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J03Y's Year In Review: 2012 (Best Books #5 & #4)
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!
The "You Tried" Star Awards gives seemingly prestigious awards to the hardest flops in the celebrities that impacted the year the most. This spans music, movies, art, politics, sports, basically if you're a celebrity then you're not beneath getting a Star Award if you flopped harder than a fish out of water.
I award with medals based on certain criteria:
Bronze - "I Don't Think You Even Tried"
Silver - "There Was An Effort To Make En Effort"
Gold - "You Poor Unfortunate Soul"
And not to say it's up to you to guess who's getting what awards, but basically go and spit out ideas! I might make last minute changes you never know!
Now without further ado, the first award shall be handed out!
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KRISTEN STEWART
for...
well i mean come on. first there was 'Snow White and the Huntsman,' and then the whole mess where she cheated on RPatz with the director of the same movie. who was married.
and you'd think she'd learn her mistake from the first 'Twilight' movie and the fact that all of Hollywood basically loves her ex-ex-boyfriend a million times more than her. the logic this girl follows is seriously non-existent. almost as if she's trying to say "i'm a rock ass bitch and i don't need know one's approval."
sweetheart, what are you trying to prove? you can't act. you can't keep a MENTALLY stable relationship. and you're one big bitch. and it's like you don't even care. can i be the first to actually give her an award for being one huge flop that will only be remembered for her bitchy attitude and the Twilight Saga?
yes? yes.
Congrats Ms. Stewart. An actual award that deems you on your quality.
the tea was spilled. be here for the Silver Award guise.
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"I don't think you even tried" award
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asfdgsgf.
yes? yes.
DRAG HA!
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EW. dont see her appeal she looks like a drug addict
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Poor Kristen
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!
The "You Tried" Star Awards gives seemingly prestigious awards to the hardest flops in the celebrities that impacted the year the most. This spans music, movies, art, politics, sports, basically if you're a celebrity then you're not beneath getting a Star Award if you flopped harder than a fish out of water.
I award with medals based on certain criteria:
Bronze - "I Don't Think You Even Tried"
Silver - "There Was An Effort To Make En Effort"
Gold - "You Poor Unfortunate Soul"
And not to say it's up to you to guess who's getting what awards, but basically go and spit out ideas! I might make last minute changes you never know!
Now without further ado, the first award shall be handed out!
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LANA DEL REY
for her general lack of stage apathy
ok, i don't want be so mean as to say she's a horrible artist. her voice is good, her lyrics are deep and semi-moving without taking into consideration that they make no sense, and provided her SNL and Jay Leno performances actually voiced the quality of emotion her songs do emit, she could've done so much better commercially.
but the reason i won't be so harsh on her, is actually a couple. for one thing, she did in fact try to make a better reputation, which does make her flop even harder given the attempt. another reason is because, according to what some of my friends say i was a bit harsh in my review of 'Born To Die,' which was completely not intended. the album had emotion and while her voice is good, it still drawls and is a bit of a bore. the instrumentals don't help either.
also, i may be known on this site to be a Lana drag, but that's not my intention here. yes, i believe she was a major flop of 2012, but i'm not going to stoop so low as previous posts have to outright criticize her for doing the one thing i value most in anyone: for trying. as pretentious and bitchy Lana may come off, i'll respect her for trying not to flop and i'll respect her for at least being vocally more decent than most mainstream girls of today's pop industry.
that's it for today, girls be here for the GOLD STAR see who i thought was the biggest and most adorable flop of the year
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A Lana drag? Let me perch.
EDIT: Bye, i was definitely not expecting you to give a compliment to the girl.
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I Love Lana but mmmkay, just DRAG ha
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Don't agree, Lana is amazing
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!
The "You Tried" Star Awards gives seemingly prestigious awards to the hardest flops in the celebrities that impacted the year the most. This spans music, movies, art, politics, sports, basically if you're a celebrity then you're not beneath getting a Star Award if you flopped harder than a fish out of water.
I award with medals based on certain criteria:
Bronze - "I Don't Think You Even Tried"
Silver - "There Was An Effort To Make En Effort"
Gold - "You Poor Unfortunate Soul"
And not to say it's up to you to guess who's getting what awards, but basically go and spit out ideas! I might make last minute changes you never know!
Now without further ado, the third and final award shall be handed out!
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RYAN LOCHTE
for his philosophical twitter ramblings
i mean look at them. look at them:
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"u can't always walk a straight line, especially if the line is crooked"
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"all my problems would be second and all my worries will be gone"
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"I nee some energy for tomorrow race. All I need is an ice cold Mountain Dew. With some gatorade dink that noenthat will kre p u up and ready"
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"How do u make your dreams come true? By the mirror on the wall!! #jeah"
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"Rocks, paper, siccor........"
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"Pain is temporarily, pride is forever"
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"Can u catch lightening in a bottle and set the water on fire?"
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"when u jump off make sure u land feet first"
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"u gotta meet ur female dragon, then u can have that dragon talk!!!!"
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i mean guys. GUYS. there is practically zero grammar or coherency. like sweetie there's text talk and there's just stupidity. like what is going on gurl. GURL. what is going on. and what is with this consistent use of the tag "#jeah"???
these tweets are such hilarious flops it makes the poor boy look adorable and i feel so bad for him because he's such a good athlete. but like seriously dafuq is going on with you Ryan? get your **** together before you make more tweets because this is just embarrassing.
that's it for this year, girls. be here next year, who knows what celebrity is going to flop big time in 2013
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His tweets
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Oh Lana...hehehe
Lochte, the modern day Socrates...lol
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asfgsfadgadf #jeah
Poor guy.
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BOOK WEEK!!!!
so first of all, sorry for being late! i'm posting the top 5 books i loved this year!
also, if you love mainstream music or just genuinely prefer listening to singles, come check out my Weekly Countdown!
DEFINITE SPOILER ALERTS!!!!!!
5 THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF LOST SOULS
Personally I'm just a fan of the Mortal Instruments series. CoLS was just heart-wrenching, the whole thing with the fact that Jace is just eternally bonded to Sebastian was just like a you both wanted to strangle him but hug him because you felt sorry for him. Also when Malec and Magnus and Alec and NOOOOOOOOOOO WHY and Simon is just adorable.
Things that made me cringe: the almost rape scene ew like why Sebastian, the static in Jordan and Maia's relationship and how horrible a fit Izzy is for Simon and that one scene with the blood and ewwwwww.
i'm sorry if this came off as more fangirly but i just love this series and this author so deep analysis isn't warranted here and just to let you know i warned you about spoilers
4 BEAUTIFUL CREATURES
Ok, so this book was very interesting. I read it since I heard the movie was coming out in February (the trailer looks awful though ) so I thought well why the hell not, and I actually liked it a lot! It feels like, following the guy Ethan, you're getting wrapped in a story that's already been in the making and it makes you smile when you see that it's his choice to keep getting deeper involved with something that was originally meant to. It's also a cool concept, Casters and the differences between good magic and dark magic.
Downsides: it feels like it can become a very complex version of 'Twilight.' It goes more into magic than the supernatural which essentially opens a very large can of worms. The book itself was good and it was cool reading it, though.
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I am so dumb...I have not read any books this year or the past couple of years but these books sound interesting .
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Haven't read these books
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Not into books sorry
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Didn't watch those yet
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