VMA 2011 Predictions

Unlike last year, Lady Gaga isn't nominated in every category. This leaves room for some competition. I guess.....

Best New Artist: I'm most familiar with Wiz Khalifa, and I know more than one of his songs. But Thin Sean is growing on me because his name PROBABLY makes sense when he's naked. All the other nominees are hipster acts, and hipsters must die. My vote is for Wiz Khalifa.

Best Pop Video: As a member of the teeny bopper generation, I feel obligated to pick Britney Spears to win this category. However this video is a mashup of all her other videos and its just not good. Katy Perry is becoming one of my favorite artists in very small increments. But, when Bruno Mars sings, he sings only to me. My vote is for Bruno Mars.

Best Rock Video: Foster the People....because I like their name.

Best Hip-Hop Video: This has been the year of Kanye, and I'm over his hype. But I'm picking the seizure inducing All Of The Lights video.

Best Female Video: Seeing as Adele's last three albums were based on her relationship with one man, homegirl could use a little love. So I'm voting for Adele's Rolling in the Deep.

Best Male Video: Once again Grenade by Bruno Mars.

Best Collaboration: Chris Brown speaks to my soul....because I've seen him naked. Also, I like to swag out to him in my room sometimes. Look At Me Now is winning this one.

Video of the Year: I don't particularly enjoy The Beastie Boys, but I love me some NBC's Thursday Night lineup cameos.

Best Video with a Message: This is a new category, so I'm not sure what the message they're looking for is. They all seem emo in a way, and the only thing worse than a hipster is an emo hipster.

Books That Changed My Life

egotrip's Big Book of Racism

This is just a well written book of stereotype's that we've been taught are unacceptable to laugh at, outside of the comfort of our own homes.  Definitely an information packed, page turner that will constantly have you saying, 

....and not caring.

Dix Du Jour:Quintessential Christmas Albums

1. Merry Christmas by Mariah Carey
2. The Sinatra Christmas Album by Frank Sinatra
3. LaFace Family Christmas Album
4. A Charlie Brown Christmas
5. White Christmas by Bing Crosby
6. Celtic Thunder Christmas
7. Merry Christmas 2 You by Mariah Carey
8. Home For Christmas by NSYNC
9. My Kind of Christmas by Christina Aguilera
10. From Then To You by The Beetles

This Makes Me Think Of Jessica!

Hot Sex of Yester Decade

Sheek Louch

Dix Du Jour:Things That Are Pissing Me Off Today

1. Someone just moved out of my apartment building, and they're doing a construction on it during my sleep time. Today it started at 8:16 am eastern standard time. I'm not pleased.

2. I feel and look like death warmed over. I don't really care, but it still bothers me.

3. The guy who works in the library is reading Decoded, the worst book I've bought this year. I may tell him about it when I go settle my outstanding balance.

4. Last night, I had a conversation with a male friend of mine, who asked me: "Why have we never been on a date?" The answer was quite simple and I said " Because I don't want to have sex with you." Which released all his demons and he was trying to figure out why. I don't owe anyone an explanation, but apparently telling him he wasn't my type didn't suffice. Then he asked me why I talk to him. So to the people who think just because someone speaks to you it means they want you, y'all are pissing me off.

5. I placed an order online last night for the greatest t-shirt in history and I have yet to receive a confirmation email. Its a problem.

6. These brain dead assholes I'm doing my final project with.

7. My Blackberry keeps freezing while I play Word Mole and then I lose.

8. People who unfriend people in the social networking universe. This is paired with number 4.

9. My lack of a real job.

10. People who don't respond to my text messages in a timely manner. My jokes aren't funny four hours after I ask you.

Inspired Ink...

...has detention with Dolores Umbridge

Late Night Gem

Oops...I Did That Whole Over Excited Thing Again

When you are lazy for so long, you tend to get way to excited for simple things. Yesterday, my laziness was squelched by pillows. For the past week, I've suffered through a bout of non-smoosh related back pain. So, when I got out of class early, I decided a trip to Target was in order. Normally, I love Target. I can spend hours in there, which I did, but yesterday's trip was on for the books. 

I started my Target quest with the intention of getting one (1) laundry basket, one (1) body pillow, and two (2) standard sized pillows. Instead I got hopelessly lost in a sea of red bullseyes and spent $104.08 USD on pillows and junk. While I was in the candle section, a browsin' and a sniffin', I saw in my peripherals a woman with a child trying to squeeze past me. So I moved my cart and when I look up at her, she's breast feeding a three year old. There was nothing covering the child's head, just nipple and toddler drool every where. I'm not opposed to breast feeding, I just feel that you should be modest about it. Not walking about Target casually hosting a child on your nipple. AND when I looked at her, she didn't even say excuse me or make an attempt to cover up her dirty pillows. Just when I thought that things couldn't get weirder, this child says, IN PERFECT ENGLISH "Mom, I'm done." I can't do this anymore. 

Blanyway, I got home and was so excited about my pillows. I did my laundry, took a shower, crawled into my bed and fell in love. I haven't slept that well in such a long time. I don't anticipate sleeping that well again until I catch a coma from a bountiful smoosh session. I was so excited to go to sleep last night, especially after my preview nap, and I wound up fighting with my new body pillow all night. It was disrupting my sleep and shit. I was not feeling it. As a side note, I named my pillow Sir Lucius Lush Lips and If you talk to me on a daily basis, you know why. There's a bright side to all of this. I woke up this morning without a stitch of back pain, so mission accomplished.

