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Xbox 360 Review: Halo 3 ODST

2009-09-24T10:17:00.000-07:00

It has arrived.......

Summary:

First, I love the Halo series. LOVE. So, if you are looking for an unbiased opinion about this game, then you came to the wrong place. I think even if ODST was terrible I would still like it. It wasn't terrible, but i'm just sayin.... ;)

If you enjoyed Halo 2 and 3, you will definitely like this game. Halo 3 to me was epic. It was moving, it was engaging, it had me in tears at some points. Do not go into this game expecting the same thing. ODST is a great filler between Halo 3 and Halo: Reach that comes out next year. If you have been aching for a Halo fix, much like I have, then this will hold you over for a bit. Again, don't be expecting Epic. The story is good but not excellent. The graphics are okay, nothing amazing. The gameplay is fun and the way they put ODST together is pretty darn good. It did not disappoint me and this is coming from a chick who has played thousands of Halo 2/3 multiplayer games and beat the campaign numerous times. I love Halo and I loved Halo ODST.

Game Facts:

It took me about 7 hours to complete the entire game, which might seem quick, but compared to the previous Halo's, it's really only a tiny bit shorter. (I can complete Halo 3 easily in about 8 hours.) The game price is $60, which I don't really want to get into. It isn't a full game and should have been cheaper, end of story. It includes 2 discs, one being the campaign with the multiplayer Firefight and the other being the Xbox Live Mutiplayer Halo with all 24 maps. The second disc is worth it for someone who is new to Halo or never wanted to spend the money to get the new maps. For people like me, who bought all the new maps as soon as they came out, I kind of get screwed. Now instead of playing multiplayer through Halo 3, you just insert Disc 2 and you play multiplayer through that. You also get an invitation to be the first to play Halo Reach (BETA) when it comes out next year, which would be rad if the damn thing wasn't coming out NEXT YEAR.

The Storyline:

I don't want to get too much into the plot as you can get this information on a million other websites. Briefly though - you do not play as Master Chief in this game (boo), you instead play as a normal human called "The Rookie". He is part of the United Nations Space Command (UNSC) soldiers known as Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (ODST). You are playing as them, during the events of Halo 2 and Halo 3. Not exactly a prequel...not a continuation. During a mishap, your team lands on the town of New Mombasa. You are all scattered across the town and must reconnect with each other. New Mombasa is were you are going to be during a lot of the game, so get used to it. It's sort of a run down, apocalyptic, futuristic town that is overrun with enemies. You pretty much roam this area while going from mission to mission.

New Thing Alert: You have a neat feature on your visor that allows you to see through the dark and it outlines enemies. It's pretty cool and it will help you move around in New Mombasa. Pic Below:

In ODST, you can open up your visor and you will see a map of New Mombasa. There are a few things this is used for. It shows you where enemies are roaming, it shows you where you need to go and it shows you weapons stashes. I only used it to find where I needed to go. Otherwise it's pretty much pointless. You use a compass on the top of the screen to guide you towards where you need to be, and at anytime during the game you get lost you just click the D-Pad UP and it'll show ya where to go. Theres also some audio file playback crap on your visor...you can find audio files throughout New Mombasa and listen to them. These don't have anything to do with you finishing the game, so I didn't search for any of them.

So, you land in New Mombasa and you need to find your homies. When you reach a destination (beacon) pointed out on your visor map you find an object that warps you to each of your homies destination after they landed. You then play as them, beat that certain mission and then you return to New Mombasa. It seems complicated, but it ends up making sense when you play. During this time you play as Buck, Dutch, Romeo, Mickey and Dare. There are 10 missions in total and you will be surprised on how short they are. A few of them were just downright easy. BUT, they are fun. Eventually you find everyone and escape. The ending was a little weak, but again, this isn't supposed to be epic its supposed to be nice fluffy filler between the two badboys that are Halo 3 and Halo Reach.

The Differences:

The enemies/weapons are the same as before, the only difference is the SMG has a scope and the Pistol also has a scope and is badass.
You hold more bombs. Woopidy doo.
You are human so your jump is a little less than Master Chiefs and your bomb throw distance is shorter, but it's barely noticeable.
Your health is almost exactly the same. You get hit, your visor turns red, you can hide out for a bit and regain your strength. The catch is that this can only happen a few times, after that your health bar will blink red and you will need to find a health pack. This might sound stupid (it did to me) but it really isn't that big of a deal. Most of the time you won't ever need to find a pack and when you do, they will always be close by.
There is a neat feature that tells you how many more (sticks, kills, etc.) that you need before you get an achievement. For example, it will say "1 of 9 Pink Mist" on the corner of the screen when you kill someone with the needles. If you stay alive and get 9 needle kills, you get the Pink Mist achievement.

Overall:

The game is fun, it's a great addition to the Halo 3 series. It should not have been $60. Firefight is pretty cool but its only playable with friends that you invite into the game, there is no searching for game players (like on slayer, etc.). It isn't included on the multiplayer disc, it's included on the campaign disc. The UNSC chick named DARE, who is supposed to be some hottie, looks like a dude and the little love story between her and Buck is pretty stupid. Most of the dialogue is campy but the UNSC dialogue has been like that throughout the other games. I was disappointed that ALL of the enemies are pretty much exactly the same on ALL of the missions. There were a bunch that weren't included at all. Finding ammo proved to be a bit difficult. The soundtrack is killer.

If you don't want to buy the game, borrow it or rent it. It's easily beatable in a 7 hour session. Play it on easy and it would probably be beatable in 4 hours. But if you play it on easy, you are a pansy.

One love,

Jamie

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Waiting for the other shoe to drop....

2009-09-09T06:57:00.000-07:00

I heard a "joke" once. A man goes to a hotel and gets a room. The hotel employee warns him that the only room left has a guy staying next door that is a bit high-strung so he should be weary not to startle him or make any loud sudden noises. The man says that is fine, as he only needs the room for a few hours to rest. Once in the hotel room, the man quietly starts to undress being careful not to make much fuss because of the guy next door. He sits down on the edge of the bed and starts to remove one of his shoes, he loses his grip and the shoe smacks down on the tile floor and makes a loud THWAP! The man cringes and hopes that this did not disturb the man next door. He is careful to remove his other shoe without even the slightest noise and places it gently on the chair next to his bed. After a few hours, there is a loud bang at the man’s door, he opens it and a man is standing there, clearly looking anxious and in a panic. He yells "FOR GODS SAKE, DROP THE OTHER SHOE!!!??".

I butchered that story but it was along those same lines. It’s a humorous take on where the saying "waiting for the other shoe to drop" came from. Most people use the term to describe a certain specific instance, as though it means the same as karma. That every action has a reaction and that if a decision is made (whether it be good or bad) there will be some sort of outcome to it (good or bad). If you work hard for many years at your job, you could be “waiting for the other shoe to drop”, meaning you are waiting for your reward for all of the years of hard work. It can also be negative, such as if you missed a ton of work and called out all the time, you could be “waiting for the other shoe to drop”, meaning you are anxiously awaiting your pink slip.

I do not entirely believe it to mean anything positive or negative.

I take it to mean that some people are constantly living with anxiety and panic waiting for the worst possible thing to happen in their otherwise normal and calm existence.

I am eternally waiting for the other shoe to drop.

It isn’t that I am walking around with nervous nellie butterflies in my stomach all the time waiting for a piano to fall on my head or for a car to run me over. I am acutely aware that some things just happen and I have no control over them. It is during the larger decisions that I make in my life that I am waiting on the SHOE.

For example, I recently decided to exit the workforce and go to school full-time and live off of student loans. I have a good resume, I have experience, I have the ability, knowledge, intelligence and motivation to get a decent job, however due to the recent economic crunch, the best positions I could find were not challenging, rewarding or anywhere near what I wanted to do in my life. So, I made the decision to focus completely on school at an attempt to set myself up in my thirties to have a job that I at least enjoyed to some extent doing something that I felt good about. I can almost hear the shoe dropping already.

Worst Case Scenario – I finish school, rack up tens of thousands of dollars in student loans and I still can’t find a decent job because the economy hasn’t turned around. Or better yet, they stop handing out student loans and financial aid to students thus ending any sort of chance I had at acquiring a degree in the first place.

I have mentally, physically and emotionally prepared myself for these outcomes even though I have 2 years left of school and there is no immediate threat of not being able to get student loans. But by preparing for them, at least mentally and emotionally, I am setting myself up to not have a nervous breakdown when both of those things inevitably happen (which they will). So although I am constantly waiting to get smacked in the face by the shoe, I’m not exactly letting it get in my way of doing what I set out to do.

I follow this pattern with all the decisions I make in my life that should or could have some sort of outcome. I’m not saying that this is the correct way to think; I am actually saying the complete opposite. It makes for quite the depressing school day when I am constantly thinking about how after all this hard work and dedication, I will most likely be unemployed with an expensive piece of paper in my hand that simply means “Yay, you can memorize stuff and pass tests!”.

Relationships are no different.

Worst Case Scenario - I meet prince charming and fall head over heels (another good saying). I finally open up and trust that this person feels the same way I do. Then, I get cheated on or lied too or dumped or murdered in my sleep with a shoe.

By preparing myself for the end before it even begins, I am actually creating a nice comfy spike shield around my heart so that instead of it breaking it will actually slice through the skin of any unsuspecting suitor who tries to fuck with it. This of course makes relationships very difficult for me, as I am never fully committed for fear of said heart breakage.

This can go the same way for friendships.

Worst Case Scenario - I meet a new friend, begin to trust them, share stories, tell secrets, then they swiftly stab a giant shoe in my back quicker than I can remember their kids names and birthdays (doing so is a big deal to me). It’s bound to happen and even if it doesn’t, I sure as shit will be ready for it.

So what is worse? Anxiously yet preparedly waiting for the shoe to drop? Or simply assuming that the shoe will never drop because it has been quietly placed on the chair next to the bed?

I don’t think I could ever be comfortable knowing that the shoe won’t drop. Mainly because I’m hoping with all of the Worst Case Scenarios, there has to be at least one or two Best Case Scenarios that will happen. But can a BCS actually happen if I am never fully dedicated? If I continuously prepare for the worst and never think of the best, can the best actually happen? If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Peace,

Jamie

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The Day...The Fountain Died...

2009-08-27T17:04:00.000-07:00

Heya ;)

So if you don't know already, the fountain that graces Downtown Orlando's Lake Eola was struck by lightening the other day and is broken. It's so sad looking...just a rusty dome sitting in the middle of our beautiful city. I can see this fountain practically from my front yard and have been a neighbor of it for almost the entire 3 years of me living in Orlando. I love this fountain.

With that being said....I realize that there is no easy way to repair it. It's going to cost a lot of money, a lot of money that the City of Orlando just doesn't have. We are in the hole just like every other city and it feels wrong to put something like this on the front burner of a whole slew of other problems we are having.

Now, I also realize that it is not our (loyal citizens of Orlando) fault that we have no money. It is not our fault that we are in the hole. It is the fault of our elected officials who have done absolutely nothing to try to climb ourselves out of said hole. They have done nothing for us and will continue to do nothing for us. During this "Fountain Crisis" Mayor Buddy Dyer has done nothing but set up a donation fund for the great people of Orlando to donate to help repair this fountain. I believe that Mayor Buddy Dyer and the District Commissioners should be knocking on the doors of every single business in Downtown Orlando asking for a handout, but they won't. It is those businesses that rely on us to keep their businesses open and it is my love for the fountain that keeps my business in Downtown Orlando.

I love the spirit of Orlando, I love that we can ban together to help a cause and put aside our own issues to help others in need. This was apparent during last weekends Cure for the Run (www.curefortherun.com) put on by SomaCow (www.somacow.com) and Rock for Hunger (www.rockforhunger.com). People do stand up when times are rough.

If you have the money, donate, if you don't then don't. (www.orlandotrust.org). I personally wouldn't give the city a dime until they showed me the proposal for repairs and show me exactly how much money has and is being donated on a daily basis so that we know when we reach our goal. I know that there are wealthy businesses and businessmen and women in and around Orlando who could step up and save our iconic fountain. But will they? I doubt it.

So it is with a heavy heart, that I made this video.....an ode if you will. An ode to our beloved fountain that has been a part of this city for 50+ years. A fountain that was the focal point of "The City Beautiful". A fountain that might leave this beautiful city and leave an empty hole in the hearts of its citizens....

Love,

Jamie

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Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds

2009-08-24T15:41:00.000-07:00

So I want to start this review out by commenting on some of the reviews I have read about this movie.

#1 being by Roger Moore, the Orlando Sentinels "Movie Reviewer". Read the article here if you'd like (I wouldn't give him the hits if I were you, but if you do, please write a comment on the bottom telling him he is worthless): http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/orl-movie-review-inglourious-basterds,0,4336375.story

So, Roger Moore. I don't know who this guy is and I don't really care. The only reason I read the review was because Jim Phillips (local Orlando talk radio guy) said that he read a bunch of bad reviews about the movie and mentioned Roger. I had not heard a single bad word about this movie from people on twitter and elsewhere.

Roger starts out his "review" by saying "Hollywood's two most indulged enfant terrible filmmakers have now made the worst two World War II movies of this millennium. With Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino has topped Spike Lee ( Miracle at St. Anna) in awfulness".

Alright, so Roger just doesn't like Quentin Tarantino. Once I read that, I realized this guy was worthless and hated the movie before he even saw it. He obviously just doesn't like Quentin's work and that is fine. Everyone is entitled to their opinion (including me). But to start a review by letting everyone know that you think the filmmaker is terrible, is just stupid. He also went ahead and gave the movie 1 out of 5 stars which is so ridiculous it made me laugh. There are very few movies that deserve 1 out of 5 stars. Romy and Michelles High School Reunion and Step Brothers to name a few off the top of my head.

Bottom line, Roger Moore is one of those guys who hates movies that everyone else loves and loves movies that everyone else hates. Maybe that is his schtick. All I know is that I will never read another review by him personally, ever and either should you.

Rotten Tomatoes gave it great reviews. If you look at Yahoo Movies which throws together all of the professional Movie Reviews, its lowest score was a C+ by the New York Times. Everyone else gave it an A or A-. Regular movie watchers gave the movie a B+ overall.

So Roger Moore....you are an idiot.

Anyway, here's what I thought:

Quentin Tarantino has written a slew of fucking amazing movies. Starting with Reservoir Dogs (AMAZEBALLS) then Pulp Fiction, Natural Born Killers, Four Rooms, From Dusk Till Dawn, Jackie Brown and Kill Bill 1 and 2. I have seen all of these movies and thought they were excellent. I never saw Grindhouse, but will watch it soon. Quentin Tarantino is known for pushing the limits creatively and has a signature style when it comes to blood and gore. Some people think he's too violent and a little off kilter, but what great filmmaker isn't? I like a movie that I remember and I remember Quentins films.

Quickly, here is a summary of what the movie is about: In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.

I will say that about 85% of this movie is in subtitles. It didn't take anything away from the movie however so don't skip it because you think it will be hard to keep up with. I also had no idea that this was a remake of a 1978 movie..nor do I care. It's obvious that Quentin made it his own. It has the same style that you expect from his films and doesn't disappoint. The story isn't meant to be seen as a historically accurate portrayal of France during WWII, but it does follow the notion that everything that happened during that time was bullshit insane. It is gory in some parts but nowhere near his previous films.

From the get go, the actor that plays Col. Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) blew me away. In short, this is the guy that hunts jews and has a reputation of being a smarmy prick. He plays it to a TEE. Every single word out of his mouth is gold. He stole the show in my eyes, even against Brad Pitt.

So Brad Pitt, he is delicious in this as he is in all of his movies. He plays Aldo Raine who is the leader of the "basterds". Although I don't really think Brad Pitt has much range as an actor, I enjoy all of his movies. He did a great job in this. I also enjoyed Eli Roth as the "Bear Jew" who would beat Nazi's to death with a baseball bat. BJ Novak who you might know from The Office is also a "Basterd". Mike Myers has a cameo that I didn't really get the point of but whatever. OVERALL, the acting was excellent by everyone involved.

One thing I wanted to mention was the soundtrack. It is slick and insane and right on point. Also, there are excellent montages done about some of the characters (Hugo Stiglitz being my favorite). I laughed at a few points and cringed at a few of the more gory scenes but the dialogue was impeccable and kept your attention (even though a majority of it is spoken in German and French).

In conclusion, I'd pretty much recommend this movie to anyone. It's worth the $9. It's 2 in a half hours long, but didn't feel like it at all. I would see this again and if I purchased DVD's (which I do not) I would add it to my collection.

