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Saturday, November 5, 2005
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Looks like Laguna Beach might be ruining Laguna Beach. The Los Angeles Times has published a pseudo-exposé about how the popular reality show has changed the once-quaint coastal community. But even more importantly, we learn that über-sidekick Dieter is on firsties with Paris Hilton:
Some original cast members — including Kristin Cavallari, Stephen Colletti, Lauren Conrad and Dieter Schmitz — whose every searching look has been lovingly photographed in close-up and heightened with background music — have moved to Los Angeles, where they are bona fide celebrities, some working on acting careers. "We've been hanging at clubs with Paris [Hilton]," Schmitz said.
Wow. I feel bad for Paris. Click here to read the article.
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remember the pics people posted of lo, taylor, and lc with some random guy?
here’s random guy:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=3275754&friendName=***PlaYgrOunD-TaCticS***&Mytoken=7AE642C5-1228-A73A-5ECCAE910921EA7232408843
ya know, the more you learn about these kids, the more you really start to dislike them.
I know one thing, I’m not gonna really support the show like I did the past two seasons. The new cast is just not going to compare to the old one. I really think that after this season they should just end the show. Better to go out on top then keep beatin a dead horse.
I think that this article is absolute poppycock. I am a 22 year old resident of Redondo Beach, California which mean I graduated High School 4 years ago and let me tell you, the things that the Laguna Beach kids are talking about and doing are no different than the things we did when we were in High School. They talk about boys, they talk about sex, they talk about each other and they get drunk, “hook up” and back stab. That’s what teenagers do. It seems as though the residents of Laguna Beach are just upset that they have been “exposed” they have not been exploited we have just finally learned the truth. The town is full of plastic moms and drunken teens. SO WHAT? It’s no different than any other beach city in California. It could be “Bakersfield, The REAL Armpit of California” and the findings would be the same. This is the life that people live today…the cameras don’t lie. Editing may exaggerate a situation but what you see is what really happened. The City is just finally learning what it’s like to be any other city that produces something interesting to the rest of the population. Think Hollywood, New York, Paris, Brazil or even Hermosa Beach. Places that are full of tourists because they have something that other people want to see. They just need to get over it or learn how to become an empire because of it.
Nichele-
I couldnt have said it better myself. As one disgruntled resident says in the article, “We are a community that has stood for solid, meaningful principles … art, culture, the environment, quality of life, education..” and they are worried that MTV has completely ruined Laguna’s reputation. Well, a community can still be all those things, but when you have high schoolers who are apart of your community, you will be exposed to all the things that 18 year olds do. These people in the article are acting like the scenes with the kids being drunk or hooking up are so taboo, like that stuff NEVER happens in Laguna. PLEASE! It happens in EVERY single town, whether its Laguna, or dare I say…Mission Viejo! I think that if Beverly Hills had accepted MTV’s request to do the show there, the findings would have been exactly the same, with less complaining on the city’s part. As far as the parents being told that the show would focus on “getting into college, working, family life and activities such as surfing or music lessons,” I find that comical..when has MTV ever focused on anything like that? I dont want to watch kids doing homework, do you? Come on ‘guna, get over yourself, and embrace your popularity!…I’ll be at Pomodoro if you need me.
Nichele, you are so right on. The stories are anytown USA and that’s why it’s so popular. Anyone who has gone to high school in the last twenty years(or more? I can’t say) can relate to this stuff. It’s just the clothes, cars, homes, and vacations of wealthy kids (that happen to be from Laguna) that take it to the next level of popularity. Who doesn’t want to watch people living that kind of life? Everyone needs to chill out and enjoy Laguna Beach for what it is: a mindlessly entertaining show that on some level we can all understand.
Also, I can not get enough of that photo of Stephen. It is now my wallpaper.
