To My Friends: With Love…Sincerely, Toddy English

February 24, 2010

Alanis Morissette: The Muse…

Filed under: Entertainment and Random Celeb stuff — toddyenglish @ 12:49 am

Dear Friends:

Every soul breathing knows that Beyonce Giselle Knowles is my favorite diva (along with Aaliyah). However, Alanis Morissette I hold in equal regard for different reasons. Whereas Beyonce is my good time girl (when I just wanna get up and dance) Alanis is my muse.

I was thirteen years old when I was introduced to Ms. Morissette. It was the 1996 MTV video music awards and Alanis had just won for best new artist (at the time I was one of those kids who wouldn’t listen to anything other than current R&B. You all know them…lol). For some reason I just knew I would like her. I loved her energy. At 21 years of age she seemed so worldly, mature, and sophisticated. Then I watched her wail on an accoustic rendition of “Your House.” I’ve been a diehard ever since.

Alanis’ music inspires me so much. She has gotten me through some really dark nights in my life. It’s like whenever I’m going through something, good or bad, I will listen to one of my Alanis Morissette albums for advice. It’s as if I go to her for consultation sometimes. Everything about her is so raw and honest. And don’t even get me started on that voice. If you can listen to an Alanis song and not be moved in someway then you need to check your pulse.

She enjoyed her greatest success with “Jagged Little Pill”; however, she did some of her best work on “Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie,” “Under Rug Swept,” and “Flavors of Entanglement”(her most recent work).

Anyway, here are some of my favorite songs by Ms. Morissette. “You Oughta Know” I intentionally omitted because she’s so much more than that one tragic “I got dumped and you fucked me up” song.

Seriously, if I were straight I’d do her! (lol)

Cheers!

Toddy English.

   

                          

February 20, 2010

Antonio Sabato Jr (Made Me Go To Summer School!): Gorgeous Guy Spotlight

Filed under: Entertainment and Random Celeb stuff,Gorgeous Guy Spotlight — toddyenglish @ 6:20 pm

Dear Friends:

I was a straight A student until Antonio Sabato Jr walked into my life. In 7th grade I came down with the flu for a week. During that time I happened to be watching General hospital just as they were introducing a character named Jagger (Antonio Sabato Jr). Chile, that was a wrap for your’s truly! I wanted to watch General Hospital more than Gabourey Sidibe wanted another bucket of Popeye’s chicken wings (BAD)! Antonio was (and still is) BEAUTIFUL. I loved his dark looks (eyes, hair, olive complexion, and devilish smile); his body, and the role he played on the show (the rebel with a heart of gold, lol). Sadly, I had to go back to school.  Back then I hadn’t learned how to set a VCR to record. Soooo, I started feigning sickness every 7th period (life science class) in order to get home in time to watch General Hospital. I skipped class so much that I failed the course and had to register for summer school (a first and only for me)! My mother was heated (she did NOT play with my grades). But it was well worth it honey! (lol)

Don’t believe me? Chile, look at the pics and judge for yourself!

Mimi and Ri-Ri (Video Hot Picks) Aka A Superhero Gay Post

Filed under: Entertainment and Random Celeb stuff — toddyenglish @ 5:32 pm

Dear Friends:

Two of my FAVORITEST (not an actual word) ladies have new music videos! Mariah Carey recently remixed her album ‘Memoirs of An Imperfect Angel’ (loved it by the way) with rapper Nicki Minaj. This song is “Up Out My Face”. Anyway, I’m lovin this video! Mimi and Nicki look soooo PRETTY, like some hip hop Barbies (lol). Oh and BScott is up in this one too!

In addition Ri-Ri’s latest “Rude Boy” is fire (of course you would have known that had you purchased the Rated R album!). I’m loving the carribean Grace Jones as Katrina from Vamp vibe goin on!

 

                      

February 16, 2010

Mehcad Asks If You Want To See His *BLEEP* (Calvin Klein Ad)

    

Dear Mehcad:

Yes! I want to see, touch, taste,  and be smacked in the face with it!

With Love…

Sincerely,

Toddy English.

P.S.

Oh my god that was so slutacious but I don’t care. haha.

mehcad-ck-vid

February 13, 2010

We Are The World (2010): I Guess Lionel and Quincy Needed To Pay The Light Bill?

Filed under: Entertainment and Random Celeb stuff,Rants and Raves — toddyenglish @ 6:40 pm

Dear Friends:

Yesterday Lional Richie was on The Oprah’s show. I am honestly surprised they could fit an entire studio audience in the room what with all the ego on stage. Alas, I digress. Anyway, Lionel Richie was telling The Oprah how remaking “We Are The World” with new artists was a labor of love sans any ego…

Oh Puhleeze! That room was chock full of unabashed megalomaniacs (Kanye West was in there, hello?). They even had to record in seperate studios (seeing as everyone was jockeying for camera time like some Soul Train dancers)…

The original ‘We Are The World’ was elegant in it’s simplicity. The world’s biggest musical stars together, in one room, spreading the love around. That song was masterful because nobody came in with an entourage and they weren’t searching for the latest “cause” to belong to. You could hear the passion in their voices. Or maybe it’s because those old school artists just had a lot more talent? Probably a little bit of both.

