Drive by blog’n

So in Entertainment Weekly Magazine there is an article critiquing Kanye’s Glow in the Dark tour and they gave it a B+…which isn’t all that bad of a grade….

And then in all of his gansta glory Kayne blogs back at EW:

Yo, anybody that's not a fan; don't come to my show. For what?! To try and throw ya'll two cents in? Ya'll rated my album shitty and now ya'll come to the show and give it a B+. What's a B+ mean? I'm an extremist. It's either pass or fail! A+ or F-! You know what, f**k you and the whole f**king staff!!! I know I shouldn't dignify this with a comment, but the reviewer threw a jab at all the artists. I just wanna know when was the last time you enjoyed yourself. If you can't have fun and lose yourself at this tour it's a good chance you're a very miserable person. I actually feel sorry for you guys. Your job forces you to not have fun anymore. Grab a drink, holla at some nice girls, and party bitch!! You don't know sh*t about passion and art. You'll never gain credibility at this rate. You're f**king trash! I make art. You can't rate this. I'm a real person. I'm not a pop star. I don't care about anything but making great art. Never come 2 one of my shows ever again, you're not invited and if you see me...BOW!! This is not pop, it's pop art!

Guess Kayne doesn't even believe his own "Stronger" lyrics:

N- n- now th- that don't kill me

Can only make me stronger

...but if he did believe in his own lyrics he'd have to stop whining about everything wouldn't he?...

Things you wish you never knew

Every Thursday is ‘report day’ at my work and there are about 20 of us responsible for emailing our “report” to the whole company. Over time we have taken this requirement and jazzed it up to include the silly, but cute, smiley faces, holiday wishes, etc. just to keep the report from being so boring. Well today, one of the jazzed up email reports included a note about it being "No Socks Day" today.

Bet you didn’t know that there was such a thing… or even why there is such a day…well, it turns out there really is such a thing...


No Socks Day

When: Always on May 8th

No Socks Day is a day to free your toes of the confines of socks and stocking. Give those toes of yours a breath of fresh air. The creators of this day also profess that No Socks Day will reduce your laundry load, and therefore, is healthy for the environment.

It's easy to participate in No Socks Day. Just leave your socks and stocking off, and let your toes enjoy a moment in the sun!

Note: While washing your feet prior to participating in No Socks Day is a requirement, painting your toe nails is completely optional.

Believe it or not this is a copyrighted holiday…. Really!

In fact you can see the many other who-knew-it-was-a-holiday holidays they have invented & copyrighted

The only good thing about this being brought to my attention is that now you and I are prepared to participate in the next who-knew-it-was-a-holiday holiday Eat What You Want Day on May 18, 2008. But please don’t be a fool if you are allergic to a kind of food and think this holiday gives you a pass for the day.

Then again if you’re going to do something that stupid than maybe it’s just meant to be.

Somebody please hand me a fork so I can stab myself in the eye now!

Collect Them All

OR NOT....

Pete Wentz, uber-emo dude from Fall Out Boy, has new make up line hitting the shelves of a Hot Topic near you.



Snip right off the internet (I couldn't make this up):

Mr. Wentz is set to launch a collection of five vegan, punk-themed pencil eyeliners called WentzPentz. Sold exclusively at Hot Topic, the guy liners will retail for $3.99. In addition, each shade of the pencils were inspired by Pete's childhood in Chicago: Green-Eyed Sidekick, Fireside Bowl, By the Power of Grayskull, Let's Take the Brown Line to Wellington, and Blue Line, Next Stop: Damen.

Awwww, childhood inspiration... gotta love the He-Man reference [By the Power of Grayskull] It really shows that he's a normal guy that wears eyeliner.... Not that I care, but he dares to compaire himself to David Bowie in this statement: ".....like David Bowie before me, I am known for my displays of cosmetic derring-do."

Oh puleeze! Really? His cosmetic derring-do?

What's next a Pete Wentz Beauty Pageant? Well, I guess I'd support a Male Beauty Pageant if M.M.'s O.G.B.F. was in it... but only cause he'd SO win!

Silicon Valley Open Studio

Over the weekend my mom Joanna, a fantastic fused glass artist, Teri an artist friend of my moms who is a painter, and Davina jewelery maker /bellydancer-extraordinaire all took part of the Silicon Valley Open Studios. My mom was the host artist so the weekend show was at her home so I went over on Saturday to hang out for the day.

