Drumming on "Dope Boys" w/ The Game
MISS TLC SAYS: The Game's last album was already "dope", but this "Dope Boys" is making me think that the upcoming L.A.X. may be even hotter. I loved Travis Barker before, but his appearance on this definitely made me appreciate him more. Do ya thang bwoy. :)
Monday, June 30, 2008
This Is Hot!!!
eBay Buyers Beware!!!
This just in from the NY Times...
EBay to Pay Damages in Sale of Fakes!!!
Basically, a French court ruled that eBay is responsible for the sale of counterfeit items on their site. eBay has always claimed that they do what they can to stop some sales, but that's it's virtually impossible to check them all. LVMH claims that they do almost nothing in response to the rampant sales of bootleg designer goods on their auction website. I found this part of the article especially interesting:
LVMH, a maker of high-end leather goods, perfumes and other fashion and luxury products, successfully challenged eBay for a second time in the French court, arguing that 90 percent of the Louis Vuitton bags and Dior perfumes sold on eBay are fakes.
MISS TLC SAYS: I mean, seriously, you HAVE to know that the bulk of the stuff on that site is fake IF it is sold for a ridiculous price (and sometimes even when it's not). Sorry folks, but you can't buy a Louis Vuitton bag for $50 as much as you want to believe that you can. [If you ask me, you SHOULD be able to considering LV stuff looks to be worth only that much to me. Half their stuff is made from reinforced vinyl with childish symbols and design patterns... but hey, that's just my opinion. I am NOT a Louis fan.] However, there are some honest people selling real designer goods out there on auction sites. For the most part, they are the used items though. I don't see anything wrong with someone realizing after a while that they never use the orange clutch they bought impulsively for $250 a year ago and so they try to sell it on eBay to someone else for like $150. And I also don't see nothing wrong with someone cleaning out their closet and selling off all their gently used (still in good condition) items for a discounted rate. But when someone claims to have NEW Louis Vuitton (or any other designer) bags WITH tags on 'em and they are pricing them at more than 50% below the regular price, you have a bootlegger on your hands so just watch yourself.
Me In A Cab
MISS TLC SAYS: What I do when I'm bored in a cab coming home from the city after a long night out. :)
Amy Aims Then PUNCHES Her Fans
MISS TLC SAYS: Honestly, my first reaction is to say "WHY THE HELL ARE PEOPLE STILL GOING TO SHOWS TO SEE THIS CHICK?!!?!" She either doesn't show up, shows up and slurs through all her lyrics and stumbles off the stage drunk, and now she's HITTING fans??????? Look, I know the other side is that she was defending herself. Her side claims an overzealous fan was grabbing at her beehive and she had to get them off her. But really, that's what security is for, and SHE was the one who chose to get so close to them anyway. They need to get this mess (albeit a talented mess) off the concert circuit PRONTO.
Rapid Fire
Thursday, June 26, 2008
A Miss TLC Review: "Ryan Raftery & Friends: A Solo Act"
On Monday night, I attended the opening of a new cabaret in the West Village simply titled "Ryan Raftery & Friends: A Solo Act". Now I'm not gonna lie. Ryan is a close friend. (I don't want to be accused of unfair review practices and back room politics once I'm a world famous journalist and all-around superstar. Yes, I know I have one of those already covered... it's up for you to decide which one... wink, wink). So getting back to Ryan. I grew up with him. But just when you think I am going to sugarcoat this whole review BECAUSE of that, you're wrong. I WILL be honest. However, don't be turned off when the positivity starts radiating from this page because Ryan IS fantastic. I would say that whether or not I met him before that night. You see Ryan has a certain joie de vivre that makes you want to be his friend the moment he starts telling a story, reciting lines from one of his favorite movies or plays, or (as is the case Monday night) opens his loud mouth to sing.
Paris Commune's Rouge Bar hosts this bi-weekly summer cabaret. Paris Commune is a great mainstay restaurant in the West Village, and a great place to catch an easy bistro-style dinner upstairs pre-show. The Rouge Bar is technically billed as a "wine bar", and so it is small and cavernous with a fantastic selection of vino. The room probably only seats about 30 people (and that includes about 5 spots at the bar), but that lends itself to the cozy feel of the show. Believe me, the small seating capacity has nothing to do with Ryan's ability to fill a room. He has enough friends and industry connections that want to come see him when they are in town (and not on stage themselves), but from what I understand heard, he personally received a request to perform here from one of the restaurant's investors.
