GoodTimes with Mo,Mojo and Grace Lee : October 7,2008 show

Goodtimes with Mojo
Friends have commented that ever since the Twister and Grace Lee are somewhere out yonder, Mojo Jojo has been quite a revelation. His voice today has been quite mesmerizing (is that a gay remark? :), very Tom Hanks (think of the Captain commanding the troops in 'Saving Private Ryan'). Well, he sounds very commanding because he has no choice - he is the leader of the booth comprised of Junior DJ's Lexie from the Ateneo and Dale (six foot behemoth from CSB who happens to be a volleyball varsity player.)

It's nice that the attention shifts to Mojo when Mo and Grace aren't here, because he really is a nice guy (well he still wakes up late) despite being branded a 'pathological liar', 'homo' or an 'a-hole' by the Mohan. Good work, Mojo!!

Mother of all Scams
An interesting discussion on scams originated early on when Mojo mentioned that he tried to buy a Blue Ray video game version,only to discover that of course a game as cheap as a pirated one couldn't possibly have Blue Ray capabilities.

Which led to a discussion about fake Philippine Adidas jackets proliferating in the multiply sites. Mojo got a call from an Adidas representative here that almost all these jackets sold are not the genuine article. (The Twister had mentioned last month that if you own this jacket, you should keep it under lock and key because it's not being sold anymore.)

Mojo asks callers to narrate their experiences on scams, and what do you know, someone calls about his fascinating tale as a 'would be' (he discontinued because of guilt) scam artist. Apparently, this guy is paid P60,000 a month, and his job was to 'pop up' when you're in YM or Skype as 'Liza' and lure you to go to a link where you see 'Liza'naked and dancing. 'Would be' scam artist said his usual targets are gullible Caucasian men willing to pay $5 per dance (?) until you're truly fooled into parting with a hefty sum until your pockets are empty.

B, another caller recounted receiving a text message telling him that he won a car. Apparently the car was in Cebu, and to facilitate its release, one had to fork in an initial P7,000. B knew that it was a scam, nevertheless he was just curious about how the scammers conducted their business, with the intention of providing this info to his NBI friend.

Another caller mentioned that they were paid P60,000 a month as a call center agent and all they did in that hellhole was to sell fake stocks.

Mojo asks - are we a nation of scammers? It seems many of our countrymen are either producers or consumers of fraudulent schemes. I believe that good people will overpower these evil dudes, and they'll fry in eternity trying to live off on their fake scams.

Helena Rising

A caller named Helena sounded so problematic - she was a 'Bo' but couldn't admit it to her family and family because they were too conservative.

Any advice from the Mojo?

Mojo advices that we usually underestimate our family, and that once one 'comes out' the initial shock shrivels and one's sexual orientation is accepted after a time.

If this is impossible, it's important to be independent and be self-supporting so that one can live life according to one's beliefs.

Spoken like a true 'homo'. as the Twister would say :)

Growth Spurts

There were many other topics, but talk at one time ventured about Mojo's observations that children of this generation are 'hobbits'. And studies have proven (according to Mojo) that the previous generation was taller. The lifestyle today is not conducive to producing giants because many people are sleep deprived. Mojo observed that when he walked around the malls at night, there were many parents with children awake at a late hour. According to Dr. Mojo, one needs uninterrupted sleep to spur growth because the growth hormone is only released after three hours of sleep.

Sleep and grow, should be your mantra if you want to be a giant beanpole.

Goodtimes!!!

Mojo, Mo Twister, Grace Lee and Andi9 photo above from ricardo buhay's flicker site.

Goodtimes with Mo : October 6, 2008 show

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Mojo's Ultimate Revenge

The Twister is currently in Paris while Grace Lee is in Korea, and Mojo Jojo is not in Iloilo, as was previously reported but is in town hosting the Goodtimes show with Miguel and guest DJ's Lexi from Ateneo and Dale from the College of St.Benilde.

And my, what a day! Two hours of the show was devoted to how Mojo could plot his ultimate revenge on the Mohan's poop prank.

Some suggestions from the DJ's on board and from the listeners:

1. from Mojo -smear feces all over Mo Twister's car while he is in Paris.

2. from Mojo again - coat human or dog poop in chocolate and offer it to Mo Twister, Grace and Andi 9 (co-conspirators in the dog-poop controversy).

3. from Mojo - cut Miguel's foreskin from circumcision, chop it up and offer it as part of a lugaw offering.

4. from a listener - put 2 drops of Visine in a glass of beer, and this acts as a diuretic (poop galore!!)

5. from another listener - send a super sexy girl to the Mohan, make him fall in love (or lust) with this creature, and later on reveal to him that the girl is really a he.

6. A listener reveals that foreskin by the ton is available (through charity medical messions). Miguel suggests to fry it all up and serve it as chicharon.

7. from another listener - inject patis in a bunch of grapes (Grace Lee and Mo Twister apparently eat grapes in the booth).

And on and on...

I guess this revenge will only end with the two friends Mo Twister and Mojo stabbing one another in live radio with horrified listeners egging them on to their deaths.

Gross!!

If you miss the Twister's interesting discussions and would like to chew on some topics you've missed the past month, click to this link www.goodtimes899.blogspot.com

Goodtimes!!!

