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So, here’s the footage everyone has been talking about (Eonline, NY Daily News). If you’re watching this, email it to your friends, because I want my watch back! That’s right, Fiddy. I realize this is the only challenge you’ve won lately (Cough, Kanye, Cough, Asskick), so I can understand why you want to keep my watch, but come on, man. How many watches do you need? I only had the one.

In case you don’t know the story, Fiddy came into the Hanes booth at the Style Villa and arm wrestled me for watches. My $50 watch against his $50,000 one. I knew I probably wasn’t going to beat him, but I also knew I wasn’t going to keep his watch if I did. So you can imagine how surprised I was when he actually kept my watch.

IF ANYONE KNOWS HOW TO CONTACT 50, PLEASE EMAIL THIS TO HIM OR YOUR FRIENDS WITH THE SUBJECT LINE OF “GIVE DAVE’S WATCH BACK.”

Seriously, I don’t know what time it is. I need my watch.

Taken from this article by the amazing, wonderful, funnier than funny dooce.  I love reading positive press about OK Go, these cool cats from Chicago.

Nothing illustrates this disconnect so brilliantly than the fact that the highlight of the VMA's was OK Go's flawless performance of their "Here It Goes Again" treadmill dance made famous on the Internet, not by MTV. By the last tally on the video's YouTube page, it has been viewed over five and a half MILLION times. That's almost more than the number of people who tuned in to watch the VMA's on television. It's clear in this equation that MTV needed OK Go more than OK Go needed MTV.

While packing and playing some World of Warcraft last night, I watched/listened to the MTV Video Music Awards.  I was mainly interested in seeing Jack Black host and OK Go performing their treadmill choreography in front of a live audience.  Neither really disappointed.

I also noticed that I have no idea who half these people in popular music even are.  I haven't even heard of most of the nominees and winners.  Despite my out-of-touchness with the youth of America, these are my conclusions from last night:

Justin Timberlake can dance.  I mean, really.  He can dance.
Beyonce is hot beyond normal definitions of the word.
The MTV crowd has no clue who Billy Gibbons is.
Axl Rose it a terrible presenter - at least he admitted it.
Did I mention how hot Beyonce is?
The MTV crowd does not understand the genius of Kyle Gass.
Jessica Simpson's stupidity?  It's not an act.

I'm not a big MTV watcher anymore. For a variety of reasons. Most of them are related to the fact that I'm old.

And I really have had no desire to watch the VMAs this year or the past few years. I'm sorry, but I'm just not into paying homage to (P.) Diddy's bling.

But I watched another music awards show today. The EMAs were showing on MTV2, and socks was nice enough to TiVo it.

What are the "EMAs?" The "European Music Awards," a.k.a. MTV Europe's Video Music Awards. This year it was held in Lisbon. Madonna opened it. Shakira performed. As did Green Day, Coldplay, the Pussy Cat Dolls, the Black Eyed Peas and the Foo Fighters, among others. Even the Gorillaz gave a pretty impressive live performance.

Oh -- and the host ("presenter" ) of the entire show? Borat.



Watching the European version of the VMAs was kind of like watching the VMAs in 1988, but with musical acts and presenters we'll see in the USA in 2009. It seemed like less of a commercial venue. But then again, this is still MTV - home of all things commercial.

It was good. I had fun.