If you scroll down, you’ll see that I wrote a blog about it way back on the 15th, and it turns out I was right!  Yep, that massive rock Simon bought his girlfriend Mezhgan was indeed an engagement ring!  Everyone’s favorite British ladies man is turning in his bachelor days for wedded bliss, I wonder if that’ll make him nicer on Idol?  Hopefully not (although this is his last season anyway).

Jason talks to comedian Mitch Fatel about comedy and Mitch gives tips to anyone who wants to try stand-up.

Here’s another quick tip for your Spring cleaning:

The next hotspot for Spring cleaning is your bathroom or makeup counter.  Cosmetics DO have expiration dates, but let’s be honest; if you aren’t using that makeup what’s the point of it clogging up your cosmetic bag and drawers?  If it hasn’t been used you can donate it, but if it’s just old, cracked, caked, or ugly THROW IT OUT!  Once you do this you can really examine what you use and how you can update your look by slowing adding new products!  See, purging is good for two reasons; you clean up your space AND you make room for exciting new stuff!

MSNBC.com put out a list of the cities in America with the worst BO. Here are the 7 stinkiest cities in the country:

7. Yuma, Arizona

Serious sweating in the summer, plus lots of dead, dry skin, thanks to desert conditions. That makes Yuma a paradise for the bacteria on the skin that causes body odor.

6. San Antonio, Texas

This city is blazing-hot in the summer months and its citizens are in the top ranks of smokers.

5. New Orleans, Louisiana

It’s a very sweaty city, with high temperatures and humidity year-round. And it’s a smoker’s paradise. The state tax on cigarettes is low and the public smoking ban doesn’t extend to bars. About 20 percent of adults in this city smoke.

4. Chicago, Illinois

Stress sweat is the smelliest kind and Chicago is the number one most stressed out city in the US. There’s also a high percentage of smokers with about 1 in 5 Chicagoans lighting up.

3. Phoenix, Arizona

With a 105 degree average temp in the summer, it’s the sweatiest city in America, according to the Old Spice Top 20 All-Time Sweatiest Cities. The dry, desert climate also means lots of parched, dead skin.

2. Houston, Texas

Houston has one of the hottest summer temperature averages and chart-topping, year-round humidity.

1. Las Vegas, Nevada

A scorching, dry summer heat makes it one of the sweatiest cities in the US. A quarter of people in Sin City are pack-a-day smokers and that doesn’t help.

Hey Tea Baggers, militia members and other nuts who are afraid of the government, heed my warning and do NOT go see this film because it will probably be one of the scariest movies you’ve ever seen.  The Crazies is a remake of an old George Romero movie, by the same name, that wasn’t very good and didn’t get good reviews.  The only reason why people remember the original 1973 Crazies is mostly because it’s a Romero film that isn’t about zombies…kind of.  (Oh, for those of you who don’t know, George A. Romero is the Godfather of zombies.  He’s the master behind the Night of the Living Dead films and the reason why we even have zombies in movies today.)  This remake however, which was directed by Breck Eisner, is original where it has to be original and traditional where it has to be traditional.  Eisner is relatively new to filmmaking and very new to the horror genre.  That might have helped here since the look of the movie is fantastic.  Large chunks of the film don’t look or feel like horror at all.  Some of the scariest scenes happen in broad daylight or in open fields.  He also didn’t lean too heavy on the violence to carry the movie through its 100 minutes.  Don’t get me wrong, there’s puddles of violence; but it’s not used as a crutch to make the movie scary.  The horror from The Crazies is from a simple few elements: core characters fighting for survival that are in constant peril, fear of disease, marauding monsters that used to be family and friends, the destruction of a small town and a government that’s drunk with power.  You put those things in a movie and I’m hooked.  Now The Crazies didn’t do it as well as say Frank Darabont’s The Mist did or Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later; those are in the Top 25 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time, if you ask me.  No, The Crazies isn’t that good, but it is still good.  It delivers the scares at just the right places and even though most are the “make you jump” scares that usually come from simply a loud sound effect, it also has the disturbing, prolonged images that when paired with pure silence, are much more effective.  The acting is adequate given that it stars Timothy Olyphant (Scream 2 aka Worst Scream Killer in the series) and Radha Mitchell, who last bored us in Surrogates.  These two aren’t exactly masters of the thespian arts, but considering that they were given a script that was subpar at best, they did just fine.  The Crazies won’t win any awards or appear on anyone’s Favorite Horror Movie list, but it’ll give you your $10 worth if all you’re looking for is a creepy horror movie that makes you unsure of who to be more scared of – the government or your neighbor.
The Crazies (Rated R)
Gavin Grade: B-

