Bolt of Blue

I’m slowly adding photos from our NY trip to Flickr. Getting there…

I got sucked into watching all of last night’s MTV Video Music Awards. I wanted to see a few of the performances… and well, before I knew it, I had watched almost the whole thing (between flipping when I couldn’t take watching acceptance speeches by the likes of the Pussycat Dolls). It was only worth it for the zany Jack Black and Kyle Cass moments and the performances by OK Go (who I was supposed to see Tuesday night but they cancelled their gig understandably to do this instead) and Christina (can’t stop listening to it). While I love the new Killers song, their performance felt rather anti-climatic, through no fault of their own. MTV couldn’t even spring for some confetti? It seemed tacked on there at the end.

I was surprisingly impressed by The All-American Rejects. Beyonce gave a great diva performance. What else… Justin needs to stop thinking he can beat box. Jack White has no sense of humor but then we already knew that. Their presentation to Hype Williams was ridiculously overdone (don’t get me started on how they can go overboard for this but completely mess up something simple for their award to Duran Duran a couple years ago). It was adorable when Abigail Breslin couldn’t read the winner for Best New Artist. I still think Kayne West is insane. Panic! at the whatever sucked. And I can’t believe their wannabe Tim Burton meets Moulin Rouge mess actually won Video of the Year…

I had no idea how big the attention has got for OK Go. They were on Letterman last night… and Damien was on the Colbert Report last week. And apparently, their treadmill video has been viewed over 3 million times on YouTube. And they were on MTV. I don’t think MTV has ever played one of their videos. It’s crazy… the power of the internet. I only hope that people look beyond the goofy videos and hear the amazing music too.

I actually watched the Grammy’s this year. I normally will only tune in for a minute or two, get disgusted and change the channel pronto.

From the opening seconds, I got hooked for some unexplainable reason. The show wasn’t any better than previous years and the winners were mostly generic and lame. And don’t get me started on U2 winning as many awards as they did. Makes my blood boil.

But what I did enjoy was seeing Fiona Apple looking gorgeous and how amazing Christina did. She looked great and sounded fabulous. And getting see Damon on US television. Ok, so they only showed him for a brief second when Gorillaz were up for an award, but still. And his voice opened the show!

I had been so looking forward to the opening performance. And the portion with Gorillaz did not disappoint. It was hilarious and cheeky and I couldn’t believe they got away with it. Loved every second. I was however, disappointed that Madonna didn’t interact more with Gorillaz. She was hot but it would have been more interesting if she had done something different than yet another performance of Hung Up – that’s she done before almost the exact same way. Oh well.

Coldplay were just ho-hum for me too. I did like that Chris tried to give Jonny the spotlight when he went out into the audience. But it was ruined when the stupid people doing the lights didn’t even put a light on Jonny when he went into his solo.

Other random musings: Teri Hatcher would be gorgeous if she only gained 10 pounds. Kayne West is the new Michael Jackson. He’s a FREAK. Joss Stone is Joss Lame. Kelly Clarkson’s speeches were terribly cute. The show was too freaking LONG. I can’t believe I watched the whole thing. Next year, I’m only downloading the performances I want to check out. I vow not to get sucked in again. Yep.