Oh South Bend

I have lived in Northern Indiana for my entire life. The only real thing that it has to offer is Notre Dame, and its relative closeness to Chicago. I have taken advantage of Notre Dame just about as much as I possibly can, and have seen the general scariness and overcrowding chaos that Chicago has to offer. So, now, basically it becomes increasingly apparent to me that Northern Indiana is so yesterday. Which means, that my tomorrow is about to take place somewhere else. Unfortunately, I have no way of getting there. I am trying to find a way, and I will try and use every advantage that the people within my life can offer me, but I am afraid that I will always be stuck here in my already happened. I am thankful to Indiana for what it has given me and what has taken place here, but its time for a goodbye.

Caught off guard

There are times in ones life when you realize that you may have missed the boat on something. Or in other words, you were so completely unaware of something that when it revealed itself to you, it catches you off guard. I had such an experience recently while watching one of my new favorite shows.

The show is Parenthood, and it is about the only good thing that NBC is doing right now. It is not really a show for everyone, but it has a few of my favorite actors in it, and its familial theme is one that I have always enjoyed in my television shows. Now, the thing that caught me off guard involves an actress who recently made a cameo appearance on the show. I was not really sure who the actress was while I was watching it, but what I did know was that she was beautiful and very pleasing to the eye. I had meant to go online and find out who this woman was, but before I had the chance to do so, another one of my favorite shows opened my eyes to the truth. This show, Sportsnation on ESPN, mentioned that the actress' name is Minka Kelly. This is what caught me off guard. I had heard the name Minka Kelly before and I was aware that she was engaged to Derek Jeter, but I was unaware of what she looked like. I was caught completely off guard by the fact that this woman I had only heard of ended up being heart breakingly beautiful, and somehow I had managed to not recognize it before now. I had missed her in Friday Night Lights, and American Dreams, and whatever other shows or films she had been in. I am surprised by this, mostly because I like to think of myself as someone who knows a hell of a lot about popular culture and sports. Minka Kelly, a person who crosses into both worlds, passed by me without me having any clue of how truly amazing she is. Sorry Minka, my bad. (I admit that certainly some part of her attractiveness is her awesome name)

Lastly, I want to warn you all of the second thing that caught me off guard. This happens to pertain the the movie The Spirit. It is about a superhero and is made to look extremely similar to Sin City. Sin City was and is glorious, however, The Spirit is tremendously terrible. It caught me off guard how truly terrible this movie is compared to how absolutely marvelous Sin City is. Stay away from The Spirit, otherwise yu will lose more time than you will want to spare on such a piece of crap.

So, About Me

I think the hardest thing anyone has to do is take a good look at themselves and come to whatever realizations they need to in order to improve themselves. For some reason I have struggled with this in my life, and to be honest with you, I believe that my entire family has had difficulties with it. I have had to learn to admit that my self-esteem or view of myself is not as strong or positive as it could be. I do not like to make excuses or attempt to put the blame for my feelings on anyone else. Therefore, I have to once again look at myself and realize that there are several improvements needed. The first time that I decided to make changes was in high school. I did a lot of work to change who I was throughout college and over time the changes took hold and I improved a bit. However, ever since I finished college I have struggled to find my way in life and now I know that I must once again do quite a bit of work to change who I am and begin to improve myself. So, it is with this that I let you know that I am excited and scared about the road ahead, but I plan to finish the journey with a brand new outlook on life and a brand new life in general. Thanks for reading

Finding A New Way

Yes, it has been a while since I posted on here, but to be very honest with you I have a lot to figure out. I have been contemplating several things and trying to come up with a new direction. I have begun to realize that things need to start changing and that the spark for all of this change can only come from me. In the past I had always been a firm believer in having a phrase or ideology that I would repeat in my head over and over to keep me going. I always had that one thing to help me focus and keep me going, and over the past year, I have lost my grasp on that practice. I guess, basically, right now Im waiting for the next phrase to come along that I can latch on to and focus my life.

