I recently came across this link, and as a person who downloads almost everything I listen to {off Itunes Music. It rocks my life.}, I knew I needed to bookmark it for the future, and also to spread it around. RIAA Legal Music Sites. It's hard nowadays to not download music for free, but it's become easier to download it while paying for it; but it's hard to know for sure that you still will not be sued for "paying" for something illegal.
Naturally, we all have downloaded illegally, and I use to fear being sued for it. I feared for a long time that I would be sued, and my parents had the same fear as well. So, do the "right" thing.
I normally wouldn't even mention this person's name, but seriously: Amy Whinehouse is fucking scary. She is sick looking. She gives me nightmares. Sorry, but it's the truth. She needs to be committed somewhere. Soon.
As I frantically searched for something to write about in the last 30 minutes, I realized that having trash fall on you pretty much makes the rest of the day pointless. Also, it makes it impossible to think.
There are many blogs that I read daily. I mostly read blogs from people that I have at least contacted online...and people that I know aren't complete jerks.
Hollyscoop is a blog I started reading to get all Hollywood coverage. It started with just 3 ladies from LA {3 very sweet and goofy ladies I must add} blogging about gossip. Now, the site has more categories {such as TV, Movies, and Sports} and added more bloggers.
Moxie is one of my favorite people in the whole world. {no offense to anyone else who I love} She is hilarious, political, very smart {you can not pull one over on Mox}, and deathly afraid of Hilary Clinton's pantsuits.
Achieve Nerdvana is run by two of geekiest people in the world: Nar Williams and Ryan McDonald. While Nar is in love with robots {he still probably wants me to built him one..as if I am that smart}, Ryan is the only person that would attempt to go paintballing on a unicycle. If you are a dork, nerd, geek, heck they even accept dweebs: this is your site.
Probably my most favorite show on television at the moment is The Tudors on Showtime. It is "historical", it is dramatically funny, it is well written, it is magnificent. I can not get enough of this show. Even though most situations are historically false in reference to character names, relationships, physical appearance and the timing of events, I still love the show. Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry VIII, Natalie Dormer as Queen Anne, Peter O'Toole as Pope Paul III, Henry Cavill as Charles Brandon, and the rest of the cast are phenomenal.
Another Showtime show that I love is Weeds. I was incredibly ecstatic to learn yesterday that season 4 premieres on June 16th, which happens to be my birthday. From Wikipedia: "The plot of season 4 revolves around Nancy relocating her family (and her drug business) from her burned down Agrestic neighborhood to the beach town of Ren Mar on the San Diego/Mexico border." This is another show where the cast is fantastic; how could you not love Kevin Nealon!?
Another Showtime show premiering on my birthday, is Secret Diary of a Call Girl. The title leaves no mystery to what the show is about. From Sho.com: "To her friends and family she is Hannah, a legal secretary clocking in regular hours and enjoying a "normal" life. To her clients, she is Belle, the answer to every man's fantasies. Secret Diary of a Call Girl premieres Monday, June 16." Looks like it will be a good show, at least one I will watch for a few episodes, and hopefully reel me in.
I can't EVER find anything to write about anymore. It is sad really and I refuse to give any more publicity to stupid tabloid stories. {Yeah, you know EXACTLY what I am talking about.} So when I was looking through Hollyscoop today, it looked hopeless to find something that didn't involve the recent stories that are rocking all of the magazines. I never give up, however, and my ladies rarely disappoint me, and I found a story about Anchorman 2.
Yes, Adam McKay, director of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, and Will Ferrell are seriously considering making a sequel. More like they will do one eventually. Now I loved Anchorman. It was fairly stupid, but it was funny as hell. However, I find it relenting how Hollywood always wants to make sequels. And about 98% of the sequels are AWFUL. So, I'm apprehensive to see Anchorman 2. I hope it is as great as the first one, and they prove everyone wrong.
In other sad, Will Ferrell movie sequels, Old School 2 is still being scripted. I'm going back to my closet now to cry about this.
Last night history was made. Ashley Force, NHRA Funny Car driver, in her 2nd season, won her first National event. She is the first female to ever win an event in Funny Car. Last week, she was the first female to be leading the points standing for Funny car, as well. {She still holds the lead.} In her 3rd final this season, she had to beat her own father, John Force. John was going for his 1,000 round win. Ashley made a flawless run, while John smoked his tires early.
Before the Army band began playing hymns, before the VIPs took their seats, before the crowd that waited for hours began to filter into the ballpark, there was only a lonesome flag-draped casket on a platform, with two soldiers standing guard at each end.For a few minutes, the nearly empty stadium became as quiet as a church. A young woman in black was slowly escorted to the front of the platform by a soldier in dress uniform. He stood back as she approached Staff Sgt. Matt Maupin’s coffin. She put her face in her hands and wept.
For all of us.
There were stirring words of inspiration, followed by aching sadness that puts a lump in your throat and keeps it there -- such as the WWII airplanes that flew by in the missing-man formation, then rejoined to symbolize Matt’s final homecoming.
There was a celebration of his life, in his family’s words and in snapshots on the big screen: Matt as a baby in a sleeper decorated with a rocket ship; playing in piles of leaves; wearing a bath-towel Superman cape; with a new bike, with Santa, beloved dogs, in a football uniform, at the prom, graduation, Army uniform, in a Humvee in Iraq. And then the picture we know too well. The one taken by his terrorist captors after his convoy was ambushed near Baghdad in 2004: he stares at the camera in his floppy camo hat, trying not to show fear in the midst of evil.
