Musings of Mary Jane

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

David Blaine and Donald Trump = LAME

Labels: Chris Angel, David Blaine, David Blaine Hanging, Donald Trump 1 comments

David Blaine and Chris Angel "Mind Freak" are so annoying.

So he does insane things and almost dies, and gets famous. Wow, super awesome David Blaine, what are you going to do when you go blind/ die?

And... for the cherry on top, Donald Trump introduced David Blaine and his latest stunt. Haha, wow two very desperate media whores right there in one room. I can just imagine all the eye-rolls from all the reporters in the room. It was probably hilarious.

Posted in Chris Angel, David Blaine, David Blaine Hanging, Donald Trump by Elle

It's My Money, And I Need It Now!

Labels: commercials, It's my money and I need it now, JG Wentworth, JG Wentworth commercial, reality television 0 comments

JG Wentworth are assholes.

The ad obviously caters to the desperate people who fall for such advertising. What they fail to show in the commercial, is that settlements and legal issues can take a LONG time. What JG Wentworth basically is doing is lending money, probably at high interest rates, and if the settlement doesn't work out, the people are screwed! I hate commercials like this, they make television seem so dumb and desperate. (I guess it is).

Posted in commercials, It's my money and I need it now, JG Wentworth, JG Wentworth commercial, reality television by Elle

Winter Body Awards

Labels: Chelsea Handler, Chelsea Handler cooking, Chelsea Handler Winter Body, Rocco Dispirito 0 comments

Usually I find Chelsea Handler a little annoying. But if you actually listen to her jokes they are pretty funny. I loved her skit when she talked about winter bodies, it was hilarious. As well has her cooking skit with Rocco Dispirito.

Her opening joke went something along the lines of. Magazines give stars awards for their summer bodies but no one is recognizing the hard work that went into my winter body. I wake up and eat the burritto that I fell asleep with, I hop on my Segway head into the kitchen and eat one of Chuey's famous brownie burittos. Then head off to lunch to meet Star Jones. Not everyone has the power to pack on the pounds. It requires constant eating of junk. I can't remember the rest but it was funny.

Then the skit of her and chef Rocco Dispirito was hilarious.

ps. Rocco Dispirito is HOT!

Posted in Chelsea Handler, Chelsea Handler cooking, Chelsea Handler Winter Body, Rocco Dispirito by Elle

good music in commercials?!

Labels: Bud Light Lime commercial, Santi White, Santogold 0 comments

Commercials, and advertising have started using really good music in their commercials.

Santogold is in that commercial, along with some other commercials.
It's funny commercails are able to get good music by using indie bands, because indie bands need money to survive so of course they'll be so excited to get paid. im all for bands like that getting recognized. But they have to be careful not to sell out.

santogold is vomiting glitter, that is strangely fabulous.

Posted in Bud Light Lime commercial, Santi White, Santogold by Elle

Dr. Rey and Wife need some counseling

Labels: Dr. 90210, Dr. Rey, Dr. Robert Rey, E, entertainment channel, pregnancy, reality television 0 comments

Dr. Rey, and his wife... very dysfunctional. I'm watching it right now and he wants her to be pregnant so bad and basically forces her to take a pregnancy test. And then explains that clinically she's pregnant, because she is hyper-sexual among other things. I would be pissed if my husband just assumed I was pregnant and then announced it to the world. And then she goes onto explain she wouldn't mind being pregnant later, like maybe 6 months or 12 months later, but not at that time. And then the husband goes I don't care when you are pregnant I will be so excited, isn't this so exciting?? He was just so excited about having a baby and she is obviously not. It's sad and dysfunctional. Again, the desperateness of reality television.

Posted in Dr. 90210, Dr. Rey, Dr. Robert Rey, E, entertainment channel, pregnancy, reality television by Elle

brooke hogan (and reality tv)

Labels: Ashley Simpson, Brooke Hogan, Brooke Hogan pole dancing, Brooke Knows Best, Hilary Duff, Hulk Hogan, Making the Band, MIley Cyrus, MTV, reality shows, Stripping, VH1 0 comments

the summary of Brooke Hogan's Brick Knows Best '"Strip to Be Fit", Brooke gets into the pole-fitness craze, convincing Linda to take a class and going so far as to buy a pole to exercise at home. But then some friends take home videos of her home workouts, which wind up on the Internet.'

hahaha, that made me laugh so hard read i read that when i pressed info on the guide of my tv. seriously Brooke Hogan, with the protective father who raised her pretty "traditonally" (well that's what Hogan Knows Best made it seem like), is now pole dancing and ending up on the internet? That's what happens on her "reality show". .. really fake reality? or every day life? She is pretty trashy. She loves really short skirts and stripper heels, and is really tan and really blonde and kind of looks stripper-ish. At award shows she dresses like a porn star. No wonder she sucks at finding an audience for her music. Her voice makes her music for middle-schoolers. Like Miley Cyrus or Hilary Duff. Disney music. But her image is totally different.

Parents probably get freaked out by her... she doesn't get to access the huge market of money that is the pre-teen market. Hilary Duff and Miley Cyrus have gotten crazy rich, so have the Olsen twins, by marketing to the pre-teen/young teen market. At this age, they get sucked into buying so much shit its not even funny! Backpacks, clothes, sheets, perfume, eye shadow, shoes, purses, watches, toys, music, movies, it is ridiculous. Such a huge market. Wow got off topic.