Suck it Roger Moore.

I give it 4 out of 5 bloody baseball bats.

Xbox360: What HAS changed

2009-08-11T08:03:00.000-07:00

Alright, so I was eagerly anticipating the newest large scale upgrade to the Xbox 360 LIVE system. The last upgrade was intense, as it pretty much changed the entire online platform. This upgrade was minimal at best (as was expected, it wasn't supposed to be anything super great). I wrote a blog a few months back after the E3 convention, listing the ways I would improve the Xbox 360 (I also sent it to Xbox). A majority of improvements were made, however not the way they should have been. Here are my thoughts on the latest "improvements".

I'm going to start with the RATINGS SYSTEM. I have been asking for this for about a year. I wanted a legit ratings system, where players can rate a game using a simple 5 star system, quickly from the Xbox Live platform. Xbox FINALLY decided to include this, so now I can see what others rate games. The thing about gaming is, if it has a good rating, chances are its a pretty fucking good game. It might not be your style of game, but it's probably still well worth the rental or purchase. Kudos for Microsoft integrating this extremely simple but helpful tool into the LIVE platform. It looks great and works great.

Next, they have added a feature that allows you to WATCH MOVIES ONLINE WITH YOUR XBOX LIVE FRIENDS. If you don't have an Xbox, let me explain. Xbox allows you to purchase and download pretty much any movie you can get from Blockbuster. It also is integrated with Netflix and allows you to stream movies instantly (like 6 bajillion movies) if you have a monthly membership. This concept allows you to get on your headset with a friend who could live in China and watch a movie together, being able to speak/laugh through the headset to one another. I think this is a cool concept, however, I haven't tested it and probably never will. Does the other friend have to purchase the movie? I have no idea. It's an extra feature that has no point, but i'm sure it will be used by a few people.

Next up is GAMES ON DEMAND. Now, let me throw this at you.....you go out and purchase a $400 gaming system. A gaming system that has the most insanely practical online platform ever seen before anywhere in anything. Now, doesn't it seem obvious that with all the other downloadable content (movies, music, add-ons, xbox original games) that you would be able to PURCHASE and DOWNLOAD a NEW game for the Xbox 360 console???? Yes, it is obvious, but it was not available. For some reason, Microsoft and Xbox didn't think this was a good idea. They are stupid. They lost out on a whole fuck ton of revenue from people (me) who would have purchased the full games online (Halo 3, Saints Row 2, GTA, COD WOW, Fable II, etc.). Instead, these people either 1) Did in fact go out and buy the game at the store. 2) Rented the game 3) Borrowed it from a friend. Either way, they lost money. There are only 24 "newer" games available on the new OnDemand Games section, and the only two that are worth anything are Assasins Creed and BioShock. The rest are old. I am sure this will eventually be larger, so i'm not going to trash it. I'm thrilled that you can purchase the full game, however its not exactly a steal of a deal. For example, Assasins Creed is available on OnDemand for $29.99. You can drive to your local Gamestop right now and purchase a used version of the game for $19.99. I'm curious to see how this pans out....not exactly the "Online Game Rentals" system that im STILL hoping for...but it's a step in the right direction.

Now to the important stuff, CHANGING WHAT YOUR AVATAR LOOKS LIKE! Now unlike the Wii, the avatars on the Xbox are pretty awesome. You can change a lot of stuff on them to reflect your style or inner rockstar or whatever you want. It's the most ridiculous and pointless gaming concept ever created, but people love it, I LOVE IT. In my previous blog, I asked for more options. There was already a wide range of clothes, accessories, shoes, hair styles, etc. All I wanted was to be able to customize the colors, etc. So, Xbox decides to go fucking nuts and create a AVATAR MARKETPLACE. I thought "Sweet! More Clothes!".....then I quickly changed my tune after clicking on the Marketplace and realizing that all of the items cost REAL MONEY. REAL MONEY. ACTUAL FUCKING MONEY THAT YOU WORK FOR. Before putting my fist through my Xbox, I decided to browse the collection to further piss myself off and boy did it.

Here's a few screenshots:

Rad Halo shirt I found in the Xbox Avatar Marketplace. Only 160 fucking Xbox points, which equals....about $2.00.

Woo Hoo Sweet Guitar! I can add this for my Xbox Live friends to see, for another 160 points! Con.

Any Die Hard Splinter Cell fans out there? 400 points (or $5.00) can get you this sweet outfit! Fuck off....

Overall the upgrade was pretty lame and didn't actually change anything that I use. I will NEVER pay for Avatar clothes and accessories, nor will I purchase a full 360 game for $10 more than I can get it at Gamestop. I also will never watch a movie with a friend online because well....when you watch movies you aren't suppose to talk, so what the fuck is the point? I will however use the rating system. Better luck next time Xbox.

~Jamie~

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Dear WFTV

2009-07-29T16:51:00.000-07:00

So. I cannot even write words to express my frustration, but I tried. I tried to at least send them an email and let them know that I was angry. Why? I know it will do absolutely nothing. I know that all anybody cares about is money. None of the local news agencies give a rats ass about Central Floridians. They certainly don't care about inundating us with advertisements from a company that should be investigated for fraud. I know that there is absolutely nothing I can do about this. I know there are bigger fights to fight. But I just couldn't sit here and say nothing.....

I don't know if its the concept that we have zero choice in our Energy company so advertising seems extremely pointless, or that OUC is jumping on the whole GREEN BANDWAGON and trying to suck us onto their website so they can get some money from hits or scam Floridians into spending more money on shit they don't need but will be made to believe they do. Either way.....here it is, it is animated and fancy and I know they paid a ton just for the advertisement to get created not to mention the amount of money it cost for them to advertise with WFTV. If you want to see it yourself, go to wftv and click on the news section. Its at the top....and will expand onto your screen when you first go there.

Dear WFTV -

Wow. Did WFTV make a nice chunk of change from OUC for their beautiful flash ad in the news section of the website? I sure hope so.

Nice to know that companies like OUC who just recently decided a 15% (15%!!!!!) price hike was a good idea for Central Floridians, can sit and spend money on worthless advertising. We have no choice in our power company, so why advertise? To teach me on ways that I can save money on my electric bill? I can not believe how ridiculous that is.

How about OUC spends their money thinking up ways to lower the prices for Central Floridians so that we don't have to struggle on a daily basis in order to survive. So that when we are told about a mandatory increase (that we have zero control over), we don't have to shutter at the thought of ever saving a penny to let our children go to College or on a class trip.

Every single other advertisement on your website is a local business or at the very least a company that we have a choice to spend our money at. It's a sad day when the place you go to for community information and news is sitting around lining their pockets by a company that is pretty much scamming Central Floridians.

I'm positive you aren't the only news station and/or website that supports companies that do absolutely nothing to attempt to relieve the stress on Americans, but instead just create more stress. But I just don't get it. Why? Did you really need the extra money? Was it really necessary for you to throw an ad on your news site that I know cost a ton of money to create, when every other business on East Colonial is shutting down, nobody can find a job in Central Florida and we are already up to our ears trying to just pay our bills and survive?

I know you need to pay your bills, but have a little dignity and pride. We are the reason you are around.

-Jamie

Someone in Central Florida who actually gives a shit about Central Floridians needs to get into office. I will run their entire campaign and I will do it for free. I do not have the balls, the experience, the education or the desire to just do it myself, but if someone stands up and proves to me that they are getting involved because THEY CARE ABOUT CENTRAL FLORIDIANS I will devote all of my free time into creating the sweetest fucking campaign anyone has ever seen before in their lives.

Im angry.

Peace.

My Favorite Fads

2009-07-28T15:26:00.000-07:00

I have been wanting to write a blog about Bacon for a long time but have been entirely too nervous to do so (there are some crazy m'fers that love bacon). So instead, i've decided to come up with a list of my favorite/worst FADS throughout my life and incorporate my Bacon rant into it. I touch in the 2000s (18-27 years old), 1990's (8-17 years old), 1980's (born - 8 years old). Enjoyski's.

MY FAVORITES FROM THE 2000's

Bacon - I'm just gonna get right into it. I know you love it. I know it's tasty. I know it's pretty good on anything including your own flesh if need be. BUT ITS BACON!!!! In the last, i'll say, year in a half, for some reason the Bacon Powers That Be decided to step up their game and create this sort of romantic allure towards this cut of meat that is simply the belly chunks of some disgusting ass pig. It's not attractive, in fact the type of bacon the majority of American's eat is referred to as "Streaky". From now on, I will be referring to anyone who mentions Bacon in my presence as "Streaky". Bacon also is attributed to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, colorectal and stomach cancer. It pretty much just makes Americans more obese and unhealthy which is why it has been embraced by us.

So why the love? Why the Bacon Fiasco of 2008-2009? I have no answers. I think it was clever marketing. The Atkins diet made it cool to eat Bacon, which didn't hurt the cause. For all I know, Al Gore is the one who invented Bacon. So let's thank him.

We have the bacon explosion, chicken fried bacon, chocolate covered bacon, candied bacon, bacon salt, baconnaise and the ever so popular bacon bits that single men nowadays, probably dump in their coco puffs every morning. When will it end people? Bacon Gum? Bacon Cereal? Bacon Bacon? Bacon Condoms? (that is actually a good one...I saw your ears perk up. BACONdoms will be in stores in a week because someone will steal my idea). I digress...

Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE bacon by itself. I don't want it on a sandwich or in my salt or mixed with anything. But I like old school slices of bacon next to my old school scrambled eggs. If I could swim in a bathtub full of bacon....I would do it. I would also take pictures of me in the tub o' bacon and post them on the internet. Because the only thing better than bacon itself, is the sick fascination that people on the interwebs have with it. mmmmm....baconbath.....

In Conclusion:

I give this Bacon fad until the end of the year. 2010 is the year of the Brussel Sprout fo sho. Just simply typing Baconnaise made me throw up in my mouth.

Poker - Poker? I hardly knew her? Anyway, here's the deal with poker. I realize it's been popular for years and years (there is debate, but a majority say it has been around since 1890), but just up until the early 2000's did we start seeing the tables and poker kits on every shelf of every novelty store in America. It became the MUST-GET gift for all dads, brothers, uncles, grandpa's and sons for Christmas and Birthdays. What is more manly than sitting around with your dudes (most likely comprised of a family member you invited because you couldn't find a fourth, a friend that you hate, the friend of the friend you hate and your 9 year old son), talking about the chicks your banging (even though you all have wives that you cannot stand after having to get married because she got pregnant with your 3rd player, the 9 year old son), smoking cigars that the friend of the friend you hate bought from 7-11 (while the wife you can't stand is bitching at you from the kitchen about the smell), you get the picture.....it's pretty comical all around to me.

Much like Bacon, the reasons behind it's explosion are up for debate. I believe the reason it became so popular was because they started showing a ton of poker competitions on television and because you can play poker online for real money. Also, Matt Damon was in a little movie called Rounders with Edward Norton in the late 90's. After that movie, Edward Norton made American History X and Fight Club and became every straight man's bro-crush, so all of the dudes who didn't see Rounders went back and watched it (so they could drool over edward norton) and decided they wanted to make their millions workin people in the poker circuit. 1% of whom did. The other 99% haven't opened that poker gift set their annoying wives bought them and it's dust covered in some random closet next to that Loudmouth Billy the Bass shit that every man received the Christmas before.

For every 1 local dude that makes it to a Vegas competition because he got lucky, there are 2 million single males who are sitting in their college dorm, smokin pot and depositing their student loan checks into FullTiltPoker.com or PokerStars.com and coming up empty handed. It's an addiction that can ruin lives and families but I think a majority play it responsibly. I like that guys can have a poker night, I like that it is a competition that actually has some money involved, I like that it's easy enough for a chick to play. Ever try to play Craps? Fuck that confusing mess of a dice game.

In Conclusion:

I think this fad is almost run its course, but not completely. Poker is funny to say no matter what. Matt Damon is a fad starter.

Livestrong Bracelets - I don't have much to say about this, other than it was definitely a fad. Little yellow silicone bracelets that look cool on anybody and the money from the purchase goes toward the Lance Armstrong Foundation to fight Cancer. Now if i'm correct, Lance Armstrong is a survivor of cancer, no? So....since Cancer is survivable, what is the point? I'm kidding...it's a good cause, I bought one, I bought two actually. Nike is the one who came up with the idea and probably made bajillions from it.

Again, I hate to bring up Matt Damon and his effects of all things "Fad" related, but WIKIPEDIA actually names him as one of the celebrities who donned this beautiful piece of jewelry. Along with John Kerry and Katie Couric. Unfortunately, this fad quickly died because every Tom, Dick and Harry realized it was super simple to recreate the piece of crap and charge more than $1 for them and none of the money would go to charity. Most likely the ones I got went to Habeeb and his family of twelve at the 7-11 I purchased mine from and most likely the ones YOU purchased funded some sort of terrorist organization.

In Conclusion:

Fad is dead. Cancer is still very much alive. You should be ashamed of yourself for funding terrorism

Oversized Sunglasses - This is still prevalent. I have owned 6 or 7 pairs of oversized glasses. The reason this fad pisses me off so badly is because for YEARS, most of my life actually, I continuously tried to get my mother to stop wearing giant grandma sunglasses and instead change to the smaller more Palin-esque glasses. BUT NO. All of a sudden, Nicole Ritchie and her God Awful fashionistas decided that gigantic sunglasses were cool again because you could cover your strung out coke-weary eyes and be virtually invisible while eating at the most popular paparazzi covered restaurants in LA. They look effing ridiculous on all women and Ryan Seacrest, yet we all bought them and love them. Sunglasses are supposed to do one thing and one thing only....block my beautiful green eyes from the harmful ultra-violet radiation projected from the sun. They also assist in keeping my hair out of my eyes while wearing them on my head which I do 90% of the time. Why? Because giant sunglasses are stupid and they look stupid.

In Conclusion:

Fad is still going strong and I am aboard the train. My mom is wearing little sunglasses now (dammit mom!!). With all of the money we spent on sunglasses in the last 100 years, we could have just gotten rid of the sun altogether. If Kanye West sunglasses become the next fad, i'm shooting myself in the face with a makeshift livestrong bracelet bacon gun.

Soduko - It's a puzzle. It's a puzzle on a grid. It's the most ridiculous (yet OBVIOUS) concept i've ever seen but Howard Garns (the architect who created this Fad) is now a billionaire and he deserves every cent of it. It's been around a while, since the late 70's but not until recent could you find 100 page Puzzle Books completely devoted to Soduku. There are video games, you can play it on your cellphone, in the newspaper (wtf is a newspaper?), online against people, it has spawned a game show, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. I honestly can't even think of a way to trash this as I am a lover of all things puzzle related and anything that requires Americans to use their brains. I do not however like the game as it just seems way too easy for me. There is a logical way of figuring out every single puzzle and sequence....so....well.....whats the point?

In Conclusion:

This fad was bigger a few years ago but its still out there. It'll be around forever. I am too smart for it. Matt Damon had nothing to do with it.

MY FAVORITES FROM THE 1990's

Rollerblades - Fucking rollerblades. I don't even want to continue writing but I will (hah, good try). I will get a little nostalgic on this one and use my personal history of this as a few examples of the gheyness that is Rollerblading. When I was younger we had a skating rink called RollerRama in Michigan. I think it's still there. We would go in Elementary School and rent those god awful brown skates that went up to your kneecaps and attempt to look cute while doing the limbo in front of the cute boys. Eventually, I realized that these skates were the LAMEST things ever, so I forced my parents into purchasing me a pair of Speed Skates. They were awesome and I was even more awesome for having them. We had a huge basement and I could skate all night in them. I will gladly admit that I had an entire speedskating routine based solely around the soundtrack from The Mask with Jim Carrey. Why? Because I was awesome. Eventually I got bored with them, because...well...they are effing rollerskates and I realized that they were in fact NOT AWESOME.

Now by the time Rollerblading was cool in my life, it was actually COOL. It was X-GAMES cool. It was ARLO EISENBERG cool (who I effing loved). It was halfpipes and grinding and my brother was big into it so of course, I was as well. This is not the rollerblading I speak of.

I'm talking, neon green laces, giant back brakes, plastic pieces of shit that always rubbed into your ankles, Rollerblades. You bought them at Wal-Mart or Sports Authority, they never fit right, you always had to wear socks with them that stuck out the top and at least once in your life you tripped on a rock, fell flat on your ass and got some serious road burn. If you were lucky, your parents also forced you to wear the elbow and knee pads as well as a sweet dork helmet.