However, until that meditative state takes over, I have a few other things to mention. The first, is that I along with most of the people I know have been completely taken over by Old Spice's add campaign this year. They have provided us with tremendous commercials as of late and I would love to thank them. Secondly, I just got back from a trip to Cincinnati over the weekend, and it is a pretty sweet place. I can only speak for the Hyde Park/Mt. Lookout area, but it is a very young and active area that provides a lot for the people who live there. I would recommend checking it out if possible, and if you do beware of the crazy amount of small lizards who shoot around the ground.

Finally, I think its important that I touch on the missed opportunity that was Gordon Haywards life on Monday night. He is by far Butler's best men's basketball player, and it was thrust upon him to take the final shot in the national championship game to try and upset the almighty Duke. However, Hayward missed by a tremendously small margin and went from possibly being remembered forever for hitting the greatest shot ever, to now probably a mediocre NBA player who really never got to the status that he could have been. Now, thanks to your miss I easily cruised to a dominant victory with my brackets over certain friends who like to talk a lot of trash, so I am thankful to you for that. In the long run though, Im sure you would have rather had it the other way around. Sorry Gordon, better luck next year my friend. Thanks for reading

End of an Era

Well well well. The other day I warned you of the upcoming possibility of awesomeness that can be brought on by Wrestlemania. I did not take it upon myself to view this event due to the fact that for the past year or so, the WWE has really been lacking in its creativity and entertainment value for me. However, apparently, last nights event marked the end of an era. A great and tremendous era at that. Shawn Michaels lost to the Undertaker in a Win streak vs. Retirement match. It was the Undertaker's 17 year winning streak at Wrestlemania vs. Shawn Michael's retirement. Therefore, last night marked the end of Shawn Michael's wrestling career.

I know what many of you are thinking. It is just a story line and not for real. I am here to tell you that from what I have read and heard from several insiders in the company and wrestling business, Shawn is done wrestling. He may perform other duties within the WWE, but he will no longer wrestle. This is truly a sad day, especially in the eyes of a young boy who first saw The Heartbreak Kid wrestle at Wrestlemania 4 and just skyrocket to superstardom within the WWE. He is and will likely always be my most favorite wrestler. Although The Rock is a close second with Jeff Hardy and Rob Van Dam not far behind, Shawn Michaels was and is the original show stopper and greatest in ring performer I have ever seen. I remember the days of watching him enter the Royal Rumble at number 1 and end up winning the whole thing, defeating Bret Hart in the first ever Iron Man Match, being a founder of the original D-Generation X, and lets not forget his pioneering efforts in the great Ladder Matches that he was a part of. Yesterday was truly the end of an amazing era, and I can only hope that the WWE get its act together and find a new air apparent to his throne.

I would personally like to thank Shawn Higgenbothom for all his efforts. He amazed and inspired me in several ways. I am not ashamed to say that he definitely made it possible for me to dream. He is not the biggest or strongest, but he showed me that all you need is heart and effort and you can truly do anything. For all of you who know that wrestling is fake and all made up, I am aware of this, but it does not mean that I cannot be awed by what this man (or Character) accomplished. Thanks for reading

Wrestlemania!

Tomorrow night renews a great American heritage. Tomorrow night is once again Wrestlemania. Unfortunately, Wrestlemania has not lived up to its name for several years. In fact, professional wrestling itself has not lived up to its name for quite a long time. In my opinion Wrestlemania 14 marked an end of an era, and ever since, the great tradition has struggled to regain its glory days. Wrestlemania 14 featured Stone Cold Steve Austin defeating the legend Shawn Michaels for the WWF championship. While there have been a few stars to come along since, this event marked the end of the legendary era of the WWF.

Now, the WWE, tries to make too many wrestlers into stars and the storylines only last about three or four weeks before another pay per view event airs and brings the conflict to a far too quick end. In my opinion, the WWE should cut its talent roster in half, keep only the best of the best, and dramatically cut down on pay per views in order to build better and stronger story lines. They should keep the legendary pay per views like the Royal Rumble, Survivor Series, Summerslam, and King of the Ring. Other than those the other pay per views are just too much. No doubt tomorrow night will have its moments, but I will not be watching, or for that matter caring, who wins what match or overcomes whatever obstacle they need to.

