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07 Jul 2013

Best Maid of Honor Toast Ever

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Readers, Wedding Mondays is hitting us a little bit early today!

I just came across a video of Jennifer Gabrielli basically giving the best Maid of Honor toast ever to her sister by creating her own lyrics to Eminem’s “Without Me.” For one, her version of the rap is on point. Secondly, the girl didn’t even mess up at all! Skills. We wish we could be her. Third, how adorable are those kidlets dancing along to her rap. I could have sworn I saw the little boy trying to break dance. Well this definitely takes the cake for being the best YouTube video of the wedding season so far, but the summer wedding season is just getting started so who knows what will come out next.

On another note, my dearest friend Natalie just became engaged! I learned of the news yesterday evening and I could not be more happy for both her and Scott. They are perfection. I’m going to make sure that she has a videographer so that we can include her on Wedding Mondays next year!

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09 Feb 2011

In the News…

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz have just officially filed for divorce. [Source]

The Strokes will release their new single “Under Cover Of Darkness” available for free downloading today. [Source]

Rihanna will perform at the NBA All-Star halftime show. [Source]

– The CW is fronting a new pilot called “Secret Circle” produced by co-creator of Vampire Diaries Kevin Williamson. [Source]

– The following acts have been confirmed to headline Lollapalooza this year: Foo Fighters, Eminem, and Muse. [Source]

Diet Pepsi plans to release a skinnier can to celebrate beautiful and confident women in March. [Source] Um okay… it’s more like their way of just giving you less?

Sienna Miller and Jude Law have split again. [Source]

Olivia Wilde and her husband of eight years filmmaker Tao Ruspoli have separated. [Source]

Lady Gaga’s Born This Way single artwork [Source]

Britney’s 7th album “Femme Fatale” will be released on March 29th. [Source]

– The Glee kids will hit the road for tour once again! Click here for dates/tickets etc. [Source]

– Gymnast Shawn Johnson will return to the U.S. National Team. [Source]

Augustana will release their self-titled third album on April 26th, 2011. [Source]

Tony Hawk has filed for divorce from his third wife. [Source]

– HBIC Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine WILL perform at the Oscars. Couldn’t get any better! [Source]

13 Jan 2011

In the News…

The City’s HBIC Erin Kaplan will be leaving her position as Head of PR at Elle Magazine to replace Eleanor Banco at Teen Vogue for the same position. [Source]

– Could Pac-Man be turned into a reality series? [Source]

Bravo announces the return high-quality television series:

RETURNING SHOW DATES:
  • The Real Housewives of New York City, Tuesday Feb 15 at 10/9c
  • Bethenny Ever After, Monday, Feb 28 at 10/9c
  • The Real Housewives of Orange County, Sunday, March 6 at 10/9c
  • Million Dollar Listing, Thursday Feb 3 at 9/8c

RETURNING SHOWS:

  • The Rachel Zoe Project S4
  • Flipping Out S5
  • Work of Art: The Next Great Artist S2
  • The Millionaire Matchmaker S5
  • Top Chef S9
  • Top Chef Masters S3

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Colin Firth receives his Hollywood Star [Source]

Oprah reveals her biggest failure was starring in and producing the 1998 adaptation of Toni Morrison’s “Beloved.” [Source]

– “Touched By An Angel” actor John Dye has died at 47. [Source]

– If Orlando Bloom were to appear in “The Hobbit,” he would receive $1 million for a two-minute stint. [Source]

Carey Mulligan will return to the stage this spring. [Source]

America Ferrera will appear on “The Good Wife.” [Source]

Disney pushing a Tron sequel? [Source]

Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean has returned to rehab to sober up before the big NKOTB/Backstreet Boys tour. [Source]

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Taylor Swift – Back to December

Etta James has been diagnosed with leukemia. [Source]

Usher has canceled his OMG tour…again. [Source]

– Model Devon Aoki is engaged and pregnant. [Source]

