Did Your New Year’s Suck?

Well it didn’t suck as bad as these guys. Possibly the worst live event coverage ever.

This clip shows a montage of “highlights,” filled with abrupt cuts, throwing to nobody, unintentionally live microphones, inability to know/care if it was midnight and pretty much every other error that could have made it live on the air. Hosted by Jamie Kennedy, and former MTV Canada host Jessi Cruickshank, it was an epic disaster that unfolded live on LA indie station KDOC.

Peple who did not show up that were supposed to: Mario Lopez, Eva Longoria, Joey Lawrence and Jennifer Love Hewitt

At one point, the show interviews one of Hugh Hefner‘s ex-girlfriends holding a Carl’s Jr. cheeseburger because the burger chain sponsored this awesomeness.

Macy Gray sounded stoned as hell and didn’t know what time it was.

On multiple occasions, Kennedy and/or the show’s producers ask on a hot mic whether the show is currently live (by the way, it was) while liberally peppering in some profanity for the sake of it. The first few seconds of one return from commercial break began with Kennedy on-stage looking around confusedly while off-camera voices asked “Where’s my stage manager?” and declared: “Don’t fucking give me shit.”

The control room couldn’t seem to figure out how to press the right buttons and so interviews were cut off mid-sentence, camera shots sometimes never changed, random Carl’s Jr. ads ran during the middle of broadcast, and a video of Jamie Kennedy at a comedy club took about 10 seconds to load.

One random woman in the crowd figured out how to read teleprompter behind co-host Stu Stone and mimicked his read for an entire two minutes. Sheer brilliance.

Some guy dropped a big ol’ “motherfucker” live on-air.

Oh hey, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony seemingly missing the memo about “not cursing on air,” because… umm… they cursed. A lot.

Kennedy tries his best at hitting on a drunk black woman: “You should go white, because it’ll keep your vagina very tight.” Also on-air.

The show ends with a fight on-stage behind the hosts… and then silence as the credits roll. Awesome.

By the way up and coming video people, this is probably an example of what not to do.

Jamie Kennedy, KDOC, Epic Fail

The Canadian Independent Music Association is Completely F*cking Insane

For the love of everything, if you are a Canadian, you now HAVE to stop Bill C-11. Call a Conservative, email stuart@cimamusic.ca and tweet @StuartCIMA to tell him what an
idiot out to lunch executive he is. Start tweeting under the tags #boycottcima or #stopc11. Tweet your concerns to #C11, as many of the MPs are watching this hash tag.

Sorry Canada, CIMA, C-11, No Internet, Canada Regulations, Bill C-11, Copyright Law
This is what CIMA wants your internet to look like.

This has to be the most frightening amendments I have ever seen to a legislation and I am not alone in thinking this. In fact, Alan Cross and I quoted the same parts of Michael Geist’s post.

CIMA, regaulatory, demands, C-11, STOP CIMA, SOPA Canada, Canadian Independent Music Association, SHAME

The steady procession of Canadian music industry representatives to the Bill C-11 committee continues today with the Canadian Independent Music Association (CIMA) ready to add to an already long list of industry demands to completely overhaul the bill.

The music industry demands keep growing, but CIMA’s list is the most radical to date as it would create liability risk for social networking sites, search engines, blogging platforms, video sites, aggregators, and many other websites featuring third party contributions. If that were not enough, the industry is also calling for a new iPod tax, an extension in the term of copyright, a removal of protections for user generated content, parody, and satire, as well as an increase in statutory damage awards. Taken together, the music industry demands make SOPA look like some minor tinkering with the law.

If you like YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest, iPod, or Google, and you don’t want them to leave or block Canadian IPs, you’d better speak up now. I’m dead serious. Canadians cannot have CIMA like controls restricting their internet experience.

Here’s a list of CIMA Executives who want to ruin your internet experience. MAIL THEM. Or phone them.

Stuart Johnston, President – stuart@cimamusic.ca 416-485-3152 ext. 232
Donna Murphy,Vice-President of Operations – donna@cimamusic.ca 416-485-3152 ext. 225
Sharon Hookway, Membership / Communications Coordinator – sharon@cimamusic.ca 416-485-3152 ext. 221

Tell them to stop being lapdogs for US record labels, since they got their panties in a knot in the US over SOPA.