I'm happy to say that nobody really rollerblades anymore although i'm not against it as a form of exercise. Let me clarify. I'm not against as a form of exercise for GIRLS. If you are a dude, and thinking that you want to buy a pair of rollerblades to work off your dukebelly, don't. Just don't do it. Buy a bicycle. You will look way less lame and avoid people throwing shit at you as they drive by your fatass rolling down the road. They are uncomfortable and honestly you will probably break your arm within the first week of using them. Just don't do it guys. Just don't.

In Conclusion:

Fad is dead, but you can still purchase them from Wal-Mart. The only reason I included this was to reiterate to men that rollerblading will do nothing but make you look like a douche.

Chat Rooms - I think everyone I know has a Chatroom story from the 90's. I'm not talking about anything but straight up MIRC or AOL Chatrooms. When nobody had any clue that half of the hot chicks in a room who you were trying to get to e-mail you booby pictures, were actually 50 year old pedophiles. When every single person who even had a sliver of internet computer knowledge wanted to be a Hacker. This was before people met each other online, when it was still fairly anonymous, you could pretty much pretend to be whomever you wanted to me. Now, we aren't so easily duped and expect a Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and Personal Website in order to verify your authenticity. You hear that pedophiles??? You better come up with a crafty teenage girl looking Myspace page, or else I will think you are a pedophile.

I was part of a chatroom around 93-94. It was MIRC based and it took me months and months of continuous complimenting and flirting with the MODS before I was FINALLY allowed to be a MOD. It was one of my proudest moments. I used to play S.C.A.R.A.B. with my fellow chatters, which was a first person shooter extremely similar to the current HALO series that I was convinced up until a short awhile ago was actually a figment of my imagination, but I finally found some screenshots and an oldschool website devoted to it.

What I find most comical about this FAD, is that it hasn't died and it really hasn't changed much at all. Even though we have the options now to just speak to each other online via voice and video chat, we still go to the ol' standby...regular text based chat. Ustream and Justin.tv are immensely popular as are the other millions of chatrooms that are available to us. It opened up this world of communication where the worst consequence is either being de-modded or banned. You can speak your mind and learn about other people even if 90% of it is all bullshit. Up until 1997 everything was chill, then Sandra Bullock had to go and make "The Net" and scare the shit out of everyone. Cause ya know, with simply knowing someones IP address you can pretty much change identities and get Dennis Miller killed by switching his prescriptions via hacking into the pharmacies computer system.

In Conclusion:

This fad will never die as we are more and more moving toward a completely non-verbal way of communicating. My MIRC chatname was Seraph2113 and I ruled channel #1, LMFAO. Dennis Miller should NEVER act.

Pogs - Pogs were so lame, but I fell under it's worthless spell back in the day. It started in Hawaii in the 20's but became popular in the 90's. They were simply a piece of cardbored with an image on them that meant nothing. You had a "Slammer" which was a heavier POG. There was a game involved where you would slam your slammer down on the top of a stack and any that landed face up you would keep (which i'm sure pissed off a ton of parents who worked their shit jobs in order to buy you some worthless pieces of cardboard). I never really played the game, I just collected them. They were eventually banned in my school (as was everything) and I lost interest after about a month of screaming at my parents to buy me them. I'm assuming there are still people playing in POG tournaments across the globe and those people are referred to as "LOSERS".

In Conclusion:

Pogs were lame. The fad is dead.

Beanie Babies - Ugh, beanie babies. Every middle aged mother of 3 collected these worthless bean bag filled pieces of crap. I don't even understand how they became so popular, but they did. The nine original Beanie Babies were Legs the Frog, Squealer the Pig, Spot the Dog, Flash the Dolphin, Splash the Whale, Chocolate the Moose, Patti the Platypus, Brownie the Bear and Punchers the Lobster. Let's go over these shall we. Obviously these were created at the Derek Zoolander Center for Children Who Can't Read Good and Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too, school. Why would the name be PUNCHERS for the lobster? They eventually changed it to Pinchers.....all that means is that the original one is worth about 3 cents more on Ebay. Patti the Platypus doesn't make any sense to me when the rest were actually related to something attributed to them (legs for the front, brown bear, pigs squeal, dogs have spots, dolphins flash their boobs, whales splash, the moose one is racist). In fact, the Platypus is a pretty stupid animal anyway so it should have never been included in the original nine. But some old lady secretary who's name was Patti probably convinced the TY company to make it. Stupid old lady.

The tags on the Beanies was pretty much the most important part. If it didn't have the TAG, then it wasn't authentic. I can only imagine how many children got the shit beat out of them after ripping it off what they thought was just another stuffed animal they could play with.

I just read that there are 50,000 different beanie babies......so i'm done with this. Done. 50 fucking thousand? Are you kidding me? Eff that....get this crap out of my face.

In Conclusion:

Fad is dead unless you are a 70 year old woman. I just purchased the Garcia the Bear Beanie Baby on ebay for $2.50 and am going to tie it to the top of my water bong and rip the tag off as soon as I get it. With all the money we spent on Beanie Babies we could have probably fed, housed and schooled every single poor, homeless and uneducated child in this country.

Furbies - After the Beanie Baby thing, I don't even really want to talk about these stupid toys. I never had one, but secretly I wanted one, my best friend had one and I hated her for it. They were a complete rip off but if used as a projectile, they could cause some damage. They weren't toys, they were annoying and were popular for about 6 months. Pretty much a "Virtual Pet", they started speaking Furbish when first acquired from it's packaging. Eventually they started speaking English and a lot of people thought if you talked to it in English that you were actually teaching it English. You weren't you DUMBFUCKS...you were just talking to a stupid battery operated furry mess that was programmed to start by speaking Furbish and eventually grow to speak English!!!!!!!!!! People seriously believed that. Seriously.

These pieces of furbage were $35 but a majority of people who got them ended up paying over $100 (suckers). I'm proud of my parents for not purchasing one for me. That $35 was much better spent on my POG collection.

In Conclusion:

Dead. They tried to make a come back in 2005, but it didn't happen because although Americans are still stupid, we aren't stupid enough to fall for that pile of crap again. I would like to hack a furby into saying whatever I would like it to say and then place is on an unsuspecting friends computer desk. My first instinct would be to make it say something about its love for Allah. lol, that cracks me up thinking about it.

Y2K - I LOVE Y2K!!!!!! Nothing makes me happier than when the American population gets fooled into believing the most ridiculous and insane shit our Government can think up, in order to keep our minds away from the other stuff that they are fucking up for us. I digress. So when the clock hit Midnight and Dick Clark was teabagging NYC, the entire world was supposed to implode. My toaster was supposed to be talking to me and my computer would turn into some sort of evil "Optimus Prime" and kill me and my family. All of the banks were going to lose our money and every single business was going to stop in its tracks because of computer glitches. On Midnight I was sitting at a bonfire drinking from a bottle of wine and chillin with my friends because the only thing I was scared about at the time was not graduating from High School in May because I skipped school everyday.

Nothing happened. Nothing. Not one single thing happened. For about 20 minutes of my life I was fearful of this thing. I mean, it was fairly logical to me that the dating system of 98, 99 and then 00, would reset some shit and the computers would go back to how they worked in the year 1900....eh, what? Alright, so none of it made sense, but we all bought into it. People were building bunkers in garages and buying thousands of dollars worth of books and system software in order to save all of there priceless digital photos and minesweeper scores. The Government was spending their time trying to fix a bullshit scam some pot smoking programmer created when they should have been hunting down Osama Bin Laden who was planning to ACTUALLY attack us and fuck shit up.

During this crap, Italy and South Korea did virtually nothing to prevent this devastation from happening and they had the exact same amount of problems the rest of the world did, NONE. The total cost of the work done in preparation for Y2K in the US was over 300 billion US dollars. Yep. 300 billion. I would love to think that this money was well spent and that is why nothing happened, but I don't. I know it was a scam and someone made a shit load of money off of it and probably bought an island and named it Y2K in honor of the billions of dollars they scammed out of Americans and the entire World.

In Conclusion:

Bunk, obviously. We were all duped. I wonder what all those people did with their Garage Bunkers? When 9/11 happened they were probably thrilled at the prospect that they would get to use em.

MY FAVORITES FROM THE 1980's

Now, the 80's are rough for me. I have a really bad memory and barely remember yesterday let alone 20 years ago, so these I will quickly touch base on.

Garbage Pale Kids Cards - I was too young to enjoy these, but I know my brother did. They were gross but creative and funny at the same time. An obvious rip off from the insanity that was the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls. The guy who came up with the idea was Art Spiegelman, he's a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, some others were involved but I mentioned the Pulitzer Prize winning guy because that seems hilarious to me. There was eventually a movie in 87 and an animated tv series. They released new box sets recently, but they are still not as cool as the older ones.

In Conclusion:

Dead fad. Someone still collects them though and I wish it was me. What is funnier than making fun of a wholesome toy like a Cabbage Patch Doll?

Slap Bracelets - These things were the bomb diggidy when I was a kid. They were made of some sort of flexible steel spring magic alien shit with fabric over them in any pattern or color you wanted. They could be straightened out and then slapped on your wrist, then wrap around it to form a bracelet. As quickly as these came about, they were quickly banned from my school. I guess you weren't supposed to go up to your friends and slap them in the face with them, and eventually the fabric would rip and underneath was actually a fairly deadly steel weapon. Nothing special but completely addictive and we all had em.

In Conclusion:

Dead. My school banned them just like they banned everything else and made us walk 3 feet away from all other students. They even banned us from having bells on our shoes. Wtf? Why the hell did we ever want to have bells on our shoes?

Mad Libs - I'm sure these are still around and I am positive that I would still have to look up in the dictionary what an Adjective and Verb are. Totally fun to do with friends. Here is one that I most recently completed:

Person In Room: President Obama

Adjective: Hairy

Verb: Smoking

Part of the Body: Feet

Number: 33

Noun: Cat

Adverb: Quickly

Verb: Grabbing

Pronoun Plural: Them

Other Person in Room: Glenn Beck

This is exactly what resulted....I clearly do not have a fucking clue about nouns, adjectives, pronouns, verbs or adverbs....

Dear President Obama,

You are extremly Hairy and I Smoking you! I want kiss your Feet 33 times. You make my Cat burn with desire. When I first saw you, I Quickly stared at you and fell in love. Will you Grabbing out with me? Don`t let your parents discourage you, Them are just jealous.

Yours forever, Glenn Beck

In Conclusion:

Mad Libs = Always Funny. When your a kid and you start learning swear words, this is the most fun way to use them. Then your mom finds your book in your room and you get your ass reemed out for writing Cock and Shit. Bummer. I don't know what a verb is....seriously.

Skip-it - Whoever invented this "toy" should be punched in the face. It's not a damn toy, it's a frickin torture device used to make fat kids lose weight. Granted, I wasn't fat, I was competitive so I fucking loved it. But give me a break. You insert your foot in the hole and spin it around your ankle, then you jump over the stick and it counts how many times you've done it. Yes...that is it. That is the "TOY". Hours of entertainment......mine was pink and I rocked the hell out of it. This is the sort of shit we should be giving our kids nowadays to do, but could you even imagine handing a child this???? They would laugh....they would laugh in your face, then kick you in the shin and probably shank you afterwards. Fucking fat kids.

In Conclusion:

Nobody has this anymore as it was probably deemed too dangerous. Eventually the counter on my skip it broke and I cracked it in half in a ritilin filled rage.

So that's it for now!!! Those are muh favorite fads! What are yours? I don't allow comments on my blog because blogger.com cannot handle their spam very well and I end up getting 90 comments linking me to naked britney spears photos. If you have something to say, just email me, i'll respond and maybe post it on here. Or twitter me, best option to get an immediate response.

Go Pog Yourselves....

Jamie

jamie@theexperience.fm

twitter: @JamieExp

www.theexperience.fm

Twitter Rap Battle Seven-Twenty-One Twenty-Oh-Nine

2009-07-21T10:23:00.000-07:00

So i'm a rapper. Don't believe me? Just check this shiz out. Ive been waiting for the perfect opportunity to start a "Within 140 character Twitter Rap Battle" for some time now, and today looked like the perfect day. 3 Rounds. No Mercy. I took everyone down...one by one.

Round One: Jamie vs. Tail

Tail: nobody told me it was 140. I could have come up with that. You 2 and your nerdy rules

Jamie: who u callin nerdy, ur st cloud tire lovin dirty, twitter makes the rule you fool, 140 im outie.

Tail: Nerd is the word, like I know u have heard. You talk lots of game, bur your rhymes are just plain.

Tail: You jokes are old, your rhymes run cold, you try to teach lessons but you've just been schooled.

Jamie: old school of rhyme, school and cold dont blend, ur brain on the mend? u cant hang with the professor cause ur lessor, hack phlegm.

Jamie: listen vanilla my skillz top thriller, i got a glove with ur name on it, drink another st cloud miller. http://bit.ly/wAUkz

Tail: Just throw in the towel, its not cool to scowl. Your rhymes are played out, pack up cause School's out.

Tail: a truce should be called, a lyrical compliation, to dethrone Miss Jamie a true trial and tribulation.

Jamie: dethrone? come here ill throw u a bone, poo rhymes with you and fail rhymes with tail, bring it on cracker my licks ain't stale.

WINNER: Jamie (easy shmeezy)

Round Two: Jamie vs. Crispy

Crispy: my name is christoph, i'm always pissed off, and in my trunk, i got a sawed off...then i farted!

Jamie: ur name isnt christoph more like hoff as in hassle, germany loves you but thats it, you should quit, for you rappin ain't it.

WINNER: Jamie (K/O)

Round Three: Jamie vs. Mickey (this is where shit. got. crazy.)

Jamie: Watch ur mouth white boy. E. B's nails are razor sharp, he'll cut up your face like he's playin a harp. <-rapping is easy

Mickey: It's easy when you spit shit simplistic, but I'm a sadistic linguistic mystic that goes ballistic when I rock it narcissistic

Jamie: ur rhymes are distant you need an assistant I am resistant, remember soma you gotta try to be consistent and persistent.

Mickey: Yours skills are redundant while mine flow abundant, I'm the czar with a scar, raps first white lyrical pundit

Jamie: Lyrical pundit?More like I lyrically pwnd it.Professor of rap I popcaps like lock I dont stop.Pill poppin rush wannabe aint got nothin on me

Mickey: Pizza's here, so off the hook I'll let you, with whack rap like that, it's highly likely I'll just forget you.

Jamie: eat ur za' pepperoni ur full of baloney, im the mushroom that will crush rooms, forget me, forget u, u and cindy loo hoo.

Mickey: 'za with 'napple and ham, your rhymes are scam. I wish twitter would just filter your canned yam and spam, sam 

Jamie: suess is old, like ur rhymes are bad, whatsamatta ur lettin a girl break a foot off in ur ass?

Mickey: You're an irrelephant, that's an irrelevant elephant. Like Horton your sportin a rant that's scant. You should just recant

Jamie: quit quotin the dr. u rhyme stealin fool, im too cool, cant stop it im old school, put ya in a coma soma nice to know ya, i own ya

Mickey: why reinvent the wheel when there are rhymes aplenty to steal. You spit the fromage while I dish the homage

Jamie: if im the irrelevant elephant, then u know I never forget, steal from the dr, no point im the professor 2 legit.

Mickey: You rep the Hammer with your Grammar? Now that's too damn far, just stammer and clamor and enamor with my glamor

Jamie: ill follow ur lead and rhyme like my niece,you should cease ur rappin lease,ur a piece, im hot as hell like im rapped up in fleece.

  Mickey: Fleeced like a sheep, Bowls of Pebbles are more deep, just go back to sleep, you make the gods of rap weep, creep.

WINNER: Mickey. Whatever.

Other noteable raps:

Mickey to Tail: Hello? Like Lionel Richie,You're getting beat so then you turn bitchie? You try to f wit me? Bitch please. You're an aborted sneeze

Mickey to Jamie in response to Tail: a throne she must in order to lose it, we should search eBay for her new ego, cause her old one? I bruised it

DJJohn: doin' thisspaghetti - Serengeti - Eveready incomplete - sink and weep - toilet seat back street - track meet - that's neat! - half beat

DJJohn: I am funny,I like bunnies, Touch my tummy, Mummy

Tail to Jamie: Scared she now runs, and violence is spoken, i liked her much better when she was a tokin...

Tail to Mickey about Jamie: ICP you do say, I will have to agree, oh how will we smite her, oh god, i just peed.

MY PERSONAL FAVORITE!!!

