February 8, 2004

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  Alright alright alright… sorry for the delay everyone! (geez, I didn’t even know that dude read this blog)

  
  

  Busy times here at Dramamine Boy’s Xanga.  There are real life things that takes precedence over blogging and I was involved in some frantic days and sleepless nights recently.  With everything that’s been going on, I just didn’t think it would be right to post a blog until I got everything straightened out.  But at last, after a lot of searching, I finally found what I was looking for and it feels like a huge load has been taken off my shoulders!

  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  

  DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD THESE ARE TO FIND THESE DAYS!?!

  
  

  So, now that THAT is out of the way, on with the blogging!

  
  
  
  

  … aaaaaand the number one excuse Justin Timberlake gave for the Super Bowl fiasco…

  
  

  “OH MY GOD, JANET!  There’s a gigantic spider under your dress!”

  
  

  

  
  

  “Whoops, that’s not a spider… my bad.”

  
  

  I’m sure everyone by now has either seen, heard or read about what happened during the halftime show at this year’s Super Bowl.  Justin Timberlake blamed it on a “costume malfunction”.

  
  

  Uhhhh… okay.  You reached over, grabbed a piece of Janet Jackson’s costume and pulled.  What did you THINK was gonna happen!?!  Was it gonna be like a magic show and doves were supposed to fly out of her dress or something?  Hey… that woulda been kinda cool, actually.

  
  

  Justin’s excuse was that only the top part of the dress was supposed to come off to reveal the red bra that was underneath.  Instead, both articles of clothing came off.  But even if just the top part came off… what would’ve been the big deal with that move? 

  
  

  “Oooooooo, Justin tore off part of Janet’s dress… oooOOOOooooo.  What a really cool idea that was”. (insert sarcastic tone here)

  
  

  Was he trying to upstage Britney with that whole Madonna kiss thing?  And why did MTV decide to show Justin immediately after the kiss?  How did they expect him to react?  Were they expecting him to cry or something?  Were they hoping for one of those looks that said, “Boohoo, everyone gets a kiss from Britney now except me”?

  
  

  

  
  

  HEY, WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING AT!?!  IT COULD HAPPEN!!

  
  

  And what the heck WAS that thing anyway?  Is Janet Jackson a ninja?  Geez, you could put an eye out with one of them things.

  
  

  

  
  

  Instruments of Death or Janet Jackson Accessories?  You be the judge.

  
  

  I dunno… I saw the Rhythm Nation video and with some of the costumes she’s worn, she COULD be a ninja.  I don’t know if ninjas are good singers, however.  I’m guessing that all those years of ninja training probably doesn’t cover singing lessons.  I don’t ever recall anyone running into Munetaka, the Singing Ninja.  I don’t know anyone that’s run into any ninjas at all, come to think of it.  But I figure if there were singing ninjas, we’d have some sort of ninja-musical movie or something and since that hasn’t happened yet, I’m gonna stick with my non-singing ninja hypothesis.

  
  

  

  
  

  Okay… I think I’m straying off the topic again.

  
  

  Anyway, this stunt upset a whole heck of a lot of people.  CBS (the station that aired the Super Bowl), the NFL, the FCC and some crazy lady in Alabama who said Janet and Justin caused all the hair to fall off her cat all had issues with what happened.  CBS has un-invited Janet from appearing on the Grammys, although they said that the un-invitation (for lack of a better word) was un-related to what happened at the Super Bowl.

  
  

  Yeah… riiiiiiiiight.

  
  

  The NFL was not only upset at the “accidental” nudity, but they didn’t even like some of the suggestive lyrics of some of the other performers and the gyrations of female dancers.  They vowed that steps will be taken to ensure that this type of entertainment will not appear during future Super Bowl halftimes.

  
  

  Okay, I don’t like the sound of this.  I mean sure, you don’t want performers trying to one-up each other and making things worse in the future, but man… you just know the halftime entertainment is just gonna suck for the next few Super Bowls.  You just know they’re gonna look for the tamest, safest, boringest singers/bands to perform.  You just KNOW that this is gonna be the guy that plays the national anthem at next year’s Super Bowl:

  
  

  

  
  
  
  

  and for YOUR Super Bowl halftime entertainment pleasure…
  
  

  
  

  Oh boy… I can’t wait. =/

  
  

  So, we’ll have to endure a few years of crappy halftime shows and sagging Super Bowl ratings until they figure out that they gotta get back to some cool entertainment.  And when that happens…

  
  

  

  
  

  Sigh… one can dream.

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