Right now I'm watching the Juno awards, and I'm actually enjoying them... I think. It could be the low expectations that I had going in that is leading to the enjoyment. I wasn't overly impressed with the Nickelback/Our Lady Peace/Canadian Idol stacked nominations this year, but the show's been all right. I like Buck 65's role as MC and I enjoyed Broken Social Scene's performance despite the fact they didn't play 7/4 Shoreline, which is my fave BSS song. But it was cool seeing Amy from Stars singing during their performance.
Blech. Now they have Michale Buble up there. They really should have my dear Joel Plaskett performing since he's a native Haligonian for land's sakes. And, they should have given him the Songwriter of the Year award since he is there and The Arcade Fire is not. And I'll be controversial and say that I much preferred La De Da to Funeral.
Does anyone else find it suspicious that the Black Eyed Peas and Coldplay "tied" for International Record of the Year and they both decided to show up and play? Hmmmm...
Well, I had an all right weekend. I can't remember what I did on Friday night. On Saturday, I got my hair cut and then went to see a movie with an extended group of friends. We saw a sneak preview of the Antonio Banderas movie "Take the Lead". It was the type of movie with is enjoyable if you a) turn off your brain and b) don't mind dancing movies.
I discovered a new song that I love love love and I think you should all download. It's called "See You On the Moon!" by Great Lake Swimmers and it's from a kids' CD made by indie bands. It makes me soooooooo happy. Go get this song.
Today I went for a walk and did a little bit of window shopping. I had to take a detour as I was walking down Yonge St. because a section north of Bloor was closed off. It turns out there was an explosion from a suspicious package at a Tim Horton's. Kind of scary... Read about it here.
Oh-oh. Broken Social Scene just won Best Alternative Album. How the heck they gonna all fit up there? Hahaha. The show could go on forever and ever if they let them all speak.
On that note, hope y'all have a great week!
ps Michael Buble is winning far too many awards. Oh, and Jann Arden is funny. They should have had her host the show. Oh gawd. Now Hedley is closing the show. You know, I think I'm enjoying the Junos just because it's all about Canadian music, even though they have a tendancy to focus on the, shall we say, inferior examples of Canadian music.
Update: Holy - the explosion at the Tim Horton's made cnn.com. Look here.
6 comments:
Yeah the Timmy Ho's thing was big.
From a human aspect: It was horrible.
From a newsperson aspect: It was a slow day and we needed something!
I split it up to show that I'm not really a bad person...just when I'm on the job...that's how we think! Not many people can understand that and I sound cold sometimes, lol.
I watched the Juno's for about 15 minutes at my parents house tonight. My dad really wanted to see Bedouin Soundclash play. He digs em. And we stuck around a little longer to see them accept an award and then my mom and I suggested we watch March of the Penguins instead.
And we finished just in time to catch the last minute of Hedley closing the show. Thank gawwwwd, we averted an Pamela filled evening.
I don't watch the Junos, because its just congratulating a bunch of crappy bands on American record labels. You should have to be on a Canadian label to win a Juno, but that's just my thoughts.
And I am totally with you on the conspiracy theory of the international award category, funny how those things seem to happen. (come to our crappy show, we will give you a meaningless award so you can go on stage and plug your crappy album some more). :)
I guess I also enjoyed the Juno's...thought it looked a bit cheap though, or that could have been Pam Anderson, and her see through shirts. catch up with you this week - I am done classes on Wed. YAY me.
glad to hear Nickelback got shut out at the primetime event at least.
My first thought on the Timmy's thing was that it was those Starbucks people, so passive and modern, the perfect disguise. Anyways, unfortunate accident for the guy. Still confused as to why they're finding gasoline though...
As soon as I heard that BEP and Coldplay are going to be performing at the Junos, I knew that there had to be some compensation, some kickback, some favour for showing up. That's just my theory.
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