Learn English by dancing...

Take anything you want! I was robbed by two men! Let's go Dutch!

These are phrases that I speak on a daily basis and are essential to the English language. The educational video below teaches Japanese speakers how to say these and other phrases through the power of dance. By muscle memory you will be able to not only recall, but master these English phrases. So the next time someone is robbing a Japanese person on holiday in the US or UK, all they will have to do is a quick 8-count routine to say "Take anything you want!"

"Have a nice holiday!" *I type while doing an 8-count routine...

Dear God, Liza...

NO Liza with No Taste, no! This is bad. Bad! I actually can't decide which is worse, her version of "Single Ladies" (click HERE to listen to it), the fact that she sings "Single Ladies" in Sex and the City 2, or this outfit. 

I can't.

What is the Island? The LOST series finale...

LOST ended last night in an emotionally draining 2 and 1/2 hour episode that still has me scratching my head while drying my tears. What happened? What is the island? Where is Walt?

And more than those simple questions, what did I want to see? Did the show need to answer all questions definitively, and if they did, would it still have the same impact? Last night, as I dreamed of LOST, and this morning as I woke up thinking about it, I realized a few things:

1) LOST will be in our collective consciousness for years to come.

2) The creators let the show get too big to control and they had no way to answer everything and make everyone happy, so they chose to not really answer anything (which made a lot of people not happy).

3) The show forced a generation of people too familiar with boring plots and say-nothing movies to think. To explore what an artist is trying to say about life, love, and forgiveness. About fate, destiny, and choice. Forcing people to think, decide, and discuss (aka: argue, scream, and fight) about the show was the greatest thing about it.  

After last night I also realized that:

4) Jimmy Kimmel sucks. Three alternate endings? That wasn't funny.

In the coming days I will continue thinking about the series and the final episode. And I will continue to ask questions:
Was the show all about Jack?
At what point did the Island end up under water?
How long will Michael be forced to roam the Island whispering to people?
If Michael can't be redeemed for killing Libby and Ana Lucia, how come Ben is let off the hook?
Was Walt supposed to be the next Jacob?
How come babies can't be born on the island?
Are Nicky and Paolo also whispering on the island?

And the main question I'll be asking is what is more important? The question or the answer?

WEZ SEZ: LOST is like a work of art. You can love it, or hate it, but you will never understand it fully... only what it means to you.

I always wanted to be a famous dancer...

I know I haven't been updating this as much as I should (try ever), but I saw this video and couldn't resist! It's a trailer for everyone's favorite "Flashdance goes to prison" movie, Jailbird Rock!

"I always wanted to be a famous dancer... dancer... dancer..."

It's the kind of inspired hilarity that only the 80s could produce. Check it out and never stop dancing...


Jailbird Rock TRAILER. from Hadrian Belove on Vimeo.

Frightening commercial FAIL...

The British have gone too far. They must be stopped! "What have they done now?" you ask? They have made a commercial (and product) that would only appeal to clergy members of the Catholic church. An anatomically correct doll that pees on you when you tickle him. I don't know what else to say. You have to see it to believe...

eBay auction of Michael Jackson painting "The Book"...

Starting tonight on internet auction site eBay.com, you will be able to bid on the 40x50 inch Michael Jackson work of art, "The Book".The painting was done by Australian artist Brett-Livingston Strong and is reportedly the only painting for which the troubled pop star ever posed. It shows the King of Pop in a red velvet jacket holding a journal at his famous Neverland Ranch.

The auction will start tonight with a minimum bid of........... $2.75 million dollars. The owner, Marty Abrams, who currently has the painting hanging in his house (why?) is hoping for over 3 million. The bidding will end on April 17th, so get your pocket books ready!

You know where I'll be tonight! Watching all the crazy people on eBay blow through their life savings for a creepy, 80s inspired painting of a dead singer. At least he'll live on forever in this painting which also supposedly features Tinker Bell in the background...

Nicollette Sheirdan slaps Marc Cherry with a lawsuit...

