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from madonna.com
Celebration
Friday, December 11, 2009
"Celebration" goes vinyl for Xmas!
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of the Decade
Rolling Stone Magazine picked the 100 Best Songs of the Decade chosen by more than 100 artists, critics and industry insiders. Madonna made the list with 2 songs, “Hung Up” is at #76 and “Music” at #66.
Needless to say that she should’ve been at least in the top 10 of the list but what can you do! =) To see the whole list go here!
The Isomniac's Blog
This is just a random blog packed full of weird but whacky things
As you all know I am a self confessed twitter addict and twitter whore depending on how you look at it but I don’t know why I gets so addictive after you have tweeted 50 times continuesly it makes you go ahead to tweet 100 tweets and then twitter suspends you for like 1 hour or so because you can only tweet 100 tweets in one hour so that’s like 2400 tweets a day if you did that but who has the time and or means to do that shit.
I seriously think I have a drinking disorder because. Am always thirsty(and that claim gets me in trouble) no I’m not like always thirsty by I do get thirsty ever 30 mins or so but do you know that I drink like 3 liters of tea 2 liters of Pu-Erh tea and 1 liter of Oolong tea and also I can’t drink tea in school reason
1)Some of the teachers already think I am crazy
2) We are only allowed to drink water on the school premiseses
The main reason why that was brought in was because people were spilling soda on the floor and stuff and it was getting well sticky and they finally had enough but I seriously do want to bring the tea to my school because I am so thirsty when I come home from school that its not even funny.
I believe that people confuse thirst with hunger cause I read that somewhere
I have to do some CD french listening homework and its like 3:16AM and I can’t sleep how bad is that well it doesn’t really matter because I will put 2 sachets of the energy enhanced into my glass in the morning which will give me double the energy and I really do thank that for my energy throughout the day and brings me to about 8PM and I star to get tired and by friday 10Pm seems like 3AM so I am asleep always by 11PM
Gonna go now
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From Colin
Monday, December 7, 2009
Self esteem and marriage failure
At our men’s breakfast on Saturday, we discussed an article by India Knight on the break up of Madonna and Guy Ritchie.
Madonna and Guy Ritchie
According to Knight, the 7-year marriage followed a typical path:
- Two successful, fulfilled people with lots of self-esteem meet and marry
- The woman continues to be successful whilst the man’s career flounders
- The man suffers an ego crisis, a loss of self esteem
- The woman finds his loss of self esteem unattractive and gets irritated, no longer respecting her man
- The man’s self esteem drops lower
- The woman finds this even less attractive and begins to be repulsed
- The marriage is over
Here’s how Knight put it:
It goes like this. You meet each other. You’re doing well; things are going swimmingly at work for both of you; you feel like equals (when Ritchie met Madonna, he was a hot young director, whose film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels was a worldwide success, and of whom great things were expected).
Fast forward a few years and add children, and sooner or later one of you will get to the point where they can’t shake off the feeling that their star is on the wane while their spouse’s continues to rise.
Worse, the wife knows who she is (she’s Madonna!), she’s good at her job, she knows what she wants and she’s not really in the business of playing doormats to soothe wounded male egos. Aside from anything else, she’s busy.
As the months and years pass, her husband’s lack of success – and,sure as eggs is eggs, growing self-pity – do not elicit cooing sympathy, but irritation. The more irritation she displays, the more emasculated he becomes. And the more emasculated he becomes, the more irritated she feels.
No matter what the school of self improvement says, self esteem is evil, it’s only another word for pride. Being proud of our achievements is a recipe for failure, because a high performance which gives self esteem can never be sustained. Pop stars, with the notable exception of Madonna, become passée. Great athletes grow old and start losing. Film directors have a bad run. Company fortunes ebb and flow. Churches grow and shrink. If self esteem is gained by a good performance then self esteem must ebb and flow. When the tide is in then esteem is high and attractive, when the tide is out, self esteem turns to mopping self pity and this is a potential marriage breaker.
So where does our sense of value come from? Not from what we do but what Christ has done for me. Human value is extrinsic to the individual. We are made in the image of God and redeemed by the death of His Son. The love of God in Christ Jesus is the root of personal esteem. I am esteemable because of what I do but because of what Christ has done for me.
Put-together as Hay-ull
Most of the time, I do not much consider myself very badass or even particularly put-together as an adult, because I am mainly fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants and not terribly interested in grown-up rules, but sometimes that immaturity and disorganization goes so far out there that it comes back around in to Being Awesome. It hit me hard when I was making dinner for me and the kidlet tonight.
