Don’t get me wrong, Gwyneth is a good actress.
I can totally understand why she won the Oscar for SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE because she did deserve one. She a vital part of THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, which is a movie that I really do love but can only watch every other year because of how amazingly creepy Matt Damon was and she co-star with Ben Affleck in the (probably bomb) Rom-Com BOUNCE, which has a refreshing and heartbreaking spin on the often over played formula “Guy and girl fall, loose each other over a lie or failure of truth telling” get each other back.” Similarly, even though I don’t care for SHALLOW HAL, I appreciated the fact that she could be funny, unfortunately, that is when the problems with her started for me.
She started to complain about the fat suit she had to wear to play the overweight character and over the years her whinny voice continued to bother me. There was always something for her to complain about or be pompous over. The she married COLDPLAY front man Chris Martin and started acting British. I don’t really know how to explain this but it’s that same thing Madonna does, and it just really irks me. Still, I liked her as an actress and was looking forward to her new movie COUNTRY STRONG.
Much like her movie about a decade ago, DUETS, the role required her to sing, unlike that film it led to promotional stuff that she performed on. First it was a role on Musical Comedy TV show GLEE, which made sense because it requires actors who can sing, which is what Paltrow is. However, as the awards season got underway, her performances continued and, as she pranced around on the GRAMMY’S, performing a duet with Ce Lo it occurred to me that she actually believes that being a singer’s wife makes her a singer too. I guess this follows the logic that being with Heath Ledger and Brad Pitt helped Michelle Williams and Angelina Jole become A-list actors but they were actors to begin with. Terry Gilliam’s makeup artist wife doesn’t try to direct his films and Marilyn Monroe never tried to play for the Yankees.
So I’ve made peace with the idea that sooner than later Mrs. Martin is going to embarrass herself by releasing an album. Who knows, it might even sell well, people buy auto tuned crap all the time, but now she’s released a cookbook and they think she wants to be the next Martha Stewart. Now, it might be good because I’m not saying that she can’t cook, I’m just saying I really don’t care if she can. My mother is a great cook but it doesn’t mean she has to make money off of it and we don’t have Power Couple money, trust me.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
DAVID COOK RETURNS
Saturday afternoon David Cook returned from witness protection type hiding performed a concert in Las Vegas which covered two brand new covers and one of the songs off of his upcoming album (due in Summer 2011.)
Not performed: Cook's upcoming single THE LAST GOODBYE available later this month
Not performed: Cook's upcoming single THE LAST GOODBYE available later this month
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Don't believe everything you see or read...
The following image appeared on a website stating that the former Mrs. “Winning Duh” had moved begun dating again and was seen with her new boyfriend… Ryan Star.
That probably makes the spending my birthday with him make sense
For those of you who don't know, or managed to miss this post, the START A FIRE singer is happily married. Furthermore, you might say famous people cheat so that means nothing, he probably thought he could get away with it, the only reason I saw the link to this website is because Star himself tweeted how funny it was. Not exactly something done by a man with something to hide.
Lastly, and probably my favorite part, is that the story referenced the romantic pose of the pair. If that meant anything, I guess Ryan and I have been seeing eachother since last Easter.
That probably makes the spending my birthday with him make sense 
For their part at least the people who ran the "It's True" story posted a retraction on the bottom, not remove it mind you, but at least they did that.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Tune in Tuesday: If you only buy two Albums this week
The first is good music for a good cause, that I heard about while reading a great Design and NYC blog, Fifth Floor Up. Here's the info from FFU
The other is a Covers album from Green River Ordinance featuring 5 great songs."Getty Storm is a one year old little girl--the daughter of a friend of a Damnwells fan and follower of my friend Morgan's blog. I first heard about Getty in passing--something about a "button" on a blog or something ("what's that?")--and now, just a couple months later, Getty and her friends and family have become MY friends and family, and I care about them so crazy much that I have decided to to everything humanly possible to help little Getty. Who knows--I might even run a marathon in December!
You see, Miss Getty, or "Getty Owl," as she is known, has SMA Type 1. That's Spinal Muscular Atrophy--basically the most awful thing you could ever imagine--and Type 1 is its most aggressive form. SMA is a terminal disease. It's genetic. And it affects 1 in every 6,000 children born worldwide. When you do the math (and I'm not good at math, so thank you Sophia's Cure for doing it for me), that's one child born with SMA EVERY 7 HOURS. And those children are considered lucky if they make it to their second birthday."
The Album is called "Songs From Before We Were Born" and can be Downloaded Here
. | | Stuck in the Middle - Stealers Wheel |  | |
| The Weight - The Band 04:08 | ||||
Monday, April 4, 2011
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