Ugh, so I just found out that my quiet and out of the way neighborhood here in Long Beach is going to be invaded by the MTV Beach House for the next two weeks. Belmont Shore is the last quiet and remotely affordable place to live on the coast, so of course it has to ground zero for a new gentrification of trustafarians.
LBReport.com was the first LB media outlet to report that MTV’s Beach House — an annual summer television series seen nationwide on the NY-based music television network — is planning to originate in part from the Belmont Shore beachfront.
The publicity coup of having a nationally telecast MTV series originate from LB’s beachfront — showcasing the city as a hip, cool summer location for millions of demographically desirable viewers — came to light after a snafu in which a number of area residents say they were initially kept in the dark by City Hall, then got misinformation from someone.
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MTV VJ’s Quddus Phillippe, Damien Fahey, Vanessa Minnillo, Hilarie Burton and LaLa Vasquez kick off the summer programming on Monday, May 31st in Long Beach, CA, with a week long TRL dedicated to “Spankin’ New Presents: Sounds of Summer Week” featuring live performances by Nelly and Murphy Lee, New Found Glory, Ashlee Simpson and more.
Godfuckingdamn, I don’t want “demographically desirable” anything in my neighborhood! Traffic and parking is difficult enough as it is without the 700 people MTV is bringing in (hilariously MTV apparently has to import their own hipsters) plus however many MTV choads in Southern California that feel the need to invade. Sigh… Kill me now.
The solution: Pierre, South Dakota. You can buy a Victorian house for around 30 G’s, and while the jobs that pay 50 G’s here pay only 23 there, it doesn’t matter, since everything costs about a quarter of what it does here (except gasoline of course). No choads, hipsters, trendoids, etc.–they all fly over, right? There is a little of that in Rapid City, I understand.
ah, doesn’t that news just make moving out of the state that much sweeter now?
Chris, my condolences and all, but if your idea of someplace that’s ‘out of the way’ of the entertainment industry is Long Beach. . .
Sounds like it’s time to put the Long Beach PD on speed-dial. Call the Cacephonists to stage a guerilla action (perhaps quite literally). Get yourself a megaphone and think up some really really offensive things to broadcast. Build a neighborhood sized EMP. Caltrops in the streets.