Peterson-
Not only can we understand the show, we relate to it. I mean, MTV has tried to create shows that they think the people watching can relate to such as MADE, Road Rules, Real World but none of them have had as good of a following as Laguna beach because they are all situations produced by the producers not just everyday things like getting coffee, breaking up with your boyfriend, cheating on your significant other, surfing, swimming, talking to your best friend or going to dinner. That is the stuff that interests viewers because it’s the same shit we do…
oops! I meant, Mrs. Petersen
Bside… you feel sorry for Paris? was that more sarcastic humor? i would feel sorry for Deet…. but thats just me
nichele- first off, ur name is ridiculous , secondly who asked for ur life story? ur keyboard must be exhausted. you know nothing of our lives.
jwahl~ lol! i know… i def. couldnt finish reading that comment! thinkin about things waaaaaay too much!
Good article, B-Side. Thanks for sharing. And Nichelle’s posting was intelligent and really not all that long. Also, nothing wrong with her name. If you don’t have the attention span to read a simple paragraph,#9 and #10, then you two are lame ones, not Nichelle. I know you two didn’t bother to read the article either; all that hard reading would probably make your little brains explode.
KRISTEN GETS PUNK’D (ASHTONS SHOW) WTF…..
SHES FAMOUS ENOUGH T OGET PUNKD..ER OK
Joslyn, you are the voice of reason. That is a compliment, just to be clear.
jwhal-
My keyboard may be exhausted but it seems as though your keyboard is missing a few letters.
manDa-
who askd for ur two sense?maybe if I typd my comnt like ths you coud read it betr.
Nichele that is very funny I stopped reading what manDa said a while back most people over 18 just skip over her comments.
i couldn’t care less whether people read my comments or not. but anyone who is reading this, get a sense of humor! i read Bsides reviews to get a good laugh! nichele’s comment wasnt funny.. yea, i realize it wasn’t supposed to be, but regardless, it was not funny. jwahl’s comment made me laugh! lighten up! i read the article, i think its stupid that those people, much like some of you, take everything so seriously! and did i ask for any of your 2 cents? i really dont care if you dont respond or ask to talk to me, i am not here to make friends or crap like that. i just read for laughter and the occassional gossip. i appreciate little articles on LB or photos, and sometimes i, like most of you, like to put my opinion out and see if anyone agrees with me. likewise, if i agree with someone, i will let them know that i agree or thought it was funny. go ahead and keep acting like i’m an idiot or something or not over the age of 18, cuz i can see by your lil comments how much better you all are than me! meanwhile, i will be commenting on LB. and nichele, if you are so concerned with spelling, why did you spell jwahl wrong?
I don’t feel bad for Laguna Beach. I probably should, though. I grew up in a town that’s sort of similar (better in my ‘umble opinion) – Columbia, MD. We didn’t have beaches, but it is the seat of one of the ten richest counties in the nation. As a young Columbum (that’s what the cool kidz called themselves, only losers were ‘Columbians’. Losers and Juan Valdez) you could parrot all the lil things that made Columbia special. It’s one of maybe three planned communities in the country, it was designed by Jim Rouse (the father of the modern shopping mall and grandfather to our most famous native son, Edward Norton) in 1968 to be a community for people of all races/ethnicities/socioeconomic backgrounds/etc. – we even have our own colloquialisms. Tot lot. Say it in a crowded room. Anyone who knows what it means grew up in the Columbubble. I digress. Columbia had a lot of growing pains, the kind Laguna Beach was apparently lucky enough to duck until now. You wanna talk about bad publicity? Ever heard of “The Boondocks”? AARON MAGRUDER GREW UP IN COLUMBIA. The comic and now TV show are set in what is unmistakeably Columbia. It’s irritating. Not only is my formerly idyllic town overrun with tanorexic bobbleheads who wouldn’t know the People Tree (Columbia’s mascot/archetype) if it spat caramel macchiatto in their faces, some goddamn cartoon makes us look like overpriviledged racists. NOT HARDLY. So I don’t feel bad for Laguna. We had no say in the matter. They did. They asked for it. MTV got your asses and got them good. And, best of all, no one misrepresented you! All these things really do take place in Laguna Beach!!! Even though the Columbia of my youth may be headed toward extinction, I take solace in knowing that a bunch of multi-million dollar homes built on property prone to landslides got effin’ served by Mother Nature and Jason/Lauren’s drama still managed to upstage it! How totally “standard”!
