The Fabulous Life of Jobin Hume

How did this get lost in the shuffle?

OK - I am just now watching the MTV Video Music Awards from Sunday night. Because there has been so much talk about Kanye-gate 2009 no one has mentioned the BIZARRO public therapy session Madonna conducted at the beginning of the ceremony.

1 - no one needs a lecture about how we abandoned Michael Jackson.  He caused his own problems.

2 - She looked like a wax statue.  Less is more when you are injecting your face. And back-combing your hair.  And lecturing the audience of millions.

3 - Speaking of wax statue - as I have said before.  I don't get Lady Gaga.  She is growing on me as in I sing along on the radio, etc - but then she breaks out some nonsense like this and I just don't even know what to say or where to look. 

4 - I like it that Madonna is totally somber and yet we get crowd shots of Pink checking her blackberry.  I feel you Pink.

5 - Janet looks totally fierce!

6 - I usually can't stand Katy Perry, and yet I am loving her singing Queen!

Ten minutes in, I am loving this show - how did ALL of this get pushed aside by yet another Kanye West outburst?  I am a fan, but seriously, isn't it more noteworthy when he doesn't embarass himself?  How did I not watch this live?  Next year if you could just remind me that I wanted to watch live, that would be awesome.

Riddle me this....

I totally get it why 8 of the top 10 singles on iTunes are from Michael Jackson.  Why are the other two from the Black Eyed Peas?  And why do I have both of them?

Madonna Update

As an update to my previous Madonna rant. Now, her song is at the Sony Connect site.  You can hear a clip.  It isn't the worst part, but it does suck.  At least she finally stepped up to the plate.

I bought you things you couldn't even pronounce

It is a long story, but I have a $150 credit at iTunes that I have to spend.  So, this morning, before Boot Camp, I am browsing around burning some of it on One Hit Wonders of the 80's and 90's.  I was feeling nostalgic, I can't help it.  Anyway, I came across one of the best songs ever!  The Rain by Oran "Juice" Jones.  My favorite line is "I bought you things you couldn't even pronounce".  I can't believe I forgot about this one. All day now I will be thinking back to high school dances in the cafeteria.  I will have to dig up a pic of the fabulous mall hair I had in the late 80's.  Sigh.

Madonnagate 2005

OK - the other day I, apparantly, premptively posted a link to hear Madonna singing for Tsunami relief.  Although I may not have clearly articulated this point, she sucked.  Let me rephrase that.  She SUCKED.  So, they claimed that all the performances would be available for purchase at Sony's Connect.com site and you can buy these masterpieces and save the children.  At the time of the concert, there were only 3 posted, and they said "check back as the songs get encoded and approved for upload", so I presumed hers would show up.

Funny thing.  Now, all the other artists are there and you can buy the whole albumn.  EXCEPT MADONNA.  That chicken-shit doesn't want people to reminisce about how badly she sucked.  The only audio or video I can find of this performance is here, and it is edited to just a few non-sucky seconds.  You have to scroll down to Video content and then click "next" and there will be a link.  I am not kidding.

Oh No She Didn't

Ok, I know that I should be more charitable because these people did this out of the goodness of their hearts, but if you missed Madonna (usually * , but tonight ##) singing "Imagine" you must hear it to believe it. Wow.  I mean, seriously.  Wow.

Master of marketing and crazy-assed religions, but she should have left this one alone.