Mock Disney-esque movie trailer. Love it.

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Greatest Mr. Rogers Neighborhood Sesame Street memory ever.

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Very passionate, if slightly goofy at times, speech from Craig Ferguson last night. It’s kind of long, 8 mins or so, but worth a listen. He’s a new American citizen and will be voting for his first election this November.

We just started watching The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson the other night – yes he’s been on the air for quite some time. I gotta say, he’s quite funny which I suppose is evident since he’s still on the air.

MTV’s Video Music Awards show is 25 years old. The fact that that number is lower than my age feels kind of weird.. but it doesn’t matter. It’s not like I was 3 and watching MTV. I probably didn’t start watching it until I was 7 or 8. Anyway… here I go, blogging while I watch the show. Oh and I mention some winners so if you’re going to say that I spoiled it for you – it’s your fault for reading this post.

VMA Music Awards Opening Act:
Good: “dance off” between America’s Best Dance Crew groups was decent
Bad: Everything else. Thank gawd for TiVO. Boop boop boop!

Britney Spears:
Glad to see her getting her shit together. I still think they should have done a super-secret performance, but maybe she’s not ready yet. Honestly I think they gave the VMA to her, part of the whole “getting shit together” package.

Rihanna:
Arrived to the stage in a weird contraption and it didn’t work very smoothly. She needs to not let the music drown her out as much – yea not so much her fault perhaps. Her performance of “Disturbia” was decent – odd like the video so that’s cool.

Jonas Brothers:
Gag me. Seriously, they started out on a backlot set that really set a nice “Sesame Street” vibe. Thankfully, we’re 30 something minutes behind the the live show — TiVO comes to the rescue once again.

Katy Perry:
They hyped her performance – that she’d be singing Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” – so what do they do? Cut to her ALREADY SINGING IT on some weird side area. I’m sorry this just seems like some kind of weird production nightmare. When are we going to wake up?

Michael Phelps to intro the next act – big deal. Yea yea medals and breaking records… but um, music relation other than HE LISTENS TO IT?? (:gasp:)

Lil Wayne, rapping down the stairs, seemed to continuously grab his crotch – most likely in an effort to keep his pants up. Poor Leona Lewis had to be a part of that collaboration. Oh and T Pain, another rapper was there too. Sorry, not my cup of tea. Moving on…

Having award presenters and winners speak at a microphone with their back to the audience… WHO in the world thought that was a good idea?

Paramore “performing across town” – um. I’m sorry although I boop-boop-booped through a majority of the “opening act” I remember watching Paramore arrive, in Smart Cars, at the Paramount Studios. Now they’re still singing right now.. they could do one of those “omg they’re actually right here in the studio!!” … aaand there ya go. Set goes away – it’s not a video feed, it’s omgrightthereinthestudio. What a shocker. See, I would have fallen for it, but they had the artists SHOW UP DURING THE PRE-SHOW. Bad bad bad.. lame.

Russell Brand, while he had a few good zingers, was an odd choice for a host. Especially for a 25th Anniversary show – usually special years are kept for those special to the core of the show.. not to build popularity for a comedian trying to bring his character to a new audience. Yea, we saw him in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” – but big deal. He’s going to be the same washed up brit-rock character in everything.

Pink:
Oh Pink you are saving the show for me!! Fun little performance walking through the backlot followed by a stage performance.

TingTings:
Another artist (group) shoved to the odd side performance area AND again, cut to during the song. Thanks. I would have liked to hear the whole thing.

T.I.:
Ok so they tried to make a “live” music video.. s’ok.

Rihanna again! Though I thought maybe the Numa Numa guy was about to pop up on the stage thanks to the way the song started.

Christina Aguilera
Good song.. kind of cheesy “superhero” performance, but better than the others. Pink and Christina are the winners so far!

Blah blah, Paris Hilton looking at the wrong camera.. big deal. Add that to Demi Moore missing her mic and all the other mistakes. Kid Rock.. singing.

I’m losing interest with this show just as fast as you’re losing interest in reading this post. I mean, what if you didn’t even watch the show?! Oh great.. crotchy Wayne is back singing with Kid Rock. Pull your pants up boy! When will that fad go away?

I’m running out of magical fast-foward juice (time) so we’re actually watching the commercials.. oh no wait, that was just my plan apparently. Adam has grabbed the remote and .. ooh an Apple ad. Crashytime Camomile!

Video of the year goes to Britney Spears — they’re totally making nice after last year’s drama. Kanye West ends the show. Cool tribal drum thing, but pretty boring.

Crappiest Part: The setup – lame side stage, no room for presenters to walk.. lame. Add to that Perez Hilton. Why he gets the gigs instead of Trent is beyond me. Trent is way cooler!

Theme of the show: Britney Spears is back on track – MTV is “claiming” it.

Best of the show: Pink! Pink! Pink! PINK.

Be sure to read this AP article – Attacks, praise stretch truth at GOP convention

Checked out the Tapestry Arts Festival in downtown San Jose — seems to be a yearly tradition!
I went with the idea of a theme – TEXTURE! (This has to be said with a wide sweeping hand gesture to get the full effect.)

Well I tried! Sometimes I feel weird taking photos of people’s artwork. This apprehension may have started when a guy at the Alameda Antiques market got all pissy because I was taking a photo of his old hockey table game. Pfft to him! Now for photos…

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