This one was positively dreadful…

1.) Justin Bierber’s career will be over once he hits puberty.

2.) If I have to hear Jennifer Hudson bellow on one more song I’m going to scream and pull my hair out by the roots.

3.) Jamie Foxx’s unabashed narcissism is always palpable. When is he going to quit with the bad impersonations of Ray Charles? He really did not deserve an Oscar as it was just that…a bad impersonation.

4.) Why did T-Pain have to show up with his auto-tuned singing? Why was there auto-tuned singing?

5.) Wyclef? No…Just…No.

6.) Janet and Michael singing together (well it was Michael singing. Janet was just lip synching to his vocal) was in such bad taste. Can we say exploiting Mike’s image for ratings Lionel and Quincy?

7.) Well, I guess everyone has forgiven Kanye West?

8.) Speaking of Ye…The rap in ‘We Are The World’ did not belong. It didn’t belong. I cannot reiterate that point enough…

Don’t get it twisted…

I hope this is a success. The Haitians need as much support as they can get. However, how about a little originality? If it ain’t broke then don’t try and fix it.

Toddy English.

I Love The 80′s: We Are The World (1985)

Filed under: Entertainment and Random Celeb stuff,I Love The 80's — toddyenglish @ 5:10 pm

Dear Friends:

Everyone is raving about the updated ‘We Are The World’ for Haiti. True, it is for a good cause; however, they should have used the original and superimposed ‘Haiti’ over ‘Africa’ everywhere in the video. This song is so damn memorable because all of the artists lending their voices were true SUPERSTARS.

Bruce Springsteen, Ray Charles, Diana Ross, and Stevie Wonder were WAILIN on this!

Love it baby!

Toddy English.

P.S.

This is when Michael and his brothers were still cute!

Gorgeous Guy Spotlight: Taylor Lautner (Happy Birthday!)

Filed under: Entertainment and Random Celeb stuff,Gorgeous Guy Spotlight — toddyenglish @ 3:48 pm

Dear Friends:

We can all breathe a sigh of collective relief. Taylor Lautner just turned 18 a few days ago. Now, let us all cease doing penance for ogling his muscles in ‘Twilight: New Moon!’

Chile, let me tell you, it was sheer torcher watching that movie! New Moon had me wanting to adopt my own pet werewolf, y’hear me? It was so crazy how transfixed I was everytime Jacob Black sauntered onscreen sans any semblance of a shirt. At one point I closed my eyes. I felt so horrible for enjoying the view! Ten years ago Taylor was some cutesy little kid that my 10-year-old niece went giggly over. Now, flash forward a decade, he’s got me giggling!   

Anyway…

All jokes aside, Taylor is a very handsome young man with a gorgeous smile to boot (in my opinion. One of my friends said he has a pig nose, haha. I think it’s cute). Now that he is of legal age Mr. Lautner can now take his place alongside the other handsome gentlemen under the spotlight!

Happy Belated Birthday Taylor!

Toddy English.

February 11, 2010

John Mayer and His David Duke Dick (Celebs Say the Damndest Thangs)!

Filed under: Entertainment and Random Celeb stuff — toddyenglish @ 9:19 pm

Dear Friends:

In a recent Interview with Playboy singer (if you can call his wretched moaning ‘singing’) John Mayer shows the world WHY he’s single…He’s a narcissist and possibly a closeted homosexual (what straight man talks about giving gay men rim jobs?). Read on…

John on Jessica Simpson:

MAYER: That girl, for me, is a drug. And drugs aren’t good for you if you do lots of them. Yeah, that girl is like crack cocaine to me… Sexually it was crazy. That’s all I’ll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm…
There are people in the world who have the power to change our values. Have you ever been with a girl who made you want to quit the rest of your life? Did you ever say, “I want to quit my life and just fuckin’ snort you? If you charged me $10,000 to fuck you, I would start selling all my shit just to keep fucking you.”

John Mayer on sistahs and his racist dick…

PLAYBOY: Do black women throw themselves at you?

MAYER: I don’t think I open myself to it. My dick is sort of like a white supremacist. I’ve got a Benetton heart and a fuckin’ David Duke cock. I’m going to start dating separately from my dick.

PLAYBOY: Let’s put some names out there. Let’s get specific.

MAYER: I always thought Holly Robinson Peete was gorgeous. Every white dude loved Hilary from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. And Kerry Washington. She’s superhot, and she’s also white-girl crazy. Kerry Washington would break your heart like a white girl. Just all of a sudden she’d be like, “Yeah, I sucked his dick. Whatever.” And you’d be like, “What? We weren’t talking about that.”

