Pop Culture Idiot: Achiever of the Minute: Quincy Jones

Q Jones says, "Look Jason, you know you wish you could work it like me...later Big Nose..."



I know people wanted me to can my blog awards, thinking it got "too big." But see, I had to bring it back for someone really special, even if we're clearly in a war of words. That special person is Quincy Jones, or "Q Jones" as I call him teasingly. Me and Q go way back, you know I discovered him, he was a trumpet player in my band, Jason Elias's Kings O' Swing.

As a music fan, I've got a lot of Quincy Jones in my collection and I'm partial to his 1972-1981 work. What else do I like about Q? How gets some great looking women. His latest girlfriend's name is Heba Elawadi, she's 19. Jones is 73, and I wish them the best of luck.

Unfiltered: 19? Damn! What's the age difference there? 60 years? Q must be more popular than me. I'm treated like an old man/troll on MySpace and Q's dating a 19 year old girl. What in the world could he have in common with her? I don't know. Even worse, the two met at a Ludacris CD listening party. That's just all kinds of wrong...



Back For More: Look at Q Jones acting like he's the bees knees. When you get down to it, this girl isn't exactly Peggy Lipton. Yeah I said it, this 19 year old child isn't exactly "all that" as the kids say. What? What was that? You trying to say something Q?










Note: After my "outburst" I sent Quincy a hand-carved peace offering. I hope he likes it, I've got my copy on my desk!

Pop Culture Idiot: Emmy Coverage

Guess what. My furlough coincided with the Emmys and I was able to attend. All and all, I'd give the show a B-. I don't really like Conan O' Brian as a host, I don't like the Emmys and no one I really like was even nominated. In short, the show was great!


There's Kareem Abdul Jabber. Is it just me or has he gotten taller? And or where's Kurt Rambis?














It sure was nice to see Dick Clark again. Who's that next to him?












Seeing Barry Manilow rattled my already fragile nerves and my tribute didn't go as well as planned...











Denied! Kevin James's Emmy nomination had a lot of folks wondering if the new Emmy system was f'ed up. It is, but the question is moot. James got embarrassed as it was business as usual when Tony Shaloub won for "Monk" again...












Please, tell me that's not an ascot. Perhaps it's a shirt with a busy print. In any event, Jeremy Piven won something and that's going to make him even more annoying.













The Aaron Spelling Tribute was nice. Well really, it was a bit uncomfortable since Tori Spelling wasn't even seated next to her family. What's good is that the best lineup of Charlie's Angels showed up...







Sadly, I think Kiefer Sutherland's win is going to be the start of another lost weekend...

Reviewed: Lindsay Lohan's Proactiv Commercial

This strikes me as one of the oddest things I've ever seen. It's not the fact that for reasons unknown, Lohan is a "popular celeb." What's so strange about this is that its utterly unneeded. Proactiv has other spokespeople, Lohan's doing other stuff. Why?

As a pitchwoman Lindsay isn't great. She has the show business phoniness of a much, much older woman, yet with no maturity or knowing behind it. I don't know about her acne, don't know if she's cured and I don't care.


"Zits are the least of her worries, isn't that right Nathan?"


In any event, as an actress, I found Lindsay Lohan's real-life plight with acne totally unbelievable. In fact, going by the celebrity scale, Lindsay's no where near the freak show horror of Alicia Keys or Kelly Clarkson. Really? I don't think Lindsay Lohan even has acne. She probably just needed money for whatever she's clearly doing.






Commercial C+
Believability D+
Sobriety Meter: Barely Sober
Grade: Bad and Embarrassing

My You Tube Favorites: What?

You know, I made sure to cultivate a "cutting edge" and "state of the art" video selection. After all, it reflected my coolness and it's also what the kids are listening to today. It seems that YouTube's recent technical difficulties turned everything into a madhouse. Imagine my horror when all of my hip-hop and alternative rock favorites were replaced with a bunch of hooey, MOR-ish stuff. I can't stand it! Let's review...


Olivia Newton-John and Cliff Richard- Suddenly

I heard someone had been looking for this particular clip for quite a while, years in fact. When he found it? He had to choke back a sob. Honestly, this is just a nice song, there's nothing wrong with a song like that. In fact, I wish they still made BS, I mean, great stuff like that.




Bottom Line: Classic! And here's another clip.

James Taylor and JD Souther- Her Town Too






I actually like this version much better than the one that showed up on Dad Loves His Work. Taylor's in better voice, better phrasing, in short, less produced. Really I don't know what this video is doing in my favorites, it's a mystery. I'm really going to have to investigate...


Unfiltered: To be honest, I totally could have lived with his being just James Taylor. I never was a fan of JD Souther as a singer. He's a good writer though--and did some acting, he appeared on "thirtysomething." James looks kind of out of it here. It's great...




