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Yes, there’s now four. The first one is for Owl City’s latest single Umbrella Beach (which is a perfect spring / summer song).
The there’s Vanilla Twilight (my favorite Owl City song) and Fireflies.
Then the bottom video is Early Birdie from two years ago…
And then there was one.
American Idol’s fickle voters struck again Wednesday, sending home Siobhan Magnus, despite a powerful performance Tuesday which impressed the judges mightily.
Her ejection also leaves just one woman standing — longtime favorite Crystal Bowersox, who again looked like she’d just been sucker punched as host Ryan Seacrest delivered the disappointing news to Magnus. People have been telling me lately that Idol’s tween female audience is sinking the competition for all but the guys, and I’m beginning to agree. Crystal is the only female left!
Magnus’ ouster, after landing in the bottom three with Michael Lynche and Casey James, proved an almost anti-climactic end to yet-another overly padded results show.
With the field down to just six contestants, Idol producers did everything but light Ryan Seacrest on fire to eat up time, showing behind the scenes video from their latest Ford commercial, then showing the commercial itself, then airing behind the scenes video from the new Shrek movie, then showing footage of the contestants watching the Shrek movie and then proceeding to an uncomfortable live interview with Shrek co-stars Cameron Diaz and Antonio Banderas.
All that in the first 15 minutes or so.
The performances were equally odd, with Idol alum Carrie Underwood introducing the Sons of Sylvia, who looked a little like The Cure with a Nashville twang.
That oddity was surpassed only by Shakira’s duet with country pop rockers Rascal Flatts, a bizarro genre-blending moment which saw a barefoot Shakira jamming on the harmonica while Flatts frontman Gary LeVox tried desperately not to look like the odd man out he so clearly was.
Asked to give the Idols some advice by a desperately vamping Seacrest, Shakira quoted Theodore Roosevelt (?!): “Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground” — a historic line that sounded more like the legendary Casey Kasem’s classic sign off than our 26th president, but I digress.
And the clearest sign that Idol was straining to fill an hour; the show actually finished on schedule for the first time in weeks, as Seacrest led Magnus to hug all the judges and take some useless advice from Randy Jackson before finally wrapping up the sagging show.
Next week, Harry Connick Jr. mentors the Top 5 through a batch of Frank Sinatra covers. How Crystal does with that should be interesting!
–Brian
V.V. Brown is already a star overseas. Very soon, she’ll be taking over the North American charts.
I’ve had her songs on my iPod for a couple months now – ever since the first day I heard Shark In The Water. That’ll be her debut single here. And I’m already hoping Game Over is her second single.
She stopped by the Star and Kiss studios to perform for us yesterday. V.V. doesn’t need a full back-up band to sound amazing as you’ll soon see. All she brought with her yesterday was Janek on guitar and backup vocals.
Here’s the acoustic version of Shark In The Water from our studios yesterday. And here’s a few other V.V. links…
The GOOD NEWS…another $400 MILLION investment at the GM Powertrain Plant in Tonawanda for a new V-8 engine line, nothing like more area jobs!
The BAD NEWS…O for 19 on the power play against the Bruins and a quick playoff exit for the Sabres! If the Team were to re-vamp I think only 2 Tyler’s and Ryan would be SAFE!
Opened both my ponds this weekend! Its about a 6 hour process so I am quite pleased with myself. Treated my lawn with fertilizer so the rain could water it in and started to put my landscape lights back in. Blew my transformer so, a little slow in actually getting them installed. It feels so good to play outside in the garden again. Better than Xanax.
So I have been slowly going through my house and getting rid of stuff. I have so many old towels its crazy. I’m going to sort and wash and toss. Feels good to organize. Makes you feel like you have some control over the chaos of life!
Going to a tasting dinner tonight at O’Connells restaurant in Kenmore. Chef from Rue Franklin vs chef from O’Connells. I win either way!
There is a new club in NYC, and it’s for the dogs. Wanna go out for the night, and not have your dog sit home alone?
Anyone with doggie skills and $$$ to invest…here’s a business idea. I bet this would work well in Buffalo!
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A little late, but I’m stilll recovering……Left a little early and headed to San Francisco, before heading up to Napa. It was some great shopping and some great runs along the Pier at Fishermans Wharf. San Francisco is one cool city! Had an off the hook dinner at La Mar with my radio friend Marcus. I was literally food drunk! Thanks Marcus!
Then it was off to Napa. Friday night took us to a party at a house where the owner used to own AOL. Yes that AOL. Amazing house with an attention to detail that is over the top! Great intimate performance in their living room with Ryan Starr. If you don’t know who he is yet, you will. That boy can sing!!!!!
