Paper Commercial

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nI2y4s3vzgk- Commercial
I have seen very funny commercials in my day, and I will say this one ranks up at the top. This lucky guy was leaving the copy machine when this fine young lady walked past to go use the copier. The guy soon then realizes that he had forgot something by the copier and turns around to go back and get it. He walked in to see the lady knelt down on top of the copier trying to reach some more paper up above the machine. While she was knelt she hit the copy button with her knee, but the bad part was she was wearing a skirt. The copier was spiting out copies of this and the guy went to grab his stuff, but in reality got her stuff! I think is a very funny commercial because of the way this guy reacts to this. He just grabbed the paper and looked at it and his mouth dropped and so did the paper.

The audio in this commercial makes it pretty funny also, it is almost like a suductive music. The music really sets the mood of the commercial. I am sure if you put in someother music, like for example: Hard Rock or Metal, it would have not really set the mood wanted for the commercial. The music on there now is just perfect for the commercial.

Dodge Commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdUP3dtRynk

I watched a Dodge commercial where two friends walked into the bathroom to go pee and both went into the urinals next to eachother and started talking about his thing he just got and how it handles great and how it is now 7 inches longer. It also will earn him respect and his girlfriend loves it and this whole time this other guy is sitting in a stall while these two talk about this and his really wondering what is going on and what are they talking about. What he doesn't know is that they are talking about the new Dodge truck he just bought and how nice it handles and whatever. The guy in the stall was really freaking out about two guys talking about a new truck. This commercial took place obviously in the bathroom, but the lighting and point of view was perfect because it did not allow the guy in the stall to see that the whole time they were talking about this they were looking at a picture of it. So it made it look like the guy was really looking at something inappropriate. I got a kick out of this commercial. I thought it was very funny and kind of wonder why it got banned, because I kind of liked it.

Banned Mastercard Commercial

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nb3mshCWmgA

I watched a Mastercard commercial that was banned from the air for a good reason, but the commercial was still very funny. I really had no idea what was going to be so "priceless" but it turned out to be pretty funny for how slow it started for being a mastercard commercial. The lighting of the commercial set the mood of the commercial pretty good by being late at night, just coming home from a date. The commercial was constructed pretty well, but you really kind of have to have a interesting sense of humor for this commercial. It was banned for a good reason that is for sure. The man is dropping her off from a date and asked for a favor and she said no because her parents might see or catch them. Then he kept begging and finally a bit later the porch light turns on and her sister opens the door and said "for god sakes dad said to just do it already or I will or if he has to he will come down and do it!" and she also told him to take his arm off the intercom. So this whole time everyone in the house was listening to all of this going on and finally they got sick of listening to it. I thought the commercial was pretty funny, but this fits my type of sense of humor.

Close Analysis: Funny Captain Commercial

http://youtube.com/watch?v=crTCgkjX9K0

Visual- Bar, phone, dark bar lighting, talking on a phone and with each other, eating, blender, alcohol, and woman at wedding.

Sounds- Jukebox music, talking, laughing, cell phone ring, blender, faking T.V. shows like the news, golf, tai bo, comedy show, and animal planet.

Key Questions-

#1- Captain Morgan Rum created the message to sell their alcohol.

#2- They use faking T.V. shows to get the guy out of trouble with his girlfriend, because he didn't want to go with her to her cousin's wedding, so he faked sick and when she called the whole bar got in on faking T.V. shows to make her think he is at home. The catch line was at the end saying "they have a little Captain in them, do you have a little Captain in you?" That is a pretty good catch phrase.

#3- I have not had to really expierence this ever yet, for one I can't go to the bars. I also have never really had to lie to my girlfriend about where I was before, so I can't really relate here. The closest I have come to something like this is where I would be talking to someone and they all would fake doing something just to mess with them, but never to lie to them.

