When your favorite MTV vee-jays make bad post-MTV decisions

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I can't believe I ever thought she was cool.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 1 May 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't she Stiv Bators' girlfriend at one point?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 1 May 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

Was she? I'd never heard that before.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 1 May 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

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― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 1 May 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

Until this moment, I hadn't even thought of Bill Bellamy's existence for at least a year (probably more).

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 1 May 2005 05:27 (twenty years ago)

wow, martha quinn looks AWFUL

― JD from CDepot, Sunday, 1 May 2005 06:01 (twenty years ago)

steve isaacs is blogging now! he's very into the mars volta.

― reno sweeney (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 May 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

Adam Curry famously invented Podcasting.
http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/20040528/www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/images/FF_110_curry1_f.jpg

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 1 May 2005 08:13 (twenty years ago)

(although that doesn't quite qualify as a bad decision)

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 1 May 2005 08:15 (twenty years ago)

(the amount of airbrushing on that photo is astounding!)

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 1 May 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fuzztones.net/festival/gruen.html

how come it refers to her as jordan tarlow here?

― brokenfuses (brokenfuses), Sunday, 1 May 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

That's her husband's name.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 1 May 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

oh, I didn't mean to imply that Bill Bellamy was one of my favorite MTV VJs though.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 1 May 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

at what point did martha turn into toody from dead moon?

http://chaos.fiz.uni-lj.si/~znidaricm/myhome/dm/toody4_w.jpg

― reno sweeney (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 May 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

Not a bad role model at all!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 1 May 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

adam curry was always a bit *wrong* but that was/is his appeal.

what happened to that kennedy (?) dj. y'know, the cute one with the curly hair and glasses?

― nathalie in a bar under the sea (stevie nixed), Sunday, 1 May 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

I'm ashamed to admit I recently saw Kennedy on the Game Show Network. Hosting a game show, obviously.

Since when did Martha Quinn begin to resemble an old catcher's mitt?

And whatever happened to that amiable red-haired guy who was one of the first VJs? I liked him...

― PB, Sunday, 1 May 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

kennedy sometimes appears on those vh1 "i heart the..." shows.

― reno sweeney (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 May 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

alison stewart is an anchor on msnbc now. i never liked her, but hey that's a good gig.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3080452/

― reno sweeney (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 May 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

I am *really* confused at this hate for Martha Quinn's appearance. First off, I'd like to see how well all you jokers will look when you hit your late forties and second, she looks just fine regardless! Has a great smile, like the long hair and seems, if anything, relaxed and content. I've seen people look much more aged at a younger age to be frank.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 1 May 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

i think she looks a bit gangly but i bring no hatorade.

― reno sweeney (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 May 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

Fret not, Reno, you were not a target of my rant.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 1 May 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

She looked great at the massive garage-fest on Randall's Island last summer, and she lived with Stiv Bators for years.

Curry threw himself into cyberspace around the same time as Al Gore. Around the time that I got my first AOL account, Curry was involved in a legal battle with Viacom over the MTV.com domain, which he'd been using for a couple years already. Shoulda been a landmark case, but I think he took some money and that was the end of it.

But Curry and Quinn are the survivors!

C'mon: Kennedy, JJ Jackson, Zappa's kids, Kendall, various bald guys during the 1990s... There's gotta be somebody whose life story would blueprint well for a screenplay for THE JERK II.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Sunday, 1 May 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hiponline.com/artist/music/c/camp_jesse/jesse_camp-bio_tile.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 1 May 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

a screenplay for THE JERK II.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0087499/

― reno sweeney (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 May 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

Jesus, Martha looks like death slighty warmed over on one side.

And the Fuzztones? Cripes they've always stunk.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 May 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

I agree with Ned. She looks fine.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 1 May 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

You necrophiles!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 May 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

I'm with Ned, too. She's got a hot middle-aged rock chick thing goin' on. Of course, me & Toby, we like 'em rough.

― brianiac (briania), Sunday, 1 May 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

i'm w/ ned here ... martha quinn doesn't look bad at all!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 1 May 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't so much commenting on Martha's appearance in my opening post as I was her taste in husbands.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 1 May 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

T/S: The Jerk II vs. Revenge of the Nerds 2006

― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Sunday, 1 May 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

kennedy is gonna run for congress in some bat-shit crazy red state.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 1 May 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Martha Quinn was in Problem Child 2. That movie is a masterpiece, so obviously this is a good thing.

