The Random Stuff of Interests Page

So what’s it like being a Scientologist? Hey, everyone wants to know. Some say it’s a cult. Others say it’s an honest to goodness religion designed to help you get through with life, to help others, and as Tom Cruise would say, to save people involved in car accidents. Or something like that. Anyhoo, here’s a good refresher course on what it means to be a Scientologist. And yes, I’m pretty sure the dude in the plaid shirt i.e. the country guy is a plant, while everyone else is real. Maybe. So what’s it like being a Scientologist? In a word: it’s friggin’ awesome, dude. See and hear it for yourself if you don’t believe me.

According to the movie “300″, if it wasn’t for the Greeks, we’d all be speaking Persians. Or whatever language the Persians end up speaking hundreds of years later after they invaded Greece and, later, the world. My English is crap enough, can you imagine me speaking Persian? Ooooooh boy. But anyhoo, our Random Foreign Babe of the Day Nikoletta Ralli hails from Greece (what, you thought I brought up Greece for no reason?), where she participated in and won the Miss Tourism Queen International 2005. Yes, I didn’t even know such a thing existed, too, but it does, and Nikolette won it in 2005. And as you can see from the pictures below, Greek tourism has never looked hotter.

Ol Samsung and Sprint have team up to put out their Apple iPhone clone a year later, and it’s called Instinct. Word is that besides having everything the iPhone has, the Instinct will improve on it with a better Internet connection (broadband speeds, apparently), a video and still camera, and get this — live TV. But what will probably sell it like hotcakes is a promised lower price than the iPhone, but of course, it remains to be seen how much lower. I’m definitely getting me one when this thing hits the street. Forget all the other goodies, I just want broadband connection on my phone. Or at least, as close to the real thing as possible.

Kirsty Lee Allan is what they call a “rising star” in the world of entertainment. You know, that place where people who pretend to be other people for way too much money work in? Yeah, that one. Anyways, Australian beauty Kirsty Lee Allan started life as a background dancer for some group called Shakaya and somehow parlayed that into a career in TV. She’s probably most known for starring in the Aussie TV show Sea Patrol, playing the character Rebecca ‘Bomber’ Brown, the ‘Bomber’ of course is her character’s nickname, who is known for her ability to shoot seals and harpoon whales with nothing but a paddle. No, not really, but it makes her character sound better, right? Anyways, get an eyeful of Kirsty Lee Allan and her bountiful assets.

It’s funny, but we posted Leona Lewis under our Brit Babe Invasion category when we first noticed her, and today that’s come through — Leona Lewis has, indeed, invaded American soil. And she’s done it through the power of music, which as Celine Dion has told us, can defeat anything. Or was that my grandma? Either/or. Anyhoo. Leona Lewis’ latest attempt to win American hearts and minds is showing up on the cover and in the pages of Blender magazine. Unfortunately it’s not a bikini-licious spread, but eh, you can’t always get what you want, which is what my girlfriend says to me every night. (And of course by “girlfriend” I of course mean the smoking hot girlfriend that doesn’t actually exist. But I digress.)

Elizabeth Banks has always been hot. One of those girls who seems to “get” that she’s hot, but isn’t so in love with the fact that she’s hot that she wouldn’t do something like, say, cover her face with paint and pretend to throw a football for a photoshoot. Then again, I don’t know Elizabeth Banks personally (unless you count those times I hid outside her window in the bushes, but perhaps I’ve said too much), so she could end up being a spoiled movie star who is a biotch to be around. But you know what? I kinda doubt that. Here’s Elizabeth Banks in Esquire. I’m telling you, this girl is strangely sexy in that very hard to definee way…

Let’s face it, minus Nicole Scherzinger the Pussycat Dolls are breakable. (Har har, get it? Dolls? Breakable? Wait, that didn’t really work. Um, let’s just go along with it.) Where was I? Oh right. My brilliant comment that without Nicole Scherzinger, the Pussycat Dolls are extremely breakable, i.e. they ain’t all that hot. But add Nicole to the mix and it’s babe heaven in every crack alleyway of America. Here’s Nicole Scherzinger on the set of the Dolls’ new music video for “When I Grow Up”. Wait, I thought she had gone solo? Oh well, whatever, does it matter? The Dolls are somewhere in the background. I think. Does it matter?

