MUCH MUSIC KNOWS HOW TO THROW A FUKIN' PARTAY!!!!

The 2006 Much Music Video Awards took place on Sunday June 18th and yours truly had the opportunity to hit the biggest partay in Toronto! It was my first MMVAS coverage and boy did I love it! Love it! Love it!! The stars were in jam-packed party mode knowing that Much provided them with a variety of enticing food, appetizers, ice creams alluring gift bags and so much more.... and the best part all you can drink booooooze. Speaking of gift bags, the guests all got some pricy goodies but when I saw that Vanessa Milano got a gift bag I was like wtf? Who are you and what are you famous for? She’s an MTV VJ and E.T reporter and for those of you not in the loop she’s Nick Lachey’s rebound! Give me a gift bag damnit! There were several lounge lizards. Everybody was getting crunk! Guests included, Keven Zegers from TransAmerica and AIRBUD...God I loved that dog. Raptor Mo Pete, Fall Out Boy, Sky Sweetnam,Ray Robinson, Jdiggz, Melanie Durrant so cute and tiny, Alicia Cutbert, Mr. X, Jellestone, Performers included, Rihanna, City and Colour, Hedley, Metric, Yellowcard Nelly Fertado and Timbaland, Nick Lachey, Simple Plan who controlled their craziness. I guess their slowly realizing that their not 15 and perhaps shouldn't whine so much about teenage issues on their next album. Hedley’s Jacob was giving me a tour, showing me around along with the tempting food that was offered. He is such a ladies man. The ladies were gorgeous and rocked the fashion scene. Dresses were the big hit of the night. They were all beautiful. Don't get me wrong. The fellas were up to date with their trends as well. The men looked sexy in their suit attire. My boy Masari and Manny looked damn good in their apparel. Masari said he has the gift I gave him in his room. AWWW. Amy Lee from Evanescense looked beautiful and she is so down to earth and polite. They have a new album coming out soon and she said she just wrapped up a new video for it. She didn't want to give details on what the video is about but she said it’s good. Her manager, however, looked coked out and all over the place with her sunglasses but she was nice. I love Rick the Temp! He is so nice and he remembers me from doing MuchTakeOver. I'm guessing he's forgiven me for making fun of him twice on the show. I was so upset when one of the security boys told me I just missed Howie D from the Backstreet Boys. BSB's 4 eva! Theory of Deadman attended as well. Newlywed front man Tyler Connolly brought his beautiful wife and they are so cute together. I was so ecstatic when I interviewed fellow Canadian Jay Manual from my favorite and every other girls favorite show America's Next Top Model. He said he just finished shooting the next cycle and he said it’s really good and it's gonna have more cattiness. He said one of the girls even got into a fight with him. OH NO SHE DIDN'T. The beautiful Tricia Helfar from our very own Canada’s Next Top Model posed for a picture with me and she looked so radiant. Some newspaper took a picture of us together, however, I forgot to ask the reporter who she worked for. The big winner of the night was Kardinal Offishal who he says didn't even get invited last year and when he won an award they didn't even air it. However, Kardy walked away 3 awards on Sunday. He always keeps it real and shows that he doesn't forget his roots. I told him to "keep reppin ' Scarborough and Johnny's Burgers. For those of you who live in Scarlem and have never had Johnny's Burgers located on V.P and Shepp you ain't a true Scarborougnian. Kardinal shot one of his videos there as well. Even Scarlem native Mike Myers reaches Johnnys. Kardinal also gave respects to MALVERN! It's good that he is making a difference in our society especially for the Black community. He is influential and is a positive energy in times of gun violence. Another guest who was there was Paris Hilton. Paris Hilton doesn't want people to judge her music by her last name. She says that she's been singing for a long time. Ever since she was a little princess. She also confirms that she is single and that it feels weird because she has never been single in her life. I guess STRAVOS NACHOS is out of the