Eddie Money-Shakin


It's clear that Eddie Money has some problems. For this? His less than stellar video presence was saved by Apollonia Kotero. As for Eddie, like me he wasn't born no yesterday and he appears here as the world's oldest 33 year old. Frankly, given his countenance and blaring voice, it's hard to fathom that his twenties were just four years earlier. In short, ain't no way...



More Apollonia Praise: Got to say, she was so Apollonia-esque here, you can certainly see why Patty got the nod for Purple Rain. Wow...


Update: YouTube sent me a letter and said these are my favorites and that there was no mixed up. That's crazy talk...

Annoyances Part 120,409 and a Half

You know, there's no other fancy way of saying it, but it's the truth. My hatred of a few things has rendered me impotent and that's not good news. Here's a few things that are truly, truly annoying--more annoying than me!

Look at that pic on the left, it's Dr. Phil. I'm supposed to drop a pantsload because this guy's moving to another station in my area. The down side? I'm still going to see him. The local station made a big deal showing a big headed man in silhouette on Dr. Phil's set and they asked, "Guess who's coming?" Yes, let's guess...

Bottom Line More ruined lives...






Paris Hilton Swears Off Sex. Well there's finally some good news, but of course being the chronic liar she is she's probably doing stuff right now. Believe me, Hilton's "absence" isn't going to be missed, it's not like she's Eva Mendes and people are going crazy over her. This is Paris Hilton, an awful looking woman who's "isn't all that" according to scenes from her sex tapes. Later....

Update:That pic of from Hilton's CD. Here's a recommendation: Skip it...




Dennis Miller is a jerk. Here's some expected news. Dennis Miller has made the revolution from irreverent to irrelevant complete by signing on to Fox News. Got to say this is one of the most poignant stories ever. It didn't have to be this way. Miller stated that his political views were changed after hearing his Democrat friends talk about Rudolph Guliani. Those conversations apparently led him to not only be a conservative but he made a promise to never be funny again.

Update: Pop Culture Idiot, Investigates. Look at what my street team brought to my desk, an article that highlighted Dennis Miller's thoughts on George W. Bush during January 2001. Blam!!! Run and tell those jokes to your new Fox News news buds...


Pictured is Dennis Miller when he was a comedian...






Screech Diamond Needs To Take It Down 15 Notches...





This is clearly Screech's time to be in the news. Dustin "Screech" Diamond had been in the news about having his house foreclosed, he decided to sell T-shirts to get some money. The whole deal has given him some more face time. According to reports, Diamond, a stand-up comedian, was robbed by some woman in his dressing room. Here's a snippet of the evening in question...

....Then, he said, "she grabs my PlayStation Portable games, said, "This will have to do," and goes running out the door.

"I'm a big gamer and you don't mess with the D-man's videogames," he said.

Diamond, an alum of Celebrity Boxing 2, said he tried to stop her but she yelled, "Rape!" and "Help me!"

"I'm thinking great, this is all I need," Diamond said.

These bullshit stories are all any of us need. I'm sorry but my life is too f'ed to worry about Screech Diamond. Come on now, he's damn sure doing better than me, women are coming to see him at 3 am, etc. And what? The video games? Pitch em' they're probably driving him nuts anyway...

Bottom Line: Sell your shirts, save your house, stop that gabbing...


Tori did it...

Mel Gibson's F'd Up Weekend: A Review

You know what? I was getting ready to do an essay on Super Golden Crisps when a more pressing matter came to my desk. My mailbox was jammed packed full of the usual stuff, hard-core porn and requests about Mel Gibson's mugshot. I had to address Mel first and review his pics from his "I'm f'd up" weekend..."

<-----What I see is a lost man, a scared or "scurred" man who is clearly out of control. His gaze seems friendly, but is essentially empty, like a cereal killer. Mel's hair is slicked with sweat--that caused that top deal to flop down like Bill Haley and the Comets. The shirt is the textbook print and fabric of those who go on benders. They want comfort because, basically, that shirt's going to be worn for an extended period. The cut seems to be somewhat recent, but given Mel's paydays it's a bit cheap... Frightening Gaze: A+ Dirty Face: A- Nick Nolte/James Brown Scale of Horror: B-

Look at that fool shit-faced drunk. Got to say I feel for Mel in these gruesome photos, so out-of-it and he looks like he reeks. I bet he's talking a ton of gibberish too. I bet that girls waited years to meet him--and look at the digusting condition he was in. Shame!






Here's a pic of Gibson having "a spell." We all know he recovered and was able to denigrate a whole bunch o' folks shortly after.











I knew it!