FAME Dropper

Lives were on the line during this week’s power of veto competition. Brendon was nominated against Enzo and both were looking to stay. Who was going to be the victor? It’s kind of obvious if you think about it. The competition was a literal zoo. Each houseguest was put in a cage where they would buzz in to accept punishments to gain “veto points” or accept prizes at the cost of “veto points”. An interesting competition. You could see the fire in Brendon’s eyes as he clicked the button with fury as each punishment was offered. Enzo had no motivation whatsoever as he was comfortable that his alliance would continue to float him as they have until this point.

Brendon ended up winning the competition, of course. I’m proud of him. He honestly works harder than anyone else in the house to stay, he just put a big target on himself my aligning with Rachel and making enemies along the way. At the rate he is going though, I think he could take the whole thing. No one could say that he didn’t earn it. Brendon winning wasn’t the surprise. What was surprising however, was how safe the Brigade felt, that they took all the prizes offered. Lane took the phone call from home and Hayden took a trip to Hawaii and $5,000. The catch was that no one would know who took what since they were caged up. The Brigade decided this was something they could use to their advantage, but more on that later. Brendon ended up taking A LOT of punishments. He shaved his head, he had to take a chum bath once and hour for 24 hours, and had to be handcuffed to a houseguest of his choice (he chose Britney). Him choosing Britney was brilliant. It gave him 24 hours to bond with her, especially after their falling out a few weeks ago, and kept her from talking to Ragan and Matt for a whole day. I think this was ultimately Matt’s downfall.

After the competition Britney was rightfully upset. She thought everyone was on her side in getting Brendon out, but instead they were on the side of picking up some prizes. Lane immediately used her vulnerable state to plant some seeds in her mind that Matt was the one who took the prizes. This of course wasn’t true, but there was no way of proving that. Britney talked to Matt about him getting put up and sealed his fate by throwing Ragan under the bus. HOW CAN YOU DO THIS? The one person in the house that truly has you back and you stab them in theirs? This made me so angry. Ragan is an amazingly nice person. A little over emotional, but nice. He really cares about Matt and was literally a water fountain the previous week that Matt was on the block. It’s just disrespectful and shows an utter lack of loyalty. I do understand this is a game, but you have to be loyal to someone to make it to the end.

It looks like Matt will be walking out the door on Thursday. I think the true excitement is going to come from the double eviction as an entire week of Big Brother will happen in one night. I’m hoping Ragan and Brendon can make it through this and we lose another member of the Brigade.

This is an interesting album to say the least. After her rise to stardom with “I Kissed a Girl”, Katy had her sights set on recapturing that magic. She achieved her goal. Coming back to the scene with the song of the summer “California Gurls” she took her seat at the top of the charts and wouldn’t let up. The rest of this album indicates that she doesn’t plan on giving up that seat anytime soon. With her second single and title track “Teenage Dream” already a top 5 hit well on it’s way to the top, she has made a solid album with plenty of hits. The problem I feel that the album has is just that. She has written song strictly to keep her career on the charts alive. She seems to me, to have lost the spark that made me enjoy her first album so much. I feel like only one song on this album truly shows the Katy Perry that I loved so much the first time around and that is the ballad “Not Like the Movies”. It’s in the same vein as “Thinking of You” one of her most underrated songs. The rest of the album is filled with songs that sound like Ke$ha leftovers or throwaways. That’s what happens though when you work with one producer too much. “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)”, “Firework”, and “Peacock” are enjoyable songs, but I don’t believe them coming from Katy Perry. The latter, “Peacock”, is a guaranteed #1 hit. From the raunchy and blatant lyrics to the “Hey Mickey”/”Hollaback Girl” beat, there is no doubt in my mind that this song is destined for the top of the charts. The rest of the album seems like an experiment for Katy, some good (“E.T.”) and some very, very bad (“Who Am I Living For?” & “Pearl”).

This album as a whole is enjoyable. These songs just seem better suited for other artists. It is a vast departure from the album that brought Katy to the forefront, and maybe this is her being herself, but I have a hard time believing that. Her last album seemed effortless, while this one feels forced and out of place.

