I think I like the girl on the far left the best. She said something to the effect of, "I think singing is the biggest thing I lack in this competition."

Very rarely do I ever take the time to watch a second of MTV. The channel, which once changed the face of TV altogether, has greatly declined at the start of the 90's and has since wallowed in about fifteen years of filth. But on occasion, even I can enjoy watching a pig roll around in mud. So, once in a while, I indulge in MTV. While some of you may see my SciFi Channel as a low-grade channel, I view the MTV like that.

All that said, you can imagine my shock and surprise when I turned on MTV early on a Thursday morning and found Making the Band 3, featuring Sean Puffiddy Combs. Now God bless that Puff Daddy because he keeps trying. This is a guy who made it huge and uses his status to help out other people. He rand that marathon, he donates computers to inner city kids, and still has time to discover new talent. Not only that-- but he can still afford a big, nice place to live.

Before we talk about why I enjoy Making the Band 3, we must first explain it. Puffy takes his music business friends and they all take a bunch of aspiring kids and make a band out of them. Sounds easy, right? It looks like it is too. Honestly, they just weed out the lame-os and make a group out of the leftovers. You may remember the first Making the Band, which featured O-Town, the group that made Nick Lachey famous-- HA! gotcha. Would you believe how lame you are-- you just corrected me on Boy Band Trivia, and I set you up for it. Anyway, O-Town was bad, and no one even talks about Making the Band 2, so who knows what that was all about.

Making the Band 3 focuses on females this time. Puffy has decided that he wants his own Destiny's Child. While I would lean towards Spice Girls, he feels that Destiny's Child is better. I can't argue, I guess, but the Spice Girls formula was brilliant; there was something for everyone. Maybe the public's keeping their eyes peeled for another one of them though.

Now for the best part: I like this show a lot right now, I can't say what could happen in the future episodes. Why? First of all, I like how it perpetuates the great myth of female living. According to all reality shows women always walk around in the same outfits. The top is always a tight tank top, the bottoms vary from form-fitting sweats, boxer shorts, or tighter short shorts. This is true of all those America's Next Top Models, the Real Worlds, and Big Brothers (at home and abroad).

The real reason I love this particular show is that Puff Daddy thinks they all suck. In the first episode he comes out and says that he sees no stars in the bunch, and that you can't make a star, they have to be born with it. Thus, Puffy has admitted defeat in the first episode. As the show goes on (I only got to catch bits and pieces from three episodes), he becomes more and more displeased until he actually goes out and gets more ladies to enter the competition. How terrible is that?! I loved it. They eventually have to tell the girls that Puffy thinks they're terrible. It's pretty funny to see them all react. Imagine thinking that you beat out a bunch of people for a spot on a team of winners, only to find out that you were all the best losers.

It's very much like the new Project Greenlight on Bravo, where these two guys wrote an awful script about flesh-eating monsters and Dimension films ditched all these cool scripts for this marketable one. That made Ben Affleck and Matt Damon mad, so they seem to have picked the hardest-to-work-with director to get back at Dimension, thereby setting themselves up for extreme failure. Why the poor shows do this stuff is beyond me, but it's always fun to watch, right?

In all honesty, it does make me worry about my karma when I look forward to the next episode of someone's pending failure. At the same time, I know that people fail at things every day. For some reason, these people wanted to do it on TV. I prefer doing it in the privacy of my friends and family though. Until the next episode of each though, I'll be scanning the channels seeking out more inevitable failures-- hey, Life on a Stick is on!