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To the person who noticed I haven't updated this thing in a year: this post is for you.

hi.

I am of the MTV generation but I did not watch their annual video music awards show tonight. I repeat, I did not watch the VMAs tonight. I did try. I just got annoyed with the show after about eight minutes. I saw Li'l Kim come out in an orange jumpsuit with her hands behind her back.  She took off the jumpsuit and then proceeded to spend most of her time on stage talking about herself and thanking her fans for their support while she was in jail (she didn't serve her entire sentence, by the way).  She eventually presented the Best Male video award to James Blunt, who I don't like. Before the first award was given out, Jack Black did this painfully unfunny song about the show. I adore Mr. Black but it was pretty cringe-worthy.

I think the worst was watching The Raconteurs perform with Lou Reed. Halfway in the middle of a Velvet Underground song that they were doing, I realized that a good size of the people sitting there in Radio City Music Hall (and at home) had no idea who he was. Then I put on Arrested Development and felt better.

I'll try to watch the show again this weekend when it re-airs no less than a million times. I can't make you any promises.

Surprisingly, this summer I have seen quite a few movies before they have left the theaters and ended up on retail shelves. Since movies cost $11 in NYC, I tend to wait to rent them.

Although the summer is not quite over yet, I'm sharing the list of movies I've managed to see before Labor Day Weekend arrives.

X-Men 3: The Last Stand [indifferent]

Superman Returns [liked it]

Over the Hedge [liked it]

Clerks II [funnier than I thought it would be]

Talledega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby [loved it]

Snakes on a Plane [liked it. went with a fantastic crowd.]

Little Miss Sunshine [loved it]

Movies I'd like to see before they leave the theaters

Idlewild

Pirates of the Carribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Beerfest

Strangers with Candy

I commute almost daily via subway. During my trek, I choose to listen to music. Listening to music makes the commute more bearable. It also is a lifesaver. It saves me from boredom and having conversations with complete strangers.

Today, a wealthy gentleman sat next to me on the subway. I assume he is wealthy since he was wearing a tie with money all over it in different denominations. He saw someone he knew and gestured for me to move over. I moved over. The man he knew left the train into the ride and apparently, he began to talk to me. Unfortunately, I did not hear him because I was either listening to Sleater-Kinney's "Wilderness" or "Kennedy" by The Wedding Present. I wasn't just being rude by ignoring him. But then again, I would have ignored him if he had my attention.

Later in the commute, I realized that he started chatting up every woman that sat to the right of him. I was seated to his left. He was holding a fan that came from the Broadway version of "Beauty and the Beast". I overheard him offering this fan to the woman who sat next to him when she got on the train at Atlantic Avenue. Prior to that, a woman who sat in that seat, became so annoyed with him that she got up and sat elsewhere. Apparently, she really didn't want the fan he offered either. Money tie man was not deterred, he dusted himself off and tried again with another woman who only wanted to take a rest between destination a and destination b.

I didn't realize until after he left the train that he tried to get my attention but I was too consumed with my ipod to give him the time of day. A woman across from me was laughing with another at him and pointed to me and said, "He tried to talk to her too!"

So if you're out there sir, and come across this, thank you for teaching me that ignorance is truly bliss.