Back to Brooke Hogan...so her music sucks! She fails at being a singer, but that's her job. And her episode of her reality show ends up with stripper pole videos ending up on the internet. It's just kind of ironic and it is so funny. That is why she can only have success with reality shows. Because its like a train wreck that you can't look away from, she is a hot mess. And sadly, she never seems to lose enough weight to make it as a singer either. Odds are definitely against her having a remotely successful music career. Having a reality show is a desperate boost for music anyway, remember Ashley Simpson's reality show, or Making the Band? So fabricated fame. Like they needed a tv show to encourage people to buy it and huge amounts of publicity. It's like, no wonder the music sucks, they don't go platinum because they're good!

Posted in Ashley Simpson, Brooke Hogan, Brooke Hogan pole dancing, Brooke Knows Best, Hilary Duff, Hulk Hogan, Making the Band, MIley Cyrus, MTV, reality shows, Stripping, VH1 by Elle

Monday, September 22, 2008

strawberry fields forever

Labels: beatles, imagine, nyc, peace, strawberry fields foever, world peace 0 comments

Posted in beatles, imagine, nyc, peace, strawberry fields foever, world peace by Elle

I LOVE RAVE MUSIC!

Labels: nightmares of wax, rocking out, royskopp, telepopmusik, thievery corporation, trentemoller, weed music 0 comments

i am loving electronic/ ibiza style rave music.

trentemoller, royskopp, thievery corporation, telepopmusik, nightmares of wax,
good stuff, check it out!

good to zone out/ chill out/ rock out to

Posted in nightmares of wax, rocking out, royskopp, telepopmusik, thievery corporation, trentemoller, weed music by Elle

Sunday, September 21, 2008

NYT "Technology Doesn't Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds

Labels: media, New York Times, technology, Twitter 0 comments

Technology Doesn't Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds

Technology Doesn’t Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds.
By DAMON DARLIN
EVERYONE has been talking about an article in The Atlantic magazine called “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Some subset of that group has actually read the 4,175-word article, by Nicholas Carr.

To save you some time, I was going to give you a 100-word abridged version. But there are just too many distractions to read that much. So here is the 140-character Twitter version (Twitter is a hyperspeed form of blogging in which you write about your life in bursts of 140 characters or fewer, including spaces and punctuation marks):

Google makes deep reading impossible. Media changes. Our brains’ wiring changes too. Computers think for us, flattening our intelligence.

If you managed to wade through that, maybe you are thinking that Twitter, not Google, is the enemy of human intellectual progress.

With Twitter, people subscribe to your “tweets.” Those who can make life’s mundane details interesting garner a large audience. Several services have been created to compete with Twitter. Others have been started to help people manage the prodigious flow of information from Twitterers.

There is even a version, Yammer, for use inside companies. You follow the word bursts of particular employees. (“In the weekly staff meeting. Good bagels. Why is everyone wearing khakis? All staff must file their T.P.S. reports on time, O.K.?”) As if there weren’t already enough to distract us in the workplace between meetings, phone calls, instant messages, e-mail messages and those Google searches.

If people question the benefit of Google, which has largely liberated us from the time-wasting activities associated with finding information, there is outright hostility to a tool that condenses our lives into haiku. The co-founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, was asked by M.I.T.’s Technology Review magazine — in a tweet, of course — why when people who aren’t familiar with Twitter are told about it, they are “uncomprehending or angry.” His response was brief and unsatisfying: “People have to discover value for themselves. Especially w/ something as simple & subtle as Twitter. It’s what you make of it.”

It is hard to think of a technology that wasn’t feared when it was introduced. In his Atlantic article, Mr. Carr says that Socrates feared the impact that writing would have on man’s ability to think. The advent of the printing press summoned similar fears. It wouldn’t be the last time.

When Hewlett-Packard invented the HP-35, the first hand-held scientific calculator, in 1972, the device was banned from some engineering classrooms. Professors feared that engineers would use it as a crutch, that they would no longer understand the relationships that either penciled calculations or a slide rule somehow provided for proficient scientific thought.

But the HP-35 hardly stultified engineering skills. Instead, in the last 36 years those engineers have brought us iPods, cellphones, high-definition TV and, yes, Google and Twitter. It freed engineers from wasting time on mundane tasks so they could spend more time creating.

Many technological advances have that effect. Take tax software, for instance. The tedious job of filing a tax return no longer requires several evenings, but just a few hours. It gives us time for more productive activities.

But for all the new technologies that increase our productivity, there are others that demand more of our time. That is one of the dialectics of our era. With its maps and Internet access, the iPhone saves us time; with its downloadable games, we also carry a game machine in our pocket. The proportion of time-wasters to time-savers may only grow. In a knowledge-based society in which knowledge is free, attention becomes the valued commodity. Companies compete for eyeballs, that great metric born in the dot-com boom, and vie to create media that are sticky, another great term from this era. We are not paid for our attention span, but rewarded for it with yet more distractions and demands on our time.

THE pessimistic assumption that new technologies will somehow make our lives worse may be a function of occupation or training. Paul Saffo, the futurist, says he could divide the technology world into two kinds of people: engineers and natural scientists. He says the world outlook of the engineer is by nature optimistic. Every problem can be solved if you have the right tools and enough time and you pose the correct questions. Other people, who can be just as scientific, see the natural order of the world in terms of entropy, decline and death.

Those people aren’t necessarily wrong. But the engineer’s point of view puts trust in human improvement. Certainly there have been moments when that thinking has gone horribly awry — atonal music or molecular gastronomy. But over the course of human history, writing, printing, computing and Googling have only made it easier to think and communicate.

Posted in media, New York Times, technology, Twitter by Elle

Madonna has power to rearrange molecules!

Labels: Gwyneth Paltrow, Madonna, post-natal depression 0 comments

Suddenly Madonna discovers her powers and influence have increased exponentially. Not only selling millions of albums, having one of the most popular tours each year, having millions of dollars, she can now rearrange molecules! Cure you of depression! Amazing!!

Gwyneth on how Madonna rearranged her molecules.