Jessica Simpson

September 15 show

Mojo was in a chipper mood when he started the show saying that clouds were "rosy", with no hint of rain. But I felt some shifting grey clouds, Grace Lee was not in the booth :(

Anyway, the Twister devoted a good part of the first hour to people who snore, getting calls from callers who opined on the causes of snoring.

According to www.helpguide.org, snoring can be "caused by a narrowing of your airway, either from poor sleep posture or abnormalities of the soft tissues in your throat. A narrow airway gets in the way of smooth breathing and creates the sound of snoring."

Here are some tips to stop snoring, and hopefully lessen annulments and divorces all around.

• Sleep on your side
• Elevate the head of your bed
• Limit alcohol and medications
• Clear your nasal passages
• Lose weight

Jessica Simpson's Lola Butts

Oh my. . I don't know how the topic veered to Jessica Simpson's lola butts, but the image really isn't nice. Trust the Twister to find this footage in the Internet. They really didn't look nice. Mojo said Simpson had cellulite all over, and I really feel bad for the lady. Maybe she needs a quickie butt lift? Click to this link to see it: www.thedirtydisher.blogspot.com

Long Distance Relationships

A caller asked if long distance relationships work, and the Twister mulled this thought for a second. His answer: Knowing the 'dogs' that they are - which means look at us, not in a million years is it possible. Unless that person is very religious, Mojo adds. The women callers listening to the show must have weeped at that observation. One million OFWs are leaving the country every year, and if this is Mo's prognosis, then the country's future is going to the dogs. So sad!

Maverick Solution for Cellphones

Trust the Mohandas to zero in on a brilliant solution for lost cellphones. I went to the website of Maverick Solutions and the software application can :

1. Protect your data :
In case of theft/loss, The moment SIM change is detected, Secure mobile will encrypt all the data on the device like the phonebook, images, messages etc. Now one can be assured about the privacy or misuse of the data on the device.

2. Track Device :
In case of loss/theft the application will send the phone number, device id, country code, operator name and area code(location) to the reporting device through sms. Secure Mobile will also report about activities performed on the stolen device via SMS. like Outgoing Calls Made to | Incoming Calls Received From | SMS Delivered to -----along with TEXT | New contacts Added to Phone book

3. Retrieve Phonebook :
The most important data on any device are the contacts. Using MSM one can retrieve phonebook from the stolen device, the entire phonebook will be retrieved by sending sms contact=all from the reporting device. As soon as the stolen device receives sms it will start sending the entire phonebook through SMS, and this by using the data plan of the thief.

4. Spy Call :
If the owner calls from reporting device to the stolen device, it will be termed as Spy Call. Spy call will switch on the loudspeaker & Mic of the stolen device remotely, so that the caller can actually listen to the conversation other person is engaged in. This call will not give any notification/ ring to the stolen device. The person who receives spy call will not be able to know he is being called by owner. Even if he comes to know about spy call, he cannot disconnect the spy call.

5. Raise an alarm and disable the phone :
To disable stolen device remotely, send sms = hang from the Reporting device to the stolen device, and it will raise an alarm and start playing a loud Siren. MSM will also display a customized message. Here, one can put his Name, Address, alternate number and award amount.

6. Data Back up :
Secure Mobile has a distinctive feature of incremental Data Back up. Using this feature one can back up all the data from the device to secure remote server using GPRS. So now all your data is very much secured and you can retrieve it without any hassle.

Angelina Jolie at 16

Photos of the young Jolie attributed to www.celebritique.com
Photos of Jolie by Patrick Demarchelier in the July issue of Vanity Fair.

Mention Angelina Jolie and the images you'll think are the luscious lips and sensuous face that we all know now. The Mohan recently saw a video of a photo shoot of Jolie when she was 16, and at that age, she was smoking hot, as seen in the pictures above which Celebritique has uncovered.

I remember reading an article about Jolie's Mom crying every night when she came in the mornings after spending some wild night in some wild party as a teenager. I could imagine how her Mother would have cried a river of tears seeing these pictures at that vulnerable age.

According to the Cohen article written in the July issue of Vanity Fair, "Jolie lived with her mother and brother in Snedens Landing, a picturesque New York suburb on the west bank of the Hudson River. Before high school, her mother sold the house and moved the family to Los Angeles, where Jolie attended Beverly Hills High. It was in these years that she cultivated her image as a punk, ran with a bad crowd, turned disreputable and skanky cool."

After two failed marriages and travels to disparate poor countries as a UN goodwill Ambassador, Jolie mellowed and started to see her Mom "in the absence of Angelina’s father, became her compass and lodestar, and was the unacknowledged presence at the table."

According to the July 2008 issue of Vanity Fair, Jolie said that “when [my mother] passed, I realized that somebody who lives life with that kind of dedication to their family is the most noble,” she said. “I was aware of it growing up. I admired her. And I loved her. But in her passing she reminded me what matters. And what’s most fun—to put yourself aside for these other little people you’re raising.”

