Wednesday, February 07, 2007

more pop culture musings


I usually try to steer clear of blogging about pop culture news. But from time to time, I enjoy delving into the world of the absurdly unimportant. So here we are...

Musing #1 - Over the last couple days I have heard a collective 'thumbs down' for this year's Super Bowl commercials. Apparently, no one thought they weren't funny. I agree.

...and disagree.

Some were funny. Some weren't. Just like every other year. I'm so tired of all the Super Bowl commercial hype. Lets not fool ourselves into thinking that the Super Bowl has the funniest ads. It doesn't...just the most expensive. Come on. In the last 15 years there has been a total of maybe 5 - 10 Super Bowl commercials that were good enough to stick in our memory. The rest gave us a good chuckle at the time and then faded away.

I think we hold the bar way too high. Every commercial is not going to be as funny as Budweiser's Whassup?!" spots. One or two might make us laugh that hard...but most won't.

I thought the Super Bowl commercials, as a whole this year, were half way entertaining. And for a 3 hour game...that is good enough for me.

Musing #2 - (Warning: what I am going to share with you is the most asinine thing I have ever read. Fear for the young girls of our country. With role models as shallow and absolutely moronic as this, they don't stand a chance. I'm serious. The upcoming quote will be the dumbest thing you have read in a long, long time.)

Jessica Simpson was recently interviewed by MSNBC. They, as would be expected, asked her about her divorce from Nick Lachey. Now, without further ado, let me share with you her deep and thought provoking response. Here is the excerpt from the article...

She made that decision, she says, after watching the 2004 romance “The Notebook” on a plane ride home to Texas. “I just figured out the statement,” she says of the movie, starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams as star-crossed lovers. “It was about that moment of desperation. I needed to breathe.”

Now, I have never been a big fan of Jessica Simpson. Actually, outside of her sister and Oprah...she is, without a doubt, my least favorite celebrity. But this takes it to a new level. I have never wanted to punch a girl as badly as I do when I read this (and I grew up with 3 sisters! )

So...I really have nothing more to say about it. She says she ended her marriage because of "The Notebook". It is just the stupidest thing I have ever heard of, and we are all now dumber for having read about it. Sorry about that.

Well, there it is...a few minutes immersed in the world of pop culture. I promise I will now return to posting things that are vastly more important to all of our lives. Like my music.

8 comments:

Dustin said...

Hahahahaha. Hahahahaha. The Notebook. Hahahahaha. Hahahaha. That is truly hilarious man, thanks for sharing that!

Going Weston said...

#1...The Super Bowl commercials wouldn't be nearly as entertaining if there weren't those duds. I welcome those commercials that sharpen my wit and sarcasm, I am tested in the harshest of conditions that happens once a year...a gauntlet-esk room filled with Beer/chip devouring American men.

Going Weston said...

aaand #2...I kind of have to stick up for Jessica. Although I would never divorce my wife because of a movie...I try hard to mirror my personality to characters in movies I think are cool. (ex. Jean Claude Van Dam in the Universal Soldier) and besides, the Notebook was kinda good...

...right?

The Anonymous Human said...

Oprah? You hate Oprah more than Jessica Simpson? Seriously.

Look, I'm no Oprah fan, but to be at the bottom of my pop star list I have to have a serious beef with that person. Like Mariah Carey for not high fiving Mark Hostetler at the Billboard awards. Or Timbaland for refusing to colaborate with me on my latest project. But Oprah? She gives away cars to teachers and builds schools in Africa for poor girls. What did she ever do to you?

Come to think of it, maybe I am an Oprah fan...

bill said...

anonymous human...i forgot about mariah dissing mark. good call on that. she just got knocked down a peg or two for me too.

but yeah...no one goes lower than oprah for me. she is the antichrist. the control she has over every middle aged woman in the country is down right scary.

"Read this book."

"Okay, Oprah."

boom, the book goes to number #1 on new york times best seller list.

she is the antichrist.

side note: i was watching a rerun of 'growing pains' the other day (i can't get enough of that show) and jason seaver made a joke about oprah's sway over carol's decision making.

the episode was from 1987! she has been controlling our wives, sisters and mothers for over 20 years!

Going Weston said...

dude, you're right about Oprah. And I heard that when she gave everyone those cars, they had to pay taxes on them. So it basically forced them into paying a few thousand dollars to the government. Its more than controling what eye shadow colors are in and out for the season...I think the government is using Oprah...sssh, we shouldn't talk about this on here, she's listening...

The Anonymous Human said...

all antichrist talk aside...her commercial with Dave was one of the best that night...

bill said...

i agree. it was the best commercial.