This is for REAL!/Kanye

MTV's True Life aired today while I was at the gym. Don't forget that last part. Anyway, the show followed two couples who decided to elope and not tell anyone in their family. One couple met each other three weeks before getting engaged. Yikes. Now, they claimed they would not tell their families about the nuptials because they wanted to save money. At least that was their primary reason. But they also wanted to avoid hearing everyone tell them it was a bad idea. No kidding.

Two months prior the woman had broken up with her boyfriend of three years. Whoa! I guess he got tired of caring for her five-year-old daughter. What!? Not his kid? And the guy was recently divorced. OMG! Actual near quote from the dude (I was working out so I couldn't write it down): "I've never done anything crazy in my life. So this is good for me." A keg party is crazy. That doesn't make it something you should do for the rest of your life. A reason the woman gave to a marriage counselor for their plans: "We have really good conversations." Yeah, so do my neighbor and I. At least MTV made sure to show the pastor saying, "God wants you to have a good sex life."

Also, I'm watching Kanye West on VH1 Storytellers. These are some things he said. Again, I was only kind of listening so I didn't get the exact words, just the paraphrase: "My greatest pain is that I can never see me perform. You will have a pleasure I can never have." Also: "I am a vessel for God. He wants me to say more and more and more." Then: "OJ (Simpson): Amazing." Not sure about his reasoning there. At least he got this right: "We have a black and white president."