It's About Winning, Not Playing!

Steve Anthony - Episode1

If winning doesn't matter, and trying is the most important thing, then why the hell do we keep score?

Don't know who said that. Don't care who said that. "That" makes f**king sense.

This whole VJ Search is about winning. Trying doesn't cut it.

Everyone has something that jazzes them. Even Mother Theresa did. As selfless as she was, well, selflessness was her jazz. That's what made her tick. That's how she got jazzed every day of her life.

Putting a tip in a jar without the person behind the counter knowing I put it there? Forget it. My jazz is letting them know that I gave them something. Jazz.

Selfish? Sure. Everyone's got their own jazz. That's mine.

And tonight, as I watched Episode One of VJ Search: The Series, I'm so looking forward to a new jazz for me. Tormenting, cajoling, advising and mentoring a bunch of folks that have offered themselves up to the strain of an intense audition process, to prove their worth, or to get the hell out.

Some, as you may have seen last night, were just downright demented. Or they did it on a drunk-bet from the night before, or something along those lines. Perhaps as a lark.

And some surely did shine.

You now know who those 20 are. As do I.

I think this will be a great adventure for these 20. I hope they have thick skin, 'cause no one is going to get an easy ride.

I don't want tears. And that will never be my intent (me crying, not the contestants). But if it happens, it happens.

Sound cruel? Not likely. Every one of those 20 VJ finalists that are here in Toronto, to win a place in a lavish penthouse suite and compete against each other for a real "dream job" have been apprised of what to expect. Scrutiny and criticism.

If they want to win this gig (and as you saw in Episode One, it may be one of the truly coolest gigs there ever was...getting paid for this? You're kidding...where the hell do I sign up?), they are going to have to prove they want it, and that they can do it. I want to see their jazz.

And I've got a say in who stays and who's "off the air". That's my jazz. And I realllllly like my jazz.

(Jazzzzzzzzzzzzzz hands!!)