Reality TV - I'm From Rolling Stone (premieres Sunday, January 7 on MTV)

Moochie · 01-02-2007, 04:43 PM

Summary
Follow six young writers with the opportunity of a lifetime -- a summer working as writers for Rolling Stone in New York City. They'll fight over assignments, struggle to land celebrity interviews and race against deadlines... all in hopes of seeing their words and byline in the pages of the legendary music magazine.

Find out who has the "write stuff" to win a coveted staff writer's position, and the right to say, "I'm from Rolling Stone."

Meet the Cast
Colin (19 yrs. old -- Eugene, Ore.)
A wide-eyed college kid who is as much indie rocker as reporter is seemingly a perfect fit for Rolling Stone, but deep inside Colin doesn't know if he's prepared for the big-time journalism scene. Can he convince the bosses (and himself) that he's ready?

Favorite musical artists: Broken Social Scene, Wilco, The Arcade Fire

Resume: Journalism major at University of Southern California; musician; writer/intern (Filter Magazine, USC's Daily Trojan)

Krishtine (23 yrs. old - The Philippines/San Francisco)
WIth a ghetto background, Krish is all hip-hop, all the time; she wants to bring the 'hood to Rolling Stone. She's a real fighter, but used to being a big fish in a little pond. Can Krish keep her mouth and attitude in check and make it at Rolling Stone?

Favorite musical artists: Tupac Shakur, Lauren Hill, Mary J Blige

Resume: Editor of RUCKUS magazine; Lifestyle Editor for the San Francisco State University school magazine; freelance writer (San Francisco Bay Guardian, XXL magazine, HipHopox.com, Mass Appeal, Vapors)

Krystal (23 yrs. old -- Salinas, Calif.)
A most knowledgeable fan of Rolling Stone and classic rock music fanatic, Krystal was spoon-fed the magazine as a kid. Krystal is star-struck, but she also finds admirers in odd places. Can Krystal get past being a fan and find her way as an ace reporter?

Favorite musical artists: Bob Dylan, Queen, The Rolling Stones

Resume: Hartnell College journalism major; writer (Homestead Review, Ping Pong); award-winning poet

Peter (22 yrs. old -- Sydney, Australia)
Determinted to shed his image as partier and to prove that despite his relative lack of journalism experience, he is as a contender. Hardworking and bright, Peter keeps his head down and pushes onward like the good sportsman he is, but is that enough to earn the respect of the top editors?

Favorite musical artists: The Libertines, Bloc Party, Wolfmother

Resume: Sociology major at UC Berkeley (on athletic/crew scholarship); sports newsletter writer

Tika (25 yrs. old -- Buffalo, N.Y.)
With endless drive and determination, Tika holds steady at all times. Although she keeps a low profile around the office, she doesn't hold her tongue once outside work, reminding us how hard she works in comparison to the other young writers. She thinks she's a shoe-in for the Rolling Stone gig, but does the brass see what Tika sees?

Favorite musical artists: The Roots, Nina Simone, Tamar Kali

Resume: University of Buffalo graduate; freelance journalist (The Source, The Ave); Gender-bending lesbian; slam poet; former model

Russell (25 yrs. old -- San Francisco)
Talented, explosive, and self-sabotaging, Russell is the best writer, head and shoulders above the others. This job is his to lose and he knows it. But he's so prone to acting out ... will Russell be able to win against himself and his bad-boy behavior?

Favorite musical artists: Ghostface Killah, Fiona Apple, Nas

Resume: Sixth-year San Francisco State Unviersity student; started writing in juvenile hall; freelance cultural and political writer; staff writer (Pacific News Service); former editor (Yo!, The Beat Within)

Moochie · 01-02-2007, 04:44 PM

Sorry about the lack of pictures - MTV's site is a pain that way.

I'm more excited than I was before for this show. It has the potential to be really interesting.

xstarsgoblue25x · 01-02-2007, 11:01 PM

MTV's site does suck. i hate going on there.

i found info on the cast on the rolling stone site though, so here's some info w/ pictures

Krishtine de Leon
AGE 24
HOMETOWN San Francisco
COLLEGE San Francisco State
FAVORITE BOOKS Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed; Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
FAVORITE MOVIES Austin Powers, Dumb & Dumber
FAVORITE MUSIC D’Angelo, Voodoo; John Coltrane, In a Sentimental Mood; the Jacka, The Jack Artist

What’s the origin of your name?
I was named after an Indian philosopher named Krishnamurti. My dad really liked him because he said that the way to find truth is not by following a leader but through yourself. When I was little, my dad would tell us we were going to Disneyland and take us to Ojai, California, where the J. Krishnamurti Foundation is. He really tried to beat the philosophy into my head. I hated it until I started reading his books.