Goodtimes with Mo : October 2, 2008 show

Grace Lee's Lie Detector Test

For her birthday, the scrappy Grace Lee fulfilled a promise to be strapped to a lie detector apparatus while the following questions were asked from her from the Twister. Guess where she failed :)

1. Mo : Did you have sexual intercourse with anyone for the past month.
Grace Lee: NO

2. Mo : Are you attracted to rich, powerful politicians?
Grace Lee: NO

3. Mo : Are you a high-maintenance bitch?
Grace Lee: Of course not.

4. Mo : Is it true that you will not quit the show in the foreseeable future?
Grace Lee: No

5. Mo: Did you ever lie and give another reason for your absence on the show?
Grace Lee: No

6. Mo : Does Mojo lie more than the average person?
Grace Lee: No

7. Mo : Do I lie more than the average person?
Grace Lee: No

8. A caller : Have you fantasized about Mo?
Grace Lee : No

9. Mo : Did you ever get an offer of money for sex?
Grace Lee: No

10.Mo: Have you experienced orgasm?
Grace Lee: Yes

11. Mo : Have you pleasured yourself? (Grace Lee corrected this question-Have you ever pleasured yourself ever?)
Grace Lee: No

12. Mo : Do you have other offers from other radio stations as an individual talent?
Grace Lee: No

13. Mo : Do you fantasize having sex with the same gender?
Grace Lee: No

14. Mo : Have you ever fantasized about Mojo?
Grace Lee: No

15. Mo : Fantasy with Chiz Escudero?
Grace Lee: No

16. Mo: Have you ever been intimate with a non-boyfriend?
Grace Lee: No

Results from the lie detector says that Ms. Grace Lee lied on questions 5,6,8 and 16. She fibbed about her reasons for being absent on one particular show; Yes, Mojo is a pathological liar; Yes, she has fantasized about MO and Yes,she has been intimate with someone else while she was on with her boyfriend. Pretty nice results, huh?

Click this link www.goodtimes899.blogspot.com to read the complete log for the day.

Goodtimes!

Mo Twister & Grace Lee Play a Poop Prank on Mojo

'The Most Hilarious Moment on Radio' is a title I've used three times already in this blog, and it seems that I've used it so often because I found so many rib-tickling hysterically funny moments listening to this show.

I almost gagged with this one because they really caught Mojo and the listeners unaware, which really makes it so ridiculously funny. And Grace Lee was part of the prank.

So let me recount..

I almost felt bad for Mojo from the beginning, when I heard that the Twister was about to give a birthday/1 yr anniversary special gift to Grace Lee as a Goodtimes co-host.When Mo asked if he ever gave a gift to Mojo for Christmas for his birthday, Mojo said No, he never received a gift from the Mohan, despite many years working together. Ooooooowwwww :( Listeners must have felt bad for the Mojo Jojo.

Anyway, towards the end of the show, the Twister said his gift to Grace Lee was wrapped in a black plastic bag because he didn't have the time to get a box, the next best thing was to grab a black plastic garbage bag to put the gift inside. But first, Grace had to guess what the gift was inside, and if she wasn't able to guess, then Mo Twister would not give the gift to her. 'Then perhaps I get the gift!', Mojo shouts in joy.

Mo then slyly turns to Mojo Jojo and asks him/her, would you like to be the first then to guess what the gift inside is? Mojo is deliriously happy that he gets the first shot.

I was almost bored at the outcome. Was it a Louis Vuitton bag? Oops, and then I heard a "What is this?" from the Mojo Jojo. "Is this chips?" And then a "Mother F, is this what I think it is?" Is it poop? All hell broke loose then and the shit literally hit the fan.

There was a lot of screaming and cursing and running around. I think Mo said that it was his poop, which made Mojo run and scream out.

When he came back, he threw the gift poop towards the Mohan and Grace Lee so much so that the booth smelled like poopy whoopies.

In the end, it turned out to be dog poop. And it was a prank really intended for Mojo, with Grace Lee's compliance. Mojo Jojo seeks revenge in the coming days. Abangan!!!

(Postscript: The Twister admits that it's really his poop. Read his admission at the other great, great wordpress blog on Goodtimes ;)

Britney Spears Real Voice Revealed

A disgruntled audio technician in a Britney Spears live concert must have been mightily peeved at listening to Britney Spears' real voice that he taped the Brit-Brit while she was busy dancing and lip-synching in her own concert. Oh whoa! As the Twister says, she sounds like she was singing in her 'shower' voice. You'd really feel bad about this surfacing in the Internet, especially after news that former skanky BF Ghalib is selling a sex tape to the highest bidder. To hear Britney croaking, click to this Youtube link.

photo: www.teenhollywood.com

Philequity Fund Best Birthday Gift to Listeners

Towards the end of the show, Grace Lee unveiled her own birthday gift to the listeners by introducing Raymond Ricafort, a friend who advices Grace Lee in investment matters.

In one radio show the past week, the Twister had voiced a suggestion that instead of having crappy, useless subjects in school like PE,Art and Music (do you really have to take 12 units of PE in college?) why don't schools offer the really important subjects like how to create and keep money, and integrate it as part of their curriculum.

I guess this really resonated with a lot of people so much so that Grace's friend came on board towards the last fifteen minutes of the show to give some important money-making tips.

Ricarfort mentioned investing money in mutual funds, and when the Goodtimes crew asked for specific names, he mentioned PHILEQUITY funds, which have consistently averaged 24% earnings per year.

Philequity Management, Inc. (PEMI) is an investment management company established in 1993.It is also the manager and principal distributor of Philequity Fund, Inc. (PEFI), the Philippines’ best performing equity mutual fund. PEFI has been awarded by the Investment Company Association of the Philippines (ICAP) as the best performing equity mutual fund in the 10-year, 5-year and 3-year categories.

To check out this company, go to PEMI's website by clicking this link www.philequity.net

According to Pinoymoneytalk.com, Philequity has performed very well.Here is their list of the Year-to-Date (YTD) Performance of Philippine Mutual Funds (as of 2nd Quarter 2008)

Equity Funds (primarily invested in Peso equity securities)

1. United Fund - (10.21%)
2. First Metro Save and Learn Equity Fund - (17.91%)
3. ATR KimEng Equity Opportunity Fund - (22.87%)
4. Sun Life Prosperity Phil. Equity Fund - (25.48%)
5. Philequity PSE Index Fund - (25.79%)
6. Philequity Fund - (26.77%)
7. Philam Strategic Growth Fund - (26.92%)
8. Philippine Stock Index Fund - (32.06%)

Goodtimes with Mo : October 1, 2008 show

photo: allen cortez at flickr

Advanced Happy Birthday Greetings to Grace Lee!