Ew, I sound hella bitchy.
And because I’m sure everyone is really interested, I’d like to clarify that HoCo isn’t a rich county because everyone there has insane-o money. Actually, it’s because the county council didn’t bother to enforce the requirement that developers include a certain amount of affordable housing. No one is rich, however no one (if I may be so gauche) is poor.
Can we please just stop the foolish bickering. We are all here to enjoy B-Side’s snark. While we may not have the same opinion on things we all share a common love for LB the Real OC. So please lets just retract the claws and enjoy the articles (and respect each others opinions, because in the end thats all they are!)
I know how you feel The Liz. I grew up in Long Beach, NY which is like Laguna in a few ways-a wealthy but diverse beach community. The City’s reputation got a little tarnished when that crappy deniro movie “City by the Sea” came out. Residents and City officials were pissed that hollywood made our hometown look like a crackhole filled with drug addicts and disgusting run-down buildings, when in fact it costs almost as much as Manhattan to live there and it is a town in very high demand for real estate with beautiful million dollar homes on the beach. Not to say that there are no little “bad” neighborhoods though. It turns out that the movie was taped in New Jersey and not once did a movie crew set foot in Long Beach but whatever, sorry about the novel and everything but it just goes to show you that I understand why Lagunaers would be upset but at the same time, why try to hide stuff that you know is going on in every town in the US and maybe even the world like Nichele said. At least Laguna was not portrayed inaccurately.
not manDa-
Thanks for the advice I’ll heed your warning from now on…
Oh kiddies, someone just dropped a giant rock of Laguna in our pipes. It’s on! Let’s not fight, let’s enjoy!
hmm.. i really doubt that anybody really thinks any less of laguna beach because of the show.
thats how teenagers act. everywhere. these ones are just a bit more lucky then some because they have awesome houses and a beach to party at. bastards.
Who cares about Laguna and these kids.
It’s a damn MTV show.
Get over it.
You obviously do since you took the time to read this post and actually post a comment.
lol lagunaaaa.
who goes to a site.. READS IT and then says WHO REALLY CARES ABOUT THIS CRAP GOSH GET OVER IT… umm who typed laguna beach into their search engine there santaclaus? someone who cared perhaps?
So typical!!!
Call the waaaaaaaambulance for that Laguna Resident who is opposed to the show.
Every city where a Real World Season tapes, gets the same kind of blowhards who dont want them there for one reason or another.
This show could have been filmed ANYWHERE. It’s just like Nichele said. This show is NOT about LAGUNA BEACH. It’s about the lives of High School students from well off families. Every major city has a rich area of town with wealthy families.
Laguna is just one of many.
I can’t believe no one’s commented on the picture of Stephen getting high.
I spit out my drink all over my desk when I saw it.
Where on earth did that gem come from? Hilarious!
I know Amy, my reaction was similiar. The only thing that could top that is maybe a video feed of Jess and Jason working it out in the stairwell during the fashion show/landslide benefit, or a pic of Kristin and Alex doing their daily line of coke.
Do Kristin and Alex seriously do coke?
I wanna know where Stephen got the bong…it’s nice
While B-Side is on vacation…here’s a little something to hold you over…
Enjoy…
WTF! It’s the end of the end of summer already?! Wasn’t it like just last week that LC was having a “yay! it’s the beginning of summer biznatches!” bikini bash? And now already, she’s having a, “Omg you guys! I’m gonna miss you biznatches soooo effing much!” farewell formal? Time flies in the Guna when you’re eating bomb ass pasta at Pomodoras, talking shit on your besties and spreading hygiene rumors about boyfriend stealing whores…ahhhh memories…salty water colored memories…of the way we were…AND STILL ARE, AND ALWAYS WILL BE ! Laguna For Life Biatch! You better leave me comments like every effing day on my myspace you dirty skank! MUAH!!!