Who is Natalie Martinez, you ask? Don’t worry, it’s not your fault if you don’t know the name, or that gorgeous face, since the former model turned actress’ biggest and most well-known work so far has been roles on two craptacular TV shows called Saints and Sinners and The Fashion House on the equally craptacular My Network TV. But all that should change when she shows up as the world’s hottest grease monkey in the futuristic actioner “Death Race”, a remake of the 1975 flick of the same name. In the movie, Martinez plays Case, a mechanic who helps out star Jason Statham’s character. One really, really hot mechanic, at that. (Martinez, not Statham. Ahem. Although I’m sure Statham is considered hot, too, in certain quarters. Just not in the quarters that makes up my pants.)

CBS may have canceled her show not once, but twice, but everyone’s favorite post-apocalyptic spunky schoolmarm, Sprague Grayden, won’t go down without a fight. The lovely lass, much underrated for her liveliness, has landed two roles on the FOX network — a role in the upcoming seventh season of 24, and another on the network’s cable channel FX, the new show Sons of Anarchy. She’ll be playing a biker’s wife in Anarchy, and the president’s daughter on 24. If Jack Bauer knows what’s good for him, he’ll stay away from her. Everyone this guy gets close to bites the dust.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — if I somehow, for some reason, ended up in a Mixed Martial Arts cage match with someone and got my ass handed to me (as would seem likely, I being weak and lacking in what you would call fighting skills), I would prefer it if it was Gina Carano who was doing the ass handing. Besides turning heads and kicking ass on NBC’s American Gladiators revival as Crush, she’s got a movie career waiting to blow up (check her out in “Blood and Bone” later this year), and just recently handed some chick’s head to her on a silver platter at the EliteXC: Primetime fight last month. And oh yeah, she’s also doing some work on the videogame “Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3″, from which these promos are from.

So who is Mark Consuelos, you ask? Well, not being a daytime soap opera fan, I don’t blame you for not knowing who he is. Consuelos is a Spanish actor, and one of the stars of ABC’s long-running daytime soap All My Children, where he plays the role of Mateo Santos Sr., no doubt a suave Spanish dude who gets all the chicks. Besides being handsome, with a great last name to pick up girls with, and a burgeoning movie career, Consuelos is also married to Kelly Ripa, the hardest working woman in showbiz. And just in case you still don’t get why it doesn’t suck to be Consuelos, take a gander at what he goes home to every night below. Seriously, I hate this guy.

Hey, it’s Monday, and you know what that means — Jennifer Lamiraqui bikini extravaganza time! What, didn’t I tell you? I swore I told you we were going to do this every Monday last week. Or at least, every Monday when I decided we should do this. And yes, that makes perfect sense. Anyhoos. Who is Jennifer Lamiraqui? She’s the kind of woman we’d like to drag into a barn and do things to her that are illegal in at least a dozen or so States. And with a name like Lamiraqui, you just know that she knows all kinds of neat tricks to keep you in bed all day, such as, you know, being naked and stuff.

Yeah, I’ll grant you, “Unintentionally Phallic Picture of the Day” is a kinda long title for a category, but I think it works because, well, these pictures are pretty unintentional, and let’s face it, they’re pretty and amusingly phallic. (Plus the word “phallic” is just wicked fun to type. Hey, this is a tough job; you gotta find your pleasures where you can, am I right or am I right?) First up is Russian tennis phenom Maria Sharapova, who during a recent battle on the courts, took the opportunity to grab some drinks to keep from dehydrating or whatever it is Russian tennis phenoms drink water to do. Who knows the ways of the phenom?

There was few reasons for anyone older than 13 years old to watch last night’s MTV Movie Awards — one of them was Megan Fox. The Transformers star is a nearly flawless creature, and is probably the hottest girl with ugly tattoos since the invention of hot girls and ugly tattoos. Really, the ink the girl has on her body needs to go. In particular that just Godawful looking Marilyn Monroe face on her arm. Good God, what was she, drunk out of her mind when she decided to slap that atrocity onto her arm? And those quotes all over her body. Holy Mother of all that’s Frak. Anyways, you still can’t deny that ugly tattoos notwithstanding, Megan Fox is still bloody hot. (Oh, and one last thing: I wish she’d lay off whatever it is that she slaps on her lips to make them puffy and shine like that. Repeat after me, Megan: Less is more.)