What were you like as a kid?
Teachers said I was very smart but that I was a chatterbox. And a lot of kids said I was bossy — before Kelis said it was cool. I was always a cool kid, never a dork — I wasted a lot of time with the in crowd.

How did you get into hip-hop?
I like to say that I was born the year hip-hop reached the West Coast, which was ‘82. I wasn’t there yet; I was born in the Philippines. But I was absolutely immersed as soon as I came to America — my older sisters and I used to make dance routines to Salt-N-Pepa and Kid ‘N Play.

Do you have a personal motto?
“Married to the Hustle.”

How did you get into writing?
In middle school I started toying around with rapping. At that point hip-hop was already such a strong influence in my life. I would write rhymes in these little books and I would hide them. It was like this secret that I had. It was always therapeutic. That’s how I started writing period. I started thinking I wanted a career in writing when I was a junior in high school. I would write these essays and my teacher would pull me aside, and I’d be like, “What did I do now?” I was so used to getting in trouble. And he’d be like, “No, these essays are amazing!” He started really putting a bug in my head that I could really go somewhere with it.

When did you start writing about music specifically?
In college. For my final project in my magazine journalism class, I pitched a story on how violence is affecting the Bay Area hip-hop community. Around that time, lot of the artists were getting killed just before their careers started to blossom. People would only hear about them post-mortem. That was in September of 2004 and coincidentally Mac Dre, who was one of the biggest rappers out here, got shot and died. That’s when I started to really take it seriously. During my last year of school, a friend of mine forwarded me a job posting for this magazine that was coming out — a hip-hop magazine. It was the first of its kind in the Bay Area. At first I came on board as a writer, but I turned in my first draft and gradually discovered that nobody had edited it. I asked the co-founders, “Who’s editing these pieces that are going in?” Nobody was doing it. So that’s when I got super-involved.

What was the magazine called?
Ruckus. I’m not going to try to be big-headed about it, but I feel like the fact that we created our own publication really helped the Bay Area music community reach its potential, because people that didn’t understand it through the music could pick up our magazine and see aesthetically and culturally, all the aspects that they wouldn’t be able to see without physically being here.

Peter Maiden
AGE 22
HOMETOWN Sydney, Australia
COLLEGE UC Berkeley
FAVORITE BOOKS Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram; William Boyd, Any Human Heart
FAVORITE MOVIES Scent of a Woman
FAVORITE MUSIC The Libertines, Xavier Rudd

What were you like as a kid?
I was always pretty responsible. In high school I was captain of the rowing team. I went to nationals for skiing when I was eleven. I was on the rowing team at Berkeley. It was such an intense lifestyle – the weight off my shoulders is huge.

What would you say was the most significant event in your life?
I’d say the chance to work at Rolling Stone. It was like I’d been preparing for this, and the opportunity arose.

How much journalism experience did you have before the show?
Basically none. I was a sociology major at Berkeley – I had researched and written papers, which is a similar process to writing an article. My writing skills weren’t particularly good. I was more interested in the ideas and how important it was to try and convey my ideas and get the specifics down. Studying sociology, I had this set of tools to dissect culture. When I got to Rolling Stone, I tried to apply them to a different medium.

What shaped your taste in music?
Growing up, my dad played the Traveling Wilburys and Springsteen and Jerry Lee Lewis. But then going to school in America, especially in California, I mean, we’d listen to Tupac and Biggie and it was always more hip-hop. Then there was the Australian surf-culture element — a lot of Jack Johnson, Ben Harper.

Any special musical memories?
My second night at Berkeley there was at a Dylan concert at the Greek Theater. I went out there with friends and we actually rushed the fence, and half of us got tackled by the security guards, half didn’t, and I made it through. So I broke into a Dylan concert and had a video camera on me and I taped it. It was pretty nuts.

Personal motto?
How about “Interested in everything, committed to nothing”?

How did you first hear about the Rolling Stone contest?
I was rowing at the time. We’d been in San Diego for a race, and I hurt my knee. I tore the cartilage in my knee, and I was rowing on it — it was really painful. I’d had a bad race, and I was in a newsstand, picked up a Rolling Stone, with American Idol on the front. There was a story in there about Pete Doherty and I’d always been interested in the Libertines and why he was so nuts. So I read the article, and after the last page of the article was the ad: “Are you interested in writing about culture?” I was like, we’ll that’s something I could try and do. It was a Wednesday, and the applications were due on Friday. So I filled it out and they called and said we want to interview you, we’ll see you in San Francisco.

