Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Paula Abdul Admits Her Addiction to Painkillers
DDUUHH!!! She denied it for so long but if you ever watched her on American Idol, or ANY program on TV you knew she was popping pills like pringles! The Youtube says shes drunk again but you can tell by the particular way she slurs its muscle relaxants among other things.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
CINCO DE MAYO!!! (And the truth behind it)
Cinco De Drinko, Drunko De Mayo, call it what you will Cinco De Mayo is a drinking holiday in San Diego. It's that time of year (besides St. Patricks, the 4th of July, New Years Eve, Memorial Day and Thursday-Tuesday) when you can get shitfaced, talk veryloudly and dress like a wench. We love Cinco De Mayo, even though we don't know what it means because we love Mexico. Or at least we love the food and tequila, which go hand in hand really....Where are you taking tequila shots and subsequently downing greasy delicious Mexican food this year?? Wherever you go, play the drunken know it all by telling people the REAL story of Cinco De Mayo!!
The TRUTH About Cinco De Mayo:
Today, Mexicans celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of Puebla (NOT MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY which is on September 16th) as Cinco de Mayo, a national holiday in Mexico.
During the French-Mexican War in 1862, a poorly supplied and outnumbered Mexican army under General Ignacio Zaragoza defeated a French army attempting to capture Puebla de Los Angeles, a small town in east-central Mexico. Victory at the Battle of Puebla represented a great moral victory for the Mexican government, symbolizing the country's ability to defend its sovereignty against threat by a powerful foreign nation.
Broaden Your Knowledge of Cinco De Mayo Here!!
Fashion Forward: Silver Tasselsed Sunglasses
Love her or hate her Beyonce is amazing at what she does: DIVA. Honestly, she can dance better than the pro's, put on an amazing show with tons of energy, sing and belt her way WHILE dancing and has forward "Make Ya Think" fashion. I don't like her voice and I wouldn't wear anything from her clothing line but she's doing her thing and doing it well and her body and face are well, SLAMMIN'!! Also, she keeps her private life and public life in check. Check out these silver tassesled sunglasses!! She wears them in the video for her new single, Diva. Forward Fashion, bottom line. I have seen NOTHING like these ever and don't even think I could conceptualize them. If you see the video the fringes are even cut in the shape of sunglasses! Who knows if you can see out of them they are different, far out, new, fresh and cool. Name 10 bands or people you could say that about right now....
CHECK OUT THE VIDEO
05/05/No. 5
Chanel No. 5 was the first fragrance from Parisian couturier Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, and has been on sale continually since its introduction in on May 5th, 1921. It has been described as "the world's most legendary fragrance", and remains the company's most famous perfume. The company estimates that a bottle is sold worldwide every 55 seconds.
Read More About Chanel No. 5
Monday, May 4, 2009
YES, NO, MAYBE
YES: Frida
A movie about the life of artist Frida Kahlo. I knew it'd be good. Mexican culture in the roaring 20's and impassioned/angry artists! Oh, and beautiful Salma Hayek. Also helps I love her surreal and haunting art (Frida Kahlos) and am inspired by Diego Riveras murals and ideals (Her husband). This movie is done really well, it's actually sort of trippy and a tad experimental. Frida Kahlo had a very hard life but was still this vibrant full of energy artist, a very strong woman despite intense heart break and debilitating excruciating medical conditions. Does not disappoint, check it out!
NO: The Doors Movie
Ok right off the bat, let me say that I love the music of The Doors very much. The organs, the voice, the far outness. It's good music, honestly. So I rented this movie thinking their story would be as epic as some of those songs (Riders on a Storm, high changed my life in college). Turns out it wasn't. I will say the acting was fine, even though seeing Meg Ryan as a drug using hippie groupie was odd. Thing is, The Doors were just bomb musicians who were into mind expanding (therefore their music was expansive and interesting and future sounding). That's sort of the bottom line. Jim Morrision was not a prophet or special or a god. He was a depressed guy in his 20's who wrote down the shit he saw on his acid trips, mixed them with the words and thoughts of great writers and put it all to music, to awesome music. Jim Morrison was destructive and tortured, he cared really ONLY about himself, not the music, like his band mates. The movies best parts came when it showcased the turmoil and excitement of those times, the changes in society. The 70's were rough because thats about the time that "drug culture" went from the potentially positive and exploratory nature worshiping wonder of weed, shrooms and acid to the mind numbing, addiction jail of chemical man made drugs like cocaine, heroin, and pills. The people that missed the switch were the ones who died young or who are hanging out in San Francisco hassling you for money. That's where Jim Morrison would have been had he lived long enough...
