I'm not even paying attention to what Penn Badgley's saying in this clip. All's I know is that he's wet. Yes, I just said that.
~ And the coolest band in the world is Weezer.
Check out the video to their newest single "Pork & Beans" which features a handful of viral hits from the net (for better or worse). See how many e-lebrities you can spot.
Their new album's out on the 3rd of June. So cool I can explode with glee. Though I won't cos I have a plane to catch tomorrow.
Every year, without fail, a huge chunk of the European TV-watching population is glued to the Eurovision Song Contest, a competition that seems to have passed it's sell-by date, and relevance.
Perhaps the most famous Eurovision winner is Abba, who took the trophy in 1974 with "Waterloo". Then there was also Israeli transexual Dana International who won the contest in 1998.
But every year, without fail, the contest persists and it's become a bit of a novelty/train-wreck/freak-show that's actually good, clean, tacky fun.
This year's winner is Russian pop star Dima Bilan, who performed barefoot and who obviously has been working out.
Check out the ice-skater who performs with Dima on stage.
Dima is also a bit of a show-off, having posed for these 'sexy' pictures which has obviously not hurt his singing career.
3 weeks after my last day at work, I think I'm finally beginning to slow down some.
I think.
I know that I wanna stay productive, so I've been filling up my 'free' days with appointments, meetings and social get-togethers. Over the last 2 weeks, I've popped in to Singapore to hang out with the family and friends, as well as Bangkok to see my godson, Finn, who I last saw when he was a day old.
But finally, after all these weeks, sleep's beginning to catch up. Which is good, given my frequent insomniac episodes.
And it's even better that I woke up to wonderful news about which David won American Idol.
I know that David Archuleta is favoured to win American Idol. I cannot stand him.
The boy is 17, granted, so he IS still a boy but he's so over-the-top in his self-effacing 'humility' when he reacts to the judges comments that I just want to vomit on his shoes.
And then comes news that his stage father, one Jeff Archuleta, has been banned from rehearsals by Fox because of "intense backstage involvement", which was cause for concern. Which is a nice way of saying he's a dick.
The ban was enforced after Daddy Archuleta 'suggested' including a verse from Sean Kingston's "Beautiful Girls" to David's version of the classic, Stand By Me.
That creative call cost Fox and they had to fork out money to Sean Kingston's music reps because the rights to that song wasn't previously cleared for broadcast.
Since I stopped working last Wednesday, I've noticed a rather curious thing.
Every conversation or chat that I have is underscored by an odd awareness of nuance. I'm hyper-sensitive to tone, choice of words and even, get this, lingering silence.
You should have seen how bothered I was when I asked a friend on MSN chat "How's the Madonna album selling?" and his response was a cold and solitary "Good." Followed by nothing else.
I was thisclose to calling him to clarify why he was being so vague. What the heck did he mean by that?
It's funny how the mind starts to fill up the quiet spaces in between when you do not have a deadline to meet, an appointment to keep or a meeting to get to.
I'm sure I'll get used to this, but just in case I get on your case, you'll know where it's coming from.
That was all the time Madonna spent on stage, performing for 3000 people at NYC's Roseland Ballroom last night.
For a promotional gig, it sure boasted some mighty impressive production values (Strobe lights! Crane cameras! Travelator action!) Check out these clips from the Hard Candy Promo Tour.