The show runs about an hour with a brief intermission exactly at the halfway point. Raftery performs 10 songs in total, with some witty banter thrown in between each song. Considering I knew Ryan already, I wasn't surprised by his uncanny ease and comfort in addressing the crowd in such a tight, intimate space. He has always been a natural performer. He belongs on the stage, or at least in the front of the room where people can see him.
One of the most endearing qualities of a cabaret act is the witty banter spoken between each of the songs. "Ryan Raftery & Friends: A Solo Act" definitely delivers in this regard. However, I would've liked it a little more if a couple of the stories were more personal and/or threaded into a continuing storyline about the show's star. (I don't want to give it all away, but the stories told here are hilarious, bizarre, entertaining, and... entirely un-true. For the most part.)
Now onto the song choices. The music performed runs the gamut from showtunes (Raftery's strong suit), to 80s pop hits, to current R&B radio mainstays. I spoke to Ryan after the show and inquired about the set list and whether or not it would change during the course of the summer. He said that it would and in fact, he performed a song in honor of Gay Pride week in NYC that he believed would be cut from any future performances (because it had already served its purpose as a specific occasion-based tribute). For me, it's hard to say what was my favorite song. However, I can name three specific ditties as the ones I was most looking forward to seeing again when I get around to visiting the show for a second time, and the reasons for each. Those three were "Stacy's Mom", "Don't Take Much" (from the Broadway show 'The Life'), and "Umbrella"... yes, that "Umbrella". Ryan's lead-in story and animated acting throughout "Stacy's Mom" is what makes that song so hysterical. His dance moves and special rendition of "Umbrella" make that one enjoyable. And lastly, "Don't Take Much" is moving because it's best suited to the star's voice. His voice literally fills the room with passion and vibrato through an emotional song originally sung by Chuck Cooper on the Broadway cast recording (and I WILL go so far as to say that Ryan sings it better than him).
The songs I could do without - "Father Figure" and the aforementioned Gay Pride song. I guess I got my wish with that one considering Raftery noted that it wouldn't be used in future shows. There was nothing wrong the song itself, or the sentiment, but it just didn't reach the level of the others in impact and/or hilarity.
Top 3 Reasons You Should Go See This Show:
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Miss TLC Take On Alicia Keys' BET Awards 2008 Performance
I love Alicia Keys. I love Alicia Keys' current album. I love(d) SWV. I love(d) TLC [TLC the group of course, not the real and official and original ME TLC... that is one TLC I'll love forever :)]. I still love En Vogue. But this performance did not work. Sorry, it didn't. It's uncomfortable enough to bring back out a bunch of chicks that don't really perform anymore, don't really get along anymore, and have gotten a bit older. It's another thing entirely to bring them all out for like 30 seconds each and then have a current mega-successful, still young, and always performing superstar like Alicia Keys stand next to them with a goofy grin and "yay you!" facial expression while singing along to THEIR hits. It's somewhat demeaning if you ask me.
It's not that the girls couldn't perform anymore. It's just that as big as Alicia is now, that doesn't automatically give her free rein to stand up their with them and pretend she's been added to the groups TLC, SWV, and En Vogue all in one easy night. It was the same kind of feeling I got seeing Beyonce "pay tribute" to her predecessors in her Grammy performance with Tina Turner. Beyonce is NO Tina (even though she loves to act like she is... see the Prince/Beyonce Grammy performance for evidence of that one). But that whole thing just came off like Beyonce doing Tina a favor by giving her airtime again.
I'm all for the stars of today paying their respects to the stars of yesterday, but I have to believe there's a better way to do these things. Perhaps just stick to the "we'll bring out a bunch of people to perform different hits of yours through the ages while also giving you a nice speech and standing ovation" way of doing tributes. Dragging them all out on stage to clap around and make the crowd do the "wave your hands in the air" thing in their faces is uncomfortable for us all. It feels like it's 25 years from now and we're watching a live feed into senior citizen homes across America on "90s night".
