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Today is April 1st. First of all, I can’t believe it’s already April – the new year just started, I swear. But I think April is going to be a good month. I start my new job (salaried and everything!) and the weather is nice again. But you know what is the best? That I am finally old enough that people don’t do April Fool’s Day stuff anymore. I used to really hate that when I was a kid. I mean, it’s hard enough to tell when someone is kidding or being serious, and then to have everyone around you doing it? Ugh. That’s definitely the worst. I guess that’s what you get when you get older. I hope by the time I turn 30 (I’ll be 26 this year) I will have gotten over the whole aging thing, because as of right now, I’m not really loving it. 26. That sounds old. But whatever. I’m just kicking it at the house today, hanging out with the animals and finally getting over this evil cold I spread around the house. Oops. Plus, yesterday I stepped on a tack. And not just ooh I pricked my foot stepped ...

So, go ahead and skip the new version of Fame that came out. If you saw the first one, then you know almost the exACT plot of the new one. There’s even a scene where one guy convinces a younger girl that he’ll get her an acting job if he can tape her audition and tries to sleep with her, etc etc. You know how that one ends. Some of the cool dance and music scenes were okay, but mostly it was lame. Same old. Why do they keep doing that anyway? Remaking movies that shouldn’t ever be remade like Fame and Starsky & Hutch and it’s stupid. Grumble. At least the professors were Kelsey Grammar, Bebe Neuwirth and Meagan Mullally.

I always watch the MTV award shows, including the movie one, because it’s usually fun and most of the celebrities show up to accept them. The categories this year are pretty funny, and I decided to cast my votes this morning. I haven’t seen a lot of the films that are nominated (like Jennifer’s Body and The Bounty Hunter), but it’s still fun to vote anyway. Here are the categories and who I voted for, regardless of who will win. Some awards shows are fun because you can predict the winners, like at the Oscars and the Golden Globes, but I like the MTV awards because it’s just for fun. So here goes… Best Kiss – I only saw a few of the nominees, and am voting for Valentine’s Day, whether it’s the Taylors or Jennifer Garner/Ashton Kutcher. That movie was adorable. I’m thinking it will go to one of them, or maybe to the lesbian kiss in The Runaways, because, you know. Best Fight – Any of the Star Trek ones would be great, as would the fight in Obsessed between Ali Larter and Beyonce. But I ...

Last night, Ryan and I watched Ninja Assassin and The Final Destination and here are my thoughts. Both of the films had pretty bad dialogue and were a bit overdramatic, but they were both enjoyable and fun to watch. Ninja Assassin was particularly awesome, especially because you could kind of tell their operating budget probably wasn’t very high. Matrix-like effects, sweet fight choreography, it was great. It was a bit gory for my taste – it would have been just as good without the random spurting blood and decapitations and grossness. But it didn’t really detract from it – after awhile you got used to it. But see the movie if you get the chance – of course, it was predictable, like any movie like this is, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t great. And seriously, who doesn’t love a good ninja movie? As for The Final Destination, which is the fourth and final one in the series, it was definitely better than I expected. The third one was pretty awful, but the second one has always been one o...

The problem with high expectations is that you’re almost always disappointed. Take Richard Alpert’s episode this past Tuesday on LOST. They acted like it was this huge reveal that he came over on the Black Rock. We knew that already, whether they had expressly said it or not. We also knew that he can’t die, blah blah blah. What was kind of cool was that it was the smoke monster who saved Richard, and maybe even brought him back to life. That was different. I think they’re trying to get me to question if the smoke monster is bad or good, if Jacob is good or evil. And I was over the moon when they suggested the island might be hell. As someone who is still clinging to purgatory, that was pretty neat. I’m sure it isn’t, and it will be something shitty. Mostly, the episode just made me sad. Sad for Richard and his crappy life. But I don’t really feel like I learned anything new that I hadn’t already figured out on my own, you know? It’s like they rotate between a terrible episode and an aw...

Another Chatroulette Musical!. Seriously, watch this video it is hilarious. I assume they edited out all of the penises because there are a lot on chatroulette. And if you don’t know what chatroulette is, man, get with the times. A super bonus is that it stars Ben Folds, who I love. LOOOVE. He is great and genius-like. Enjoy!! LOST post coming later, and also possibly something about Dancing With the Stars, which is obnoxious.

Lady Gaga’s new single “Telephone” has been out for awhile, and the video was just released a week or so ago. The best place to see it besides youtube is ladygaga.com. It really isn’t that great overall – it’s like 10 minutes, so that’s kind of cool. The funniest part is that Beyonce has a small part and she does Gaga choreography. Gaga’s stuff is kind of herky jerky and a little bizarre, and so it makes for good tv to see Beyonce trying to pull it off – which she does okay. I don’t know – I think the “Bad Romance” video is better, probably because of the song and the choreography. It’s great. There are two things I’m concerned about, though.Gaga’s weight and makeup. She has always been thin, but now she’s crazy super skinny and I don’t want her to look like Victoria Beckham, you know? And she is actually very pretty, but she wears this scary drag makeup lately that makes her look crazy. No wonder people think she’s a man, right? The super dark and thick eyebrows are strange and it’s j...