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Because I know you’re dying to see it, Britney made her return to the stage last night. I’m pretty sure she kept her cooter under wraps. (IDLYITW)

A heartwarming tale about courage, suicide, and the biggest prick in Iowa. Crazy story. (QuizLaw)

Pootie Tang for Congress. (Deus Ex Malcontent)

Eddie Murphy. Hot. In the hot tub. For old time’s sake. (Cityrag)

Dan’s not exactly a fan of the new stand-alone “Veronica Mars” episodes. (Slowly Going Bald)

Imagine one of those awkward silences on “The Office” stretched out into 10 minutes, and you get an idea how great this killer prank is. (Vimeo)

The Japanese are warning that watching Babel may make viewers ill. C’mon, it was kind of long, but it wasn’t bad. (The Blemish)

Donnie Darko: silent movie. (College Humor)

I know most of you don’t give a rat’s ass for “AI,” and I don’t blame you. But last night was Bon Jovi night. It was freakin’ surreal. I’d just like to kick Blake in the teeth — you do not jackup, beatbox, and mangle the classic, “You Give Love a Bad Name.” You’ve blaphemized my childhood, you prick. (Evil Beet for the recap) and the blasphemy is after the jump.

Pajiba Love | May 2, 2007 | Comments (23)


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Over on GMMR.com they are talking about how awesome that performance was. I couldn't bring myself to say "Are you people out of your minds?!?", but I can talk about it here: he "made it his own" by making it suck. Ass.

Posted by: Cody at May 2, 2007 4:04 PM

Oh, and I am totally engrossed in that whole "Streeter/Amir" prank war. Fantastic stuff.

Posted by: Cody at May 2, 2007 4:05 PM

Now I have to see the original "auntie bloom" prank that started it. Which one is it?

Posted by: Ranylt at May 2, 2007 4:15 PM

I haven't been watching Idol (usually see a couple of minutes f the auditions every other year to remind myslef why I don't watch) so I'm not really sure what I'm seeing here, but does this poor excuse for a Gong Show contestant usually sing like this or was it only for Bon Jovi night? There's no excuse for it either way I just asking if he has done this before and if so why hasn't someone killed him?

Posted by: Brian at May 2, 2007 4:40 PM

A direct quote from the artist formerlly known as the one with the video with a cat

An artist like the band Bon Jovi, there was a twinkle in his eye. He was really digging what you were doing

Yes folks - she does switch between referring to Bon Jovi as a band and as a person in the same sentence. Drunk - officialy the only way to judge a TV cover song competition.

Posted by: Brian at May 2, 2007 4:47 PM

I don't mean to be an asshole about this but...
it's Idaho, not Iowa.
Idaho -- potatoes.
Iowa -- corn.
Idaho -- crazy separatist compounds, and some rogue fundamentalist mormons
Iowa -- many small towns, and a few Amish
Idaho -- rather mountainous
Iowa -- not so much.
Thanks.

You're totally right. And you'd think I'd get it right, since I wrote the other entry, too -- singing "Twin Falls, Idaho," in my head the entire time. But, I'm not going to correct it just yet, in the hopes that y'all will deliver some more Iowa vs. Idaho goodness. - DR

Posted by: Tira at May 2, 2007 4:54 PM

Ranylt, here you go:

http://www.vimeo.com/tag:prankwar

And it's "Andy Bloom", which is apparently the name Amir uses during auditions. That video is fantastic in it's ridiculousness, but it's actually the third in this series. All of those videos are worth checking out.

Posted by: Cody M. at May 2, 2007 6:12 PM

I don't like Bon Jovi's music, so I think Blake's version is an improvement over the original.

*ducks flying objects*

Posted by: stardust savant at May 2, 2007 6:28 PM

I'll second the Iowa/Idaho thing.




Iowa-Hawkeyes


Idaho-Boise State(they have a blue field, wtf?)