Like I said, I love all these women (honestly there was not one chick on that stage that I do not have love [or had love] for). But to have Alicia doing the famous TLC "Waterfalls" dance along with them, and trying to riff with Dawn and the girls who are still miles ahead of her in sexy vamp-ish appeal, and then trying to out-sing Coko HAD to have these chicks silently cursing her out in their heads. LOL. All in good fun though. No matter what, it's great to see these women getting their props. I just wish it was orchestrated in a cleaner, more respectful manner.
Chart Chat
This week's top 20 albums:
1. COLDPLAY "VIVA LA VIDA" 721,134 units sold
2. LIL WAYNE "THA CARTER III" 308,505 units sold
3. CAMP ROCK "SOUNDTRACK" 188,370 units sold
4. NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC "VOL. 28" 80,966 units sold
5. PLIES "DEFINITION OF REAL" 67,678 units sold
6. USHER "HERE I STAND" 64,938 units sold
7. RIHANNA "GOOD GIRL GONE BAD" 63,319 units sold
8. DISTURBED "INDESTRUCTIBLE" 59,340 units sold
9. KATY PERRY "ONE OF THE BOYS" 46,767 units sold
10. OFFSPRING "RISE & FALL RAGE & GRACE" 45,696 units sold
11. JUDAS PRIEST "NOSTRADAMUS" 41,922 units sold
12. JOURNEY "REVELATION" 37,796 units sold
13. WEEZER "WEEZER (RED ALBUM)" 29,709 units sold
14. 3 DOORS DOWN "3 DOORS DOWN" 29,114 units sold
15. ALANIS MORISSETTE "FLAVORS OF ENTANGLEMENT" 28,803 units sold
16. KID ROCK "ROCK N ROLL JESUS" 28,595 units sold
17. LEONA LEWIS "SPIRIT" 27,991 units sold
18. DUFFY "ROCKFERRY" 27,517 units sold
19. TAYLOR SWIFT "TAYLOR SWIFT" 27,413 units sold
20. N.E.R.D. "SEEING SOUNDS" 23,620 units sold
Here are my comments...
* Yay Coldplay!!! That's a nice debut for them, and they deserve it. I (and my partner-in-crime Mr. T. Coles) firmly believe that the song "Viva La Vida" will win 'Record of the Year' at the Grammys next year.
* Wayne dropped about 69% this week. That's about right.
* Besides Coldplay, the big success story of this week is Rihanna. As much as I believe her talent is COMPLETELY over-rated, the girl is doing EXTREMELY well the last couple of years. Just when you think she's done, she pops back up out of practically nowhere once again. Her "Good Girl Gone Bad" album shot from #100 on the chart to #7 this week! Ugh. "Take a Bow" indeed.
* Usher's still in the top 10??? C'mon people, that album sucks, and so does he. Please stop giving providing him with more air to plump up his already over-inflated head.
* Other than that, I thought I accidentally opened the wrong chart. With Offspring, Judas Priest, Weezer, and Journey all in the top 20, I thought for sure I was looking at a chart from at least 10 years ago. Kudos to all the guys for staying relevant in an otherwise fickle world of music consumers.
Watch The New Extended "Eagle Eye" Trailer Here!
MISS TLC SAYS: Definitely looks good... sick cast... so many people popped up in that trailer throughout... AND Steven Spielberg produced it? AND Shia looks gorge in it??? ;)
"Eagle Eye" is due in theaters on September 26, 2008.
Where Have I Seen You Before? - Mario Lopez on "Golden Girls" Edition
The other day, I was flipping through the channels, and stumbled across an old episode of "Golden Girls" on Lifetime. It was the one where Dorothy tries to help her favorite student stay in the country when he's in danger of getting deported. What was really CRAZY though was that the student was Mario Lopez! Yes, the same Mario Lopez who is currently the host of "America's Best Dance Crew", was a former contestant on "Dancing With the Stars", is one of People Magazine's hottest bachelors, and the infamous AC Slater from "Saved From The Bell"!!! LOL.
