Belt it out Janis! Amanda Overmeyer comes within inches of being eliminated from American Idol but lives on to the next show. Here's to hoping she doesn't play it safe with a ballad next week and goes out in a Blaze of Glory..
Well, it's been a busy few weeks and haven't had much time to post much so it's time to throw down a catch-all post I'll call Midnight Madness (because Night Ranger rules! At least that's what I keep telling my wife). Lotsa random junk out there, so time to get started:
It's a new season of American Idol. This year has been on snooze control and the Top 24 hasn't made much of an impact yet. The guys Top 12 was mostly forgettable until dreadlocked Jason Castro busted out Beck style on Lovin' Spoonful's "Daydream". The first hour of the girl's Top 12 was no better until Asia'h Epperson jumped to Janis Joplin's "Piece Of My Heart". The show finally caught fire with a dramatic reading of Dusty Springfield's "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" by Ramiele Malubay and Carly Smithson's professional take on Tony Bennett's "The Shadow Of Your Smile". Two guys and gals were shown the door tonight, hopefully cutting off the dead wood to make for a better set of shows next week. Best news of all, Simon has gone from bored to vicious in his verbal barbs the past few weeks, even telling one of tonight's losing contestants to give up music and get a job.
The next James Bond film is going to be called Quantum of Solace. It's said to take place minutes after the end of Casino Royale. I'm looking forward to another round with Bloke Bond Daniel Craig strangling dudes with one hand while slamming down a Vodka Martini with the other. Shaken, not stirred...OY!
Star Trek XI is underway with new actors emulating the classic series crew and JJ Abrams in the drivers seat. Should be interesting, problem is it's going to be tough to Out-Shatner Shatner in his signature role. I'm a big fan of Original Star Trek so I'll give the new movie a shot. And who knows, if Shatner can be replaced maybe they'll make a movie of TJ Hooker! Al Pacino is...TJ Hooker. And Adrian Zmed is still Adrian Zmed, because he is truly irreplaceable. Who's laughing now Dance Fever?
A new CGI Star Wars movie is in the works to be followed by a TV series. CGI actors-finally George Lucas can get the performances he wants. Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith gives me hope this might be good, but I've got a bad feeling about this...
A flood of music by artists from the 90's is coming out most of which is pretty decent. Sheryl Crow,both the Black and Counting Crowes and Lenny Kravitz have new songs and albums. None of them have blown me away yet with their new material, but collectively they make me long for a Starbucks coffee and an episode of Friends. Whomp! There it is!!
A new episode of Family Guy ran last weekend! Finally. Now it's back to the reruns again. Awww.
Going back to American Idol for a second, my favorite so far has been blooze rocker Amanda Overmeyer who came close to being cut from the show tonight following her Van Morrison by way of Aerosmith version of "Baby Please Don't Go". I don't know how long she'll last but I really enjoy her performances.
Lastly, I thought I knew every failed attempt by an 80's metal band to cross over to the mainstream. Dokken's "Burning Like A Flame" comes to mind (they made like five albums and this was their only happy song) as does Y&T's "Summertime Girls" (stiff doesn't begin to describe this Top 20 hit) and Triumph's "Somebody's Out There" (is this really the same band that did "Fight The Good Fight"?). These songs lessened or in some cases buried whatever music came out before it with their desperate pleas for Top 40 love by neutering and shellacking their sounds in generic hooks and in most cases synthesizers. I left the TV on VH1 Classic last weekend and was shocked, shocked I tell you, to hear a Heavy Metal version of Christopher Cross' "Ride Like The Wind" by none other than Saxon. You can't ride the wind far enough from the smell of this one. Which is why I got it immediately so I can play it to death.
4 comments:
Hmmm, where to start... Let's see, I've never actually watched a moment of American Idol, so don't really have an opinion on that.
Yea, Night Ranger does rule! Despite the fact that the dude turned out to be a Damned Yankee.
James Bond ain't James Bond unless he's also Sean Connery. Sorry, just my opinion.
Star Trek? Spock was so very cool. Loved Scotty, too. Shatner? I like him much better now that he's over 70 and does those Discovery channel shows. Now he's cool, too.
Star Wars... tried to watch that one... the Sith one, you know which one I mean... no Han Solo, no Star Wars, for me. He was the best character in the whole original trio.
Cool, new Black Crows stuff. I always loved those guys. Hope they don't screw it all up this time. New Lenny, too??? Hope it isn't too slicked up and over produced like his last few bits of work have been. He's better when he just lays it out there and doesn't mind the gravel and the scratches.
Family Guy, no opinion.
Saxon doing Ride like the Wind? Wow. How'd I miss that? Must have been listening to too much Accept when that came out.
BTW, your last little comment about that made me laugh out loud.
It's funny you mention Accept because they've been on my mind after playing Guitar Hero 3. Gotta agree that Han Solo is the best character in Star Wars, Harrison Ford is awesome. Sean Connery is the definitive James Bond and always will be, though my personal fave is Pierce Brosnan because he got that the character was unrealistic and played it accordingly.
Thought I'd add one of my favorite parts of the Brosnan era was the fact that he would do a sprinters run to avoid automatic weapon fire. He wouldn't even duck, he'd just outrun Uzi fire. Why? 'Cause James Bond is too cool to duck, he just outruns bullets.
Connery is the definitive James Bond. Who would have ever guessed it after seeing him in
Darby O'Gill & the Little People, which was, by the way, a wonderful movie in it's own right. (for the time and the subject matter, and the fact that it was made for children)
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