Show Premiers Tonight

The Desperate Housewives season premiere is on tonight and I am beyond excited. I can't believe I survived a whole summer without this show haha. I've watched this show pretty much religiously since it first started. My favorite character is Susan, only I wish she wasn't as ditzy. I also really like Gabrielle.

The premiere looks like it's going to be exciting with both Susan and Catherine in wedding dresses, who knows who Mike is going to marry at the altar! I pretty much forget the finale but I'm sure they'll have a refresher right before the premiere.

Another show that premieres tonight that I'm looking forward to is The Cleveland Show. I'm not sure how this is gonna go. It could either be really awesome or really stupid. I have high hopes.. I better not be disappointed!

Gone Too Far

DJ AM was found dead in his New York City apartment on Friday, August 28th around 5:20pm. His cause of death has not yet been determined, although there were prescription drugs found in his apartment. -People.com

I had no idea that this happened? I don't know if I was living under a rock or what but until the VMAs I honestly had no idea. This is so sad. I have a good feeling it probably had something to do with survivors guilt but of course I can't say that for sure.

DJ AM was in the process of making an MTV show, 8 episodes long, called Gone Too Far. MTV is in talks with his family to see if they are still going to air the show. The show is an intervention-type documentary, where DJ AM helps young adults and their families with interventions.

The whole story is just sad to me. Tragic.

Peter's Progress

Just watched the Family Guy episode: Peter's Progress... pretty funny. My favorite episode is still Stewroids but this one was still good. Is it just me or does Family Guy get progressively better each season? I know there was a time when it was not as funny as this. Madame Claude cracked me up. A lot of critics say she wasnt Jamaican enough but I think it was supposed to be a fake Jamaican accent so she could be more like the infamous Ms. Cleo.

Mikey

My last post reminded me of something else. My Uncle and I weren't the only ones in the kitchen that day. My cousin Mikey was also in there, someone who has been there for my my whole life. I've considered Mikey and his younger sister Gabrielle my siblings basically for as long as I can remember. When we were a lot younger I was at their house every day while my mom was at work, and we'd play all day. House, office, dance, video games, everything. One time Mikey had chicken pox and Gabrielle and I weren't allowed to go near him. Obviously we snuck up to play with him and sure enough the next week Gabrielle and I both had chicken pox at the same time.

The last day of my sophomore year of high school I went to the beach with both Mikey and Gabrielle. After that Mikey and I went to the Oasis concert. It was funny because I'd been listening to Oasis since I was 5 and sang that song to my uncle in his kitchen. ( I think I forgot to mention this in my last post but my uncle gave me his (What's the Story) Morning Glory cassette after I asked). So since the concert Mikey has been calling me his Wonderwall.

My junior year of high school Mikey joined the army. He scored ridiculously high on his army entrance exam and chose the job of an EOD tech, which stands for Explosives Ordinance Disarmament, an extremely dangerous job any way you look at it. After that I barely saw him unless he was home on leave, and even when he was I was either at school or working constantly. He spent 15 months in Afghanistan last year, and he finally came home last winter-ish. After that he was stationed in Georgia, so again, it was a long time between visits. He is deploying for Iraq for 12 months very soon but is coming home on leave for a couple weeks before he goes. Obviously this is hard on my family but we are very proud of Mikey and he loves what he does.

I'm definitely going to miss Mikey when he is in Iraq, and I pray for him everyday, as well as the rest of our troops.

You're My Wonderwall

Today I interned for the first time at WBIM. Meg and I are both interns on John's rotation show. I had so much fun and I'm pretty sure I've made up my mind for "what I want to be when I grow up". I've always been sure that I wanted to do something that I had fun at and made me happy. Now I'm not counting my eggs before they hatch here but I'm pretty sure this is the job for me.

