Last night was the premiere of Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveShow on HBO, a cavalcade of spinning stages, projections on gauzy columns, lasers, walls of space age sound equipment, hydraulic risers, and scantily clad dancers. The only people that rivaled the lack of clothing were the permed bridge-n-tunnelers shown in the audience, screaming their eyes out, beer cups raised in joy.
While JTim might be this generation's Michael Jackson, he lacks the consummate showmanship of Jacko.
For example, let's look at how each one ends a show to decide which is better:
Justin Timberlake ended his show with a ballad on the piano and then, with tears in his eyes, thanked the audience, truly and sincerely, for coming.
Michael Jackson on the other hand decided to end his 1992 concert in Bucharest by taking off from stage strapped to a jet pack and flying over the audience, presumably on his way to meet Captain EO:
winner: MJ
Also of Note: One person who didn't benefit from the broadcast of the show in high definition was Timbaland, who would randomly rise from and then lumber onto the stage. Dude looked like right before the show he bench-pressed a cow then dipped it in nacho cheese and ate it.
Submitted by booyahbaisse on Mon, 08/27/2007 - 16:32
"Ladies and gentlemen, I speak to you from high above the skies of Waco [TX], where I have left my vacation in order to enlist the Almighty to serve as Attorney General for the remainder of my Presidency..."
Submitted by DanteBronte on Thu, 08/16/2007 - 22:10
So the State Department has essentially created a new position called "Director of Digital Media" to hire a former producer of Bill O'Reilly to upload "viral" propaganda videos to YouTube. This one could be called "High Tea with Condi Rice, Karen Hughes, and Hall of Fame baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr.," whom the Bush Administration has tapped to salvage America's image abroad. A few words of caution: this video is a train wreck.
Some classic lines:
"Well, Mr. Ripken -- let's call a spade a spade." -- State Dept. Director of Digital Media Heath Kern (Who Is Heath Kern?)
"Sports is a universal language, kind of like the arts." -- Sec. of State Condi Rice
"Hmmmm... that's a TOUGH QUESTION!" -- Cal Ripken, Jr.
Submitted by booyahbaisse on Thu, 08/16/2007 - 13:39
After returning from Istanbul, which feels like the only place left in the world where cigarette smoking has yet to eclipse toothpaste in popularity, and returning to New York's nearly smokeless society, and now seeing these wonderful Soviet cigarette packets, I am finally realizing what almost everyone else around me has: we are well past the golden age of tobacco.