Mickey to Tail: Old and time tested, and you've been soundly digested and bested, you need steam punk chair cause you've just been wild wild wested

Follow all of us on twitter (if you dare):

@JamieExp

@somacow (mickey)

@TailExp

@crispydork

@djjohndork

Til next time -

Peace

Movie Review: "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen "

2009-07-13T23:37:00.000-07:00

Saw the first one, thought it was alright. Don't really remember it much which is why I am taking to my blog for the second one. I want to be able to remember this moment when i'm a wise elder.

I'm a little late in the game I realize. This movie came out weeks ago. I'm not a huge "go to the movies" type of person. I'd rather watch em at my own house or not at all. The entire entertainment industry kind of annoys me (of course it does). The fact that "actors" make millions of dollars to just stand in front of a camera and pretend to be someone else in order to entertain me like i'm a fucking 2 year old playing peek a boo, sickens me. BUT, I am human so like everyone else I put on my Mondays best and trolled over to the local cinema to sit in an empty theatre with a few other dorks who had nothing better to do but watch this summers blockbuster, even though all the reviews were terrible.

Here is what I have to say about this movie, quickly (quickly meaning 7 totally drawn out long winded paragraphs):

Shia Lebeouf is hot. Megan Fox is hot. Josh Duhamel is hot. Tyrese is hot. Even Bumblebee is hot in this movie.

Shia never disappoints me. I used to watch him on Disney's Even Stevens when I was younger. I think he's a good actor and he has a funny delivery, I think he has the potential to become my generations...Will Smith. He continues his nerdy yet surprisingly rugged roll and plays it off well. He made me laugh a few times. He made me want to punch him in the face a few times. He shouted "BUMBLEBEEEEEE!!!!!" WAYYYYY TOO MANY TIMES. Overall....yay Shia. I would like to see him and Josh Duhamel naked. Just sayin.....

The first moment you see Megan Fox she is literally straddle humping a crotch rocket with her ass hanging out of her shorts. I GET IT. She is BEAUTIFUL. She is SEXY. She has giant LIPS. It was just super cheesy. She played her part again, hot chick...running around....seems way too cool for Shia but for some wacky reason she loves him. The story between Shia and Megan was uber cheesed up, but so was the story between Liv Tyler and Ben Affleck in Armageddon. Or Will Smith and Vivica A Fox in Independence Day. Or Kirsten Dunst and Tobey Mcguire in Spiderman. Or every other action/end of the world movie ever made since the beginning of time.

Shia's parents were hilarious and the best actors in this movie.

The special effects were cool. I was pretty amazed by some of the "transformations" that were made, but then it seemed like they started to exaggerate them. Some transformations took what seemed like 15 minutes and by then you'd think a decepticon would have just blown some shiz up and gone home. Sometimes the graphics got a little too insane so you couldn't tell what the hell was happening. At two points I felt nauseous. But overall, the effects were rad. The robots looked the most real i've ever seen a movie robot look.

The two robots.....the twins. Skids and Mudflap ( I had to look that up )....they were the Jar Jar Binks of this movie. I hated them.

Also, the stupid cheeseball catch phrases the robots kept saying were fucking awful. AWFUL.

This movie would have been a hundred times better if they got rid of the cheeseball shit writing and they made it a bit darker. I liked the way it incorporated the events into everyday life like it could possibly be happening in real life. But overall....I hated the movie. This coming from someone who loved Independence Day, which is the lamest cheesiest movie in the world. At least they didn't make the aliens say stupid ass catch phrases. They left that to Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum ("I gotta get me one of these!" "Yes, yes. Yes. Without the "oops"".)

If you liked the first one, you'll think it was better than this one. If you are a chick, it's worth seeing for Shia, Josh and Tyrese. If you are a dude, Megan Fox's boozunga's are hangin out throughout the whole movie. Graphics cool, Acting horrible, Writing terrible.

I give it 1 nug out of 5.

P.S. One of the writers for this wrote - Scream 3, Arlington Road, Reindeer Games and The Ring. The other two, wrote for the Hercules series on television. That. explains. everything.

Director Michael Bay directed Pearl Harbor, Armageddon, Bad Boys and The Lionel Richie Collection. Woop.....

Social Networking and My Family

2009-07-09T11:29:00.000-07:00

http://myparentsjoinedfacebook.com

Oi the humiliation when a Mother or Father/Sister or Brother/distant Aunt or Uncle/Dog or Cat manages to finally join the facebook/myspace/twitter bandwagon! I thought I was alone in this, at least as an adult. It makes sense for a kid to be nervous about this sort of violation of privacy, but for some reason it used to make me SO nervous I wanted to shut off my computers forever and pretend Al Gore never created the Interwebs.

I remember the first day my mother arrived on Myspace. I had giant pot-leafs strewn across my page, odes to my favorite beers, friends who referred to me as "Skank" when writing me a comment about a previous party we went too and got shitfaced. To me, all hilarious, all innocent, all for me and my friends alone to share in.

THEN.... IRENE HAS FRIEND REQUESTED YOU What?????!!!! Irene!!! I don't know any Irene's......WAIT, IRENE MY MOTHER?????

I knew my mother could get online, I knew she had email, I knew she was fairly computer literate...but I did not think in a million years that she would be interested in the likes of a web presence.

I PANICKED and quickly had to change a few things. Instead of pot-leafs I thought "should I put up the Polish flag as my background? Should I change my hero's to my Mother and Father instead of Danny Danko, Beer and Hitler (jk). For a split second I thought I should put something about Jesus just in case my mother showed my grandmother my page. I couldn't NOT accept my own mother....so I reverted back to just a lame-o myspace profile where my friends were forced to enter CAPTCHA and wait for their comments to be approved. It was at that point, I just stopped using Myspace. That was years ago....

Now my entire family is on Facebook. I have managed to rant and rave enough about how stupid and pointless twitter is, so that none of them have joined that bandwagon, but I feel that will soon come to an end. There is nothing worse than your ultra conservative catholic sister checking your tweets and seeing that 50% of them are about legalizing marijuana, my support for our President and my extreme lack of faith.

This shouldn't have caused me stress, but it did. Some things parents just shouldn't know. At 15, 27 or 40. There are just some things better left untold to the people who changed your diapers, drove you to basketball practice and had the awful task of discussing sex and drugs with you. I want my mother to believe that I have held off from having sex until I become married, that I never drink or do drugs, that I faithfully follow my bible and spend my weekends volunteering for animal shelters. Insane? Yes.....but totally possible BEFORE THE INTERNET.

It was silly for me to think they wouldn't all join in eventually, so recently I decided, instead of jumping off said bandwagon, I would embrace it. I would take all of this social networking bs and turn it into a way for my family to become tolerable of my less than agreeable stance on a majority of issues. I have led a fairly good and moral life and am not regretful of my decisions or ashamed of my stances, so what do I care? It has since opened the door to conversations that I wouldn't have expected to have. Very honest and raw conversations with family that have helped me understand where I come from and why I act the way I do. I have learned more about my family because of these networks and know first hand that I have swayed a few of their opinions concerning certain things (suckahs).

The other day my father who is in his 60's explained to me what twitter was. He said he understood the point of it, he said he thought it could be excellent for local business and keeping in touch. He also said "I would never do it because I know nobody cares what the hell i'm doing during the day". I quickly responded "I WOULD LOVE IT IF YOU JOINED!!!!" (I had a mini stroke, obviously). But how cool to get a twitter from your pops saying something like "Just caught the sweetest of Gar fish while out back" or "Go Tigers!".

For now, I still have twitter. At least as far as I know. Its linked on my Blog, it wouldn't be hard to find me.....but soon.....soon I know I will receive a tweet from my mother that says "@jamieexp what do you mean you need a brewski at 1pm?" "@jamieexp how come you aren't studying and are instead sitting on the internet?" "@jamieexp why did @ashesforadam say he wanted to do your mom?"....

*sigh*.....

Check out the site I linked above, its pretty funny. I can only imagine the situations these platforms have gotten people in. I know for me without them I would probably still be viewed as a hardworking straight laced young lady who is patiently waiting for prince charming to sweep me off my feet and marry me in a catholic church.

Fuck that. :P

Peace,

Jamie

www.theexperience.fm

twitter: @JamieExp

jamie@theexperience.fm

Tax the Smokers - Save Florida!!!!!!!

2009-07-01T20:16:00.000-07:00

FIRST THINGS FIRST:

We here in Florida, have a 6 billion dollar deficit. Mainly because our local politicians are idiots and want nothing but to line their greedy scumbag pockets and screw everyone else in the process. I echo this statement with a majority of the states as well, so im not picking on Florida. However, in this example, I will be talking specifically about Florida because I live here and love Floridians. I also refuse to understand the outrageous hikes in other aspects of our lives (see the article below my cig research).

Well, here's how simple it is people. It is LITERALLY THIS SIMPLE.

43 million people in the US smoke cigs. Disgusting cigarettes that do nothing but KILL people on a daily basis. I am a smoker (just to be clear).

(I could only find solid smoking statistics from 2006 for Florida, so all of my numbers are from that year. Just assume all these numbers are a little inflated now.)

18 million people lived in Florida in 2006.

17% of those people smoke on a daily basis. That's about 3 million daily smokers.

Im using $4.00 as the current medium for a pack of smokes (this does not include the current $1 hike). And im also assuming that everyone smokes a pack a day on average (some smoke way more, some less).

3 million people buy a pack of $4 cigs a day. That is $12 million dollars a day that is going towards nothing. A very small percentage goes to the state.

So lets go ahead and raise that to $5 (which is currently happening), the additional $1.00 goes to the state. That's 3 million dollar a DAY REVENUE that should be going to our state.

We are 6 billion in the hole, so with the current $1 hike it will take us.....2000 days (or 5 1/2 years) to raise enough money to kill our deficit, which everyday is increasing. 5 1/2 years is ridiculous and pointless!!!

So lets charge smokers $7.00 per pack. I GUARANTEE that people will still buy cigarettes, or at the very least will switch to a cheaper brand (still making the STATE the same revenue but not lining global cigarette manufacturers pockets).

Although smokers (myself) wont like this, they wont bitch because its a stupid horrible addiction. But its an addiction.....smokers will continue to smoke. We have to smoke, we are addicted. So why not use our sorry asses to fix the Florida economy?

So lets add a $3 surcharge. That's a 9 million dollar a day revenue for the state. These are numbers that actually have an impact.

WE WILL MAKE 3.3 BILLION DOLLARS IN FLORIDA REVENUE IN ONE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!

NOT ONLY WILL THIS QUICKLY HELP OUR LOCAL ECONOMY, IT WILL EVENTUALLY DECREASE THE AMOUNT OF SMOKERS IN FLORIDA.

For some reason, our Politicians dont understand simple math. This should have happened yesterday. This is not difficult.

DOING THIS WILL ELIMINATE THE NEED TO DO WHAT I TALK ABOUT BELOW.

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The best thing to do when nobody can find jobs and every business is shutting down on East Colonial drive, is to hike up the prices of stuff we are forced to pay for.

The electric company hike wasn't enough, so now the wonderful State of Florida is hiking the prices of every single thing associated with you having to drive your car to your shit job that you hate.

Not small hikes either....the cost of renewing your license (which literally probaby costs the state 30 cents to do) is going from $20 to $48. Pardon? Are you fucking kidding me?

F YOU CHARLIE CRIST!

WE HAVE GOT TO START PAYING ATTENTION TO OUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!! WE SHOULD HAVE A SAY IN THIS!

RAISE THE PRICES OF CIGARETTES, RAISE THE PRICES OF BEER, RAISE THE PRICES OF SHIT THAT WE HAVE AN OPTION TO PURCHASE. RAISE THE PRICES ON STUFF THAT WE INDULGE IN BUT DONT HAVE TOO! DO NOT RAISE THE PRICES OF STUFF WE HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO PAY FOR!

WE HAVE TO GO TO OUR SHIT JOBS TO CONTINUE PUMPING MONEY INTO A STATE THAT IS DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BUT EFFING US IN THE ARSE IN RETURN.

PS. Joe Gibbons is awesome.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-locfees-motorists-070109070109jul01,0,7203215.story

Show Stuffs: BEER TASTE TEST

2009-06-23T12:54:00.000-07:00

mmmmm.....beeeer

If you live in Orlando, then you probably know about Total Wine and Spirits (@total_wine). It's the MECCA of liquor/wine stores. It is bigger than the size of walgreens and has every single alcoholic beverage known to man.

They also have an insane collection of beer. An entire aisle is devoted to single bottled beer from everywhere across the globe. You can create your own six pack and the prices are pretty good per beer ($1.00 - $2.50).

So I decided to grab a few randomly for myself and the boys to try during the show on Friday. A bit of a taste test if you will. There were 5 of us that tested the beers and rated them on a scale of 1-10.

Virgin Islands Tropical Mango Pale Ale

Brewed in Portland, ME

4.5% alc.

First Place

Total Score: 32/50

High numbers across the board. It would be hard not to like this beer, because it doesn't really taste like beer. It's girlie but has a little bite to it.

BELL's Kalamazoo Stout

Brewed in Comstock, MI

6% alc.

Second Place

Total Score: 29/50

Came in a close second. This is technically a dark beer but had a nice clean taste to it. Not too strong, not too filling. Everyone enjoyed it.

Hazed and Infused Dry Hopped Ale

Brewed in Boulder, CO

4.85% alc.

Third Place

Total Score: 25/50

Aromatic. Average. It has a unique taste.

Abita Beer Purple Haze Raspberry Wheat Brew

Brewed in Abita Springs, LA

4.2% alc.

Fourth Place

Total Score: 23/50

Tastes like beer but with a hint of raspberry in it. It's nothing special, could be good with dinner. If you don't really like the taste of beer, this would be a good one.

Redhead Red Ale

Brewed in Dunedin, FL

5.2% alc.

Fifth Place

Total Score: 17/50

2 really liked it, the other 3, hated it. Guess this has an acquired taste. Brewed in Dunedin, so that's cool!

Dogfish Head Burton Baton Indian Pale Ale

Brewed in Milton, DE

10% alc.

Sixth Place

Total Score: 7/50

Yeah, everyone gave this a 0, except Nos and myself. It's 10% alcohol, which is brutal, but I didn't think it was terrible. If I was on a beer binge and had like 5 miller lites, I could probably handle this. This is a beer drinkers beer for sure.

Weyerbacher Double Simcoe India Pale Ale

Brewed in Easton, PA

9% alc.

Last Place

Total Score: 1/50

Hahaha, we almost all lost our lunch on this one. This was the most disgusting beer that has touched our lips. Everyone hated it, Nos gave it a pity vote. Gasoline comes to mind when drinking this.

Check out the podcast of the last show here.

Later Skaters,

Jamie

jamie@theexperience.fm

www.twitter.com/JamieExp

Current Events - June 17, 2009

2009-06-16T22:11:00.001-07:00

CH-CH-CH CHECK IT OUT!

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Emeril opened some restaurant called Tchoup Chop. What? I will never eat at a restaurant that I cannot pronounce you arrogant bastard.

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Special Browser for my exams at school. So over the summer, im taking 4 classes. These are speeded up hybird courses, so one of the classes I have is an Online Class. I recently had to take my first online exam and was thrown for a loop when I was told I had to download a special browser in order to take the exam. A SPECIAL BROWSER??? Ive never seen anything like this before....so I downloaded it, whatever. It's called "Lockdown Browser". It's pretty much a browser that locks down your entire computer except for that browser with which your exam is in. This is obviously to prevent your computer from locking up or your browser crashing. I don't know what to think of it. But what I do know, is that Online Classes are a scam and should be half the price of normal classes.

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MentalFloss.com

I have searched the internet endlessly. I really thought I had searched it all....until I read an article on CNN that was linked to the sight MentalFloss.com. The name itself caught my eye. Genius. So I clicked and my life began. This is my website. This is what runs through my brain on almost a daily basis. Just RANDOM ASS SHIT. But interesting shit.

This is the best article i've read so far: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs//archives/15131

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My Favorite Picture thus far this week:

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Global Warming - I will be posting a blog about this topic soon.....

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Iran Election

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QZ-Gb1Q8Ao

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Journalists in North Korea - Supposidly there is video of Euna and Laura crossing into N.K. I don't know....this story is so crazy.....they have been in N.K. since March 17th. WHY??? WHY??? WHY WOULD THEY BE SO STUPID TO TRY TO SNEAK OVER???? I don't know what to believe....

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526581,00.html

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Microbe wakes up after 120,000 years in Ice?

Just an interesting read.

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Nebraska mom attempts to sell her kid on craigslist.