How random. Do you feel like it was fate that got you here?
Someone once told me that there’s no such thing as luck. Your life is all about preparing yourself, and when preparation meets opportunity, that’s what everyone calls luck. And sure, it’s lucky that I found that ad. But it was almost like I had been preparing for this, and then the opportunity arose.

Krystal Simpson
AGE 24
HOMETOWN Salinas, California
COLLEGE Hartnell College
FAVORITE BOOKS Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Pamela Des Barres, I’m With the Band; Edie Sedgwick Biography
FAVORITE MOVIES Gimme Shelter; Almost Famous
FAVORITE MUSIC The Rolling Stones, Beggars Banquet; Led Zeppelin III

What were you like as a kid?
A complete tomboy. I skateboarded, rollerbladed, I wasn’t into girly things at all — totally the opposite of today. In high school, I started to really like fashion and started getting into designers and the craft of fashion. People can be so glamorous, but it’s just a fake outer shell. At the same time, it’s entertaining and fun to look at. It feeds into this whole idea that when you’re growing up you don’t really know who you are yet. Fashion is a way of dressing, trying different things, maybe not see yourself for an evening. Like Halloween, but on a lesser scale.

What event affected you the most?
My mother died last December 2nd. I don’t think I could explain that loss to anybody unless it’s happened to them. It’s this void that’s never going to fill, ever. It’s lonely a lot of the time, but I want to keep doing all the things I wanted to do. I know she’s somewhere being proud of me.

What did your mother do?
She was a photographer. She did weddings, portraits, senior pictures, all that stuff, but she also did real artistic stuff. She had a couple photographs in magazines. She was really talented.

What about your dad?
He died a couple of years ago. My dad had a falling-out with my mom before I was born. He never wanted to meet me.

You’re a big classic-rock fan — how’d you get into that?
It was really just the music that I heard early on, on the radio. Freddie Mercury, Mick Jagger, Steven Tyler — they just have something no one else has.

What got you interested in writing?
Very early on, teachers told me I had a talent for it and I always really enjoyed doing it. I never really thought that it would be my career, but I was always writing. When I was still in college I started writing a column for the local newspaper. I submitted my résumé and they thought I had graduated college and was already done with everything, and I was like, “Well, no . . . .” But they still wanted me to do it.

What was the idea of the column?
It was called “Love Story.” It revolved around experiences in my life and the experience of my friends — more towards young women, but everybody could take from it. It was kind of a researched article on, say, breakups or relationships or, well, I could take any heading I wanted — just the issues with young people.

Why did you want to do the show?
I did an article a few years ago about the reality of reality television. I said it was kind of bull**** and I made fun of it. And I saw an ad for the contest in Rolling Stone, and I thought it was too good to be true. I’d never wanted to do a television show — that was never in the cards. But I always did want to know what it would be like to work at Rolling Stone because I’d been a fan of the magazine since magazines existed to me. So I sent my writing samples in. They said my packet was three times bigger than everyone else’s, which was embarrassing and good. They kept calling me back, and I kept doing interviews. But it only became real when I left for New York and there were camera crews in my house.

What was it like when they told you you’d been selected?
It was kind of unreal, but at the same time I felt that I kind of deserved it. I’d worked so hard, and it’s something I wanted. I always believed that if you really want something and it’s right, it will come to you in one form or another.

Colin Stutz
AGE 20
HOMETOWN Eugene, Oregon
COLLEGE University of Southern California
FAVORITE BOOKS Enrico Brizzi, Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band
FAVORITE MOVIES Dazed and Confused
FAVORITE MUSIC Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot; Oasis, Definitely Maybe; Neil Young, After the Gold Rush

What were you like as a kid?
I kept to myself a lot. I was usually the last kid to get picked for sports. But at the same time I always had somewhat of an outgoing personality. In high school, I came out of my shell. I was prom king – the dick of all dicks.

How’d you get into writing?
In middle school, I was on the newspaper and that carried through high school. At USC I’ve been writing more about music. I still feel like I’m in a transitional phase regarding writing. I’ve been kind of realizing that it doesn’t have to be just practical, it can also be very artistic, which is nice. I’ve been in general just trying to read and write more, whether it’s personal stuff or journalistic stuff. 2004 is when I started getting excited about music writing.

