BFF Montage

Check out this way too cool photo montage that someone made for us! It includes contestants from both BFF Season 1 and Season 2. Enjoy!

Fashion Friday!

Because Halloween is tomorrow, we decided to showcase Halloween costumes that you guys submitted to us from past Halloweens. Enjoy =)

And don't forget, a BRAND NEW episode of BFF is live @ MySpace.com/BFF.

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Dear Nicole

TeenDiariesOnline.com is a site dedicated to everything for the teenage girl. From music, fashion, and advice, it’s no wonder that we found this site to be a girl’s true sanctuary. Within the site there is an anonymous advice column called Dear Nicole. It’s a place where you can reach out for a bit of advice or a little direction. We all know life has its little (or maybe huge) complications. That is why we here at BFF decided to team up with TD to present you with, “Dear Nicole”:

Dear Nicole,

I have a boyfriend and we've been together for four years. After we finish our last year at school, we are going to be separated. We're in love and we want to be together forever, but his parents (who are Christians) are filling his mind with doubts about me not being "the one", and that we are too young and should not get so serious in a relationship. We are still together at the moment but I'm having doubts if a long distance relationship can work, or if I should just end it and hope we meet in the future. I don't want to lose him. I know there are many guys out there to choose from, but I don't want another boyfriend ... I want him. What should I do?

Signed, 16+18Love

A: You didn’t indicate your spiritual walk but if you are Christian, I suggest you send up a prayer about the situation and see how God directs you. Whatever your path is, seeking spiritual guidance is always a plus. Then let it go. Don’t put too much thought into a relationship. See where fate takes you. If it fizzles out while you’re in different locales then that’s the way it is. Who knows, it just may grow stronger. Focus on why you all got together in the first place (common interests, attraction, etc.) and let the rest just fall into place! Hope this helps!

-- Nicole

Also, don't forget! A brand new episode of BFF will be live tomorrow @ MySpace.com/BFF.

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BFF TWITTER CONTEST!

We here at BFF truly appreciate our fans and what better way than to show our appreciation by giving YOU lovely people the chance to win some cool prizes!

Today's cool prize is a Dell Mini 10 Notebook!

How the contest works:

Copy & Paste the following message on your very own Twitter page:

I LOVE BFF! Fan @BFFTV & post this message to win a DELL MINI 10 NOTEBOOK! details here: http://bit.ly/39rd8Z. Contest ends 11/02/09!

Details:

• Contest ends at 6 PM EASTERN time of every deadline.
• All fans who post this message will automatically be entered in our Dell Mini 10 Notebook Contest.
• You must be following BFFTV's Twitter page for entries to be considered.
• "Fake accounts" or creating multiple accounts owned by the same user will be disqualified.
• There is NO LIMIT to tweets, so EVERY tweet counts!
• Winners will be selected at random.
• Winners from previous contests cannot join another contest.

So hurry and start posting!!

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Celebrity Wednesday!

Here on BFF we celebrate everything that ties Best Friends, and what couldn't be better than showcasing every week, our favorite celeb BFFs! Celebrities are constantly in the limelight and it's obvious that they need that one person they can lean on, which brings us to this week's favorite pair of Celeb BFFS:

Taylor Swift & Kellie Pickler

These two gal pals met while on tour with Brad Paisley. They were both opening acts and what started their bond was Kellie watching Taylor's new kitten as she'd go and perform on stage. And that's when the magic happened. They started hanging out all the time, talking about everything, and thus, became fast friends. Kellie even goes as far as saying that she's adopted Taylor as her LITTLE SISTER!

When asked what's one favorite thing they like about one another, they both had a lot to say:

Taylor: My favorite thing about Kellie is that she's the one person on the planet who has the nerve to delete a guy's number out of my phone if she doesn't think he's right for me [laughs]. She will grab my phone and delete his number, because she does not want me to talk to someone who she thinks is bad news.

Kellie: When I say she's like a little sister to me, it's really true because we both keep each other in line. I have a younger half-sister, but we didn't grow up together, and we never saw each other. I've actually seen Taylor more than I have my real sister, so she really is like a little sister to me. (source)

BFF's considering one another sisters? That's what we love to hear!

For more info on Taylor and Kellie, visit their official pages @ : TaylorSwift.com and KelliePickler.com.

Want to see your favorite pair of BFF's up here next week? Drop a comment below and tell us what you think!

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BFF Friends + Music pt 2. by Craig Wedren

Part 2 of Craig Wedren's BFF Friends + Music continues...

Originally (before the DC cab ride), when thinking about friends and music, a series of photos came to mind:

The first is of me and my friend David Wain just after a Purim parade at Park Synagogue in Cleveland, Ohio. He’s King Ahasuerus, and I’m a ‘gregor’ (musical noisemaker to be rattled whenever Haman, the villain in the Purim story, appears). I’d say we’re about 5 yrs old.

