Tyra, Tyra, Tyra

Posted by Lady Mel On Monday, September 28, 2009 2 comments

LadyMel: Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the Late Night Show with your fabulous host, LadyMel!  *audiences claps* Our first guest became the first African-American supermodel to solo Sports Illustrated  in 1997. She's a talk show host and the executive producer/creater of the hit CW show "America's Next Top Model". Lets welcome, Ms. Tyra Banks!!

*walks onto stage, smiles at audience, shares a kiss on check with LadyMel, sits in chair right beside host.*
LadyMel: Welcome, welcome. Omg, who are you wearing?!

Tyra: You like? I'm wearing this nice Chanel dress. Girlfriend, I was at New York's Fashion Week and I met your idol, Lady Gaga. She is absolutely stunning.

LadyMel: I know. *smiles* I see you are wearing your weave tonight? You went au-natural on Larry King the other day. Why can't you be au-natural on my show?

Tyra: LadyMel, do you know that there are like millions of people watching me on your show right now? I have to present myself to the fullest.

LadyMel: Uhm, millions of people were watching you on CNN that night, I don't see any difference.

Tyra: Girlfriend, it's Larry King of all people. His presence alone can make black women take off their weaves. *audience roars with laughter* I have deep respect for the man and his career.

LadyMel: So, you will only show your natural hair to a seventy something year old guy? What other things do you show to old desperate hippy guys out there, Tyra? *audience laughs* How weird. What do you have there in your hand?

Tyra: My new Blackberry Smartphone! I love it. I tweet all my fans and friends whenever I have a chance to do so. I am so obsessed with it.

LadyMel: What do you think about the whole "Twitter" phenomenon?

Tyra: I think it is fabulous. OMG, I'm trying to ask as many questions as possible on my page. I have like 3000 followers and according to Twitter,  I will have 5,000 more. People love me. People want to know what I am doing in the morning, what I do behind the scenes of my talk show and on ANTM. Social networking sites are becoming the new black now. LadyMel, you have to be a guest on my show.

LadyMel: Which one? I hope you won't torture me. *smirks*

Tyra: Haha. I think you will make a wonderful ANTM guest host. I know you love to criticize people so I think it will be a great experience. Now why would I want to torture you like that? I'm a diva. It comes with the territory. *snaps fingers, audience cheers*

LadyMel: Which furthers my point. *audience laughs*. I have seen your bitch-free moments on ANTM. It's quite entertaining actually. Let's roll some footage please.

Tyra: *two minutes later, points at camera* Girlfriend, I had to teach those girls not to take over my show. They came with attitude problems prior to the show and I had to straighten them out. If anyone wants to be an aspiring model, you can have a "positive" attitude and strong confidence, but I don't want to see the other side of that in front of my judges and fans. It makes me look bad. It makes them look bad. I always root for my girls.

LadyMel: Which brings me to my next question. Why are your season winners or even runner-ups for that matter not as famous and ubiquitous within the fashion world like Kate Moss or even yourself at the prime of your modeling career in the 1990s?

Tyra: I have no idea. *Nervous as hell* Uhm well, Eva Pigford who was the third season winner on the show is now a Covergirl spokeswoman and she was just recently on the Young and the Restless. But I generally think that supermodels are not as popular as they used to be ten or even twenty years ago. Now Hollywood actresses are taking on that role.

LadyMel: We are running out of time, are you promoting anything? Anything new?

Tyra: Well, ATNM is going to premiere its 14th season *audience cheers* Wednesday, September 30th at 8:00pm EST on the CW. Tweet me on Twitter everyone! My screename is TyraDivalicious. And I will be on America's Got Talented in the next three weeks. I will be a guest-host.

LadyMel: Thanks Tyra for coming on the show. Next, we have Gerard Butler! *audience claps, show goes off air*
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Disclaimer: I am making fun of Tyra Banks. :D

I Got Goals On My Mind

Posted by Lady Mel On Sunday, September 27, 2009 0 comments

My goals this week are to:

1. Complete this internship application. I'm so excited!

2. Continue to update this blog with interesting topics.

3. Watch at least the 2nd season of the Buffy Vampire Slayer TV series. So far so good. It's been like 7-10 years since I remembered watching it on UPN and CW(formerly WB). Sarah Michelle Gellar is dynamite! I might post something about the show later in the future!

4. Download new music on my computer.

5.  Connect with old high school and college friends.

The Primadora

Posted by Lady Mel On Saturday, September 26, 2009 2 comments

Fashion is all around us. I like pictures. Vibrant ones. Vibrant ones that express my personality and temperament. You guys should see my picture collection that I have on my USB drives. It's stunningly awesome. This year, I was interested in this season's big fashion shows of New York and London. So I've decided to show some of the best clothes out there for this spring. I also threw in some random pics that I thought would complement this post. This is my fashion runway show. Enjoy!