Saturday morning brought us to Regusci Winery in the Stags Leap district. Great tour, hosts and wine. Plus another intimate performance by Ryan Starr with help from the Backstreet Boys! Then it was off to the Silverado hotel to catch a quick bite and then more performances by VV Brown, Serena Ryder, Backstreet Boys. The next night brought performances by Train, Macy Gray and lots o wine!
Sunday we hit up Silver Oak and Miner Winery. OMG Incredible. What I remember of it…..Napa, what happens in Napa stays in Napa, because you drink so much wine you can’t remember what you did while you were there….
The media hysteria about KFC’s new Double Down sandwich convinced me I had to try it. Just about every article / review I’ve read says it’s one of the most unhealthiest sandwiches of any fast food chain, so I had to see what this was all about.
When I’m not on vacation, I almost never go out to eat. And when I do, I usually stick to my favorites: Little Caesar’s Pizza, the Flying Saucer Restaurant, Old Country Buffet, Burger King, Wendy’s, Dunkin Donuts, or Tim Hortons.
My original plan was to get about three Double Downs for supper. Then I saw the price. It’s $4.99 for one or $6.99 for one with the value meal. So I just ended up getting one Double Down and a two-piece chicken dinner (with one of their awesome biscuits and mashed potatoes) – thank you to KFC for online coupons.
The Double Down is cheese and bacon surrounded by – not bread – but two pieces of chicken (either original or grilled – I went with the original). It was excellent!!! I love bacon and was definitely able to taste it in this food masterpiece. And the KFC chicken is always good, so two pieces at once was like heaven for my taste buds. I don’t think I could have eaten more than two, so I’m happy I didn’t go through with my original plan. In fact, one was enough (especially since I had the extra food anyways, lol).
Overall, mmmm-mmmm, yummy, yummy – and highly recommended! But this is definitely not an everyday type of food. Not even an every week thing. Once in a while is more than enough. It sure did make for a perfect meal while watching everyone starve on Survivor though (at least until some of them got to feast).
The fact that I was able to write this proves I survived the meal. So most of the reviewers are all just big health-nut whiners. Every now and then it’s okay to be bad and eat something soooo good.
One of the great things about my kids’ school is the belief that writing, or “journaling,” is important. Since kindergarten, both kids have been writing down whatever they want, whether they can spell it right or not. Connor, in particular, had some very unique spellings up until recently; but the point was to get used to writing, and to express yourself through writing.
My daughter has been especially keen on this idea. She loves putting together her own books, stapled together, above and beyond the class-required quarterly journals. One book in particular caught my eye: Darcy Has Some Bad Things To Tell You.
Here is a list of what my 6 year old thinks is pretty terrible stuff.
But she ends it on a hopeful note:
13. “But it doesn’t happen now,” with a smiley face.
As a parent, I feel awfully good about this journal. Of course, things are bound to change when she hits 13; I imagine by then she’ll be able to think of a few more pages to add! But for now, Darcy’s bad things aren’t so bad at all.
And for that I am incredibly thankful.
–Brian
Here’s a neat article from The Daily Beast (not always the most reputable source) on how credit card companies can tell things about your life just by watching your purchases and payments. Interesting reading. Makes sense.
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Tiffany’s back!
Her new movie Mega Piranha debuts tomorrow night (April 10th) at 9pm on the SyFy Channel. In the movie, she teams up with Barry Williams (Greg Brady) to stop mega piranha from taking over Florida.
She’s also been working on a new CD – a country CD! Hear one of the new songs on Tiffany’s website.
In between battling piranha and rebooting her music career, she also took the time to talk to me today during the All Request Hour. She talked about being labelled a mall queen, the so-called 80’s rivalry with Debbie Gibson, her upcoming country CD, and of course the mega piranha.
Here’s the full 10-minute interview including portions that didn’t air on Star 102.5.
And here’s the Mega Piranha movie promo…
I’ve tried to be cognizant that posting tons of pics of your pets is kind of like showing vacation video to your neighbors. You can go overboard quickly. That’s why I’ve held off posting Penny pics for awhile. But since I’ve been inundated with requests for more, (OK, about three people including Andy Parker asked), here’s a bunch more!
Can you tell I’m a little psyched about this?
Tiffany’s movie Mega Piranha debuts this weekend on the SyFy Channel.
I’ll talk with her tomorrow during the All Request Hour at 6pm about that, her upcoming CD, and more!
For now, a short trailer for Mega Piranha…