Check out my screencaps below:
MISS TLC SAYS: Who would've thought a little latino boy could get help with his Visa from four senior citizens living together in Miami? How quaint.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Seen On The Train
MISS TLC SAYS: A NYC subway car is not a living room. And the horrifically dirty plastic and metal benches are not a couch. So WHY WHY WHY would would think it's acceptable to remove your shoes (yep, she took them both off) and fully drape your legs over your man on a morning rush hour car?!?!?!?!? Ugh.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Lil Wayne Sells "A Milli"
In case you haven't heard yet, rapper Lil Wayne has sold over a million copies of his latest release, Tha Carter III, in one week. This is very good for the music industry because sales have been faltering for a while now. Albums have sold in the hundreds of thousands in their debut week, but no one has hit the million unit mark since 2005 (50 Cent's sophomore album). Therefore, Tha Carter III brings hope back to a deflated game. It shows that you CAN still put up big numbers if the album has enough of a buzz around it. Lil Wayne didn't even have a stellar marketing plan, or any publicity stunt-type set up for this release. True, there was the onslaught of press for months, but that was due to the fact that, love him or hate him, Lil Wayne is a star. He says what he wants, is cockier than Kanye, and gave himself the title of "Greatest Rapper Alive" a while back. In other words, he behaves like a rock star. Women think he's sexy (although I can NOT imagine how), men think he's funny, and the press thinks his sometimes brash/sometimes comical delivery is entertaining and real.
But before the marketing machines start going crazy proclaiming that Lil Wayne is making unprecedented moves in the music industry, let's all calm down for a moment. Selling a million plus units is nothing new. And no, before you say it's only been the pop tarts who've sold that much in the past, that's not true either. Yes, Lil Wayne has beaten first week sales records for rap greats such as Jay-Z and Kanye, he hasn't beaten other rappers such as 50 Cent and Eminem.
So now for your information, and because you know I always love to hook my readers up with THE REAL, I have compiled a list of other million-plus unit debuts for your perusal in chronological order:
And before you start wondering, no, superstar artists such as Jay-Z, Kanye, Madonna, Mariah, Biggie, and Janet Jackson have never sold more a million or more units in any one week.
In conclusion, Lil Wayne has definitely accomplished something big this past week, but he hasn't broken new ground. The industry was definitely a different place when Jive Records was running things with their pop trifecta of NSYNC, Britney, and The Backtreet Boys. However, 50 just did over a mil in 2005 AND THAT WAS ONLY IN FOUR DAYS (it was an abbreviated week because they ended up releasing the album early to try and quell the bootleg sales that were getting out of hand). At least Tha Carter III has given us hope once again. It's like the rap game's Obama. Holla.
Chart Chat
This week's top 20 albums:
1. LIL WAYNE "THA CARTER III" 1,005,545 units sold
2. PLIES "DEFINITION OF REAL" 214,532 units sold
3. NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC "VOL. 28" 132,464 units sold
4. DISTURBED "INDESTRUCTIBLE" 101,835 units sold
5. USHER "HERE I STAND" 100,807 units sold
6. JOURNEY "REVELATION" 89,240 units sold
7. N.E.R.D. "SEEING SOUNDS" 79,968 units sold
8. ALANIS MORISSETTE "FLAVORS OF ENTANGLEMENT" 70,374 units sold
9. MY MORNING JACKET "EVIL URGES" 49,083 units sold
10. WEEZER "WEEZER (RED ALBUM)" 45,921 units sold
11. 3 DOORS DOWN "3 DOORS DOWN" 38,043 units sold
12. SEX AND THE CITY "SOUNDTRACK" 35,191 units sold
13. ASHANTI "DECLARATION" 33,898 units sold
14. LEONA LEWIS "SPIRIT" 32,702 units sold
15. DUFFY "ROCKFERRY" 29,650 units sold
16. TAYLOR SWIFT "TAYLOR SWIFT" 29,610 units sold
17. FRANK SINATRA "NOTHING BUT THE BEST" 29,261 units sold
18. TOBY KEITH "TOBY KEITH 35 BIGGEST HITS" 28,920 units sold
19. KID ROCK "ROCK N ROLL JESUS" 28,275 units sold
20. MONTGOMERY GENTRY "BACK WHEN I KNEW IT ALL" 27,175 units sold
Here are my comments...