So the ep starts with LC having an emergency pool side meeting with all the usual suspects (minus a few that are in the dog house for doing the nasty in the dressing room at the fashion show last week…hey, it ain’t no charity unless someone is givin it up for the needy!)…anywho’syourdaddy… LC is always the president and has the last say in these meetings because the parties are always at her house because she has the biggest jacuzzi and the custest bathing suit body. And of course the ultimate topic of these discussions are always “who’s invited”…yeah, like we don’t already know. They alway spout off the guest list like you’re gonna be like, “OMG! WHAT A SURPRISE! For sure invite him! I haven’t see that sexy little fucker for like, uhhh…one whole episode! Wait, do reruns count! Oh who cares! Party! Woohoo!”
So while LC is naming off the lucky bitches that get to attend , I realize that these parties are always majority filled with the kids from younger classes. OK, I don’t want to say this because I know if I do and it gets around, I’m SOOOOO not going to get invited, but LC! GET A LIFE AND STOP PROVIDING THE EVENTS AND PARTY PREMISES FOR YOUNGSTERS TO BOOZ IT UP, DO YOUR MAN, PISS YOU OFF AND GIVE YOU A REASON TO THROW ANOTHER BASH THE FOLLOWING WEEKEND JUST SO YOU CAN NOT INVITE THEM!
Yeah LC, you’ll show them! Then they will have to wait a full Laguna revolving season like Kristen before they get invited back. BLACK LISTED BIZNATCH !!!!!!!!!
We then roll into the second scene at the beach with the girls who usually own the first scene. I now realize that whoever is fucking Jason (whether it be a transgendered she-man, a twelve-year-old-resembling drama queen with lovely lady lumps, or the star from last season who figured out that the only way to get back on top of this season was to join the orgy) is always the first face you’ll see. Jason is a crowd pleaser and has truly defined the years and years old expression “fucking your way to the top”… “I’m sorry ladies, but the verdict is in, no one gets to Hollywood except through me, so drop your drawers! Yayuh! Oh, who him? Oh, that’s just Cedi, he likes to wear my old baseball jock strap cup across his face like a surgeon’s mask so that he can nurse me back to consciousness after I splooge, he’s harmless, now…where were we?!”
Moving along, the girlies are discussing the party, who’s invited, who’s FOR SURE NOT..surelly not Jessica with her super-natural kryptonite that continues to bring Jason to his knees, and who can give the best under water jacuzzi blow jobs (it’s me it’s me! put me in coach! i’m ready to play!)…oh, sorry …ok, I HAVE TO SAY…Jessica has been portrayed as this boyfriend stealing whore for like the entire last half of the season… but what annoys me is that no one seems to remember that SHE FUCKING HAD HIM FIRST! While she gets shafted as the stupid skank, his no graduating dumb ass stock just continues to rise and all these girls go into this ass kicking, cabo trip ruining, bar fighting, snippy fashion show directing, formal party blacklisting, shit talking bitch mode frenzy…well, i’ll just say that if these girls have everything and they still sucumb to this completely unattractive show of desperation…then how does any girl expect to be able to ditch this “i love a big loser” syndrome?…so discouraging for all the rest of the normal girls who don’t have X5′s, boomin knockers, big fat Chloe’ sunglasses and houses on the hills…WHOA…way too much reality for this reality show… sorry, moving along…
At Talan’s house, Jason starts confessing his heart ache to Talan and blurts out, “it just sucks cuz like, i wanted to marry that chick ya know?”
