March 2009
6 posts
Bo Burnham
I saw a Bo Burnham video for the first time over the summer, but didn’t think too much of it. I caught a couple of the lines and giggled, but didn’t think it was spectacular. Most of it I just didn’t understand. But since then, I’ve ended up watching his videos on multiple occasions and I have come to realize that this guy is pretty darned funny. He has normal songs about fairy tales or...
Watchmen
Last night I saw Watchmen. If your intending on seeing this movie, you probably should read this because I’ll spoil it. I had no idea what the plot of this movie was but I heard that it was supposed to be amazing and I had a friend who was going to see it so I tried. So for anyone who doesn’t know about this movie, it is based on a very successful graphic novel about a group of vigilantes that...
Wii
Video games have been under the constant scrutiny by people who think that it stops kids from finding more physically demanding forms of entertainment. I’ve known people who have become obsessed with certain games; particularly online games like World of Warcraft and Diablo and Counter Strike. There was even an episode of South Park which made fun of gamers by having the four kids get obsessed...
I'm on a Boat
So I recently saw “I’m on a Boat” which is a song and accompanying video created by a few guys involved with SNL. These three guys, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone, and Andy Samberg, call themselves The Lonely Island and create and compile a bunch of short comedy songs. Many of the short videos that they have created are ridiculously funny and have become huge hits when they air on SNL and have...
And now a word from our...radio?..sponsors
I was listening to LA the radio for the first time in the car the other day, and I realized that radio advertising is probably the least effective way to get people hooked on a product. For starters, I think that visuals are the most effective and convincing aspect of advertisements. Companies can show glamour or attractive people and other common ways to make their product seem like a...
Gucci and Prada baby I gotta lotta
I think that name brand items are a very interesting concept. I have known a lot of people who were gung-ho about them and think that they are actually a necessarily since they save money. In my English class senior year of high school, we used to have debates every Friday about whatever subject the class voted on. One week we had a debate about name brand items. One of the girls who was...
February 2009
2 posts
Michael
A picture of Michael Phelps smoking marijuana was recently made public. For anyone who has been living in a cave, Michael Phelps is an American swimmer who recently won eight gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He earned more medals than anyone has ever earned at a single Olympics, boosting him into the American spotlight. He was on the cover of countless magazines and was a...
Lil' Romeo!!
Last Wednesday I was at the UCLA vs. USC basketball game where, naturally, UCLA was up by over twenty points. I had heard through the grape vine that Percy Miller Jr., more commonly known as Lil’ Romeo, was playing for the USC team. When they were so far behind at the end of the second half, Percy actually played. Immediately the entire crowd started jostling him and chanting mean things to...
January 2009
4 posts
Lazy Town/Lil' Jon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfLAv3JHRwY
This is a video that a friend showed me one night while we were surfing youtube.com. At first, naturally, I thought it was a ridiculous and annoying video. Unfortunately for my roommates, it has grown on me so I recommend that everyone watch it six times over a few days before they make their decisions about it. However having watched about half of...
Underworld perspective
Over the weekend, I went to see the movie Underworld. This is a series of movies about an ongoing war between werewolves and vampires. I thought it was interesting because of the perspective that this movie took as opposed to the first two in the series. The first two were from the point of view of the vampires. The werewolves are portrayed as mindless beasts who should be destroyed. The...
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