The funniest thing I have seen on youtube in a looooooong time. Three Grandmas take on Kim Kardashian’s sex tape. BRILLIANT. DYING.
Give these three GMA’s a show immediately.
3 Reasons Why Coachella Ain’t What it Use to Be…
1) Trying too hard: For the record, Pocahontas is the only one who ever rocked this look.
2) Arriving at the concert on your G6:
3) And finally, The end is near:
The video version of the story that I produced for Current TV (The Young Turks) on Conservatives Bashing the new animated feature film “The Lorax”. The cast also speaks out about the film’s environmental message and Republicans charge that global warming is a “hoax”.
THE ULTIMATE PARTY CRASHER
If you live in Los Angeles, eventually you will have an “Only in LA” moment. I’ve had a few, but nothing quite as cool as what happened to a friend of MeHubs Sunday night.
His friend, whom I am not going to name per his request, lives in the Pacific Palisades. For those of you who do not live in SOCAL, it’s a very wealthy community in the hills above Pacific Coast Highway.
He and his wife went out to dinner Sunday evening only to come home to a huge party taking place at a neighbor’s home a few doors down. But it wasn’t just any party— playing live in the backyard was some of the biggest names in Rock ‘N’ Roll.
This is how MeHubs friend describes what happened that night:
I came home from dinner with my wife and heard ”Who are you” coming from a neighbors yard. We laughed that it sounded just like Roger Daltry….then a few minutes later we heard Dave Grohl do a 45 min solo acoustic set.
I could not resist going over there when I heard the unmistakeable voice of Robert Plant playing Zeppelin songs. I grabbed my flip video camera and tried to crash the party. Security was tight, but you could see the stage from the street about 20 feet away. I tried the side entrance and then the back entrance-it was not happening. When I went to the front entrance again I saw my friend coming out of the show, he handed me a wristband and I WAS IN!
I cruised right up to the tequila bar and had a chilled Patron on the rocks while Robert Plant and his Band of Joy rocked for an hour. I filmed the attached video and it was a night to remember and share with all of you.
((***OKAY, IF YOU HAVEN’T YET, NOW IS THE TIME TO CLICK THE VIDEO LINK ABOVE*****))
When the show was over, I walked back stage and met Robert Plant. I asked him to sign the lyrics from Black Dog (that I took from the stage).
As he was signing it, I said, ”Hey Robert, I just want you to know that I am a neighbor and I crashed this party tonight!”
He said with a smile, ”Thats Excellent!”
He then shook my hand and that was it. Pretty cool huh?
Turns out these legends in rock were playing his neighbor’s backyard for a fundraiser for the teenage cancer trust charity. And yes, for the record, he plans on making a donation to the charity.
VANITY SMURF: GAY OR METROSEXUAL?
My 3 year old son is now into watching the “Smurfs” cartoon. I’m talking the old school episodes of the “Smurfs” that are shown each morning on the Boomerang Network. This is so exciting for me because I use to watch this cartoon as a child growing up in the Northwest.
I just had an “aha moment” (PRAISE + PROPS TO OPRAH) while watching an episode of the “Smurfs” this morning — the one where Vanity Smurf gets captured by Gargamel after he looks into a a magical mirror in the forest.
Uhm… HELLO! Has Vanity Smurf always been gay? Am I tardy to this coming out party?
I just googled Vanity Smurf because I just can’t believe I’ve never suspected this before. Instead of getting an answer, I found out there is a big debate brewing online- two camps split over his sexuality.
Was he the FIRST openly gay character on a cartoon? Or was he the first cartoon character that was a metrosexual? Crazy talk! I will be thinking about this one all day.
A little Self Promotion
I woke up this morning to find out I’ve been nominated for two National Entertainment Journalism Awards (From the LA Press Club).
The first nod is for a story that I worked on with Legendary NBC4 Los Angeles anchor Chuck Henry- a story we called “Forgotten Footprints”. Chuck literally stumbled up the original footprints of Grauman’s Chinese Theater which had been hidden away in an airport hangar for more than two decades. We found out that the folks at Grauman’s didn’t even know they existed.
I’m also a finalist for “National Entertainment Journalist of the Year”-- the big award! The nomination is for my body of work in 2010-2011 (both TV and internet). Yes, people- I’m a serious journalist in my other (real) life.
Hugh Hefner is the lifetime achievement honoree this year. And my colleague Robert Kovacik is also up for an award for a profile he did on Hugh saving the Hollywood Sign. Congrats Robert!
YOU CAN TAKE THE GIRL OUT OF THE TRAILER…
“Two trailer park girls go round the outside, round the outside, round the outside.”
—Eminem
Part 2 of the Real Housewives of New Jersey Reunion or Steve Jobs profile on 60 minutes? The decision was a tough one last night. And yes, I played it like a girl from the trailer park should and turned it to BRAVO. Listen people, over the past 4 months (give or take a few) I have invested every Sunday night to watching dem’ crazy bitches from New Jersey so I wasn’t about to NOT watch the final show of the season. HELLO!
So, why I am sharing this? Well, this morning I asked MEHUBS what happened on the 60 minutes piece on Steve Jobs. And, no surprise here…. he refused to tell me. Yes, he refused to tell me, saying I should have watched it. This actually doesn’t upset me. You see, MEHUBS hates my taste in TV shows and doesn’t understand how someone with my intelligence (like, I’m super smart, y’all) would watch trashy reality TV.
Let me explain why, right here, right now. All day long I’m using my noodle at work, reporting and writing on the news of the day. So, the last thing I want to watch (when I’m at home) is another news program, or a really heavy TV show (IE: crime or family dramas, etc). I just want to zone out and not think during the rare time I get to watch TV for fun (remember, I work in TV). And the Real Housewives fill that void— it’s just mindless, stupid TV that also happens to be produced very well. And yes, it makes me feel better about my own life watching the mess that are the Housewives. Y’all dig?
I’m back to the grind today… and it’s on, really on. This week starts the all mighty November sweeps period for all the networks. So that means big investigations, important stories to share and you guessed it— STORM WATCH!
Also, I will be praying to the news Gods to look over my colleagues this month. Yes people, there are such deities in TV news, or perhaps they are demigods?. Either way, we journalists need a lot of love and prayers.
Happy Monday, y’all.
Hugs & Unicorns,
Tara
