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This was posted via Twitter about 15 hours ago. Now what could such words mean coming from Demi Moore? I assume that either Oprah Winfrey has booked another motivational speaker on her merciless carousel of self help, or Dems is getting ready to turn into the Mighty Isis.
Nats & Dems aren't he only ones giddy with the possibilities of life. Perhaps it's something in the LA air - toxic mind bending pollution I'm guessing, but the rich variety of life is turning the head of Canadian singer songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk. In fact Chantal has recently written a blog on her Myspace page (yes she has one) called Madness. In it Chantal bewails the trials and demands of raising three boys who are magnets for germs, while trying to produce an album and get a date with her producer/husband. She then goes on to mention that if she had any ambition she'd have a video crew following her around to record the insanity, perhaps for lucrative rebroadcast. Family related mayhem has been the basis for many a successful sit com. Hope she has an annoying neighbour to cinch the deal!
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Anticipating participation
Incidentally the rurmous are true - Natalie Portman is out of Thor. She has hinted on her web site that she considers playing in a second tier super hero film beneath her (I guess that means that they didn't ask her to participate in any of the much anticipated upcoming Iron Man sequels). With that in mind she has withdrawn her name from consideration, to concentrate on a new project based on TV's The Mighty Isis. Aw Nat, you're as smart as Andrea Thomas and you'd look great in a faux Egyptian tennis out fit!
'Non-optimal apologies rant'='National Lampoon's Ego trip'
Nats & Dems aren't he only ones giddy with the possibilities of life. Perhaps it's something in the LA air - toxic mind bending pollution I'm guessing, but the rich variety of life is turning the head of Canadian singer songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk. In fact Chantal has recently written a blog on her Myspace page (yes she has one) called Madness. In it Chantal bewails the trials and demands of raising three boys who are magnets for germs, while trying to produce an album and get a date with her producer/husband. She then goes on to mention that if she had any ambition she'd have a video crew following her around to record the insanity, perhaps for lucrative rebroadcast. Family related mayhem has been the basis for many a successful sit com. Hope she has an annoying neighbour to cinch the deal!Of course Chantal has always been an ambitious girl at heart. The first interview I saw of her was done out of a Calgary TV station, just as Leavin on a Jet Plane broke. She was still playing the university coffee shop circuit, and while looking very serious, complained how people would come to her concerts to talk and laugh rather than carefully listening to her songs. Part from finding this rude and disrespectful, Kreviazuk also found it frustrating. She had something to share with the world, her opinions (a pain that we bloggers know only too well)!
disturbed, disrupted, and maybe even a bit disgruntled
The video crew remark sounds suspiciously like she's getting ideas about pitching some reality TV show. Think Newlyweds for politically aware adults who care about stuff! This recent lapse can probably be blamed on exhaustion, and a touch of post pardum. Kreviazuk quickly regains her composure, and goes on to scold Kim Kardashian for the situation in East Congo. Apparently the party posse are just ruining the market for dark, disturbing truthiness.
Perhaps this is being a bit to hard on Chantal. Somewhere along the line some of us got the idea that ambition is a bad thing. I think that the seed was first planted in my mind back in high school, when a teacher gave us the low down on Richard Nixon while telling us about the 60's.
Of course celebrities do little to mitigate this impression, and especially when they're blogging on Myspace. It is still the venue for shameless, desperate self promotion, though Twitter is rapidly catching up. Twit has become a platform for stars quoting Richard Bach in between fits of pointless bitching. Until the spammers discover it and save us from trite motivational tweets, I guess we're stuck with that.
If it's any consolation to Ms Kreviazuk, her former protege/nemesis Avril Lavinge is going off the rails. With her career in the toilet she has lapsed into alcoholism and is allegedly cheating on Derrick with Brandon Davis - to the great delight of Perezhilton. We can only hope that the news somewhat assuages Kreviazuk's delicate social conscious. Then she can get back to pimping her album, and her relationship.
So what is it about the celebrity life that attracts awful people and makes them even worse? As usual insight can be found in anagrams. Here are a few choice little offerings to provide some food for thought.
'save the American icon'='I am a vast incoherence'
'life in the fast lane'= Infantile self-hate'
'mad Hollywood craze'='A lazy, cold whoredom'
'save the American icon'='I am a vast incoherence'
'life in the fast lane'= Infantile self-hate'
'mad Hollywood craze'='A lazy, cold whoredom'
Road Runner Rage
Perhaps some insight can also be found in the form of Saturday Morning cartoons. Of course I mean the ones that didn't feature shapely young super heroines bulging out of skimpy spandex. Take the Road Runner for instance. Though much scoffed at (and even more greatly enjoyed) for it's mindless entertainment value, in many respects it carried a message about the dangers of ambition that was downright Aesopian! Behold!
Heady stuff. Though the coyote's schemes frequently backfire, he never gives up and in fact redoubles his efforts with even more elaborate plans. Greater efforts have even more backfire potential, and hence more entertainment value. Even when the coyote finally manages to catch up with the road runner, he finds him self so diminished by the struggle that he is unable to do anything about it!
Tweet tweet; Beep beep
The coyote, like celebrities, never disappoints us by stopping to think - unless it's to decide which death trap he should order from ACME this time 'round, much less learning from his many mistakes. When it comes to desire and attachment, we can learn more from that comic duo than can be gleaned from many of the Buddhist message boards! Still, don't allow this dark, disturbing truthiness to discourage you - as P Diddy says "If you're still chasing you dreams then you aren't running fast enough!" He posted that one to Twitter!
Now, from our friends at Distortrait, some ACME plastic surgery!
Plastic surgery spells "Result - gasp, I cry!"
Daily Disclaimer - the above tweet is a photomanip, and not one actually posted by Mrs Kutcher. It was done via Tweetdoctor.com.
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