October 4 will be Grace Lee's birthday, and since this day falls on a Saturday, Goodtimes will host a special birthday special for a very special lady tomorrow.

I've asked many people and the common comment among many friends is that this girl is one of the nicest, most sincere people to walk on Planet Earth. She can be a tad conservative, but she's very 'dalagang Pilipina', and that's a plus to a boy who'd want to bring home a very nice girl to Mama.

To dear Grace Lee, advance Happy Birthday!! Good luck tomorrow! I understand you'll be strapped with a lie detector test, and asked to answer questions from the Twister.
What a show!! Let's see if you'll survive the taunting. Good times!!

Click this link to read the complete blog of Goodtimes for the day - www.goodtimes899.blogspot.com

Have a great day!!

Manny Villar

Towards the third hour of the show, the VIP guest Manny Villar came on board. This billionaire cum Senate President started out in very humble beginnings.The second of nine children, Manny started selling seafood at the Divisoria Market at an early age.

Via Wikipedia, "While Manny Villar was a working student, he was also putting in long hours as a fish and shrimp trader: working where the action starts during the wee hours of the morning when the freshly caught seafood arrives at market grounds. As a working student, he was able to put himself through school by finishing his studies at the University of the Philippines where he earned his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in Business Administration.

With an initial capital of P10,000 in 1975, Villar purchased two reconditioned trucks and started his sand-and-gravel business in Las Piñas.

He started a gravel and sand business and then went on to establish one of the largest development firms in the Southeast Asian region, the Camella & Palmera Homes."

The Twister had a lot of questions to the Senate President, but what I found interesting were his answers on corruption.

Mo asked what he'd do when 'intuitively' Villar knows he is working with corrupt people, would he confront it, what would Villar do? Mo said that if that was his same situation, he'd find it very hard to work in the same condition.

Manny Villar answered it best when he said that one should remain an optimist despite the harshest conditions. One should not dwell on what isn't but what are the givens in the situation you find yourself in. One should proceed from what is real, rather than what is not there, and make the best of a bad situation.

When Mojo asked if Villar is for gay marriage, Villar said that personally he believes that 'you can do whatever you want to do in your private life', but as a lawmaker, he will make laws that are for the good of many people, not just a few.

I've always been impressed with this dude, and the way he lifted himself from penurious circumstances. I'd vote him for President because Bayani might create a Philippine currency with pink notes in it. Eeeeeeh!!!!

The Snubbed Fan

A caller named Emil, who was quite unusually perky and jolly at 8:45 am, had a quite semi-tragic tale to tell the listeners:) He was snubbed by Mojo in perhaps one of his diva moments (perhaps he was in a hurry to smoke, pagpasensiyahan na ninyo!). Poor guy Emil had a picture of the Goodtimes crew (did I hear it right?), and wanted Mojo to autograph the pic. It turns out that Mojo turned his back on them and went out in a hurry to smoke.

There was a mini dog-cat fight that ensued when Mo Twister heard it. At first he defends Mojo for not truly being a deliberate snob, but then again, the Twister tells Emil that he was snubbed perhaps because he was not handsome enough or not a half-breed.

Mojo said that perhaps he misunderstood the situation and the fan was mumbling.

Anyway, poor Emil has learned his lesson, but despite it all, he still called the show and remained his happy, joyful self, even making a comment that he loved the radio show "Goodtimes". Now, who is the real star here? Emil, pa - burger ka naman. Burger! Burger!

Goodtimes with Mo : September 30, 2008 show

Janina San Miguel Resigns as Ms. World-Philippines

What an early morning shocker!

It was only around 6:30 am, when a caller named "Agatha" had some earth shaking news - the infamous Janina San Miguel, Ms. World Philippines consultant was resigning and not participating in the upcoming Ms.World contest because she is emotionally distraught and incapacitated because of her grandfather's death.

That was a shocker alright, which led to the following interesting discussion about the difference between a grandparent dying versus one's parents untimely demise.

Mo said that he won't be able to work for a few months while Mojo, Mo's "pathological liar co-host" will quit radio altogether upon the news of his/her parent's demise.

But a grandparent's death? Mo remembers not having a deep well of tears on his grandfather's death, so he couldn't relate to Ms. San Miguel's decision.

I think she's terrified she'll create another world-famous gaffe. She should have just swallowed her pride and answered the questions in the Ms. World Q&A portion in Tagalog.

She won't be able to master English even if she took an intensive crash course in six months. Who's she kidding? Poor girl. Her handlers didn't give her the correct advice. Tsk..tsk..tsk..

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Have a great day ahead!

Phil Younghusband as Guest Co-host

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Towards the second hour, heartthrob Phil Younghusband with the clipped British accent joined Mo Twister, Mojo and Grace Lee as a guest co-host.

He is half-Filipino, born as he is in Ashford, Middlesex, England, the son of Philip Younghusband, a chartered accountant and Susan Placer-Younghusband, a Filipina.He is considered an English-Filipino professional football player currently attached to Chelsea F.C. He plays as a striker and turned professional in March 2005, having been at Chelsea F.C. since the age of nine.

Via Wikipedia ,"Younghusband was the youth team's top scorer in the 2003–04 season and made his first reserve start in November 2004. In the 2004-05 he was the youth team's top scorer.[1] In the 2005–06 season, Younghusband made 21 appearances for the Chelsea reserve team, including 18 starts, and scored five goals. He also made one appearance as a substitute for the Chelsea youth team.