WHOA HOMIE! SLOW YOUR ROLL! Let’s first try to get past the urge to make out with other broads the second your girlfriend turns around to literally hang up a jacket…
Meanwhile, over at Taytay’s…her, Alex and one other girl who’s name I still cannot remember because she hasn’t done anything vile enough to deserve a second thought, are hanging out talking about what to wear and who’s gonna be there (once again, i can’t help but be annoyed when they act like they don’t know who’s gonna be there…duh! try looking at the script to see who’s in scene 12…JUST KIDDING! IT’S REAL IT’S REAL !!!!!!!!!! Yikes! Sorry for that moment of insanity!) The subject of LC’s break up comes up and nameless girl is like, “I feel so bad for LC, she really liked him” and then HermafroALex speaks up and is like, “Freakin’ A! Everyone just needs to get over Jason!”… yeah, you were reeeeaaaaallll over it when he told you kick rocks at the basketball court after Cabo. Don’t think I forgot you big ugly… now go pick on someone your own gender!
So…Kristen and Good Alex decide to make a cameo at the party…which from the way the planning meeting went, I thought was going to be a PARTY…not a flippin girl talk sesh with Dieter, LC, Jen, Ste-phen and some suspicious red cups. Kristen shows up under dressed, overly rude and standardly clepto…she steals the one guy worth partying with there and wisks him off in her X5…Ste-phen. Do you notice how everytime Stephen gets on the phone or in a conversation with Kristen, he reverts to this not so brittish, but not so australian…just plain ANNOYING accent with a lot of “what’s up buuuuuuuuudy” and “heeeeee–looooooo” … God! Get over it! You’re never gonna see her naked again! I can’t believe you left with her when you could’ve gotten some vulnerable rebound sex from Lauren! STUPID STUPID STUPID !!!!!!
Oh well… LC takes a big swig of her “soda” and throws in the towel. Cedi then asks, “So, Tay Tay, when are you leaving?”…he was like foaming at the mouth to find out when she would be leaving town so that he could use “Tay Tay” as his stage name for his cabaret show he’s been working on over in the meat packing district… ooooh, by the way, did anyone also notice that Cedi was over at LC’s house WITHOUT Jason? I don’t think I’ve ever seen him in a scene without his beloved man friend… actually, he was probably just as hurt seeing Jason kiss Big Boobs McGahee as LC was so maybe after everyone left they both had a good cry together. Remember when Jason was seeing Alex and Alex and Cedi became each other’s fag hags? Then after that ended, he was seen hanging with Jess again in Cabo…and NOW he’s at LC’s asking her if she minds if he braids her hair? (ok maybe not that last part…but this is this all a coincidence? I think not… as Karen on W&G would say, “Sneaky little queen!”
Well the season is almost over, and there weren’t really any good enough sophomores this year to incorporate into next year’s story line…so, i’m not sure what next season has to hold for this God send of a show… And now all our favorites have publicists and agents so they may not have enough time for pedicures and blow jobs next year… sigh…such is life. They should just throw all of them in the Inferno with like a “real world/laguna beach/mtv made or true life: i wanna lose my virginity” theme and just let em all straight go at it…maybe put em up at the Roosevelt Hotel or something. Oh the possibilities and the good times really are endless when you have the MTV Production Company master minding it… Stay tuned…
XOXONatalieM
Hey The Liz – Yeah, you do sound hella bitchy. Even though we’re from the town of Cafetoriums and The King’s Contrivance (bah. whatever.) we’re nothing like Laguna Beach. But if that’s what helps you sleep at night…
Not bad, not bad Natalie– I give you two thumbs up– you def got a giggle or two outta me
Thanks Zing…I write a weekly recap of my own on my myspace blog… and i always come over to this one for pictures or a little encouragement, but he always lags! so i thought i’d post mine because everyone is always so desperate for a laguna laugh so I thought I’d give it a shot! Thanks!
Casie-
Did you even read the article?
Natalie that was great we need your reviews more often as kind of a female B-side. Two thumbs way up!
