As to Kanye 's little, um, 'moment'...

MTV Shows

I'm pretty sure he was kinda drunk. And by the time he posted an apology on his official blog, he was straight up hammered*:

“I’M SOOOOO SORRY TO TAYLOR SWIFT AND HER FANS AND HER MOM. I SPOKE TO HER MOTHER RIGHT AFTER AND SHE SAID THE SAME THING MY MOTHER WOULD’VE SAID. SHE IS VERY TALENTED! I LIKE THE LYRICS ABOUT BEING A CHEERLEADER AND SHE’S IN THE BLEACHERS! …………………… I’M IN THE WRONG FOR GOING ON STAGE AND TAKING AWAY FROM HER MOMENT!…………….. BEYONCE’S VIDEO WAS THE BEST OF THIS DECADE!!!!

I’M SORRY TO MY FANS IF I LET YOU GUYS DOWN!!!! I’M SORRY TO MY FRIENDS AT MTV. I WILL APOLOGIZE TO TAYLOR 2MRW. WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD!!!! EVERYBODY WANNA BOOOOO ME BUT I’M A FAN OF REAL POP CULTURE!!! NO DISRESPECT BUT WE WATCHIN’ THE SHOW AT THE CRIB RIGHT NOW CAUSE … WELL YOU KNOW!!!! I’M STILL HAPPY FOR TAYLOR!!!! BOOOYAAAWWWW!!!! YOU ARE VERY VERY TALENTED!!! I GAVE MY AWARDS TO OUTKAST WHEN THEY DESERVED IT OVER ME… THAT’S WHAT IT IS!!!!!!! I’M NOT CRAZY YALL, I’M JUST REAL. SORRY FOR THAT!!! I REALLY FEEL BAD FOR TAYLOR AND I’M SINCERELY SORRY!!! MUCH RESPECT!!!!!”

Right? There's no other explanation for either the initial douche move and the subsequent struggle with coherence (and the English language as a whole, actually) that he exhibits in his apology.

Long story short, as much as I love Kanye's tracks- and by god I do***- as far as I'm concerned he and Joe Wilson can hold hands, braid each other's hair, and go to hell together.

*UPDATE: I've just been tipped off to this blog entry. God, I'm so right.

**(Equally douchey)

***Just ask my long suffering ex-roomie, the lovely Abbie. She's gone through more than one week-long period over which I've refused to listen to anything else. And we're talking nothing else... only Kanye.

Five hundred visitors and a puppy

Today, tweedle dee tweedle dom got it's 500th visitor. It's not much in the real internet world, but I feel like it marks some kind of milestone. Anyway, I was looking for a video that might be appropriate for a 500th anniversary. I didn't find any. But I did find this-- and its both completely irrelevant and really, really cute:

That clip subsequently led me to this one. I wasn't mad about it. I don't think anyone who clicks it will be mad about it either.  

So thanks. And enjoy. 

P.S. Just a bit of advice-- never, ever look up puppies on YouTube if you have things to accomplish in the foreseeable future. 

Some things I don't understand

There has got to be a better way to dispense shampoo*. Think about it, has anyone in the history of hair washing ever successfully used all of the shampoo in the container? I feel like every time that I'm just at the end of a bottle, there's at least two lurking tablespoons of Paul Mitchell coating the inside walls or stuck in the shoulder-- never to be used. Destined for waste. 

Though my concern is one both legitimate and troubling, the governing shampoo body will never take it into consideration. Why? Because due to the inherent wastefulness of present shampoo packaging, I have to go buy a new bottle two tablespoons sooner than I would with a more efficient dispenser. So they're making bank and I'm left in an emotionally exhausting battle of wills against a plastic bottle, hoping against hope that I might salvage a few extra teaspoons of Tea Tree Scalp Treatment. 

Garbage.

*This also applies to lotion. And ketchup. 

This is the last thing I'll say about this but...

The Guardian has an excellent and very complete live blog of Michael Jackson's funeral, but I thought that Talib Kweli's Twitter feed provided a thoughtful, if brief, insight to the service's proceedings. 

There is debate as to the media circus surrounding his death, as well as the controversy surrounding his life, and I don't know that I stand on one side or the other of the argument. The facts as I see them, though, are that, whether or not you liked him, Mr. Jackson was a talented figure with tremendous public influence. The huge attention being paid to his passing is just a reflection of the mark that his life has left in modern musical history. He's spent 50 years in the public eye... I guess it's only fair he should go out with a bang.

That said, I will leave you with an excerpt from the piece that musician John Mayer wrote for Time magazine, which i thought was eloquently-put: 

"Michael Jackson proves, in a really sort of perverse way, that maybe we're not as offended by behavior as we are entranced by music. And think about that. Think about what level of quality you must have to attain to have somebody say, "I know that you're accused of having molested children, but I can't hate you for that as much as I love you for your music." I'm not saying that's right or wrong; I'm saying that it's fascinating. That somebody could be that great. That somebody could have that much of a marriage with your emotions just through music.There's just one Michael Jackson now. We don't have to reconcile the Michael Jackson we love with another Michael Jackson. In a way, he has returned to pristine condition in death. We can be free now for the rest of our lives to love the Michael Jackson we used to love."

Mr. Mayer's musical contribution to the memorial was ultra classy-- beautifully subdued and respectful. Here's the video.

Strangely enough

It kinda makes me sad that Michael Jackson died. I bet its one of the Heath Ledger type situations where he was on thirteen different prescription drugs and just kinda over did it. It's just a testament to just how sad people like that are. Anyway, this kind of shit scares me and also makes me never want to be famous. 

dmd.