B-

As this episode of Big Brother begins we are still reeling from the twist that turned the game upside down! That’s right, I’m talking about the eviction of Kathy through the Diamond Power of Veto. Who’s Kathy you ask? She’s the one who loses every competition (not to be confused with Enzo, who is also doing this). Ragan is absolutely ecstatic that Matt gets to stay that he begins reverse crying, which basically entails him pouring water into his tear ducts. I’m still surprised he used the DPOV on Kathy rather than Enzo, I don’t think that move will benefit him in the long run. He looks to be safe at least this week though with the new Head of Household, Britney.

Good for Britney winning this HOH. She would most definitely be a target if one of the Brigade members had gotten it. Immediately after her win we can pretty much tell who she is going to nominate based of the pouting these two did. Brendon knew Britney wasn’t going to honor her deal, he was just blinded by Rachel telling him to get rid of Matt. He had the chance last week and didn’t use it, so that’s what you get. Enzo ran to the bathroom with his tail between knowing that as the only person that hadn’t been on the block, he was going to be the pawn next to Brendon. I swear that Enzo is a mob hit-man. The way he acts when upset, it’s like he really wants to silently murder you.

I for one am glad that Enzo is sweating. It’s something he hasn’t had to do mentally or physically in this game while even else has had to fight at some point. The Brigade has to start backtracking: “Oh Matt, I know we were about to vote you out of the house, but we’re still cool, right?” Ugh, these guys are the strongest alliance in the house without even doing anything! I think that speaks more to the cast and this season as a whole, though.

To keep us entertained with these light nomination episodes, we get the Have/Have Not competition. Everyone had to saddle up and head to the wild, wild, west. Saddling up meant that Britney put on a slutty dress while the guys were in “Lawyer” and “Outlaw” costumes. This challenge was fun because we got to see everyone acting goofy. Ragan was so over the top is was cracking me up. And Brendon making the “Meow Meow” face was priceless: 

Anyway, each team had to guess which person on the other team took a gross shot out of the three shots. The outlaws just had a better team with Lane (who would most likely drink anything), Matt (bad actor, but it worked), and Ragan (he was putting on a one woman show after downing these shots). Brendon just had a pretty bad poker face and I would say that’s what caused them to lose.

Overall this episode ended with the obvious nominations of Brendon and Enzo. It really came as no surprise. The real drama is gonna be when the Power of Veto competition happens. Brendon can really fight if he wants something, so I imagine that veto will be his come Wednesday.

This week’s episode started off with a bang! And by bang I mean a slight thud. We pick up immediately where we left off last week with Ivy passed out on the floor while the cast of what looks like a new Lifetime series “Overweight Paramedics” attend to her lifeless body. Other contestants begin speculating causes right away with the Susan Lucci of Project Runway (Valerie) saying how she “doesn’t eat a lot, drinks a lot of diet coke, and smokes a lot”. Whoa, a possible eating disorder scandal rocking the runway? This has to be a first! I mean, unless you count the 14 models every season, but they get paid to not eat, so that’s totally different.

Cut to Ivy making her way back to Atlas. I was honestly concerned for her. If she had to leave the contest, I can’t imagine who they would get to talk about themselves in third person as much as she does. Crisis averted. At least the entire debacle wasn’t a complete waste of time. Ivy decided to use extremely small stint in the hospital as inspiration for the next challenge…before she even knew what it was.  Brilliant.

Following this the designers learn what the challenge is: design an outfit for Lady GaGa! What no? Oh, deisgn an outfit based on a hat.  My apologies. Anyway, the hat’s belong to one Mr. Phillip Seymour Tracy. The designers all had to chance to choose a different model based on the hat that they wanted to work with, but all of them stuck with the model they previously had.

A quick sketch session provided us with the groundwork for April’s impeding failure. It also allowed us a quick glimpse at the undeserving triumphs to come. The Camel Queen (Kristin) was just completely dumbfounded on how to make a dress inspired by a flower hat.  Can we just talk for a second on how much she looks like a camel? It’s frightening.