I Found True Blood Under the Twilight Moon

Posted by Lady Mel On Friday, September 25, 2009 1 comments

Vampires. I love them. Something about them brings the animal (Rawwr) in me, but it depends on the book and the TV series. I haven't read the Vampire Diaries but I cannot wait to watch the first episodes of the adapted CW series and see if it is worth my precious time.


As a product of the Internet generation, I have something to say about the "Twlight Phenomenon". Now, I am familiar with the books. I only read the first book (must spend some time reading the rest), yet I can tell you that I was hooked on Stephanie Meyer's hypnotic writing skills. I kept reading and reading even when I had thought I would pass out on my bed before boredom. Mind you, I was an ignorant sophomore in college. Then, I read realized before I left Smith that the book series contained allegories of sexual abstinence and heteronormality, and the plagiarizing of main themes and character developments from older vampire "young adult" book series such as True Blood and the Vampire Diaries. But that is not the point. It was an entertaining book, you see.


Then, I saw the first movie late last year and almost threw up. Bad acting, bad acting, bad acting. Someone else should have played Edward Cullen instead of the unattractive Robert Pattinson. I seriously don't know why or how little gullible middle school girls love him. I don't see the sex appeal. Kristen Stewart was pretty good but I would advise that they spend some more time in acting school or with their acting coaches. Then, I got quite frustrated with the movie reinforcing the traditional gender roles within the context of the main characters, Bella and Edward. Does Bella really need a man to save her hopeless self from the big bad vampires out there? Can't young adolescent vampires control their goddamn sexual urges? Like seriously.


Need I say more? I have not read the Sookie Stackhouse short shories but the TV series is soo good. I see why Meyers copied her plot from. I have seen the first two seasons on HBO and let me tell you. This series has some of the best acting I have ever seen. The love triangle between Sookie, Bill, and Eric got me hooked from the start. Eric Northman is HOT! The gore, the sex, the violence, the morality intrigues me. Now, I know some of you are going to think that I am a hypocrite because I like True Blood more than Twilight and that I sound like a young female groupie myself. I may be but Twilight is geared towards a much younger audience and when I see little girls get all excited about the new movies and books, I think they should understand the whole literary process, not just the sugar coating. If there were more talented actors and that the fans were more educated, I think that I would have liked Twilight more. God, I am in a loop right now. It's a complicated issue.

 What do you guys think? Good constructive criticism ^.^

Patience is a Virtue

Posted by Lady Mel On Thursday, September 24, 2009 1 comments

President Obama and the First Lady are hosting this year's G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania this week. I, like millions of people, are anxiously waiting for the United States and the other industrialized nations to step it up new and effective initiatives to combat global climate change, the war on terrorism, the economic recession, and human rights. People are expressing their rights of freedom and are continuing to protest in "tea parties" and demonstrations in Washington D.C, Pittsburgh, and New York. Change will come. But it will only come when people realize that diplomacy, civil obedience, and compromise are the answer. I have never been so frustrated in my entire life. So I have made a guildline for Congress to see:

  • Get health care reform done. Democrats and Republicans argue like screaming banshees on the Congress floors. If we cant revise our health care system out of all things, then we cant change our other institutions. Its all intertwine.
  • Obama is black. Deal with it.
  • Make sure you keep EVERY American in mind when creating new bills. Don't ask for what your country can do for you, ask what you do for your country and not just for the lobbyists and your party's constituents. No wonder why this country is fucked up.
  • Imagine that you are poor with no money. Don't let your priveledged health care benefits and cultural elitism blind you from the real problems that matter.
  • You have no power, the American people do.
Congress, write this down...yes you.

                                                            

Kate Gosselin
 She and her ex-husband are probably the most over-rated people in the world. But I am alone going to talk about Kate today. I congratulate her for having eight children. That is a feat in itself. I seriously would going ballistic if I had children, let allow eight young kids.
   However, why do you need to expose these kids to your millions of TLC viewers every week? We all know its for the ratings and the extra little pecks for yourself and your children. I dont want to see you on the View ever again because I hate the show and secondly, we do not want to know what goes on in your overrated life. Let your children grow up without the camera. You don't need any more exposure. I bet in the next two years, you will be a nobody. And yes, I won't watch your rumored to be talk show. You are not using our tax-paying dollars wisely. At least, you are not as crazy as Octomom but you don't need any more exposure and publicity. And I dont like your hair. You are not Victoria Beckham.