Tuesday, August 13, 2002
I have a lot to write about today. I may have to do it in installments. But here are the headlines of the topics that will be addressed:
Britney Spears and the VMA's
Road Rules Campus Crawl
Smoking Ban in NYC
My Theater Resume
I was actually laying in bed last night, doing my best to try to remember each one of these topics so that I could write about them today. In fact, when I woke up, I immediatly ran the list in my head again. Now I am here and I actually remember.
First...
Britney Spears and the VMA's:
After seeing (once again) the preview for the upcoming Video Music Awards (August 29th), I noticed two things. One is that Jimmy Falon is just about the funniest and most adorable thing to come out of Albany since me. Second is that Britney Spears will only be making an "appearance" at the show. She will not be performing. At least, that's what I picked up from seeing the preview. Kelly and I were discussing the Britney Spear's/VMA situation the other day and she said that she thought it was good that Brit was out of the scene for awhile. Of course, we all whole-heartedly agree. However, I have to say that it would be in her best interest to take a break AFTER doing a knock-out performance at the awards show. She owes it to them and she owes it to herself. It wasn't too long ago, that her pseudo-strip tease caught national attention thus propelling her career into this mega-star phemomena.
Where are her publicity reps? Where are the people that are supposed to be planning her career out for her?
Yes, Britney needs a break. But she should perform at the VMA's first.
If I was her marketing/publicity rep., this is how I would have this all go down.
Britney performs in some sort of knock-out outfit. Having worked out for months to prepare, her body would be in the best shape it has ever been in. There is a big crescendo and then an explosion. Brit appears in the middle of the stage surrounded by her dancers. She wouldn't be performing her latest top 10 (Boys). She would be doing a mix of all of her top 10's, beginning with Baby One More Time. She would do about 30 seconds of each song. The songs should be somewhere along the lines of:
One More Time, Sometimes I Run, Crazy, Lucky, Oops I Did it Again, Not Yet a Woman, I'm a Slave, Overprotected, and Boys.
(Did I really just list all those songs off the top of my head. Oops. I did it again.)
During the montage of these songs, Britney would perform like mad, including a dance step from each hit. There would be lights, pyrotechnics, and at least 3 costume changes. Her dancers would be sweating their balls off trying to keep the whole thing flying. All of this would take place in under 6 minutes.
At the very end of her performance, I say that the lights cut out except for the lone spotlight on Britney. There is a loud crash and she says in her sexiest voice, "I'll be back" or some shit. The light then cuts out and Britney is gone. She has left the stage and she has left the VMA's. She doesn't do interviews, she doesn't do anything. She leaves the entertainment scene for 6 months or a year, or whatever she needs.
BUT WOULDN'T THAT BE GREAT?!?!
Slamming performance and then Britney just disappears.
But what will really happen is that Brit will not perform, she will present an award, snore us to death, and then do a thousand interviews before slipping into the crack of embarrassment with Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, and the Backstreet Boys.
Hmph.
Road Rules: Campus Crawl
I don't have too much to say about this show, except for the fact that if you aren't watching it, you are missing something wholesome and sweet. It is the very FIRST season I have ever seen of any MTV reality show in which all of the people co-exist in a space the size of a peanut and still get along as though they are all the most kind and gentle people on the planet.
Seriously. The season is at least half over at this point and last night's episode made me cry. It really did.
This group has come so far. The 6 of them take care of eachother, are honest with eachother, and really do work together as a team on every mission. 5 of the 6 of them are athletes, leaving out Sarah, who, as she says, just likes to "sit around and hang out." Yet, when Sarah causes them to fail most of the missions, they swallow it, help her along and just move forward. It's really quite beautiful.
BUT THE CLINCHER IS...
The Road Rulers have been told from the beginning, that if they lose more than 2 challenges, they have to either:
a) Give up all the prizes up to that point or
b) Vote off the weakest member of the team.
Within the first 3 episodes, the team lost two challenges and the decision was easy. Give up the prizes. They had only earned motor scooters by that point. But now...7 weeks into the game, they have made tons of money, won tons of prizes, gift certificates, etc. And then last night, they go and lose another challenge. Decision time.