MAYBE: Angels and Demons Movie
The Davinci Code movie BLEW and that super sucked because we had all liked the book right? Well Angels and Demons is the better, more exciting book of the two written by Dan Brown with a cooler, historically pungent, and sorta creepy story. Hopefully it will fare better.
A movie about the life of artist Frida Kahlo. I knew it'd be good. Mexican culture in the roaring 20's and impassioned/angry artists! Oh, and beautiful Salma Hayek. Also helps I love her surreal and haunting art (Frida Kahlos) and am inspired by Diego Riveras murals and ideals (Her husband). This movie is done really well, it's actually sort of trippy and a tad experimental. Frida Kahlo had a very hard life but was still this vibrant full of energy artist, a very strong woman despite intense heart break and debilitating excruciating medical conditions. Does not disappoint, check it out!
NO: The Doors Movie
Ok right off the bat, let me say that I love the music of The Doors very much. The organs, the voice, the far outness. It's good music, honestly. So I rented this movie thinking their story would be as epic as some of those songs (Riders on a Storm, high changed my life in college). Turns out it wasn't. I will say the acting was fine, even though seeing Meg Ryan as a drug using hippie groupie was odd. Thing is, The Doors were just bomb musicians who were into mind expanding (therefore their music was expansive and interesting and future sounding). That's sort of the bottom line. Jim Morrision was not a prophet or special or a god. He was a depressed guy in his 20's who wrote down the shit he saw on his acid trips, mixed them with the words and thoughts of great writers and put it all to music, to awesome music. Jim Morrison was destructive and tortured, he cared really ONLY about himself, not the music, like his band mates. The movies best parts came when it showcased the turmoil and excitement of those times, the changes in society. The 70's were rough because thats about the time that "drug culture" went from the potentially positive and exploratory nature worshiping wonder of weed, shrooms and acid to the mind numbing, addiction jail of chemical man made drugs like cocaine, heroin, and pills. The people that missed the switch were the ones who died young or who are hanging out in San Francisco hassling you for money. That's where Jim Morrison would have been had he lived long enough...
MAYBE: Angels and Demons Movie
The Davinci Code movie BLEW and that super sucked because we had all liked the book right? Well Angels and Demons is the better, more exciting book of the two written by Dan Brown with a cooler, historically pungent, and sorta creepy story. Hopefully it will fare better.
HUGE SUPRISE: House Bunny is actually sorta awesome!
The minute I saw a poster for House Bunny I pretentiously rolled my eyes and sighed. All I could think was, oh god, another lame college movie made only as an excuse to watch half naked girls do stupid things for dumb binge drinking bros. I wrote it off and went and saw a movie that made me feel better than everyone else. Then one night Im at Blockbuster and I see House Bunny sitting there. I had just watched Lost In Translation which Anna Faris (House Bunny Star) is in and AWESOME in even though she has a tiny part. I said FUCK it and rented it, great acting is hard to come by. I was renting Frida (GREAT MOVIE!) too so it made me feel better. Turns out it was GREAT! And Ill say this: YES it was formulaic! YES it lacked substantial depth and character development. YES the message about being yourself, but also being hot and dumb to catch guys is twisted.
WHATEVER.
You want to know why I urge you to rent this movie? ANNA FUCKING FARIS!! Shes incredible!! She perfects the dumb blond character almost better than Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, incidentally written by the House Bunny women tag team Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith. Its also a Happy Madison (Adam Sandler) production. I adored Legally Blonde and yea, its better than House Bunny but there are some parts in the movie that will have you rolling. I watched it twice in one weekend! Just give it a chance. If youre not laughing in the first minute then at least youll be drooling from all the hot hot (read, deliciously slutty) outfits that Shelly Darlingson (Anna Faris) wears. Shes so damn sincere and kind that you cant help but love her!!
Dieting Roadblock: Death
Yet ANOTHER dieting pill that the FDA had to cut because it was freaking killing people. Pretty much every 2-5 years a dieting pill is found to cause serious health conditions and even death in the people that take them. Get OVER the pills and start being more active and eating smaller and more healthy portions. Your chances of living to enjoy your fitness and new look are WAY higher.
You know something that boggles my mind?