How did you first get into music?
As far as music goes, my mom, I feel, is the one that really pushed me onto music, especially playing music. I started playing drums in 2nd or 3rd grade, and I played for about six years. She was basically like, “You should start playing an instrument,” and I liked the idea of banging some sticks on some drum skins, so I started doing that. And always around the house there was the Beatles playing, and my mom’s real big into Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and all that stuff. She has all of these old vinyl, and so when I started getting into collecting records I just raided her collection and took what I wanted. There was a point in high school where I would basically come home from school every day and just put the White Album on. It’s just ridiculously good.

How have your tastes shifted over the years?
I’m embarrassed to admit I was pretty big into the boy bands. I loved watching TRL and singing along with ‘NSync. Luckily, I grew out of that before high school. Then it was pop punk. My dad drove us up to Portland to see Blink-182 with Jimmy Eat World and New Found Glory. The day after that show, I was so depressed, thinking that nothing would ever be as good.

Was that your best concert moment?
No. At Lollapalooza, Mooney Suzuki’s singer, Sammy James Jr., smashed his head against the guitar. Blood was dripping down his face, and he looked at me, took off his sunglasses and handed them to me. It felt like time slowed down, I was so stoked. That was the show that I really knew I wanted to do something that related to music for the rest of my life because I just really saw the power of a live show and the power that can hold.

Tika Milan
AGE 26
HOMETOWN Buffalo, New York
COLLEGE University at Buffalo
FAVORITE BOOKS Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man; Gloria Naylor, Bailey’s Cafe
FAVORITE MOVIES The Color Purple
FAVORITE MUSIC A Tribe Called Quest, The Low End Theory; anything by Nina Simone

What kind of kid were you?
I used to play football and basketball in the streets all day, run around fighting – I was very much a tomboy. I never had any girls’ toys, never did none of that ****.

How did music enter your life?
My mother listened to soul: Stevie Wonder, Ike and Tina, Marvin Gaye. I got into Slick Rick, and when I was in eighth grade, I got 2Pac’s Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. I used to write down all the lyrics to Slick Rick and Tribe Called Quest and rap into my mother’s stethoscope. She’s a nurse. Then my sister sent me Jimi Hendrix’s Live at Winterland. I remember rockin’ that **** on my portable cassette joint. My sister’s eighteen years older than me. She used to be a music journalist and she would send me cassette tapes. I had boxes of them.

First concert?
My mother dressed me like I was going to church, and my father took me to an MC Hammer concert. We sat in the nosebleeds, and I thought it was the best thing in the world. When I was fifteen, I went to a Lost Boyz concert and Freaky Todd asked me if he could have sex with me! I was backstage trying to get autographs and dude asked me to have sex with him. I was fifteen! I said, “Dude, no.”

How’d you get into writing?
When I was twelve or so, I started writing raps. From there I got a little consciousness in me and I started writing poetry. That’s when I started to understand things socially and politically.

What was the turning point?
At some point in high school I just started reading different things. My father is a very conscious sort of guy. All the things he had been saying to me started to register. I was trying to understand the way people worked and why things are the way they are. Trying to make myself a better person. There’s all kinds of ignorance and all kinds of complicated social ****. My father taught me to be a politically and conscious-minded person.

And that started to come out in your writing?
Yeah. As I got older I started to do poetry slams, and I started winning. From there, I did little features on TV and radio. The poetry scene was really really big.

How far did you get with that?
I did some local stuff. I won poetry slams all over the city. I was one of the illest in my city. Still one of the illest. They can’t **** with me! I got published in the newspaper and I was working with a Buffalo literacy agency and they used to pay me to go different places and do readings. In college I published a little chapbook called Crack Skies and Two Moons. I even tried out for Def Poetry Jam, but I didn’t make it.

How did you apply for this Rolling Stone thing. Did you see it in the magazine?
Well I was looking for a job and my homegirl back home was “Rolling Stone is doing a reality show, you should apply for it.” And I wasn’t gonna do it, but the day before I put everything together and overnighted the ****.

But you were excited about it, or thought it would never happen?
I thought it would never happen. I sent my stuff in and I didn’t hear back for about a month. I thought they forgot about me. And I forgot about it and I was like, **** it, it’s not gonna happen. I just kept doing what I was doing. And then I got a phone call and it was on from there.

