Song of the Week (April 25th to May 1st)

Okay this week is quite something for me as it is my last week of exams and I can't take it anymore!!! So I'm posting some mellow song as our "song of the week" to cool down the atmosphere around us students around the world. We all need it I guess!

This week's winner is "Jamais Su" by Quebec improvised rapper Anodajay. The song is his second single off his album ET7ERA. The tracks features a sample from Diane Tell's '80s success "Souvent, Longtemps, Énormément". I decided that being the proud Quebeccer that I am, I might share with you some music from my homeland. I hope you'll like it, I like the vibe of it and love the chorus with Diane Tell and find that the rest of the song blends fairly well with Tell's cameo. The lyrics say it all about my love life:

Moi j'ai aimé trop souvent,

aimé longtemps puis énormément,

Et je les ai tous perdus,

Car comment aimer, je ne l'ai jamais su

Oh and I find the music video quite hip with its '80s apparel and the definition of the image! And don't miss Dinae Tell's apparition at the end of it :-P! I The orange skin tone of the girls in the clip is quite funny; makes me think of Ed Hardy, douchebags and their bitches lol! Seems like the clip was shot at Mont Saint-Bruno lol!

"Anatomy of a Murder" (Anatomy of Hot Male Models)

Damn! I just bumped into THAT! How hot'n raunchy?! It is actually a photoshoot done by famed Fashion photographer Steven Klein  whose clients include Arena Hommes, Dolce & Gabbana, Vogue Hommes Japan, Hugo Boss, Calvin Klein, American Vogue, Colcci, Vogue Paris and much, much more.

Klein, who is actually not "small" in the business (klein = small in German) and specializes in male photography and depicts very homoerotic visuals. I do have to say that I LOVE his work and find his portfolio über impressive. I like the fact that his photos are not too cliché, are dark and disturbing but yet succeed at showcasing a hint of sensuality by blending manhood and love of the male body.

The following photoshoot, which is entitled "Anatomy of a Murder" is quite epic and displays a very bothering pictural remake of the 1959 movie of the same name. The spread features Brian Shimansky, Kevin Baker, Zeb Ringle and Montréal zombie-turned-male model Rick Genest. The photos are reminescent of Alfred Hitchcock's black and white movies and still has something that reminds us of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". I guess the weird clothing, the odd-looking hairdo and the light projection on the models' faces give that effect. "Anatomy of a Murder" is a special edition of the Arena Hommes+ for its Spring/Summer 2011 issue.

Enjoy!!!

I'm glad one of the models didn't shave his pubic hair!
Looks so much more masculine!

Rick Genest

Makes me think of Veruschka

Too much ecstacy

Look at'em tighs!

So gay

AMEN!

Naomi Campbell Is Bald

This rumor has been circulating on the web since about six months now.

I guess anybody who reads about Fashion and gossip (lol!) pretty much knows who Naomi Campbell is and knows that she's a violent British supermodel famous for assaulting her assistants by throwing jewel-incrusted cellphones at them! Well turns out that not only is Naomi a striking Nubian beauty with long legs and an outstanding career in Fashion, she is also notorious for being sued each year by fellow assistants, flight attendants and just recently,  by the UN-backed Special court for Sierra Leone investigating about Charles Taylor.

Guess what ladies and gentlemen, Naomi is a also the goddess of baldness; she wore wigs, weaves and extensions for such an extended period that her hair started to break off and not grow back, resulting in serious bald spots around her scalp. How sad?! Since I learned that news, I can't sleep at night and my world is completely messed up. How could God make something so sad happen to one of his most beloved and gorgeous daughters?!

Aside from modeling for magazines, jet-setting accross the world, dating a Russian millionnaire who's less balding than her, befriending other hot supermodels, throwing cell phones, giving apologies and interviews, developping perfume lines, rocking runways, giving money for charity (to make us forgive her), attend AA and Narcotics Anonymous meetings and partying with Paris Hilton, Naomi also lives on the same planet than us and happens to be living with a major issue: baldness. Most of us men willl, for those who haven't started yet, loose our hair and start feeling like helpless papis. One thing we might want to tell ourselves to stop being so desperate about it is that it's a normal thing and that it happens to more than 50% of men.

On the other hand, our female counterparts who have to live with this plague can't really rationalize the same way; their loss of hair is not due to androgenic alopecia. In other words, it is a thousand times more rare for a woman to start balding than a man and solely happens in very unfortunate cases. I mean these poor women must wear a weave or a wig permanently. That's truthfully heartbreaking. Imagine Naomi when she's about to have sex with her Russian beau; she has to make sure her hair is well tied to her head before the start canoodling in case her cold Borsch would like to pull after it when he comes! That's no joke and is certainly not funny at all! My friend K always tells me: "I can't believe the Russian dude wants to fuck a bald woman, he's so wealthy, he could find a woman just as hot as her and with hair"!!!