Cut to photograph 2, a band photo from 9^th grade featuring me, David Wain (drums) again, Stuart Blumberg (gtr), Matt Fields (bass), and Scott Harbert (gtr). At that point, the band was called either ‘Immoral Minority’ or ‘Batman and Robin’, I’m not sure which. But here’s a brief history of the friendship-music connections shown in the photo:

Stuart Blumberg and David have been best friends since the day they were born.

Stuart, David, and I have been best friends since age 4. Scott Harbert was the resident guitar prodigy, and was the first of many best-friend/guitar player foils in my life that began with Scott, and went all the way through Chris Matthews and Nathan Larson (see above) in Shudder To Think.

We all met Matt Fields at an 8^th grade JCC dance. He had an asymmetrical haircut and wore a smart black vintage suit jacket covered with buttons of various awesome new wave and punk bands.

We became instant friends, and to this day the music Matt turned us on to (then-newly released cassettes of ‘Dreams Less Sweet’ by Psychic TV, ‘Swoon’ by Prefab Sprout, the first Tones On Tail record, the first Smiths album, and Henry Cow to name a few) remain my favorite albums, and ones which continue to inspire and shape my own music to this day. Scott Harbert and I, after having been out of touch for 15 yrs or so, recently rekindled our friendship with obsessive emailing re the whereabouts and strange album-release habits of Paddy McAloon, mastermind behind Prefab Sprout, a band my wife hates, but with whom I’m still obsessed.

Matt Fields went on to play in Red Red Meat, Califone, and Those Bastard Souls (with Dave Shouse from Grifters, and Kevin March from Shudder To Think, coincidentally). I am forever in his debt for helping lead me to my own musical voice.

David Wain and I continue to collaborate together on a regular basis, and I’ve composed score and songs for all of his movies, from his student film in college (‘Aisle Six’), to his most recent, ‘Role Models’.

Stuart, David, and I are still best friends, and a few years ago I introduced Stuart to director and dear friend Lisa Cholodenko (director of ‘High Art’ and ‘Laurel Canyon’, for which I composed the music), and the two of them collaborated on the script for her new movie, ‘The Kids Are Alright’ (named after the Who song –Stuart’s favorite from childhood). Stuart, David, and I are currently talking about making a movie that Stuart will write, David will direct, and I’ll compose. Of course we’ll all wind up collaborating on all of it, including the music, just like in 9^th grade.

The third photo is of Shudder To Think backstage at Lollapalooza, 1995. In it, you see the band, David Wain (who was filming bits of the tour for promo/documentary use), and Stuart Blumberg, who we coerced into roadie-ing for the tour (sorry, pal).

And finally, a photo of me, my wife Meggan, and David onstage during the finally of a concert celebrating the release of David ‘s movie, The Ten, which was basically a giant collaboration/pile-up of all of our friends in comedy and music.

Incidentally, I met my wife 20 years ago through her brother, Tom Lennon, a dorm-mate of mine at NYU, who was in the comedy group The State, for whom I made music. The State were my best friends from college, and I continue to make music for their various projects to this day.

Long story long, music and friendship for me have always been inextricable, and music has been the trigger, the glue, and the beating heart of some of my most important relationships, not to mention the centerpiece of many of my most beloved memories. Music connects me to my history; it is the portal and the soundtrack to the story of my life, the lives of my friends and family, and the time we share together. It’s the emotional umbilical cord that connects me to my peeps.

For more info on Craig, visit: CraigWedren.com and DavidWain.com

& don't forget, another episode of BFF is live on @:MySpace.com/BFF.

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Music Monday: BFF Friends + Music pt 1. by Craig Wedren

Craig Wedren is the former lead singer of Shudder to Think and now the lead for the newer pop-mash project, "BABY". He's also written the theme to Comedy Central's Reno 911! and wrote the incidental music for the film, School of Rock. Read below as Craig shares with us how music connects him and his best buds together:

I was recently in a taxi on the way to the airport, headed home to LA from Washington DC, where I was visiting my dad who’d just had a hip-replacement.

The driver asked me if I wanted to take the highway (faster) or the scenic route through Georgetown. I chose the scenic route, and we drove down Wisconsin Ave, past a stellar graveyard, and a sea of ghosts in the form of memories both musical and friend-related. Here are a couple of highlights:

Sidwell Friends, where a Junior High crush of mine went to school. One evening I took her to see Breathless (the Richard Gere remake), and freaked out at the end credits, which featured my favorite band, X, covering Jerry Lee Lewis’ classic song of the same name. I’ve seen –and forgotten- hundreds of teenage movie-dates, but will never forget the humid, frustrated groping and thwarted kiss-attempts during that otherwise forgettable remake, all because of the end-credits song, which in my dream-memory has become the soundtrack to a perfect (albeit unrequited) teen-crush. Thank you, X, and thank you girl-who-shall-remain-nameless (we’re still friends, and she probably doesn’t remember this unforgettable night).