* Lil Wayne does it BIG. REAL big. So big that I am addressing his sales in another post entirely.
* Uck, I can't believe Plies debuted at #2, albeit with a huge difference between him and the #1 spot, but still, he will think he's the ish for debuting that high.
* Usher and Ashanti's new albums both continue to decline on the charts... as they should. Neither album is good (trust me).
* N.E.R.D. debuted very well. I'm happy for them. I love that album (full review coming soon in a separate post).
* I'm happy to see the "Sex and the City Soundtrack" holding on in the top 15 as well. It's a really solid disc (full review coming soon in a separate post).
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Rocco Almost Rocks Tiger
From The NY Daily News...
SAN DIEGO - The agony finally gave way to ecstasy for Tiger Woods.
His 14th major championship came with plenty of pain for the gain, and when it was over, when he had finally beaten off the dogged Rocco Mediate on an extra, sudden-death playoff hole Monday, he was able to proclaim this U.S. Open championship as the most satisfying of all.
"I think this is the best, just because of the things I had to deal with," said Woods, able finally to rest a left knee that doctors warned him against testing so soon after April 15 surgery. "It's close to the first one I won (the '97 Masters) but with all the things considered this week, yeah."
Woods just nodded when asked if he was told he could injure the knee further by playing.
Asked if he did, he smiled and said, "Maybe."
"As far as future ramifications, I'm not really good at listening to doctor's orders. Hey, I won this week, so it is what it is."
He was definitely pushed this week at Torrey Pines, not only by the "zingers" in his knee but by Mediate, who roared back from three down with eight holes to play and for the second straight day forced Woods to birdie the 18th hole to stay alive.
Woods did that by blasting a drive and hitting a 4-iron 217 yards to the par-5 green. Mediate drove into the left bunker and couldn't go for the green from there, so he laid up to wedge distance.
Mediate had a putt to win it but his 18-footer slipped past. Woods ran his eagle putt past the cup and had to make a 4-1/2-footer for the birdie. That left both players with even-par 71s.
In the end, in front of huge galleries he had never before experienced, the 45-year-old Mediate was simply outgunned. The sudden-death playoff started on the par-4 seventh and was to continue on the par-3 eighth and the par-5 18th - that setup was predetermined, according to the USGA, because the holes can be played in an easily accessible loop near the 18th green consisting of a par-4, par-3 and par-5.
Woods, however, had a huge advantage over Mediate on Nos.7 and 18 so Mediate's best chance after the 18-hole round was to somehow get to No.8 and win it there. But he bogeyed No. 7, unable to get up and down from the drop areas after a bad drive into the left bunker and an approach up against the grandstand. That allowed Woods' two-putt par to end the drama.
"He's amazing. He's hard to beat," Mediate said. "I threw everything I had, the kitchen sink, right at him. I just about got him. I'm sure I scared him. My heart is all over this golf course. I've got nothing left."
Neither did Woods.
Now that he's four majors away from Jack Nicklaus' record 18, he may not have the chance to close the gap at next month's British Open, which he has won two of the last four years. Woods said he is headed for another layoff and although it's still his goal to make it to Royal Birkdale on July 17-20, he said, "to be honest with you, I really don't know."
Woods said he "wasn't going to bag it" this past week.
"That's not my nature," he said. "You keep going forward. There's no finish line, you just keep pushing and pushing and I did all week."
As gutsy wins go, the performance probably ranked behind Ben Hogan's 1950 Open win 16 months after his car wreck and Ken Venturi's 1964 Open win battling heat exhaustion. But Woods didn't shock anyone by winning this.
"Geez, (Hogan) was in the hospital and he didn't know if he was ever going to walk again," Woods said. "I knew I could walk, it's just going to be a little bit on the slow side. Everyone plays with knick-knack injuries, here, there, whatever it is, and Roc's done it pretty much his entire career with his bad back. Guys have that, you have injuries. And you play through it and suck it up and get it done."
It's done ... for the 14th time.
