THIS POST ON TAPE DELAY
Now everyone is making a big deal over the Grammy Awards being live, and they've decided to put it on tape delay, perhaps as much as a five minute delay! Only now TV executives are worried about this? Live TV has been happening forever, everyone knows that anything can happen at anytime, that's the excitement of it all! Now they're going to ruin the excitement for everybody. Will all live television be tape delayed now? What's gonna be next, Saturday Night Five Minute Tape Delay? Please.
DRAMA CONFUSED WITH LIFE
Some people just need to chill. Now an anti-smoking group is prepared to "hound" Catherine Zeta-Jones until she stops smoking in her films. This is based on the fact that she smoked as Velma Kelly in the movie Chicago. Say huh? First of all, it's a movie. She was playing a character. She was acting. It was set in 1920s Chicago, a time when when everybody smoked. What the heck? So why now is this group directing their attack towards her personally? How lame.
In a similar vein, ESPN has cancelled their drama series Playmakers under pressure from the NFL over it's depictions of "drug use, wife beating, racism, homophobia and infidelity." Once again, it's a drama. It's fiction. As in, not real. Weren't these people taught to not believe everything they see on TV when they were kids??
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
JANET REDUX
This whole hubbub over Janet Jackson's Superbowl breast-baring needs to stop RIGHT NOW. It's over, it happened, you can't turn back the clock, so fuhgeddaboutit already! If this was done for publicity, it certainly worked because it's all over the news, even respectable evening news! When Dan Rather is talking about naked breasts, you know there's a problem.
Apparently the release date for Janet's new album Damita Jo has been moved up to capitalize on the newfound publicity. But are more people really going to buy her album simply because she did a little naked thing on TV? It doesn't make her music any better, so if you didn't like her music before, you're still pretty much not going to like it now.
This is dumb. I'm sorry I had to bring it up yet again, but it just irks me so bad. This is the last mention of it in this blog, I now deem this site a Janet Jackson free zone.
(But not Michael Jackson free, he's too ripe to not make fun of. And if I can make fun of Jermaine and Tito too, then dang it, I will!)
FOURTH OUTTA TEN AIN'T BAD
Oh yeah, there it is--my very own name as Number 4 in the list of Top Ten baby boy names for 2003. Like a rock, Matthew is consistently in there. Suave, sophisticated, never going out of style. Kind of like me, right? Right? ...well, I think so...
But look at the names that beat Matthew: Ethan? Aidan?? Please. I'll give 'em Jacob, but dang it! I will not stand for Aidan!
SUPERBOWL "ENTERTAINMENT"
This is commentary on the entertainment aspects of the Superbowl, for game commentary, go here.
I hate watching the entertainment of the Superbowl, it's so totally generic. Yay, it's Toby Keith appealing to the redneck viewers! Yay, it's P. Diddy appealing to the hip hop crowd! Apparently MTV produced the halftime show, and I could tell. I'm pretty sure that 99% of the crowd in the stadium had never even heard of P. Diddy, Kid Rock, or Nelly. Why would they? Most of them are corporate bigwigs. And I'm sure they didn't enjoy it either.
The halftime show is generic pop stars performing their generic pop "hits." And could any of the artists sing songs that were more circa now and less circa 1999? "Bawitdaba"? "Hot in Herre"?? Janet Jackson even sang "Rhythm Nation"! Hellllllo?? Are we in 1988 again? Whose bright idea was it to get Janet anyway? Has she even had a hit song or album within the past few years?? She's old hat. You'd think the NFL would rather distance themselves from the whole Jackson name, not revel in it.
Why didn't they have Beyonce headline the halftime show? Much better choice.
And apparently I missed the best part--Janet Jackson's top being ripped off by Justin Timberlake! Dang it!
There's so much media coverage of the breast-baring that everyone seems to forget the most important thing--THE PATRIOTS WON THE SUPERBOWL!!! Woooooohooooooo!
