Stand clear of the opening doors please

According to service change notices posted this morning, the Uptown Cortlandt Street subway station on the R and W lines will re-open service tomorrow, November 25th, at 3pm. (The Uptown N will also stop at Cortlandt during overnights). This station was closed briefly after 9/11, re-opened, but has now currently been closed and mostly barren since 2005. I ride this line every day and had noticed significant changes at Cortlandt in the past month, but am still somewhat suprised that they're ready to open so soon. I'll be out of town and am kinda sad I won't be able to ride during one of the inagural stops at Cortlandt, it'll be nice to hear the computerized voice announce that the next stop is Cortlandt Street and actually mean it! One thing is for sure, the re-opening of Cortlandt Street is sure to make Century 21 shoppers very happy.

When happens when Adam Lambert designs a mother-of-the-bride dress?

You get Kelly Clarkson's AMA performance outfit...

Other rando thoughts about last night's American Music Awards:

-People should not be allowed to be nominated for the same award in multiple genres (ex: Taylor Swift in Favorite Female Pop-Rock and Favorite Female Country). Creates too much of a monopoly, and then really who ARE you as a musician?

-On that note, Taylor Swift just shouldn't be allowed to win any more awards in general. Especially if that means beating Lady Gaga or Michael Jackson.

-Yet I don't agree with Michael Jackson being nominated at all in a year when he didn't release any new music. But I'll keep my mouth shut for fear of angry mobs coming after me.

-I'm a country fan and I don't even know who the eff Gloriana are (winners of the T-Mobile Breakthrough Artist Award). And again, anyone who beats Gaga for an award is not okay in my book. They good-naturedly acknowledged their obscurity in their acceptance speech though, so I appreciate the humor.

-Pretty sure SoShy and Nelly Furtado are the same person. Couldn't really tell them apart during Timbaland's performance.

-Lady Gaga and Adam Lambert killed it with their performances...obvi. I also really enjoyed JayZ/Alicia Keys, Whitney Houston and Carrie Underwood. Rihanna: totally overdid it.

-Apparently "bondage sex club" is an acceptable theme for an AMA performance these days. I'm okay with that, it was pretty hot. Honestly though, kinda surprised this one made it to television, ADAM LAMBERT.

Crave-of-the-Mo: Black and gold doorknockers

Not ACTUALLY doorknockers, I think you're supposed to have a house for that...or something. Since Monday I've been lusting these large gold and black onyx hoop earrings seen on Hilary Duff as Olivia on Gossip Girl. The gold part of the earring is a lion's head or some other similarly classy object, and whatever it is it's FIERCE! (Pun intended) However, I have tried my hardest and cannot find out who they're by, or even any reasonable knockoffs. If anyone has a lead on huntin these lions, I would love you more than Chuck Bass loves Asian hookers.

New hair TOOLS

Why is there an Ed Hardy flat iron and blow dryer? And more importantly why are they over $100? Ed Hardy now has a line of styling tools and hair accessories sold exclusively through Ulta beauty stores. I mean, Christian Audigier is bald, it's not exactly like I'm going to trust him as a go-to authority on haircare. So please stop me before I buy the rose-tattoo headband.

Who knew the CW was all abstract artsy?

I'm ashamed to admit, I'm addicted to the new 90210 on the CW. (Not as much as I am to the new Melrose Place though. See, MP is totes more respectable considering the characters are my own age, so watching that doesn't make me a loser.) But even after shamefully watching at least a dozen episodes of 90210, I just this week realized that the images in the opening credits abstractly spell out 9-0-2-1-0...the name of the show. Very creative, art directors, but they still just look like rando rich people beach scenes.

NY's Shittiest Shitters

Pending review...

My fists are ready to pump

Jersey Shore - MTV Shows

Back off bitch, I started the frickin poof!

Pretty much everyone I know was obsessed with MTV's True Life docs about the Jersey Shore, and apparently the network also knows a good (exploitable) thing when they see it. Get out your Cascada CD and your best muscle tank, because in December they will launch a new full reality series creatively titled Jersey Shore. I think they missed the memo that it's really only referred to as "The Shore" or "down the shore" because really, what other shore is there? I honestly don't think I have ever been this excited for a reality show, this is sure to make Rehab: Party at the Hard Rock look like a nunnery.

Dear CMAs...

Dear CMAs (or Country Music Association Awards if we're being formal),

I thought you were more respectable than to give sympathy awards. I'm not buying that Taylor Swift deserved to be named Entertainer Of The Year, and breaking all odds to do so. She was the youngest recipient ever, first female winner in almost ten years, and broke Kenny Chesney's almost 5-year monopoly (2008, 2007, 2006, and 2004). All this only months after she was victimized in one of the most talked about pop culture moments of the year by having her thunder stolen by Kanye West at the VMAs. Consider my eyebrows raised.

Also, Darius Rucker winning New Artist Of The Year? Have you never heard of Hootie and the Blowfish, one of the biggest bands of the 90's? Darius Rucker winning this award is the equivalent to if Stevn Tyler were to have really left Aerosmith, started a solo career, and won the Best New Artist Grammy. Ludacris. Plus, apparently Darius was the first African-American to be nominated in like 40 years. I've never been a fan of affirmative action.

Disappointed (except in Carrie Underwood's prettiness),

Megan

Not to make a cliche of myself, but...

Mason Dixon
Lower East Side
133 Essex Street (at Rivington Street)
New York, NY 10002
212-260-4100
www.masondixonnyc.com

As regular readers know, I love me anything with a lil country flavor. While Mason Dixon may not be the most authentic, it certainly tries to bring this flavor with a southern style food menu, horns, and wood everywhere that can be seen. Pun intended. A large portion of Mason Dixon's patrons are male, and quite attractive if not a bit fratty. As for the females, they're mostly pretty drunk and letting loose gyrating against either the men or Mason Dixon's main attraction, the mechanical bull! One of I believe only two mechanical bulls in NYC, riders pay $5 for their chance at being thrown around by el toro, but only after waiting in line for twenty minutes or more. The music isn't what I wanted or what you'd expect at a country bar in Manhattan (or maybe it is...) with way more classic rock and hip hop than honky tonk. But I suppose honky tonk doesn't necessarily please the masses, and to stay in business in the over-saturated LES the masses must be pleased.
Rating: 3.5 stars

Biblioteca discoteca

Awesomeness from the new (hit?) Joel McHale show Community. They had to write a conversation en Español using 5 key phrases. This is what happened...



http://www.hulu.com/watch/97892/community-la-biblioteca#s-p5-sr-i1