Television

Television is becoming a musical desert. Rare performances for the armchair brigade. It saddens me since there were so many bands that I discovered via television during my youth.

I’m pleased but not surprised that they opted to do “Simple Song”, I really like it. As mature and grey as they appear they still have a great youthful sound. This is simply a good pop song performed well, if not robotic.

What I find most odd this week is the combo of Madonna and Joe Perry on The Tonight Show, but on the happy side we do have The Horrors on Friday, TGIF!

“Fire” never sounded so good. How Costello can take a hot tune and sizzle it is the magic of Elvis. I will always adore him even as he ages and becomes a more ego pumped nutbag.

Jack being on SNL was a glimmer of hope in my week. No Bon Iver, no Jessie J, no Foster The People .. finally something I could love!

This weeks musical guest on Saturday Night Live is none other than Jack White. This has great potential and I’m hopeful it will live up to my expectation. With host Lindsey Lohan we can only hope the writers show no mercy and make this the best episode of the season.

Television this week seems lighter than usual, not sure why. I also find it an odd mix. Nick Jonas on Fallon and Joe on Conan? Whats up with that? Die Antword are on to scare the crap out of yuo and Hearltess Bastards is an awesome name for a band if not an entire gang.

See I love the chorus of this song but the actually verses are so squeaky its hard to tolerate. As for stage presence, well she tries. The others pretty much just bite their upper lip- which looks ridiculous but then again… I don’t think we’re supposed to like they way they look.

You would think that there would be a network dedicated to providing fantastic visual music to the masses. You know.. maybe a network that had music 24 hours a day 7 days a week and offered up new things for us to learn and appreciate

I knew from the moment I saw Heidemanns fake persona this band…wait…is it a band? NO its a keyboard and a croaker. This is pathetic and horrific and just a perfect move for SNL- which is also horrific and pathetic.

Die Antwoord is on Letterman, theyre freaky as hell and everyone spells it Die Antwood, which is amussing. But best of all? The freakin Fray- yup the white rice of rock and roll, there to sit like a lump in your brain. Mindless shotglass of bile..Id rather swallow a remote.

With his face covered by two microphones and a beard and a seven piece band, including four horns, muffling in the back ground, and between the lot of them they whispered into the night.

Woooo Beyond The Music on VH1 has Blondie! A bright spot in a week filled with crap like Cee Lo Green and Evenescence. Really why must they burn out our eyes as well as our ears? I blame the government.

They say that video killed the radio star- I honestly thought video created the radio star- looking a this weeks music on television seems no one is killing nothing but time.

This all girl band was the epitome of fun ‘in the day’. Much the same as eating fist fulls of cotton candy- awesome but teeth rotting in excess

This got me thinking, why do I remember so much fabulousness with the infamouse ‘musical guest’? I mean I recall ‘staying up’ just to see the guest. Who was it that made me do so?

It sounds like a friend doing really bad, drunk, karaoke and all you can do is sit there and cringe. I’m horrified by the overall severe suckage of the performance

Lana the musical guest on SNL this week but other than that- music on your television sucks. We have Snow Patrol all over the place and well, they’re really sorta depressing. Perfect I guess, for the blah days of January

See shes ‘everygirl’. Plain simple soap and water girl who speaks to teeage girls everywhere. An anthem maker for break ups and flunked mid terms- shes everyone girl fraaaaaaaaaaaan.

Jack White will welcome the American Pickers’ crew in his Nashville-based Third Man Records store on January 9th, since, apparently, the ex-White Stripes man collects weird stuff too.

The big buzz is usually the song list for a particular episode and a ‘leak’ of the Michael Jackson episode is causing more rumble than a royal wedding dress. The last thing I care about is what songs a weekly sitcom is going to karaoke, but I suppose I am in the minority.

You don’t get gifts, the next day you can’t write the date correctly, and I don’t drink. What’s worse than being the only sober person at a new year celebration? Nothing.

Sitting in a hip cafe, Jon tells us why Advil is so fab. I stumbled across this commercial while channell surfing and nearly gave myself whiplash. Why on Earth would he do this?

The most perfect impersonations I have seen in forever. Michale Buble, does a brilliant job in reacting the to the cast of weirdos that show to duet with him.

It is a lot more exciting than Michael Buble. If SNL actually manage to up their writing skils to the level of the Fallon/Sanberg mirror sketch, Radcliffe has proven himself capable of handling the musical comedy portion of it.

Here we need Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Burl Ives, maybe even a freakin Chipmunk but lord knows that Santa aint gonna show up if you have Lenny Kravitz on.. but there is Rufus Wainright and there is Johnny Mathis so, just hit up the nog.

With a Jimmy Fallon opening that has more energythan the entire season to date, we set ourselves up for a great show. Fallon is a musical comedian so of course this will be the zinger of the year, but can Buble show any real personality?

A twitterbug techno thumper who I simply cannot connect with. In research for tonights big event I learned alot- and not much to really care about.