I'd be a really big star if I could get this guitar...
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June 30, 2006
For a truly big gig...
I have always had a deep appreciation for oversized roadside attractions like the world's largest non-stick frying pan and ball of twine. I'm also enamored with gigantic versions of every day objects like pencils, candy and basically every item on www.Greatbigstuff.com.
I recently stumbled upon Michael McBride on the internet. He built two of the largest actually playable guitars in the world. They're modeled after the Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster.
Both are 13 feet tall, which is four times the size of a regular guitar. Each of them weigh about 400 pounds and use electronics similar to regular guitars.
June 26, 2006
Dying to look goth?
Oh baby baby, how was she supposed to know? Britney Spears has dyed her trademark blonde locks jet black.
The 24-year-old pop star turned train wreck was spotted out with her new do in New York. She was walking around holding her adorable baby son Sean Preston, according to TMZ.com. Luckily she didn't drop him this time. Britney critics are insisting that dying your hair during pregnancy can harm the unborn child but there doesn't seem to be any truth to this because hair dyes are much more gentle now than they were in say the 70s.
The site also reported Britney and Kevin had been touring NYC for the last few days so that Kevin could attend his own publicity engagements. (whatever that means).
Baby No. 2 will debut in September.
Last week, the singer revealed to the world that her marriage is "awesome," but then she appeared on TV wearing a ridiculously short skirt and blubbering that she's an "emotional wreck". I'm not sure what Brit's hair is supposed to mean. She's obviously tormented. Ashlee Simpson went through a similar period when she dyed her locks black. I think it's a pathetic attempt at rebellion. I guess when you live a fish bowl that's as punk rock as you're allowed to get. Poor Brit. I normally don't pity celebs, but I'm afraid for her.
June 21, 2006
Do you remember when everyone was shouting my name, and I used my strength to rip my blouse?
It has been too long since my last blog entry. People have been asking me if went into the witness protection program. Nope, not this week. I am back from a much needed vacation. I was able to spend seven days pursing my lifelong dream of doing absolutely nothing. While I was resting, I caught Nacho Libre on opening night. It's a wonderful underdog story set in a Mexican orphanage. While it was written and directed by the creators of Napoleon Dynamite, don't go into the theater expecting a carbon copy of their previous work. Nacho Libre is unlike anything I've ever seen before. There is plenty of quotable dialogue from this movie that will likely end up on a T-shirt near you soon.
Here are some of my favorite lines:
Nacho: "I was wondering if you would like to join me in my quarters this night... for some toast?"
Nacho: "Chancho, when you are a man, sometimes you wear stretchy pants in your room... It's for fun. "
Nacho: "I ate some bugs, I ate some grass, I used my hand, To wipe my... tears."
June 01, 2006
"I'm very very happy about it and everything's going really really good."
Britney Spears Vs. Anna Nicole Smith (tale of the tape)
Brtiney Spears is preggers and Anna Nicole Smith just announced she's expecting too. We can only take bets on which mom is going to be in the tabloids more. Here's how the blonde bombshells measure up.
Name: Britney Jean Spears
Age: 24
Height: 5' 4"
Brithday: December 2, 1981
Zodiac sign: Saggitarius
Accent: Louisiana drawl
Impregnated by: Loser ex-dancer Kevin Federline
Claim to fame: Biggest pop star in the world
Career killer: hooking up with K-Fed
Fakest feature: singing voice
Stupid reality show: Chaotic
Special skills: Dancing and grinding on stage like stripper.
Biggest loss: her fan base
How she screwed up son she already has: Drove with Sean Preston on her lap; nearly dropped him shopping
Name: Anna Nicole Smith aka Vickie Lynn Hogan
Age: 38
Height: 5' 11"
Brithday: November 28, 1967
Zodiac sign: Saggitarius
Accent: Texas all the way
Impregnated by: Loser paparazzo Larry Birkhead
Claim to fame: former Guess jeans model and 1993 playmate of the year.
Career killer:Marrying 90-year-old J. Howard Marshall II when she was 26.