Note: Black women…If John Mayer ever gets a hankering for some chocolate just give him the BACK and say, “Oh no honey…My coochie is like Louis Farrakhan/Malcolm X (before the trip to Mecca). haha, that would be hilarious.

Mayer on The Gays…

PLAYBOY: Among the things we’ve read about you online is this: You’re gay. Have you ever kissed a man?

MAYER: The only man I’ve kissed is Perez Hilton. It was New Year’s Eve and I decided to go out and destroy myself. I was dating Jessica at the time, and I remember seeing Perez Hilton flitting about this club and acting as though he had just invented homosexuality. All of a sudden I thought, I can outgay this guy right now. I grabbed him and gave him the dirtiest, tongue-iest kiss I have ever put on anybody—almost as if I hated fags. I don’t think my mouth was even touching when I was tongue kissing him, that’s how disgusting this kiss was. I’m a little ashamed. I think it lasted about half a minute. I really think it went on too long.

PLAYBOY: Perez describes you on his site as a womanizer, a word you don’t like. Is it fair to say you have a love-hate relationship with him?

MAYER: I used to. Now I believe we’re fully into fighting with breakaway chairs. I think he’s pretty much inert at this point. Perez is to hating as Richard Simmons is to health and well-being. [laughs] You can print that. Perez is so authentically off his rocker he will not let you finish a sentence. I think he has some dark things in his past. I think he comes from a little bit of hurt, and I say that with an understated tone. At the end of the day I go to his site, but I don’t see him as a threat. The impact of his tone is beginning to wane. I give a lot more credit to Harvey Levin at TMZ.

Note: Honestly, if John Mayer were gay he might have to settle for a Perez. I don’t find him the least bit attractive.

John Mayer on The Black Experience (and why black people love him)…

PLAYBOY: If you didn’t know you, would you think you’re a douche bag?

MAYER: It depends on what I picked up. My two biggest hits are “Your Body Is a Wonderland” and “Daughters.” If you think those songs are pandering, then you’ll think I’m a douche bag. It’s like I come on very strong. I am a very…I’m just very. V-E-R-Y. And if you can’t handle very, then I’m a douche bag. But I think the world needs a little very. That’s why black people love me.

PLAYBOY: Because you’re very?

MAYER: Someone asked me the other day, “What does it feel like now to have a hood pass?” And by the way, it’s sort of a contradiction in terms, because if you really had a hood pass, you could call it a nigger pass. Why are you pulling a punch and calling it a hood pass if you really have a hood pass? But I said, “I can’t really have a hood pass. I’ve never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, ‘We’re full.’”

PLAYBOY: It is true; a lot of rappers love you. You recorded with Common and Kanye West, played live with Jay-Z.

MAYER: What is being black? It’s making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that’s seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you’ll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude’s.

Honestly, I’ve never given much thought to John Mayer. Granted, his guitar rendition of ‘Human Nature’ at Michael’s memorial was the business; however, I just don’t get the appeal. His music is boring. He looks like Frankenstein had a baby with a fraggle. And he’s always high when he does interviews (apparently). He’s just another Justin Timberlake (e.g. a black culture vulture).

Meh, I’ll pass.

With Love…

Toddy English.

February 10, 2010

Gorgeous Guy Spotlight: Random Hottie!

Filed under: Gorgeous Guy Spotlight — toddyenglish @ 12:39 am

Dear Friends:

I don’t know who this it but I found him on Sozo’s Blog! Chile, he’s just thoroughly edible!

Enjoy!

Toddy English.

Fat Black Girls In Hollywood (Can Gabourey Sidibe Survive Hollyweird?)

Filed under: Entertainment and Random Celeb stuff — toddyenglish @ 12:31 am

Gabourey Sidibe

Dear Friends:

I was watching The View the other day (I love watching those harpies) and the subject of Gabourey Sidibe came up. In spite of her numerous award nominations (for her star turn as Clareece Precious Jones) many industry insiders are already whispering that “Precious” will be Ms. Sidibe’s first and last time at the rodeo.

Honestly, I tend to agree. It is difficult being a woman in Hollywood. It is even more difficult being a black woman in Hollywood. Moreover, an actresses’ problems are further exacerbated if she’s a dark skinned black woman in Hollywood. Now, throw morbid obesity into the mix and it’s possible that Gabourey may never work steadily in this town again.

Outward appearance is so important in our popular culture. It is an undeniable fact that the more attractive you are percieved the more acting opportunities you will be alotted. Ms. Sidibe is COMPLETELY left of what is percieved to be “beautiful” by Western standards.

Well, I hope a sistah does keep on pursuing her craft. She moved me in Precious.

With Love…

Sincerely,

Toddy English.

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