This bitch didn't actual try to sell her kid. She was a meth head, and said she needed someone to take the child before she did something stupid. I love how media distorts everything. There is a HUGE difference between this woman wanting to sell her kid OR give her kid up the only way she obviously knew how.....but yet the headline reads "Nebraska mom attempts to see her kid on craigslist".

Her ad said something along the lines of:

"the woman is a methamphetamine addict and the boy deserves a mom who is not an addict and her son needs help before she does something crazy."

THANK GOD, she wrote that on Craigslist. Or else, she probably would have just left the kid somewhere, or killed it. People who are addicted to drugs have no control. So instead of making them out to be monsters, let's fucking try to help them. Foxnews, I hate you for the way you titled this article. You pegged Craigslist as some sort of disgusting forum for perverts and child killers. This kid would probaby be dead if it wasn't for Craigslist.

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Psychedelic Kolidescope....enjoy

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HOAX OF THE DAY:

Man missing for like 50 years, ends up alive? I give this story....a week, week in a half. I CALL SHENNANIGANS.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/16/ny.missing.boy.mystery/index.html

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Taylor Swift Rapping - this is so cute, I want to barf. Im a fan of this chick. She's a good egg.

http://perezhilton.com/2009-06-17-taylor-swifts-thug-story

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Myspace is cutting 30% of their workforce (take note Facebook. This shit doesn't last forever).

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Perezhilton.com Reports:

There are very loud whisperings that Marc Jacobs will be wedding his Brazilian advertising executive of a fiance, Lorenzo Martone, sooner than later!

As in within the week!!!

The wedding is said to be taking place in Provincetown, Massachusetts, close to Robert Duffy's home (aka Jacobs' design partner).

Who cares right? I do. These two men are like a hot sandwich wrapped in some sexy bread. For all you ignorant phucks of the world who think gays should be treated like second-class citizens...look at this picture, these men are in LOVE. They LOVE each other. IT DOES NOT EFFECT YOUR LIFE WHATSOEVER. God damn, it seems so stupid to even try to explain it.

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Another Perezhilton.com Exclusive:

THE GAMING INDUSTRY IS DOING GREAT DESPITE THE ECONOMY

Yes, we know you're out there. You have no job, no money, basically no life, and you are sitting in your parent's basement right now playing Halo. (how eerily accurate this is, makes me wonder if Perez himself is a gamer?)

Well, congratulations, because of gamers like you, the video game industry has never looked better!

Reports are coming in that video games sales for the next five years are set to grow at 5.8% annually. In just in North America alone, video games sales are looking to reach $17.2 billion this year and growing to $21.6 billion in 2013.

Stefanie Kane, a partner at Pricewaterhouse Coopers' entertainment and media practice says "unlimited hours of fun" after a game is bought is one of the reasons that "cost-conscious consumers" will keep buying games even when the economy is bad.

Translation: You need something to do to fill the time between receiving the unemployment checks. (hahahahahaha, oh Perez, your so silly)

FYI: Success should also be attributed to teenage boys, nerds, and pot-heads. (again, lmao, and your success should be attributed too???).

Video Games have always been popular. ALWAYS. From the beginning of my life, I was playing Texas Instruments Hunt The Wumpus, Mario and Zelda. Although it might seem like a time waster, its fun. And wtf are we doing here, if not having fun?

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LOVE,

JAMIE

P.S. You can check out the podcast of last week's show here:

http://theexp.mypodcast.com/2009/06/The_Experience_June_12_2009-214695.html

WWW.THEEXPERIENCE.FM

TWITTER: @JamieExp

jamie@theexperience.fm

Xbox360: What I would change

2009-06-14T23:53:00.000-07:00

Alright, so the E3 conference was a few weeks back. It's where a bunch of gamer nerds get together (Microsofts Xbox, Nintendo, Sony). They discuss new games, new products, new technology and it didn't fail to excite me.

I got to watch a majority of it live on justin.tv . Which is why I love the internet so much. I wasn't there, but I got to watch it fricking live. Anyway, so Xbox was first up at the week long conference. They spoke for HOURS...and didn't fail. I'm excited about alot of the new games, etc. I don't want to get into that. But I do want to tell you what I personally think would improve the xbox 360. As a user....an Avid User.

1) The new xbox live platform debuted not too long ago, and I really like it. It's smooth as hell and easy to navigate. I'd love to see more of a structured way of presenting information. All xbox users don't use the machine everyday. So when you add new game reviews, videos, etc. they get lost in the shuffle. If you put the time and/or date on the vids, it would be a lot easier to see what you've looked at and what you haven't.

2) Project Natal....can it. I already hate this idea. Unless they start marketing the Xbox for FAMILIES, there is no way this is going to work. The sample games they showed at the conference, the ball thing, it was ridiculous. They had this shit when WebCams first came out. Where you could play basketball with your hands, via webcam. It's a stupid idea. I could care less if I have to push my button controller or use my hands to move the menu. This is dumb and until motion sensors became INSANELY ACCURATE....this will never fly. (Nintendo Power Glove).

3) Get rid of the new Facebook shit. That's lame. Facebook is a dying entity just like Myspace. Its nice to update every once in a while, but its going to be used much less in the next few years. Keep twitter, that might be fairly relevant. But make a nice app that allows your gaming updates to be updated on twitter. Make sure it's in REAL TIME. Otherwise it's pointless. My laptop is two inches from me when im playing xbox. So if I can get twitters faster that way, then I wouldn't bother with twitter on xbox.

4) Game Rentals and full game Purchases. It's absolutely ridiculous to me that you can't rent video games on xbox live. It makes NO SENSE. Do you know how many more games I would rent and then buy, if I could rent them online? And i'm not talking about bs trial games....that is wack. I want to be able to play the game for a good 3 days. Not even a week. 3 days, and if I like it, I can buy the full version minus the rental price. YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO THIS. I would have already this year bought Grand Theft Auto, Fable II, Halo Wars, Saints Row II and Oblivion....if I was given the option to rent it then buy it online. I don't care if it takes up space. When you release your new system, just make the space be larger. Then all you have to do is sell us SPACE and a platform to retrieve information (xbox live). Everything should be downloadable, and it should be downloadable RIGHT NOW. That is how you will kill all the rest of the platforms.

5) Massive Multiplayer Games. Fable II is an excellent game. There's quite a bit I would change on it, to make it less extensive but it's still a great game as it is. It's a cross between Zelda: Ocarnia of Time and Sims (two of the most POPULAR video game series in the world). I love this game. However, when me and an xbox live buddy of mine tried to play it via xbox live together, we realized it sucked. There are so many situations where being able to play in real time against real life opponents would be super easy to create. The main "world" should be completely multiplayer . Property should be realistic and conversations and interactions should be "limited" but extensive with another real life player. All you would have to do is create maps. The building and movement would be completely up to the player. It could realistically be infinite, but won't have to be because video gaming is a fairly small amount compared to the entire population of the world.

6) Media Sharing: You should be able to show what music your listening too. There should be an option. Along with which movie. And an immediate rating system so you can influence others on what your watching or listening too. It should be optional and easy to change, because Netflix has porn, so the dudes wouldn't want everyone seeing they are watching porn.

You should be able to link ANY computer to share your music. This is doable with Windows Media Player for free through a PC. It is not available on a Mac without a $20 download. That is bullshit. You need to make this shit compatible or people are going to sway.

7) MOVIES. Netflix and Xbox need to do a little merger. It's stupid to me that I pay for Netflix but don't get the option to see any CURRENTLY RELEASED MOVIES. There are two completely different systems for that. It's unnecessary. You need to join the two, allow for ALL movie rentals, for a monthly price or individual price (you should allow for individual price because otherwise you'll miss a huge market of people who do not buy into a monthly membership too easily).

8) AVATARS. Why you haven't expanded on this is beyond me. People who are gamers, like to have the ability to change shit. That's why everything is customizeable in games. You need to broaden our options, make it a little more realistic. Girls especially like doing this, and you could attract a nice brood of young chick gamers. It doesn't have to be crazy, but at least allow us to change our shirt colors and be able to wear flipflops.

Xbox needs to realize that the Xbox360 is a social network. It's where us gamers go to hang with people who like to game. This isn't possible anywhere else, but while we are gaming in real time. There isn't a forum, website or chatroom that will make it easier than being able to converse directly with people who are playing with you.

That is exactly what you need to improve on. You already have a HUGE leg up on the other platforms. Take Halo as an example of EXCELLENT multiplayer platforming.

You need to be less inventive when it comes to new technologies and focus on the technologies that you have. You need to have a rating system, a place where people can leave comments about games or at the very least, RATE THEM. Real time statistics of how many people are playing a certain game, so you know what is more popular or what you should be playing when it's 4am in the morning.

I could think of a million more things. Easy things. Things that are technologically available to us right now. You need to lay back before you jump forward.

Jamie

Movie Review: "The Hangover"

2009-06-14T23:02:00.000-07:00

I haven't been to the movies in a while. Mainly because with high speed internet, you can watch movies online a week before they come to the theatre for free. But, I saw the previews for The Hangover a while back and decided I had to see it in the theatre. It was a brilliant concept and had some of my favorite actors in it.

I love Bradley Cooper, sexy piece of ass. Ed Helms is frickin hilarious in The Office and he killed it in this movie. Zack Galifianakis is one of the funniest guys on the planet. And Justin Bartha was amazing in the shitaceous movie Failure to Launch. I also just recently pegged him as who I think should play "Waldo" in the big screen movie version of Where's Waldo.

So, the movie is what it is. It's 4 dudes, who go to Vegas for one of the guys bachelor parties. One is single (zach), One is married with a kid (cooper), One is getting married (bartha) and one is in a HORRIBLE relationship with satan herself (helms).

The boys get wasted and don't remember anything from the night before and they have lost the groom.

Hilarity ensues.

It's not raunchy (until you see the closing credits). It's like Old School but with attractive younger guys (zing). Some of the scenes were almost completely predictable, but hilarious none the less. The audience laughed the entire time, and I literally had to catch my breath between laughing so much.

I won't tell you the cameo's but there are a few. It's a super funny movie and worth the money. No matter if you have kids, are older, younger, whatever, it's a movie that anyone would enjoy.

I give it 4 1/2 out of 5 Nuggets.

My History of Basketball

2009-06-14T22:18:00.000-07:00

I watched the Magic lose to the Lakers tonight. I was nervous about it, I really wanted to see this team win, but I had a gut feeling that it was too early. We are a young team....I think next year is going to be a hundred times better and I can't wait.

I am not a hardcore sports fan. I don't know the specifics. It's not a hobby of mine. But I LOVE going to sporting events and have my whole life. Ive been to pro and college hockey, baseball, football, basketball, arena football, soccer, etc. games. I like the atmosphere, I like getting behind something and truly having it be a part of you. I like drinking beers while hangin at a bar watching a game. I just like the whole she-bang.

I had been into sports the entire time growing up. I played basketball from 2nd grade through High School and was pretty good at it, until I stopped growing at 5'2 and became way more interested in Snowboarding and smoking cigaretters. I also made it to State in the 100m Hurdles in track. Woop.

I love competetion. And I grew up outside of Detroit, Michigan. I had the Red Wings, The Pistons, The Tigers and The Lions. My dad was always a fan of sports (I remember hours in the car listening to baseball games, which is the worst....listening to baseball on the radio), so we got to go to all sorts of games. I specifically remember going to a Pistons game and was begging my parents to get me a Grant Hill jersey. Grant Hill was it for me. He was my hero and I loved him.

I have a signed Dollar Bill, by John Sally. I met him and he said he'd never signed a dollar bill before. I was young, like 10. It was awesome.

We had Joe Dumars, Isiah Thomas, Dennis Rodman, Grant Hill and so many others when I was a kid. Also had Tigers Manager Sparky Anderson who I will never forget. Not to mention Cecil Fielder and Alan Trammel. Steve Yzerman, Sergei Fedorov, Nicklas Lindstorm and Barry effing Sanders made the Lions and the Red Wings who they are today.

After I left Michigan, my allegiance was always to Detroit. They were my team. I moved briefly to florida for my last years of high school and then over to colorado. I always cheered for Detroit. I then moved back to Michigan where I fell back into place as a Detroit fan. The Red Wings were kicking ass during that time. Stanley Cup Champs in 02.

I moved over to Philadelphia when I was 21. Philadelphia is hard core. The fans are brutal and I lived within minutes of all the stadiums. They have the 76ers, The Eagles, Phillies, The Flyers, The Phantoms and the Soul. I worked for a good company and had friends who loved sports, so I pretty much went to sporting events all year long. I remember seeing the Eagles play in Baltimore. My seats were in the front row (a hookup from a client at my company). It was ridiculous. During that time, I hit all the stadiums there and in Maryland and New Jersey. Lucky for me, one of my co-workers was a Detroit implant out of college. So a majority of the games I went too, were Philadelphia vs. Detroit. And I always cheered for Detroit. Philly fans were ruthless. They would boo their own team. It wasn't my style, so I managed to not become a huge Philly fan during that time.

There was a brief period where I really loved the Boston Red Socks. It was of course, the year they broke the curse. My boss was a Boston boy. Born and raised. He was alot older than me and had endured years and years and years and years of suffering with defeat. He now lived in Philly, but was a never wavering fan of Boston. I watched the whole season while staring into a pint of beer with my coworkers. While I lived out there, the Red Socks broke the spell. I saw a grown man well up into tears the day they won it. It was an insane series....and i'll never forget it. Boston fans have a lot of heart.

Even with McNabb, TO, Bobby Abreu and Allen Iverson, I still had all Detroit teams in my heart. On New Years Day, I remember driving to Pittsburg to see the Steelers play the Lions. It was an important game...Detroit wasn't doing horrible that season. It was snowing and it was freezing and we had nose bleed seats . But it was fucking awesome. We both had on Detroit gear, and got harassed while walking into the stadium. The Lions lost, but it was an amazing experience.

I have recently moved to Orlando. Been here about 3 years. When I first moved here, I knew that Grant Hill played for the Magic. That's pretty much all I knew about the team. I knew he hadn't played much at all. I knew his nickname was "Glass Ankle". I went to probably a dozen games my first year here. The fans in Orlando are different. They have heart. A heart I didn't see in any of the other towns i'd lived in except Detroit. There wasn't much hating going on, more just love and support for their only professional sports team. Ive since seen the Bucs, Lightening and The Rays play and still none of the fans are better than The Magic's.

I quickly became a fan of the Magic, maybe not a die-hard, but I was a fan. I was still a Detroit fan but then The Magic started kicking some ass, which caught my eye. I have now lived here a few years and have been to numerous games, so my allegiance has changed. I love this team now. I love the fans, I love the spirit, I love that they aren't cocky. We try to do good by things in Orlando. We are a tourist town, hell our fucking reason for being is to MAKE OTHER PEOPLE WHO DO NOT LIVE HERE, HAPPY AND COMFORTABLE (damn tourists). Our downtown is meager at best, but we are growing. I have lived downtown for pretty much the whole 3 years of being here and I love it. This is my hometown now and the Orlando Magic are my hometown team. I'm proud of this city, the team and the fans during this completely enlightening experience during the finals. I got to watch the Magic win the Eastern Conference Championship against the Cavs. Live....lower bowl, thanks to my friend Danny who won tickets about an hour before the game. IT WAS AWESOME.

So I guess I jumped on the bandwagon. I think a whole lot of people in Orlando jumped on it as well and it's excellent. That's what sports is about. It's about everyone coming together and just being psyched about their team.

If you have been a die-hard Magic fan, don't hate on those who have jumped on the bandwagon. Educate them. Tell us the history, tell us the statistics, get us involved. Next season is going to be insane.

Go Magic!

The "Idea"

2009-06-13T07:48:00.001-07:00

It was talked about last night on the show (theexperience.fm). There's a concept, that was thought up one night. It went from a small idea to an entire creative brainstorming tsunami! I'll admit, I did not think up the idea in its original form. But it hit me like a ton of bricks. Here was this insane idea, that I personally would love to see come to fruition. I know it hasn't been done before. And it's all stuck in my fucking head. Just stuck there. I wrote it out, on paper, but that wasn't enough. I can't draw. I can't draw well. I typed out thoughts and ideas. I brainstormed a few times after the original idea came about. It has progressed. This is definitely a collaborative effort.

It came so quick. I don't even care what it means. It's not like this a million dollar idea. But it's a creative idea, that I think is limitless on the ways it can be molded and shaped. When it comes to any design work, I could care less about the outcome other than it being completed. I'm super excited about it. So stay tuned I guess ;)

Jamie

Internet Fatigue

2009-06-10T20:30:00.001-07:00

It was mentioned today. Internet Fatigue.

