This evening I checked the weather report and immediately went to sleep, because Weather.com showed the graphic that says "you will have a dog pacing across your face all night."
I woke up to the discordant sound of TiVo recording something I would never want to watch. I half listened to it from the other room. "Why is my TiVo recording this reality crap? Is it because I gave the thumbs down to Fargo? Fargo's good, it's just you record it for me EVERY time it's on, tivO. I've seen Fargo already." Then I heard a woman's voice squeal, "Barenaked Laaaaaaaadiiiiiiies!"
The woman's voice just added to the discord: she just didn't sound like a BNL fan, not that I know what every fan's voice sounds like, but she sounded thin. She sounded thin and young and fake.
Then I remembered BNL was supposed to be on The Bachelorette tonight. And they were.
(Previously seen on The Bachelorette: I have no idea because I've never seen this show before.
Previously seen on Barenaked Ladies: Steven Page leaves the band to pursue a solo career, Various reasons are given, but clearly it was so he didn't have to appear on The Bachelorette. Previously he's said he and the band were taking different tangents, the band was all about "Entertainment" and he wanted "Art." At the time I said I would try very hard not to be entertained by his new album, but now I see he just didn't want to be on The Bachelorette. Not the cocaine bust at all!)
So after the band breakup they made an excellent video for "You Run Away" in which every "runner" was wearing a suit (Steve's concert attire of choice) and there is brown liquid spilling on the plane which I believe to be Coke.
So I was lying there half asleep and gleaning that these Bachelorette people were somehow involved in the BNL video, which was shot in Michigan (?) last year. Weird, I thought, I had no idea they sequestered those reality show people so long.
I eventually got around to watching the recording, and I'm glad they made a new video and didn't defile the old one. The contestants and Bachelorette all 'relate' to the song, which is frankly a pretty insulting song about their old bandmate. "I thought you were my brother / you cried and ran for cover." ("Oh, mygod! That's just like me and Ali!" No. No it isn't. )
However, I was glad to see in the "new" video Jim is wearing his plaid shirt. I was sorry to hear one of the contestants refer to the band as "the music I listened to in college," which is a nicer way of saying "that really old band - they're still together?"
The BNL board I read has been silent, but the Twitter can be summed up by @maiarebecca: "Am I going to get dumber by watching this?"
Man all those cute white guys and that one cute black guy. MMMMm mmmm! Emo but nice.
I'm so cool for an old unfrozen white woman, don't you think?
And is the plane crashing or has it just hit turbulence?
Posted by: Hattie | June 08, 2010 at 12:18 AM
MRREEEEERRRRRR!! i have seen about 20 minutes of bacholerret.
i'm not spell checking, the dang show isn't worth it.
don't get me started on my IRE.
all these men lining up for some chick that QUIT HER JOB, SOLD HER APARTMENT AND LEFT IT ALL BEHIND for some stupid show that in 20 years has only produced ONE FREAKING SUSTAINABLE MARRIAGE?
girl is dumb.
freaking match.com or eharmony.com people.
seriously.
and that's all i got.
Posted by: Mrs. Hall | June 08, 2010 at 07:00 AM
Hattie - Plane is in chaos because someone in a suit (Steven P surrogate) decided to run instead of sit quietly on the plane. Or, a moral: do not run in planes.
Mrs hall - I too, have only seen 20 minutes, the 20 minutes BNL was in during this episode. (Fan reaction has been virulent.)
Posted by: TheQueen | June 08, 2010 at 11:14 PM
OK, if someone offered me money to perform music on "The Bachelorette", I'd do it, but that doesn't mean that I'm happy the show exists at all. It just means that I'm a money-hungry pragmatist. I suppose it also means that I have no fear of performing in front of huge audiences, now that I think about it.
And hey, if I had a shirt that fit for 10 years in a row that hadn't fallen apart, I'd probably keep wearing it, too.
Posted by: Tami | June 09, 2010 at 07:15 AM
Tami - I think Ed has said before, "Some call it 'selling out to The Man,' but The Man, he pays well."
Posted by: TheQueen | June 09, 2010 at 11:13 PM
And Ed has his own *replacement* plane for the one he wrecked. QED.
Posted by: Tami | June 10, 2010 at 08:09 AM