Well, Rock Star: INXS is going to be interesting even after the show ends, given that, in the end, the band picked the drama-creating J.D. as their new lead singer. His performance with them was fine (as was Marty’s), but I think his smoking arrangement of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” is likely what carried the day. Marty failed to show INXS anything new, which was a mistake, and I think he knew it before he stepped out on stage.
So, J.D. has got the musical and performance chops. We know that. I just think we’re looking at a very volatile, very “look at me” guy being added to a mix of people who are very comfortable together after all these years. It’ll be interesting to see if J.D. is their lead singer after this first album and tour. I could see him deciding he’s too big of a star and wanting a solo career before the tour is even over.
It’ll be interesting to see if Marty gets back together with his band, the Lovehammers, now. Depending on how the band feels about him — and they did hold parties for him every Tuesday night during the show at a local bar — this might be a great break for them.
Anyway, good show, and I’ll always have “Trees” on my iPod, whatever else happens.
In other news, I laughed myself sick at My Name is Earl, which is easily as good as its hype. It and Supernatural are the two big hits for me so far this season.
It appears Tyra Banks is already out of things to talk about on her new show. Either that, or talking about herself (more specifically, her breasts) is her favorite subject.
And finally, Locke is still the man.
Jenn last night as we were watching The War at Home on TiVo last night: “DELETE THIS.”
The first episodes of Threshold and Supernatural were pretty good, though, as was the season opener of Medium.
The video for “Everything to Me,” the first single off of Liz Phair’s new album, Somebody’s Miracle, is now at Yahoo! Music.
(Exasperatingly, it doesn’t seem to work with Firefox. This is what I keep Internet Explorer around for: those once a month instances where a site only seems to work with IE.)
CMT has a list of the top drinking songs of all time. Despite normally being very country music phobic, my fraternity played a pretty astonishing number of those (of those that were out at the time) when I was in college. I don’t think there was a party where we didn’t hear “Family Tradition” or “Friends in Low Places,” even if it was mixed in with 2 Live Crew.
This is just annoying:
Four out of five Americans say they think too many reality shows are on the air, according to an AP–TV Guide poll. Only 4 percent of respondents said there were not enough.
Half of Americans believe there are too many crime shows on television. The longtime staple of TV dramas has proliferated with the success of franchises such as “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and “Law & Order.”
Guys, change the freaking channels. There’s 72 different Law & Order shows because people keep watching them. Ditto reality shows — if you weren’t giggling over Donald Trump firing people all the last two years, we wouldn’t have Martha Stewart doing the same thing this year.
Of all the new shows introduced last year, “CSI: New York” has the most people looking forward to its return. “Desperate Housewives,” twice as popular with women as it is with men, came in second.
OK, now people are just making stuff up. As much as I wanted to like it, the NYC CSI is almost unwatchable.
As my mother used to always ask me, when I was watching a show I didn’t like, are your arms broken, people?
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