After this it was off to Mood where Mondo heard voices in the fabric. This is in no way an indication that he is mentally unstable. Speaking of mentally unstable, we get to see Ivy putting her hospital inspiration to use by using white fabrics that reminded her of curtains.  If there is one thing the judges absolutely love, it is dresses that look like curtains.  Keep up that good work, Ivy. Camel Queen wasn’t totally off the mark with her choices of fuchsia and black, but you could tell she was struggling for design inspiration. Shortly after this we heard Bitch Gretchen utter the term “Jayge”. Is the word vagina so difficult to say that it needs a slang term of another slang term?

Back at the work room the designers get hard to work on their mediocre creations. Cassanova says that he is ”thinking seriously to quit” because he isn’t sure he can take more negative criticism.  Why would you go on a competition where you will be judged if you don’t want to be critiqued? I would love it if he were to quit though. Project Runway has a bad habit of taking people who aren’t very talented at sewing or speaking English and keeping them much longer than they deserve.

Camel Queen still struggles on what her design will be, saying she wants “an evening, like a black evening-ish dress but with a little bit of whimsy in it”. This idea could not be more vague if it tried.  I think the problem I am having with the Camel Queen is the same problem I am having with the entire cast this season. We have a rag-tag group of misfits who just don’t fit in, but gosh darn it if they don’t love to sew some rags together. You hit a wall though, when the talent to misfit ratio becomes unbalanced.  The misfits are great to keep you occupied the first few weeks while we get to know the real talent, but if it’s the entire basis of your season, we have an issue. Anyway, Camel Queen decides on her inspiration and it happens to be sexuality.  Um, okay. I’ll bite. Let’s see where this goes. Of course it leads into an awkward sexual montage starring the Camel Queen herself.

Anyway, after this Tim Gunn blazes into the work room to crush the hopes and dreams of these losers. He makes the rounds to everyone with casual indifference until we get to April, whom he informs that he outfit looks like a diaper.  And how, that is one shitty outfit. After this he continues on his path of destruction, stopping here and there, once to tell Casanova he’s a hack that butchers the English language and again to tell Michael C. that is dress looks like a train wreck.

Time for the runway!

Michael C. - he definitely pulled this one out of his ass. It wasn’t bad at all, but I think that was more to do with luck rather than talent.

Gretchen - another boring SoHo inspired outfit. She has won two challenges and is talented, so I don’t want to take too much away from her.

Kristin - eek. Yeah, no.  Just did not work. The hat was an elegant flower, but the dress was a trashy mess.

Michael D. - I didn’t hate it.  I got a Dutch milk-maid vibe, not there’s anything wrong with that.

Valerie - yes! This is what I want! Zippers! Zippers! Zippers! She is extremely talented and I cannot wait for the finale when Project Runway robs her of the title.

A.J. - It was a dress. So that earned him a well deserved spot in the middle.

Andy - Outfit worked well with the hat, it just didn’t blow my mind.

Ivy - she achieved her goal.  Her outfit was plain and boring, just like a hospital. Congrats!

April - this was literally a diaper.  If you would’ve asked me if I thought she was gonna win, I would’ve said “Depends”. ZING! But honestly this look is all the rage…in nursing homes. ZING! But yeah, it sucked.

Christopher - this is what I live for! Sexy from head to toe.  This is Project Runway perfection. So in true Runway fashion they ripped him a new asshole and said that his dress was garbage. 

Peach - not bad enough to kick her out yet, but ugh her dresses are so bland.

Casanova - it didn’t look like something that Casanova would make which is the absolute highest compliment I can pay him.

Mondo - this outfit visually molested me.  My eyes are still in shock. Throw a mustache on top of that and I’m completely speechless.

TOP 3 - Michael C. (Winner), Michael D., and Valerie

BOTTOM 3 - April, Chris, and Kristin(Out)

Michael C. did not deserve his win, again it should have went to Valerie but oh well, this is Project Runway so you should never expected the truly talented people to be rewarded.  I agree with there decision to send the Camel Queen home. She lacked vision and talent, which you don’t need to be on this show obviously, but it was a little too blatant. I’m sure April’s model was so surprised she was safe that she shit herself. Good thing she was wearing a diaper! ZING!