Jackie Evancho is the ONE to Watch
It is phenomenal to watch such a young lady with such a mature voice. It’s hers and you will be amazed.
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The Humor of Reggie Watts
Reggie just came at me tonight kicking my butt all over the floor. He is in your face with his intelligence that he uses to demonstrate the absurdity he sees in this world.
It’s the kind of humor I can kick back and get all day because it puts the idiosyncrasies of the world on display. His rap at the end of Why S*** So Crazy? is a commentary on what makes rap and the rap industry ridiculous. Catch the video sometime if you can. It’s called F ck Sh t Stack. No, you’re reading those titles correctly. Watch the show and you’ll understand why his titles are spelled that way.
He records sound bites on stage and then plays them back with other sound bites that he creates on stage. He sings or raps and he changes his voice to any tone, any accent, anything. He has some real talent. He is using it to humor us. But, he could just as easily get serious with it.
He actually has more talent than some of the big guys in the hip hop industry today. Reggie can change up and do Reggae whenever he feels. He turns it on, shuts it off, talks about a few things that makes us laugh and then he’s right back into it again. That’s the sign of a genius.
Anyway, the excerpt to the left is from his Comedy Central special Why S*** So Crazy? It’s the perfect example of the kind of humor that makes Reggie so F ck ng awesome. He talks about his research in Mexico and how the GPS intuitive linguistic system in Mexico is different from that of Canada and America. He talks about the obviousness that is there is something that you can’t miss.
Hilarious!
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Real World Still Running?
Talk about riding it until the wheels fall off! Real World is still running? When is that dead horse going to get some peace?
I remember the first episode of Real World airing in 1992. I was an MTV fan in those days because they still played Music. Imagine a day when they played music on television at Music Television. Yeah, it was an exciting time.
Real World was one of the first reality shows. A handful of strangers thrown into one house and forced to live together. The experiment was actually to take people from all walks of life and see if they could find a way to get past their differences. This experiment has been lost on the newer generations who look at Real World as a vacation where dramas are created for the camera, everyone has dreams of being a superstar and not one person has a pimple or a hair out of place.
Can you say, NOT Real World? Not even close.
Of course, how can we miss the eye-watering reunions that take place five minutes after the show wraps? Oh yeah, remember that one moment that happened just two days ago? It seems like just yesterday. Wow, how these people have grown since their tough times in … Cancun? Sydney? Hollywood???
In 1992, I watched the first episode and I remember thinking that one season would be good enough of an experiment. Any more than that and the show will play itself out…and that was almost 20 years ago.
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It Seemed Just Like Yesterday
Children coming into this world today are being raised with a great bit of technology surrounding them all the time. It’s strange to me that just a few short years ago, we did not have these things. I do not consider myself old at all and I did not have these things when I was young.
I learned typing on a typewriter. Are there any that still exist?
We walked around listening to radios through our headphones until the tape player came out?
We had to buy an artist’s entire album.
I played Space Invaders and Donkey Kong on my Atari 2600. It came with Pong and Asteroids. I don’t think any other games existed at the time.
I wrote letters and called people on the phone. I got tangled up in the phone chord every once in awhile. The first phone I ever made a phone call on had a rotary dial that took two minutes to dial a number. click click click click click
We had to wait for a movie to come out in the video store and we had to sit through commercials on the television. That was the bathroom break. I’m not saying video stores and commercials don’t exist today. I’m just saying that’s what we had to do. There are other options available now.
We had to look things up in encyclopedias and dictionaries. Or read a book.
I have mixed emotions about it. I mean, I would rather sit in front of the computer and type in a search that comes up with a million and one sites that I can begin exploring and finding my answer. I love being able to correct my work before I print it. I love being able to put together a CD with only the music I enjoy. It does seem as if we live in a world that in many ways, has a lot less waste.
But, I think children of today are missing a rich education because they are handed the easy way and they never learn the foundation from which teachers can build. When a teenager is on the internet instant messaging her friends and using abbreviations like omg and lmao, she then starts writing like that in other areas of her life. She writes her term papers with abbreviations and misspellings like “u” and “b.”
“Win u get 2 b da prez, dats win u own da world.”
OMG!!!
So, in many ways it’s a far better world. I just don’t want anyone to lose sight of where we came and how far we’ve come. Our history is an important part of our future.