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MISS TLC SAYS: This year's U.S. Open was fantastic. People that never watch golf were recruited into AT LEAST yesterday's playoff. And then the fact that they tied AGAIN after an additional 18 holes was incredible. Tiger and Rocco were playing very entertaining golf, and I do think the right guy won in the end. Rocco was a formidable opponent, and Tiger gave him his due in all interviews and during his trophy acceptance speech. He might not have the trophy (or winning prize money), but Rocco sure has an amazing story to tell his grandchildren.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Sex Ed = Self Esteem - Pt. 3
Yes readers. I have indeed brought back one of my favorite features. For my new fans, let me let you in on a secret. I am a HUGE believer in self esteem as a strong defense against teen pregnancies, the creation of a slut, and the transmission of STDs. You can laugh all you want to, but traditional Sex Ed just doesn't seem to be working in this day and age. And scare tactics are even worse. Teens think they are invincible, daring even. So it really doesn't affect them when you say they might die if they have unprotected sex with the wrong person. Instead, you have to make them believe the best message of all. They have to know they are worth it. They have to know that they are valuable. And they have to know that the people who they do choose to sleep with in their lifetime should be looked at as an exclusive club, not a recap of the roster on their high school varsity football team (or even the group of guys they hang out with in the hottest club in NYC for the older chicks). The latest installment of this award-winning series (well in the future it will be :)) looks at the terribly sickening progression of the sleaziness of high school prom attire.
Everyone's seen the emails. Someone somewhere must have sent you the "funny" pics of kids going to their prom wearing outlandishly trashy clothes with skin popping out all over the place. Most people do just laugh at the ridiculousness of it all, but it's not funny. The fact that girls actually wear dresses (and I use the term lightly) like that only shows me one thing - they have no self esteem. You can't if you choose to walk around naked and on display in the public like that ON THE WAY TO YOUR HIGH SCHOOL PROM. But kids are like cattle, and one girl one day wore a pretty revealing outfit to her dance, was photographed in it and a monster was born. I'm sure the guys tell them they look hot, and those girls get a ton of attention all night, and so other girls start to take on that pathetic argument of "hey, I have the body for it now, why not?" Because it's whoreish, that's why not. Talk about leaving nothing to the imagination.
Let me talk to the young girls for just a second here - ladies - if you are beautiful, if you are "hot", if you are a catch, and if you have a lot to offer anyone (a man, a friend, a potential boyfriend or husband), then you are going to get that attention and still be the same person covered up from head to toe with a sweatsuit and a parka on. Your natural beauty and personality should be able to shine through regardless. A man will NEVER hear what you are saying, or look past your ta-tas if they are served to him on a silver platter every time he sees you. It's just not possible. Men are not wired that way and they won't be able to concentrate (I'm just joking about that part... maybe).
Either way, it's now time to use the specific example which really set me off and made me realize y'all were DEFINITELY in need of a dose of reality on the Sex Ed = Self Esteem debate from Miss TLC again.
Back in the beginning of May, a story surfaced out of Texas about Marche Taylor, a high school student who was arrested at her senior prom. And why was arrested at her senior prom you ask (if you didn't already read the article that is)? Well school officials believed her dress was too skimpy, and bordering on obscene. Therefore, they told her she had to leave the premises, a skirmish ensued, and the girl was put in handcuffs. Now I wasn't there so I don't know exactly what kind of altercation occurred when she was asked to leave the prom, and I do know that any high school student would be mad if they arrived to the venue on their "big night" after shelling out their dough to turn right around and have to leave.
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Marche Taylor's dress was horrendous. And I don't just mean that on a scale of taste. I mean that it was offensive, cheap-looking, ugly, and something only a prostitute or stripper would wear AT WORK (not even during their off time). If you don't believe me, here goes:
Yup. She's the one on the left. And yes, she's the one wearing a thin, almost transparent scarf to cover her nipples and nothing else. And just when you think it's not that bad, check out this screen shot of the full dress from the video I am posting below...
The fact that this was a teen wearing it was irrelevant to me at first. She looks like she is on the stroll. ANYONE wearing this dress would look like a fool to me. Naturally, my first reaction was "WHO THE HELL LET HER WALK OUT OF THE HOUSE LIKE THAT!?!?!?" Now maybe she doesn't have both parents in the household, but I would imagine there is one?!?!? (If not, then I truly do feel sorry for her, but that's besides the point.)