He played for the Philippines Under-23 national squad in the 2005 Southeast Asian Games. Younghusband scored two goals in the Philippines 4–2 loss to Malaysia. He is now part of the seniors Philippine national team.

Early in 2005, the Philippine Football Federation was alerted to Younghusband's eligibility by a mysterious gamer who allegedly found out about their lineage via playing Football Manager.[2] He and his older brother, James, were eventually called up to the South-East Asian nation's football squad, amidst much fanfare. Younghusband participated in the 2005 South-East Asian Games, which was held in the Philippines, scoring two goals at the tournament.

Younghusband participated in the ASEAN Football Championship and scored 6 goals in 4 appearances and ended up top scorer in the qualifiers.

In early 2007, he and his brother inked a management and representation deal with regional celebrity agent, PR Asia Worldwide.

On 30 August 2007, Younghusband signed a contract with Danish top-league club Esbjerg fB, going on loan with the Danes for the rest of the 2007–08 season. He however returned to Chelsea during the January transfer window.

Although he has yet to debut in the Chelsea F.C. First team, he has enjoyed playing time in the Reserves team, scoring 9 goals in 41 apps in the past two seasons, and appearing in 6 (5 starts) in the current season."

Phil Younghusband is now in his sixth week as one of the finalists in Celebrity Duets. Do vote for him, since he has improved considerably (according to Younghusband's own observations :)

Langhap Power

If it's a deadly fart in a booth, it's between 5 to 10; but if it's expired blood in an open room on a summer day, it's a 27.

Such is Mo's brilliant 'Langhap Power' segment, where callers recount the most odorous experiences they've had and the Twister will rank it from a low 0 to a high 100.

The 'mabahong p' ranked a 20. Surprisingly, it was Phil Younghusband who merited a high 50 plus when he remembered an incident where his dermatologist extracted a 50 year old pimple on a patient, and it smelled really bad.

Eowwww!!!

Adnan Ghalib selling sex tape of Britney?

BRITNEY Spears' paparazzo ex Adnan Ghalib is attempting to cash in on his relationship with the singer by selling off a sex tape allegedly featuring the star.

Mo mentioned that Adnana Ghalib, paparazzo lover of Britney Spears is now selling a sex tape to the highest bidder.

According to the Herald Sun, " the British snapper dated Spears on and off for several months during the last year, and claims to be in possession of raunchy video footage in which she wears nothing more than a pink wig.

The two-hour long tape was allegedly recorded while the couple was on vacation in Mexico, just days after Spears was hospitalised following a stand off with Los Angeles police when she refused to hand back her sons to ex-husband Kevin Federline after a scheduled visit.

And according to the UK's Heat magazine, Ghalib is now looking to make money from his time with Spears - but will only go into detail about the supposed sex tape for "the right price".

'There is such a tape, but I won't discuss prices for hypothetical enquiries. Unless there is a locked-in deal, I will go no further,' he said."

Mo Twister admonished all the girls out there to hold on to any sex related videos one has produced with a boyfriend, saying that all girls will never ever release footage of themselves in this manner. Grace Lee opines that in the first place 'they should not even have made a sex tape of themselves.'

Ghalib is truly a skank! Revenge must be his motive because Britney's mother recently published a tell-all book about Ghalib, and this must have enraged the paparazzo-Svengali.

Goodtimes with Mo : September 25, 2008 show

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Iza Calzado: Hottest Celebrity Ever

I thought for a time that the horndogs would vote for Ehra Madrigal or Anne Curtis, but surprisingly the voters in the 'Final Hottest Celebrity Showdown" chose Iza, and looked beyond looks and instead forcused on the total package.

This beautiful lady whom you can 'bring home to Mama' is kind, regal, statuesque, a good actress - in other words just plain 'super hot."

I agree. She deserves the award. For a former fattie (200 pounds), Iza Calzado's win is a sign of hope for the once doomed. Hey slobs, there's a rainbow beyond the doughnuts and pizza. With enough discipline, you can look like Iza who confessed to exercising even if she's tired from a shooting, afraid that the fat that lurked in her body would reappear again.

Take a bow, Iza!

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mo mojo fight

In the first hour of the September 25 show, a caller asked why Mo and Mojo have not fought for a time.

The name calling commenced then. "A-hole!," Mo to Mojo. "The trouble with you is that you're book smart, but now wise." Uhmmmmmm. "Plus, you're a pathological liar!"

Oh my. This repartee was quite amusing. I just hope their friendship survives such brutal verbal fencing. The Twister who constantly says he has few friends, call Mojo a friend, so perhaps this is the reason Mojo never picks up a deliberate fight with the Twister and usually turns the other cheek in his continuous verbal assaults.

Here's my petition for Mojo's canonization:)

Clay Aiken Confessional

The first time I saw Clay Aiken all those years ago, I knew he was gay. But why did it take him years to confess he is one?

Mo Twister as usual hit it in the head, he mentioned that he could not say 'mo' jokes to friends whose sexual affiliation he wasn't so sure of.

Why not just confess and get over with?

Grace Lee was shocked that Aiken said he's gay. She's so sweet but so cutely naive at times.

According to Aiken in his latest interview at People, following the Aug. 8 birth of his son Parker, singer Clay Aiken is following through on a promise he made to himself as a new dad: to publicly acknowledge that he's gay.

"It was the first decision I made as a father," Aiken, 29, tells the upcoming issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday. "I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that."

Post a Secret

www.postsecret.blogspot.com

Trust the Twister to ferret out a deep, deep dark secret - a blog and "an ongoing community art project where people can mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard." The blog looks very artistic, but I don't know how cathartic it really is because you just post a one-liner but can't really do a confessional.

