I know, I know, it’s been contest fever around here lately. What can I say? It’s the holiday season, and people want to give you guys free shit. In November, we teamed up with Disney and The Proposal to offer you guys an all-expenses-paid trip to Napa Valley for the best proposal story. Our winner, Liz (read her entry here), is so excited about getting to go on the romantic honeymoon she and her husband missed out on the first time around. Last week, Zelda Lily teamed up with KY’s Yours+Mine and Intense to give away TEN free sample packs to the folks who needed it most. (Read the hilarious and touching winning entries here.)
This week, we’re excited to team up with Rhapsody and Chili’s to offer you guys an all-expenses-paid trip to the U.S. music festival of your choice. HOLY SHIT, right? The prize includes airfare for two, a hotel stay, $200 spending money, and two days at the music festival you choose.
You enter by submitting a video of you or a friend singing the famous Chili’s “Baby Back Ribs” song. I’m not kidding. I didn’t come up with this, I swear, but I know you all have sung it to yourselves at some point. (In case you’ve somehow forgotten it, it’s in the video above, although you’re allowed to make up new lyrics if you want.) You can read the full contest rules and submit your video here. (Do NOT send it to me — it needs to be submitted to this website, and you can use their sound mixer if you want.) You can check out your competition here. COME ON. I know you guys can do better than what’s up there right now. Get out your video cameras and go kick some Evil Beet ass and WIN THAT TRIP, okay?
I know we’re not exactly big time music critics over here, but I think it’s safe to say that this news is so catastrophically bad that if I wasn’t sure we were all about to die already, then this is the final sign I needed. You guys, Billboard has declared a “band of the decade” based on record sales and one of the bands of our last decade? You guys, it’s fucking Nickelback. Really good job. I’m looking at you. I know that if you don’t own a Nickelback album, then your mom or your significant other or your kid does and therefore, I blame you. Personally, I have exceptional taste and so do my loved ones, so I know I’m not to blame. I’m guessing it’s probably you.
Nickelback was the highest-ranking band of the decade, only finishing behind solo artists Eminem, 50 Cent, Alicia Keys, Beyonce, Nelly and Usher, for overall impact and importance.
Despite a distinct lack of critical acclaim, the rock band formed in Hanna, Alta., has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. In the last decade, it released The State (2001), Silver Side Up (2001), The Long Road (2003), All the Right Reasons (2005) and Dark Horse (2008), which has garnered them a 2010 Grammy nomination for best hard-rock performance for the track Burn It To The Ground.
Yeah, guys. “Burn It To The Ground”. That sounds like a song worth compromising our reputation as people who lived in the first decade of the new millennium for. “Burn It To The Ground”. That’s so hardcore and emotional. I can see how so many of you could relate to a song like that.
Listen to me: This is a lesson. This entire decade has been a lesson in what happens when you fucking suck. We’re all broke, most of us are losing our homes in some capacity and our entertainment is at a dismally low low. We need to do better in 2010. Promise me that we’re all going to try.
We all know that Britney is not as hot anymore as she is in the above photo, but that’s just the magic of celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz at work. The two teamed up to shoot Britney’s new Candies ads and Annie made homegirl look fierce again. It’s like 2002 is happening on my computer screen or something.
One of the most obvious things about Alanis Morissette is that she struggles from depression, but her angsty attitude may be a thing of the past now that she’s discovered a couple of natural cures: Running and getting high on medical marijuana.
Morissette, 35, tells Runner’s World that “running has made being depressed impossible. If I’m going through something emotional and just go outside for a run, you can rest assured I’ll come back with clarity.”
The Grammy-winning singer, who has run two marathons, tries to live a healthy lifestyle, including eating lots of kale. But she still occasionally indulges “in red wine, and it’s fun to have medical marijuana once in a while,” she says. “I still party and include a little debauchery.”
LOL @ Alanis Morissette doing an interview with Runner’s World.
It might be hard for some people to believe, but the active lifestyle mixed with the combo of safe and legal medical marijuana seems to be the go-to for most people I know who suffer from depression here in California where it’s legal. Alanis stepping out and talking about it isn’t exactly brave, per se, but it definitely brings the topic of conversation up.
What do you guys think about medical marijuana when it’s used the way Alanis does it?
Probably one of my favorite things about Miley Cyrus is that she sings pop music, but performs it like she’s in some 80s metal band and if you don’t already know what I mean, check out this concert footage from one of her London shows.
The headbanging and hair swinging and jumping and cries of rage… it’s freakin’ hilarious. Is this something her father taught her? Did she pick this up watching a VH1 Countdown of the 100 Best Hairband Videos Ever or something? I can’t seem to make much sense of it because I’m sure her legions of tween fans would be a lot happier if she was just doing some Britney-esque dance routine complete with 12 anorexic back-up dancers than whatever the hell this is. And wasn’t all that metal/rock music from the 80s just funny because it was super apparent how messed up on booze and drugs most of those dudes were? This chick isn’t even old enough to drink, let alone get as fucked up as you’d need to be to think that looks cool.
I’m pretty sure that at :14 she’s just stretching her hamstrings.
“And if you have any problems with me in this spread, I have two things to say to you: 1. Just don’t look. And 2. You sound like you just need a good fuck.”
- Attack of the Show host Oliva Munn in an open letter to her haters on her blog re: her Maxim cover.
I don’t really “get” Olivia Munn. I used to have to watch Attack of the Show for an old job and beside the fact that she’s obviously an attractive woman, I never really understood her appeal. I don’t find her to be particularly funny. I’m over the “I’m hot and I love dick and fart jokes” bit. I think her post showed a lot of guilt and maybe even some insecurity (who, Olivia Munn, do you think is surprised that you showed your ass in Maxim?), but the above statement kind of made me smirk. It’s true. Most of the guys reading a woman who hosts a show about video games and viral video’s blog probably do need a good fuck.
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