Yes. I’m two days late with this - but I don’t have cable and DVDs are a hell of a drug. Monday night at the Teen Choice Awards (hosted by Miley Cyrus natch), the M&M Cru had their live onstage battle with the Adam/Chu Dance Crew. See for yourself.
According to the Applause-O-Meter, The M&M Cru won. It figures that a million jumpy tweeny girls would pick the most popular tweeny girl in the country. That’s all fine and good; it is the Teen Choice Awards afterall.
The thing is, Miley can’t dance (I mentioned that on Saturday), and it shows. She was outclassed from the get go. I mean, bringing LL Cool J to a dance battle, is a bit like eating noodles with a knife - a desperate attempt at best. Is Miley even old enough to remember LL’s hits? And - the Rerun dance? Come on, nothing is more played out and cliche than poppin’ and lockin’. What is this, Breakin? I think Miley treated this whole thing like a joke because she knew the endgame from the onset. Was there ever really a chance that she was going to lose? Starpower wins every time.
Of course, no one used starpower quite like the ACDC. Throughout the course of the battles, the ACDC employed dozens of members, the Jabbawockez crew, Chris Brown, LiLo, and even an invalid Adam Sandler! Still, they came to this party with their game faces on and walked away empty handed. There is some internet chatter saying that the ACDC recycles all their choreography. Perhaps that was the problem. I did my own visual research, and while it is true - ACDC still has better moves.
Lastly, why did they chose Fergie as the impartial moderator? Could they have found someone less qualified? Miley’s dance skills suck, but Fergie… chickenhead can. not. dance. at. all. That hip wiggle thing does not count.
The Bottom Line: ACDC got robbed!
So, what’s a blogger to do when his partner in crime goes home for the weekend? Does he go on an all-out bender? Get all emo? Repress the emotional turmoil? Or, does he call up two fine young ladies and start an AIMcast? Yeah, that’s it. Join us as we discuss: 90210, How I Met Your Mother, Shia LeBeouf, Miley Cyrus, Twilight, American Apparel ads, Sia, Spring Standards, pop rocks, and waaaaaay more. Extra special thanks to my guests Rohini and Kirsten.
AIM: boomcity 8/3/08 8:14 PM
Neal has joined this chat.
Kirsten has joined this chat.
Kirsten: I meant to have the season premiere of Mad Men watched by now
Kirsten: but I don’t
Kirsten: I don’t want any spoilers
Neal: OK.
Neal: Well, let’s get started and hopefully Ro will pop in.
Kirsten: So what’s up?
Neal: Well, let’s see - NASA discovered - or claims to have discovered - water on Mars.
Kirsten: Liquid water?
Neal: Ice. But maybe a little liquid too?
Neal: I mean, even ice is a big deal
Kirsten: I thought we knew about ice?
Kirsten: I’m not super up on my Mars discoveries though
Kirsten: I thought there were traces of polar ice caps
Neal: I think no matter what, if we ever get people there it’ll just be like that movie Event Horizon
Neal: i.e. blood. dead bodies. and zero G fire
Kirsten: I never saw Event Horizon
Kirsten: so I don’t know
Neal: It was unnecessarily scary.
Continue reading ‘AIMcast 03 - 90210, Skinny Jeans, Twilight, Harry Potter, and Sasha Grey’
So, after a dismal showing last week, FNMTV returns with 2 live performances by Miley Cyrus and some other less important stuff. How do this week’s videos stack up? Perhaps you should just keep on reading:
Miley Cyrus - 7 Things (Live)
Easily the best live performance ever on FNMTV. This is also 679 times better than the real video. Notice how Miley plays to the camera instead of the crowd and wears herself out from all the running around. I have to say, the girl has energy.
Hawthorne Heights - Rescue Me
Let this be a lesson that a Les Paul and a Flying V will not save your video (or band) from sucking. Basically, there is a crappy band with skinny ties and a girl playing Harry Houdini with technicolor stuff in the water. I’m not sold.
David Banner - Shawty Say ft. Lil Wayne
Basically… be nice to your lady and raise your kids. Otherwise, David Banner is going to sample a Lil Wayne track and then blow your lady’s back out while you sit at home. alone. At least, I think that’s the point - Banner mumbles a lot.
All Time Low - Poppin
Oh I get it. It’s another video making fun of suburban white kids and their love of gaudy hip hop style and trappings. Isn’t making fun of a cliche even more cliche? Also, this band blows. They sound like what garbage would sound like, if garbage sang and played instruments.
Miley Cyrus - Fly on The Wall (Live)
Miley, you were doing so well until this! I can’t bring myself to say good things about this. In fact, I’m not entirely convinced that this isn’t a B-52s cover. And the secret spy dancers? Come on, we all know you can’t dance. (Of course, I can’t wait to see the end of the battle on Monday)
The bottom line: It’s kind of a wash, but Miley Cyrus still places above everyone else this week. Till next time.
her: Happy 7th of July!
me: What?
her: Isn’t today an excellent day?
me: It’s Monday, overcast, and storming.
her: Perfect time to get a jump on the week!
That is the fictional conversation I had earlier with today’s subject: the perky positive girl (PPG). PPGs wear permanent smiles and are optimistic to the point of being insufferable. I like to picture Mandy Moore in the first act of Saved. Miley Cyrus and Reese Witherspoon fit the description too. PPGs see good even where there isn’t any. It is nearly impossible to bum these girls out. Many have strong religious convictions, but that isn’t a rule. Plenty of PPGs would just as readily sidestep that quagmire.
So, how could I be attracted to someone so sickeningly sweet? I suppose it’s physics. I radiate a lot of negative energy. I can’t help it - I expect the worst. When a PPG enters my space I am acutely aware of it. I am yin and she yang. Less cryptically, opposites attract. Flirtatious arguing ensues and then I’m smitten. Like a battery, we produce a lot of energy (she’s the cathode in this simile) and that’s kind of sexy.
Lastly, PPGs are in HR terms ‘internally motivated’. They will use any means necessary to achieve their goals, and that makes them valuable allies - as long as you don’t cross them. You can bet that Bonnie Parker was a PPG during her run with Clyde. Think about how this could work in your favor.
Happy 7th of July Perky Positive Girl. You are right, is an excellent day and I want to stick it to you!
Talking about Sifu Kisu, rosin vs. resin, Michael Turner art, Iron Man, Tony Stark, Obadiah Stane, School Daze, Horton Hears a Who, Captain America as a Communist, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, Dummy, One Missed Call, Free Comic Book Day 2008, Cyclops in The Castro with no shirt on, fancy cheeses, funny nipple stories, creepy Miley Cyrus pictures, South Park WGA episode, how hookers got the name hookers, The Riches, Mighty Avengers #13, Avengers / Invaders #1, Invincible Iron Man #1, Young X-Men #2, and of course we got more.
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