picture. She also plans to start a tour with her album Screwed. No comment. Nevertheless, Paris showed not to be snobby when she posed for a picture with me. I couldn't say the same for Amanda fukin' Bynes. I loved that girl. I thought she was so funny and a good actress. I loved the Amanda Show, All That and What I like About You,. However, when she rushed out without taking a picture with me that made me really upset. Amanda, that's is what I don't like about you, byotch. Another rude mofo was K-OS. I really like K-0S and his album joyful rebellion is incredible. Nonetheless, when I asked for a picture, he said "no more pictures. I'm done with pictures for the night." I asked him if he didn't want to support visible minorities and Ryerson students and he had no comment. K-OS don't you forget that without your fans and the media your nobody Mr. Your shit will still be underground and don't act like you don't like the attention you've received. This was short lived interview was far worse than his acceptance speech at last years awards, where he had no one to thank. With a character like that, you're going no where but downhill. Another ridiculous character was Jessi Metcalf from Passions, to desperate Housewives. He is so short. I tried to get an interview with him but he just brushed past me. I asked him about his new movie and all he said was “John Tucker Must Die.” Well duhhhh. I obviously know the name of it, you midget! That boy seems to always have a new chick in his arms. VJ search judge Tracy, I told her I loved her on the Sabrina the Teenage Witch episode. Robyn Black is a cool cat. I told him to watch out for Michele Peter VJ search 2008 and he was like, she better watch out for me. The Canadian Idol judges were there too. I asked Zach if he remembered our talk over coffee at Second Cup and he said yes, and I remember when I slept with you last night too. EEEESH. VJ Search finalist, Big Norm reppin' Scarlem to the fullest. Frank Nwankwo
whom I think is cute and with whom I had a discussion in French, flawless Nicky Ma who told me Jessica Alba wore the same dress she was wearing for the night, second place Shawn Gehon and winner Tim Deagon, Dallas Green told me his goal is to make refreshing music and not the kind that is familiar. I rapped Mishy Pee for some rapper up and coming Canadian rapper and he spit a rhyme for me. Tori Spelling, DONNA, was sweet, I told her my ring tone was Beverly Hills 90210. Her new husband is sweet and good looking. Nonetheless, he might have been uncomfortable because his ex-wife was in the same room as him. She's Canadian and used to host a cooking show with some short dude. She is apparently writing a screenplay on her bitter divorce because he left her and their adopted kids and had an affair with Tori and eventually ended up marrying her. OUCH! I have a lil crush on the Alexis on Fire guy who also does video on Trial is cute in a nerdy way. Speaking of Video on Trial, some of the main judges were there. I asked them to judge some of the people here tonight but they said no joking tonight, "we're here to party". Who isn't? My favorite is Sabrina Jaleels. She told me I'm her brown sister. She showed a lot of love. Yo go girl! I also ran into Shawn Ashmore and as I was telling him that I ran into his brother and little did I know his brother was standing next to him. We had the giggles for a second. He introduced me to him. The story with Shawn Ashmore and his brother is that I saw him at the Dominion across from the Radio and Television building at Ryerson, however I mistook him from Shawn because their both twins! I apologized for that several times and his brother who is a Canadian actor told me he wasn't gonna hold me against it. They are so sweet. Shawn said he didn't bring his girl Michelle aka Harriet the Spy to the awards. Being a reporter is hard work. I barely had time to sit. I was running around the whole time! I had to hustle and grind big time but I ain't complaining at all. I took a little time out to catch a glimpse of the actual show on a special balcony and it looked stunning. Thank you Much Music! You know how to throw one fukin' partay! It was an unbelievable experience that I will never forget.