Dave Holmes is gay now, which is also a good thing.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Sunday, 1 May 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

didn't idalis play a stripper in the sopranos a while back? altho i'm not sure if exploiting yourself to get on one of the better tv shows running counts as a BAD choice...

― dl, Sunday, 1 May 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Someone remind me who Idalis is, pls.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 1 May 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

Oh, anyone remember Ananda Lewis's rather Oprah-lite daytime talkshow? Yeah, I didn't think so.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 1 May 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

http://celebrity-nudity.info/pics/06426_1.jpg

This is Idalis. I barely remember her.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 May 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

I've seen that "The Jerk Too" movie. Terrible.....just terrible

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Sunday, 1 May 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

isn't one of the original VJ guys selling CD compilations on public access now?.

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Sunday, 1 May 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

Serena Altschul apparently works for CBS News now, though I can't say I ever remember seeing her on air.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/10/broadcasts/main587879.shtml

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 1 May 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

where is the great john sencio?

― dl, Sunday, 1 May 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

Add to the Where Are They Now?: Kevin Seal and China Kantner. (Geeky as I am about the Jefferson Family, I've no idea what China does these days.)

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Sunday, 1 May 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

This site has VJ photos from last year's J.J. Jackson memorial service:
http://www.laradio.com/jjmemories.htm

― late adopter, Monday, 2 May 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

Both Alan Hunter and Nina Blackwood have regular gigs on Sirius.

― Jeff Wright (JeffW1858), Monday, 2 May 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

'JJ Jackson Described as Man of “Many Compartments”'

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 2 May 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

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― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 2 May 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

'Kennedy described as "Naked Woman Who Rides Donkeys" '

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 2 May 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

I remember Idalis pretty much only for being hot, although not as hot as the girl on Oddville, who I think was named Melissa.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Monday, 2 May 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

I 'm in the pro-Martha camp. She looks just fine! But I'm a Martha booster, always have been. She used to be the desk clerk at NYU's Weinstein dormitory when I lived there and she was really sweet.

Lisa "E" Edelstein from Awake on the Wild Side is constantly on network TV, bouncing from show to show. She's currently on House. I like her. i wonder what ever happened to her co-host?

― Moosie Grosvenor (Arthur), Monday, 2 May 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

I've seen that "The Jerk Too" movie. Terrible.....just terrible

agreed. unwatchably bad. what was the point of it?

i've heard about the martha/nyu connection! that's kinda funny.

― reno sweeney (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 2 May 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

trivia everybody knows: a very young, dorky tabitha soren was an extra in the "fight for your right to party" video.

― reno sweeney (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 2 May 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

...and is now married to Michael Lewis, noted (and quite funny) financial/political writer. Go figure.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 May 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

Dave Holmes is gay now, which is also a good thing.

"now"

― Dave M. (rotten03), Monday, 2 May 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

I saw Kennedy in a bar in Santa Monica with who I think was her kid. WTF she was doing in a bar with her kid at 3:00 is her business, I suppose.

― Actor Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis (jingleberries), Monday, 2 May 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

i like how the jpg of jesse camp remains uncommented upon, as if it speaks for itself. which it does, of course.

― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Monday, 2 May 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

straight from Jesse's mouth

"I used to have this Uncle Sammy and he used to eat and he would have like these sandwhiches because he owns his own sandwhich shop and he'd make these sandwhiches that be like that big, you know what I'm saying. And he'd tell woman yo touch my sandwhich and prance around"

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 2 May 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)

"It beats sweeping streets or being president."

― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Monday, 2 May 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)

**I'd like to see how well all you jokers will look when you hit your late forties**

(rushes to mirror, returns somewhat relieved)

My initial response was similiar to Alex but upon reflection I suppose Ned is right, especially considering...I mean hanging out w/Stiv Bators can't be good for the complexion.

But has ANY MTV vee-jay enjoyed something that resembles success (in the media sense) after MTV? I always enjoyed laughing at/with these folks when they were on the air but there's something depressing about the way MTV seems to burn through & discard these "on-air personalities." I won't lose sleep over this, but still...

