Celebrities

The thing with celebrities is that of course we’re not friends with them but you do know them. It’s a bizarre dichotomy, and it’s no wonder the people who need a little rewiring upstairs talk to celebrities like they’re their mother’s sister’s son’s mother-in-law or something. The reality shows I watch, I watch them because I feel like I know these people, and I do. Not very well, of course. Kind of like co-workers where you get snippets of their life but don’t really know the whole story. Maybe you stop to look at a picture on their desk of them with their friends on vacation in Maui, the one they have in that ugly metal frame they got from Tuesday Morning (you know this because they left the yellow ‘half price’ sticker on it and you can see it poking out).
In any case, when you’ve watched someone like Lauren (yes, the Hills again) since high school - now a successful business woman who gets to date really hot guys, you’re kind of curious where their story goes, even though it’s not really very exciting. The drama is lame and by lame I mean what are any of us doing spending our lives life this – them fighting over wisps of condensation and me at home watching it. I’d rather be in Costa Rica flying down a zip-line in the middle of a cloud forest. But I’m not. Maybe I should start watching that show – the one about the 2 guys who live with an aboriginal tribe … somewhere exotic. My friend Turtle (no not the guy from that crappy Entourage show) watches it. I’ll find out the name, for myself, not for you, non-existent but still creepy and phantom like audience (and Mari).

I had another not so existential crisis today dealing with this issue. In my desperate and random search to find a ‘celebrity’ judge to up our appealability to “News To Me” executive producers, (I luv u guys! And Grayson, you are the coolest dude I know!), I have set my sites on Bill Maher. I waffled over whether I should address him as Bill or Mr. Maher or perhaps just Mr. Bill. Nothing felt quite right. Because again on some level I feel like I know this guy and yet he doesn't know me from adam/atom.

But Bill, if you're reading this, I must have you! You should know that I am not one of those crazy people (see above) but I am a great admirer of yours. I marvel at how candid you are and logical, funny, and just plain real. Yours is the only politically-oriented show that I watch. It’s the only one I feel I need to watch. So yeah I’m a fan but here’s the thing - I think that what we’re wanting to achieve at Blog4Reel is something you can appreciate because it’s about people having a voice and sharing that voice and fuckall. I love that. There’s something very freeing about really saying whatever pops into your head, like I’m doing now. And Bill you do it best, and eloquently so. Blog4Reel would be a perfect project for you, another outlet to reach the masses with your message of common sense, I promise.