You tore it up.
Tight recap Natalie. Tight
Great skills. Two thumbs up. 4 stars
Hey,
Here is an article about a car accident Paris Hilton & Co were involved in yesterday.
Apprently the other passengers were Stavros Niarchos (MK’s ex), Kimberley Stewart and LB’s own TALAN TORRIERO!!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051110/people_nm/hilton_dc;_ylt=AkzC.Bla58OlFIMKX7XMR.ADW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
I dont know if anyone else has posted this or not but supposedly the whole cast will be in Times Square this coming up Monday during the airing of the show: here’s the article thanks to Perez Hilton
http://www.perezhilton.com/topics/reality_television/something_sizzles_in_laguna_20051109.php
It’s because I love B-side’s recaps.
I could care less about Laguna and their kids.
hey natalie–nice job, but lay off the “biatch and biznatch” a little (that it sound like trashy, ghetto-high school and try to make it less angry and rambling.
other than that, pretty good.
hahaha, sorry, it’s still early for me. it should have read more like this…
hey natalie–nice job, but lay off the “biatch and biznatch” a little (that makes it sound like trashy, ghetto-high-school-style) and try to make it less angry and rambling.
other than that, pretty good.
Laguna Beach turned Hollywood based questions:
1.While watching Lindsay Lohan’s new video “Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father)- The parentheses make the song so much worse-I realized it was the stupidest video ever. What pieces did she have to pick up after her parents separated? Kelly Clarkson also talks about being leaned on? Do grown women after they get divorced really turn to their 6 year daughters for emotional counseling? Does this somehow drive them to be celebrites, dye their hair blond,and use this for an excuse for their coke habit? How come Kristen is still able to actlike a functional human being that doesn’t cry all over herself for no reason because her parents got divorced?
2. How many cast members have done cocaine with a celebrity? Do you think Hillary Duff participates? How else did she get so skinny?
3.First Stephen, now Aaron Carter? Do you think Kristen has a thing for scrawny douche bags who still have the nerve to two-time already out of their league girlfriends?
Top 5 Hollywood Alternative Hookups for Kristen:
1.Cristiano Ronaldo -Soccer Player for Manchester United)http://www.mostbeautifulman.com/athletes/cristianoronaldo/pages/pic01.shtml)
2. Tyson Ritter -lead singer of All-American Rejects)
3. Nick Cannon
4.Ben Jelen – singer (http://www.benjelen.com/index_flash.html)
5. Mariah Carey
lol TalansMom!
Ps-how’s your son doing after the crash?
Alikat,
He is doing wondeful. He knows first hand now how much of a stupid whore to be Hollywood. He fits right in.
Sorry, typo:
He is doing wondeful. He knows first hand now how much of a stupid whore you have to be Hollywood. He fits right in.
Also, does anyone have a link to the Rolling Stone article?
lilu… point taken for sure. i only use biatch and biznatch because when i do my recaps, i try to take the position of a LB crew member. i exploit them so much because inside, i shamefully am them. so i use those words because they use them…and my friends and i do as well. also, my humor is definitely way more on the vulgar side than B-Side’s…definitely not trying to compete. I have my own weekly blog, I definitely come over to this one because it is great and I am always laughing. I only posted mine here because i thought it would be something extra on the side. Plus I wanted to get other’s reactions besides my own friends who only read mine because i beg them to. So thanks for reading and commenting. XOXONatalieM
no, nathalie, i really thought it was good!
i just mean use those words a bit less…i know everyone uses them (although usually in a fun or joking way, if you’re a normal person! haha) but not to incorporate them too much into writing, that’s all.
i thoguht it was really good.
actually im looking foward to wacthing that punkd
I was wondering if Kristen from Laguna Beach crash with Paris hilton and her boyfriend????
-Kylie
i really liked laguna beach it’s really stupid though cuz everyone that watches it argues about it. but, i think it’s funni