Fumigation tarps!! They are so fucking HUGE! Where do they store those things because I KNOW they don't fold up nice and small. And how do they make them big enough for office buildings, how do they transport them, clean them? How do they MAKE them and where? Crazy.
On This Day In History: National Guard kills four at Kent State
In Kent, Ohio, 28 National Guardsmen fire their weapons at a group of antiwar demonstrators on the Kent State University campus, killing four students, wounding eight, and permanently paralyzing another.
Two days earlier, the National Guard troops were called to Kent to suppress students rioting in protest of the Vietnam War and the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. The next day, scattered protests were dispersed by tear gas, and on May 4 class resumed at Kent State University. By noon that day, despite a ban on rallies, some 2,000 people had assembled on the campus. National Guard troops arrived and ordered the crowd to disperse, fired tear gas, and advanced against the students with bayonets fixed on their rifles. Some of the protesters, refusing to yield, responded by throwing rocks and verbally taunting the troops.
Minutes later, without firing a warning shot, the Guardsmen discharged more than 60 rounds toward a group of demonstrators in a nearby parking lot, killing four and wounding nine. The closest casualty was 20 yards away, and the farthest was almost 250 yards away. After a period of disbelief, shock, and attempts at first aid, angry students gathered on a nearby slope and were again ordered to move by the Guardsmen. Faculty members were able to convince the group to disperse, and further bloodshed was prevented.
In 1974, at the end of a criminal investigation into the Kent State incident, a federal court dropped all charges levied against eight Ohio National Guardsmen for their role in the students' deaths.
Friday, May 1, 2009
YES, NO, MAYBE
YES: Disney movies and ABC TV shows will be available on Hulu.com
Sure maybe Hulu has one commercial per episode that you watch but they don't have a time limit on how much TV you can watch like other sites. Makes me want to burn down a dog shelter when they cut you off right when things get good. Now I can watch LOST on Hulu and not the shitty fucking site that is ABC.com.
NO: The original lineup for Creed have announced that they are getting back together and will be hitting the road for a late summer tour.
Not only NO but heeeeeeeeell NO!! The motherfuckers who started the disaster that is Cock Rock want back in on the action. Scott Stapp has had ENOUGH of Chris Daughtrys and Nickelbacks leather arm cuffs and gravely grunt singing, that was HIS schtick! Yea, I admit it, I listened to Creed in 1997 but I was living in New Jersey and I was a fucking junior high school retard. I've been listening to my FAIR SHARE of The Arcade Fire and The Decemberists to make up for it too! How much "acquired taste indie music" do I have to absorb to make you forget that?? Can someone hurry up and wave some hookers and meth in front of Stapps face so his bandmates can break up the band again because he's threatening their Christian faith??
MAYBE: Lilith Fair, North American female-oriented summer festival that ran from 1997 to 1999, will make its return next year.
This festival was pretty cool when it came out featuring such artists as Sheryl Crow, Lauryn Hill, Jewel, Dixie Chicks, Erykah Badu, Sinead O'Connor and my love Missy Elliot. It was the 90's and women were in power or should I say EMpowered. We were making money, making music and embracing our vagina's, Buddhist inspired tee-shirts, and inner goddess's. But how lame do things get when a thousand smelly pissed off quazi lesbians are around another thousand smelly pissed off quazi lesbians all day in the hot sun? It gets down right nasty and pretty soon Sarah Machachlan has to pull the plug on her set and shut the whole thing down again for 10 years. We'll see. Women are conserva-whores now (a term I came up with to describe women who sleep around to impress a man long enough to tie him down in a monogamous and eventually sexless relationship to breed). We are less empowered and obsessed with artificial youth and having a boyfriend to fufill us. Good Luck Lilith.
Sure maybe Hulu has one commercial per episode that you watch but they don't have a time limit on how much TV you can watch like other sites. Makes me want to burn down a dog shelter when they cut you off right when things get good. Now I can watch LOST on Hulu and not the shitty fucking site that is ABC.com.
NO: The original lineup for Creed have announced that they are getting back together and will be hitting the road for a late summer tour.
Not only NO but heeeeeeeeell NO!! The motherfuckers who started the disaster that is Cock Rock want back in on the action. Scott Stapp has had ENOUGH of Chris Daughtrys and Nickelbacks leather arm cuffs and gravely grunt singing, that was HIS schtick! Yea, I admit it, I listened to Creed in 1997 but I was living in New Jersey and I was a fucking junior high school retard. I've been listening to my FAIR SHARE of The Arcade Fire and The Decemberists to make up for it too! How much "acquired taste indie music" do I have to absorb to make you forget that?? Can someone hurry up and wave some hookers and meth in front of Stapps face so his bandmates can break up the band again because he's threatening their Christian faith??