Here are some pictures from the day:

Davina shows off her jewelry making techniques

Here is Joanna's fused glass 'store'

Close up of Joanna's fused glass work

Teri's paintings were set up in a corner of the garden

An interesting thing happened in the afternoon, there were two older women who arrived to take a look at the artists, and while disusing semi-precious gemstones with Davina she told us how she recently went to the Jade Markets in Beijing and that she learned how to tell real jade from fake jade. As we kept chatting she told us that her son flew her to Beijing so she could attend the opening of his movie...the movie that he directed. The movie was The Forbidden Kingdom so her son must be Rob Minkoff (yes, I had check imdb.com for the info). Davina who had seen the film was able to compare notes about the film itself with her while I just sat there and smiled...


Isn't it interesting who you can meet so randomly..... it's a small world really...

In a theater near you ...

Well, eventually....

So there were a few movie trailers before the Iron Man movie - I thought for sure that they'd show Speed Racer but nope... Instead they showed the new upcoming Narnia film, the Adam Sandler flick that surprisingly looked pretty funny (the print ad's make it look like a bad Blow Dry or The Big Tease knock off). There was a great Indy 4 trailer which was awesome to see on the big screen ~ since I've only seen it on my computer and TV thus far.

And then there was The Spirit. The trailer looks pretty interesting.... Again, let's not forget I'm the non-comic gal, so of course I'm not familiar with the story/comic but I do know both Will Eisner & Frank Miller and the trailer looks good. And after a quick trip to http://www.imdb.com/ I got a look at the cast: Scarlette Johanasson, Samuel L Jackson, Eva Mendes and some dude named Gabriel Macht (he's the Spirit / Denny Colt).

Seriously, I'm sure Gabriel is going to be fine, I see that he was in the Recruit with Collin Farrell - but because Collin Farrell was on screen I pretty much didn't notice anyone else. And I found out that he's married to Jacinda Barrett (yes, the Jacinda from Real World London, oh and some movies now too....)

Iron Man

Summer Movies are officially here! I know I wrote about Forgetting Sarah Marshall but really Iron Man is the first of the official summer flicks. Please feel free to go elsewhere for an actual, well written, review by a professional.... really go on... you're still with me? Okay, read on....



Right, so for those, like me, who don't know a thing about the Iron Man story it's okay - the film gives you all the necessary background needed without taking forever to get you up to speed. Personally I'm a fan of Jon Favreau and I enjoy his films. I was excited to hear about this film even without knowing about the story because of Favreau. I found Robert Downey Jr to be great as Tony Stark and sexy. Gwyneth Paltrow was pretty sexy too and she was impressive as hell as she ran in serious heels; and Jeff Bridges has an smile not to be trusted and is sporting an odd look: shaved head with beard... just odd. Terrence Howard was good and I loved that Favreau was Starks bodyguard.



Before the film my friends and I made some guesses as to the ratio of guys to girls = 80% men to 20% women and we were about right. And we also guessed about the 'dude' to 'geek' ratio.... which we didn't come up with an actual ratio but we had 4 'geeks' sit behind us who made us chuckle under our breath with their gamer discussions. Unofficially, I think that there were more dudes to geeks, but it was a Sat night and I guess that the ratio may have been the other way round on opening night.

This is definitely a movie to be seen in the theater on the big screen - I think that will enjoy it at home on my TV but I'll be seeing it for the second time not the first - so you gotta see it in the dark on a big screen! I really liked the special effects (especially Stark working in the laboratory scenes and the learning to fly in the suite) as much as I enjoyed Tony Starks glib attitude and one liners...

Oh yeah, I give Iron Man 4 out of 5 stars

Hey, is it 1983 or 2008?

Before Gossip Girl used "OMG" in their advertising "Like, oh my God" was standard speak right along with "Fer Shur", "Tubular!"& "Gag me with a spoon"...

But that was like from 1983 so you can imagine my surprise when I last weekend while at the Belly Dance Festival I came across a Valley Girl flashback in the flesh. I was worried I had slipped in time rift or something.... when I saw this girl and her purse caring boyfriend.

Her hair in the side ponytail, the jean mini w/ multi colored polka dot tights and pink legwarmers... He's wearing a top-siders, a pink polo below the cosby-style sweater & yes the collar is up.

Barf me out!