#4- Lifestyles in this commercial are mainly middle class, but probably some upper lower class people. Anything really but upper class were in there really. I imagine most of them value things like alcohol, because he skipped his girlfriend's cousin's wedding to go to the bar with friends, so he probably values his friends also. There are many points of view in this commercial.

#5- This commercial was constructed to humor people and give them a laugh about Captain Morgan, and how the guy lies to his girlfriend to get away with not going to the wedding. I thought it was pretty funny.

Dentyne Ice Commerical

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kMCxZvHYTVg - Commerical

When I first seen this commercial I was a bit confused to begin with because I wasn't quite sure where it was going, but in the end it was pretty funny. The man in the commercial was looking to kiss the girl, so he wanted to have good breath and ended eating to many of the frostbites and froze his head, and scared not only the girl, but the taxi driver too. This commercial was advertising to all age groups really except for the really young, because I am sure young ones are not able to buy gum and what not yet. Anyone could really go out and buy the gum. I thought the commercial was pretty entertaining and different. The whole head falling off into the lady's lap was quite interesting but funny. It was a bit slow to begin with but toward the end it became funny and turned out to be a pretty good commercial. The only thing that I think could have maybe helped the commercial was to add some catchy music in the background or something to draw my attenion closer because the beginning almost lost my attenion with how slow it started.

Most Dominate Athlete Ever?

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLKXvGE6kN8 - 16th hole at the Masters in 2005

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=2gKSxUer_3I - Tiger's Hightlight shots

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=qHGcAEJiLcU - Tiger Woods!

Espn is questioning if Tiger Woods is the most dominating athlete ever to do what he/she does. Micheal Wilbon, an Espn host, said that he is knee deep in that category, but not quite there, then again he does have a long ways to go while Tiger is only 31, and in golf that is just your prime age. Tiger Woods has won 8 of his 9 World Championship Events and finished tied for 2nd in the only won he didn't win. He also has won 4 straight PGA Tour events and 6 of the last 7 while winning 5 straight official tournaments around the world. The game's #1 player continued his domination in record fashion, defeating Stewert Cink 8 and 7 in the 36-hole final at the Gallery Golf Club. It was his 15th victory in 26 World Golf Championship tournaments, an incredible success rate when you consider the fields typically are filled with no less then the top 50 players in the world rankings. Espn could go on and on about Tiger's successes, and he is still got alot of golf left in his life and I do believe when he is done he will have shattered alot of the records that have been set. At this pace that Tiger is at no one will compete with his records or success. You look at Micheal Jordan who is the "greatest basketball player to ever play the game" and you look at Muhammad Ali who also is the best boxer ever to box. Now you look at Tiger Woods and with the pace he is at he will soon be known has the best golfer to ever play the game.

Kelvin Sampson's Mistake

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=gXgbCtOEzGQ - Indiana President's Statement

Kelvin Sampson is the former head coach of Indiana University. He was the coach until earlier this year NCAA officials found out about his extra phone calls used in recruiting. NCAA only allows so many calls during recuiting and Kelvin Sampson over did it. The problem with this is that this is not his first time being caught. He got in the same type of trouble at Oklahoma and that is the reason he got fired from over there and now he did it again and got fired here. Kelvin told ESPN he did not do it this time, but ESPN pretty much told him it is almost impossible to believe that considering this is his second offense for the samething. Indiana University after finding this out offered Kelvin Sampson a $750,000 buyout and Kelvin Sampson accepted, Dan Dakich then took over as interim head coach. ESPN said the other day that is sad that he did that because he had a great team while sitting tied for the Big Ten lead with Purdue and Wisconsin. He had his team well on there way to a tournament bid with good potential and possibly a Big Ten championship. They said he ruined a great thing and I agree considering his team was young and had potential to be good for not just this year or the next, but for years to come. Kelvin Sampson really messed up and he is paying for it now, while he is looking for a new job it not only is going to be had after messing up like this, but he is not going to be handed a team with the potential he lost, he will have to rebuild and create that team all over again, that is when and with whoever he gets signed.