Email or tweet the committee members (They are MPs and work for YOU!):

Charlie Angus charlie.angus @ parl.gc.ca @CharlieAngusMP
Scott Armstrong scott.armstrong @ parl.gc.ca @Armstrong_MP
Tyrone Benskin tyrone.benskin.c1 @ parl.gc.ca @tbenskin
Peter Braid peter @ peterbraid.ca or peter.braid.c1 @ parl.gc.ca @peterbraid
Paul Calandra Paul.Calandra @ parl.gc.ca @ PaulCalandra
Dean Del Mastro delmad @ parl.gc.ca @MPDeanDelMastro
Pierre Dionne Labelle Pierre.DionneLabelle @ parl.gc.ca (No Twitter)
Mike Lake LakeM @ parl.gc.ca @MikeLakeMP
Phil McColeman phil.mccoleman @ parl.gc.ca @Phil4Brant
Hon. Rob Moore Direct Contact form! or rob.moore @ parl.gc.ca @RobMoore_CPC
Pierre Nantel pierre.nantel @ parl.gc.ca @PierreNantel
Scott Simms scott.simms @ parl.gc.ca @MPScottSimms
Glenn Thibeault (Chair) glenn.thibeault @ parl.gc.ca @GlennThibeault

I swear do it, or you will lose the internet. In fact, I couldn’t even post this clip if this bill passed as CIMA wants it:

Bill C-11 is Canada's SOPA, South park, no Internet

Window Guy Road Rage — A MUST READ

I think this has to be one of the single worst road rage incidents I have seen in my life. What do you think?

A driver of a window truck cuts off another driver in a civic, after passing on the right hand side, on Market Street south, close to the Casino. The civic doesn’t honk, despite narrowly avoiding a collision, or being forced into oncoming traffic.

The two drivers both turn left onto Icomm Drive, and pull up to the Brant-Icomm-Colborne Street intersection. The civic was in the left turn lane, the driver who cut him off was in the right hand lane. They both stop at the red light.

The civic looks over to the right, likely mouthing some words like “fucking retard” or “what a retard,” when the driver who cut him off leaves his truck, crosses two lanes of traffic, and starts “calling on” the other driver to a fight in the street, or to argue, in the least.

The civic driver says “get back in your car” twice, before the truck driver bangs the civic’s driver side window twice, and proceeds to go back to his truck.

Now, what the hell just happened here? Who gets out of their truck to yell at another driver when it was clearly his fault? He probably deserved the civic driver saying “what a retard,” because that’s the type of behavior he just displayed.

So it gets better. One would want to call the truck driver’s company to let them know what an asshole this driver was right? Well, the company was McNaught Windows, and the driver was the owner, Dave Schoenfeld. In fact, here is a picture of Mr. Angry Windows guy right here:


Dave Schoenfeld, owner of McNaught Windows, and a guy who has anger and road rage issues.

So this again begs the question: If you are in your own company’s truck, with the vanity license plate WYNDOWMN, would you get out and harass another driver in your own city? What if this was a young girl? A mother with children in the back seat? What if the civic driver had a gun or something?

You sir, did not exercise great judgement today, at on or about 3:00pm on Friday, November 11. You sir, are an asshole. I would never recommend having a guy install my windows with anger issues. That might result in more broken glass.

So if you happen to see this vehicle in your passing, let him know that his road rage issues just made him look like an asshole, or as the guy in the civic looked like he was muttering, a “fucking retard.”

McNaught Windows, Angry Driver, Asshole, Road Rage Truck Driver

Excellent job, Dave.

Three teens accused of killing Barrie man “not monsters” … Really?

Three teens charged with second degree murder in the death of a Barrie man cried in court today and said they were “not monsters.”

Jake Workman, Justin Spring, Matthew Spring. They deserve a long jail sentence.

Justin Spring, 19, his brother Mathew Spring, 18, of Innisfil, and their friend Jake Workman, 18, all charged with second-degree murder, will be held behind bars pending the outcome of a later bail hearing.

Police say the teens were charged following an altercation that ended up in tragedy after Bradley Hubbard, 42, of Collingwood was killed at the Putting Edge, a glow-in-the-dark golf course in the south end of Barrie at around 9:30 p.m. Saturday.

Hubbard, the father of seven children, was playing golf with his girlfriend and his two daughters, aged eight and four, when he was stabbed or hit with a golf club as his family watched in horror.

We feel very sorry for the family about what happened,” said the father, James Spring, shaking his head. “We are shaken over all of this, so we can only imagine what the family is going through.”

“But we want people to know that these are good kids – they are not monsters,” said step-mother Shelly Spring. “They didn’t go in there to kill somebody. They were just being rowdy and it turned into an altercation that got out of control. It never should have ended this way.”

I’m sorry, Shelly, your kids are monsters. When your kids kill a man, I don’t care what the excuse is, your kids are monsters. Your kids deserve the book thrown at them. They may not have gone to a mini putt with intent to kill someone, but they did. And they killed someone because they were asked to be less rowdy in front of his daughters? Shelly? James? Fuck your kids. They deserve a LONG jail time. They killed a man in front of his own children. End of. No amount of whining and crying gets you out of this one.