Lil Wayne's New Job in the Joint

http://wonderwall.msn.com/#wallState=8__/music/lil-waynes-prison-job-on-suicide-watch-for-other-inmates-1546369.story

Ok, above is the link to the story that I found through msn.com discussing Lil Wayne's new job while he's serving his year long prison sentence in jail. Apparently, his new job is to keep an eye on the prisoners who are placed on suicide watch. I wanna know if that job is available to any well-behaving inmate who resides at Riker's Island in New York or only the famous ones? What does he do to keep the potential suicide victims from taking the plunge? Perform a live rendition of "A Mille?" Also, I've been giving this situation a lot of thought (I am a huge Lil Wayne fan...no joke...I'm gangsta) I feel like there have been a lot of songs recently released during his incarceration in the clink, out on the radio, never before heard. Did they let him have his own recording studio in his cell? Or do they have one in prison that they let him use if he has good behavior? I wonder if people mess with him at all because he's famous and because he's Lil Wayne. He is no one I would mess with; he has been shot twice after all.

Either or, I'm glad he's found something to keep him busy and pass his time while in the pen. As long as we keep getting that new music and they don't make him cute those beautiful long dreads of his, I'll be happy. FREE WEEZY!

Also, below is a link to youtube.com where you can see, in parts, the VH1 episode of Lil Wayne "Behind the Music." I HIGHLY recommend watching it. It's amaziiiiing!! I watch it before I fall asleep every night. (Not really, just kidding.....) Also, if you are interested or get the chance, download Lil Wayne's mix tape "No Ceilings." It's a little dated, nothing new, but it's still awesome. (Damn, Weezy should give me a job as a PR rep!)

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lil+wayne+behind+the+music&aq=0

Ricky Martin Comes Out of the Closet

In recent celebrity news, Ricky Martin openly admitted on his blog that he is, in fact, gay. I'm not quite sure why everyone is acting so surprised. I mean, the guy was in Menudo for crying out loud. No straight man can shake his hips like he did in his "Livin La Vida Loca" music video. I think he came out of the closet at an odd time, but for good personal reasons, stating he did it to be true to his children, who he fathered through a surrogate. (Again, here's your sign.) Also, he needed to come out when he was ready to share that part of himself with the world when he was ready, if ever. I personally don't think it's any of the public's business what a person's sexuality is. It doesn't make me like his music any less or more. I loved "Livin La Vida Loca" back in my middle school days, and I'll still shake my butt to it at Joe's 8th grade dance night if given the chance. Plus, if anything, that scene with the candle wax is still unforgettable and talked about. Although, I will conclude my little speal by saying, my sister now owes me ten dollars from our bet from eight years ago.

Here's a link to an article from ABC discussing Martin's announcement:
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/ricky-martin-fortunate-homosexual-man/story?id=10234454

E-Trade Baby Commercial Dispute

Going off of the blog prompt that Professor Larabee posted a couple of weeks ago, I would like to discuss the Lindsay Lohan/E-Trade baby commercial lawsuit. Apparently, Lindsay Lohan is suing E-Trade for using her name in their commercials. Below is a link to the commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEXZ2hfD3bU

Lindsay Lohan thinks that the "milkaholic" baby that the boy baby and his "girlfriend" baby are arguing about is modeled after her. She is apparently suing E-Trade for $100 million dollars for her "pain and suffering." First of all, what pain and suffereing? The baby isn't even modeled after you. There are more people in the world with the name Lindsay than you. It was stated that she said she is suing because her name is now on the level of "Madonna" or "Oprah." Really? No, I don't think so. How many Madonnas do you know? But I can name you ten Lindsays that I know right now. Secondly, a$100 million dollars? Who asks for that amount of money when no physical pain or actual slander was caused?

Looks to me like Lindsay Lohan has ran out of money because we all know she hasn't made a movie in quite awhile, not a good one at least. (We all know the last good movie and last movie she looked good in too was Mean Girls.) I smell somebody getting desperate.

In Memory of Jay Polhill

Last week the Polhill family of Lena, Illinois experienced what can be called nothing less than a tragedy. Jane and Rick Polhill's youngest son, Jay, was found deceased Wednesday night in Chicago. I attended the funeral this weekend to support the friends and family. I am basically writing this post in support of the family and the community. A good guy was lost this week, too young and too soon. If you would like to find out more there have been articles about Jay and the tragic situation in the Chicago Tribune. Also, if anyone would like to donate to a scholarship fund set up in Jay's memory (He attended Columbia College in Chicago) by Janna Rains and Erica Yeager, the link is:

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paypal.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fwebscr%3Fcmd%3D_s-xclick%26hosted_button_id%3D7MAL9D5N8JMMC&h=b14ce4b1c003b1b6758bcf443a6dbae5

All donations are appreciated by the family and friends. Our prayers go out to Jay's family and his friends in this rough time.

Movie Review of "Shutter Island"

*POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT*

"Shutter Island," directed by Martin Scorsese, is another brain teaser and sure hit, but how can you go wrong with Leonardo DiCaprio as the leading man? As a forewarning, I am a huge Scorsese and DiCaprio fan. If you are not a fan, be ready to disagree this whole entire post.

