Sunday, August 28, 2005

Too Old For This Shit

Random thoughts while watching the MTV Video Music Awards, mostly in fast forward:
  • John Norris dresses like a fag, but he doesn't seem gay, which makes dressing like a fag much worse
  • Kurt Loder and Norris have somehow circumvented the MTV Menudo-like policy of firing anyone from on-camera duty after reaching puberty; Loder has become Old Man Legitimacy for a network fond of hiring such luminaries as Sway and Gideon Yago, so it makes some sense to keep him around; Who Norris has been sucking off to keep employed is anyone's guess
  • Diddy sucks even without the P.
  • Shakira can really thrust her pelvis like nobody's business; I'm also pretty sure she might have been singing or something
  • I've seen or even heard of only two of the videos nominated; I consider this a badge of honor
  • When did MTV turn into BET? Seriously, there were maybe 4 white people in the whole broadcast and one of them was Eric Roberts. What's wrong, MTV? Scott Baio was busy?
  • Shouldn't R. Kelly be in jail? Didn't he piss on a 14-year-old girl? I'm pretty sure that's illegal, even in Chicago
  • Alicia Keys would be hotter if she didn't wear those peculiar side cornrows; Did she just get back from a vacation on Barbados or something? She might as well appear on stage with her sea shell collection
  • Kelly Clarkson is still kinda cute; wonder if she's a coke addict yet
  • Most rap music performed live in concert comes off too breathless and frantic to be enjoyable; all energy and no style
  • Apparently, Eva Longoria is a dirty, skanky whore
  • Green Day has been around for 16 years? I am really, really, really old
  • And the MVP of the MTV awards: my DVR, which made this ordeal mercifully brief

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I caught ten minutes of one of the repeat showings - I think the show has just degenerated into pulling celebs out of the audience and telling them to just go on stage and yell "How we doin' MIAMI!!!!" - not much else seemed to be going on. I would've even preferred pre-scripted banter. But it was as if everyone was waiting for something "cool" to happen spontaneously out of nothing.