This week on TV

Everytime I allow myself a few minutes of TV, switch to only 2 channels: MTV and MYX. I find this weird now that there are so many cool channels to choose from, but I think I have this for a reason - I don't usually have a lot of time, so the MTV's for me act like super-concentrated

bite-size movies/tv shows. In two to four minutes, you get to watch the whole story. So I get a quick break from whatever it is I'm doing, without feeli

ng bitin.

So anyway, since yesterday, my usual doses of MTV have been super-charged and hyper-entertaining, I found myself googling everything I saw. Here's what I found hot on the boobtube:

1. Troy Dizon Dating

Boys Night Out was on when I switched to MTV last night and they were featuring Troy Dizon Dating. I found myself glued

when I watched these ordinary-looking guys talk about "getting you

r game on" and other dating strategies. They demo-ed how to walk, how

to dance (very sexy), and a lot more. I would usually be

a little ticked off at topics like this, but this time I wasn't because main man

Troy was making a lot of sense. He talked a lot about confidence and projection, and how this can get anything you want.

I googled Troy Dizon Dating, found the site, and smiled as the subtitle read: "A RESULTS-FOCUSED Approach on Attaining you

r Desired Dating and Social Life" and "learn how to be a 24/7 attractive man - anytime and anywhere". I found myself agreeing to most - if not all - of what he says. TDD (as the program has been coined) is basically self-help for men, developed specifically for dating and social life. As I read throug

h the site though, I discovered th

at these are the same tenets that can help you in ALL other aspects of life.

I love that he emphasizes that its all about BEING, not DOING, that gets men what they want. Sure, some girls

might get a bit offended by the "conquests" guys have made with the help of TDD (I would, if I were still my old angry-feminist self), but honestly, aren't we all attracted to confident, loving, strong men? TDD is all about getting that out of guys who don't know how to project that (because I think TDD believes that all men are confident, loving and strong). Isn't that wonderful? I wish all guys would check this program out. Then maybe my girls won't have such a hard time looking for dates.

From what I've read, I gathered that TDD has an international clientele and a network of dating coaches around the world helping other guys out. They don't just lecture, they actually do "field exercises" with clients in bars and help them apply what they've learned through the "lectures". The "TDD Crew" seem to have a tight-knit brotherly relationship with each other s

o no one needs to brag or boast. One of their clients shared how TDD em

phasizes health (they actually include gym work outs in their programs) and even interior design (how a bachelor pad should look like), among other things. It's no surprise these guys are successful and in demand.

Check out Troy Dizon Dating at http://www.troydizondating.com/

2. Lady Gaga's Bad Romance music video

Just when you thought Lady Gaga can't get any crazier, she shocks you again. Which is why I love her. But unlike Madonna, Gaga brings it to a whole new level you wonder if she's high on drugs when she puts these things together. It's just waaaay too much - and its wonderful.

Bad Romance is from Lady Gaga's new album called Fame Monster. And true to its

title, the video is filled with disturbing images - all of them strong, ugly and beautiful at the same time. This is what mak

es me respect Lady Gaga as an artist - she manages to merge both pure artistry and pop music so seamlessly it can only come

from somewhere real.

I finally found an interview of Gaga on Fame Monster where Gaga describes the sophomore effort, and I quote:

It's a whole new album, and I didn't write about fame, and I didn't write about money, and I didn't write about paparazzi. I wrote about fear, and all the monsters I've encountered on the road, and fear

of death, fear of love, fear of sex, fear of alcohol, fear of the past, so, um, its a brand new side of me, but its also all t

he things you loved about The Fame...

I'm struggling with all sorts of things. But that's the nature of being an artist. I think that when you stop struggling, that's when your music starts to suck. So, Im sorta holding on to my solitude, and wrestling with all of my thoughts. And, I guess you could say that all the years of drive, and ambition, and the dream, were like a mask for the feelings, so now my fears are right, blind running out of me because the mask if off and that's why the album cover looks the way it does...

(More of Lady Gaga's The Vibe interview here.)

The Jamaica Observer (who? hehehe) describes the Bad Romance video as a "non-stop shocker" and provides a blow by blow narration of the work. The MTV does show a new side of Lady Gaga, someone more vulnerable, angry, sad and

fearful. Gaga has obviously confronted these issues head on and has stared it in the face. She made a movie of how fear looks like and it isn't fun to look at. But damn, I have to say that it takes cohones (ok, pun intended :)) to do what she has done and she d

id it. Bravo.

Watch Lady Gaga's Bad Romance here.

3. BoA will Eat You UP

Korean sensation Boa Kwon, aka BoA has taken over the USA. I was glued to the screen as I watched this Asian sister strut her stuff b-boy style. She had stick-straight hair, dressed in baggy clothes and a hoodie, grooved like Aaliyah and had white back up dancers. I was waiting for a funny asian accent in her singing but found none - she sounded all american to me -- but it also could be the sound engineering. It took me a while to take all the interracial elements in. But man, she was good :)

Wikipedia says that the 23 year old is multilingual, fluent in Japanese, English, her native Korean, and Mandarin. And apparently, the US isn't the only country she has been active in. This woman is HUGE. Per Wikipedia, She is the only non-Japanese Asian to have two million-selling albums in Japan and is one of only two artists to have six consecutive number-one studio albums on the Oricon charts since her debut.

I won't be surprised if she takes the Philippines by storm. If she does, we would at least identify of Koreans with someone other than Kim Chiu.

Watch BoA's Eat You Up here.

4. Ronan Keating's OMG-IS-THAT-HIM Hot Body

My jaw dropped when I saw Ronan Keating half-naked on the opening of his new

video "Stay". I got too caught up with the new look I don't even remember how the song goes, and honestly, I think Keating made this video just to show off his new chiseled body. It was just way too much visual for another cheesy love song. His body may have moved forward (way forward), but the music sounded the same.

And the hair! oh the hair. David Cook much? And the tattoos! Where did they all come from? So that's what he was hiding under all those dark dapper trench coats.

He looks great, and I'm sure he worked hard to get that spartan-soldier body, but shouldn't he be in a rock video? It all just doesn't fit!

Watch Ronan Keating's Stay here.

That's it for this week on TV. It was fun. I'll be doing more of these soon.