Wow I'm Awesome

If you may recall many months ago I made a brief little blog post about the brilliance of the song 'She's Got the Look' by Roxette many moons ago. Well thanks to the great folks at Rockstar Games I was able to hear this song a lot more in commercials over the last couple months.

Look, if you don't like video games thats one thing but at this point you pretty much cannot deny that they are no longer some passing fad (although I think the only people who felt that they would be a "fad" are people who were over 45 in 1979) but a multi-billion dollar industry. Grand Theft Auto to me is a brilliant conglomeration of decades worth of American pop culture smashed into one massive brilliant orgy of violence, sex, and humor. With Grand Theft Auto 4 and its most recently released expansions, you have a story taking place in a fictional New York known as Liberty City and you have some great story telling going on. Its really quite hilarious to be honest. Here is the trailer with 'She's Got the Look' in it by the way.




Enough about videogames though. There has been a lot going on in the news. And there has been no bigger story than the one I'm about to talk about. I'm of course talking about the escalating awesomeness of JERSEY SHORE. I'm dead serious that if you're not watching this show you are missing television history. In three episodes of this show I've laughed, I've cried, and I vomited. MTV could really branch this show out and find more disturbing sub cultures entrenched throughout the United States. Next year instead of Jersey Shore just do a show about Juggalos and have it culminate with an episode taking place at the 'Gather of the Juggalos'. Bill Simmons suggested doing one on people from Boston's North Shore...I agree. Perhaps we could also get a show about Russians from Brooklyn or something. Definitely though they need to do one on either Armenians in Los Angeles or Persians in Los Angeles.

Finally, I just want to say that I laugh in the general direction of the University of Minnesota. They are asking me for money every couple of months and my general thought on giving them more of my money is this.