It was nice that Angie's Mom died seeing her daughter happy and fulfilled. Perhaps the move to France was not such a bad idea after all. I hope we don't see pictures of Shiloh in fourteen years in such revealing outfits. Oh no!

Most Expensive Painting : Jackson Pollock's No.5,1948

Photo of No.5,1948 of Jackson Pollock (left) and Woman 3 of William de Kooning (right) courtesy of www.wikipedia.com

The Twister veered to a topic towards the last hour of the show - Which is the Most Expensive Painting in the World? The Pollock painting to the left fetched $149,700,000 while the William de Kooning painting cost $147,000,000!!!

Mo mentioned that when he saw the painting at his computer, I could see the Mohandas almost gagging, and he said that it was a work of art that could be done by anyone.

Although the Twister saw it in the Internet, my guess it, it will be a totally different experience when he sees the painting in person. That's when I think he'll feel his hair standing up and experiencing a transcendental experience.

I couldn't understand before why a Van Gogh fetched such insane prices at auction until I saw one before my eyes at the Met Museum in New York a few years ago. My eyes literally watered. Van Gogh painted in a small canvas a simple arrangement of onions and beets, nothing spectacular, but he painted it with such passion, every stroke felt like a carving of his own soul. I could not really explain, but it was a metaphysical experience. One has to see it, to believe it.

In this case, the Pollock painting is entirely different. According to Harley Hahn in his website www.harley.com:

"The name "action painting" was coined to describe the techniques used by Pollock. He would fasten large canvases to the floor of his studio, and then drip, fling, and spill paint on them. He often used regular house paint, because he preferred the way it flowed. .

Although the idea of abstraction had been around for some time, the Abstract Expressionists went a lot further. They began to emphasize, not only the finished product, but the actual process of painting. They experimented in how they interacted with the paint, the canvas, and their tools; and they paid attention to the physical qualities of the paint itself, its texture, color and shape."

Harley narrates a similar experience I did when I saw a Van Gogh painting. But this time, he saw his first Pollock painting entitled "Lavender Mist".

" A few years ago, I decided to visit Washington, D.C. by myself. It was the middle of winter, and the city had been hit by a huge snowstorm. I was all alone, so I decided to walk to the National Gallery of Art. The streets were virtually empty, and as I entered the museum, I could see that it too was empty.

I asked the information person if they had anything by Jackson Pollock. She said yes, and gave me directions to the room in which his paintings and drawings were hung. I had heard of Pollock and seen photographs of his work, but I had never seen any of the paintings in person.

I still remember the feeling I had when I descended the stairs, turned the corner, and looked at the wall. I was alone in a large room and, there on the far wall, was "Lavender Mist". The effect it had on me was completely unexpected. It was the only time in my life when I can remember a painting, literally, taking my breath away. I know this will sound a bit sappy, but seeing that painting changed me forever.

How could this be the case? You just looked at a picture of the same painting, and I doubt you felt as if you had been changed forever.

First, I should explain that the actual canvas is large, nearly 10 feet (3 meters) long. It is quite imposing when you see it in person, especially in a large empty room, where the painting seems to reach out, grab you and pull you towards it.

Second, what you see in the picture above is nothing like the real thing. Not only is the picture on your screen much smaller than the actual painting, but the colors you see on a computer monitor are muted and inexact. Moreover, on a computer screen, you do not get a sense of the texture of the paint and the canvas.

All of this you understand, I am sure. Everyone knows that viewing a real painting is a lot different from looking at a picture of the painting on a computer monitor (or on a projection screen in an art history class, for that matter).

However, there is another reason why I was so moved by "Lavender Mist", and it has to do with the very purpose of art. To discuss this, we have to consider the question, Why do we create art?

There are a number of straightforward reasons why human beings create art: to make a decoration, to tell a story, to capture or preserve an image, or to illustrate an idea. However, there is another, more subtle, but far more important reason why art is important to us.

The need to reach inside ourselves and manipulate our unconscious feelings is universal. We all do it to some degree, although most of the time we are blind to what we are doing.

That is where art comes in. As I explained earlier, one of the purposes of art is to allow us indirect access to our inner psyche. Great art affords a way to get in touch with the unconscious part of our existence, even if we don't realize what we are doing. In this sense, the role of the artist is to create something that, when viewed by an observer, evokes unconscious feelings and emotions."

Another Upset : Rhian over Heart

Photo: http://www.igma.tv/profile/rhian-ramos

When you're in show business, one should take Heidi Klum's Project Runway mantra to heart: " In fashion (or fill in the blanks to fill in any business), one day you're in, and the next day, you're out."

Who would ever have imagined Heart Evangelista being delisted in any celebrity showdown? But it happened.

At the ABS-CBN block, Angelica Panganiban won over Bea Alonzo.

Towards the end of the show, Mojo's girl crush Heart bit the dust, many of the callers saying that "Rhian" is a "fresher, newer face". And Heart is an old, unfresh face? Ouch, ouch, ouch! That hurts.

Perhaps, Heart should re-invent herself and do some other things that tickle the public's imagination and explore her range. It's very hurtful to be treated like yesterday's newspaper - forgotten and on the mark for the recycle bin.