Director Kevin Smith was in the news recently for getting kicked off a Southwest flight because he was too fat to take up one seat.  He was all over the entertainment shows and blogs and movie sites online for weeks.  Remember when he used to get that kind of press because he made good movies?  Yeah, I’m starting to forget those days too.  Cop Out stars Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan as detectives trying to bust up a Mexican drug ring in New York City.  Does that sound cliche to you?  I hope so because that’s the intention of the movie.  Cop Out was made with the purpose of being a walking-talking cliche of all the “Buddy Cop” action/comedy movies you’ve ever seen.  Think Lethal Weapon, Bad Boys, and 48 Hours, but in this case it’s directed by a guy who’s used to making low-budget “d*ck’n'fart joke” comedies.  The fact that it’s a cliche is perfectly fine.  That’s not what’s wrong with the movie.  In fact, that’s a very funny premise since it’s such an easy genre to mock without making fun.  The problem is that if you are going to do that you have to make the action, ass-kicking and the comedy, side-splitting.  Cop Out was more on the funny side but far from side-splitting and lacked so much action it was downright boring.  The film had scenes of pure hilarious moments followed by grueling dry spells of failed punchlines and awful improv.  Sadly, that could be said for all of Kevin Smith’s movies in the past decade; pretty sad for the guy who created Chasing Amy and Dogma.  That might have been because Tracy Morgan isn’t funny in large dosages and Bruce Willis is sentenced to play the “straight guy” to Morgan’s dummy and that’s a waste of good talent.  Of course it doesn’t help when you pepper in hackie performances from Smith alumni Jason Lee (Chasing Amy, Mallrats), the inexplicably famous Sean William Scott (American Pie) and a villain played by newcomer Guillermo Diaz, who’s not bad but acts like he’s either deaf, retarded or a deaf retard.  There are those people out there that will go to see this and expect nothing new, clever or groundbreaking; and they will probably tell you that this movie is great.  And you know, as long as you’re okay with spending money on stuff like that, then to you it probably is.  But if you want to see a movie that is the EXACT same film; that lampoons the cliche “Buddy Cop” action/comedy movie and not only does it perfectly, but pays perfect homage to the genre without mocking its genetic make up – go rent the 2007 Edgar Wright movie Hot Fuzz staring the brilliant Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Star Trek).  I just wish Kevin Smith would’ve done that before making Cop Out so he could’ve picked up a few pointers.
Cop Out (Rated R)
Gavin Grade: D+

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Here is the video of former American Idol contestant Kimberly Caldwell taking part in the Wake Up Call’s 5 Personal Questions:

Here is her explanation of her “Sexual Fantasy” about an American Idol host:

Here is a clip of Snoop on the daytime soap “One Life to Live”:

It’s about time for Spring cleaning, here are some things you can recycle that you might not have known about:

Phone Books

If your city takes mixed paper, phonebooks can be recycled

Aluminum Foil

It’s just as recyclable as aluminum cans, but it’s not accepted by all recycling programs.  Check with your local waster department before you recycle foil and make sure it’s clean first.  Besides recycling foil, you can wash it off with soap and water and reuse it for storing food or you can try crumpling up old foil and throwing it in the clothes dryer to reduce static cling.

Aerosol Cans

You can recycle EMPTY aerosol cans with other metals.  If it has any product in it, don’t toss it in your bin.

Labels

Labels aren’t a problem on bottles and cans because recycling facilities are already set up to handle them.  It’s okay to recycle slightly dirty glass, plastic, and metal containers.

Metal Clothes Hangers

Places like New York City, Phoenix, Houston, and Portland, Oregon accept metal clothes hangers.  In most cities there are plenty of recycling centers where you can drop them off.

If you haven’t heard the story yet, yesterday a trainer at Sea World was killed by one of their whales. Here is a witness account of what happened: