Strange News for the Day
*One day I'll have to take a trip to Littleton, Colorado: Inspriation for South Park, home to high school massacres and toilet babies.
I think the strangest part of this woman having her baby - aside from her apparently having shat it out - is the name, Nevaeh, which is HEAVEN spelled backwards. Would her name have been "Heaven" if she'd been dry-delivered?
*Don't you admire my restraint for knowing everything about the Britney Spears baby-on-a-lap incident and not expoounding upon it at all? Of course you do.
*Yahoo has links to not one but TWO versions of an article (both Associated Press) about anundercover kitten. You should read them both.
Just dig this lead:
He came from the streets of Brooklyn, a cool customer on four legs, the perfect bait for a sting on a fake veterinarian. Meet Fred, undercoverkitten.
That is what we in the business (not that I'm REALLY in the business) consider to be gold.
And,lastly, my friend whom I shall call Homeboy has pointed me to a phenomenon which may or may not be a sign of the apocalypse. It turns out that the Grammys were beaten - soundly - in the ratings by AmericanIdol. The only joy to be found here is the knoweldge is that some 16-year-old in Middle America missed Kelly Clarkson's two wins cuz she was too busy watching that little-kid-looking-cowboy freak singing his ghastly country song (yeah, I saw 5 minutes - sue me).
Given the lameness of the Grammys - accumulated over YEARS and YEARS of uncoolness - and the horrible cultural black hole that is American Idol....what to make of this? I don't even know. Is this a good sign? A bad sign?
The fake music show beat the real-but-still-almost-embarassing-as-the-fake-show show. Ouch.
How uncool are the Grammys? Remember these three facts as examples:
-The Rolling Stones won their first Grammy in 1994
-The Beatles won more Grammys in the 1990s than the 1960s - by far
-NeilYoung's almost entirely acousitc Prairie Wind was nominated for bestROCK album (matching Bruce Springsteen's peculiar nom for best ROCKVOCAL on "Streets of Philadelphia.")
This much I can say for sure: If American Idol and/or the American Music Awards and/or theGrammys air at the same time and finish with the exact same ratings(each with a 66.6 share, I figure)....it's time to duck and cover. The MTV awards, however, are entirely safe.
I think the strangest part of this woman having her baby - aside from her apparently having shat it out - is the name, Nevaeh, which is HEAVEN spelled backwards. Would her name have been "Heaven" if she'd been dry-delivered?
*Don't you admire my restraint for knowing everything about the Britney Spears baby-on-a-lap incident and not expoounding upon it at all? Of course you do.
*Yahoo has links to not one but TWO versions of an article (both Associated Press) about anundercover kitten. You should read them both.
Just dig this lead:
He came from the streets of Brooklyn, a cool customer on four legs, the perfect bait for a sting on a fake veterinarian. Meet Fred, undercoverkitten.
That is what we in the business (not that I'm REALLY in the business) consider to be gold.
And,lastly, my friend whom I shall call Homeboy has pointed me to a phenomenon which may or may not be a sign of the apocalypse. It turns out that the Grammys were beaten - soundly - in the ratings by AmericanIdol. The only joy to be found here is the knoweldge is that some 16-year-old in Middle America missed Kelly Clarkson's two wins cuz she was too busy watching that little-kid-looking-cowboy freak singing his ghastly country song (yeah, I saw 5 minutes - sue me).
Given the lameness of the Grammys - accumulated over YEARS and YEARS of uncoolness - and the horrible cultural black hole that is American Idol....what to make of this? I don't even know. Is this a good sign? A bad sign?
The fake music show beat the real-but-still-almost-embarassing-as-the-fake-show show. Ouch.
How uncool are the Grammys? Remember these three facts as examples:
-The Rolling Stones won their first Grammy in 1994
-The Beatles won more Grammys in the 1990s than the 1960s - by far
-NeilYoung's almost entirely acousitc Prairie Wind was nominated for bestROCK album (matching Bruce Springsteen's peculiar nom for best ROCKVOCAL on "Streets of Philadelphia.")
This much I can say for sure: If American Idol and/or the American Music Awards and/or theGrammys air at the same time and finish with the exact same ratings(each with a 66.6 share, I figure)....it's time to duck and cover. The MTV awards, however, are entirely safe.
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