I believe it.

My brain is not used to retrieving so much information so quickly. I have never been a big TV watcher...I don't like sitcoms really and I never get involved in drama's. I have liked a few shows, but generally I could careless if I have cable. I have never been a huge multi-tasker or had an especially busy life, so i'm not prepared for my brain dealing with so many things at once.

The internet on the otherhand, has inundated my brain. I have always been a newspaper reader. I have always been a talk radio listener. I like information. I don't care what it is. I have listened to Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern, Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann. I have read the Orlando Sentinel almost everyday since i've lived in Florida. I would read the Wall Street journal if I had no choice. I like to read information. But the internet is pretty much infinite....and it's overwhelming for someone who is a news junkie.

Now, i'm not a typical internet user. I RARELY watch videos online. I never visit youtube unless i'm forwarded a link to it. I prefer to read my information not watch it. If I click a newstory on cnn and it's a video...I close it. I don't participate in any real forums. I have chatted before, but I don't really belong in any conversations online other than on twitter. There's no point to anything else really.

But here's my problem.....there are so many amazing journalists and writers in the world and I intend to read every single thing written by every single one of them. Impossible? Yes. Realistic? Absolutely not. But I don't care. I read CNN, Snopes, Foxnews, Washington Post, BBC, Perezhilton, MSNBC, Tmz, Random Blogs about gaming, politics, life and marijuana, National Geographic, Twitter, ABC News, Reuters and when i've finally read it all, I go to Wikipedia. Which always has something to read about, because it's a goddamn online encyclopedia. I FUCKING READ THE ENCYCLOPEDIA.

But i'm not saying i'm smart. Most of the stuff I read, I forget by the time i'm done reading it. I have a horrible memory. I couldn't argue with anybody when it comes to science, history, music or art. But it's entirely entertaining to me to read about so many different things that do not pertain to my life at all. Like science. SCIENCE. I know shit about science. I failed science in school and I do not understand it. Yet, reading an article by some spectacular journalist who is either A: Passionate about the topic or B: Has researched the topic enough to write an article about it, is extremely fun and fills me with information i've never knew about before.

There is a whole big ass world out there. And since we aren't all millionaires who can travel and experience a whole bunch of exciting and new stuff....I turn to reading. Always about something that is real and always about something I don't know about. And that is where I experience Internet Fatigue. When I was younger, I could only have 4 books from the library checked out at one time.....so I was limited. I am no longer limited.

Yay for reading.

Jamie

Movie Review - A whole bunch

2009-06-07T22:41:00.000-07:00

Since I got my Netflix on Xbox, I have watched an abundance of movies. So I am going to just give quick reviews of all of them. (this was over a few weeks).

Inventing the Abbots
This movie is older. Joquaine Phoenix and Liv Tyler. Cute, based in the 50's. Romantic. Not for dudes.

4 out of 5 nuggets.

Incendiary
Michelle Williams and Ewan McGreggor. This movie was excellent. It's a sad story...but both do a great job. Its a little choppy, but stick with it. TEARJERKER.

4 1/2 out of 5 nuggets.

The Last Word

Reviewed this one a few blogs back. Smart movie.

4 out of 5 nuggets (would have been better without Wynona)

Blue State

Ugh, I wanted to like this. Breckin Meyer was good, Anna Paquin bugs me. If you're a die hard liberal, watch it. It's political...but it's very wordy and unbelievable.

2 1/2 out of 5 nuggets.

Lonesome Jim

Casey Affleck, Steve Buschemi Directed, James Strouse wrote. It's a good movie...dark, but good.

4 1/2 out of 5 nuggets.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

When I saw this movie, I immediately thought it reminded me of Being John Malkovich. After research, I realized they were both co-written by the same dude. Good movie. Like Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. But meh, nothing special.

3 1/2 out of 5 nuggets.

The Jane Austen Book Club

Loved this movie. Perfect for all girls who like to read. Definitely a chick-flick but not in a cheesy way. It touches on heavy topics. See it.

5 nuggets!!

Australia
This is one of the worst movies i've ever seen in my life (besides Romey and Michelles High School Reunion). I wanted to like it, I stuck it out through the whole horrible awful thing. But it sucked. Never see it.

0 out of 5 nuggets.

Now I realize I didn't really write any reviews. Just giving a quick opinion. Click the links and read their summary's.

Peace -

Jamie

Movie Review: The Last Word

2009-06-06T00:52:00.000-07:00

So, I have Netflix on my Xbox 360 and it's super rad. I've been picking random ass movies to watch recently. Tonight after I watched the pile of shit that is "Australia" with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, I watched "The Last Word". No review for Australia. It was garbage.

The ONLY reason I decided to watch The Last Word was because Wes Bentley is in it (he was the guy in American Beauty). He's the hottest man alive. And Ray Romano was in it. The description of it was pretty dark and I tend to dig a well written movie over an over-acted one.

It's about a guy (Wes) who makes a living writing epitaphs for people who are suicidal. He has a website, the whole nine-yards and meets with his suicidal "clients" to edit the epitaph they want read at their upcoming funeral. Most of these patients have chronic illnesses and/or are already to the edge with no return.

There's a whole process he has in place and instead of it seeming extremely creepy and borderline illegal, he makes you understand that what he does is just a service. He writes beautiful poems that get read aloud at funerals. Not everyone he deals with end up committing suicide, so it's almost like he's providing last ditch therapy. But there a lot that do end up killing themselves. He's seems to be be completely comfortable about it.

Anyway, he meets one of his "clients" sisters at the "clients" funeral, and falls in love with her. Obviously (insert obvious storyline here), he can't tell her he's a suicide letter writer, especially since he wrote her brothers suicide note, so he lies. Eventually she finds out, gets pissed, leaves him. The entire story between him and Wynona Ryder I could have done without. She is a HORRIBLE actress and pretty much renders this movie useless. If not for Wes and Ray Ramano's scenes, I wouldn't have been able to stomach the whole thing. Thankfully, the scenes between Wes and Ray were fucking hilarious, dark and genius.

Ray plays a guy who wants to kill himself and goes to Wes to draft up his epitaph. He's a composer. He's really good at it, but has been dealt shit cards and missed opportunities all his life. He is dry, depressing, nervous and hilarious. Here are these two dudes, completely different, yet eerily similar. The relationship between them is the real story.

I don't want to give too much away.

If you can look past Wynonas shitatious acting, this movie is EXCELLENT. I wish I would have read it. Wes Bentley, Ray Romano and the writer did an great job. This is a movie about committing suicide, so it has a pretty dark tone. But Ray Romano made me laugh in every scene he was in.

The writer/director is Geoffrey Haley, who has written only two movies but has been a camera man in about 100 movies (including recently "The Hangover"). The writing and directing were stellar.

If you like well-written movies, or dark-comedy's, then see this. If your favorite movie is Titantic and/or Billy Madison, probably not for you.

I give it 4 1/2 out of 5 nuggets.

Later skaters,

Jamie

P.S. Show was super fun tonight with DJ John and Kristina in the house to hang out. They all went out afterwards, but I punked out and went home. No drivin and drinky unless I want to end up in the clinky.

Weed. Yes I said it.

2009-06-05T01:15:00.001-07:00

If any of you have heard me on www.theexperience.fm or have known me in person, then you know I fully support the legalization of marijuana. But I've decided that just coming out and saying you support it, doesn't exactly do anything but make yourself look like a pot head.

Here are the reasons why I support the legalization of marijuana for medical and non-medical purposes:

#1: It's weed. If you've smoked it more than once, you get it. Otherwise, you should smoke it more than once and then argue with me on the "harmful" effects of it.

#2: I know it's not healthy. Inhaling smoke into your lungs isn't healthy no matter what you do. But the alternative is cigarettes. Cigarettes do nothing but contain an addictive chemical that triggers your brain to WANT MORE. It kills you. Marijuana has no nicotine. It's not "addictive". It's safer than a cigarette and at the very least stimulates your brain.

#3: Your only LEGAL options for escaping reality is ALCOHOL or MEDICATION (or the "runners high" haha). Neither of which are any safer and less harmful to your body than smoking marijuana.

#4: Smoking marijuana actually stimulates conversation. Whereas alcohol stimulates nothing but your libido and your inability to function as a normal human being.

#5: I can tell you the worst thing i've done while drinking alcohol. Then, I can tell you the worst thing i've done while high. The stories are COMPLETELY different.

#6: The stereotypes of pot smokers is fairly accurate. However, only a small percentage are dealers and only a small percentage do it everyday.

#7: It has been proven to not make you any less intelligent. No more less intelligent than video games, cigarettes, alcohol, television and sports do.

#8: Alcoholism runs in my family. And I would give up my entire life in order to have a parent who is addicted to Marijuana, over a parent who is addicted to Alcohol.

#9: Marijuana will NEVER make you mad.

#10: Marijuana aids a lot of people in pain. However, the side effects vary. If I smoke too much marijuana, I get body aches. People who suffer from chronic pain or cancer, receive natural relief rather than medicated b.s. that can fuck up your body and create HORRIBLE SIDE EFFECTS AND WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS.

#11: Read your facts. You need to realize that marijuana hasn't been properly researched and therefore you have no idea how it effects you positively and/or negatively. If you look online there are plenty of foundations who have tested it out and what resulted are exactly the positive things you've heard or read about. Be informed. Not ignorant. Everyone was duped by Cigarette manufacturers....thank your parents for that.

#12: Weed CAN and DOES make you lazy. It effs up your motorskills and shouldn't be used lightly. It's not cool for kids to do, and I believe THC levels should be regulated. However, I refuse to understand why there is a bar on every corner. EVERY CORNER...and why if you have an ounce of weed on you (which couldn't harm you, even if you ate the entire bag at one time), you get arrested.

#13: Don't get me started on the ways a regulated marijuana crop could be profitable to America.

NOW SERIOUSLY.....

#14: Around 50,000 people die each year from alcohol poisoning. Similarly, more than 400,000 each year are attributed to cigarette smoking.

#15: Of 872,721 of those charged from marijuana violations. 89% (or 738,915) are attributed to MARIJUANA POSSESSION. The rest, 90,000 or so, were charged with selling/manufacturing the product. uh?

#16: Marijuana smokers aren't stupid. They know when they have smoked too much or if they shouldn't smoke anymore. But guess what? If you smoke too much marijuana, you fall asleep. And you wake up normal. You wake up without a hangover. You wake up feeling refreshed and exactly as you would otherwise.

#17: I can assure you that out of 10 people you know, at least 2 of them are smoking dope. If they don't, then they know somebody who does. It's EXTREMELY normal and happens every single day. It happens in a way that does not effect you, your family, the users families and/or their lives. Certainly not anymore than alcohol does. And certainly a lot less than something crazy like Cocaine, Pain Killers and Heroine do.

#18: Tomorrow I would vote for the BAN of alcohol in place of the legalization of marijuana. Crazy right? I think a lot of people would agree (dope smokers and not).

#19: It is not a gateway drug. In fact, most people who smoke pot have never tried any other "drug". And they never will. Habitual drug use is genetic....addiction is genetic. If you have it in your family, chances are you should not use any substance that alters your mind. But guess what? That's not realistic. Choose weed if you need an escape. At least I know you'll be chilling and playing xbox for 5 hours and not driving around like a drunk fuck killing children with your car.

#20: I live a majority of my life Weed and Alcohol free. I am not a pot-head and/or an alcoholic. But I understand the desire of both. I understand the desire to be fucked up. I am addicted to smoking cigarettes, but i'm not addicted to smoking weed or drinking alcohol. I know people who's lives have been destroyed by only one of those substances. Only one.

Whatever.

Jamie

Laura Ling and Euna Lee

2009-06-04T02:27:00.000-07:00

I read a while back about the two American journalists who were being held in North Korea. I hadn't thought much about it since reading it but recently it's become an extremely important story that I think everyone should know about.

Just this week, Lisa Ling spoke publicly that one of the women who was detained is her sister (Laura Ling). Lisa Ling is an amazing American Journalist and wonderful role model for young women everywhere. Most of you will recognize her. Her sister is equally amazing and brave along with the other journalist being held, Euna Lee. I was heartbroken hearing about this because Lisa and her family (and the family of Euna Lee) truly thought that diplomacy would take place and the women would be freed. They did not speak publicly about this until just this week. The women have been detained for 3 months and have had contact only on one or two occasions with their families during that time. Their trial begins today and they are facing possibly 10 years in Labor Camps if convicted for illegally crossing the border and "hostile actions".

With everything that is happening lately with North Korea, these two women are now in a firestorm between Korea and the U.S. These are brave young women who are passionate about what they do and my thoughts go out to them and their families.

Here are some articles related to this story:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525033,00.html - Fox News Article summarizing the story.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/06/01/lkl.ling.family.cnn - Larry King interviews Lisa Ling, Laura Ling's Husband, her Mother and Father. As well as Euna Lee's husband.

-Jamie

whattup?

2009-05-29T23:41:00.001-07:00

Can't sleep. We had a great show last night. JFlow came in and pretty much rocked the house with some rhymes. He was amazing! What a sincere and super nice guy too! Thanks Flow for chilling ;) We REALLY appreciate it!! The guy is sick talented.

ch ch ch check him out!!

www.myspace.com/jflowoftvp

I just typed out a rant about money and society and how money defines us blah blah blah....and then deleted it. I don't know how to get my point across without sounding like a complete douchbag. I mean, I am the one who just purchased a Macbook with my student loans...when I could have bought a much cheaper PC. But my reasoning behind it was practical (or I just really love Justin Long). Macs don't break.....the keys don't fall off and viruses don't attack them. I have owned 2 laptops in the past 2 years and they are both garbage now. So I switched.

Fuck. Ive become one of "them"....

Love,

Jamie

My two cents

2009-05-26T15:06:00.000-07:00

Prop 8. California.

Get the fuck over it..... separate church and state and give EVERYONE equal rights!!!

California needs to step up their game.

Although I know this isn't the end of anything, by any right. It's a step backward though and it's garbage. But it's a fight that a whole lot of people are really passionate about and they aren't going to stop until EVERYONE HAS EQUAL RIGHTS.

Love,

Jamie

what the eff happened this week?

2009-05-22T14:11:00.000-07:00

My cat is home. He's still not having a great time, but he's home. He's on antibiotics to fight off an infection that threw his little body into a loop. $1000 later...he's still sick, but getting better.

I have not been to the doctors in 2 years. Not because i've never been sick, but because I have no health insurance. And I just dropped $1000 bucks on my cat because he had a fucking cold.

God love him, he's alive and will be fine. But what the fuck? I realize you shouldn't have pets if you can't take care of them, but I can take care of my cat. I have taken care of him for 7 years. But I am not fucking rich. I don't even own a credit card because I believe in LIVING WITHIN YOUR MEANS.

Stupid..

btw if you have an emergency, do not take your pet to the emergency hospital down by the Florida Mall. They are scammers. And every single vet clinic here in Orlando has the exact same ER hotline. So you will get two choices...Florida Mall or Casselberry. Choose Casselberry.

No Show tonight.

Have a happy memorial day.

Love,
Jamie

annoyed and sad....

2009-05-19T21:36:00.001-07:00

My cat is in the pet hospital tonight.....he was in the emergency room 2 days ago....said he was okay, just his little lungs were inflamed. Well, nothing they did (for $450) helped him in the least bit....I ended up bringing him to a regular vet downtown and she immediately said it was his heart....and was confused why the other vet didn't take an x ray of his throat and/or take his blood...and why if he was treated with a nebulizer and it didn't work, why would they have given him back to me?

I'm not mad....i'm just sad. I'm sad my cat is sick.....

and my step-grandfather passed away today.....he was in his nineties....married to my grandma after 20+ years.....i'm so sad for my mom and my grandma.....

Love,

Jamie

Nigdy nie zapomnę o Tobie.....

My baby....

2009-05-18T14:55:00.000-07:00

Elliot has been my cat for 7 years...I got him in the ghetto of Philadelphia 7 years ago when I lived there....I was 20 years old....

He's never had a single problem. Always acted normal, he plays fetch with fuzzy mice....he is a cat, but he's MY cat. It has been Him and I for 7 years....He's my baby....and this week I could tell something was wrong....

I had been cleaning my apartment, kept the windows all open....just spring cleaning. I noticed that he was hacking...what I thought might be a furball, but he was hacking and hacking and nothing came up. He started getting slow...not doing much...he looked tired...his breathing was labored, and after about a day in a half I knew I had to take him in...

His little x-rays showed his lungs were inflamed....he was having an asthma attack....I immediately thought it was my fault because I have smoked around him....but I am pretty sure it was because of the cleaning supplies I was using recently....

