Oh Man, Don't Encourage Him ... By Amanda on February 11, 2008 7:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)
Washington Square Serenade was utterly forgettable, but I guess I'm still happy for old Steve he won a Grammy tonight. Stacy has all the other important winners and the chumps they beat.
Update: Sure the Grammy suck in the actual-who-they-give-awards-to part. I'm watching the show now, FF'ing through most of BUT there are cool bits:
The Band being given the Lifetime Achievement Award. (shot of Robbie. No Levon.)
TINA TURNER. Look Beyonce is hawt undoubtably and definately talented and I've nothing against her but her part of the stage is maybe Top 24 elimination ep of Idol and the other part of the stage is TINA TURNER.
Oh wow, Andy Williams. Did you know that at My Olde Blog probably the most visited page was this post on Claudine Longet? HELL of a LOT of people Google "Sp**** Sa****"" every day. I can't even type his name because I don't want them to find me here too.
Brad Paisley. He's OK, as far as they go, but his song is so unbelievably skeevy and Brad is too nice to pull it off. It's so weird. How can you even sing it? Effing TICKS? NO. Just NO.
ARETHA FRANKLIN
ARETHA FRANKLIN
ARETHA FRANKLIN
Carole King and Dierks Bentley tributing Earl Scruggs!!
Joe Mantegna! It's immature I know, but I wanted him to say "Max Roach, he sleeps with da fishes."
Amy Winehouse's mum is so cute!
Trustees Awards: people we have never heard of, we totally salute you!
Montage of dead people: Full marks for muting the sound on the applause. At the Oscars, some people get only a sprinkling of polite clapping and the real famous deceased get a massive thunderous reception. It's kind of real tacky and embarrassing to watch. Either everyone gets non-half hearted applause, or everyone gets a generic swirl of made-for-TV movie overture music. That's how it should be. Well played, Grammys. Oh wait, I hear some muffled applause now. Bastards.
BONNIE RAITT!
LITTLE RICHARD AND JERRY LEE LEWIS!!!! and John Fogerty. I'd like to dislike Jerry Lee, but shucks, I just can't. Ha ha, Little Richard is so insane. Amy Winehouse, you pathetic vanilla amateur, are you taking notes? Is Fogerty's guitar even plugged in?
oh Quincy Jones. Yeah! OK, Herbie and etc winning Album of the Year is very cool.
Hey wait. That's it? No Steve Ealre, no Levon, no Terrance Simian, not even even Eric freaking Clapton? NO BRUCE?
Grammys telecast: you suck.
By Shaun
on February 11, 2008 11:50 PM
Percy and Alison won? Not that I rate the Grammys (y'all know the Simpsons' episode I'm talking about) but that is great. One of my fave albums of last year.
Cooder shoulda won over Earle.
By Amanda
on February 12, 2008 6:53 AM
And Bettye LaVette should've beat that Clapton/Cale snoozefest.
I haven't actually heard the new Bettye yet but I cannot imagine a scenario in which I am wrong about this.
By Brendan
on February 12, 2008 8:17 AM
Ah the Grammys. They exist only to be corrected. Like: Amy Winewho? In a real contest, Sharon Jones woulda eaten her lunch.