I don’t listen to Lady Gaga at all. Sure I HEAR her music because it is everywhere, but I don’t consider myself a fan. Pop music just isn’t my main genre so I don’t really get into it. I still find her to be a top notch sideshow though, and admire her ability to not only market, but her creation as well. Not just her wearing of ridiculous clothes together like equestrian boots and a tut or something weird, but everything is crazy.Her own creation, and not a studio cookie cutter pop tart like Britney, or one of those annoying boy bands.

Her marketing ability I have always been fond of. Her sale of her new album “Born This Way” for one day on Amazon.com at 99 cents is a great plan. Not only will it likely push her album sales in the first week over 1 million copies, it brings all kinds of publicity. Not only does the price set it, but Amazon’s servers were flooded with the sale and couldn’t handle the traffic. Even more news to get awareness out.

The one day 99 cent sale ended up processing over 330,000 copies on Amazon that day alone so she got over a third of the way there in one day. In fact because of the technical issues Amazon priced it at 99 cents 3 days later for those that missed out and expected to show at least another 150,000 purchases to put her halfway there on Amazon alone. Talk about a cheater’s way to the top of the Billboard charts eh?

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Kind of tuned my mind out for a couple months anytime I heard “Charlie Sheen”, or “Two and a Half Men” for obvious reasons. It was just so asinine. Today though I overheard that Ashton Kutcher was replacing Sheen and like most probably did I laughed.

Funny thing is, I have only seen about 2 episodes of this show anyways so I have no idea if Kutcher would actually be good, or not on the show. All I ever think of him is Kelso, or some model doing stuff like blackhead remover ads.

This show is one of the most watched around the country, yet every time someone says something about it to me they claim it is the worst show on TV. That t is too low brow and for idiots. I wonder how I just happened to run into the 10% of people that aren’t idiots in the country.

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While I did enjoy ‘The Hangover’, I didn’t find it nearly as funny, or entertaining as the critics seemed to. I guess I am finding a lot of the recent comedies rather shallow lately, and not as clever as I used to. Of course I don’t get drunk, or stoned before I watch them anymore either so that plays a significant role in it.

Still, these comedies while better than most of the day aren’t exactly on the level of say something like Office Space, or even Wedding Crashers for that matter IMO. They are made as the big summer comedies, but just don’t offer a level of continuous comedy I want from these college humor movies. They play in a day of overrating anything that is somewhat good, and why not? It’s not like we are given high quality comedy on a regular basis anymore are we? Find more humor in free online dating profiles.

As for The hangover 2, I really wasn’t looking forward to it as much as most so critics panning it doesn’t really surprise me. If they used the same formula as before, or the same weak comedy routines in a recycling effort I am pretty sure my laughs wouldn’t be all that frequent. I expected to watch this on video, and the critics seem to give me no reason to think otherwise.

Times critic Betsy Sharkey, accusing the film of existing purely as a crass cash-grab without any good comedy to justify itself. She writes, “Me, I’m left with morning-after regrets. Lost is the fresh, perverse, painfully politically incorrect R-rated pleasure that came when ‘The Hangover’ ate up the summer of 2009.”

Manohla Dargis of the New York Times qualifies my positions quite well: “If you superimposed a diagram that mapped out all the narrative beats, characters and jokes in ‘The Hangover Part II’ over one for ‘The Hangover,’ the two would align almost perfectly.”

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