MAYBE: Lilith Fair, North American female-oriented summer festival that ran from 1997 to 1999, will make its return next year.
This festival was pretty cool when it came out featuring such artists as Sheryl Crow, Lauryn Hill, Jewel, Dixie Chicks, Erykah Badu, Sinead O'Connor and my love Missy Elliot. It was the 90's and women were in power or should I say EMpowered. We were making money, making music and embracing our vagina's, Buddhist inspired tee-shirts, and inner goddess's. But how lame do things get when a thousand smelly pissed off quazi lesbians are around another thousand smelly pissed off quazi lesbians all day in the hot sun? It gets down right nasty and pretty soon Sarah Machachlan has to pull the plug on her set and shut the whole thing down again for 10 years. We'll see. Women are conserva-whores now (a term I came up with to describe women who sleep around to impress a man long enough to tie him down in a monogamous and eventually sexless relationship to breed). We are less empowered and obsessed with artificial youth and having a boyfriend to fufill us. Good Luck Lilith.
Different Situtaions
M.A.D.D. Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Sounds fucking fierce don't it?? Like all these raging older soccer mom's who want to kill your boozy driving ass. Hell hath no fury right??
But what about the Dad's?? F.A.D.D. just won't do. In fact can you picture that after a F.A.D.D. meeting all the Dad's go get drunk and drive home?? It sounds like a group of dudes who made a group where they appear sensitive and caring to pick up on chicks. I can totally see that. And D.A.D.D. just sounds sort of creepy.
But what about the Dad's?? F.A.D.D. just won't do. In fact can you picture that after a F.A.D.D. meeting all the Dad's go get drunk and drive home?? It sounds like a group of dudes who made a group where they appear sensitive and caring to pick up on chicks. I can totally see that. And D.A.D.D. just sounds sort of creepy.
Your Everday Collection of Creepy Insanity
Michael Jackson went broke. MJ's got bills, that face isn't going to stay attached to his bones with magic you know (although that's probably where a lot of his money went, called simply, Michaels Magic Budget). So the once pop music legend icon god decided to sell the worlds nuttiest, craziest and honestly down right EXCELLENT collection of things collected by a once amazing now destitute lunatic. But we forgot he's crazy and crazy people do things like call of their crazy auctions all the time. True to form MJ did NOT sell his stuff. Damn. But they were on display for all to see. Check out the SLOG from The Stranger, the Northwest Citybeat equivalent, for more pictures and commentary!
SFS
Severe Face Syndrome spares no victims, affecting common everyday people and Hollywood stars alike (such as Fairuza Balk and Kat Dennings pictured below). Its symptoms include light cat like eyes, strong facial bone structure, dark hair, a wide large mouth and the horrifying key mark of the syndrome"Vampire Grill" in which the afflicted appears to be ready to suck blood from your throat when actually merely attempting to smile.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Tonite: Dining Out For Life!!
A slew of restaurants, bars, coffee houses and nightclubs in San Diego are donating a portion of their sales to fight AIDS tonight.
Make Reservations and Learn More HERE!!!!!
Make Reservations and Learn More HERE!!!!!
Swine Flu Warning circa 1976
Swine Flu hysteria is ridiculous. About 36,000 Americans die on average per year from the complications of the REGULAR flu. As of late I think ONE person has died in America from swine flu. I watched The Daily Show the other day and his Moment of Zen is below. It's a swine flu warning message circa the 70's. Stupid Swine Flu, even more people died from drinking too much water than you!!
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | M - Th 11p / 10c | |||
| Moment of Zen - The Swine Flu Shot | ||||
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Anvil: The Story of Anvil, to screen at Ken Cinema
CityBeat film editor Anders Wright gave the doc Anvil: The Story of Anvil a nine out of 10 this week, calling it the most inspiring movie this year. On Friday, May 1, after the film's 9:35 p.m. screening at Ken Cinema (4061 Adams Ave. in Kensington), Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner will make a live appearance.
Is this true!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Robb Reiner made fucking Spinal Tap!!!! I love this man!!!!
OH WAIT. ROB REINER (one B) made Spinal Tap. This Robb Reiner plays the drummer in Anvil. Got it. Still sorta cool....
Check Out Trailer and Showtimes Here!!
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