Huge 3-way trade

A major trade occured one minute before the trade deadline on Thursday, Feb. 21. This trade involved 3 teams and 11 players. The 3 teams included Cleveland, Chicago, and Seattle. Cleveland aquired Ben Wallace, Wally Szczerbiak, Joe Smith, Delonte West, and Chicago's second round pick in 2009. Chicago aquired Larry Hughes, Drew Gooden, Cedric Simmons, and Shannon Brown. Sonics ended up recieving Ira Newble, Donyell Marshall, and Adrian Griffin. This trade was huge because it was very last second and a huge surprise because no one was expecting something this large to occur. ESPN and all the sports writers are really surprised that the Sonics even went in on this trade, because they came out with less talent then what they traded away. This trade made absoultely no sense for the Sonics to even go in on. ESPN says that Cleveland came out on top of this trade even after trading away two great players in Larry Hughes and Drew Gooden, they recieved Ben Wallace, who they say has been one of the most disappointing pick-ups all year. The Bulls got him this past post season and he has struggled all year trying to get something going. ESPN still believes that Cleveland came out the best in this trade and Chicago came out all right getting Larry Hughes and Drew Gooden and Seattle just should have never even got involved because they were all ready one of the worst teams in the NBA and now they just got worse. I personally would have to agree with most of this because it is true now Lebron James in Cleveland has a little more outside shooting and a big man in Ben Wallace to work with and I believe if anyone got better in this trade it was Cleveland and I also believe Seattle Sonics are the ones who just got worse.

The Shaq Trade

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ljU1bwtmeok - Player comments
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rv3TLbFZW98 - Nash comments
http://youtube.com/watch?v=skNq38tu5OM - D'Antoni and Kerr comments
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8sIkPIea8QQ - Trade Video
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Nt0sN9N43jc - Analysis

The media when this trade went through erupted, they were in shock. Everyone did not believe that the Suns would trade away a young and great Shaun Marion and a great young guy in Marcus Banks to get the 35 year old struggling Shaq. The media went through and interviewed some of the teammates of both teams. This trade was the top story for a few days, but now it really has died. When it first went through, all ESPN shows and sports shows all had breaking news scrolling across the bottom of the screens if they were not already talking about it. I think it is funny on how fast the media reacts and throws out opinions and what not when it comes down to a 14 time all- star in the NBA who gets traded. If it was a young guy who hasn't made it to the top yet, the media would not even made such a big deal, but it is Shaq, you know so they have to all freak out and make a huge deal out of it.

Bob Knight's Resignation

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3Ukj6Qi5W_k - Top 10 Soundbites
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NvRO2GE4x4M- Bob Knight throws a chair
http://youtube.com/watch?v=50LsvwmgJ7I - press confrence

Bob Knight is one of the best coaches to ever coach the game. He was so fun and exciting to watch. He always would do something in the game that was unheard of, for example after a technical foul he threw a chair across the gym floor. Bob was just a very emontional guy. He never took crap from anyone, no matter who it was.
When Bob Knight resigned the other day everyone was surprised and I just don't understand why. The man coached over 1200 games and won 900+ the man is wore out. I am sure he would win alot more games if he stayed, but I can understand him leaving. People don't know how much stress that is on someone. I am sure he wants to retire and just spend some time with his family now. Bob Knight was nothing short of amazing on the sideline general of any team. People need to just realize that he was just all wore out from coaching basketball. The media just needs to let it go, the man is finished and if he completely retires or comes back to coach soon then so be it, but as of now the man is done, so let it go. I would want to be left alone if I were in his situation, so I am sure he feels the same way.