What were you doing right before that?
Freelancing for a couple Web sites and looking for something steady — a lot of hard work for a little bit of money. I was getting really sick of doing that ****. A month later I get a call saying they wanna interview me in New York.

So when did you find out you’d made it?
I got another call saying, “We don’t know who we’re gonna pick, but we’re gonna send a camera crew to your house either way.” They didn’t want us to know if we got picked. So I’m just sitting there in my apartment in Brooklyn. I’ve been living there since ‘03. Jann Wenner calls, and I didn’t know who he was. My friend was like “Some guy named Han just called you.” So I had no idea who this guy was. And he goes, “Yo, congratulations. We picked you! Can’t wait to meet you!” I was shocked, I didn’t think it would happen. It happened so quickly, I was kinda scared. I was really kinda shook. I was like, What the **** did I just get myself into? I definitely did not expect this to happen.

Russell Morse
AGE 26
HOMETOWN San Francisco
COLLEGE San Francisco State
FAVORITE BOOKS Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises; Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
FAVORITE MOVIES One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
FAVORITE MUSIC Ghostface Killah, Fiona Apple

What kind of music did you hear around the house?
My dad’s a guitar player. He played in a country-rock band. Around the house he played the Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash and Stevie Wonder. He subscribed to Rolling Stone.

Did you go to shows?
My first real concert that I went to alone was Color Me Badd. I sang along to “I Wanna Sex You Up.” I was eleven. After that, I saw Beck, and smaller rap concerts like De La Soul and the Alkoholics. Growing up, I was listening to 2 Live Crew and Run DMC and Bay Area rap. Then, when Tupac was dead, I started getting into East Coast. I liked Nas, Mobb Deep and Wu-Tang a lot.

Did you get into trouble as a kid?
I got kicked out of every school I ever went to — about seven. I just had a problem with authority. When I was a teenager, I got into drugs and graffiti and stolen cars, and I ended up in juvenile hall. Finally I went to the Walden House in San Francisco, where I learned that I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life being a retard.

And that’s when you began writing?
There was a writers’ workshop at juvenile hall. I wrote about my experiences in the juvenile justice system and about foster care, public housing and crime, for a magazine called Youth Outlook.

Are you inspired by Hunter Thompson?
I covered the presidential campaign of 2004, and I read Campaign Trail over and over again. I really liked writing and drugs.

How did you find out about the I’m From Rolling Stone contest?
My editor at Pacific News Service found out about it online, and he thought, “Wow, there’s really only one person I can think of to do this.” He was looking at it as kind of an assignment for me, to go out there and see what it was about. So I finished the application and sent it in. I almost forgot about it. I didn’t think it was going to happen until they called me up and told me, “Oh, you’re getting on a plane tomorrow.”

It was literally the day before?
Yeah. When they told us, we were on camera. Jann called me on my cell phone and said, “Hey, I’m calling to say congratulations.” I told him, “Yeah, I don’t think it’s for me.” He was like, ‘”What do you mean?” He was all flustered. I had to hurry up and say, “Nah, I’m kidding. It’s great.”

So what did you think when you met the other five contestants?
We were friends right away. We all met in L.A. when they brought us down for casting. We were in the same casting pool. So many of us were from California. I hadn’t met Tika. She was the only person I didn’t know. But everyone else, I met and hung with. We kicked it together. We partied pretty hard in L.A. at the casting. We all went into the pool and everything. It was fun. We made friends right away.

What were your first impressions of the Rolling Stone offices?
I guess I had this romantic idea in my head of people under their desks shooting heroin in their eyeballs, like, “Whoa they must be on a deadline.” Which is not very realistic cause they actually manage to put out a magazine every two weeks. I got in there, like, “Man, it’s looking like Enron in here.” But it’s a newsroom like any other newsroom. But I love the art. The art was amazing.

Which stuff in particular?
The big illustrations: Elvis Costello, Axl Rose. And the Steadman stuff. I love Ralph Steadman. So that was amazing to see the originals with all his little notes, “Don’t **** this up, grey scale, blah blah blah.” That was cool.

How did you feel about having the cameras around?
It was bizarre. I guess at a certain point, what would make me a good Rolling Stone employee would not make me a good subject of a television show. If I was at my desk being productive, for instance, making telephone calls, responding to e-mails. . . It’s hard to have a built-in audience all the time. It makes you act like an *******. A big part of being a journalist is being a paid observer, being mindful of everything, and doing your best to be invisible. And you can’t really be invisible when you have a camera crew with you. Thankfully, the people that I interviewed [during the course of the show] were celebrities, so they’re used to cameras. But the way that I conduct interviews generally is that I try to make intimate conversation. And it’s hard to have intimate conversation with cameras and mikes. It kinda cramped me a little bit professionally — made it hard to be just an observer, which is one of my favorite things to do.

i think i'm definitely going to like Colin and Pete. they seem like pretty cool dudes.

i thought the Tika chick was a guy at first, until i read her little interview thing.