Mo Twister did a more ingenious spin-off from this original idea by asking listeners to confess their secrets anonymously on air, and the results were one of the most entertaining moments in radio history.

Although the confessions were semi-tragic, I didn't know whether to laugh like a jack-ass by my lonesome self - the stories were stranger than fiction!

The first caller had five abortions ( I could hear Grace Lee and the Mojo choking on their Ogie dogie hotdogs if they were eating something); the next had a wife and a girlfriend on the side (but his voice sounded Nonoy Menggoy-ish hahahahahaha:); the next slept with a first cousin when he was ten years old and the cousin was 14 and the cous-affair is still ongoing despite both being married.

Grace Lee had her own confession - one of her acquaintances had a menage-a-deux with a 48 year old and a younger guy, and when she became pregnant, Grace's friend didn't know who the father was. The older guy was a happy 'bachelor' and wasn't interested in getting married. Younger guy married the girl but she didn't confess that she was pregnant with the other guy. When the baby came out,Grace's acquaintance thought the baby looked exactly like the 48 year old guy. Did she confess? No, until today Grace's friend continues the lie.

Now, which is the more evil deed? The girl who had 5 abortions or the girl who told a multi-generational lie?

According to the Twister, Grace's friend has the heavier sin because her lie will affect not only her, but will affect many other people's lives, while the abortionist will only hurt herself.

Do you agree?

Bello-fied

photo from www.philippinenews.com

You know you've arrived when your name becomes as generic as Colgate, Kodak and Frigidaire. "Bello-fied" means "lipo-ed". It can also mean 'beautified' because that's the business of Dr. Vicky Belo.

As an 18th anniversary present, this generous, beautiful and 'hey hottie' (as a listener called her) doctor is offering liposuction at 1990 prices, (P30,000), and a further discount of P15,000 is given per additional body area. What a fantastic offer!!!

Dr. Belo explained that she wanted to follow Mo's example by giving her own version of a Cherry QQ car. Sweet!!

We wish to send her tons of chocolates (we heard she loves chocolate!) and more blessings in the next decades!

Also, try this Belo treatment which Mo gushes over and over again named the Fraxel which apparently erases deep pocketed acne, and other high-tech offerings, the names of which escape me now. Good luck, fatties,uglies and future lovelies:)

Goodtimes with Mo : September 24, 2008 show

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Another TV season begins

Another new TV season has rolled in, and the Twister keeps busy downloading the latest from Limewire. His current favorite is Prisonbreak, which according to Mohan is the best of the series. Check it out!! He has also watched the three hour initial episode of Heroes.

Verdict: He got lost on Lost, so don't ask him about that :)

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Money Lessons

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Mo Twister started the September 24 Goodtimes show with a question.

Wouldn't it be great if we were all taught to make money, keep money and save money at an early age?

According to the Twister, schools should teach a basic course on one of the most important ingredient, the fuel that makes life run - MONEY!!!

If you count all the useless hours used for PE, Art and Music (which by the way can be taught or learned outside the school), you'll have a pretty pathetic idea on where you've spent the wasted years of your childhood. Enough!!!

Top Ten Outrageous Celebrity Demands

photo from www.people.com

According to Mo Twister, when Justin Timberlake breezes into your town for a concert, he "requires an entire hotel floor, private fitness studio, an extra-large stereo, along with Nintendo and PlayStation. The floor’s air conditioning filters must be changed on his arrival. Door handles must be disinfected every few hours."

Isn't that outrageous? That is not yet worst celebrity demand! According to www.huliq.com,here's their list of the top ten outrageous celebrity demands:

"These 10 take the cake and throw it against the wall when it comes to satisfying their needs.

10. Eminem requires a PlayStation for video games, ping-pong table, basketball hoop, giant flat-screen TV, personal masseur – and “whatever kind of fast-food exists on the continent.

9. Rock group Depeche Mode must have a dozen drumsticks from Kentucky Fried Chicken and 10 tuna sandwiches – five on white bread and five on brown, displayed on a bed of lettuce on a tray covered in Saran Wrap.

8. Christina Aguilera requires organic fruits and vegetables, soy milk and soy cheese, along with Flintstones chewable vitamins, Nesquik and Coca-Cola. No Pepsi. No diet.

7. Rod Stewart refuses to tolerate any light in the hotel room for his afternoon nap. He sends a special “darkening” team to the hotel in advance to seal all cracks. And, he asks for 13 soccer balls.

6. Geri Halliwell demands air-conditioning – even when performing for the troops in tents overseas – along with a fridge in her makeshift desert dressing room filled with soy milk and fruit juice. She needs a computer with full Internet access available at all times.

5. Justin Timberlake requires an entire hotel floor, private fitness studio, an extra-large stereo, along with Nintendo and PlayStation. The floor’s air conditioning filters must be changed on his arrival. Door handles must be disinfected every few hours.

4. Vice President Dick Cheney requires all televisions in his room to be tuned to Fox News; a pot of decaf coffee and four cans of ‘Diet Caffeine Free Sprite; copies of The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal every morning and that his staff be notified in advance of any hotel gifts left in the suite.

3. Mariah Carey demands that her hotel suite be fitted with gold faucets. A new toilet seat must be installed before her arrival. Her own bed linens are delivered in advance. Only her own videos may be played on the two DVD players she demands for her room. Both Carey and her dog bathe only in French mineral water.

2. Britney Spears requires a private phone line in her dressing room and threatens to sue the promoter if the number gets published or anyone calls her. She asks for General Foods International Coffee, Cap’n Crunch, Fruit Loops and Pop Tarts in he dressing room.

