WEEKLY POP CULTURE UPDATE (9.30.08) + Criss Angel “Believe” Review
CRISS ANGEL’S NEW VEGAS SHOW = ATROCIOUS
So I was in Vegas over the weekend and had 3rd row seats for the “soft opening” of magician Criss Angel’s, 
of A&E network’s Mindfreak, Las Vegas Cirque Du Soleil stage show at the Luxor hotel and casino. Believe had a lot of hype surrounding it and the soft opening had actually been pushed back a few times for technical difficulties.
I’m going to get straight to the point: it was terrible. I love his show, Mindfreak, and I find the guy pretty entertaining - but this show was borderline unbearable. It was a mockery of the legendary Cirque Du Soleil style. Cheesy, not believable, and just plain stupid. The guy is a magician and it had like one or two magic tricks in the entire thing. There was some other “magic” worked in - such as making birds appear and disappearing acts - but they were absolutely awful. Towards the end of the show, they bring him out with a microphone and he attempts to sing and dance to his Mindfreak theme song. It’s laughable and sophomoric. He looked like a total ass. The show isn’t set to open for a few weeks and if they don’t get their act together, it will be shut down inside a year. Others agree.
BRITNEY SPEARS IS STILL TERRIBLE
There really are no words to describe how bad Britney Spears’s new song, “Womanizer”, is. Just listen for yourself….
SCAR JO IS TAKEN
A tragedy has occurred and it has nothing to do with the stock market. Scarlett Johansson, of TSF’s “Top 10 Hottest Chicks With Talent” fame, has recently wed Ryan Reynolds a.k.a. Van Wilder. At least that movie is marginally funny. He was formerly engaged to Alanis Morissette - talk about an upgrade. [link]
SONG OF THE WEEK
“Alabama High-Test” by Old Crow Medicine Show
from their new album Tennessee Pusher released Sept. 23
“StreetWars” WATER GUN ASSASSINS
This is one of the coolest stories I’ve come across in recent weeks. A guy in Manhattan has organized a 250 man game of an assassin based game called “StreetWars”.
from the New York Times [link]:
“…Mr. Deane, a freelance audiovisual technician, was becoming a player to be reckoned with in this year’s StreetWars tournament. With only a few days left, he stood a fighting chance at being the last person standing, the $500 prize in one hand and his dripping gun in the other. But with the pool dwindling, his own would-be killer could not be far.
When StreetWars started on Sept. 7, each of the 250-plus contestants was handed a black envelope marked “Shadow Government,” with the name, home address, workplace, e-mail address, cellphone number and photograph of a player to kill by squirting. After each kill, the shooter acquires the dead rival’s target and begins stalking this new person, all the while looking over a shoulder for whoever is hunting him. It is permissible to shoot in self-defense…”
NERDS OF THE WEEK
But they still don’t know what a vagina looks like…
from Science News [link]:
“…The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, or GIMPS, a computing project that uses volunteers’ computers 
to hunt for primes, found the prime and just confirmed the discovery. It can now claim a $100,000 prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for being the first to find a prime number that has more than 10 million digits.
Prime numbers make up the “periodic table” of numbers, the building blocks that combine to form all numbers. A prime number is a whole number divisible only by 1 and itself. Euclid in 300 B.C. proved that there are infinitely many of them (click for his beautifully simple proof). Still, that doesn’t make them easy to find. At the beginning of the number line, the primes seem to be everywhere — 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13… — but in the number line’s more distant reaches, prime numbers become elusive…”
FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL & IRONMAN OUT ON DVD TODAY
Both great movies. Forgetting Sarah Marshall is outstanding and Mila Kunis is unbelievably hot in it. Go rent it.
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Sarah Palin in a 1984 Beauty Pageant … jackpot …
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