Professional wrestling used to be a great American tradition, but when the money hungry Vince McMahon got his hands on it, he turned it into a quick economic juggernaut that could not keep its standards up and still turn out enough profit. I would love it if the WWE would heed my advice, and the advice of several others who write about professional wrestling, and take things back to the old ways and contract itself into a smaller and much stronger company. Its time to cut the fat Vince and bring back the bigger than life feeling that professional wrestling has lost over the past several years.

What Happened Disney?

Several years back as a young boy I found myself thoroughly enjoying The Mighty Ducks Movies. To be honest I am completely surprised that Disney stopped themselves after offering us only three such films. In the past Disney has completely exploited all of its successful enterprises, however, in this case it would seem to me that they dropped the ball, or should I say puck. Once Disney realized how popular High School Musical had become, thanks largely in part to the same people who loved the Mighty Ducks, they jumped all over it and have already matched the Ducks movies and I would assume that they will surpass the Ducks within the next couple of years. All I am trying to say is that I am surprised by the actions of Disney as I look back at it. I realize that it would have been difficult to keep the same people involved, but that has not stopped the great Disney machine in the past. There will no doubt be new kids in the next set of High School Musical movies and or shows. Therefore, I find it very interesting that Disney basically chose not to continue with the Ducks and over all it would seem as if they have chosen to try and forget them altogether. I know that there were Mighty Ducks cartoons, but those involved actual duck type aliens flying around fighting bad guys, and also Disney used the name on a professional hockey team, but neither of those were in the same spirit as the films. I am not bringing this up in the hopes that Disney bring back the Ducks, but I am asking that they provide us with a new group of kids overcoming obstacles to fall in love with. Bring on the next generation of superstar kids who are ready to rise up from the gutter to the great heights of winning the olympics, or whatever else Disney can think up.

Never Forget

An interesting thing happens to all of us every single day. It probably happens hundreds of times every day to every single person. This thing that happens is called memory. Memory is absolutely nuts to me. You really are not aware of what exactly you remember until you remember it, and you never know when you will remember something until you do. It makes no sense to me. You may hear a song that you literally have not heard for years, and find yourself somehow remembering all the words and singing along. While this often happens without any effort, many of us struggle when we really sit down and try to remember something. There were several times during school when taking a test that I would come to a question that I know I covered when I studied the material, but no matter how hard I tried I just could not remember the information. Memory is nuts.

Memory can come and go. You may remember something one day and forget it the next. You may remember your best friends phone number from growing up, but you cant seem to remember your own phone number. You usually remember the name of the girl that you never talked to, but find yourself struggling to remember the name of the girl that you dated for a few months in college. I find myself wanting to know more about what makes us remember things, but I realize that I really only want to know what helps me remember. If I can unlock the secret to my own memory I could easily be King. Those people who have unlocked the secret to the success of memorizing what they need to and remember when they need to are the ones who are ruling the world. I want to be one of these people, but in all honesty I know that I wont do the work to make it happen.

In a weird way this gets me to a different topic. Not settling. I think that far too many people are settling in their lives all the time. I find myself becoming dangerously close to settling. I dont ever want to look back on anything and realize that I settled for something less than what I could have had. I am constantly thinking about ways to make my life better, but then find a new thing that catches my fancy or a reason to steer away from the original thought. As long as I keep thinking and keep trying to find what it is that will make me happy I know that I havent settled, and as long as I havent settled I am happy. Well, there it is. It would seem that as long as Im happy in always searching then Im happily searching. It probably does not make any sense to all of you, but it makes perfect sense to me. thanks for reading

Dear Tiger,

I myself am completely over Tiger Woods. I would absolutely love it if for some reason Mr. Woods would just disappear for the rest of time from the face of the earth. I no longer want to hear about him or any of his women. However, there is one piece of information that I want to know and am fairly certain everyone else is waiting for as well. All I want to know is what exactly took place on that fateful thanksgiving night that started this whole thing off. Thats it. Thats all. Tell us what happened that night and disappear forever. I know that if you dont leave us to our lives, we are going to have to hear about you forever. We will have to hear about how you either failed in your comeback or succeeded, whether or not you fell of your "sex addiction" wagon, if your wife smartened up and left you, or finally, whether or not you got your credibility back with the world. Please Tiger, let us know what in the hell caused you to crash your car that night and how bad did Elin kick your ass.

