Five things the VMAs had plenty of:
1.Yellowcard winning things
2.Pointlessly long and show-y entrances (even by MTV standards)
3.Lenny Kravits, for God's Sake.
4.Shots of Jay-Z and Beyonce sitting in the audience reacting to things.
5.Coverage of Jet that proved they're a much better band when you mute the TV.

I'm not even going to criticize the VMAs any further, really. When Stephanie and I turned it on, we were completely prepared not to be entertained. Honestly, it's probably only the second time I watched the whole awards show, because...well, you never have to see the whole thing. Between reruns and the two months of VMA retrospectives MTV runs every year, they guarantee that whatever they say is "going to go down in imfamy" does go down that way, because they keep talking about it every chance they get.

This should maybe be illegal, like creating artificial demand for stocks.

You know what other things end up like this? Ooh. A second top five.
Five things that get hyped up in your mind to the point that they're anticlimactic, and when they become anticlimactic, tons of people whine:
1.New Years Eve
2.Prom
3.The VMAs (though, perhaps, awards shows in general)
4.Series finales of shows
5.New Star Wars movies.

The point of this post, though, was to say how awesome it was to hear my Dad and Stephanie opining about Motown and having my dad admit that he supposes there is a lot of good innovation happening in music, especially in rap, but he'd rather hear a good songwriter like Toby Keith.

Even if I don't like Toby Keith, hearing my dad talk like that made me want to burn him some Ludacris and Jay-Z. If my dad listened to rap, he'd become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.