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 2 May 2005 08:57 (twenty years ago)

Anyone remember....fuck....Carolyn Hellman? I think that was her name. Think late 80's. Lots of hair. Sort've a preppy girl. Looking for a pic now.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 2 May 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

She co-anchored the news w/Kurt Loder when he first started IIRC.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 2 May 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

Alex, that's who I've been trying to think of for a couple of days now. And honestly, I can't remember whether that's her name or not.

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― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 2 May 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

Dave Holmes is gay now, which is also a good thing.

"now"

it's a joke

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Martha Quinn is 46. FYI - as people get older their faces develop wrinkles.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

YOU LIE

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

-in the voice of Snider, villain of 3 ninjas.

― //Digital Father, Monday, 2 May 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

I don't think the problem is the aging process per se- it's more the format switch from cute-as-a-button New Wave good girl with an edge to run-of-the-mill skinny scary hippy chick that is disconcerting.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Where is Tabitha Soren in the Beastie Boys video? There are two girls with reddish hair, and I've never been able to tell which one is her.

Kennedy has always been annoying. Wasn't she famously a virgin at, like, age 25?

― Lyra Jane (Lyra Jane), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Tabitha Soren would like us to just get over it. She's not an MTV babe, and at 36 she's not, as headline writers once declared, "the Gen-X Barbara Walters." She's a Berkeley wife and mother of two daughters, a serious photographer now. She's studied at Stanford, taught at UC Berkeley, and two exhibits of her photos are now on display in the Bay Area.

"I had 10 years of fabulousness -- that's more than anyone deserves," she says with a smile.

More here...

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Tabitha has big feathered hair in the video and it only seen in the wide angle pie-throwing shot at the end. She's not the short-haired girl Adrock kisses.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, Alex. Another mystery solved.

― Lyra Jane (Lyra Jane), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

maybe it's not completely awful, who knows. but it's kind of funny.
http://davekendall.com/DJimages/voyagecovermed.jpg

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

I saw Downtown Julie Brown in a really shitty episode of Walker, Texas Ranger once.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

As opposed to, like, all those critically acclaimed emotional powerhouse episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Gawd, wonder what the cover of Volume 1 looked like?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

In that there was full wang.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Kennedy has always been annoying. Wasn't she famously a virgin at, like, age 25?

I for one find that fact EXTREMELY attractive. In the day she was extremely physically attractive too. That picture of her on the donkey is hot. And I like that she's a libertarian, even if she doesn't get that Republicans are totally NOT libertarian. She's not a bible thumper by any means. And god is she hot. And I like how on Vh1 they list her as a "television personality" when she's on TV... being a television personality. So she's on TV because she's on TV...

Anywho, I think I love her.

― That's not a baseball! It's my blood!, Monday, 2 May 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Didn't Simon Rex show up in the news a couple years ago dating Paris Hilton or someone?

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

Special Skills - Fake Swedish Accent

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Adam Curry, a former MTV host who developed software that lets people automatically receive these programs on Apple's iPod and other players, will produce and be host of a four-hour program every weekday starting May 13 on Sirius Satellite Radio.

Mr. Curry will help choose material for "Adam Curry's PodShow" from some of the thousands of amateur shows produced in basements, living rooms and dormitories. Sirius subscribers, who pay $12.95 a month for the service, can listen to the show on channel 148, "Talk Central."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/02/business/media/02SIRIUS.html

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

God, that promo shot of Kevin Seal can't be recent. If so, he's carrying the same anti-aging gene Dick Clark does.

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― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 2 May 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296301/

― natlawdp, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

didn't idalis play a stripper in the sopranos a while back?

No, it was Six Feet Under. She played a stripper that Rico got involved with, which led to the dissolution of his marriage.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

I would say that was a good career move for Idalis, though it was the most obnoxious/boring storyline of the fourth season. She has terrible implants, by the way!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

Kennedy is on VH1's Best Week Ever. She's still pretty cute if you ask me.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

Err... HELLO??!
Why is everyone ignoring that monstrous destroyer of my teeanage years, also know as DJ Dave Kendall's Voyage into Trace?!!! OMGWTF x ad lib

― Baaderonixxxorzh (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

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― How Is This Nor Hot?, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

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― How Is This Not Hot?, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

Shit...

http://www.fuzztones.net/festival/Martha.jpg

― How Is This Not Hot?, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

Alison Stewart had a review in the issue or Revolver with NIN on the cover. Can’t remember what record it was. I THOUGHT that name sounded familiar....

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

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