Further down the street is the former location of my one entrepreneurial endeavor –running an ice cream stand which stood on the corner of Wisconsin and N streets. For better and for worse (but mostly for better) I employed only friends –Chris Matthews, then guitarist for my band Shudder To Think; Nathan Larson, future guitarist for Shudder To Think; and Zoe Rosenfeld, best-friend/muse/erstwhile high school-thru-college love. It only lasted for one Summer, and the business lost scads of money, but we all found our literary voices in the form of a chain-notebook which was supposed to be used for keeping track of earnings, but wound up being a trippy collage of lyrics, show-fliers, notes to one another, and run-on story-poems that would be passed off from one shift to another (we didn’t see each other all that often as we each took different shifts, but were in constant contact through the notebook). There was a boom box at the stand which played the first Motely Crue record, Bad Brains, XTC, and whatever else was fueling our Summer (probably band practice cassettes of Shudder and Nathan’s then-band, Swiz). This music served as a pirate flag for our punk-ass operation, and kept customers at bay (except for Joey Ramone, who bought a frozen fruit bar) so that we could hang out, rock out, dream away, and write strange notes to one another.

Hope you all have been enjoying so far! Part 2 of Craig's awesome story will be shared with you guys tomorrow!

For more info on Craig, visit: CraigWedren.com and DavidWain.com.

& don't forget, another episode of BFF will be live on @: MySpace.com/BFF.

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Focusing on the Positive: Shut up & Drive.

DoSomething.org is helping to promote National Teen Driving Safety Week. Check out what they had to say, you never know, it could one day affect your life.

Car crashes are the leading cause of teen deaths. This scary statistic demonstrates the importance of this cause week: National Teen Driver Safety Week.

• Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for 15- to 20-year-olds.
• Mile for mile, teenagers are involved in three times as many fatal crashes as all other drivers.
• Alcohol and distracted driving are major factors in teen driving accidents.
• Nationally, 64% of all drivers or motorcycle operators ages 15 to 20 who were involved in traffic accidents and were legally drunk died as a result of the crash.
• Drivers under age 20 represent the largest proportion of distracted drivers on the road, and 16% of under-20 drivers in fatal crashes were reported to have been distracted while driving.

Despite the scary stats on the dangers of distracted driving:

• Over 90% of teens admit to doing multiple tasks while driving, such as talking on the cell phone, playing loud music, channel surfing, and using mp3 players even when they admit they find it distracting.
• An overwhelming 75% of American teens admit to text messaging while driving.

Lately texting while driving has been the focus of safe driving campaigns. Study results released in mid-September revealed that texting behind the wheel is more dangerous than driving under the influence of alcohol or marijuana.

The danger of texting behind the wheel was shown in extremely graphic details by a PSA out of the UK that went viral and has been viewed millions of times. While some question the effectiveness of gruesome videos such as this, no one is denying the seriousness of the issue.

Currently, 14 States and Washington DC have banned text messaging for drivers of all ages but lawmakers are hoping to sign a federal bill that will prohibit the practice across the country.

Think you can multi-task? Play the NY Times game which illustrates the potential consequences of distractions like texting on your driving ability.

Whatever your age -- but especially teens – please be careful out there. You're controlling a two-ton metal weapon – so as Rihanna said so eloquently: Shut up and drive.

Episode 18: Mike & Tricia

Mike and Tricia are the ultimate best friends--husband and wife! Hopefully their time playing BFF, MySpace Video's game show will be part of the better, not the worst!

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Mel & Nicole: A story about BFFs, acting, & Subway.

A lot of people come to NY to pursue their dreams. Mel & Nicole from BFF Episode 13, know that all too well as they both aspire to be actresses. Read as Mel talks about how her & Nicole met, and what it's like to be a "starving actor" in NYC:

Moving to New York to pursue our dreams didn't seem so hard, naturally at first it wasn't. Alike everyone else, Nicole got to our school orientation and the first class all on time, meanwhile I'm still in England due to Visa problems. I missed the first two weeks. That's when I met Nicole, when I slumped over from the school fire exit door to introduce myself and having her unable to coherently hear what I was saying. Somehow we became friends...

So the first semester strolled by with no damages to our health, or food supply, but then somehow in the second semester we all seemed to noticed how we were having to use that one phrase that we all loathe for too many reasons:

"Nah I can't, I'm broke..."