And the celebrity who makes the most outrageous demands:

1. Jennifer Lopez’s suite must be painted and furnished completely in white, with white lilies and white roses, her favorite flowers. White candles prominently placed, preferably with Paris perfume, “Diptyque.” Her sheets must be of Egyptian cotton with a thread count of at least 250. Room temperature set at exactly 25.5 degrees Celsius.”

Facebook More Popular Than Porn

www.time.com

The Twister mentioned that in the olden days :) :) , one out of five people who surfed the Net visited a porn site. Today, the no.1 visited site among all web users is ... taran...FACEBOOK! Good grief!

According to an article by Bill Tancer in Time Magazine, "visits to porn sites have dropped from 16.9% of all site visits in the U.S. in October 2005 to 11.9% as of last week, a 33% decline. Currently, for web users over the age of 25, Adult Entertainment still ranks high in popularity, coming in second, after search engines.

Not so for 18- to 24-year-olds, for whom social networks rank first, followed by search engines, then web-based e-mail — with porn sites lagging behind in fourth. If you chart the rate of visits to social-networking sites against those to adult sites over the last two years, there appears to be a strong negative correlation (i.e., visits to social networks go up as visits to adult sites go down).

It's a leap to say there's a real correlation there, but if there is one, then I'd bet it has everything to do with Gen Y's changing habits: they're too busy chatting with friends to look at online skin. Imagine."

Iza Calzado wins GMA bracket

As a former fattie (over 200 pounds at 5'7"), Ina Calzado must have faced a lot of ribbing from friends and family from being overweight, and as a result became a more compassionate soul sensitive to slights and merciless teasing.

Mohan describes Ina Calzado as one of the nicest celebrities in showbiz, and I believe him after hearing her interviewed at Goodtimes towards the end of the show. Iza is the total package - the sort of person where time seems to freeze, and the cheeseburger you're eating remains uneaten if she walks right in front of you. This girl is just stunning!!

Iza was pitted against Rhian Ramos (the last woman standing amongst the beauties in GMA7), whose main disadvantage seems to be her age and personality. One caller said though that compared to Iza Calzado, Rhian seems slutty. (Tsk..tsk..)

In the end, a deluge of votes from the listeners voted for Iza, and the contest is closed.

The final showdown : Anne Curtis vs. Iza Calzado. This will be a very interesting showdown tomorrow morning!!

Highlight :Josh Groban at the Emmy Awards

www.tvguide.com

Speaking of the Emmy Awards yesterday, Mohan mentioned that Josh Groban's medley of past sitcom theme songs was the hightlight of a long, very boring evening. Watch Josh belt it out in this youtube clip.

Here are the list of shows where he got those songs featured in the Emmy medley:

The Simpsons
Friends
Happy Days
Golden Girls
Mister Roger's Neighborhood
The Andy Grifith Show
The Love Boat
Law & Order
The Addams Family
The Muppet Show
The X-Files
South Park
The Jeffersons
Baywatch
The Brady Bunch
COPS
Law & Order
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Saturday Night Live
The Late Show with David Letterman
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
Two and a Half Men
Rawhide
Gilligan's Island
M*A*S*H
The Carol Burnett Show
Cheers
I Dream of Jeannie

Mo Dancing

A listener mentioned viewing a You Tube clip of the Twister dancing, and Mo said he was "horrible".

Here's the Mohan dancing. It's nice to see him as a human being for a change. When he's in radio heaven, he sounds like God and Moses and Jeremiah combined - all sure and infallible. Enjoy this YouTube clip!!!

Oprah and the Buffet Way

www.zimbio.com

One caller asked about the Emmy awards yesterday, and Mo Twister noticed that Oprah looked like she "attacked a buffet." Looking at this pictures, it looks like she had a great buffet holiday. It's sad because Oprah also looks like there's something wrong with her healthwise. She looks tired. Fat or thin, the Mohandas thinks that Oprah gets defenders from those who say she looks gorgeous any size. How fair is that? I read in a recent issue of Oprah that she was so stressed from a sexual abuse incident that happened in her school in South Africa that her thyroid glands went haywire, thus the weight gain. The poor dear.

Speaking of buffets, the Mohan said that buffets were "society killers" because one is almost obligated to stuff one's self with food in a buffet, even after the point of satiety.

Mo Twister does not succumb to this temporal temptation and usually eats just one plate with another for dessert. When prodded to get more because it's 'sayang,lugi ka", he ignores it because the Mohan knows he'll balloon when he doesn't watch what he is eating.

I thought a big dog-cat fight would erupt when Mo said to Mojo to "give up the buffet, fattie..". Mojo, perhaps dreaming of food and more delicious food just drooled and said, "Embrace the buffet."

Men and Women Dream Differently

As usual Mo the Twister is correct. He has keenly observed that men and women dream differently, with men having x-rated dreams with specific partners while women have fuzzy dreams of 'embracing' and 'kissing'. Perhaps it's because women are more emotional and tend to dream in the same way, while men are visual and dream in a more erotic way?

According to Dr Mark Blagrove, a reader in psychology at Swansea University who has studied 100,000 people's dream experiences as part of a nationwide survey, a typical married couple sleeping side by side would have completely different types of dream, often at the same time.

The research shows that women's dreams:
Are increasingly about work;
Have more emotion in them;
Are likely to last longer;
Are more often based on the home, and
Involve more characters, especially family members

Men's dreams:
Have more strangers;
More often involve cars, roads and violence;
Feature more sex with unknown partners, and
Are more often about work, concerning redundancy and financial security.

Mojo who is half Pinoy and half Pinay dream differently too. She/he dreams of Heart Evangelista (in an x-rated way?) Blush, blush!!!

