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August 12, 2004

The Passion Of The Cruise

Sorry no updates today. I've been very busy, staying at work really late all week and using Powerpoint for the first time since college. TGI-almost-F.

Here's something you guys can yak about: Tom Cruise's rant about scientology in the new Rolling Stone:

"Some people, well, if they don't like Scientology, well, then, fuck you. Really." He points an angry finger at the imaginary enemy. "Fuck you. Period."
Whoa.

There should be a celebrity dodgeball game: Scientology vs. Kaballah. Kaballah would be skins. It would air on Fox.

Speaking on Tom Cruise, Eliza finds him absolutely apalling, but has a crush on the lead singer of Maroon 5. I thought that was weird, but now I've learned plenty of my female friends sweat Maroon 5 Dude too. So that explains their popularity.

And on the music front, I dig that infectious Estelle track Said The Gramophone posted the other day. Go here and download while you still can. It's called "1980." Sean likens it to The Streets meets Beyonce, and I couldn't describe it better.

Posted at 5:48 PM




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I can't stand that midget. I love how he puts on the "tough guy" act.
Hey Tom, you can say the F word all you want. You still can't act your way out of a nutsack.

Posted by: Amy at 08/12/04 6:02 PM | Reply
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I love this post. Fabulous.

I also love the episode of "Entourage" where Ari hangs up with Eric, snaps his phone shut, and barks "FUCK you" at it. Sometimes that pops into my head when I am at work. But pointing at imaginary enemies... that's even funnier. It's like Hilary Faye being *filled* with Christ's love in Saved (and then winging the bible...).

Posted by: karen at 08/12/04 6:08 PM | Reply
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tom cruise is a nut, but i do think he is a decent actor...

anyway, here is a link on the best article on tom cruise and scientology. pretty creepy:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=19961027080317.6380.qmail%40squirrel.owl.de

Posted by: tylla at 08/12/04 6:23 PM | Reply
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I saw him on the Daily Show last night. It was amazing --how he smoothly answered questions and taunts. He's a robot!

Posted by: Lyla at 08/12/04 6:23 PM | Reply
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Maroon 5 were once a very cool Weezery band of 16 year olds called Kara's Flowers. They should not have been writing stuff that cool & catchy at that age. Total hipster mod kids. Then they TOTALLY changed. Like no band I know ever has. I didn't know they'd changed their name. Whoa.

Posted by: Adam at 08/12/04 7:01 PM | Reply
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i loathe maroon 5...esp the singer. jay kay wannabe. yuck.

Posted by: christine at 08/12/04 7:11 PM | Reply
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He kind of turns me on in a what-would-sex-with an-android-be-like sort of way. But then, I also want to try out a midget or someone over 400 pounds (me on top) before I die. Am I alone here? I bet the dude's a complete nutcase (and in the closet to boot). Therefore, I kinda want some.

Posted by: janine at 08/12/04 7:18 PM | Reply
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Yeah, it's easy for Cruise to say that when the media doesn't have the balls to ask him why he believes that we're all inhabited by the spirits of dead criminals from another planet and we have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to get rid of them. When they don't have the balls to ask him how he can believe in a religion that the founder admitted he made up just to see if people would be dumb enough to believe in it.

Posted by: Jesterstear at 08/12/04 7:54 PM | Reply
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'decent actor' or 'can recognize a half way decent script'? i'll pick the latter.

oh, and that whole thing about how he wouldn't wear shorts in the volleyball scene in Top Gun (like the other guys) because he doesn't like his legs? so gay.

Posted by: maiia at 08/12/04 8:08 PM | Reply
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I too admit to having a crush on the Maroon 5 guy. After seeing "I Love the '90s", I kept thinking this guy is cute and funny and was a little upset to find out that it was in fact a member of Maroon 5. Oh well!

Posted by: Jennifer at 08/12/04 8:15 PM | Reply
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Man, Kara's Flowers was a great band. Soap Disco is a piece of pop perfection. Good band.

Maroon 5 . . . Feh.

Posted by: Gary at 08/12/04 8:21 PM | Reply
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i remember seeing this sticker on the maroon 5 cd that said:
"what the strokees are to new york, maroon 5 is that for la"

then i laughed for about half an hour.

wasn't this the band that donnie darko used to be in?

Posted by: Douglas Reinhardt at 08/12/04 8:22 PM | Reply
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i don't have a crush on the singer of maroon 5. i don't even know his name! i just think he's super hot. tom cruise, on the other hand. not so much.

Posted by: eliza at 08/12/04 11:54 PM | Reply
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Seeing a Tom Cruise interview is like watching a plastic bag float gently in the wind - there's a lot of movement, but other than that, there's not much going on.

Kind of like Usher. They're unpersonable automatons.

Posted by: Alex at 08/13/04 12:58 AM | Reply
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Unless, Alex, you're Ricky Fitts. Then those plastic bags are the source of all beauty in life, floating plesantly over autumn leaves.