Iowa-Central Time


Idaho-Mountain Time


As a almost life-long resident of Iowa, people getting the two states confused has always driven me nuts. Confuse Iowa with Illinois or Indiana, that's okay, but Idaho? No thank you.

Posted by: tncunnin at May 2, 2007 7:11 PM

trust me tncunnin, idahoans are just as tired of being confused with iowa as you are of being confused with idaho. fortunately people who have actually been to idaho know it is getting the short end of the stick, there really shouldn't be any confusion. you can keep the cornfields, we like the mountains.

Posted by: kkg at May 2, 2007 7:25 PM

Can people please stop doing remixes of rock songs? Please??? 'Cause the thing is that I was impressed by the beatboxing, but goddamn it, rock songs cannot be remixed. The end. And the fact that it was remixed Bon Jovi just made my ears bleed.

Posted by: Kate K. at May 2, 2007 8:12 PM

wow.
blew the origianl out of the water.

Posted by: fromanchu at May 2, 2007 10:21 PM

I'll add fuel to the Iowa fire.

I'm a Iowa resident, too. My friends and I were in Rhode Island for a convention. A storekeeper asked where we were from. "Iowa," I replied.

She paused. "'Round here, we say 'OHIO'," she said.

Yeah, lady...it's a different state.

Posted by: jana at May 2, 2007 10:31 PM

Thanks, Cody!

Posted by: Ranylt at May 2, 2007 10:37 PM

Why do the pajiba loves not get updated in the "love" heading of the site anymore? Am I missing something, or am I supposed to be clever enough to build my own link? I was out of town for a couple days, wanted to catch up on your linky goodness, but alas, I'm out of luck.

Posted by: Graham at May 2, 2007 10:42 PM

Jana, I would like to apologize on behalf of Rhode Islanders everywhere. Somehow I'm not surprised though. In fact, since everyone knows everyone else in this state, I'm probably distantly related to whoever said that. What part of Rhodie were you in?

Posted by: Matt B at May 2, 2007 11:21 PM

I was in the ninth or tenth grade when that song came out and I fucking hated it. I had this 300 pound friend who used to dress up in 'Bon Jovi' gear everyday (she even had the hair) and sing their songs all day. I used to wish she'd stab me in the ear when she came to school the day after a concert with all of her 'Bon Jovi' gear on and singing that damn song all fucking day.

I say all that to say that Blake did his shit last night and I loved it. I fucking hate Bon Jovi, don't care much for Blake but I clapped when he was done.

Posted by: Candy at May 2, 2007 11:43 PM

Blake is magical! Blake will save the world with his magical beatboxing. Okay, I'm not Paula Abdul, but Blake is about the only thing keeping me interested these days and I want to speak up that I liked his song a lot. It's not like the old version of the song ceased to be, for goodness sakes. Don't be so closed-minded.

Posted by: Cait at May 3, 2007 12:04 AM

As yet another Iowa resident, I was unaccountably infuriated by the miss-post. I'm glad someone brought it up and it has been explained. Of course, I have to forgive you Pajiba....but still, I HATE when people confuse the two...simply hate it, and honestly, I don't understand how that could've happened??

Posted by: feather at May 3, 2007 12:40 PM

Wow. Way to take a traumatic experience and make it even worse. I take it that they didn't get ice cream?

Posted by: zambonigirl at May 3, 2007 1:52 PM

Love that multiple are calling the Iowa Vs. Idaho. I grew up in Iowa and have always been kind of surprised by how many people confuse Iowa, Idaho, and Ohio - since they aren't exactly neighboring states. I once saw a great shirt once though that said "Idaho State University - Iowa City, Ohio"

Posted by: superdeluxebabe at May 3, 2007 2:34 PM

Since when is Bon Jovi untouchable?

Posted by: Brenda at May 3, 2007 7:32 PM

I have to say, I thought Blake was great the other night, though I'm also NOT a fan of Bon Jovi. I can understand how anyone who appreciates his music may be upset, but I thought it was a huge improvement over the original.

Posted by: Colleen at May 3, 2007 10:35 PM