A Little Bit About the MTV Movie Awards

June 11, 1999

I went over to Mary's last night to watch the MTV Movie Awards, and I was all prepared to write up a review today. One problem - it was really boring. We barely even watched it. I do have to relay Mary's funny line. The presenters for one of the awards were Jay-Z and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos. Jay-Z, for those of you who don't know, has a song that goes "Can I get a what what" and Rebecca had on a horrific dress. As they walked out, Mary said "What what...is she wearing?" We repeated that line about 25 times and giggled every time.

I also saw Courtney Love make a fool of herself over James Van Der Beek. Courtney, honey, I got some news for ya. One, he's really not cute. And two, rumor has it he's playing for the other team. And three, you're practically old enough to be his mother.

And then, Jim Carrey was trying to be all Andy Kaufman-esque by acting like a Morrison-esque rock star. Jim, it's not comedy anymore if it stops being funny. I guess it could be called performance art, but that implies that it was art. The annoying part was all the celebrity suck-ups in the audience who were laughing and clapping at everything Jim said. The only person showing any sense was Kate Hudson, whose reaction looked like "What the...?" And they kept showing Courtney Love and Catherine Zeta-Jones in reaction shots. Like 3 times each. Cut to Jim, saying something stupid. Cut to Courtney, laughing and clapping above her head. Cut to Catherine, laughing and tossing her hair. Repeat 4 or 10 times.

And, as Mary said, why is MTV giving out movie awards anyway?

I got some pictures developed and also got them developed to disk, so look forward to lots more images coming up. For now, you can go here (WARNING: long load time b/c of huge images) when you get done reading the entry, and check out a few, including one that I made into a painting and I think it looks really cool. Plus an up to date picture of some of the people from the cast, which I've gotten some e-mails asking for. I know I shouldn't end sentences in a preposition, but I'm too tired to figure out how to reword it.

I went over to Mary and Terry's for dinner last night. Terry grilled some chicken on their super new grill, and we also had corn on the cob. It was quite tasty, and I bow to Terry's superior grilling skills.

Afterwards, I was showing Terry how to attach pictures to an e-mail so he could send out pictures of him grilling to his friends and family. Terry is new to e-mail, and he is very funny about it. He hasn't really grasped the concept that people will only know what he tells them in the e-mail, so he tends to leave out important details. For example, yesterday he sent the picture of him grilling to 5 people, and the only text he included was the line, "Grilling 2: Electric Boogaloo", and he couldn't figure out why Mary and I thought people might be confused by that. Of course, if they know Terry, they understand I guess.

Plus, he gets soo excited about getting e-mail. Every time one comes in, he yells out, "Mar! I got an e-mail!" So if you want to make him happy, send him an e-mail. Have a good weekend!

In the "It Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time" dept.: a teacher tries to teach a lesson about geography

I didn't know Jon Stewart was in the new Adam Sandler movie "Big Daddy"! Now I might have to see it. I love Jon Stewart!

They knocked out a really dumb portion of a proposed law: music retailers would have to post all the lyrics of every recording they sell. Gee, that's realistic.

Jim saw Austin Powers last night. His review? Eh. If you've seen the first one, you've already seen the funny parts.

Another Hollywood Madam was arrested, and the speculation on the client list begins anew.

The Salon mag article about the MTV movie awards makes lots of fun of the size of James Van Der Beek's gigantic head. Perhaps Salon should pay royalties to Wing Chun and Sars.

Sure, Darth Maul was cool. But this is just wrong.