Now Marche Taylor claimed her dress was gorgeous, custom made, and admired by all her classmates. Yeah right. Maybe they were admiring it for a window treatment in their trailer, because the only place you can convince me custom-made that dress would be Bed, Bath & Beyond (in the curtains section). But seriously, I know that dresses not far from that one ARE sold and sewn all across America nowadays marketed as "prom attire". It's disgraceful.
I'm not saying someone should wear a turtleneck down to the ankles long-sleeve kinda dress (like my poor mother did to her prom), there's just a way to look cute and attractive and GOOD without being naked. There IS such thing as tasteful, pretty, AGE-APPROPRIATE promwear after all. You don't just wear a cheaply-made scarf bikini to your prom and call it a custom-made creation.
So I'm speaking to the mothers AND the young women here when I say, COOL IT with the straight-up whore attire. You can still look pretty, you can still wear a mini-dress (as long as it's tasteful), and you can still wear something fitted (if you have the body to pull it off), but your stomach should not be on display in evening attire (that is for the beach), your breasts should not be out and about with only the nipple covered, and you SHOULD be wearing underwear. If you think the last part is obvious to all, think again. The local news in Houston interviewed Marche Taylor after her prom mishap, and if you listen closely, you'll hear her say that the administrators at the prom told her what she was wearing was inappropriate "because she wasn't even wearing underwear" or something to that effect. Oh boy. This truly is sad.
You can watch the sad video here.
For those who haven't read the last two installments of my Sex Ed = Self Esteem series, I have pasted links for you below:
Sex Ed = Self Esteem - Pt. 2
Sex Ed = Self Esteem - Pt. 1
Friday, June 13, 2008
I'm Gonna Miss Tim Russert
MISS TLC SAYS: Wow. I'm really gonna feel this one. Tim was entertaining, objective, and informative on "Meet The Press". He was a good guy. I wonder who they are going to peg to replace him???
R. Kelly Cleared Of All Charges
WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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WHAT?!?!?!?!?!??!?!
From CNN.com...
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A Chicago jury has acquitted R. Kelly on all counts at his child pornography trial.
R. Kelly is accused of making a home sex video with an underage girl at his child pornography trial.
The verdict came six years after the R&B superstar was first charged with videotaping himself having sex with a young girl. Prosecutors had said she was as young as 13 at the time.
Kelly had faced a maximum 15 years in prison.
Both Kelly and the now 23-year-old alleged victim had denied they were the ones appearing on the tape, which was played for the jury at the beginning and end of the trial.
The prosecution's star witness was a woman who said she engaged in three-way sex with Kelly and the girl from the video. Defense attorneys argued the man on the tape didn't have a large mole on his back, as Kelly does.
The jury of nine men and three women included the wife of a Baptist preacher from Kelly's Chicago-area hometown, as well as a compliance officer for a Chicago investment firm and a man in his 60s who emigrated from then-Communist Romania nearly 40 years ago.
Jurors took the sex tape at the center of the trial with them, and a monitor was set up in the jury room in case they wanted to review it.
Kelly was charged with 14 counts of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl, who prosecutors say was as young as 13.
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A Chicago jury has acquitted R. Kelly on all counts at his child pornography trial.
R. Kelly is accused of making a home sex video with an underage girl at his child pornography trial.
The verdict came six years after the R&B superstar was first charged with videotaping himself having sex with a young girl. Prosecutors had said she was as young as 13 at the time.
Kelly had faced a maximum 15 years in prison.
Both Kelly and the now 23-year-old alleged victim had denied they were the ones appearing on the tape, which was played for the jury at the beginning and end of the trial.
The prosecution's star witness was a woman who said she engaged in three-way sex with Kelly and the girl from the video. Defense attorneys argued the man on the tape didn't have a large mole on his back, as Kelly does.
The jury of nine men and three women included the wife of a Baptist preacher from Kelly's Chicago-area hometown, as well as a compliance officer for a Chicago investment firm and a man in his 60s who emigrated from then-Communist Romania nearly 40 years ago.
Jurors took the sex tape at the center of the trial with them, and a monitor was set up in the jury room in case they wanted to review it.
