Kanye Pest

I didn't see the MTV Video Music Awards last night, but all the kids were talking about it today on the Interbots. Seems that Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift during her acceptance speech so that he could tell people that he thought that Beyonce had the best video of all time.

Kanye = Asshat.

The look on Taylor's face after he leaves...she looks crushed, embarrassed and just walks off. Poor thing...

Thankfully, Beyonce allowed Taylor to come out and give her full speech, rather than doing her own for an award she had just won.

Beyonce is a class act and I'm very thankful that she didn't wear Lady Gaga's face-wreath last night.

Since the award show is broadcast internationally, word spread quickly and, when Hitler found out about what Kanye did, well...he couldn't contain himself.



I think he pretty much said it all.

I had almost forgotten that President Obmama had a similar problem with Kanye last week during his healthcare speech...



Kanye is lucky that he was already booked to be on the premiere of Jay Leno's new show tonight.

Jay Leno couldn't have planned a better ratings-windfall to get people to watch tonight.

Or did he?

Phone home

It's lunch-lady Gaga.



Photos have recently begun to surface from the new video shoot for Lady Gaga's "Telephone" song with Beyonce. Judging by these pics, it looks like it's gonna be another very technicolor-Gaga extravaganza.



Lady Gaga also joined Beyonce on her last album and video for the song "Videophone" that came out a couple months ago.



As much as I enjoy each of them, I really didn't care for that song or video. I really think that Lady Gaga has the better song and, I'm guessing, a much more enjoyable video. If you haven't seen Beyonce's video, here it is...



Let's hope that Gaga's upcoming "Telephone" video involves more than each of the gals prancing around in left-over Halloween costumes in a generic studio together.

Oh...and here's a pic of Ms. Gaga at the Brit Awards today...



I guess you can have your cake and wear it too.

Here is her performance that night (she won three awards)...

Super Troopers

In honor of the new Star Wars trailer being released this week, why not start your weekend off with these Stormtroopers dancing to Beyonce's "Single Ladies"?



Darth Vader really needs to loosen up.

You don't know Jack

Sad news today on the fitness-front...

American fitness guru Jack LaLanne died Sunday afternoon at his home in Morro Bay. He was 96.

Neatorama posted some interesting facts about Jack...

In 1951 Jack started his own TV exercise show - the first fitness program ever televised, actually - that ended up running for 34 years. When it first aired, critics gave it 6 weeks tops. He even had to buy air time, because the studio didn't believe anyone would watch an exercise show.



Jack's choice of using soothing Wurlitzer music to workout to is an interesting one. Lady Gaga and Beyonce really should consider incorporating it into their new dance tracks to keep people motivated on the treadmill while listening to their music at the gym.

He also enjoyed wearing ballet slippers while exercising...

In those days tennis shoes were not popular, and only used to play tennis in…Most show business people and Hand Balancers wore ballet slippers, and Jack being a Hand Balancer, that was what he wore!

As a child he was a self-proclaimed sugarholic (I can identify with that)...

He blamed his bad diet for attacking his brother with an axe and setting the family house on fire. At 15, his mother took him to see a talk by nutritionist Paul Bragg, and Jack reformed his eating habit and became interested in fitness.

I can't identify with THAT, but I do get cranky if my giant Hershey bar is broken into pieces when I unwrap it.



Jack could do 1,033 push-ups. In 23 minutes. At the age of 42.

I could eat a bag of Doritos and record two TV shows at once on my DVR at the age of 42.

He also opened the first gym...

Jack LaLanne opened the country's first modern health club in Oakland, California, in 1936 at the tender age of 21. He worked with a blacksmith to create many of the weight machines that you see in your neighborhood gym today.

His line of health clubs eventually became Bally's Total Fitness.

He also didn't think people should warm-up before working out. The idea of that really seemed to chap his...leg-warmers.

"Now, you listen to some of these so-called sports-medicine experts today--shit! It's just shtick. It's just something else to sell. Warming up," he scoffed, adjusting a red ascot fitted neatly into his jumpsuit, "warming up is the biggest bunch of horseshit I've ever heard in my life. Fifteen minutes to warm up! Does a lion warm up when he's hungry? 'Uh-oh, here comes an antelope. Better warm up.' No! He just goes out and eats the sucker. You gotta get the blood circulating, but shit, does the lion cool down? No, he eats the sucker and goes to sleep. And that," he concluded, folding his arms into a variation of the pose, "is the truth."

Warming-up really does seem to make sense. Of course, he lived to be 96...so what do I know?



He also made a bazillion dollars selling his line of Power Juicers on TV.

I call people who get drunk very quickly "Power-Juicers".

I haven't made a dime on that phrase...yet.

Telephone

Here is the new Lady Gaga-Beyonce video for "Telephone" that all the kids are talking about.



It's certainly an interesting mini-movie concept with crazy costumes, slutty prison gals, and technicolor visuals (although it has nothing to do with the words of the song about being in a dance club).

As nice as it is to see these two doing something different and fun together...

I still enjoy the video for "Bad Romance" more.

Island Girls

io9 just posted the first image of Wonder Woman and her family from the upcoming Wonder Woman movie...

Entertainment Weekly has revealed a first look at not just Diana before she dons her classic red gold and blue costume, but her island home of Themyscira and three of the most important people in her life: her mother, Queen Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen); General Antiope (Robin Wright); and Lieutenant Menalippe (Lisa Loven Kongsli).

It looks like a Beyonce album cover.

But, still very cool to see that Robin Wright is in it too.