Fakest feature: breasts
Stupid reality show: The Anna Nicole Smith Show
Special skills: Actually was a stripper.
Biggest Loss: 70 pounds on TrimSpa.
How she screwed up son she already has: Embarrasses her 19-year-old son Daniel daily.
No Moore war
I'm not into politics, but I'm not a fan of extremism or twisting the truth by editing something to reflect your personal beliefs. I believe Michael Moore hand tailors people's comments to project his own warped ideas. Unlike most people who are quick to criticize Moore, I have seen all of his movies so I feel I'm able to state my opinion of him. On Yahoo! News today I stumbled upon an article about an Iraq war vet suing Moore. First let me preface this by saying I want the soldiers to come home. I pray for peace every day. I wish we could end all the bloodshed and return these brave men and women back to their families. As I have previously stated on my blog, if you have a strong stomach, watch Baghdad ER on HBO. It aired again last night. You'll see the human destruction that's happening over there and it's too much to take.
Here's the story:
A Massachusetts national guardsman filed an $85 million lawsuit against Michael Moore in Suffolk Superior Court last week, accusing the filmmaker of distorting a TV interview to portray the soldier as anti-war in his scathing 2004 documentary about the Bush administration post-Sept. 11, 2001.
Sgt. Peter Damon, 33, has stated that Moore didn't have his permission to use pieces of the on-camera interview he gave in 2003 to an NBC Nightly News correspondent at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C. Damon's appearance in Fahrenheit 9/11 resulted in a "loss of reputation, emotional distress, embarrassment, and personal humiliation" for him, court documents state.
Damon is suing for $75 million and his wife is seeking another $10 million for the "mental distress and anguish suffered by her spouse."
The lawsuit states that "[Fahrenheit 9/11] creates a substantially fictionalized and falsified implication of a wounded serviceman who was left behind when Plaintiff was not left behind but supported, financially and emotionally, by the active assistance of the president, the United States and his family, friends, acquaintances and community."
Damon, a double amputee, lost both of his arms while stationed in Iraq when a tire on a Black Hawk Helicopter he was servicing exploded. Another reservist was killed.
In Moore's film Damon is shown lying on a gurney, covered in bandages. He says he feels as if he's "being crushed in a vise," adding, "but [the painkillers] do a lot to help it. And they take a lot of the edge off of it."
The scene prior to Damon's features U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott (news, bio, voting record), a Democrat from Washington state, saying, "You know, [those in the Bush administration] say they're not leaving any veterans behind, but they're leaving all kinds of veterans behind."
In his lawsuit, Damon has argued that the juxtaposition of those two scenes made it sound as if the military and the Bush administration had left him to grapple alone with pain or possibly even a drug addiction when, in reality, he "agrees with and supports the president and the United States' war effort and was not left behind."
NBC had been questioning Damon about the painkiller he was using, a new drug the military was distributing to wounded veterans.
"They took the clip because it was a gut-wrenching scene," Damon told Fox News Tuesday. "They sandwiched it in. [Moore] was using me as ammunition."
Miramax Films, NBC, and Lions Gate Entertainment are also named in the suit, according to Fox News.
The controversial Fahrenheit 9/11 was a smash hit for Moore and Miramax, winning the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and grossing more than $222 million worldwide.
The film, which focused pretty one-sidedly on the Bush administration's response to 9/11 (sorely lacking, according to Moore) and its instigation of the war in Iraq (inexcusable, Moore said) was passed over come Oscar time, however, partly because the director entered his production in the Best Picture category, rather than take a run at Best Documentary.
Damon told the New York Post that Moore couldn't have picked a worse guy to pin the charge of being anti-war on.
"I'm the most fortunate disabled guy," he said. "I was complaining about the pain I would've been having [if it weren't for the painkiller]."
Damon's lawyer, Dennis Lynch, also weighed in with the Associated Press.
"It's upsetting to him because he's lived his life supportive of his government, he's been a patriot, he's been a soldier, and he's now being portrayed in a movie that is the antithesis of all that," Lynch said.
Phone calls from the AP and Fox News to Moore and Miramax were not returned.