Nicollette Sheridan (46) has slapped the creator and producers of Desperate Housewives with a $20 million dollar lawsuit. Sheridan played Edie Brit on the show for 5 years before being killed off last year. Although it seemed that all had parted ways amicably, she is not going quietly. The suit was filed on Monday in the Los Angeles Superior Court and accuses the show's creator, Marc Cherry of assault and battery, gender violence, intentional infliction of emotional distress and wrongful termination. She also named Touchstone Television, ABC Studios, and ABC Entertainment group in the suit. She is requesting a jury trial for the case. Here is more information from radaronline.com:

Sheridan alleges that “on September 24, 2008, during a rehearsal for the show, when Sheridan questioned Cherry about something that was in the script, Cherry took her aside and forcefully hit her with his hand across her face and head." The suit says Cherry “created a hostile work environment for the cast, crew and writers who work on the show, and Sheridan in particular.”
Sheridan says Cherry later “begged for forgiveness,” and although she reported the incident to ABC, “Cherry’s abusive and aggressive behavior towards (her) not only persisted, it worsened.”
The suit also contends that when Cherry discovered Desperate Housewives’ co-star Teri Hatcher went over Cherry’s head to speak to ABC executives about him, he said, “I hope Teri Hatcher gets hit by a car and dies.”

Sheridan says that in February 2009, she was informed that she was being terminated from the show, and that her character would be killed off. Her suit claims her firing cost her millions of dollars in future earnings.

WEZ SEZ: Nicollette Sheridan - Loved her as Edie Brit and always wondered why they got rid of her. The show just isn't the same without her. Could this be the explanation?

Read the original story at radaronline.com

Two gay fighters, one vogue dancer...

The most amazing fight that film has ever captured was released a few days ago. The video clip shows two (gay?) men fighting in a Chicago area welfare office. The winning queen goes crazy after the fight and throws down the fiercest triple turn, backwards fall combo I've ever seen. Werk it out girl...

It's time for Ronald McDonald to retire...

The creepy, too-smiley clown that teaches children that eating disgusting food that makes you fat equals a free toy that was made in China, may soon be sent to the same place as Joe the Camel. That's right, Ronald McDonald may be forced into early retirement. As more information is being released about the dangers of fast food, more and more people are beginning to see that our children need to be protected from the ruthless marketing of companies that sell products that will ultimately lead to diabetes, and potential early death. Corporate Accountability International is a coalition of health professionals, parents and corporate accountability advocates and they are calling on the world's largest restaurant chain to retire Ronald McDonald for good. They say that the character has too much influence on kids. This group also helped retire Joe the Camel from Camel Cigarettes.

Corporate Accountability International is throwing a retirement party for Ronald McDonald in downtown Chicago today. This is the first of many events they have planned to force the restaurant giant to retire their "chief happiness officer". (via Chicago Tribune)

These fast food companies are selling food that is literally addictive and causes too many health problems to count (watch Super Size Me for proof if you don't already know). Their shameless marketing to children must stop. If the health and obesity problem in this country is ever going to be changed, we have to start with education in the home and school. How can parents and teachers compete with a clown? How are children supposed to eat healthy when Ronald McDonald is telling them to come to McDonald's? Children are essentially being rewarded with cheap toys for eating bad food. You can't compete with that.

And honestly, a world without Ronald McDonald would be a better place for everyone, not just kids. Now every time you walk into McDonald's to spend $7 on an early death, you won't have to be smiled at by your worst fear: a clown.

WEZ SEZ: Ronald McDonald - it's time to retire for good.  


McDonald's Commercial (1998) - These bloopers are hilarious

Check the Corporate Accountability International website for more info and to help stop the clown.

Only 6 more episodes of LOST...

Feeling, well, LOST? The folks at "Instant Dharma" have a great re-cap talk from last night's episode. They offer a lot of insight and share your frustration with that annoying V countdown clock! Watch the re-cap below, but be warned: CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!