Respect for a Tyra(nt)?

Tyra's talk show sometimes makes the rounds of my TV watching. Normally this is a result of my wife flipping through her favorites on Comcast cable. Typically, I leave the room when I her show is one because her show is so irrelevant at times.
My favorite Tyra episode was when Tyra was going to expose the life of a stripper. The entire show she perpetrated like she was going to go the distance and dance up on stage and take her clothes off. Not only did she stay clothed, she left prior to her stage dance! If I was a patron in the club, I would be like "I paid to see somethin' girl! You look like a broke-ass reject from the Sear's lingerie catalog!"

She also got herself into a fat suit and walked around to live in the life of the obese, which in purpose, was commendable. However, the whole show was kind of a farce because she acted as if she didn't know that's how society sees fat people. WTF?! She was a pro model! If she gained too much weight, she knew that she would lose shoots and money as a result of it. Even being a tiny bit overweight ostracizes people. I felt that the show had the right idea but when executed it lacked sincerity.

Well, now Tyra has packed on some real weight, and the media is all over it with headlines like "America's Top Waddle" or "Tyra Porkchops". I feel she truly is now understanding what it's like to be ridiculed based on your appearance, and she's going to be speaking on it. I think she looks normal and is still very attractive. I also feel she is more "real" now that she lives a bit more normally. I'm interested in what she has to say as her response to all the media scrutiny.

Currently listening : Up By Right Said Fred Release date: 01 July, 1992

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And The Cradle Will Rock...

The Van Halen brothers must be a strapped for cash so they're heading out on a national tour with Eddie's son Wolfgang taking up the bass and Roth taking up the vocals.

I saw their Chicago show on their last tour and it was pretty sad seeing them playing their songs to an aging crowd. I did enjoy watching middle-aged men and women freak out when they heard the songs of their youth Damn...that's going to be me one day at the Smashing Pumpkins reunion shows...

First Pumpkins, then Rage, now VH...

Currently listening : Best of Van Halen, Vol. 1 By Van Halen Release date: 22 October, 1996

The Curse of '85

Super Bowl Shuffle

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I have high hopes for the Bears to win the Super Bowl. Not because I want it for Chicago or I am a bandwagon fan, but, rather, I would love to see them win for the mere reason that I am sick of hearing about the '85 Bears!

Bears fans talk about this team as if the hand of Gawd touched this team and there's not been a team like it since. Yes, they had an incredible season but going nearly undefeated. Yes, they had a lot of characters on the team like Ditka, Payton, McMahon, and Perry. Yes, they had a really corny video where they illustrate that most white guys still couldn't dance back in the day. And finally, yes, they actually won a Super Bowl. Oh yeah...I forgot to mention something...THAT HAPPENED 21 YEARS AGO!!! I loved the Transformers but you don't see me talking about my Optimus Prime robot like that after 20+ years!

"Man...Optimus...when he would transform, he would do it faster than any other Autobot. The way his head would pop out of the cab...the way his hands would be pushed into the headlights and when you played with him would pop off. Oh, and Wheelie...damn, that was teh best sneak attack weapon they ever had!"

I love to hear stuff on sports radio like, "Well, I tell ya what, Jim. I know da Bears got to two or three playoff bids over the last 5 years but they're all crap. Now, Da Coach would've done this and that and made them a Super Bowl team!"

WTF?! Ditka and co. only won one Super Bowl! If that's the prerequisite for an effigy to be burned in your honor, then prior to the 2005 White Sox why weren't we like "Oh man...nothin' was like those 1917 Sox! Yeah, before the Black Sox years..."


So, "Bear down...Chicago Bears"...and win the dang Super Bowl so I can hear the more pleasing "The SuperFan Shuffle"!

Currently listening : The Super Bowl Polka! Featuring the Chicago Bears! By Eddy J

Let's Get Down To Bidnez

Yesterdy I used the money donated to me by my boss as a result of him not wanting the $10 exchange from 750 rupies to buy a stack of blank business cards so that I can make a few for handing out. Based on all of my creative activities, I realized I have to make three different kinds. I'm making one for:

Recording engineering services Theatre sound design services Acting pursuits I figure the more I set my self for something to happen, the more it will come true I think I should make one for Guerrila Graphic Design as well. I'm not graphic designer but I sure do get great ideas from other people on the web and make something of my own really well! It just takes forever for me to get something done because I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I've debated going to school for it but it's not important enough (yet) for me to do it. I'm hoping I will run into the graphic designer of my dreams, i.e., she does great art, works for free or chickens, and is drop-dead gorgeous , and she will make my designs for me. I've been looking for 10 years. The search continues... Currently listening : 7th Deadly Sin By Ice-T Release date: 28 September, 1999

Favela Rawk

Here's a clip of a band in Brazil doing a decent Rage Against the Machine cover:

When I was 19, I got the chance to go to Brazil to visit family along with my mom and brother. While we were there, a local kid named Milton told me about his band (whose name right now escapes me) and invited me over to check them out. I met the band some time later at their practice studio. They were all pretty nice and even let me play guitar for a bit while we waited for some other guys to show up.

These guys reminded me of the ingenious nature I had left behind after years of playing. For example, two of them worked at the airport so they all had airport-grade ear protection on while they practiced. I just chose to lose my hearing or wear disposable ear plugs which got nice and gooey due to the amount of wax in my ears. At one point, the Milton the bass player broke his E-string. Based on the way it was broke, I pretty much knew that string was dead and figured he had backups or would run out and buy another string. Nope. Not these guys. Milton ran out of the room for a bit and found some needle-nosed pliers. He took the string off the bass and tried mashing together the two pieces of metal to the point they would fuse together! I was like "Holy Moly! Brilliance at its best!"

Even though I was a full fledged adult, a man in his own right, I got called to "come home" from my mother a few houses away. Talk about embarrassing.
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Currently listening : Rage Against the Machine By Rage Against the Machine Release date: 10 November, 1992