There is only one thing that could rival with the Obama presidency in the internet world today; and that’s one category at MTV’s European Music Awards: Best act ever. If you’ve been around the internet for more than a day, you know that the heart of the internet beats in these two unmistakeable words: Rick Roll. We’ve all been rick rolled; we all rick rolled others.

Internet users have their own sense of honor; they’re grateful to Rick Astley for leaving us his work to use for laughing. So it was obvious who was going to get the award; still, MTV tried to kill the democracy and kick him out of the competition (which frankly, was THE hugest mistake they could do). As far as I’m concerned, at this moment, MTV is shit. But if they would have done that, they would have gone beyond the epic bottom. Still, to cut a long story short, they gave him the prize.

Here’s what he had to say about this.

We have a duty to understand that Obama is a politician who surrounds himself with advisors, not a black overlord riding a huge horse and fighting off evil. Miracles will not happen, but we have a duty to keep him to his word and he has a duty to show us that our trust was not misdirected. People much more qualified than me have given their word about this, so I’ll speak no more.

Mr. Obama, make us proud.

That means get out, and decide your future for yourself. Vote. If you think Obama’s the man, you should get out and vote for him. If you think McCain’s better, you should stay at home and watch TV vote for him instead. Either way, do something. Do it. DO IT!!

First of all, I have absolutely no idea if that’s how you spell it and I’m really tired so hope that’s right. Anyway, yesterday was quite an evening, as I got into the philharmonic for free (to start with). It has to be said that despite the fact that I play guitar for almost 2 years already and studied a bit of classical guitar, classical music is not really my thing. I can listen to it, it’s quite relaxing, but it’s just one of those things you do several times a year.

So I went there not actually knowing what it will be like, as I have to say this type of cultural activity is not something I do often, really. But I heard that Valentin Gheorghiu (who is just amazing at the piano, at over 80 years) was going to be there, so I checked it out. I was quite amazed to see that the philharmonic from an average city in Romania is this good, and they really were. The choir was also amazing.

The musicians were all very young for what you’d expect, but what amazed me was something else. Less than ten percent of the people from the audience were younger than 60-70 years old. What’s the future of the classical music 10 years from now ?? I have no idea. Just hope there is one.

Among the first things I searched for was Englishman in New York. But it didn’t give any results on youtube, which was a bit weird, so I searched it on google. There ya go.

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So really, what’s this all about ?? If I’d search through the site, I’d probably find some boring explanation about why they can’t offer the same services and stuff, but really. I search for the cookie. You show me the cookie, then say you can’t have it. Not why, not how, not if you’ll ever have it. You won’t get the cookie. Thanks youtube, you made my day.