T-Pain

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Md6rURKhZmA - Bartender
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Oy-nqyfR_w4 - Buy You A Drank
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pUJ0GsQtKV0 - Suicide
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dWnVWlURncs - Shottas
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OmMBRcUWVqM- Raggae Night
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tX0hfexEg2k - Show U How
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yhvEc9rXWww - Tipsy
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FUROOBJFY2s - Tallahassee Love
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8hvEsCUj0xQ - Church
http://youtube.com/watch?v=o-H0gmzZ4QM - 69

I would bring along T-Pain's Epiphany cd because it is one of my favorite albums. T-Pain type of music is just fun to listen to when you are just chilling. You can be happy, sad, you name it and T-Pain's music is perfect. I would bring this cd for when I am trying to get away from all the stress and just sitting out by the water on the beach having a couple nice cold drinks. I would just turn on alittle T-Pain and relax.

Superbowl XLII

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgUdwPJGuik- Superbowl XLII

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVUnriE0QCg- Patriots/Giants Superbowl Preview

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6bHy67jMyBc - Halftime Show

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-XYMH-R_jZc - Highlights

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_xLpQdnCuZ4 - Superbowl Facts

Superbowl XLII was an intense battle between the AFC champs, The New England Patriots, and the NFC champs, The New York Giants. This game was very exciting to watch. This battle was back and forth throughout the game. It was intresting throughout the game, how the commentators portraited the 18-0 Patriots differently then the Giants. New England was looking to make history trying to go 19-0 and like most people, the commentators really never gave the Giants a chance in the game. I really don't care for biast commentators, because if they are biast against the team you are cheering for it gives a negative effect on you.

I watch the Superbowl every year, it is just one of those events that is on once a year and is very exciting to watch, because most of the time the teams are evenly matched and it makes into a great game. Out of all sports championships, the Superbowl is my favorite. It is just so much more fun to watch then any other championship.

Red Hot Chili Peppers

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tWHkluThDXQ- Under the Bridge

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IumNe7guYXs - Otherside

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nX2qlTn6t24 - Scar Tissue

http://youtube.com/watch?v=H70hhJaFHu4 - My Friends

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OPOgGkCpaSA- Californication

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GOd3sjmBE58 - Suck My Kiss

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TdagH15ZEwQ- By The Way

I chose Red Hot Chili Pepper's Greatest Hits cd because I really enjoy almost every song on here. Their music is just a change in pace music, but very fun to listen to. They sing with alot of energy, but can also sing with emotion. They are an all around band and I really could listen to them anytime and I would enjoy them. I can listen to them when I am sad, happy, angry, or depressed and I would enjoy them everytime. They sing with all different types of moods that is why you can find a song on this cd for however you are feeling and enjoy every minute of it. I believe Red Hot Chili Pepper one of the greatest alternative rock bands alive.

50 Cent

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9ZVp6JGvj6Q - Candy Shop
http://youtube.com/watch?v=c0kNV_dA8u4 - Just A Lil' Bit
http://youtube.com/watch?v=72RuEA9Oj2o - 21 Questions
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vCSqt4LqEAE - Outta Control
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zMXYcn-iNUU - Hate It or Love It
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1SZTI9anE0o - Get In My Car
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nLJ7FJkVxSw - Postion of Power
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QRgoeFX9T-Q - How We Do
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1vXgpBVK24o - In Da Club
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ByJHmVbsQOo - Magic Stick
http://youtube.com/watch?v=U4EPYi-drAs - In My Hood


I chose 50 Cent's cd to take along with me on an island for the rest of my life because 50 Cent is one of those greats that you just can't get sick of. I could listen to 50 Cent over and over again an d he just won't get annoying. 50 Cent's music is just so fun and energitic. There is just not one 50 Cent song out there that I don't like. His music is music that I can listen to when I am angry or stressed and I will just relax because of the music he sings. His songs make me think of how bad he had it through his life and makes me realize that it could be worse. 50 Cent is just one of those artist that is an automatic listen to when I turn on my ipod. 50 Cent to me is one of the greatest of all- time.