Dix Du Jour: Cartoons I Love

1. Phineas and Ferb
2. Ni Hao, Kai Lan
3. Spongebob Squarepants
4. Fantastic Max
5. Smurfs
6. The Magic School Bus
7. George and Martha
8. Chowder
9. Scooby Doo [This includes all the shows in the series]
10. Hey Arnold

Honorable Mention:
Ahhh! Real Monsters, Fairly Oddparents, Doug, Ren and Stimpy, Rocky and Bullwinkle

Monday's Gems

Music Playlist at MixPod.com

Kiddie TMZ!

Random Bites for Your Midnight Snack

Knowing that money is Mr. Krabs only weakness, why doesn't Plankton just buy a Krabby Patty? I know the correct answer to this is that it would end that plot line. But I would still like to see how it would go down.

What is the satisfaction people get from saying that they already knew something, especially since everyone knows it already? And I'm not talking about small things like a band. I'm talking about really big things, like a secret. Everyone knows already, why do you have to add that you already knew? 


Why is everyone, myself included, so fascinated with guidos? I remember my first favorite guido. He talked about himself in the third person and wore a 2x shirt and medium pants. His name ended in a vowel, and he was probably last seen wearing Ed Hardy. But honestly, what makes them so special? Other cultures can be way more exciting. Personally, I'm Puerto Rican by extended family and everything else when I think it's cool.

At what point is an obsession considered unhealthy? I think my biffle Aaron and I have what can potentially be an unhealthy obsession. It began with this girrl who ticked us both off for reasons that I cannot divulge to you. We started with innocently talking about her and how trifilling she actually was. That grew into a form of cyber bullying, which consisted of us just disagreeing with anything she had to say. Now I IM or text Aaron everyday with the outrageous things she says to her celebrity crushes on Twitter. I told Aaron that what we were doing was possibly unhealthy, and just said that we were expressing our feelings about her, which is funny because all those thoughts are negative.


Is it just me or does anyone else feel kind of creepy watching Law & Order: SVU marathons? I first got into this show in high school when a friend of mine suggested I watch it, and then I was hooked. I recently watched all the episodes on Netflix Instant Watch and 200 hours later I felt awkward that I could watch that many fictional, but nonetheless frightening, sex crimes take place AND that it was for entertainment.  


I think we should all take the time to thank Kid CuDi for something. I'm not sure what it is, but just when I thought I couldn't love him anymore, he did this, and I fell in love with him all over again.


Last night, I had a brain fart and watched the Mo'Nique show and she had the male models from the new show Model City as guests. I felt some type of way that none of them were half nekkid. I also felt some type of way about making it through 34 minutes of her show, with the volume on 1 and I still heard her loud and clear.

Pre-Valentine's Day Thingy

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and it's going to be just another day for me. That is unless Vicki invites me out to celebrate her big 22. I never realized how much emphasis is put on this holiday, until I went from single to taken and back to single. However, being with someone who can't give a good gift could be a deal breaker. Ideally, we are supposed to love people for who they are and I'm not saying I can be bought, but damn it, a fruit basket is NOT a good gift. V-Day 2009 was my first single one since my senior year of high school, and I must admit, that I had a blast. I learned that you don't necessarily need a significant other to enjoy this holiday of loorve.
Before Raul, my cousin/child Stephanie spent every waking moment with me because I was around. We ran some errands by our house, and bought some flowers to bring to Stephanie's grandma. Stephanie bought a violet, as her grandmas name is Violet. I bought myself a peach rose, that I wound up giving to Grams because I didn't feel like carrying it with me. But we eventually made our way into the city, so we could eat dinner at Ruby Foo's, a sushi place. Now I must inform you that Stephanie gets rull, rull frustrated when we go someplace that people know about. A typical response to asking her to go for a cup of coffee is usually "You know this isn't good coffee right? The next time we go for coffee, I'll take you to the left nook of the Grand Canyon to this undiscovered Indian reservation, with the best coffee!". That is an exaggeration, but barely.  Ruby Foo's was super crowded. Everyone in the restaurant was all boo'd up and we couldn't resist throwing shade to all the girls who had cute dates. Not to mention that there was an impeccable Asian couple next to us catching a Love Jones. [Editors Note: If there was an Asian family like the Kardashians, I want to be reborn into that mess] I give a huge amount of credit to the person who made the playlist. We were rocking out, and being our usual soulful selves and then the song that is tentatively my wedding song came on. I would say what it is, but it's a closely guarded secret. So this year, I have a decent date lined up with myself. Dinner and a movie, you know regular stuff, because I am a basic and regular girl. Nobody is salt and peppering my mango just yet, so I'm just going to love on myself. But I refuse to give myself a hug like at the end of the Mo'Nique show.
Thanks to this wonderful snogasm outside, the delivery of my shoes has been delayed. I really wanted to wear them on Friday and Valentine's Day, but an open toe pump in the middle of a blizzard is completely absurd, unless you are Amber Rose or Posh Spice. In my attempt to pull myself together, I have decided that when the warm weather comes, I will wear heels everyday. But not like little kitten heels, I want to appear to be a good 4 inches taller than I really am. Then again I don't know why I'm pulling out all the stops on myself. After all, it is just another day.