Kelly was charged with 14 counts of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl, who prosecutors say was as young as 13.
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Old Skool Couple
Danny Wood and Halle Berry, huh? I never saw that one coming. But apparently, these are pics from back during NKOTB's heyday, when Danny and Halle were an item and she was always seen backstage at their shows. Hmm.
MISS TLC SAYS: I see you Halle... with your teen heartthrob boyfriend.
The Blue "Sex and the City" Shoe!!!
...is already on back order. :) I knew that would happen.
MISS TLC SAYS: This shoe definitely plays a key part in the movie, and it just looks so sexy on the foot. I came right home on the premiere night after seeing the movie, found it, and saw that Manolo was going to release it in his stores on June 9th. HOWEVER, even though Carrie quotes the shoe price as $525 in the movie, Blahnik chose to price them at $885, and then with the store's mark-up, they actually come out to $945. Hmm. Either way, I knew they'd sell out right away, and I didn't know if I wanted everyone rocking MY shoe, so I didn't run over in time. October huh? That will probably coincide with the movie's DVD release and then they will run out all over again. :)
Madonna's Hot New Video
I give you "Give It 2 Me"...
MISS TLC SAYS: I think this video is fire. She looks GORGEOUS and sexy and like she's having a lot of fun. The vibe totally evokes feelings of her old 80s hits, and I personally think this is her best video in a long time.
A Miss TLC Note of Nutrition
America's obsession with sugar is really a terrible thing... especially when it invades breakfast: the most important meal of the day that dictates your mindframe for the rest of the day. The fact that the breakfast aisle in most supermarkets is already stocked with things like frosted s'mores Pop-Tarts, chewable chocolate "cereal straws", marshmallow filled dry cereals, and now this...
...you know, for those times when you might've missed out on your sugary-sweetness breakfast, and you need a nice, nutritious pick-me-up snack for the mid-morning?
Ugh. You know what people. The more you cut sugar out of your diet, you will HONESTLY feel happier, more energetic, and more balanced. Try it. You might seriously like it. It's hard to start cutting it out of your life, but it's worth it in the end.
TWWOMT Poll Results: Presidential Race
So here were the results of the last poll posted on this very site:
So it looks like there are almost more Obama fans than Clinton and McCain fans combined reading this site.
We Can Change!!! Fired Up (that's one for those who have seen him speak live)!!!
Stephanie Is Tops (And SO Deserves It)
If you watch the show "Top Chef" (best cooking show on TV by the way), then you know that the right person won on the season finale this past Wednesday.
It was down to Richard (on the left), Stephanie (in the middle) & Lisa (on the right). Why Lisa was there in the first place, no one will ever know. She always looked dirty, she had a terrible attitude, and only won ONE challenge the entire time she was there. She was always being criticized by the judges while she'd stand there with her arms crossed with her face fixed in a stone-cold glare. Yuck. In fact, I'm almost positive that the judges had to realize their mistake this time around when they watched the aired shows back this season. She was a bitter, nasty, greasy hair-ridden miserable person who was hardly ever commended on her dishes. Two weeks ago, there was a text-message poll broadcast on the commercial breaks that illustrated how viewers voted around 97% that Lisa should be kicked off... but then she stayed. And THEN during the finale, she only received about 3% in the viewer text-message poll predicting who should win. Either way, Richard was a great chef too but faltered in the final challenge, and he knew it. So congrats to the first female Top Chef from The Wonderful World Of Miss TLC!!!
Just Thank Heavens It Wasn't Beyonce!!!
From In Case You Didn't Know...
Leona Lewis has reportedly triumphed over Amy Winehouse in their drawn-out battle to record the theme song for the forthcoming Bond movie, Quantum Of Solace.
Rehab hitmaker Winehouse was rumored to have been dropped as the film’s official musical muse after DJ Mark Ronson told reporters last month he had scrapped his 007 collaboration with the singer, because she was not “ready” to work on music after a recent return to her erratic ways.
(The title of this post was in reference to the rumors that Beyonce was going to get to record the Bond theme once it was decided that Amy was in no position to finish the track. Beyonce's ass... I mean, head, is big enough as it is. I kid, I kid... maybe.)
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