Wake Up Normal with Brittany and Adam!

What will Taylor miss after graduation? What WON’T she miss? Check it out on Taylor’s LAST tirade!

Angelina and Brad Pitt finally decided to put a ring on it. Check it out.

April 19

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West? Say it isn’t so! Check it out on Taylor’s April 26th tirade.

If you haven’t seen the ‘performance’ from Tupac at this years Coachella, it is definitely worth a watch, the video is below in this post. But if your like me your wondering how the heck they were able to pull that off, well here’s how.

Sorry to burst your bubble but if you thought that the Tupac performance was made from a prior performance, your wrong. According to Rolling Stone, it was all computer generated, but at least it was very well done CGI. They went on to say that the total price for the creation of that CGI Tupac was somewhere between $100,000 and $400,000 and I think it was well worth the money. If your going to bring someone back to life, you might as well do a good job at it. Plus I thought it looked believable from the video, so I can only imagine what some of the audience members at the show who ‘celebrated’ before the concert were thinking.

One more bubble to burst, you know how everyone is calling it a hologram? It wasn’t even a hologram. Well, Adam, then it must be a really cool new way of making dead people perform on stage then, right? Wrong again, it is actually based off a mid-19th century optical illusion called “Pepper’s Ghost”. It works off of the fact that glass is both see through and reflective.  So basically it was a 2D video of Tupac displayed on a really expensive see through, reflective screen on stage.

Bonus round: This was the first time this has happened at Coachella right? Wrong again. The Gorillaz did this too with their avatars, the video is below.

Chicago has Lollapalooza and Tennessee has Bonnaroo, well California has Coachella.  The summer always brings great concerts and music festivals all around the nation and Coachella is one of the biggest. However, not a lot of people know about it or it’s history. 

Coachella is an annual three-day music and arts festival, organized by Goldenvoice (a subsidiary of AEG Live) and held at the Empire Polo Club inIndio, California, in the Inland Empire’s Coachella Valley. The event features many genres of music, including rock, indie, hip hopand electronic music as well as large sculptural art. The event has several stages/tents set-up throughout the grounds, each playing live music continuously. The main stages are: Coachella Stage, Outdoor Theatre, Gobi Tent, Mojave Tent, and the Sahara Tent (2006 also saw the addition of a smaller Oasis Dome).

On November 5, 1993 the rock band Pearl Jam performed before almost 25,000 fans on the lawns of Indio’s previously rock-festival free Empire Polo Club.^[1] Although band management had chosen this untested and under-developed site as part of a boycott of Ticketmaster and the Southern California auditoriums it controlled, the event established the new venue’s suitability for large-scale rock events. Such suitability was not a given: the grounds, essentially one vast irrigated desert lawn, sit in one of America’s hottest and driest spots, and the region’s lightly populated towns, while having a history as resorts, are several hours’ drive from regional population centers (San Diego, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Phoenix).

The Coachella festival tries to reduce its carbon footprint on the environment every year which involves not just employees but also attendees. The festival highly promotes carpooling for its attendees which include rewards for people who participate. Attendees who choose to carpool with four or more people in one car and have the word “carpoolchella” displayed somewhere on their car have a chance to be selected by a secret spotter to win VIP tickets/pass for life for everyone in the car. In 2007 Coachella teamed up with Global Inheritance to start a 10 for 1 recycling program, in which anyone who brings ten empty water bottles will be given a fresh new water bottle for free. In 2009 the festival introduced ten dollar refillable water bottles of which purchasers would get free refills at a number of refill stations inside the festival and within the campgrounds.

Here’s a list of the best
college mascots all second, of course,
to Reggie the Redbird…

1. Donald Duck – University of Oregon
He is constantly found crowd surfing in one of the noisiest stadiums in the nation

2. Monte – University of Montana
He’s the only bear in Montana you can find riding a Harley motorcycle through the football stadium.

3. General Scott – Army
This mule was first strutted around the stadium back in 1899 during the first Army/Navy game.

4. Stanford Tree - Stanford University
This mascot seems poorly made, however it can still get the crowd going.

5. Uga Georgia - University of Georgia
You just can’t root against a school with such an adorable mascot.

In a hurry to eat breakfast this morning? Make sure none of these things are on your to go list of snacks:

Doughnuts.
Many contain a whopping 10 to 20 grams of fat each and between 250 to 300

Pillsbury Grands! Cinnabon Cinnamon Roll with Icing.
310 calories and 2 grams of saturated fat plus 2½ grams of trans fat (more than a day’s worth) and 5 teaspoons of sugar.

Golden Crisp.
110 calories
<1 g fiber
14 g sugars
The first ingredient listed on the box is sugar.

Rockstar Energy Drink.
280 calories
62 g sugars
same amount of sugar as 6 Krispy Kreme Doughnuts

Starbucks Venti (20 oz) White Chocolate Mocha with 2% milk and whipped cream.
It’s worse than a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder with Cheese. 580 calories and 15 grams of saturated fat that this hefty beverage supplies.

Here are the top 5 best paying jobs in America according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor:

Surgeons.
Mean annual wages: $225,390
Median hourly wages: $108.36

Anesthesiologists.
Mean annual wages: $220,100
Median hourly wages: $105.82

Oral surgeons.
Mean annual wages: $214,120
Median hourly wages: $102.94

Gynecologists.
Mean annual wages: $210,340
Median hourly wages: $101.13

Chief Executives (highest non-doctor).
Mean annual wages: $173,350
Median hourly wages: $83.34

Brittany and I have put together a list of the best apps that you can get on the marketplace right now:

1. Draw Something. (iOS & Android)
It’s as simple as finger painting, then your friend has to guess what you drew. Draw Something is the number 1 paid and free app on Android and iOS, and the number 1 app in over 80 countries.

2. Angry Birds Space. (iOS & Android)
From the popular title, Angry Birds, the next generation game is number 2 on both the marketplaces.

3. Flick Home Run. (iOS)
You use your finger to swipe at a ball and try to hit home runs in various animated levels.

4. Zynga Poker (Android)
The top grossing paid app on the Android marketplace.

5. Cut the Rope. (Android & iOS)
You have to swipe to cut the ropes allowing candy to get to your little alien named Om Nom.

Our very own Taylor went to a call back for the hit MTV show, “The Real World”. Hear about it on this week’s Tay’s Tirade.

Actress Kristen Bell gets a little emotional about her birthday about a VERY special present

Well, we have to wait and see who the big winners will be.

In the mean time check out this video on how the Oscars are made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zzDjl6ticuk

Wake Up Normal gets a little morbid and funny, of course.

A new Facebook app allows users to continue updating their statuses even after they die.

How you ask? Check out this YouTube video!

The next Rebecca Black?

Willow Smith is proving that she is not a one hit wonder.

The 11 year old singer has decided to team up with,

one of the biggest female rapper, Nicki Minaj.

We watched this and tried to fake laugh.

Then, we actually laughed at us fake laughing. So I would say it works, give it a try!