Christian Bale will not allow his daughter to pursue child acting. [Source]

U.S. retailer Target will buy Canada’s Zellers for $1.8 billion, which means Canada will finally be getting their own Target.  [Source]

– The first performers to be announced at the Grammy Awards this year will be nominees Arcade Fire, Eminem, Cee Lo Green, Lady Gaga, Miranda Lambert, and Katy Perry. [Source]

Keira Knightley and Rupert Friend have split. [Source]

Peter Fonda discovered a dead body in a car. [Source]

Gucci Mane had an ice cream cone tattooed on his face. [Source]

The Rose Boy” is at it again! [Source]

Selma Blair is pregnant w/ fashion designer boyfriend Jason Bleick. [Source]

Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom have been having a hard time naming their son. [Source]

Kristen Stewart is on the cover of the February issue of Vogue looking awkward as always! [Source]

Gwen Stefani is the new face of L’Oreal. [Source]

– The Kardashian sisters will launch the Kardashian Kollection at Sears. [Source]

05 Aug 2010

The most controversial music video you’ve all been waiting for

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Eminem ft. Rihanna – Love the Way You Lie

w/ appearances by Megan Fox and that one hobbit/LOST character Dominic Monaghan.

anyone else feel like there was some excessive tongue action going on? A little too much…

However, there was some good that came out of this. Megan decided to donate her paycheck from the music video to Sojourn House, a shelter for abused women and children.

19 Jul 2010

Uh Oh here comes tomorrow

Thanks to a lovely reader of mine and an old friend, I have finally been introduced to Mediafire. I used to be able to download whole CD’s from my favorite musicians and bands, but I had no resource to download just singles. This weekend, I spent a great deal of time on Mediafire downloading my previous “Song of the Day’s” and music from my Playlist account. There were singles of bands that I had just been introduced to.

There’s something so incredibly refreshing about listening to new music. I love the search in it all. I’d like to recommend that you do the same as well. If you need a place to start, I’ll start you off. I cannot stress how important it is to support local talent wherever it is that you are from. Take one night off in your summer from whatever you’re doing and go to a show. Go to a show where you don’t know any of the bands if you want. Check out your local venues. You might be surprised at what you will find – and trust me it’s not the Eminem and Rihanna song “Love the Way You Lie” on repeat. Believe it or not, music does exist off the airwaves too.

This next school year, I am taking on a job that I have done before, which is booking for local bands. I couldn’t be more excited about it! I’ve already thought about a tentative schedule for the whole year, but regardless – readers – I want to hear your suggestions. Give me a local band from your home town/area or even a little known artist or band from anywhere so that I can give them a listen. For every band you leave me in a comment, I’ll post one right back to you on this page.

I hope this works because if it does we’re all going to get a lot of new music!

Thanks!

31 Aug 2009

Meet: Derek Mio

Tonight at 8 PM, the new season of Greek premieres on ABC Family. What are you doing? Cause you should be watching.

I had the opportunity to interview one of my favorite characters from the show, Kappa Tau brother, actor Derek Mio. I’m a huge fan of the show and actually just started watching this year, but got myself caught up through watching the first season on Hulu and hosting Greek viewing parties with Lucia at school. It was an intense battle for Lucia and I to search for a lounge and an open tv in my building just to catch the new episode.

Q: Derek Mio, where are you from and how did you get started in this business?

Derek Mio: I am from Huntington Beach, CA.  I attended USC Film School and during the summer of my freshman year I interned at a commercial agency and they decided to send me out because I figure a) their Asian clientele at the time was pretty limited and b) I had spikey bleached tips.  From then on I booked print jobs, then commercials, then TV guest star roles, then independent film roles, and here we are with you interviewing me because I’m on Greek.

Q: Have you wanted to be an actor your whole life or did these gigs just fall into your lap?