Yeah Bro or should I say Brah

This morning I took it upon myself to relive some of the great memories from the not so distant past. The main tool in this time warp was a television show that unfortunately only lasted three tremendous episodes. This show was Living Lahaina on MTV. It is the story of some surfer dudes who are supposed to be spending their days teaching surf lessons on the island of Hawaii. However, these totally awesome dudes spend most of their time partying and just living the life that I desperately want for myself. Although this show only lasted the short three episodes, it lead to at least one nickname for a friend and several quick laughs on a daily basis. I was able to watch the three episodes once again thanks to MTV.com and until now the idea of researching the show and the guys had not crossed my mind. I will definitely need to look into it and find out whether or not there are any more episodes out there to watch. Until that time I most definitely recommend that you take the time and enjoy some good bro action if you have the time. Also, this makes me realize that MTV has actually had quite a few shows that did not last very long, but were in fact great entertainment. Im not talking about shows like Laguna Beach, a great show for many reasons, but more so shows like 8th and Ocean and several others. It would seem that MTV might cut shows before they are really given a chance to thrive. So, MTV, I hope that you chill out in the future and let us enjoy the little things in the shows that we like. Thanks for reading

Combination=Glorious

This morning I witnessed a most glorious creation. Some of you are going to doubt this piece of absolute awesomeness purely due to the fact that I saw it on saturday morning cartoons on The CW, but I swear to you that it truly is amazing. It is called Turtles Forever and combines the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cartoon from the late 80s with the cartoon from the early 2000s. It is awesome. I have not finished watching it yet, so I cannot clearly state its level of awesome, but I will bet that once I finish it, it will quickly surpass the second and third live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies. I would have to say that this particular combination is good, but a great combination would be combining the WCW and WWF of the late 90s with one another.

I am fully aware that they are combined now and have been since the early 2000s, but by the time they combined much of what would have made an earlier combination great was over. Im talking about how glorious it could have been to have the NWO vs. DX at their prime, or Sting vs. Austin, The Nation of Domination vs. Harlem Heat, or several other dream matches that could have taken place during this time. I will forever be left with the What ifs on that combination, but I can and do thank the creators of the Ninja Turtles for combining the two series and making it light and comical for me to enjoy. There are no doubt several other combinations that could be truly amazing, but I will leave you to thinking of your own and enjoying the possible gloriousness in your own head. Also, very quickly, if you get a chance try and watch Donald Glover on Comedy Central Presents this weekend. If you cant catch him there, he appears on Community on NBC, or go to youtube and check out Derrick Comedy. Thanks for reading

Bad Ronald Bad

Um, so yeah, I have two words for Mr. Ron Washington; I knew you were a druggie liar. As I made very clear yesterday, Texas Ranger's manager Ron Washington has had to have used drugs on more than the one occasion that he claimed he did, and today my beliefs were justified. Ron came out and admitted to using marijuana and amphetemines during his playing career. Now now Mr. Washington, thats not it and we all know it. You have used your entire life and I know it. You need to step forward and let us all know that you are basically the real life Tyrone Biggums.

On a much lighter note and far less spiteful, against a person anyway, is my feeling toward eye drops. I despise eye drops and am currently being forced to use them to attempt to clear up corneal ulcers which seemingly came out of nowhere and are causing me great discomfort. My hate of eye drops really has nothing to do with the drop itself, but more so with my hate of sitting there looking at the drop coming out of the bottle waiting for it to drop into your eye. Is the drop going to be super cold, somewhat painful, soothing, what? I cannot wait to finish these drops and finally get to put my contacts back in so that I can see further than ten to fifteen feet.

Finally my gaze is cast upon the NCAA basketball tournament. Last night The New Mexico Lobos won their first game. This made my father happy and caused me great despair as I had to listen to him brag about "his team" which I am fairly confident that he has never even seen play a full game. My only resort is to ask all of you to cast bad juju on the Lobos tomorrow as they play their second round game against the Washington Huskies. Go Huskies Beat Lobos. Thanks for reading

Ok Lets Talk

Apparently last summer the manager of the Texas Ranger baseball team admitted to and failed a drug test for cocaine. Ron Washington admitted that he would fail the drug test before it was even administered, and upon his failure of said drug test, claimed that it was a one time mistake and will never happen again. Washington has been tested three times per week since and has not yet failed another drug test. It seems that Washington has overcome his mistake and found his way back on to the straight and narrow, but I cannot help but completely not believe his story.

