Celebrating Charleston Fashion Week with George Michael's "Freedom '90"

Indeed, we will get into the spirit of Charleston's Fashion Week with a little music and a handful of the world's hottest models courtesy of our old friend George Michael and his "Freedom '90" video. By old friend George Michael, let's just say we don't go to the bathroom together like a bunch of chicks, but still the old wanker knew how to stock a video full of form and pulchritude with the likes of Naomi Campbell in the body suit at the end of the video and dancing in cowboy boots and lingerie in the beginning of the video, Linda Evangelista as the short-haired blond hottie singing under the sweater, Christy Turlington is the floor crawling brunette with the big brown eyes, Tatjana Patitz is the blond (German) model smoking and Cindy Crawford steaming things up in a bathtub and straddling the chair with her long legs spread harking back to a flash-dance for those who remember. For the ladies, that's Scott Benoit and Todo Segalla as the male models in the video. Enjoy this six minutes and thirty seconds of art and pleasure.

Don't remember the freedom back in the '90's
For you young kids out there that's a dual-cassette-tape deck below the "new" CD player that que's the music and the big music player is a juke-box that explodes at the end of the video, which symbolizes George Michael's new start at music leaving his pop-roots with Whaam! in the past. Naomi Campbell's dancing in the beginning of the video in lingerie and cowboy boots should still be en vogue, if not, we've gone severely off track as a society at large. If you notice, Naomi is dancing with a thick cord attached to her headphones, way before the thin-ear-buds' wires, headphones used to have thick cords and a copper plug to attach to your sound system.

The flying piece of paper flying into the room was something we did as kids called, "making paper airplanes" (unlike regular crashing airplanes, a paper airplane does not make juke-boxes or guitars explode during impact). The metal thing glowing in the corner of the room was a space-heater used to heat rooms. Also, the metal thing whistling at the end of the video was a tea-kettle (used to heat water) on a radiator (a metal device that released heat before central-heating and air). Finally, the dude doing crunches by hanging upside down was the cool thing to do back in the 90's-that is if you had a threshold, a metal bar and ankle straps to clip in with to your metal/chin-up bar. (See Michael Keaton in the Batman movie).
Posted by The Bushido

Happy Birthday Jillian Michaels and the Biggest Losers Fav's

Why does the Bushido and my ninjas pick-up a burger and (small) order of cajun fries from Five Guys Burgers on Tuesdays just to rush home and watch the "Biggest Loser"? It's just to watch our favorite trainer Jillian Michaels! And today is her birthday! Happy birthday baby!

I know the hypocrisy of it all is appalling as we strap on our feed-bags and ridicule the contestants for not having the will-power to fight off the temptations of largess, but there's just something unique about the motivating aspects of our favorite trainer. I don't know if its how she casually plugs sponsors such as Extra gum or Ziplock vegetable steaming bags or if it's just the tough love she gives her team that makes us all love Jillian. Then again, it could just be that she's the only female trainer. Btw, is Bob gay? Or is he just "really" Californian? Not sure, really don't care this post is about Jillian. (Photo courtesy of B-Rad)

I digress; to be honest, the reason the Bushido has Jillian in our fav's is that she actually cares for the contests she instructs. Well, that and she has a black-belt in Muay Thai and Akarui-Do and that friends is living life the Bushido Way with all the warrior spirit one could ask for. To my ninjas who say that they would love to "do" her, I say, I'd let her "do" me. Let's be honest, she's an Alpha and I would love to have a Querres d’Oreiller with her-what pillow fights are workouts!

Biggest Loser favs and not so favs:
Fav's: Across the board, we here at the Bushido are big fans of the old gray team: Roger and his fallen Crimson-comrade Trent-man that big guy could do some Yoga. And despite Bernie being kind of a wimp, his teammate, Brittany (come on Brit!) is a rock. From the get-go, I said, that she has a gorgeous face.

Not-so-Fav's:
Good riddance to Paul, the hey, I lost weight, so I am headed home to Florida to chow down on wings and sodas by the Big Gulp. And his ex-wife Kelly (yellow team) for Chrissake, someone give that winy, "before I say this person's name, (cry) I just want them to know" chick a ticket home.

Books by Jillian Michaels:

1. "Winning By Losing: Drop the Weight, Change Your Life" (from the site: "three-prong approach to total fitness that is based in solid psychological methods, proven scientific facts, and good old-fashioned hard work.") Link to Amazon
   
2. "Making the Cut: The 30-Day Diet and Fitness Plan for the Strongest, Sexiest You" (from the site: "Published in April 2007, this book focuses on the most efficient and healthy way to lose weight within a 30-day time frame") Link to Amazon
   

If you would like more information about the Biggest Loser Club (click here)
If you would like to sign-up for a free weight-loss plan (by Jillian) here is the link to Jillian's official site
Posted by The Bushido