D: I can remember daydreaming about being an actor from a very early age as I sat in front of the TV watching Saved by the Bell, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Jaws on TBS for the 37th time, or Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and The Last Starfighter on VHS; throw Big Trouble in Little China in there too!  Oh, and The Secret of My Success with Michael J. Fox! Anyways, I kind of had it in my head that I would eventually make it to being an actor and that probably influenced the cosmos to act in my favor.  For real, do you remember those posters in elementary classes that would say “Believe it and Achieve it!”?  Well, I guess I just applied that particular poster to my passion of acting.  I’ve been acting now for close to 9 years so I can’t really say that “these gigs just fall into my lap” but I have been fortunate enough to see a progression of one gig leading to the next.  We’ll see what happens…next!

Q: What is a typical day for Derek Mio?

D: I’ll get up around 9 or 10. Check my Gmail.  Check my Twitter.  Pour a bowl of cereal.  Maybe run to the gym and work out for a bit.  I like to edit videos so if I’m working on a project I will try to find a coffee shop and do that for a few hours.  Ummm…other days I might go play a round of golf with my buddy Zack Lively from Greek, who btw I saw you had a dream about the other day?!  I gotta tell him that one!


Q: You and the other Kappa Tau guys have a great relationship in front of the camera, are you guys bffls in real life as well?

D: I don’t think many people are “best friends for life” because that is a long time.  A lot of times you will lose track with friends over the years either because you switch jobs, or you move, or you just lose touch because you get married and have a family and now your whole life is devoted to your wife and kids.  I just think it’s a stretch to call any friend a bffl’er.  But to answer your question, our relationship onscreen is pretty accurate to that of ours in real life.  We don’t all hang out together a lot but when we do it’s like we’re back at the Kappa Tau house and we’re close as can be.  I’ve been pretty fortunate to work such cool professionals.

Q: I was reading a previous tweet of yours the other day when you said, “Just wrapped my last scene/episode of Greek. Bittersweet for sure. Love that crew! Look out for @Day_One on NBC!” Explain yourself please. Say it isn’t so, I don’t want Wade to leave Greek nor do I want to see Greek end.

D: Well don’t turn to my Twitter page for your source of official news!  I did land a role on a new NBC show called Day One which will air next year and that might conflict with Wade’s enrollment; hopefully not, but let’s just emotionally prepare for that now if it happens.

Q: The new season of Greek premieres Monday, what can we expect out of this season and out of Wade? A possible serious girlfriend?

D: You know Wade is up to the same tomfoolery and shenanigans but he’s older now…and a little wiser…by a semester.  You’ll just have to tune in to see what I mean.  Serious girlfriend?  Pssh!!  Wade doesn’t get down like that!  Ask Casey, Ashleigh, and Rebecca!

Q: How much alike are you and your character Wade?

D: Wade dresses much better than I do.  I’m a little more intelligent than Wade.

Q: What’s on rotation on your iPod right now?

D: I don’t really use my ipod as much as I should.  I go on Pandora.com a lot.  If you haven’t tried it you definitely should.  It plays music similar to a song or artist of your choosing.  But in my car’s cd changer I got Eminem’s Relapse, Doors-esque psychedelic rock band Black Angels, Hawaiian reggae band Katchafire, and L.A. based hip hop band DDL Roundhouse--definitely worth checking out!

Q: What’s new with Derek Mio and where will we be seeing you next?

D: What’s new with me?  I just went deep sea fishing with my brother, cousins, Aunt, and Uncle and caught some yellowfin tuna.  You will be seeing me on Greek, Monday nights at 9/8c on ABC Family and next year on Day One on NBC.

Q: Anything else you want to tell my readers?

D: If you watch Greek, thank you for supporting the show!  If you don’t watch Greek…

Thank you so much Derek for the great interview 🙂 Can’t wait to see you on this new season of Greek and your new show next year. Take care! Watch Greek every Monday at 8 PM on ABC Family