After 6 hours at the vet....and scaring the shit out of me by asking me to approve a DNR....from 10 - 4am.....they gave me back my cat and told me to keep an eye on him....gave me some meds....

His breathing is still harsh.....he's just laying around.....but he's eating....

This is by far one of the most difficult things i've ever had to deal with....I know that in comparison to most horrific things, it's nothing....but to me, it's everything.

So for now, i'm just making sure he's comfortable, and if anything changes, he's going back to the vet.....

Send some positive vibes his way...he's just a little dude trying to stay alive...

Thanks to Steve who came and stayed with me while I was at the vet...I couldn't ask for a better friend.....

Love,

Jamie

Say what?

2009-05-17T00:14:00.000-07:00

So...since I have no idea what i'm suppose to do in life, I did what any reasonable 27 year old woman would do. I went to the internet. I took me a little quiz called "What career will suit your personality?" And this is what was determined:

Novelist ( I have a.d.d.)
Photographer (i can't afford a camera)
Vet (I can't kill animals)
Medical Technician (I can't remember things)
Paralegal (again, can't remember things)
Geologist ( don't really know what that is)
Marine Biologist (animals...no, too heart breaking)
Graphic Designer (could do...have done, but not enriching enough, not talented enough)
Online Content Developer (I could probably think up some shiz....but for who?)
Webmaster (I am a webmaster, but it's too ridiculous....time consuming....slave ish.
Computer Security (what?)
Producer (of what?)
Computer Programmer (what the fuck? this doesn't even exist anymore)
Technical Writer (of what, I could write some funny skits I think. I can't act, but I can think up some funny dumb shit.)
Systems Analyst (what?)
Meteorologist (hahaha...no...but my name would be Jamie Stormy.)
Artist (of what? What the fuck is my art?)

So....all I can tell you is. I'm fucked.

Love,

Jamie

shiz...

2009-05-16T11:03:00.000-07:00

I read about Achieving Success Through Effective Business Communication today. Kill me. I know why I didn't finish school, because I did all the fun crazy classes in my first 2 years and now i'm stuck with actual BUSINESS classes. I'm changing my major....

So while on a study break....I decided to look up some funny t-shirts online. I did that for about an hour in a half.....looked at t-shirts online......for an HOUR IN A HALF. Here are my favorites and my funny commentary.

It IS for the weak.

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I'll rape you in Halo 3. #slightlystpd420

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My motto. Ask my peeps.

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This is pretty much true eh? I guess Morals and stuff too.

But bible hymns pretty much started it all.

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I actually believe this.

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And I seriously heed this warning. They do have guns.

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Just funny to me. Haywood Jablowme is classic.

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How I feel 95% of the time. And also how I end about 99% of arguments.

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Deliverance throw back. Always funny.

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It's true.

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I bought this one.

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A majority of sports fans are bandwagoners. Get over it.

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dammit. ;) they totally did

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On to 35 pages of "Product and Suppy Chain Management"...YES!

Love,

Jamie

Coldplay Info

2009-05-15T12:58:00.001-07:00

Click here to download Coldplays album Leftrightleftrightleft.

http://lrlrl.coldplay.com/leftright.html

Just scroll down, enter your email. The next page you'll download a zip file containing all the songs. It's about 55mb and has 9 songs.

I don't even like Coldplay, but I don't pass on anything that is free...

Love,
Jamie

this seriously just happened...

2009-05-14T11:31:00.000-07:00

I caved. I caved after 4 days. I am a full-time student guys, I am at my house now...that's what I do. I sit and read and study and that's it. Smoking was my crutch. I quit smoking when I decided that instead of working at some piece of shit job, I would go to school full-time and finish what I started many years ago. I decided at 27 years old, that this was my plan.....school. Through school, I am going to "figure it all out".

I caved. I went to Walgreens 20 minutes ago to buy a pack of cigarettes. As I stood in line, to buy a pack of cigs.....an old woman slowly came up behind me with her Walgreens goods. I just wanted my Camel Lights and to get the fuck out of there. I just wanted a cigarette. For a second I looked a the nicotine gum, but then said eff it. I asked for my cigs and this woman....of about 80....said "hunny...I just lost a lung to those....I know it's hard....I have an oxygen tank....it's not worth it"

I SWEAR TO GOD THIS JUST HAPPENED.

In 27 years, nobody has ever preached to me in line at a store about quitting smoking. EVER. Nobody has ever just randomly told me that smoking is bad besides my sister, a random friend and my doctor.

This women stood behind me in line at Walgreens, 4 days after I quit smoking....and told me that she lost a fucking lung from smoking. She had the oxygen tank in her Walgreens shopping cart. She had no idea that I am in the middle of something a lot of people decide to do and struggle with throughout their entire lives.

The woman at the counter gave me a look like "lady, smoking is ridiculous".

So...I walked out of Walgreens WITHOUT the pack of cigarettes.

Fucking fuck fuck fuckers.

Smoking is ridiculous.

Jamie.

quit smoking cigs....and this blog is what happens....

2009-05-14T06:46:00.000-07:00

(I am well aware of how terrible my writing, grammer, punctuation, spelling and overall formatting is. But I have to get this crap out of my head or else I will explode.)

Arnold Schwarzenegger. The guy can barely speak english and has no reason whatsoever to be the Governor of anything, let alone California. Motherfucking California. The man served as chairman of the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. What the fuck does that even mean? He was a Red Cross ambassador as well.....uh what? The man appeared in one debate....ONE. You get the picture?

Weirder things have happened, I get it. He has in fact been Governor for 6 years or so. I don't live there but i'm assuming that people in Cali like him. He's a Republican on paper but he's pretty left minded and there are rumors he might run for US Senate in 2010. I digress...

Although I am frustrated that this man makes decisions for Americans, Arnold is a businessman. He's a movie star, he won Mr. Universe, he's been super successful at life and seems like a nice guy (say nothing of the minor sexual harrassmant scandal back in the day). I would trade our Florida Governor in a heartbeat for The Terminator. He listens to the residents of California (I assume) and doesn't have his own personal agenda. As of late though, i've been hearing grumblings about the Governator being the new face for Marijuana Legalization.

Could it be true? Could we actually have someone who is successful, intelligent, hard-working and political, be speaking out in FAVOR OF LEGALIZING MARIJUANA?

He's not a stoner pot-head hippie whose house is filled with blacklight posters and lava lamps (lol, old stereotypes were the best...I wish I had a blacklight poster). He's a father, a husband, the Governor of California and a businessman. And he has now become the SPOKESMAN FOR A GENERATION!

Alright, so i'm exaggerating a little bit...he's not really in favor of anything other than asking for his state and the government to start talking about legalizing marijuana.

There are plenty of super successful people who support the legalization of marijuana (Danny Danko), but it's nice to actually have someone in politics who isn't AFRAID to discuss it. Someone who leads a fairly normal and good existance. (take note Obama: you can't ignore it forever, might as well start educating yourself so you are prepared.)

And this is where I try to make you all understand......

We are scared of pot....remember Woodstock? People are finally starting to speak up about marijuana though. I'm a good example of that. I talk about it on www.theexperience.fm , I blog about it, I twitter about it, I facebook about it....my mother hears me talking about it and she NEVER drinks alcohol and/or does any sort of drug except Tylenol. My step-dad is a cop, bro-in-law a lawyer and my sister is a doctor. They are pretty much all anti-marijuana (ultra conservative) in every single sense of the word. I ain't skeered. That's what is great about having an opinion and being an adult....

My views on the drug have changed a bunch. I remember hating it when I was 18. I was against it big time, yet I smoked a pack of cigs daily and drank all the time. I have always known people who've used it but I was always way more interested in drinking beer than smoking anything. I think I was raised to think of it as something people did in the ghetto. Like it was frickin crack and could get you killed. Little did I know...and just so you know, the first time I smoked up was when I was in middle-school. I did a bit my senior year of high school too, but that's about it for when I was younger.

Im not a habitual pot smoker even now that I understand it, I talk about it a lot but I am acutely aware that it is a DRUG. I know it's not safe, it's not healthy and it's just another way for us to escape reality. Just like alcohol, you have to find a medium when it comes to it like most humans. If I were high all the time, I wouldn't be able to write this blog. Or would I? And if I was, would the blog actually be more interesting?

I digress... I do know that when I give myself some time to just be in my twenties and have fun (which I rarely do), i'd rather be smoking a joint than getting trashed at a bar. At least the next day I can function as a normal person and not have to worry about cleaning up barf.

All i'm saying, is given the alternative.....BEER.....it's almost insane not to think about legalizing it. Instead of random drunk rapings, there will be stimulating conversation. Instead of drunk driving accidents, there will be more organic gardens. Okay, maybe not. But it's still safer, bottom line.

So my deal is this....wouldn't you rather your 21 year old be sitting at their dorm smoking a joint with some buddies, than out cruising around drunk as fuck? You'd probably rather have them do nothing....not drink or smoke dope.....but guess what? It's been going on F O R E V E R ....there are bars on every single corner of every street. From when we were babies, we are taught that it's horrible for you....but when your old enough, it's sure a helluva lot of fun. So get over yourself.

What would you rather spend money on that allows you to tolerate how fucked up life is, for just a few hours?

TO SUMMARIZE:

The Governator is being vocal about the legalization of marijuana and that is cool. I am not a pot-head. My mom is on Facebook. And I swore only 5 times in this blog.

I don't even have anything to say about it Medically. I don't need it medically, I have no idea if it helps ease pain or nausea. But I do know, that if I have cancer and I want to smoke a joint and it makes me feel better for even 20 seconds.....then im going to fucking smoke my joint.

America needs to get over themselves. It's a new fucking generation bitches. Let men marry men and let us smoke some dope.

One Love,

Jamie

twitter @jamieexp

jamie32182@gmail.com

www.theexperience.fm

"Marijuana is not a drug. It's a leaf. My drug was pumping iron, trust me." - The Current Governor of California.

"We all realize that there is no reason for it to be illegal but how exactly do we manage to make that clear to Washington without looking like a bunch of pot-heads?" - me.

Noteworthy Items

2009-05-10T15:02:00.000-07:00

Stuff I care to comment on.

LET'S GO MAGIC!!!

Chuck Daly died. He was 78 and had Pancreatic Cancer. I'm not a huge sports fan but I LOVE going to sporting events. Any excuse to drink a crappy beer out of a plastic cup for $5.75 and scream like a jackass, i'm in. I grew up loving the Detroit Pistons and have since fallin in love with the Orlando Magic since i've moved here, so it was sad to hear a former Pistons (two titles) and Magic (took em to the playoffs) coach had passed away. RIP.

http://www.wftv.com/news/19418524/detail.html

LOUIS CALDERA RESIGNED!!!!!

He's the jackass who "ok'd" the "photo-op" by the 757 in Manhattan (followed by two fighter jets) a few weeks ago. He's a moron and I don't want him making any decisions for American's ever again. (I personally asked for his resignation in a previous blog).

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/05/08/2009-05-08_white_house_aide_loses_job_over_manhattan_flyover_fiasco.html

SWINE FLU!!!!!

Are you still alive? Yah, me too. Today is one of the first days that I didn't see a "Swine Flu" story on the CNN homepage. THANK GOD. The numbers grew and fell and we all quickly realized (after researching on past Pandemics and the common FLU) that it was horseshit. I love that we now have the ability and resources to do our own fact checking within seconds. Tens of Thousands of AMERICANS die from the regular flu every year. Once we realized that, the Government realized it was going to be a lot harder to try to focus our attentions on something other than whats really going on. Epic Fail.

WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!

Some homeless guy here in Orlando, got arrested for stealing deoderant from a store. Nothing else, just deoderant. Held on $2500 bail....and I guess he didn't turn up to court for a past DUI so another $1500 on top of that.

Now, before I go on the defensive for this guy, let me clarify. I know stealing is against the law. Whether you are 9 years old or 99 years old or you are rich or poor. But for fuck sake, the man stole deoderant because he knew he smelled liked crap. He's obviously homeless because he's an alcoholic (or worse) because of the prior DUI. The guy could be a crazy lunatic muderer for all I know...but if he isn't...if he's just an alcoholic who's life has turned to the shitter...then he should be let out of jail and i'll personally buy the guy some deoderant. AXE deoderant should bail him out and give him a job in a commercial.

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/state_news/050909_Homeless_man_charged_with_stealing_deodorant

MAN SHOOTS WIFE AND DOG!!!!

Orlando ATE up the story of Shannon Burke (local talk radio host on 104.1fm). I'm a talk radio junkie. I listened to AM talk radio on my way to High School when I was 16...I was once a fan of Glenn Becks (kill me). I love opinions, I love news and when I moved to Orlando I fell in love with 104.1. It's all talk radio all day long. A great mix of humor and current events on all the shows. Shannons show was a good mix of everything.

This story was a rollercoaster. At first, we all thought he went crazy and tried to kill his family. HOLY SHIT!!! Then we heard the 911 call where he stated it was an accident and his gun discharged while he was holding it. We then called him an idiot and figured he would still be at one of the radio stations functions a few days later. THEN, we saw the photos of his wife and his dog. That changed everything. His wifes head looked like it had been sliced open with a chainsaw. She must have had a hundred stiches and the wound was like 13 inches long. It was disgusting. And the dog lost some of its tail and had a similar gangly wound on its leg. THAT'S WHEN THE SHIT HIT THE FAN. Quickly afterward, he was FIRED from Clear Channel. Then after that, his wife, his ex-girlfriend and ex-wife all filed restraining orders against him. Once out of jail, he lasted one day. He ended up having a buddy of his go to his wifes house to get his motorcycle and he was then RE-ARRESTED. Apparently he tried to remove his monitoring ankle bracelet too. Psycho.

Shannon Burke. You sir, are a fucking idiot and I want your previous job.

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/entertainment/050609burke_injunctions

That's about it for now. I would love to comment on every news story there is, but nobody would read it.

Go Magic!

Listen to the show Friday @ 7pm!

Jamie

www.theexperience.fm

jamie@theexperience.fm

Beach

2009-05-05T23:06:00.001-07:00

I'm going to the beach this week, so I won't be on the show Friday. I will be 4 days without a computer and I cannot frickin wait. School starts next week, holy shiz!

See ya next week on the show!

Jamie

twiter: @jamieexp

www.theexperience.fm

jamie@theexperience.fm

In a few months, i've become a fan of Perez Hilton...

2009-04-30T21:34:00.001-07:00

See the above post:

http://perezhilton.com/2009-04-29-dear-miss-california

Simple, to the point...masked with some sarcasm and truth.

I like that he did his research. I don't care if Perez knew who Anita Bryant was. He knows now...and so do I. She was an ignorant wench who ultimately failed in life because of her bias views against homosexuals.

Nobody said you can't have an opinion. You're allowed to not like gay people. You can talk about them all you want, make your little jokes...whatever it is homophobes do. That isn't the issue here. The problem is that gay people are not being treated as equals.

Not according to the law that is. They can't get married, in fact, it's a law. It's ILLEGAL for a man to marry a man. Why in the FUCK is it ILLEGAL to marry someone who is the same sex as you??

Im going to marry whoever the hell I want too, thank you very much. Girl or Guy....if I want to get married to them, that's my decision. It's not the governments.

I can't even formulate the words to express my anger about this issue. I am a straight woman who likes dudes and I could never imagine in my life being told I can't get married to someone that I loved.

I fucking HATE ignorance. Perez, keep talking about it....your the voice of a generation that needs to be heard. You built yourself a platform from being a douchebag, use it wisely.

Jamie

Asher Roth - So fill up my cup, lets get fucked up....

2009-04-30T01:25:00.000-07:00

Asher Roth. If you have turned on MTV for longer than 3 seconds in the past month, you've heard of this kid. Even though they don't play music anymore, there seems to be a commercial about him every ten seconds.

He reminded me of Eminem. But if Eminem went to Florida State and shopped at Hollister. His super catchy song "I Love College" has been overplayed. I don't want to like it.....I probably wouldn't if I didn't listen to the rest of his stuff.

First thing I read about Asher Roth wasn't something I read. I saw a video blog off of HighTimes.com (guilty as charged).

He smoked up with Editor Danny Danko and did an interview on the rooftop in NYC.

http://hightimes.com/video/dan/5342

Pay attention to this guy. He's 24, from Pennsylvania and raps about everything from smokin weed, to President Bush and the economy. I've been downloading his music all night and have yet to find a song that I don't like. Sounds like the Beastie Boys, obviously Eminem and maybe.....Jason Mraz. I don't know. Whatever it is, I like it.