Washington claimed that it was a one time mistake. What? I do not think that a 57 year old man goes out one day and when given the choice all of a sudden decides to go ahead and partake in some nose candy. No sir. This man had used cocaine before and was not caught until this drug test. All you need do is look at this man. He looks like a crazy crack head tweeker looking for his next fix. Come on Ron, you gotta do better than that story, no one believes that you only used cocaine that one time and it just happened to come right before a drug test. Secondly, what are the Texas Rangers doing. Why is this guy still in charge of your baseball team. He is at least a former crack head. I would not want this guy in charge of Fifty Cents, much less my entire baseball team. So, Ron Washington, you better tell the truth, and Rangers you better get your act together.

On another topic all together, I recently saw an old episode of Step by Step. This viewing brought back all of my old memories of watching the show and all the other shows that were on TGIF back in the day. One character that stood out for me back then, and now, was the little tomboy daughter Alicia. Thanks to TMZ and my own curiosity I found out that Alicia or Christine Lakin in real life grew in to quite the attractive woman. I just wanted to share her transformation with all of you as well, so enjoy the pictures and thanks for reading.

March is Mad

The 2010 Men's NCAA basketball tournament begins tomorrow. This is always a very exciting time of year, and this year is no different. Well, no different in the fact that an exciting tournament is about to begin, but less exciting for me due to the fact that my personal favorite team is once again nowhere near being good enough to make the tournament field. That team is Indiana University, and as long as I can remember I was raised to love and cherish the IU basketball team. However, recent years have seen a tremendous rift within the Houston household over team loyalty.

You see, it all began in the year 2000 when coach Bob Knight was fired from the university. Although his firing was fairly controversial, I was left with only a little bit of sadness and despair over his departure. On the other hand, my father, the man who made me into the hoosier loving man that I am, found the whole situation very troubling and basically severed ties with the university and its basketball team. My father decided to change his loyalty to Texas Tech to follow coach Knight, and also more recently after letting go of the Red Raiders after Knight's departure from that team, he has found a new "love" for the New Mexico Lobos coached by former Indiana player once coached by Knight, Mr. Steve Alford. Now, while all of this has taken place I have kept my loyalty in its right place. I have stayed with the hoosiers through it all and will remain until I die.

My loyalty has not been easy. Recently, thanks to now former coach Sampson, the hoosiers have been scraping the bottom of the barrel. However, the season immediately after Knight left, the hoosiers made a glorious run to the national championship game. Looking back on it, it is no coincidence that as soon as Knight's tremendous yet tyrannical reign ended at Indiana, his players rejoiced and played with more vigor and zeal than they had in years, nearly culminating in another championship for the school. The team may be extremely far away from a repeat performance of this tremendous feat, but they continue to gain positive experience every year and sooner than later they will be back in the tournament and ready to make a run for another championship.

As far as this years tournament and the teams that are in it, I have a few basic opinions on how things will go. I am a little biased as far as some of the teams are concerned, which may lead you to not head my words as much as you should. First, I look to see the Lobos lose in the first round to Montana in the hopes of being able to rub it in my fathers face for years to come. Another team that I loathe, but respect, is Duke. This hatred may or may not be due to the fact that my best friend loves the Blue Devils, but either way I despise them. I am able to look through my hatred and realize that they are well coached and always play the best team basketball every single year. This year, Duke has the best team it has fielded in several years, and I am putting all my imaginary money on them winning the entire tournament. There are several teams that can easily defeat the Blue Devils and snatch the championship away, but many of them lack the team skills that Duke exemplifies and uses game in and game out to dominate.