There was also an emotional tribute to Matt’s family. The crowd stood to applaud Keith and Carolyn Maupin, who have endured crushing fear for four long years, showing the world only grace and dignity. The Maupins turned their devastating loss into love, by doing for all soldiers what they longed to do for their missing son. They shipped care packages to thousands of troops.
If there are places in America where patriotism is not fashionable, this was not one of them. Not at the funeral. And not along roads hedged by an unbroken chain of yellow ribbons and flag-waving supporters.
If there’s another nation that has ever sacrificed such a precious resource in such a selfless cause, I don’t know of it.
There may be places in America where “God” is the only word that can’t be uttered in public. But Matt Maupin’s service was not that place, either. Matt’s Christian faith, and the way that faith has sustained his family, was as unmistakable as the flag-draped casket at the center of it all.
“Look at all the lives that have been touched through one man’s hardship,” Matt’s brother Micah, a Marine, wrote in a letter read at the service. “This is the big picture of what God had in store for you.”
I think Matt came to symbolize way the human spirit can overcome evil. Love found a way home.
“Death does not have the last word today,” said Chaplain Dale Ellens in a closing prayer. “Life does.” Words can’t describe the power and meaning of Matt Maupin’s final, slow salute. But those words come pretty close.
I never knew Matt. But that doesn't matter in any way. His story, his life, touched everyone. It gives this song by Toby Keith a whole new meaning. It gives this war a different meaning. And the fact that just 1 soldier, out of the many serving our country everyday, has moved so many people..that is amazing. Part of me wished that I was there today. {I was at work, actually}
Every time I think about this war, and the soldiers, my heart skips a beat and I remember the people that I have known, even very briefly, who are in Iraq and Afghanistan, and even the ones lucky enough to be elsewhere serving out country. Especially my very good friend in Japan. I really do not know what I would do if he went to Iraq. I think of him as a brother, I wish we were that close, but I have known him since I remember practically.
This is Matt's day. It is a day to remember the troops, to mourn for the fallen, and to remember the real life heroes who are fighting, who have fought, for our freedom. It does not matter how you feel about this war.
For all those uninformed of Matt Maupin's story, visit his official website for everything you need to know.
Ravenstake.com features many videos directed and starring 2 great friends of mine, The Fine Brothers. They parody many different shows and movies, but also create their own skits. They are one of the top comedians on Youtube and have been featured on many sites, including Youtube, Myspace, Break.com, etc. And it's not gay, if it is family. Just so you know.
Miriam and Shoshana, aka Peanut and Butterball to Nowlive listeners, aka Deena and Kara, are the funniest chicks that I know. Seriously. They have also taught me about many things, such as masturbation and one night stands. They have been featured numerous times on Youtube, in Orenfilm sketches. You can find them on Myspace page along with many of their videos.
I was actually semi excited to hear that Jimmy Fallon will be taking over Late Night when Conan goes to the Tonight Show. When I say semi excited, it is not that I don't like Jimmy Fallon. It is mostly cause I don't think he'll be better than Conan, but I know he'll be better than Carson. {I mean, seriously, I could be better than manorexic.}
I am excited, however, that I'll be able to watch 2 hours of late night TV on NBC. I have never liked Leno. I find him very annoying and not that funny. I like Letterman alot, but then I can not stand whatever his band leader's name is. I like Max Weinberg, mostly because I feel Conan and the Max Weinberg 7 banter well together. I have barely ever watched Ferguson, so that is all I will say about him.
I am not 100% sure about this decision to put in Jimmy Fallon, but I will support it and try to watch the show when he premieres.
My mind's completely a blur right now and honestly, I have no idea what's going on. I haven't really gotten a quality sleep in at least a week now, and I haven't really blogged in more than week. I apologize, it will be better.
So today I'd like to give thanks, show some love to the people that show me love all the time, and spread their links and what else.
The Redneck Radio Network is anything but it sounds. Except for the redneck part. It is purely a network of friends supporting not only them, but others. Most notably is The Roll Family, who run the blog. They're hilarious, and I can never get enough of them. They run their own show, oddly titled Redneck Radio News as well, and it is never short of crazy. Not to be left out, DogHouse with Baddog is the disowned brother of the Rolls, who also blogs daily. Baddog also supplies crazy news stories, youtube videos, and anything else that should never be spoken or shown to any human.
I'm sure some people are saying "wait just a minute! you're forgetting Brokenpole?!". Yeah, well, that paragraph was long. Brokenpole runs his own show, blog, and co-hosts. His show is Wake Up Call, with his wife, Smokinbeaver. Prepare for questions you wouldn't hear anywhere else from these 2 crazy people in love who will push the limits.
I just read on Yahoo News that the A-Team movie is going to be released in June 12, 2009. Part of me is excited cause I loved A-Team growing up {still do}. And the other part of me, oddly larger, does not want to see this cast and anything that Hollywood would remake of the A-Team. The only cast that is rumored is Woody Harrelson as 'Howling Mad' Murdock, aka the crazy pilot, and Ice Cube as B.A. Baracus, who everyone knows was played by the one and only Mr.T. Frankly, I'm frightened by this. Fortunately, there are no more rumored cast, and at the moment, I do not want to know.
Moving on with other horrible remakes/sequels, last night I finished up watching Revenge of the Nerds III. Ugh, that's all I really even want to say. Awful, I deleted it and told my brother to not watch it.