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Goodtimes!!

september 23 show

www.trailer2008.com

The Twilight Saga

The Twister and Grace Lee are now reading the Twilight saga by Stephanie Meyer, and reviews have been mixed about this book, ranging from 'sophomoric' to 'sappy' and 'unsophisticated'. The US School Library Journal recommends this book reading to Grade 9 students!

"Headstrong, sun-loving, 17-year-old Bella declines her mom's invitation to move to Florida, and instead reluctantly opts to move to her dad's cabin in the dreary, rainy town of Forks, WA. She becomes intrigued with Edward Cullen, a distant, stylish, and disarmingly handsome senior, who is also a vampire. When he reveals that his specific clan hunts wildlife instead of humans, Bella deduces that she is safe from his blood-sucking instincts and therefore free to fall hopelessly in love with him.

The feeling is mutual, and the resulting volatile romance smolders as they attempt to hide Edward's identity from her family and the rest of the school. Meyer adds an eerie new twist to the mismatched, star-crossed lovers theme: predator falls for prey, human falls for vampire. This tension strips away any pretense readers may have about the everyday teen romance novel, and kissing, touching, and talking take on an entirely new meaning when one small mistake could be life-threatening. Bella and Edward's struggle to make their relationship work becomes a struggle for survival, especially when vampires from an outside clan infiltrate the Cullen territory and head straight for her.

As a result, the novel's danger-factor skyrockets as the excitement of secret love and hushed affection morphs into a terrifying race to stay alive. Realistic, subtle, succinct, and easy to follow, Twilight will have readers dying to sink their teeth into it.–Hillias J. Martin, New York Public Library"

What romance! Grace Lee imagines Edward Cullen as this utterly divine being, and as a result will not watch the movie, due out in November 2008,because the actor who will portray Cullen (Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter) is not as perfect as the character portrayed in the book. No movie really justifies the movie based on it. Can you name one?

The Office

www.theofficetally.com

Sorry Mohan. This is not the 2008 winner of the Best Comedy series. This is a file taken in 2006 when The Office won the Emmys for Best COmedy.

30 Rock with Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey dominated the winners for Comedy this season.

The Office with Steve Carrell didn't win anything, which is bad considering that this is Mo's favorite show.

House and Ugly Betty, some of the Twister's favorite shows, didn't win any awards too.

Atrocious Listener

I was quite dumbfounded by this lady listener (ironically named Grace) who took offense when Grace Lee mouths off these words -"we Filipinos", when it is clear that she had no drop of Filipino blood in her veins.

What a fool! Although legally, one becomes Filipino by blood, it doesn't necessarily mean you become Pinoy because you carry the DNA of your parents through your bloodstream. Grace Lee is 'Pusong Pinoy' - she thinks,feels,eats,talks like a Pinoy. Pinoy ka nga pero tinatakwil mo ang mga kababayan mo kapag nasa ibang bansa ka. Pwe!
Grace Lee recounted that when two menfolk from HongKong denigrated some Pinoys, she defended our countrywomen by approaching the two a**h**es, and saying that they they had no right insulting our women. Good for her! Grace Lee is my type of Pinay. Mahinhin, pero matapang. Maawain, matulungin, magalang sa mga magulang. Mapagkumbaba. Madasalin, napakabait. Idol!!!

Adidas Philippine Jacket

www.pinoyguyguide.com

The Twister mentioned that Adidas does not carry this jacket with a Philippine flag because of our laws about wearing the flag on any kind of clothing.No wonder people drool over this jacket. I don't care about our half-ass laws. The jacket with the Philippine flag is gorgeous, and this can be worn by every Filipino, and look so hot!!

Our laws should concentrate on penalizing crooks and not punishing wearing these cool, cool items.

marimar auditions

It's quite ribtickling how the Twister has a funny bone all over his body. Trust him to find the funniest videos ever. Here's an audition of different GMA7 stars for the title role of Marimar. Click on this link at you tube to watch it.Find out why Marian Rivera got the role as Marimar. A 59 second clip of Marian in a two piece bikini for her audition is seen below (also taken from youtube).

KC wins vs Angelica Panganiban

www.filipinasoul.com

During the last hour, the hottest celebrity showdown between ABSCBN hot beauties KC Concepcion and Angelica Panganiban went underway. I thought at first that Angelica Panganiban was going to win hands down until a caller said that KC is hotter because even if you dress her in the most ordinary clothes, she's still very beautiful (as you can see from the picture above, she was surrounded by indigent kids and she looks extraordinary!) Whereas, dress up Angelica in the same outfit and I don't think you'd even notice her unless she's posed half naked in the front cover of a magazine.

Mojo recalled driving and seeing a glimpse of a girl with a very nice smile and his companion in the car said it's KC. Remembering KC in that one accidental encounter after all these years is star power indeed!!

Gays after 30

As a keen observer of humnanity, the Twister really nailed an insight I've also had since time immemorial - why is it that the Mo's (homo's) after turning 30 years old seem such an unsightly sight?

Mo asked Mojo to be quite honest and answer this question - when was his heyday as a gay guy? And Mojo said that he remembered being young and gay, and tabs for drinks were paid by other gay dudes by the truckload. Now it's the other way around.

Mojo poignantly told the listeners to enjoy their youth, because (as a gay guy) an old crotchety homosexual is as attractive as a mouse squashed by the road at midnight (especially in Manila). Terribly unsightly!

Whereas, a man gets more attractive as he ages.

Weekend Reflection

It's funny how Goodtimes at Magic 899 has affected a lot of people for good or ill. In my case, the usual topic of discussion over at the dinner table is what the radio hosts talked about that day. It's interesting how the Twister especially throws a provocative topic, and the listeners run away and chew on that topic like hungry dogs. Usually, I find myself agreeing with Mo Twister, he has a sensible head on his shoulders and his opinions are worth their weight in gold.

A lot of people missed the Mohan's presence and the topic inevitably creeps up to a critique of the show.