Posted by: Shaun at 08/13/04 1:09 AM | Reply
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forget about tom cruise for a second, and check out some Olsen twin snatch > http://users.easystreet.com/roger/images/otwins.jpg

Posted by: full house beave at 08/13/04 9:16 AM | Reply
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Mel Gibson: "You don't like the Pope? Fuck you! Period."

Posted by: the management at 08/13/04 10:36 AM | Reply
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This is a website that explains scientology from the inside out. I used to think it was innocuous, but now I find it kind of scary. Like most cults, they tend to prey on the weak-minded. And that whole thing about denying your children medicine? No, fuck you, tom cruise.

http://www.studytech.org/study_tech.php

Posted by: sarah at 08/13/04 4:20 PM | Reply
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Tom Cruise is a creepy nutbag. You can see it in his eyes--there's something very icky going on in there. I heard he had his agent tell Nicole Kidman that he wanted a divorce, that he didn't even have the balls to tell her himself.

Regarding Olsen "snatch:"
Can you say "PhotoShop?"

Posted by: Puddin' at 08/14/04 8:27 AM | Reply
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hEY gUYS im not bashing anyone specifically here, infact I'm happy some of you people are concerned with this topic a friend of mine and I have chosen to make a documenatry on.

Here's the thing, Scientology, is no.1 a UFO cult, there is no doubt about it, thats just what it is, does Tom Cruise and others know this maybee, maybee not, maybee he choses to ignore it, But know this, Scientology will not alow there proceeders to engage in any kind of activity you or I are capable of doing, that what involve finding out the truth of what lurks behind $cientology, such as computer software uploaded to their computers soo they cant access certain pages on the internet such as xenu.net, you get what im saying?....... I don't really want to go to into things things we'd be here all day, and I don't even know if anyone is listening lol

No.2 You mentioned L Ron Jr earlier, well what you didn't mention is how his father would perform Satanic ritiuals with his son on his mother. I dont want to sicken anyone but, I'll mention one of them, a bloody abortion with a coat hanger, homosexual orgies..... the list does go on. I will also say His father was in contact, never met, but wrote Satanist Aliester Crowly on a weekly basis for about 5 years. Who of which when died before him, Hubbard sought the black angel's soul was transfered to his body from crowley. Listen people this stuff is real complicated, nonesense or not, ok it goes into the occult and black magic. Believe in it or not it is a large part of Hubbard's Life.

No.3 It is about money though dont get me wrong. But I think we can persume Hubbard's, who of which was a very troubled genius, intentions weren't initially money. Like you or me he searched out to find some kind of answer of life and made not only money but also discovered some miraculous things, of which many hospitals use today, and doctors have learned ....... What im trying to say is dianetics isnt a bunch of *beep* Scientology is though lol he took it a bit to far.

You know as I sit and listen to the John Williams score on the new "Star Wars" dvd menu, playing repeatedly, I wonder if maybee Tom Cruise's path is not unlike his religeon's creator......

Once he'd thought he had found something he could really relate too and search for the answers unanswered in our lives and our world, but now after giving up the quest...... he turns to brainwashing people to get their money, it wouldnt be surprising maybee he understands it is a bunch of *beep*. *beep* You!!! he says, no *beep* You Tom Cruise show some goddamn respect for the people who made you who you are, and I don't mean $cientology.

Or maybee he has no clue what the *beep* is going on, and is being brainwashed just like the kid who sits down on the computer to read about $cientology from their own rediculous catalog/website. You know, I like Tom Cruise (as an actor) I think his roles are intresting, particullarly the ones that portray his own life sometimes.... I think he is a good hearted person, even if he is startinbg to look like an alien or a theatan or whatever you wanna call it......lol read up! lol

By the way I am not just talking about Cruise, I strongly beleive that this controlling most of hollywood today, maybee,....no probobly MTV, thats right kiddies. LOOK AT ART TODAY, WE ARE IN OUR DEPRESSION!!!! LOL. I really do plan on making a serious doc on this topic of which I went to New York Film Academy to learn to make, to make enough money to try to make a good movie and possibly save hollywood, with a lower class H, because well someone has got to do it......... and you won't will you? lol scared of the $cientologists lol

clobber6767@hotmail.com feel free to contact me!

Posted by: chase at 10/21/04 11:37 AM | Reply
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You need an update, man, now that Tom Cruise is going whacko in the media again. See what happens when you fire your professional, experienced, feared press agent, and hire your SISTER? You start looking like you need prozac for breakfast.

Brooke Shields is my new personal hero.

Posted by: Whyna at 06/13/05 10:30 AM | Reply
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Posted by: jerome at 07/27/06 1:27 PM | Reply
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verynice fuker

Posted by: maro at 03/29/07 4:26 PM | Reply
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