Winnipeggers, I am asking for you to boycott. I was disgusted the other night while watching the cable network TLC. Every Friday night my wife enjoys watching "What Not To Wear" while I strum at the guitar, but the music stopped when an ad for their newest show aired.
"Toddlers and Tiaras" - a reality show behind the scenes of child beauty pageants. When is the world going to clue into how utterly disgusting it is to put young girls through this? Child and Family Services should lock these mothers away. I'm sorry if you grew up ugly or if you finished fourth at the Holeintheground, Alabama Beauty Pageant - but to teach your daughters the importance of vanity!?
Being in a beauty pageant once your in your late teens, early 20's...okay, no problem. There's vanity in all us. I know I look good. Not to mention, my wife and I were watching "What Not To Wear." My issue is not the idea of beauty pageants, its the horror of children in beauty pageants.
Without saying it...we all know which members of society are most excited about the pilot episode. Please Winnipeggers, email the station and complain, or at the very least, turn the channel.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
Winnipeg Song Contest from Cool to Cold
I am a songwriter, so naturally when I saw the advertisement for a contest to write a song about Winnipeg, it caught my attention. I'm guessing with the recent success of Guy Maddin's "My Winnipeg" movie, we now feel the next step is to record a song that will bring the same level of respect to Winnipeg's music industry as we have recently gained in our film industry. Makes sense. What doesn't make sense is how they promote it.
The advertisement explains the competition, and when outlining the criteria for writing the song, once again the marketing geniuses looking to attract Winnipeg's most creative song writers cannot get through the advertisement without taking a shot at the city. I quote, "Remember the focus here is on Winnipeg: the good, the bad and the really freakin' cold."
Great... so when the artist begins reading the advertisement, and their creative juices begin flowing, the dam is quickly built, blocking all positive waters and allowing only the negative flow of ideas. Why wouldn't the ad provide suggestions on some of the positive things to write about, instead of focusing on the cold of winter?
Yes people there are four seasons! Get over it! Its cold in the winter. Wow... topic of conversation for a lifetime. I'd really like to take all the winter whiners and place them all in a pot of boiling water for 6 months, lid on, and ask them every day "hot enough for ya?"
Will I write a song about Winnipeg? Yes I will. At least this way I can turn it up real loud and not have to listen to the same rants about the cold over and over again by the same pathetic group of Winnipeggers that make the winter months seem longer and colder than they are.
Buy a toque and shut up!
Hey... not a bad song title.
The advertisement explains the competition, and when outlining the criteria for writing the song, once again the marketing geniuses looking to attract Winnipeg's most creative song writers cannot get through the advertisement without taking a shot at the city. I quote, "Remember the focus here is on Winnipeg: the good, the bad and the really freakin' cold."
Great... so when the artist begins reading the advertisement, and their creative juices begin flowing, the dam is quickly built, blocking all positive waters and allowing only the negative flow of ideas. Why wouldn't the ad provide suggestions on some of the positive things to write about, instead of focusing on the cold of winter?
Yes people there are four seasons! Get over it! Its cold in the winter. Wow... topic of conversation for a lifetime. I'd really like to take all the winter whiners and place them all in a pot of boiling water for 6 months, lid on, and ask them every day "hot enough for ya?"
Will I write a song about Winnipeg? Yes I will. At least this way I can turn it up real loud and not have to listen to the same rants about the cold over and over again by the same pathetic group of Winnipeggers that make the winter months seem longer and colder than they are.
Buy a toque and shut up!
Hey... not a bad song title.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Brendan Fehr - Hot and from Winnipeg
Trying to stay focused on what's cool in Winnipeg is tough when talking about Brendan Fehr, who recently won the Gemini award for the hottest canadian male tv star. (here's a clip of him receiving the award on YouTube) Though not originally from Winnipeg, Brendan spent his awkward years as a teen in Winnipeg, and got his start here doing some minor modeling for local catalogue companies.
On a trip to Vancouver in 1997 to visit his family, he approached a modelling agency in the hopes of landing some work. His potential for film and television was quickly noticed and within a week at his first audition he had landed a Guest Star role on "Breaker High" for UPN. From there he's added impressive credits with a co-lead role as Michael Guerin on the show Roswell - a show about teenage alien/human hybrids living in Roswell, New Mexico; a co-lead role in the first of the "Final Destination" movie franchise and; "Biker Boyz" for DreamWorks SKG, Co-Starring with Laurence Fishburne and Kid Rock, just to name a few.
Most currently, Brendan took on a recurring role with CSI: Miami as Dan Cooper and the lead in the independent film “The Other Side of the Tracks” produced by Harold and Karen Baldwin. Brendan is currently shooting and starring as Jake Stanton in ABC Family’s newest TV show “Samurai Girl”.
So ladies... if you have yet to meet this handsome ex-Winnipegger, now living the posh life in L.A., I suggest you click on the included hyperlinks or type him into Google. I'll bet he becomes the screen saver of choice, providing you all the warmth you'll need to survive yet another Winnipeg winter.
On a trip to Vancouver in 1997 to visit his family, he approached a modelling agency in the hopes of landing some work. His potential for film and television was quickly noticed and within a week at his first audition he had landed a Guest Star role on "Breaker High" for UPN. From there he's added impressive credits with a co-lead role as Michael Guerin on the show Roswell - a show about teenage alien/human hybrids living in Roswell, New Mexico; a co-lead role in the first of the "Final Destination" movie franchise and; "Biker Boyz" for DreamWorks SKG, Co-Starring with Laurence Fishburne and Kid Rock, just to name a few.
Most currently, Brendan took on a recurring role with CSI: Miami as Dan Cooper and the lead in the independent film “The Other Side of the Tracks” produced by Harold and Karen Baldwin. Brendan is currently shooting and starring as Jake Stanton in ABC Family’s newest TV show “Samurai Girl”.
So ladies... if you have yet to meet this handsome ex-Winnipegger, now living the posh life in L.A., I suggest you click on the included hyperlinks or type him into Google. I'll bet he becomes the screen saver of choice, providing you all the warmth you'll need to survive yet another Winnipeg winter.
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