My black girlfriend told me that hair loss happens more often to black women than white women since they often wear tight braids, get their hair dyed, chemically-flattened, wear weaves and wigs. Receding hairline is frequently the result of such bad hair treatment and is non-reversible unless you get a hair transplant. So sad.

Remember I have told you about my obsession and great sadness associated with my hair loss and how Propecia and Rogaine were my very best friends?! I guess I also told you about my hair transplant last November right? Well turns out it worked and my head looks a lot more filled with hair and I don't look like a thirtysome papi anymore. I think Naomi should do the same, especially since she's got SO MUCH MORE MONEY than me lol!!!

 

 

Them Missed Shows

Here I want to demonstrate you how disappointing and restrictive it is to go to school and to work at the same time.

Can you believe there are PLENTY of amazing tours stopping at Montréal's Bell Centre and I can't attend any show that's scheduled?!

Indeed, Enrique Iglesias, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Lady Gaga and my all-time Aussie favourite Kylie Minogue are all about to be performing live in Montreal. Enrique came here last month and got bad reviews (lol!), the newly out dad of two Martin was there last week (April 12th), MC Gaga will be there on the 25th and Kylie will be performing here for the first time EVER next thursday! I'm so so sad not to be able to make it for any of these events!!! Can you believe it? Like seriously, I'm here in town, I love all of these artists (some less than others though), I have money but I can't attend because my agenda woudln't allow me! What's even more ironic is the fact that I'm walking next to the Bell centre every day to commute to school! Miserable me!

Okay I have to say that the only three ones that I truly would've been willing to pay to go see would be Kylie, Ricky and Lady Gaga. Rihanna is no singer and performs like an amateur (I think she's definitely over-rated) and annoys me way too much. I won't say I dislike her music but she ain't no Mariah nor Céline. Unlike Ricky, Enrique hasn't come out yet which makes me resent him. Just like Rihanna, I think Katy Perry sucks live and I wouldn't be willing to spend a penny on her Californian gurl's ass. 

Lady Gaga seems to love Montréal (and Montréal loves her back) so I'm not too worried or disappointed not to be attending her show since I know for sure that she'll come back; she gave like 5 shows here in the last 2 years and even went to perform live at Star Épidémie (real name: Star Académie). If Gaga still comes here even after meeting Julie Snyder, that means she's one hell of a persevering sista! Oh I also need to inform you that Lady Gaga celebrated her 23rd birthday in Laval two years ago... I guess she pretty much affectionates Quebec and the Montreal area! It will be Gaga's 3rd time holding a show in Montréal for the same tour: The Monster Ball Tour.

Ricky is so sexy and so generous (two must-have qualities; you must be generous enough to share your sexiness with me) that I'd clearly pay to go see him live. I used to be such a huge fan back when I was 8 years old! I saw him perform his best songs like "Livin' La Vida Loca" and "She Bangs" at Véronique Cloutier's successful show "La Fureur" when I was younger and made a mental note to myself to be him when I grew older. I can't really claim I've been successful at becoming Ricky since I'm not Puerto Rican, didn't release any album yet but I have several similarities with Mr. Martin; I'm a modern gay man, I'm livin' La Vida Loca, I know plenty of girls who "bang", I like to shake my "Bon-Bon", I don't want to be lonely, I plan to adopt or have twin sons via surrogacy and the best thing about me is you (my readers :-P)!!! LOL, enough "folies"!

As for Miss Minogue, I just LOVE HER WITH ALL MY HEART!!! I'll never be able to get that bangin' flawless lady out of my head, la la la la la...!!! I've pretty much followed her career path since 2001 when she released her incredibly outstanding single "Can't Get You Out of My Head"! I mean the clip was so futuristic with all her Jean-Paul Gaultier outfits and stuff that were very "5th Element" reminescent. Kylie has numerous unforgettable hits (and raunchy music videos) such as: "Slow" (next to La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona with a cute diver wearing a speedo), "Red Blooded Woman", "Chocolate", "All The Lovers" (yummy), "Get Out Of My Way", "It's In Your Eyes", "Come Into My World", "Love At First Sight", "2 Hearts", "Wow" and so many more!!! Kylie is a queen and a true diva and is more respectable than Madonna if you ask me. My dad doesn't agree with me on that; he thinks Madonna is a much better artist but even if I don't disagree, I'm a bit saturated with Madge so I'd rather stick to Kylie. Plus I'm going to the United Kingdom this summer and she's HUGE out there, even bigger than here! So sad I have a Marketing exam on the 28th that forbids me to attend her show!!! I'll never be able to forgive Wendy Keller (my professor) for that!

--> The following pic-list displays the six tours that I mentionned in my article in order of the least interesting (according to price/quality and my taste, of course) to the most interesting:

6. Rihanna: "The Loud" Tour

5. Katy Perry: "California Dreams" Tour

4. Enrique Iglesias: "Euphoria" Tour

3. Ricky Martin: "Musica Alma Sexo" World Tour

2. Lady Gaga: "The Monster Ball" World Tour



1. Kylie Minogue's "Les Folies" Tour

--> For the record: This is my 100th post!!! How exciting?!

Song of the Week (April 18th to April 24th)

Guys I know I'm always posting these articles so late during the week but hey, I'm currently involved in what we call "end of semester's rush". In other words, I have to study for my final exams! I'm really excited because I only have two left and I hope they go well because I didn't get very good grades at my Midterms... :-S. On April 28th, I'll be done with my last exam so I'll be willing to celebrate the end of this shitty semester!!! However, I'm doing a summer semester which starts on May 3rd, which means I'll only have a 5-day break between both semesters! Anyways, I don't want to complain because it'll enable me to catch up with the little delay I'm dragging with me because I didn't want to take five courses each semester.

Okay so this week's winner is Alicia Keys's "Un-thinkable". I just love this song and got to discover it through Terrine who's become a sort of disc jockey and is always there to introduce new artists and hot tracks to me and our other friends. The song is so sultry and jazzy, it's got me going crazy! I will have to add it to my "Bubble Bath Anthem" list lol! Plus the music video has a cameo role played by no other than blond hunk Chad Michael Murray. Could I ask for more? I don't think so! Enjoy y'all!

Rodzilla's First Film Critique

The following five movies are the last ones I have seen in the last two weeks. 

5. "Life As We Know It" (2/10)

Okay I know the über-sexy jock Josh Duhamel is one of the two main protagonists of the film but honestly, this is not enough to support a whole movie; I mean even with your sexiness, you still have to be a good actor.

The story of this very annoying and boring movie evolves around two over-paid Hollywood actors -Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel- who supposedly hate each other but must meet sometimes as their respective best friends are married together.

When their best friends -who are parents to a one year-old  daughter- die, they are both entitled to take care of their beloved daughter, inherit their house and assets. Of course, as they are supposed to hate each other, they resist sexual tension and stuff but eventually fall in love (duh!) and have sex. Sincerely, this is god-awful and I wouldn't recommand it to anyone, regardless of how cheesy they are.

4. "L'Appât" (3/10)

As a proud Québécois that I am, I'm glad to watch some movies of our "cru". But in the case of "L'Appât", it's more shame than proudness that would be felt by any Québécois! Similar to what meine Freundin Nizza told me about the Zombie-themed Norwegian movie "Dead Snow"!

Okay so the movie features Guy A. Lepage and Rachid Badouri as the two main characters who are Super Zeros and are investigating about a killer who actually looks like a black model.

Guy A. Lepage was quite funny in the movie but Rachid Badouri is unbearable! I really hate him! He thinks he's tha shit'n stuff but tha brotha is supposedly an humorist but he ain't funny! Oh and Maxim Roy is the worst actress any camera has ever known!

3. "Karla" (6.5/10)

Based on a true story (Karla Homolka's), Karla is one of Canada's most notorious and dangerous serial killer.

Between 1990 and 1993, Homolka and her beloved psychopath Paul Bernardo kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed several girls  until they were both arrested.

Homolka was wise enough to make a plea bargain and that's mainly why she's been able to get released from jail and embrace full liberation... a thing that should have never been granted!

"Karla" Is a biographical movie and I have to say that it pretty much describes her life well and features somewhat good actors like Laura Prepon and the quite good-looking Misha Collins as the fatal couple.




2. "Agathe Cléry" (9/10)

This movie is really funny and memorable! I wish I could say that I bought it but I'm too cheap! I like French movies!

Okay so the plot of this film is a racist Businesswoman who happens to develop a very rare medical condition: the Addison's disease. Indeed, this disease darkens skin and hair and creates hyper-pigmentation. It's a bit like reverse vitiligo! Presented as a musical, Agathe Cléry turns black and has to modify her whole life and thus, her  life habits. She looses her job, gets discriminated, gets dumped by her boyfriend and needs to find new friends and acquaintances.

Having promised herself not to ever date a black man, Cléry ends up falling in love with her new boss who is played by Anthony Kavanagh (an edible chocolate bar who also acts in Quebec movies). I would highly recommand Agathe Cléry! Especially if like me, you've been dreaming of being black since you were young!

1. "Black Swan" (10/10)

Unlike most University teachers, I'm not one of those people who never give A+ or 100%. I mean when you deserve it, you deserve it. That is definitely the case of "Black Swan"; it is truthfully an awesome movie!

Nathalie Portman, an Israeli-born actress (I love'em Israelians and I'm going to Israël this summer!), plays the role of Nina, an innocent and prude girl who's overprotected by her castrating mother who daydreams about dancing for the New York Company.

Nina's ambition is to be playing the role of the White Swan in Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" ballet. Being a psychological thriller, the movie is a bit hard to understand but I believe it was intended that way as all psychological movies are!

After meeting Lily (Mila Kunis) who would be perfectly fitted to play the Black Swan, Nina unravels a previously-undiscovered dark side to her persona. You MUST watch this movie! Incentive to its screening: the movie won the Academy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for multiple categories including Best Director and Best Picture.