MJ AND EDDIE MURPHY (WHEN HE WAS SINGING!)

In my internet travels I found this video from 1992, back when Eddie Murphy had a record deal and MJ hooked him up by being in the song. By the way I also found out that Rockwell (who is related to Berry Gordy and changed his name) really did use MJ for his song. Much to VH1's Pop Up Video's chagrin. I think its kind of funny. I also found an old clip of MJ accepting an award with Eddie Murphy, no not the Arsenio Hall one, even though I remember watching that as a kid. My sister and I used to love Arsenio Hall.

THE THRILLER EPK (electronic press kit)

I found this on MichaelJackson.com and damn what I wouldn't have given to at least give this guy the interview that WAS ALWAYS supposed to happen and really talk about the shit that everyone needed to know about him. Unlike Bashir's bullshit ass documentary that basically replicated the Oprah one from back in the day and Bashir's constant need to keep talking about the hyperbaric chamber and shit that was so far off.

MAYBE THIS TIME

Ok this is the final post I will add from "Cabaret". Liza Minnelli sings "Maybe this time" and in a way this is kind of how I feel about LIFE right about now. I couldn't help but post it.


(side note: just for the record, of course, I do not own any of the images of Liza or Cabaret, this belongs to the people who paid for this. I just got it out of youtube and can't wait to purchase the DVD if they have it on DVD. And maybe I'll even get "Liza with a Z" oh she has a store on amazon.com lol)

FOR THE RECORD

I understand that since I do have a twitter account (twitter.com/saigiddy) and this website is on my profile that I will be getting more people viewing my blog. I didn't create this blog to stay up on what everyone else is writing. In actuality it is just an account of a human beings likes and dislikes. A human by the name of Saira--which obviously is me. At one point someone on my twitter directed me to an article that was very informative but also attempted to kind of kick me down by saying my blog will never make money. I thanked the person for sending me to an article about monetizing websites (WHICH WAS GOOD INFO TO KNOW) but at the same time I replied it was never my intention to make something that the whole world is going to like. This is about a different kind of society, a society that is some what dead now. The kind that admitted that they liked the Muppets, Pete and Pete, Daria content you haven't seen or missed. And just some good well written films. Good television programming and shit that you just don't see anymore thanks to some of the mindless dribble now on tv. I post what I like and I can't always aspire to be what anyone wants me to like so if your searching for a bunch of gossip, you may find it and you may not. But I will tell you this, YOU the reader, if you are out there, will definitely enjoy the content. Maybe it'll open your eyes to something you didn't know you could like. And maybe you'll just be like, hey I remember that ish! Just wanted to post that for once.

Don't wonder why Mein Herr!

I haven't been on in a minute. I know, I know, I made promises. I've been sitting at home blogging for another website but my own. How nice! So many things have happened since the last time I posted. One of my favorite singers and one of the reasons why I was attempting this push to the top was to meet him....Michael Jackson. I wanted to post a lot about him and yet I haven't done anything. That doesn't mean I haven't been researching. Soon I will post about MJ but for now lets talk Liza. Liza Minnelli that is, I have to say I have gotten more and more interested in stage, and night club acts. I think she looks great in this performance of "Mein Herr" from the 1972 movie "Cabaret". She also looks super cute in her outfit. Hmm...maybe my halloween costume this year...lol

LATINAS ON THE RUN GOT EVERYONE HYPE!!

Pretty soon our tv is going to be taken over by the lovely ladies of Latina's on the Run. A new show that follows 2 beautiful girls, Victoria Ortiz and Jessica Perez through the streets of New York City. The girls go to invite only events as well as city wide events and interview locals and celebrities alike. All the while the girls are having fun and showing New Yorkers what they are missing by not being more involved within there small yet exciting city. I find this show to be really cool not just because I know the girls but also because in the show, they show how the girls are working within the industry to propel their respective careers. Jessica Perez recently won the Dr Jays Fresh Faces campaign for 2009 which means that we will be seeing her face all over billboards this summer. Ms Victoria Ortiz is a model and video vixen. She has been in magazines such as Maxim and was also featured as the hottie of the month for the extremely popular New York City internet radio station, Alistradio.net. I attached a little sneak preview, a teaser if you will, brought to us via Vladtv.com.



I for one can't wait for the new season to be on and poppin'!! Past episodes can be found on youtube.com. The girls also have a blog, Latinasontherun.blogspot.com, so that we can all keep up with these girls on the move. Stay tuned! and don't say I didn't put you on man! :)

Women On Top.

Today was just one of those days. I woke up feeling like it was summer, yet summer has still not hit NYC yet. It's always a push / pull with the weather out here. At times it's amazing, the colors that can be viewed when the weather is just right serves up creativity on a silver platter. But those are just my thoughts about the changing of the seasons here in my little NYC.

I woke up today to the sun beaming in my face, a thing that many New Yorkers hate, especially after a party night such as sunday is claimed to be. I got up, did my morning ritual and started to flip through the channels. As I was doing this I stopped at HBO, which was playing an old favorite movie of mine, "Woman On Top". At first you may think that this movie is about feminism. It is but in some ways it isn't. The movie centers around the main character Isabella Oliviera. As a child Isabella develops extreme motion sickness that forces her to have to live a certain way. Because of her motion sickness, she isn't able to play with her friends so as a child she found a place in the kitchen. She is taught by the cooks that work in her house and through this she finds her amazing potential as a chef. She falls in love with a charming man, and her sickness drives him crazy. He becomes infuriated that he always has to give her first dibs on everything. He owns a restaurant in which he makes Isabella the head chef, but takes all the credit, keeps her in the back and in the dark and takes all the credit for her cooking. His ego leads him to cheat on her, something that she ended up witnessing. And so she decides to move to San Francisco a place not used to exotic food. She somehow lands a job cooking for a tv show...

I want to keep going with my synopsis but their is a point to all this writing. The movie is made to the sounds of Brazil. The soundtrack is on point with the movie and with the food that Isabella cooks. I read some bad reviews for the movie, how it doesn't make sense or her sickness isn't plausible. But I'm honestly here to say that the movie is plausible in certain aspects. Her motion sickness, I had extreme motion sickness till I was 15. I had to always sit in front, I had to always be cooked special meals and I had to come to terms with my excessive puking. I guess the story to me isn't so far fetched. The brazilian versian of santeria is similar to the other versions that I see all the time. I know people who practice these rituals to save themselves from the wrath of the saints and gods. My father is a chef and he taught me certain recipes to keep myself from starving. That and so that I can restore the nutrients I lost from puking my insides.

I guess I just wanted to argue the fact that this movie is good. I guess I'm just a hopeless romantic on the low. Haha don't tell anyone.

Ok I'm gonna post a trailer and then a few scenes that I can find. But the trailer is kind of whack. But the movie is hot. Trust.

I guess I really liked this movie because it reminds me of all the things I enjoy about being latina. The colors, the flavors, the sounds of a culture. I just think the director, Fina Torres, did an amazing job telling a story.

By the by this sexy brazilian actor by the name of Murilo Benicio is in it and I'm telling you, he is charming. Just standing in a corner, he is charming. He was in this novela or brazilian soap opera, "El Clon". This novela was amazing, and it was written very well. If I find it I'll post it. Even though its translated from brazilian to spanish.