Vancouver: CIBC Run For The Cure

The CIBC Run For The Cure is fast approaching, and though I won’t be participating myself, another Vancouver Blogger will be and I urge you to offer her any support you can.

Rebecca of Miss604.com and her husband John of Audihertz.net are both going to be running in the event where all money raised will be donated to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, a very good cause.

Technically, in order to run as a full sponsored participant, which Rebecca is hoping to run as, she will need to raise at least $150. So if you have any spare change sitting around, help out the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation and the CIBC Run For The Cure by going to Miss604.com and sponsoring her via the link in the right hand sidebar.

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Reality TV: Supernova Now Rock Star Supernova

Even before CBS’ hit reality TV series Rock Star Supernova came to an end, the band received their very first, of which there are sure to be many, lawsuit. A band from California known as Supernova, known only for their song “Chewbacca”, which was featured in Clerks, filed the lawsuit against Supernova to prevent the band from taking their name, and rightfully so, they won.

This put Rock Star Supernova winner Lukas Rossi in a bit of a hard spot as he joined Tommy Lee, Jason Newstead and Gilby Clarke in a then nameless band. However, it didn’t take long for the lightbulbs to go off and the band decided to go on using the name Rock Star: Supernova, how original. I am surprised and not surprised all at once at the fact that CBS would let them use said name, as surely CBS has a copyright and TM on the Rock Star: Supernova, or at the very least, Rock Star tag.

According to Reuters, Rock Star: Supernova is planning to drop their debut album, featuring Canadian contest winner Lukas Rossi, on November 21st. In the hopes of pumping the album up a little more the band has decided to release two singles already, “It’s All Love” and “Be Yourself & 5 Other Cliches” on Yahoo! Music.

Rest assured, I will be about as likely to pick up a copy of this, what is certain to be steaming pile of crap, of an album as I am going to pick up Ryan Star’s new album.

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Reality TV: Rock Star Supernova Loser Ryan Star Releases Album

Rock Star Supernova reject Ryan Star has seen quite a bit of press since his “controversial” elimination from the show. Personally, I never really cared for his stuff and didn’t think he was all that great. But apparently a lot of people disagree with me on that matter.

Stone Crow/KOCH Records is trying to piggy back of the press and attention generate by the hugely popular Rock Star Supernova series by picking up Ryan Star and putting a rush-release on his debut album, Songs From the Eye of an Elephant. The album is set for a rush-release date of today and will feature stripped down outtakes and demos highlighting Ryan’s “pure talent.” So much for titling your debut album “Darkhorse”, like you said during Rock Star Supernova, eh Ryan? How quickly we forget.

Ryan Star also managed to snag the featured artist spot on MySpace for the month of March and was written up in Billboard Magazine as “absolutely incredible” and “a shining presence awaiting his close-up.”

One thing is for sure, I’m not going to be buying this piece of crap, the only album coming out I’m even interested in right now is Monument to the Masses by Ima Robot.

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Video: A Piece of Canada’s History

I remember seeing this video over and over when I was a little kid watching TV and I always liked it. Every kid that grew up anywhere in Canada with a TV before the 90’s will have to recognize this piece of canadian heritage and will most likely love it. So, without further adieu, I present to you, the Log Drivers Waltz by Wade Hemsworth and the National Film Board of Canada:

Reality TV: Dancing With The Stars Jerry Springer Without Partner

It was clear from the get go that Jerry Springer, host of the Jerry Springer Show, didn’t have a hope in hell at winning Dancing With the Stars, but now his chances are even lower then before, if that is actually possible.

Jerry’s Dancing With the Stars partner, Kym Johnson, has developed a knee injury and has been forced to withdraw from the competition. Tragedy of all tragedies, whatever shall we do!

You know they’ve got to bring someone else in to repalce Kym Johnson and I can’t help but feel sorry for whoever that unlucky soul is. Sure, getting on a show like Dancing with the Stars can do wonders for your career if you’re a relative unknown, but if you’re partnered with Jerry Springer you’re not going to be around for very long and the air time you do get will be about as good for your career as being on the Jerry Springer Show.

In other Dancing with the Stars news:

Mario Lopez is being accused of cheating and being a ringer.

A women that was allegedly his former dance partner has said Mario Lopez is far from being an amateur and won a series of dance competitions when he was younger.

Mario’s reps came back by stating that he is in no way a professional or ringer, and the only dance competition’s he’s performed in where hip-hop dance-offs. Ooh, how ghetto.

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Survivor Cook Islands: Is it all BS?

A fellow Vancouver Blogger that goes by the name Gus Greeper has a really interesting entry about this season’s Survivor Cook Islands. Apparently she went to the Cook Islands with her family in 1998 and from how she’s describing everything, it sounds like a lot of the aspects of this seasons Survivor are complete bs. Just a few points out of the post that make me go hmmm, are:

  • “There are fifteen islands in total. The main island whose name and capital is Rarotonga is so small you can ride a motor scooter around it in approximately twenty minutes.”
  • “ALL of the tribes are on Rarotonga although they are trying to make it look like they are using multiple islands they are not. Exile Island takes no more than ten minutes to swim out to I don’t remember exactly but I reached it without problem.”
  • “The white guys are at the park where I ran the triathlon. They could head over to the ‘Fruits of Rarotonga’ for a fruit smoothie.”
  • “The one group on aitutaki are in the lagoon where all the nice resorts are. It just kills the illusion that they are out in the wilderness.”
  • “And the reason that they stopped chasing the chicken is they would have run out on the road and been run over. You may have noticed in one shot when they were chasing the chicken that there was a pile of poles lying on the ground, you can’t cut trees in the park so they have supplied them with poles. Plus I think if you check they do not have bamboo in that part of the world. We have been all over that island I have never seen any.”

To find out more about this season’s Survivor Cook Islands and the Cook Islands in general, check out the story over at GusGreeper.com.

Related Links:
Segregated Survivor Cook Islands
Survivor Cook Islands: Sekou Eliminated