Dislikes :
-"We hear the same music again and again, it's sickening."
-"We hear the same advertisements again and again, it's sickening."
-"Music is played sparingly (that's pure torture especially since it's the same music)"
-The hosts are notoriously tardy, making us listeners feel disrespected.

Likes:
-We don't hear birthday greetings, or dedications to family members (yehey!!!) or officemates,etc..
-The topics are very interesting (especially when Mo Twister is present)
-Mo Twister, Mojo and Grace Lee serves as a moral (immoral) compass to our inner lives.
-We start the day with a smile hearing the three of them.

Zzzzzz....

The Twister wasn't around today the second time in a row. He was still in Hong Kong interviewing John Legend.

Mojo and Grace Lee carried on with panache and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz and holy moly . . did time fly by!

Sorry I fell asleep and didn't document what they talked about.

Sorry. Till next Monday then. Good Timea !!!!!

Gladiator Shoes/ Gladiator Shoe Co-hosts

Photo: www.shoehunting.com

Mo Twister was absent today, and the show was really different. The three hosts form an unbeatable trinity of energy, and when one is absent, their best and worst traits come out. For example, Grace Lee is really one of the sweetest persons to hit the radio airwaves, and yet when there's no Twister, Grace becomes too sugary to the point of annoyance.

Mojo without the Mohan starts playing all these Camp Rock songs (imagine hearing two versions of Camp Rock - the original and the local version we have), plus the theme song of the Mo's (Mohan's term for homosexuals) at Boracay last summer - "Shining Star", and it's enough to go nuts too.

Why can't Mojo and Grace Lee research like Mo Twister does everyday he goes to anchor his radio show? The show is interesting because the Mohan gives to his listeners something new, a new take on an old idea whether it's about a new website he discovered or a painting he found hideous. At least he gives an opinion which makes one stop and ponder.

At least my brain gets a work out in the morning!

I can listen to all the music I want to listen anytime of the day, which is what the two hosts gave today - translation: it's a waste of time.

The next time Mo Twister is absent, I hope Mojo and Grace Lee does something new to contribute to the air time they're paid, otherwise I'll see them as I see Rihanna's Gladiator shoes, which was mentioned by Mojo today. The shoes make a statement but it's ornamental and useless!!

Cruel Intentions

Cruel Intentions

I haven't seen this movie yet, but to our dear Grace Lee, this movie has significantly changed her life making her "give her v to the p" as the Twister surreptitiously said, or did I hear him say that?

Grace Lee said she didn't say it that crudely but this movie made her think that the movie had some of the most romantic love making scenes, making her think that perhaps giving up her virginity in such a romantic setting wasn't such a bad deal after all.

It's funny but when I looked at the plotline,it's between two main characters, and it heavily involves manipulation, seduction, and love in a rich and sophisticated socially elite youth atmosphere.

Yikes! As long as sex does not involve manipulation, the v can be stretched for the p anytime :)

High School Friends after Ten Years

A 15 year old in high school called with a glum, sad story about a breakup with boyfriend. This guy apparently deleted his presence in the web - no ym, facebook presence. Gone to Canada, leaving her with a broken heart. What's a girl to do?

I heard a compassionate voice from the three hosts for the first time- no horsing around, greenie wang jokes flying around.

They were all unanimous in saying that in ten years, it's a miracle if you hang around with your high school friends. In time, this girl with a broken heart will just laugh about this incident ten years from now and see it as a rite of passage to adulthood.

JB Boys

Photo: www.rottentomatoes.com

Cool JBs
It's amazing how the coolest super dudes to hit the TV and movie screens all have JB initials - Jason Bourne, James Bond and Jack Bauer.

Who is the coolest among the three?

James Bond with his British accent and his excellent sartorial taste? But he has a flaw. Grace Lee opines that Bond falls in love with the wrong woman in every movie, and he never learns his lesson. Bourne can stand by his own mojos, and doesn't need anyone, and the best thing is - he is loyal to one woman (music effect: violins please!) And Bauer? So much tortuous scenes and ridiculous situations hour after hour.

Winner: Jason Bourne because he could kill you with a book and a fan, if he had no choice.

Anne and Iza

Photos: www.codamon.com

The hottest celebrity elimination was underway again today, but a number of irate texters were irked when they were overpowered by the three Goodtimes hosts' votes on whether Anne Curtis was hotter over Angel Locsin in the ABSCBN showdown. The Mo totally disregarded the majority of the text lines burning by voting for all-time crush Anne Curtis.

On the other hand, a number of callers were for EHRA (with manic sounding voices), but the textlines and the 899 booth participants were for the very elegant Iza.

These are tough choices: it's like asking a chocoholic whether he prefers dark chocolate or white. It's as different as night and day, yet both come from the delicious coco beans.

Time to go coco loco!!

25 Hour/ Day

The Twister turned whimsical towards the end of the show when he mentioned wishing that he had a 25 hours per day, instead of just 24.

Imagine having an extra day to sleep, and watch a movie or just vegetate around the house. For all the workaholics out there, an extra hour will mean an extra hour of work pounding away at the desk; for the lazy bums, it means an extra hour to snooze and kill time. It really depends on the individual. For the Twister, this means an extra hour watching JB movies or corn porn ;0

Ugliest Billboard

http://leviuqse.blogspot.com

I almost died laughing when the Mo, Mojo and Grace Lee ran out of adjectives to describe how ugly this billboard is.

Seeing it is quite a visceral feeling. What were the people behind the ad thinking when they created this?

As Mo had often said, Boy Abunda is such a nice dude and if I were him, I'd complain to the owners of the perfumery company to change the picture of the ad. Imagine this image going around the world as the ugliest billboard in the Philippines (in the world?). Enough said!!

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."