Lose all prizes or vote off Sarah. But there is another clincher...and I don't know WHY MTV is doing this...
If they decide to lose all their prizes and NOT pick someone to vote off...a RANDOM cast member will be voted off. UM! Yeah, that's totally fair.
They all sit down together to fully discuss what is going to happen.
The boys vote to eliminate someone and to keep the prizes.
The girls vote to lose the prizes and leave everyone on equal playing ground. Who ever gets the boot, gets the boot.
There are hard feelings and everyone is upset.
Joe crys at this part.
Next week though...the answer will be revealed. Who is going home?
None of this is probably intersting to you. But it should be. It's nice to sit and watch a half hour show that makes you feel better about humanity. And who can possibly sit in front of this show and NOT fall completely in love with Road Ruler ERIC! Not only is he totally adorable, he has a heart of gold. He is open minded and he is wonderful. I want to marry a man just like Eric. That looks like him, acts like him, and well, IS him.
Watch this show...you don't know what you are missing.
Smoking Ban in NYC
I think Penelope wrote about this in her blogger at one point, or she and I talked about this...
but either way...
I hear on the radio this morning that Bloomberg is going full force with this ELIMINATE SMOKING campaign. As we all know, a pack of smokes costs $7 now. (You can find them at Duane Reade for much cheaper, but don't let the word get out...)
On top of this, by the end of the year, there will be no smoking in the following places in NYC:
Bars
Restaurants
Beaches
Parks
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT??? Not only has he raised the prices, he is eliminating every area in which smokers can go. It's pretty unbelievable. In a way I am happy. It will definitly get me to quit. But I have to be honest and say that it is completly unfair. I think it may even be against the constitution. It has been linked to Prohibition and that may be correct.
Z100 made a good point today when they said that you can sit in Columbus Circle and have a cigarette, but don't you dare walk into the park with it.
Cuz if you do...fines up the ass!
Wow. Time to quit everyone.
Lastly...
My Theater Resume
Is so amateur and shitty, I will never make it in this business.
The end.
Britney Spears and the VMA's
Road Rules Campus Crawl
Smoking Ban in NYC
My Theater Resume
I was actually laying in bed last night, doing my best to try to remember each one of these topics so that I could write about them today. In fact, when I woke up, I immediatly ran the list in my head again. Now I am here and I actually remember.
First...
Britney Spears and the VMA's:
After seeing (once again) the preview for the upcoming Video Music Awards (August 29th), I noticed two things. One is that Jimmy Falon is just about the funniest and most adorable thing to come out of Albany since me. Second is that Britney Spears will only be making an "appearance" at the show. She will not be performing. At least, that's what I picked up from seeing the preview. Kelly and I were discussing the Britney Spear's/VMA situation the other day and she said that she thought it was good that Brit was out of the scene for awhile. Of course, we all whole-heartedly agree. However, I have to say that it would be in her best interest to take a break AFTER doing a knock-out performance at the awards show. She owes it to them and she owes it to herself. It wasn't too long ago, that her pseudo-strip tease caught national attention thus propelling her career into this mega-star phemomena.
Where are her publicity reps? Where are the people that are supposed to be planning her career out for her?
Yes, Britney needs a break. But she should perform at the VMA's first.
If I was her marketing/publicity rep., this is how I would have this all go down.
Britney performs in some sort of knock-out outfit. Having worked out for months to prepare, her body would be in the best shape it has ever been in. There is a big crescendo and then an explosion. Brit appears in the middle of the stage surrounded by her dancers. She wouldn't be performing her latest top 10 (Boys). She would be doing a mix of all of her top 10's, beginning with Baby One More Time. She would do about 30 seconds of each song. The songs should be somewhere along the lines of:
One More Time, Sometimes I Run, Crazy, Lucky, Oops I Did it Again, Not Yet a Woman, I'm a Slave, Overprotected, and Boys.
(Did I really just list all those songs off the top of my head. Oops. I did it again.)