That's when the lunches, movie nights, buying clothes -- stopped. Then the piles and piles of pasta and ramen noodles came out to play, every night. Our one place of love during this whole time, I won't lie, was Subway (eat fresh!). We would go there during every break at school, mainly because:

A: It was cheap

B: It was tasty

C: It was warm during the winter and cold during the summer.

We've graduated and started putting ourselves searching through craigslist.org to finally get a job. Whenever we get to meet up and need to eat, I can assure you that Subway is our place of choice.

Also, the whole "starving actor" name, isn't all it's cracked up to be, it doesn't help you decrease in size and look great on camera. Once you stop eating regularly, your body lacks everything that it's been starved from, therefore, the next thing you eat, your body will then digest twice as much. Basically most of the time starving yourself and then eating increases body size. So we decided if it was from starving yourself to eating ramen or pasta every time... We chose the latter.

So I guess, Nicole and I didn't really go through the whole "Starving actor" problem, but it sure as hell stopped us from going to things we loved doing. But I guess it's a good thing that we can say, "hey, at least we're not starving to death while our parents are none the wiser in another country..."

BTW, a Episode 18 of BFF is up live @ MySpace.com/bff.

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Some BFF Love.

check out this way-too-cool vlog that the lovely girls from JustSaying.tv sent over to us!

Thanks for the love ladies! Be sure to give the gals from JustSaying.tv some love by visiting them on their website: JustSaying.tv and on their Twitter page: Twitter.com/JustSayingTV.

And don't forget, Episode 18 of BFF will be premiering tomorrow @ MySpace.com/BFF.

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FACEBOOK MICROSOFT ZUNE HD PLAYER GIVEAWAY!

We here at BFF truly appreciate our fans and what better way than to show our appreciation by giving YOU lovely people the chance to win some cool prizes!

Today's cool prize is a Microsoft Zune HD Player.

How the contest works:

Copy & Paste the following message on your very own Facebook page:

HEY BFF! I WANT A MICROSOFT ZUNE HD PLAYER! Fan @BFFTV & post this message to win a MICROSOFT ZUNE HD! details here: http://bit.ly/3Qt2J4. Contest ends October 24, 2009!

Details:

• Contest ends at 6 PM EASTERN time of every deadline.
• All fans who post this message will automatically be entered in our Microsoft Zune HD Player Contest.
• You must be a fan of BFFTV's Facebook page for entries to be considered.
• "Fake accounts" or creating multiple accounts owned by the same user will be disqualified.
• There is NO LIMIT to posting, so EVERY post counts!
• Winners will be selected at random.
• Winners from previous contests cannot join another contest.

So hurry and start posting!!

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Celebrity Wednesday!

Here on BFF we celebrate everything that ties Best Friends, and what couldn't be better than showcasing every week, our favorite celeb BFFs! Celebrities are constantly in the limelight and it's obvious that they need that one person they can lean on, which brings us to this week's favorite pair (or trio) of Celeb BFFS:

The Jonas Brothers!

[insert girlish screams now!]

What's better than not only having a BFF (or one, or two), but living with them at the same time!? These brothers are good examples of how BFFs really act: not too serious and full of laughs. Not only do these brothers tour together, but they use their stardom for good. The Jonas Brothers have created a charity called "Change for the Children Foundation" where money is donated to various children charities. Talk about getting involved! Good deeds such as this can inspire BFFS from all over to lend a helping hand!

Which pair of celebrity BFFs do you think we should showcase for next week's Celebrity Wednesday? Drop a line below and let us know what you think!

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Dear Nicole ...

TeenDiariesOnline.com is a site dedicated to everything for the teenage girl. From music, fashion, and advice, it’s no wonder that we found this site to be a girl’s true sanctuary. Within the site there is an anonymous advice column called Dear Nicole. It’s a place where you can reach out for a bit of advice or a little direction. We all know life has its little (or maybe huge) complications. That is why we here at BFF decided to team up with TD to present you with, “Dear Nicole”:

Q: Dear Nicole,

There is this guy in my French class. I like him and so does this other girl. They're always talking and sitting together but he always talks to the people around me and he asked my best friend (who is a boy) "my name, where I'm from, has he ever dated me or kissed me ..." So, I'm getting mixed emotions cause he's so nice to me (he opens the door and picks stuff up for me) but he is always sitting beside her and talking. I don't know what to do cause I really like him!

A: Do nothing. Two girls competing for the attention of one guy is NOT cute. Plus you’re too good for that. I’m a firm believer that guys do what they want and tend to ‘be where they want to be’. If you catch my drift. I suggest you flirt a bit, subtly of course, let him know you’re interested and then leave it alone. Let him make his move, choice or decision…whatever you want to call it. Hope this helps.

Nicole

And there you have it. BTW, Episode 17 of BFF is live NOW! Check it out: MySpace.com/bff.

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