Hate on Today

I'm still not sure why I continue to watch the Today show. It's a routine I do in order to wake up. My alarm goes off, I turn it off, I turn on the tv (which is always left on the pervious channel -- Conan, Jimmy) and I go back to sleep. The nonsense that the Today show reports on always wakes me up. Something I disagree on or something I wonder the importance of the news they are reporting always gets me up in a fury. 

But today's interview with Michelle Malkin was awkward for Matt Lauer and wtf? to the sane Americans watching. Why give a right wing racial a slot at 7am? Why start off the today with hate? Malkin rambled about how Obama is a "racial opportunist" and her lame theories in her new book Culture of Corruption.

Even though I felt the hate through the television, I couldn't help but feel sad for her. She must have a lot of self-hate.

Sunday's Favorite Selection #35:


Illdoctrine

Side notes: I read/saw this video via Sociological Images and was touched by it. Pretty much what I've been thinking about MJ's death/life. Gracefully said.

That's a quitter's way out

(late) Sunday's Favorite Selection #34:

Sarah Palin--Every breath you take

Side note: Recently while listening to a recorded conversation I had with a friend-I noticed all the words I constantly repeat, nervous ticks and my total awkwardness. Not fun.

Tina gets down

Sunday's Favorite Selection #33:


Rosie Perez's dance routine on the opening credits to Do The Right Thing

Side notes: One of my favorite, and in my opinion one of the best opening credit to any movie. It captures the energy of Do The Right Thing and Public Enemy's Fight the Power. If you feel nothing from seeing this dance routine, film or song then you're a soulless person. 

click click click

For the last few weeks, I been obsessed with the photo of Megan Fox denying the yellow flower from "Sweet Boy" at the London premier of Transformer : A waste of time, apparently.  I believe it's an iconic photograph, minus the fact that Megan Fox isn't that famous. She looks highly overwhelmed from all the people and the camera flashes; the 11 year boy aka "Sweet Boy" giving her a yellow flower-the symbol of our Western culture who embraces not that famous people (or better stated, people clocking their 15 minutes of fame).

It's so iconic that Kodak was offering $5,000 to the first person who can give reliable information on who this boy was. His facebook profile was found blah blah, the rest of the story isn't that interesting.

What is interesting is this photo. It's all real, but for some reason it seems so staged. I'm not doubting Sweet Boy's feeling/want/need to give Megan Fox that flower, and I'm not doubting the feeling of disarray in Megan Fox's face but all I can feel when I see this photo is that I'm being lied to. I'm still struggling to figure out why I feel this way. I know it has to do with the stature of celebrities and the reasons why we hold them with an importance.