you need something better, that’s not me being fat or ugly or any other thing where I’m less awesome than you: I’m saying I could take the easy road, and chose not to. And you can’t hear it, because you think womanhood is a war you’re automatically drafted into. But if you could hear it, what I’m saying is that you have a million different ways of proving yourself, and instead you take the one way that guarantees you’ll never get anywhere at all. It’s a he!! of a lot easier to point the finger if I’m not hotter than you, because you can say I’m being defensive, but guess what: that was never what it was about. It’s possible to live outside the economy of women hating women. And I’m telling you: every woman that ever tried to stop you, they weren’t being mean, they were trying to save your life.”
And she’s like the only person with the credentials, and the basic Bikini Kill recipe, and the body, to make that point at this moment: she could easily be Bikini Kill, and that’s all she was ever trying to say. Try harder. Be Better. And that’s why I loved Kara six months ago, and that’s why I love her now. “Next time just come naked” isn’t an insult, it’s an option. And there are way better f@cking options.
You don’t have to be ugly to be smart, and you don’t have to be smart to be ugly: life is actually much better than that. You can do everything, and still be in charge of your sh!t, because you are automatically good at more than one thing. We as people are so stuck on living in the house of our best accomplishment that we’re scared to be more complex than that, or go to the scarier places. But that’s a system invented by other people to keep us small. Taking it down to just one thing — pretty, smart, funny, cool — is selling yourself short, because you’re bigger than that: You Are Your Territory. You own what you earn, and you earn what you own.
Every now and then you hit on a good idea and you think “Man! that is ORIGINAL!” and that ya…you could make this into something.
Then you discover the website already exists and realize that not only are all the good ideas taken, but they’ve done better than you imagined, lol. In this case, however, I am pleased to just join up and contribute my little look-a-like from yesterday’s Efron post (which I updated, btw, into an animated .gif just to fully illustrate the wrath of the photographer/photoshopper).
Currently up for vote to be added to the main page of TotallyLooksLike.com! Click the pic to check it out! ;)
If you haven’t seen icanhascheeseburger.com’sLook-a-likes, then my friend, you are missing out on some serious lulz. LMAO! (icanhascheeseburger.com is the original home of the LOLcats, which spun off into a series of other sites including another longtime favorite of mine, The Failblog.)
Some of my favorite look-a-likes:
Anyway, lots of funny in those pages (links are in the side under “Humor”). Hope you enjoy. :D
