Can’t Miss Bliss

Jessi + Dan = Perfection

Ever catch the Hill After Show?  I’m not going to lie to you, I dismissed it at first.  I saw the first few moments a number of times and thought it was a bit juvenile… why would you want to recap a show you had just seen?  Seriously?

Oh, was I ever wrong.

The Hills After Show is brilliant.  In large part thanks to it’s two hosts, Jessi and Dan, who aren’t afraid to say what’s on their mind.  And a lot of it is exactly what we all know everyone else is thinking too!

The remixes, the play-by-play commentary complete with on-screen doodles and the many freeze frames… you can’t go wrong.

Highlight:  Tom Cruise made a cameo on tonight’s episode.  Yes, TOM CRUISE.  The Hills just solidified itself as a pop culture phenomenon.

So thank you MTV, for importing this little gem from MTV Canada, our neighbors to the north.  I apoligize for ever doubting your judgement… but I mean would you really blame me?  A Double Shot at Love?  Is that really necessary?  I don’t think I need to answer that.

So until next Monday (Speidi wedding in Mexico! I can not contain my excitement)… keep it real After Show.

Not Again

Move your booty

I was so enjoying not being saturated by Beyonce’s bootylicious booty. Since her marriage to Jay-Z she’s been laying low, out of the spot light and I have been basking in the sun rays. Now she’s back in a movie with Oscar buzz, she’s got a new single out and her upgrade song is on repeat with Direct TV commercials. GRRRR> just in time for the holiday season I have Beyonce adding more stress to my life. Go back to your upper-west side apartments.

She had me at hello.

Oh Britney, where do I begin?

Sunday night was the premier of the Britney Spears documentary, Britney: For the Record.  An account of 60 days in the life of the one and only Miss. Britney Spears.

Britney Spears Changed My Life

I laughed, I cried, I was thankful there were no commercial interruptions to deter from the brilliance that took over the airwaves that night.

Let’s get one thing straight, I was always on Team Britney… rooting for her from the moment I witnessed the phenomenal “Hit Me Baby One More Time” music video on MTV’s TRL, to last year’s marathon of crazy.  I never imagined that the girl who hypnotized every youngster on weekday afternoons wouldn’t become one of the icons of my generation.

And I was right.  She is ever the icon I imagined she would be.  Her doc garnered 3.7 million viewers according to Shelly Palmer.  Quite the feat for a women who a year ago was in the midst of a very public physical and mental break down.

This hour long film gave us all a glimpse into the fanfare and reality that has become her daily routine.  The hype and the chaos would numb any person to the core, and if you did not feel for this girl after that hour was up, you have no soul.

So Britney,  thank you.  Thank you for opening up your life, your love and your inner feelings to the world; for showing us that you are mortal just like the rest of us… that upon becoming a celebrity you do not grow a thicker skin to deal with it all.  Personal struggles do not vanish after you go platinum, and if anything are only multiplied with every flash of a paparazzi’s bulb.

I was never a bigger fan of yours than I am after getting a peak into your busy life.  I wish you all the best my dear.  Stay strong, hold on to the things that matter most to you and always, always, ALWAYS know, I got your back girlfriend.

This ain't no Barnum and Bailey's

So Happy Birthday, good luck with the new album and until next time… keep it real.