Yep. That’s right. Dinner was cartoon-character-shaped macaroni and cheese, chardonnay for me, milk for her, and a split Snickers. The kidlet had this Madonna-wannabe headband on and she had fluffed out the lace and pulled it around her face like a fascinator and was lecturing me in a very fancy voice with her hand on her hip about opening the packet of powdered cheese, licking my finger, and sucking off the cheese. She was very chic. I was impressed enough to almost consider not eating more of the cheese.
(Later, instead of digging up a tablespoon, I just eyeballed how much milk and butter I figured I needed. Totally overestimated on the milk. So when it didn’t set up right, I drained and poured some of the runny mix in to a plastic cup from the Olive Garden. I meant to pour it down the sink, probably, but I instinctively drank it instead.)
We’re eating macaroni and watching the live action Scooby Doo now, because kidlet loves the dog and Mommy loves Matthew Lillard. (Did you know he was The Fat Kid growing up, so everyone made fun of him, and it affected him very deeply? Because I know, because I love him.) Sometimes we play Scooby Dooby Doo in the bathtub — she is Scooby and I am Shaggy. The tub is the Mystery Van and we drive in it to solve crimes and say “like” a lot. Not gonna lie: we’re pretty awesome.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Adam Lambert Ignites Change at ABC
After his provocative, envelope pushing performance at the American Music Awards, American Idol alum Adam Lambert was dismissed from his scheduled performances on “Good Morning America,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” and “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.” Furthermore, ABC is now changing its protocol and requiring scheduled performers to sign agreements not to deviate from their rehearsal performances. There is talk of a double standard in the industry, where Madonna and Britney Spears’ kiss at the VMA awards were accepted but two males kissing is a large ordeal. I would argue that there is not a double standard, but it also comes down to who the performers are. A former American Idol contestant’s first televised performance after Idol being a completely different persona will cause controversy. Despite the current uproar, I think Lambert’s career will be fine in the future because his loyal fans will overlook this performance in continue to support him.
I do not think there is a double standard between homosexual males and females. For the radicals that are writing into ABC right now, homosexuality is a sin no matter who performs the act. I think the issue comes down to venue and entertainer. The Madonna and Britney kiss was broadcast on a cable network which has more flexibility than the broadcast networks. The entertainers were also drastically different. Madonna’s first performance at the VMA’s showed her humping the stage as she sang the words “Like a virgin, touched for the very first time.” Britney’s past VMA performance showed her in flesh colored pants and bra covered in rhinestones in the appearance of a thong. Both performers are provocative and their kiss was a surprise but in no way out of character. As for Lambert, I did not watch him on Idol and do not know much about his prior performances. I do know that Idol is a family show. Many children and teenagers watch the show and create the fan base afterwards. For Lambert to simulate oral sex and kiss another man, he betrayed his younger fans. He has to remember his rise to fame was on the basis of family and personality, not on being provocative like Madonna and Britney.
In the future I think this will not affect Lambert’s career because when it comes down to it, any press is good press. Most people who do not watch American Idol do not know who he is. Now he is making controversy in the major news networks so his name and image is being projected. Also I think being cancelled by the various shows will be a lesson for Lambert. He will learn to express his creativity in a more publically accepted way. Instead of being sexual on stage he will have to create more symbolic performances that will not offend people but impress them instead. Finally I think it will make him work even harder. Sometimes entertainers need a setback to inspire them to create and be more unique in the future. This can serve as an inspiration for the point he does not want to be and how he must persist in the future.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
CHOCOLATE CITY (D.C) READY TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE?!
“IT STARTED OFF WITH A KISS, HOW DID IT END UP LIKE THIS?! IT WAS ONLY A KISS, IT WAS ONLY A KISS”.
We’re pretty sure most of you are familiar with the little BIG kiss that Adam Lambert exchanged with a band mate at the AMA’S a couple of weeks ago ( talk about stage presence). His unexpected make-out sesh during his performance has stirred up A LOT of controversy within the media. However,we don’t agree, if Britney and Madonna can get away with it, then so can he! We know you’re not supposed to kiss and tell, but theres no way to justify Britney and Madonna’s kissy kissy moment, and at the end of the day we were all created equal; so let that man live. All we’re saying is it isn’t okay to begin with, but it was his performance, and whether he chooses to be gay in public or not is his decision.. ( PUMPS FIST).Sometimes we despise reality television for allowing us ( the audience) to believe these things are okay!
Moving Right along…
With all this man on man action, we’ve just discovered that the city council for the District of Columbia has voted to pass a bill that would make same-sex marriages legal by a count of 11 to 2. For all that were in favor of same-sex marriage, theres obv a huge contrast within the difference of these votes. After skimming through the facts all thats needed is one more vote, and for Congress to review the law, and throw that bad boy into effect. This will be considered a big victory for D.C, and then they would be able to join the line up along with Iowa, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont for same sex marriage!
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