Jamie

You probably already had the Swine Flu.

2009-04-29T23:45:00.000-07:00

Did you get the flu earlier this year? It was probably swine flu.....who cares, you lived. The regular flu kills people all the time, tens of thousands a year. This will pass and nobody need be worried. If your in Mexico, wear your masks and wash your hands. Can you tell i'm over the swine flu as quickly as I became obsessed with it?

On the otherhand, having a 757 followed by a fighter jet fly through Manhattan....that is something you should be worried about. Not because I think it was anything serious or some mysterious coverup (or was it?), but because Louis Caldera (White House military office director) decided to approve it. Without notifying the public. And he is an effing moron.

Mr. Caldera....you should be fired. You obviously have no common sense and/or any sense at all. Mayor Bloomberg should be the one who hands you your pink slip. Or better yet, allow everyone who you scared the SHIT out of give you the boot. This isn't an episode of Punk'd. You sir, are an idiot.

(My favorite article so far on this topic)

http://gawker.com/5229556/airplane-flies-around-manhattan-scares-everyone

That's all I got for now.

Jamie

Long time no Blog

2009-04-28T22:04:00.000-07:00

So I have decided to go back to school. It's exciting...i'm going to live off student loans and finish everything up. My original major up north was Business Management. But I am thinking i'll have to change that....because by the time i'm out of school their might not be any businesses left for me to "manage".

So summer classes start in 2 weeks. I'm trying to organize my house because i'm going to be broke and locking myself in my house and studying for the next year. The goal is to be so smart that I get recognized by Keith Olbermann and asked to be on The Countdown with him as a wacky sidekick. ;) Kidding.

On the nerd side of things, i've been playing a lot of Fable II on xbox360.

I'm well aware of what a loser I am....

Quick review: It's a really crazy game, and if you've ever been a fan of Zelda (NES, SNES), you'd probably like this game. However it's a cross between Zelda and The Sims. You can buy property and have a family...trade...barter...all while completing a quest that resembles Ocarnia of Time.

Warning: It takes awhile before the game gets really good. So put time into it....like I did...because thats what I do.

Listen to the show Fry-dizzle. www.theexperience.fm

Jamie

Important Stuff

2009-03-25T10:52:00.000-07:00

hahahahahahaha - now this is frickin hilarious!

An 18-year-old has secretly painted a 60 ft drawing of a phallus on the roof of his parents' £1million mansion in Berkshire. It was there for a year before his parents found out. They say he'll have to scrub it off when he gets back from travelling.

This guy is a Straight up maniac.

It only took 2.9 seconds for daredevil Pedro Olivia to stare

death in the face and kick its ass -- by dropping 127ft. in a kayak down one of the Amazon's tallest waterfalls! FYI -- Niagara Falls only reaches heights of 110ft on the

American side.

Oh Cindy. You are 43 and beautiful. But the naked whip cream picture is disgusting.

Photos in Allure this month.

Thats all I got for now :)

Thanks for listening to the show!!

~Jamie~

Suicide or Resignation? What?

2009-03-17T06:46:00.001-07:00

Some facts about AIG.

18th Largest Public Company in the World.
Has received $170 billion from the U.S. Government.
Joseph Cassano was an Executive at AIG before resigning in February 2008. He is considered a key factor in the Global Financial Crisis. CNN named Cassano as one of the "Ten Most Water: Culprits" of the 2008 financial collapse in the United States.
$165 million in Bonuses (using tax payers bailout funds) has been handed out to AIG execs.

Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), on a radio show suggested that AIG executives should take a Japanese approach toward accepting responsibility for the collapse of the insurance giant by resigning or killing themselves.

WHAT IN THE FUCK IS GOING ON????? AND WHY IS NOTHING BEING DONE?????

AIG's Board of directors (or slimeball greedy pricks who should be in jail...)

Edward M. Liddy – Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, American International Group
Stephen F. Bollenback – Former Co-Chairman and CEO, Hilton Hotels Corporation
Martin S. Feldstein – Professor of Economics, Harvard University
George L. Miles – President and Chief Executive Officer, WQED Multimedia
Morris W. Offit – Chairman, Offit Capital Advisors LLC
Michael H. Sutton – Consultant
Fred H. Langhammer – Chairman, Global Affairs, and former CEO of The Estee Lauder Companies, Inc.
Virginia M. Rometty – Senior Vice President, Global Business Services, IBM Corporation
James F. Orr, III – Chairman of the Board of Trustees, The Rockefeller Foundation
Edmund S.W. Tse – Senior Vice Chairman, Life Insurance, American International Group
Suzanne Nora Johnso

Guilty Pleasure I hate to Admit

2009-03-10T08:27:00.000-07:00

Dancing with the Stars premiered Monday Night - and without boring you to tears with the details here is a list of the competitors:

Belinda Carlisle (some singer i've never heard of)

David Allen Grier (In Living Color)

Lawerence Taylor (Football guy)

Steve Wozniak (Founder of Apple Computers)

Ty Murray (Rodeo champ)

Chuck Wicks (Country Music guy?)

Denise Richards (We all know who she is)

Gilles Marini (Sex in the City)

Holly Madison (Playboy Bunny)

Lil Kim (Rapper)

Melissa Rycroft (chick from The Bachelor who was dissed)

Shawn Johnson (Gymnast)

Steve-O (from Jackass)

The dancers that were obviously the best were....Shawn Johnson, Melissa Rycroft (who had 48 hours to practice) and Lil Kim. I didn't really like any of the guys except Steve-O, who you can tell took this seriously. Steve Wozniak is a character, completely a performer and the COMPLETE OPPOSITE of who I would think founded Apple Computers but he cannot dance at all. The rest kind of unrememberable. David Allen Grier was good too.

I think people thought Denise Richards and/or Holly Madison would be good out the gate, but they are both uncoordinated.

MY EARLY CHOICE FOR THE WINNER IS - MELISSA RYCROFT. Yes, the chick who got dissed on The Bachelor. She had 2 days to practice as Nancy O'Dell's replacement at the last minute, and she killed it. Here is a picture of her and the douche from The Bachelor. He proposed to her, then on the wrap up show, told her he was actually in love with the other chick. It was frickin awesome and possibly some genius at ABC's idea.

Love,

Jamie

MySpace or Facebook? That is the question...

2009-03-02T12:14:00.000-08:00

No show on Friday...booo...sorry, it was out of our hands. Until we have our own studio, we are at the mercy of CSB. We should be right on schedule for this Friday, so come check us out at 7pm!

----------------------------->Take the poll on the right and let me know what you think.

Alright, so now to the important stuff.

Facebook or Myspace? It seems like everyday i'm reading a story about Facebook in the news. I rarely ever hear anyone mention Myspace and if they do, it's because they are in a band. I thought this was a good sign of the times. How quickly fads come and go.

There was literally no way of tracking down your lost schoolmates back in the day (and by back in the day, I mean after 2000), except by going to classmates.com or some other super horrible site that made you pay in order to get in touch with people you once knew. Now....it's literally as easy as filling out your profile and 50 people find you.

So we know the reasons why social networking sites are such a big deal. It's instant access to a billion people. It's awesome to catch up with old friends and stay in touch with current friends. It can be used to organized events and get the word out about great causes. But why has Facebook taken over?? What happened to Myspace??

Here's what I think:

1) Myspace Profiles vs. Facebook Profiles: I do not want to stare at my friends glitter graphics and/or scrolling marques letting me know the countdown until their 25th birthday. If I have to page through 60 miles of garbage in order to see what your up too, then forget it, there's a reason why I haven't stayed in touch for the last 10 years. Facebook profiles are pretty streamlined, even boring a little. But they are organized, and organization is key.

2) Spam and/or Account Hijacks: I know people who had their accounts hijacked on Myspace....I won't name names and although I think it was pretty rejected if you were duped into it, it's still a problem. We use these tools to communicate with friends and family. We don't want this information shared or seen without our permission. So far, Facebook hasn't had any problems.

3) Instant Messaging: Myspace made us download their instant messaging program for us to run (in addition to our AIM, MSN, Yahoo IM). It was impractical and I never used it. Facebooks IM is included on the webpage. It doesn't have any fancy bells or whistles, but it's practical. Within two seconds of logging in, I can have an instant conversation with my friend Sue over in the UK.

4) Applications: -1 for Facebook Applications. They should do a better job regulating which ones can and can't be available. Some of them are just plan ridiculous (what sex and the city character are you most like?), but some are fun and practical (bowling buddies is really fun and passing drinks to friends is also nice for those who are far away). Myspace didn't have applications really....just random junk you had to HTML paste into your profile. I like the apps, just wish they were regulated.

5) Welcome to 2009: Myspace is great for bands, it truly is. It's a personal website that you don't have to pay for and can list everything from an entire album, your tour dates to biography's and pictures. It's pretty rad and I think bands should still use it. Facebook though, is entering an era when INSTANT communication is key. We no longer wait for information. We have cellphones, text messaging, instant messaging, email, myspace, twitter, facebook, chatrooms, blogs, etc. It's overwhelming, but it's the wave of the future and I think Facebook has got it on point.

SO LONG MYSPACE.

----------------------------->Take the poll on the right and let me know what you think. I'll discuss it on the show Friday.

One Love,

Jamie

Oscar the Grouch or Oscar the Great?

2009-02-23T07:15:00.000-08:00

OH THE OSCARS!!!

I am a huge fan of all award shows. Doesn't matter what it is, I like when people get recognized for their achievements. Art is Art. Here's my highlights.

Hugh Jackman, you talented piece of man meat. Hosted by and performances by....this man is pretty much the epitome of an Actor. I think he did a wonderful job hosting! I watched the whole thing and only got bored a few times.

Boozum alert! I LOVE LOVE LOVE Tina Fey. She looked hot as hell and her and steve martin did a little funny bit.

Kate Winslet. Meh....she's beautiful and talented. Nuff said.

The guy who wrote MILK. Openly gay and letting everyone know it! It was a great speech and it was the truth. Kudos for using the platform to subtely speak about something important.

Ben Stiller is getting on my nerves. I didn't even realize until the day after the show he was mocking Joaquine Phoenixes interview on Letterman (I thought he was just dressed up like jewish guy). Stiller was lucky that Natalie Portman was there to make us all look like horrible, lazy human beings...because she is LITERALLY PERFECTION. I love her.

Barf.

The Show was good, I love when they put together big musical numbers. It gives the audience a taste of how talented some of these actors and actresses are (Anne Hathaway/Hugh Jackman).

Otherwise, still a room full of overpaid diva's and a-holes.

=)
Jamie

This Weeks Pictures!

2009-02-20T11:29:00.000-08:00

The comic that has been getting so much attention lately.

Racist or Not, I think it's just in bad taste.

Travis the Chimp, that ripped a woman's face and bit her hands off.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2257384.ece

Little pot growing operation that was inside a Primary School in South London.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2256479.ece

"Alleged" pictures of Rihanna after Chris Brown beat her up....he's an ass.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/usa/article2257080.ece

Pam Anderson who is 41, was doing some runway stuff in NY. I think she looks fantastic.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/usa/article2254047.ece

Could Google have found the Lost City of Atlantis??

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2255989.ece

I'm a quitter....

2009-02-19T06:35:00.000-08:00

Well, i've decided after some deliberation in my own head. That i'm going to attempt to quit smoking (yet again). In the past i've successfully quit for a while...a few years, but i've pretty much been a smoker since I was 15/16 years old.

Not a good habit, I know it's not. When I quit in the past I don't think I was addicted to nicotine, but now, I definitely think I am.

So....i'm just quitting. End of story. Haven't smoked today and won't. It's a dumb habit.

On the show tomorrow (Friday) all of us are going to have nicotine gum during the show. No more smoke breaks!!!!!

Thanks to everyone who has had such positive things to say about our little show. =)

Screw smoking!

Jamie

jamie@theexperience.fm

Pictures for February 13, 2009!

2009-02-13T11:49:00.000-08:00

Example of one of the pictures that got this chicks facebook page taken down. Read more about the story here: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2235826.ece

Totally cute couple who are getting married in the nude. He's the happiest man in the world.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2233717.ece

Parents are 13 years old and 15 years old. Father looks like he's 7. Cute baby though :)

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2233878.ece

FINGERNAILS!!! AHHHH!!!!!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2235086.ece

Enjoy :)

One Love,

Jamie

www.theexperience.fm

jamie@theexperience.fm

www.twitter.com/jamielynndirect

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Told to listen to a song..and then....

2009-02-02T15:44:00.001-08:00

I was told to check this Band out...The Bird and the Bee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDlEXQaMBpk&feature=related

And I dug it. So I was listening to more songs, and I ran across my favorite Talking Heads song. The Bird and the Bee re-did it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRNOaBkRYNI&feature=related

So I dug them a little more. Then I noticed where the video above was from, The North Star Bar in Philadelphia.

I saw Jesse Malin at The North Star bar in Philadelphia about 4 years ago. So I looked up Jesse Malin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDlEXQaMBpk&feature=related

The sound sucked on that video, but it was also from the North Star Bar but just last year. Jesse Malin was a killer live show. That got me thinking to the Ryan Adams concert in Battery Park I went too, where I first heard Jesse Malin, he opened for Ryan Adams. It was a sick concert at Batter Park on July 4th in NYC.

So I found this video of Ryan Adams singing New York New York....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IhDW18rxyY

Ryan Adams is one of the best song writers of my generation I think. Ryan Adams in NYC got me thinking about when I saw ZWAN. Zwan was a band that Billy Corgan (of the Smashing Pumpkins) formed. I loved this band....they came out with only one or two cd's I think. I saw them twice, once in Manhattan the other in Philadelphia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KORkgiQ60g

That's all.....you can continue doing what you were doing.

Jamie

A little truth

2009-02-01T11:50:00.000-08:00

A little insight....on nothing important.

Jack Black's photo was taken this week on vacation or something. It wasn't ripped to shreds, it was more of an ode to him and his stout body. Not exactly the hottest guy in the world, but there's a bangin chick sitting next to him, and he still looks handsome.

Jessica Simpsons picture was taken last week too.....this became the story of the week. She was ROASTED for gaining weight. Her outfit is horrible, but it's not like she gained 100 pounds. She looks like the majority of the women in America. YET.....blasted, she was torn to shreds about this....and probably in a month, she will be a twig again. Thrusting her into the spotlight...much like nicole richie, ashlee simpson and britney spears....(why do we even know who these people are?)

I'm not sayin either is good or bad. These are celebrities and I could careless about them. Entertain me clowns. But still, it's a little effed up. When did everyone in the world get the right be such d!ckweeds to anyone they wanted and just get away with it?

One Love,

Jamie

Response from Adrants!

2009-01-28T11:45:00.000-08:00

Got a little response from Adrants about my latest post.

Steve Hall said...

Jamie,

We did not create the ad. We did not Photoshop the ad. We had nothing to do with the creation of the ad. We write about ads. We don't create them.

The was sent to us and claimed to have been real. The "response" you quote is not a response to the lawsuit but a paragraph from the original story we wrote about the ad. The story has since been pulled.

Obviously, we would not respond to a lawsuit like that.

Guess tmz got the entire story wrong, including falsely quoting you? You should probably sue TMZ! It's the American Way!

One Love,

Jamie

I blog too much

2009-01-27T15:17:00.000-08:00

Some internet geek is fired up.

www.adrants.com (i should get money for this)

There is a lawsuit against adrants about some dumb ad they put on their site...it's not even that funny. But it got there name on a whole lotta websites, including tmz.com which has millions of readers. I made that up, I don't know how many readers they have...but it's gotta be alot, that's where I read it.

So Virgin Airlines is suing adrants and this is what Adrants said in their statement about the lawsuit.

"We've seen Virgin turn ugly situations to its advantage before, making it [the fake advertisement] very much in keeping with the Virgin brand persona. The only thing saving the tribute from being in terrifically bad taste is the fact that no one lost his or her life in the crash. So woot! -- slather your big reds all over those news shots, V."

WOOT??? lmao....omg....lol...rofl....alright enough. The "Honcho" at adrants said....WOOT in a statement. I almost pee'd my pants when I read that. He's being suied by Virgin Airlines if i'm not mistaken...that's a pretty big company I think.

So here we have it. A lawsuit against a blogger for photoshopping together some horrible incident and tying it together in a way that we all know people were already thinking. All in all a plane fell into the river because of some birds right? Everyone lived...thank Sully, but come on....a lawsuit???

Article from tmz.com:

http://www.tmz.com/2009/01/27/virgin-sues-over-hudson-crash-prank/