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"You do anything over break?"
Nope. Everyone I've talked with did something though - vacations, job interviews, money making. All those folks who were too busy, you know, living, really missed out. I had a steady diet of my couch, my laptop and my 24-inch Panasonic. I've got plenty of knowledge to pass on to all of you with lives.
First, true love doesn't exist. How can I possibly prove such a ridiculous claim? Well, Tila didn't pick Dani on "Shot of Love."
Think about it: instead of picking the girl who cared about her well-being and connected with her emotionally, Tila chose meaningless sex and "A Shot at Love II." (No, seriously. It debuts in the spring, and the Italian guy from season one has his own show this time around).
Speaking of love, teen pregnancy popped up twice over break. Jamie Lynn Spears (Brit's 16-year-old sis) announced she was having a baby.
No joke, Nickelodeon immediately ran advertising for a "Zoey 101" hour special called
"Goodbye Zoey," where Spears' character moves to Australia.
The other big bundle of joy came from the movie "Juno." Roger Ebert called it the best movie he saw in 2007, but the best thing about it has nothing to do with the actual film.
"Anyone Else But You," from the soundtrack (the song Bleeker and Juno sing to each other in the last scene) contains the lyric, "Up up down down left right left right B A start / Just because we use cheats doesn't mean we're not smart."
If you're not familiar, this is the cheat code that earns you extra lives in Contra for the original Nintendo.
I think I know the hipster love song that'll be on everyone's mix-tape in February. (If I just blew your spot, I'm sorry. You can always take that Sara Bareilles song from the Rhapsody commercial. It might be mainstream, but it's catchy.)
When I wasn't spinning that Moldy Peaches song and the rest of the "Juno" soundtrack, I started becoming more familiar with "In Rainbows."
Radiohead formally announced they'd be touring the United States in 2008, but later when they announced which cities (not the dates) I didn't see Syracuse listed. Sadly, it's time to cross one act off the Block Party 2008 wish list.
The only other music news of note was Kanye West returning to the blogosphere. Kanye took up his blog so he could formally thank his fans for all their support during the passing of his mother last year.
The rest of his blog posts weren't nearly as moving or interesting, though I now know the only person to beat him at Connect Four is Beyonce. If Kanye ever decides to change his game to Harry Potter Scene It, consider this a formal challenge.
Finally, in case you missed the Golden Globes tragedy this past weekend, the writers strike is still in full force. No new episodes of "The Office." No new episodes of "Scrubs." NBC rolled out a new "American Gladiators" to try to combat the whole fiasco, but it's not the same.
The gladiators aren't as physically impressive (see former bull-rider Wolfman), and they clearly have scripted banter lame enough to think the "Next" producers wrote it. (Wolfman: "I smell fear. I smell blood. I'm a-eat you.")
MTV thankfully saved TV viewers by rolling out a Modelthon all break. They ran every season of America's Next Top Model in its entirety (including the first season they never talk about because Adrianne Curry went crazy and married a Brady).
The only problem with this is that you needed to deal with eight full seasons of Tyra and her "every-piece-of-advice-I give-you-will-really-focus-on-me," approach. After surviving season four so he could see his favorite model Kahlin, my friend Renkas called Tyra even more pretentious than Panic! At the Disco song titles.
Unfortunately, just as Stewart and Colbert returned in time to catch Mike Huckabee with Chuck Norris, spring semester is about to start and my couch-ridden time has to end.
Nathan Mattise is a pop culture columnist for The Daily Orange where his columns appear every Tuesday. He'd write his column for Wednesdays but MTV is running season seven of ANTM this Tuesday night. He can be reached at nzmattis@syr.edu.
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