You know, if you were to ask me a year or two ago when Katharine McPhee first lost on American Idol about Katharine’s future career, I would have told you that the girl was destined to sell millions of records and blow up like something that blows up really cool and successful. Now I don’t know how that musical career is going, but let’s face it, with those legs and that face, this girl was always destine to hit the big screen. It’s too bad she got married to some old dude, though. That sort of ruins a lot of fantasies right there. Anyhoos. She’s already been signed up for a new movie called “The Storyteller”, which is an indie drama. You know, real “acting” stuff. Here are some old pics of her showing off those damn fine legs. And the old guy — well, one half of his arm, anyway.

Your weekend send-off for this week is one Jana Ina, a former Miss Brasil and Miss Intercontinental from 1998, who has parlayed her beauty queen days into a long modeling gig and regular appearances on TV as herself. In 2004 she made her movie debut as Gioia in the Germany comedy “Samba in Mettmann”, which of course translates into English as “Sam is da Man”. No, really, two days of German language lessons in a dark alleyway between a bowling alley and a tattoo parlor has made me one with the German language. So much so that I am now comfortable with calling myself a Deutch bag. Now where was I? Oh right, here’s Jana Ina for the weekend. Please to enjoy.

And when I say “Smoking Redheads”, I’m not talking about redheads that like to indulge in a little ciggie every now and then, either. I’m talking about women who are redheads and who also just happens to be smoking hot, or as I like to refer to them, Julianne Moore-ish. One such redhead that meets this criteria is Simone Simons, lead singer for the Dutch symphonic metal ensemble Epica. Now I don’t know what the heck “symphonic metal ensemble” is, but I’m assuming it’s the kind of music that allows its lead singers to be a smoking hot redhead, which means I’m now a big fan of the genre. Here are some choice pictures of Simone via her Myspace page. Please to enjoy.

You know, I don’t know if Elle Liberachi is foreign or British or American, but she’s a babe and she’s pretty random, and so she fits perfectly in this category. Then again, considering that our categories are so random in nature, I could probably somehow convince myself that a dead cat would fit into this category. But I digress. Elle Liberachi is a very attractive model with more than a slight resemblance to 2008’s It girl, Marisa Miller. She’s not nearly as hot, but then again, how many women out there can match Marisa Miller hotness for hotness? Answer: One — Marisa Miller’s doppelganger from a parallel universe. But Elle Liberachi ain’t too bad herself.

In case you haven’t heard, another actor recently shot off at the mouth without thinking, and got smacked down. HARD. This time it was Sharon Stone, who made some retarded comment about how “karma” was responsible for the big quake in China that killed thousands, because of China’s policies toward Tibet. And yes, she did happen to name-drop the Dalai Lama’s name a couple of times; they’re best buds, doncha know. Stone has since released a statement saying to the effect of how “deeply sorry and sad” she was about hurting the Chinese people with her comment. Which leads me to this thought: Wow, someone actually still cares what Sharon Stone has to say! Her video comment, and some pictures of Stone in “Basic Instinct 2″, the last time people even entertained the notion of seeing a “Sharon Stone movie” for your perusal pleasure.

Well? Are you excited to see “The Dark Knight” yet? If the trailers didn’t do it for you (seriously, if you’re a geek and the trailers didn’t do it for you, you ain’t no frakkin’ geek, dude), all those Dark Knight banner posters has to, right? I don’t know who designed these things, or who Warner Bros. is paying to come up with them, but they’re not paying enough, because these things are friggin’ awesome. Not just awesome, mind you, but friggin’ awesome, which is, like, ten times more awesome than just regular awesome. Check out some of them below and tell me you’re not jazzed to see Batman take on the Joker. Holy Hell on a Broomstick, this thing is gonna rock.