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raybearSo I may have just completely fcked up my work e-mail. Hmm. The Tech person will arrive at 11 am and can hopefully diagnose the situation quickly. Note to self: don't experiment with changing settings at 9:15 am. You will stop paying attention and ignore the warning boxes and change everything anyway, thereby deleting all information currently on the server. Okay, probably not -- I think I just fcked up the view of the information, not the information itself. But I might as well prepare for the worst. In the meantime, I can just spend my time with livejournal.
Had a little viewing party of the VMA's last night, if by "party" I mean of the Herman's Head variety, which I do. I start to comment in Liza's journal, but decided I'd share my thoughts here, since they could conceivably be long-winded.
Part One: General commentary.
I did not like the high-resolution trying to look like film camerawork. I know it's just my own perception, but it seemed "less live". MelRo said something to the effect of it's like watching a movie about an awards show, with which I agree -- sort of like when they show the Oscars in a movie, it's never the same as actually watching the Oscars. But I suppose like anything else, I could get used to it -- it's like watching Cheers versus Cosby Show.
Eminem has become so remarkably boring. I guess now that his new-ness has worn off, the expectations have changed. How many hours with a personal trainer did he spend so he can be just like Ja Rule and rap on stage without a shirt? His thank-you speeches were unremarkable, and even when he tried to be clever and annoying, he looked dumb for threatening Moby in a genuine fashion especially since it was a damn puppet that was giving him shit, not Moby. I mean, I'm all for talking shit and being funny, but c'mon now. It's a puppet. And as soon as you start legitimately saying you'll punch someone, you just look lame and obviously psychologically threatened. Quit taking yourself so seriously and you'll be less likely to lose your cool. No more drama -- make Mary J. proud.
Best acceptance speech ever: "I'm too drunk for this." I love Pink.
I must also agree with Liza here and say that I too got a little too excited by the Foxy Brown ads for the new Real World season. I'm wicked hyped about Foxy.
As for the GNR finale, I certainly wasn't blown away, but I didn't seem to have such a visceral reaction to Axl that everyone else did.
Part Two: Raymond asks "Why?" a lot.
Why was Avril Lewhatever wearing the same outfit as her video? Why the fck did Clipse pop up on stage with Justin Timberlake? So weird. Also, why did they put Nas and Ja Rule/Ashanti together? Is Nas signing with Murder Inc.? And why was everyone lip syncing except Sheryl Crow, The Hives, and the Vine? And why do I like The Hives now even though I've previously changed the channel at their video? And how did Dashboard Confessional beat The Strokes? Why didn't J-Lo tell Puffy to eat it when she won the Best Hip Hop Award? (...which leads me to) Why did J-Lo when a hip hop award? Not quite as bad as Sisqo.
I went to bed early. This week has worn me out, and last night just capped it off by making me sleepy.
Had a little viewing party of the VMA's last night, if by "party" I mean of the Herman's Head variety, which I do. I start to comment in Liza's journal, but decided I'd share my thoughts here, since they could conceivably be long-winded.
Part One: General commentary.
I did not like the high-resolution trying to look like film camerawork. I know it's just my own perception, but it seemed "less live". MelRo said something to the effect of it's like watching a movie about an awards show, with which I agree -- sort of like when they show the Oscars in a movie, it's never the same as actually watching the Oscars. But I suppose like anything else, I could get used to it -- it's like watching Cheers versus Cosby Show.
Eminem has become so remarkably boring. I guess now that his new-ness has worn off, the expectations have changed. How many hours with a personal trainer did he spend so he can be just like Ja Rule and rap on stage without a shirt? His thank-you speeches were unremarkable, and even when he tried to be clever and annoying, he looked dumb for threatening Moby in a genuine fashion especially since it was a damn puppet that was giving him shit, not Moby. I mean, I'm all for talking shit and being funny, but c'mon now. It's a puppet. And as soon as you start legitimately saying you'll punch someone, you just look lame and obviously psychologically threatened. Quit taking yourself so seriously and you'll be less likely to lose your cool. No more drama -- make Mary J. proud.