During the montage of these songs, Britney would perform like mad, including a dance step from each hit. There would be lights, pyrotechnics, and at least 3 costume changes. Her dancers would be sweating their balls off trying to keep the whole thing flying. All of this would take place in under 6 minutes.
At the very end of her performance, I say that the lights cut out except for the lone spotlight on Britney. There is a loud crash and she says in her sexiest voice, "I'll be back" or some shit. The light then cuts out and Britney is gone. She has left the stage and she has left the VMA's. She doesn't do interviews, she doesn't do anything. She leaves the entertainment scene for 6 months or a year, or whatever she needs.
BUT WOULDN'T THAT BE GREAT?!?!
Slamming performance and then Britney just disappears.
But what will really happen is that Brit will not perform, she will present an award, snore us to death, and then do a thousand interviews before slipping into the crack of embarrassment with Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, and the Backstreet Boys.
Hmph.
Road Rules: Campus Crawl
I don't have too much to say about this show, except for the fact that if you aren't watching it, you are missing something wholesome and sweet. It is the very FIRST season I have ever seen of any MTV reality show in which all of the people co-exist in a space the size of a peanut and still get along as though they are all the most kind and gentle people on the planet.
Seriously. The season is at least half over at this point and last night's episode made me cry. It really did.
This group has come so far. The 6 of them take care of eachother, are honest with eachother, and really do work together as a team on every mission. 5 of the 6 of them are athletes, leaving out Sarah, who, as she says, just likes to "sit around and hang out." Yet, when Sarah causes them to fail most of the missions, they swallow it, help her along and just move forward. It's really quite beautiful.
BUT THE CLINCHER IS...
The Road Rulers have been told from the beginning, that if they lose more than 2 challenges, they have to either:
a) Give up all the prizes up to that point or
b) Vote off the weakest member of the team.
Within the first 3 episodes, the team lost two challenges and the decision was easy. Give up the prizes. They had only earned motor scooters by that point. But now...7 weeks into the game, they have made tons of money, won tons of prizes, gift certificates, etc. And then last night, they go and lose another challenge. Decision time.
Lose all prizes or vote off Sarah. But there is another clincher...and I don't know WHY MTV is doing this...
If they decide to lose all their prizes and NOT pick someone to vote off...a RANDOM cast member will be voted off. UM! Yeah, that's totally fair.
They all sit down together to fully discuss what is going to happen.
The boys vote to eliminate someone and to keep the prizes.
The girls vote to lose the prizes and leave everyone on equal playing ground. Who ever gets the boot, gets the boot.
There are hard feelings and everyone is upset.
Joe crys at this part.
Next week though...the answer will be revealed. Who is going home?
None of this is probably intersting to you. But it should be. It's nice to sit and watch a half hour show that makes you feel better about humanity. And who can possibly sit in front of this show and NOT fall completely in love with Road Ruler ERIC! Not only is he totally adorable, he has a heart of gold. He is open minded and he is wonderful. I want to marry a man just like Eric. That looks like him, acts like him, and well, IS him.
Watch this show...you don't know what you are missing.
Smoking Ban in NYC
I think Penelope wrote about this in her blogger at one point, or she and I talked about this...
but either way...
I hear on the radio this morning that Bloomberg is going full force with this ELIMINATE SMOKING campaign. As we all know, a pack of smokes costs $7 now. (You can find them at Duane Reade for much cheaper, but don't let the word get out...)
On top of this, by the end of the year, there will be no smoking in the following places in NYC:
Bars
Restaurants
Beaches
Parks
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT??? Not only has he raised the prices, he is eliminating every area in which smokers can go. It's pretty unbelievable. In a way I am happy. It will definitly get me to quit. But I have to be honest and say that it is completly unfair. I think it may even be against the constitution. It has been linked to Prohibition and that may be correct.
Z100 made a good point today when they said that you can sit in Columbus Circle and have a cigarette, but don't you dare walk into the park with it.
Cuz if you do...fines up the ass!
Wow. Time to quit everyone.
Lastly...
My Theater Resume
Is so amateur and shitty, I will never make it in this business.
The end.