Moochie · 01-03-2007, 08:15 AM

Thanks for posting that! Yah, I thought Tika was a guy too when I was at MTV's site and then I read her little blurb.

foxybabygirl · 01-07-2007, 05:50 PM

Im very much interested in the journalism world, so Im hoping that this show is true to the heart and soul that Rolling Stone is.

xstarsgoblue25x · 01-08-2007, 12:02 AM

interesting first episode. i think i would have preferred for it to be an hour long as opposed to only 30 minutes.

i still like Peter and Colin like i initially thought i would. Colin seems kindof aloof ... and like Joe Levy said, he's got the most to prove there b/c he is the youngest. i thought it was funny how Peter would never answer his phone initially. i just adore his aussie accent. it looks as though his drinking habit is going to get in the way of his ability to write well.

Russell ... i'm not sure about him yet. he seems like the type that wants to do things his way and no one elses and if someone else tries to tell him otherwise it's just not going to fly w/ him. i think maybe if he can get over that then he could be a decent writer.

Krishtine ... meh, i haven't really formed an opinion on her as of yet. though i found it utterly ridiculous that she wanted to get her 'grill' for her ID card picture.

Krystal ... i like her. she seems like shes really there to make it. her boyfriend scared me a little though, i think it was just his long stringy hair. they were cute together though.

Tika ... out of all of them i think i like her the least. i'm not really sure why yet, but something just doesn't click w/ me.

foxybabygirl · 01-08-2007, 04:32 PM

I am loving Russel for the simple fact that he seems the most into journalism. He probably has the most experience and it comes across in his presentation and overall charismatic tone.

Moochie · 01-09-2007, 02:56 PM

I really like Russell too. He seems like he's going to try his hardest at the job.

I already don't like Krishtine or however you spell her name. And yah, I thought it was so stupid that she wanted to go get her gold teeth for her ID picture. I think there are more important things at hand than that. I don't think she's going to take this job seriously at all.

Peter is okay so far. I love his accent but I think his drinking is definitely going to get in the way of his job. I can't believe he told his boss he wrote his first piece while still drunk. I also didn't like how he didn't seem to care that he had missed the call from Rolling Stone twice.

I don't really have any opinions on Tika, Krystal or Colin yet.

foxybabygirl · 01-09-2007, 05:25 PM

I like Russel the most so far btu I have a feeling that because he has the most experience he's going to be somewhat laid back about it.

Moochie · 01-17-2007, 09:32 AM

Oy, Krishtine is getting on my last nerve. I think she's acting really unprofessional.

Things do not look good for Russell next week.

foxybabygirl · 01-17-2007, 04:59 PM

Russel is hysterical

I loved when he jumped in the trash can

xstarsgoblue25x · 01-18-2007, 12:53 AM

lol, yeah him jumping in the trash can was hilarious.

i liked how he was trying to be different w/ the interview.

Krishtine is annoying. i thought it was funny that her article didn't even get published.

i felt horrible for Colin when he was interviewing "We Are Scientists" he was so awkward and didn't know what to ask or do. i'm glad that his thing was published online though. it was funny at the end when he called his mom to say he was on the website and he was going to tell her how to get to it and she told him she'd have to call him back

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Moochie · 01-22-2007, 10:12 AM

Oy, Russell is really going to blow this opportunity for himself if he isn't more careful.

I felt so bad for Tika when she lost all her notes on the train but I'm glad she was able to remember a lot of it and that it seemed to still be a solid article.

foxybabygirl · 01-28-2007, 11:26 AM

I read some of Russels stuff from various places and the boy can write. He has such a great flow and his sarcasm is hysterical. Even on the show he pulls out the humor and I hope he pulls his act together for the job.

Moochie · 01-29-2007, 08:05 AM

Krishtine is going to have a very limited and short career if all she wants to write about is hip-hop and rap stuff. I can't believe that out of that huge festival, she couldn't come up with a single news item to write about.

They haven't really focused on Krystal yet. I hope they do that soon ... mostly because I'm tired of all the Krishtine coverage.