I've loved all kinds of music for as long as I can remember. You know those annoying facebook tag pics that people comment on 94367 times and you get 94367 notifications and they piss you off? Yeah well, I am usually the one to get the "listens to good music" tag. I'm not bragging... music is just my thing. I don't play any instruments, unless you count the mediocre piano lessons I used to take when I thought I was going to be the next Beethoven but didn't practice enough and eventually just quit because, for some strange reason, I wasn't getting any better! Anyways, I've always liked music; concerts, cds, mp3s, whatever...everything about it. I remember I heard this song on the radio once and I know I'm gonna get a lot of eyerolls for this one but I'm gonna go on with my story anyways haha. So I was about 5 years old, standing in my uncle's kitchen, singing this song I heard on the radio because I really liked it and I was dying to know the name of it. My uncle was also huge into music, he has a whole room dedicated to it in his house. My uncle said the name of the song was "Wonderwall" by Oasis ( I know, I know, Oh my God, what a loser) But that is my earliest memory of my music obsession.

As I grew older I started going to more concerts, buying more cds, getting more for Christmas and Birthdays, downloading songs offline, burning mix cds for my friends (the requests were endless- you know who you are). I always knew I wanted to work with music in one way or another. Interning today was so much fun, and I can't wait to see how far it gets me.

(The picture is me singing in my kitchen: approx. age 3)

Kanye West Likes Fish Sticks

As one of Kanye West's biggest fans, I feel as though I owe it to him to speak in his defense about this issue. You probably think I'm ridiculously out of line, I mean, to most the guy is an arrogant prick who think's hes god's gift to the world, but I honestly love everything he does. That being said, I do not agree with what he did last night. (Yeah, I'm contradicting myself but keep reading). Obviously he should not have treated Taylor Swift that way, and he made a huge mistake by picking America's sweetheart to do it to. He said it was in the heat of the moment and he apologized for it and I actually believe that he is sincere.

I've watched Kanye over the past three years on his downward spiral. My old roommate's boyfriend and I actually had a theory that he was going to kill himself. After his mother died, there was a drastic change in his music style as well as the way he handled himself. While apologizing about the whole ordeal on Jay Leno last night, Kanye seemed really remorseful and I genuinely believed him. He spoke about how he never really had a grieving process for his mom and how he wanted to take some time off and sort his life out. Good for Kanye. No, really though. It takes a lot of courage to apologize like that after really messing up that badly. Kanye <3

-V

Lil Wayne Behind The Music

I've always been a fan of Lil Wayne, but i never knew it. How does that make any sense whatsoever you ask? Well, a long long time ago, perhaps around 6th or 7th grade, I heard a song on the radio called "Back That Thang Up". Haha. There was a verse in the track that I particularly liked. This guys voice was unlike anything I had heard before. I thought the scragly voice I heard on this record was so weird but I liked it anyways. I never really looked any further into it than that. Then a little while later, that Beyonce song came out called "Soldier". Low and Behold there was that voice again. Also, this time, I knew it was someone called Lil Wayne, but there were so many "lil" whatevers out at the time that I just figured he would fall through the cracks like everyone else. Once I got to college, everyone was all of a sudden talking about this guy Lil Wayne. It seemed like everyone knew who he was and everyone loved him. "Where the hell have i been?" I asked myself, since I really didn't have a clue how this guy got to be so famous seemingly overnight.

Anyways, as I was watching VH1's Lil Wayne Behind The Music the other night, I learned that it was him on all those tracks, and he had been working his way up the whole time without me even realizing it. How did this guy slip through the cracks? When it comes to music I usually know what I'm talking about but I definitely didn't see this coming. I actually didn't even remember he was on that Soldier track until my roommate, Jess, pointed it out to me the other night.

I'm kind of rambling now so I'm done. Not really used to blogging yet but this'll get better I promise :)

-V

First Post?

My name is Veronica. I'm a junior at Bridgewater State College and I've created this blog for my COMM 229 class. I've always been skeptical of blogging but since it's required I really had no choice haha. I'm interested to see where this goes.