Yea I don't think so. They should just keep to their reality tv and leave it there. MTV lost the nack at showing videos in the early 90's.
If you're not hip with MTV then here's the low down. MTV started some media hype using The Hill's villains, Heidi and Spencer and Pete Wentz. If you don't know what The Hills is or who Heidi and Spencer are then I'm sorry I can't help you any further. If you don't know who Pete Wentz is, you seriously need to remove yourself from under the rock.
So the media was all about MTV playing videos again. I was excited, until for the past three days when I finally saw what 'playing videos' actually meant.
MTV has this new program called FNMTV where they allow viewers to video blog or write in a comment about the video they are playing. Way to twist the whole reality thing MTV. Sounds okay, the only problem is they play the same videos over and over and over again. I can't take it. I'm going crazy, if I have to listen to Flo Rida tell me to put my hands up in the 'ayer ayer ayer' again, I'm going to shoot myself. Also I don't want to know the desire of the Pussy Cat Dolls to grow up and have boobies, you already have them shut up. Snoops new sampled, god I really do hate the world sampled, STOLEN! song from Johnny Cash is entertaining, but I don't need to hear it 5 time in an hour, once a day is enough. And lastly the poor Ting Tings, stop over playing them, they are the only decent video that's being played a million times.
In conclusion I'm sticking to VH1 in the morning until 11, MTV still sucks at videos.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
The Last Lecture
I hope many of you have heard of Randy Pausch and his book The Last Lecture, if you haven't I highly recommend you read it and get on youtube and view the actual last lecture.
Randy Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, PA when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. His amazing spirit and ability to cope with this unfathomable matter has inspired many people to follow their childhood dreams just as he did. I'm not going to tell you the whole story, you should find out yourself.
The book, a national bestseller, is a short 206 pages long and is full of useful information that Pausch wanted to leave behind for his children but is also insightful for anyone.
Paucsh had 6 childhood dreams:
1. Being in zero gravity
2. Playing in the NFL
3. Authoring an article in the World Book encyclopedia
4. Being Captain Kirk
5. Winning stuffed animals
6. Being a Disney Imagineer
He completed all but one and even though he is shy one childhood dream coming true he believes that he got more out of the person training him for that dream than actually making it come true. You will need to read the book or listen to the last lecture to find out which one it is.
The book has put new perspective into my life. When I recently changed my major from Biochemistry to English, I thought I was making the biggest mistake of my life, but I soon remembered after reading Pausch's novel, it was a childhood dream of mine to be a journalist.
Part V of the novel really was inspiring, Pausch offers advice on how to live your life the only way he knew how, by his own example.
Give Yourself Permission to dream
Hip is short term, earnest is a character trait that never leaves
Life is too short to fuss about the small things
Acknowledge your responsibility in case of damage
Don't Complain, Work harder
Treat the disease, not the symptom
Don't Obsess Over What People Think
Work in Groups
Look for the Best in Everybody
Watch actions, don't listen to words
Learn to love cliches
Experience
Get People's Attention
Hand write Thank You Notes
Be loyal
Pay it Forward
Everyone loves Thin Mints
Be prepared
Learn how to apologize
Tell the truth
Look at the whole crayon box
There is more than one way to measure profits and losses
No Job is Beneath you
Know Where You Are
Brick Walls are there for a reason
Be a Communitarian
Ask
Be Tigger
Understand Optimism and strive for it
Listen to What others have to say
It's a lot, but I'll never forget the examples that Paucsh used to explain these life changing messages.
Pausch talks about 'Head Fakes' in the book. A head fake is when someone is teaching you something but has the incentive that you learn something more meaningful in the end. It tricks you. The head fake of the book was that it was for his 3 very young children and not for the reader.
What's the head fake in this blog? That you'll go read the book? No, I know you'll read the book, I want you to read the book and take something from it as I did.
Randy Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, PA when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. His amazing spirit and ability to cope with this unfathomable matter has inspired many people to follow their childhood dreams just as he did. I'm not going to tell you the whole story, you should find out yourself.
The book, a national bestseller, is a short 206 pages long and is full of useful information that Pausch wanted to leave behind for his children but is also insightful for anyone.
Paucsh had 6 childhood dreams:
1. Being in zero gravity
2. Playing in the NFL
3. Authoring an article in the World Book encyclopedia
4. Being Captain Kirk
5. Winning stuffed animals
6. Being a Disney Imagineer
He completed all but one and even though he is shy one childhood dream coming true he believes that he got more out of the person training him for that dream than actually making it come true. You will need to read the book or listen to the last lecture to find out which one it is.
The book has put new perspective into my life. When I recently changed my major from Biochemistry to English, I thought I was making the biggest mistake of my life, but I soon remembered after reading Pausch's novel, it was a childhood dream of mine to be a journalist.
Part V of the novel really was inspiring, Pausch offers advice on how to live your life the only way he knew how, by his own example.
Give Yourself Permission to dream
Hip is short term, earnest is a character trait that never leaves
Life is too short to fuss about the small things
Acknowledge your responsibility in case of damage
Don't Complain, Work harder
Treat the disease, not the symptom
Don't Obsess Over What People Think
Work in Groups
Look for the Best in Everybody
Watch actions, don't listen to words
Learn to love cliches
Experience
Get People's Attention
Hand write Thank You Notes
Be loyal
Pay it Forward
Everyone loves Thin Mints
Be prepared
Learn how to apologize
Tell the truth
Look at the whole crayon box
There is more than one way to measure profits and losses
No Job is Beneath you
Know Where You Are
Brick Walls are there for a reason
Be a Communitarian
Ask
Be Tigger
Understand Optimism and strive for it
Listen to What others have to say
It's a lot, but I'll never forget the examples that Paucsh used to explain these life changing messages.
Pausch talks about 'Head Fakes' in the book. A head fake is when someone is teaching you something but has the incentive that you learn something more meaningful in the end. It tricks you. The head fake of the book was that it was for his 3 very young children and not for the reader.
What's the head fake in this blog? That you'll go read the book? No, I know you'll read the book, I want you to read the book and take something from it as I did.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Cocaine Jesus, JESUS!
Two weeks ago Federal agents on the Texas/Mexican boarder seized a statue of Jesus made out of cocaine paste, dubbed Cocaine Jesus. Cocaine Jesus was being smuggled across the boarder by a Mexican national who said she was paid $80 to bring the statue into Texas and deliver it to him at a Laredo bus station. 61 year old Bernardino Garcia-Cordova has identified Cocaine Jesus to be his, and stated he was smuggling it into the country to give it to a man known only as "La Arana," or The Spider who resides in Dallas. The estimated street value of Cocaine Jesus, $30,000. The women defiantly got ripped off.
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