Take the necessary steps to watch as many games of the tournament as you can, and if you do nothing else, please join me in cheering heartily against the New Mexico Lobos. Thanks for reading

You really cant make this stuff up

As I continue to go through life and look at the things that are going on around me and going on throughout the world, I keep coming to the same realization. You truly cannot make this stuff up. There are so many unimaginable things happening every single day that I am constantly amused and astounded by them. When I was younger I was either completely ignorant to the way things really were, or the world has changed so drastically over the past several years that the bizarre and insane has become the rule. I think that as a member of the younger generation in America that is struggling to find their place and figure out exactly what the real world is all about, that not only I, but we as a generation have been wronged by those who came before us.

I truly believe that my generation has been the one that everyone has been looking to throughout the past as the one who will have to deal with everything. I have thought about this in several ways, and I keep coming back to the same result. The people who came before us, sadly alot of our parents, brushed off alot of the difficult issues and problems of the day and left them directly for our generation to deal with. The obvious problems of the environment, the economy, and overpopulation throughout the country have been mostly ignored and even exploited by past generations and left for us to deal with. I think that we will eventually be able to find our way and actually fix several of these problems, but as really the first generation that has basically been left out in the cold by everyone before us, we have quite the journey ahead of us.

The biggest problem standing in our way of actually fixing these problems are the people who actually made these problems. Several of the people responsible for these problems and the ones who have benefited the most from exploiting them are still in powerful positions and actually still creating problems to this day. Therefore, I call for a revolt of my generation against all those who came before us. We are in a very interesting situation. We need to come together and help everyone else realize that if we as a country are really going to change things for the better we have to actually change things. We must get rid of the older "dirty" people who are in charge and begin to replace them with people of my generation who have ideas and the zeal to make the problems go away and fix this nation of ours.

It is time for the youth to revolt and make the changes that are necessary in our country. Rise up and take your place in the solution. Thanks for reading

Lil Wayne's World

Unfortunately Lil Wayne is now in jail probably trying to figure out what to do as a sober person who basically can just not go outside. However, before Lil went into jail he made sure that he made several music videos and songs to help hold us over while he is away. Lil Wayne basically appears in everyones songs anyway and is in way too many videos already so a break from him would be nice, but then again, who am I kidding he is most glorious.

Another one of Lil Waynes accomplishments has been to introduce us to the young hip hop stars that he has signed to his personal label. From what I have seen and heard there is quite a bit of decent talent among these young apprentices. The biggest of these stars in my eyes is Nicki Minaj. I immediately took a liking to her mostly because I thoroughly enjoy the sound of a female rapper, but upon closer appraisal, I have realized her true talent. I only hope that she is able to have more staying power than any other female rapper in the past. There has really never been a female rapper, other than Missy Elliot, to stick around for more than a few years. I believe that Minaj has the ability to beat this out due to her unique sound and lyrical style.

Lil has also brought about a new style and way of doing things that is beginning to bother me a little bit. I like to call it the stutter technique, or record skip. It is when a word or part of a word is repeated over and over really quickly for a couple of seconds. I like this effect is certain areas and in small amounts, but it is becomming far too prevalent on all of Wayne, and his apostles, songs. I am not completely out of love with this technique, but I am afraid that if we do not get this situation solved, that I will quickly begin to hate it. So, please lets tone down the stutter effect.

Its the beginning of a new week everyone, take a moment to enjoy it, and if you get a chance get out and watch the very funny She's Out of My League. Thanks for reading

The Haus of Gaga dominates

Lady Gaga has done it yet again. I viewed her new music video for Telephone yesterday, and ever since it has been dominating my mind. She is the best. No one else has ever come close in the past, or will ever come close to her skills. When I first took notice of Gaga a few years ago I never thought that she had the talent to reach these heights, but I can now say that I truly believe that she is the best performer in the world right now, and may in fact be able to become the greatest ever.

Now, I definitely realize that many people completely dislike Gaga, or perhaps do not understand her. I dont fully understand her, nor probably will I ever get it, but one thing that I can tell you is that she is most glorious. I mean what can be better than her rocking out in an American flag outfit, directly followed by killing it in some sort of crazy cat suit. You must admit that not only is her music catchy and fun, but her performances of the songs is totally next level. If you find yourself being a Gaga hater I feel sad for you, but also implore you to just sit back and enjoy it.