First of all, this is the PERFECT movie for English majors. The plot of the movie begs to be explicated and analyzed. (Plus, it makes you feel extra smart when you figure out what's going on before your friends.) It's filled with unreliable narrators, "bad readers," symbols, metaphors, and motifs. Every detail contributes to the story and means something more than the obvious. The movie is a great discussion starter, never lacking material to talk about to keep the discussion going. Scorsese never disappoints in his endings. He leaves the audience with a perfect one-liner, poetic and witty, which keeps the audience thinking even after the movie has ended.

The one issue I had with the movie is the ending was predictable, at least to me. My two roommates were totally shocked by the ending, but I always saw it as a possibility. It really reminded me of Edgar Allan Poe's twisted tale, "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether," using some of the same plot twists. I think Scorsese is a secret Poe fan, which makes me like him even more, sharing the same appreciation for the Gothic and the grotesque.

All in all, I really enjoyed this film. It was no "The Departed," my second favorite movie of all time (only second to "Goodfellas") but there are two separate shower scenes with Leo DiCaprio, shirtless, so how can you really go wrong? I'd probably go as far to say I'd even pay the $7 to see it in theaters again.

Go Daddy.com Commercial

http://superbowlads.fanhouse.com/2010/godaddycom-danica-patrick/

The Go Daddy.com commercial left me confused to say the least. What does this website do? Why would you go there? Sure, it mentions something about websites, etc. right before the girl rips off her shirt, but there's no real point to it. The only reason people would go to that website is because they remember an almost naked girl in the commercial, nothing else. At the end of the ad, it even states, "Web content unrated." So, the only draw to the website is for guys to go and hope to see more of the girl ripping off her shirt, or more accurately, hoping to see her in less. Basically this commercial is telling me they promote internet porn, right?

Also, this commercial really made me think less of Danica Patrick too. Why would she want her name linked to this? How could someone pitch her this comemrcial and she could think, "Yeah. This is a really good idea." Instead of thinking of Danica Patrick as a race car driver (which she was never really that good in the first place) they're gonna think Danica Patrick, internet porn. Yeah, a really good idea.

Marky Mark

Couldn't help myself...so sexy, don't ya think?

Movie Review for " The Lovely Bones"

So, Professor Larabee never gave us any specific instructions on which movie to write about, so I chose to write a movie review on the latest movie I saw in theaters, "The Lovely Bones." After reading Professor Larabee's suggested example of a, "delightful movie reviewer," I'm not making any promises on matching his wit or hilarity. I'm not going to lie to myself, even I don't think I'm that funny, so it'd come off as fake to even try. Even though, here's my review of the movie:

P.S. If you don't feel like reading my whole, drawn out opinion, skip to the one sentence, what-you-really-need-to-know-info at the bottom of the page

"The Lovely Bones" is a movie remake of a book by Alice Sebold (which to my delight my roommate who saw the movie with me quoted the book was written by Stephen King, not thinking the plot line was up to his regular standards) which seems to be the popular trend lately. Even though I'm tentative of seeing movies made after books (we all know we're gonna just be disappointed because the book is always better) I remembered loving the book when I read it when I was about 14 years old, and decided to give it a shot. The movie follows the story of a young girl who is loved by her family, active in her school, and falling in love with the exotic British kid at school. Then, she falls into the trap of the local, but unknown psycopathic, pedophile serial killer. He kills her in a crafty underground chamber he made in a corn field. The movie follows her activities prancing around the in between spot of heaven and earth. Her story, its aftermath, and how it affects her family continues to be told by her even though she is dead. The killer (who I know is not Martin Mull, but looks so much like him I found myself creeped out when watching "Roseanne" re-reuns) is eventually found out, escapes, only to be fed his own mouthful of karma in the end.

Overall, surprise, surprise, I liked the book better than the movie. I have not read the book in years, but I do not remember her sister having such a huge role (her sister is the one who supplies Martin Mull doppleganger's damning evidence to the police), and it focused more on her in the in between place (it leaves a bad taste in my mouth to call it purgatory because I don't really think that's what it was trying to portray) rather than her family. Also, in the movie, the mother leaves the family for her own sellfish reasons after Susie's death, not able to care anymore. At the end of the movie, the father, (played by Mark Wahlberg, which was a big upgrade from my 14-year old imagination) along with the rest of the family, takes the sellfish, cowardly mother back when she turns up on the doorstep, no questions asked. It didn't sit well with me that a family could just take back such a sellfish whore who left her family because she could think of no one else's pain but her own. And I'm sorry, but if I was married to Mark Wahlberg, you couldn't pay me to leave. Also, there's a really creepy scene where the exotic, British 14 year old boy hallucinates or actually sees the image or ghost of Susie and makes out with her..and then she could go to heaven...because that was her unfinished business...riiiight. Either way, making out with dead people weirds me out.

A father's love and devotion to his daughter was touching...but I could have been having an emotional night?

Overall, the book was better than the movie. I'm glad I saw it once, but won't spend the money to see it again.