VIVE LA FRANCE

The Soccer Craze has hit Toronto! Obviously I'm rooting for France because I was born there and I'm a big fan of Henry and ZIDANE! However, I'm deeply dissapointed at their trajic game playing this year. It's as if they don't care. Allo garcons! COU COU! Take this more seriously!France has not won a game since they beat Brasil in World Cup 1998. They tied with Swiss 0-0 and now Korean Republic1-1. Atleast Henry got in a shot this time. I don't get it. He plays good for his national team but he's just not showing any game this year. The fame has gotten to his head. PRACTICE BOYS! Mon DIEU! C'est qoui ca? In more hurting news, this will be Zidane's last World Cup because he is retiring. I'm dissapointed in Zidanes playing as well. He usually uses his skills wih his foot work, however, he shows that he is getting old on the field. There are so many younger guys playing this year. The oldy's can't keep up anymore. Nonetheless, on the positive side, a BROWN GUY is on the team!!!!!! Vikesh DHORASOO!! YAH! YAH! ALOR........ALLEZ! ALLEZ!

I'm feelin' you mon petit singe!

Our own game of foosball soccer at SWAMP...we were so close.......the game was intense!

Don't just stand there ZIDANE & HENRY! Kick the ball into the net!!!

A MILLION LITTLE LIES

Today I had a class presentation in my English spring school class. The class is called the Art of Writing Life. The presentation was on James Frey's A Million Little Pieces. In recent months, James Frey has come under attack for embellishing and even fabricating portions of his memoir, A Million Little Pieces. In the book, James Frey depicts his time in a rehabilitation clinic in order to fight his battle against drugs and alcohol. He explicitly describes to his readers his troubled past with drugs, alcohol, violence and even criminal activities. Frey faced numerous triumphs and tribulations in order to get sober. Frey went publicly promoting his book for two years before making it on Oprah Winfrey’s book club and than landing a guest spot on her show. James Frey’s fame suddenly escalated and his memoir became one of the top best sellers in the non-fiction category. He had overcome the disease as an alcoholic and a drug addict and he wanted to share his experience with thousands of people. Many readers were amazed that at such a young age, one man overcame so much pain, agony and distress. Nonetheless, many readers felt robbed when it was revealed by editors of an investigative website that James Frey’s memoir was completely fictionalized. From the portrayal of the characters to his life of crimes was all aggrandized. Frey’s clever and modern literary work was deliberately exaggerated in order to increase the scope of its dramatic appeal.

The ethical implications of Frey’s A Million Little Pieces are debauched and immoral. He is an author and he did not act in a professional behaviour when he lied about the details in his supposed memoir. James Frey made the deliberate act of deviating from the truth and was alleged of implication in several parts of his memoir. Which included, his criminal profession, jail conditions, and standing as an outlaw. Firstly, in a key part of the memoir, Frey claims he spent three months in an Ohio jail after hitting a police officer with his car and initializing a confrontation with police during a night of drinking and smoking crack. “I stayed in jail that night and I was arraigned the next morning on charges of Assault with a Deadly weapon, Assaulting an officer of the Law, Felony DUI, Disturbing the Peace, Resisting Arrest, Driving Without a License, Driving Without Insurance, Attempted Incitement of a riot, Possession of a Narcotic with Intent to Distribute and Felony Mayhem.” Nonetheless, he ran his car onto a curb, never hit a cop, no record of any police confrontation and no record of crack. Surprisingly, at the time of the arrest, there was no such thing as felony DUI on the books on Ohio. There was only a half a bottle of beer in the backseat of the car. Frey by no means specifies a precise spot but indicated this happened near where he attended college in Granville, Ohio. The Granville police department, found only one record regarding Frey. Frey claims that he was arrested 13 or 14 times, however, the police department could not find anything. In addition, the local sheriff told reporters that there is no record of Frey ever being locked up at the county jail.
Moreover, editors at the website The Smoking Gun said Frey told them he embellished some details in the book. Frey on Oprah stated that he accepted that there were embellishments in the book and that he has changed things. Frey stated that some parts of the book were revised, names were changed and identifying characteristics were altered. Frey stated that things were changed because they were too absurd and for plain reasons of effectiveness. For example, Frey on Oprah said that there is one example of a change made where he talks about a wound he had in the beginning. Frey said he said he cut his cheek. “He picks away the scabs. He opens my mouth. His finger fits though the hole. He gets a needle and some string and tells me to clench my fists and close my eyes.” In reality, Frey claims what happened is when he fell down, his lower teeth tore up his lip and penetrated it in two separate places. He received the stitches that he talked about receiving. However, in the book he said, he cut his cheek.
Frey claims that he was a raging young man who hated living in abundant, wealthy community. Frey states that he was an outcast who “didn’t relate to any of the Kids in the Town....At first I made an effort to fit in, but I couldn't pretend, and after a few weeks, I stopped trying. I am who I am and they could either like me or hate me. They hated me with a fucking vengeance.” Frey says he was bullied. In reverse, he also gained a bad reputation. Frey states “Teachers talked about me, Parents talked about me, the local Cops talked about me.” Frey says that he wanted to battle everyone, “I didn't care whether I won or lost, I just wanted to fight." Moreover, Frey said that he was one of those kids who parents said warned their children to stay away from.

