so last month’s rolling stone (one of my favourite magazines!) featured the four girls from the hills on the cover. so i guess one would think i’d be super happy that a couple of my favourite things came together, but i was oddly put-off. i guess its because i really love those two things for very separate reasons. i love rolling stone because it discusses music, and politics, with an edgier tone then your typical magazine read (though nothing like toro!). the hills i love for its complete mindlessness, and stupidity. its one of those things you watch when you want to think about nothing and get wrapped up in the pettiness of other peoples lives.
so the two coming together just didn’t seem to fit to me! i was particularly upset when the mtv aftershow interviewed an editor from rolling stone (gah, what i would do to work at rolling stone!) and tried to make him talk badly about the girls and he was just like you know, it was a pretty chill afternoon besides for the fact that heidi and LC didn’t talk to each other. and jessi and dan kept digging for more dirt! again, something i would normally love, but when it comes to degrading rolling stone to petty gossip, that just irks me.
anyways, for those interested, rolling stone has posted a video of the behind-the-scenes photo shoot for the cover.
do you know what i mean? are you ever disappointed when two of your favourite things come together? or are you ever upset when something you love is portrayed in a way you aren’t used to? darn media, playing with my emotions.
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i realize i have a problem.
i am addicted to mtv. i just love it all so much. i don’t even know where to start. (okay wait, i do).
THE HOSTS
my favourite host hands down is jessi! she is hilarity. get her and eugene levy’s son together and you have yourself a good time.
THE SHOWS
The Gauntlet- i don’t know what it is! dramatic people, cheesy reality television, and enough money at stake to make people act insane? i love it so much. now that is good television my friends.
The Hills- okay yes, it is getting so scripted that its ridiculous, but the LIVES these people lead! where is my internship at teen vogue (not that my internship now isn’t lovely cuz it is!), nights out at the clubs you only read about on perez (okay, maybe only i read about them on perez), and friends whose lives are more like 90210 and clueless? clearly i wish i was born in LA, even if for no other reason then to be closer to all the men that LC dates, cuz they all seem high calibre to me.
The Real World- i still think my favourite season ever was Las Vegas or Key West, but this Hollywood season isn’t half bad! i haven’t seen all the episodes because i have as of late become a huge loser and go to sleep before its over, but i will watch them
(another reason i love mtv? everything is ONLINE)
Finally- Tila Tequila TWO- thats right people! back for a second season! (props to amelie for pointing this out to me!) what other hijinks could there possibly be for a bi-sexual host and 18 boys and girls vying for her attentiong? (by the way- where the f do they find the scum they put on this show? remember ashley from last season? oh boy).
ONLINE COMMUNITY
Thanks to melanie mcbride and her online mags course, i have a new found love for all things in the online blogging or non-blogging world. MTV gets that as well, and definitley fosters a somewhat web2.0 community
What do you love about MTV? Or I guess, not love, but i don’t really see what there is to NOT love.