Revisited

How many times in your life do you think back to certain things that you enjoyed in the past and have wondered if you would still enjoy them. I tend to do this alot. I admit that I am often thinking back on the past and wondering if things will ever be the same again. Recently, I revisited a few of the things that I really enjoyed before. The first of these was a great band called The Meg and Dia Band. They came around a few years ago with the song Monster. It was a good song, and it appealed greatly to me because it was a hard rock song with a female singing lead. I have a huge weak spot for any group that lives up to this. So, a few weeks back I heard Monster again and found myself wondering what, if anything, The Meg and Dia Band were up to now. I really didnt find out the answer to that until I happened to come across their cd at the library. Needless to say, I checked it out, and I must say that it is absolutely tremendous. It is not as hard rock as Monster was, but it is still fairly fast paced pop rock still with a great female lead singer. If you are looking to broaden your music horizons you should definitely check out The Meg and Dia Band especially their cd titled Here, Here, and Here.

The next blast from the past comes to us from 2006, which I realize is not that long ago, but in my life four years is actually a very long time. It all came about one sunday when I was watching Another Cinderella Story (starring the glorious Selena Gomez) on ABC Family. Once, that piece of perfection was over, another one started. Step Up immediately followed, and I was quickly reminded how much I enjoy and crush on Jenna Dewan. Unfortunately she is actually married to Channing Tatum (her co-star in Step Up) in real life. However, this does not stop me from enjoying watching her movies. So, after Step Up was over I decided to imdb Ms. Dewan and found a few movies that she has done recently. I quickly took the time to watch them and although most people would call them cheesy if not bad, I thought that they were awesome. Therefore, if you take a liking to Ms. Dewan in the way that I do, I highly recommend watching American Virgin, and The Jerk Theory. She has also been a few other movies fairly recently, but I am still working on finding them, so until I am able to fully endorse them I will leave you with the previous selection.

I highly doubt most of you will actually take my advice to enjoy Ms. Dewan and The Meg and Dia Band, but lets be completely honest...I dont care. I love them and thats all that matters to me. So booyakasha. Thanks for reading

Cool Rules

As Americans, and plain normal people, it should come as no surprise to any of us when someone really cool comes along and grabs our attention. Throughout my life there have been many a cool thing or person to come along and rock it out. For me, it starts with the Teenage Mutant Turtles, continues on with Sylvster Stallone, and more recently there have been people like Clooney. However, today I realized who the newest cool guy is. This person has actually been around for quite a while, but it hasnt been until the past couple of years that he has stepped up to the cool lime light.

All of this came about today as I watched a movie that I feel like did not receive the credit and acclaim that it should have. The movie is Sherlock Holmes, and the star and new cool guy is Robert Downey Jr. I thoroughly enjoyed Iron Man a few years ago, and have enjoyed Downeys antics ever since, but after seeing Sherlock Holmes (and to an extremely lesser extent The Soloist) I cant help but find Robert to be totally awesome. His snide remarks and witty sense of humor keep me guessing as to what he will say and do next, and I love it. He reminds me of Clooney, just dirtier. Downey has indeed been around for a long time, but I think he let himself get in his own way, and now he is ready to be humble and just have fun with everything he does. Not to mention its probably easier to get good movies when you arent juiced up on whatever drugs Mr. Downey was into during the 90s.

No doubt there will be several others to take the cool torch as far as my opinions are concerned, but for right now there is non better than Robert Downey Jr. Take my advice and check out Sherlock Holmes as soon as you can and hopefully you will enjoy it as much as me. Thanks for reading

Even more interesting

Since I wrote the following post about Lindsay Lohan, it has come to my attention that she is suing Etrade for their commercial that aired during the super bowl claiming that it was about her. In the commercial the name Lindsay is used for the supposed "Milkaholic" baby. Lohan says that this is obviously about her and she is suing for 100 million dollars. Something does not seem right to me about this whole thing. In my opinion, Etrade is paying Lohan to sue them, or paying her to make it seem like she is suing them. This is some sort of weird advertising ploy or something like that. However, if it turns out to be a legitimate claim by Lohan I guess I wont be too surprised, but I just cant believe it for right now. It just seems to me that Etrade is trying to break away from the baby stuff and is trying some crazy attempt to use whatever is left of Lohans celebrity.