On a couple of side notes, anyone know who Clay Aiken is?? He's the runner up from the last American Idol. Let me just state hear that I've never watched that show, nor will I EVER watch that show. But I do have a point. In some previous rant, I commented on how the finals were between Clay(white, young, attractive) and a guy named Ruben(black, fat, unattractive......much like me) and how I felt that Clay would win. But I was wrong(see, I can say it) and Ruben won. But let's look at how the whole thing played out. Remember the first American Idol? The whole Justin and Kelly thing??? Seems to me there was a big deal when their cd's got released. Ads and promo spots and all that crap. AND, they even got a movie!!! Hmmm. Then the fat black guy wins the next year. I don't remember hearing much about his cd. And I'm pretty sure I won't see any ad for his movie in this lifetime. And now I'm seeing all this hype for this Clay guy, who was the runner up to Ruben, but was the skinny attractive white guy I thought would win in the first place. But they tricked me. I didn't catch it at first, but now I understand. See, from what I've read, this Ruben guy was a great singer. Totally blew the Clay guy away. And the 'powers that be' knew there was no way they could justify Clay winning the competition(otherwise people would really know it's fixed...which it is!!), so they had no choice but to let Ruben win. On the same note however, they also knew there was no way a fat black guy is gonna sell a bunch of merchandise and make them a bunch of money. So they probably talked it over in a board meeting and decided to let Ruben win, and then sit back for 4 months or so. Oh sure, they spent a little money promoting him and trying to make it look like they were happy with who had won. But it didn't reach the "hype level" that Justin or Kelly shared. And it wasn't equal to the hype that Clay is receiving now. See, they left Ruben out in the cold and just waited long enough for people to forget about him, and now they start pushing Clay, and making the money they wanted to in the first place. I imagine we will see Clay's movie or tv show sometime next year!! Us fat black men will never get a fair shake!!
From that, I go to this. I get my hair done once a month. I go to the same shop everytime, and for one reason only. Other places might be cheaper, heck...other places might be better. But the shop I go to is run by ladies from some other country(Africa I think). No, it's not a "black, get back to my roots" type thing. It's the fact that they speak very little English, so when I get my hair done, they don't talk to me. For a 3 hour session of hair braiding, they say maybe 3 words to me. And being the anti-social bastard that I am, that works pretty well for me!!! I'm so anti-social in fact, that I choose this shop based on the no human contact factor, DESPITE the fact that they only watch 3 things on TV(since I don't talk to them, I do have to do something to pass the time). They watch the Lifetime Channel(which totally confuses me. If it's the "Network for Women", how come every movie on there has some woman getting her ass kicked by a jealous husband/boyfriend??), they watch BET(and god do I hate the rap crap shit they play on there), or they watch MTV. And that's the channel I'm gonna bitch about now. MTV.....that stands for Music TeleVision. But they need to change their name to ABOCRTVS....which would stand for A Bunch Of Crappy Reality TeleVision Shows!!! OHMYFUCKINGGOD!!!!!! Road Rules, Real Life, Cribs, shows where Road Rules people fight Real World people, and a billion more. I refuse to watch these reality shows. And if YOU watch any of them, no matter how good you might think it is, you suck ass!!! No offense, but you suck ass!!! By supporting one of these crappy shows, you give the networks the power to drown the airwaves in hundreds of others. The Osbornes, Joe Schmoe....all of it is CRAP!!!! Let me just say that at one time I too sucked ass because I did watch a couple episodes of the Anna Nicole show. And even though it was done for reasons born purely out of lust, I should have never lowed myself like that. I won't even comment on the fact of how weird it is that we all have such screwed up miserable lives, that the only way we can feel better or get relief, is to watch shows about stranger's screwed up miserable lives.
So anyway, back to my point(I do have one). While getting my hair done, I was forced to watch almost 4 hours of MTV. Didn't see one video during that whole time(and don't get me wrong, 99.9% of the videos on MTV just plain suck anyway). But i did see a variety of reality shows. And I have to give MTV a bit of credit for one of them. It's called Sorority Life. It's basically a show about this sorority house and their 7 or so pledges. First off, it does give you an clearer picture of women, and you begin to understand that for the most part, you girls are some coniving, dirty, plotting, mean spirited people when you want to be. Man, it's not a good thing to have a female enemy, they are kind of vicious!! But that's not the biggest suprise. The biggest suprise is.....wait. Let me just say right here and now that I consider myself to be VERY unattractive. Sure, nice personality.......whatever! But not attractive, not cute, not handsome. None of that. Ok, with that said, the girls on this show are some of the most UNATTRACTIVE women I've ever seen on TV. They sure aren't like the sorority girls you see in movies(or in you own adolescent male mind). Don't get me wrong, I'm sure none of them would give ME the time of day or piss on me if I was on fire. And I PERSONALLY find some of them attractive(but I'm weird like that), but as far as TV SHOWS go, these women are not attrative at all. And that's why I'm giving MTV props for this. They could've just weeded out girls that didn't fit the MTV criteria, and had a sorority of 'super-models', but they didn't. And I give MTV much respect for that! Give us ugly people some more air-time!! Of course, no the other hand, they have a show called Fraternity Life, and it looks like you have to be blond and skinny to be on that one!!!! Well, there you go, one updated rant that took up a whole page. Gotta love it!