Best acceptance speech ever: "I'm too drunk for this." I love Pink.
I must also agree with Liza here and say that I too got a little too excited by the Foxy Brown ads for the new Real World season. I'm wicked hyped about Foxy.
As for the GNR finale, I certainly wasn't blown away, but I didn't seem to have such a visceral reaction to Axl that everyone else did.
Part Two: Raymond asks "Why?" a lot.
Why was Avril Lewhatever wearing the same outfit as her video? Why the fck did Clipse pop up on stage with Justin Timberlake? So weird. Also, why did they put Nas and Ja Rule/Ashanti together? Is Nas signing with Murder Inc.? And why was everyone lip syncing except Sheryl Crow, The Hives, and the Vine? And why do I like The Hives now even though I've previously changed the channel at their video? And how did Dashboard Confessional beat The Strokes? Why didn't J-Lo tell Puffy to eat it when she won the Best Hip Hop Award? (...which leads me to) Why did J-Lo when a hip hop award? Not quite as bad as Sisqo.
I went to bed early. This week has worn me out, and last night just capped it off by making me sleepy.
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Date: 2002-08-30 09:26 am (UTC)but i was hoping that Triump the Insult Comic Dog got eminem made enough to hit him (or Moby)
Pink didn't lip synche either and I know that the hives didn't either, but they came out looking like Rolling Stones wannabes (in my opinion).
in all honesty, i'm just glad that THe White STripes won an award because I have a huge crush on Meg White
LOVE White Stripes
Date: 2002-08-30 09:44 am (UTC)Also, I forgot about Pink's performance and her non-lipsyncing. She did a pretty good job, and her band is SO queer. love it. also, why didn't she thank Linda Perry when she won? maybe they broke up.
Re: LOVE White Stripes
Date: 2002-09-02 06:07 pm (UTC)Linda Perry
Date: 2002-09-03 07:57 am (UTC)If you ever watch Pink's Video Diary on MTV, Linda is featured prominently as a "friend".
Re: Linda Perry
Date: 2002-09-03 05:19 pm (UTC)*wink wink - nudge nudge* say no more.
I didn't even know that she produced/wrote for pink......hell, I didn't even know that she did anything after 4NonBlondes.
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Date: 2002-08-31 08:53 am (UTC)a. i HATE when artists wear the same outfits as in their videos to performances, as if we wouldn't recognize them without their clothes gimmicks. i even hated it when ricky did it, but at least he had the advantage of looking redundantly really gay and hot.
b. pink pretty much was the best thing ever, and possibly her legs are eight miles long. you think her band looked queer there? you should have seen the concert, when she spent half that song lying on her back between the hot bass player chick's legs and then bit her calf. stay tuned for my work-in-progress.
c. i have become convinced the eminem not only trains like a motherfucker, he waxes. he WAXES. i like the man, but this is just confusing. also i wish both he and moby would walk away and find new funny not-quite-threats to make. also, i was very sad he went all medley before he got to "fuck you, tipper gore!"
d. i feel like MTV was plotting Real World Radio City. they had brit present an award nsync was up for, they had christina having to almost talk to eminem, and they had... fuck, there was another one. i think possibly it was nsync presenting something that eminem was up for? anyway. can you say very scripted potential for high drama?
e. my only explanation for justin timberlake, after really laughing a lot and possibly saying things like "MY boy is going to SPACE, which makes all of this feel like the meaningless little awards show it is" (which of course i can't say in MY livejournal or someone would summarily shoot me) is that he psyched himself out. it was like watching iverson miss his fifth jump shot. the boy was the least charismatic i have EVER seen him. it took him three minutes in to even smile, and it was like he'd over-rehearsed so much that he forgot he got where he is today by being justin fucking timberlake. also he needs to figure out that going solo means you need backup singers for real, because singing over track is just fucking lame, and i hope the whole album doesn't have that much falsetto because he'll never hit the notes live. also Clipse is on the single, too, and someone said he's nerd's resident bitch?
f. tweet finally called me back, dude.
xoxox.