BLOG 5: The Life Of Chris Saracino

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Our Trip To Miami...John Mayer Live at the Bank United Center at U of M-January 26th, 2007

My Christmas gift from the wonderful wife. This concert was so good, it got me thinking about how I'd love to be sitting behind the kit for him. Highlight song of the evening was this, and "Slow Dancing In A Burning Room".

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

The Twilight Singers on Kimmel

Saw The Twillight Singers on Jimmy Kimmel last night. I realized that it's Greg Dulli from The Afghan Whigs, and subsequently started to peruse the internet to death checking the band out. Really good.

Friday, December 22, 2006

The Clay Aiken Incident...and The Trump Incident.

Amidst all of the most recent controversies surrounding Rosie O'Donnell's tenure on The View, I thought I would post a few recent Youtube videos of one of the initial incidents that got her and her good friend Kelly Ripa into some trouble. Take a look at some of the videos I posted before this post, and observe the dynamic between the two. It's obviously tense...no doubt about it. My personal opinion is that Aiken seemed on the defensive about what was probably a bit of good natured fun poking, and was sensitive amidst what is major scrutiny into his personal life, and the question of his sexuality. Ripa, in all her apparent innocence though, obviously felt slighted and didn't think that Aiken was in a position, nor deserved to be in a position, to give it back to her. Kind of felt like one of those situations where it's a new guy on the team, and the seasoned player doesn't feel like someone's paid their dues.

Just my two cents...but this leads me to another topic in the news....O'Donnell's public spat with Donald Trump. The Ripa incident, coupled with this, made me curious to see what she bases her "Views" on, when she uses the forum of a nationally televised, and highly rated show, to convey her perceptions of things. To be honest, I think that Rosie called it on the Ripa/Aiken one, based on what I observed, but I'm still trying to figure out why she tore into Trump with such tenacity. Comedians can walk the line of being funny and entertaining, and plainly being malicious. Look at celebrity roasts, but the tirade against Trump, and his press conference with Tara Conner might have been gawdy and flamboyant, but he does own the pageant, and I don't think it was deserving of the kind of personal attack that O'Donnell lashed out with. I mean, they're all celebrities here, but O'Donnell has a history of speaking without thinking (i.e. the Tom Selleck NRA debate she got into on her own show back in the late nineties, with an obviously irritated Magnum P.I., who she put on the spot). If you watch the video of her "opinion" on Trump, it's a bit much. I mean, the guy has a history, but it's too much.