Nevertheless, that message of Frey was mislaid on Paul Santarlas, who is a high school classmate of James Frey. Santarlas says that he grew up directly across the street from Frey on Valley View Drive. “I don't think he was ever in any more trouble than anyone else.” Moreover, Santarlas did not read A Million little Pieces before being interviewed. Santarlas recalls Frey as being a popular guy in school who was just like every normal teenager. Thirdly, in addition to these revelations, Frey also invented a role for himself in a devastating train calamity that cost the lives of two female high school students. In what may be his book’s most ridiculous escape from truth, Frey surprisingly manipulates facts of the event so he can fallaciously represent himself as the tragedy’s third victim. It’s a condescending and offensive scheme that has left one of the victims’ parents confused. that the parents of the victims said that Frey had nothing to do with the accident. Frey states in the book that “The car’s driver was unhurt and everyone felt sorry for him….I got taken down to the local Police Station and questioned. That was the way it worked there. Blame the fuck-up, feel sorry for the football Hero….I took a lot of punches for that bullshit, and every time I threw a punch back, and I threw one back every single time, I threw it back for her.” However, the Sanders family learned of A Million Little Pieces when a relative had heard about the book on Oprah. Furthermore, the mother of the victim Melissa Sanders, suspected the train accident described by Frey was the one that took her daughters life. The mother began to read the book and did not recognize any valid facts about her daughter. Moreover, the mother stated that Frey never had any connection with the accident.
Fourthly, the book is overflowing with questionable characters. Such as, the rich mafia connected Leonard and the heartbreaking crack whore Lilly, who was Frey’s girlfriend, who he met at the clinic. The plot is questionable because while they do not doubt Frey spent time in rehab, there really is not anyone left besides Frey himself to assure facts for many of the book’s eccentric stories. Frey says that the characters in the book either committed suicide, been murdered, died of AIDS, been sentenced to life in prison, gone missing, landed in an institution for the criminally insane, or fell off a fishing boat never to be seen again. Frey admits that he changed the way of how the character Lily killed herself. She committed suicide by cutting her wrists not hanging herself. Furthermore, Frey states that in the book when he left rehab, he claimed he left with his brother and friend. However, he only left with one person.
Furthermore, Frey states that he did not have take any medication to help him feel any pain during his trip to the dentist. In the book, Frey describes a skin pinching painful experience in which he had undergone at the dentist in order to get two root canals without any Novocain or anesthesia. Frey describes, “My face is on fire and the veins in my neck are exploding and my brain is white.” Oprah says that Frey’s publisher, Nan Talese, said on the show that Frey’s story of root-canal work did not make her second guess his work because she also had the dental surgery without benefit of anesthetic. Moreover, Frey said that he wrote the dentist part of the story from memory and he does not remember whether he took any medication. In essence, Frey explained that he lied about the dentist because the book had already been promoted to the public. The fact that portions of the book are fabricated does detract from its power because it is about the message that he was giving to people, people who were trying to rehabilitate themselves. Drug addicts and alcoholics, who look to this book for help found Frey’s strength, courage, will power and words of wisdom to draw a powerful significance to them. Even though I hate liars and I am still dissapointed in his lies, Frey's contemporary style of writing caught my attention. I swore so much in front of the class for the presentation. I LOVED IT! The proff even said motherfucker. To add a special touch, I wore a printed shirt for my presentation that said MY LIFE IS BASED ON A TRUE STORY...the proff loved it! EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ A MILLION LITTLE PIECES and form your own opinion.

CRAZY MOFOZ SHOW IS HERE!!

Finally! Crazy Mofoz Show has arrived in blog form! Just when you think your sane, Crazy Mofo will lurk behind you and get enamored! Crazy Mofoz Show's main ambition is to bring out da party girl or boy that is concealed in an individual. Host, Michele Peter reports the inside scoop on celebrities, the craze on fashion, the empowerment of music and all the fun kickin' jamz in beautiful T.O. Michele also brings into existence the serious social issues that impact our city. From gun violence, violence against women, street youth, homelessness, legalization of marijuana to inequalities against visible minorities.

Shout outs to BIG G, all my people in Scarlem, mama, papa, Vimal,Sarahisthenewblog.blogspot.com, ICE,DarkAngel,RyeGirls,Brownkyats,

Much thanks for the people making my dreams become a reality: Ryerson Univeristy, Tamil Student Association, TVO Kids, MUCH MUSIC, Edge 102, Flow 93.5, Smart Ask,Miss Tamil 2005,Canadian Idol,Ishtyle TV,SouthAsianNewsweek,

Madame Santacono,Mrs.Brasi,Mrs.Simmons,Miss Warren,Professor M.Koch,

Mr.Bertram,Jeff E,Speaker of the House Alvin Curling,D.J Starting From Scratch and his ppl, Russel Peters,Urban Music Awards and all my lil monkeys!

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