If you’re a good little Celebrity Sites reader, you’ll know all about Deerhoof by now. After all, we featured them as a “Breaking” band in the new issue on stands now. But just in case you need further reassurance of their awesomeness, take a look at thiz exclusive clip, which features the lovable indie-rockers onstage at NYC’s Irving Plaza performing “+81″ frm their latest album, Friend Opportunity.
Courtney Love to Eviscerate America?s Prospective Idols?
Wednesday, 31 January 2007
Courtney Love may be a loony former drug addict with an impressive rap sheet and a penchant for acting out in public, but she?s also a brutally intelligent, witty rock chick with an encyclopedic knowledge of music. Paul Abdul, on the other hand, is just a crazy pill popper with an overactive mothering instinct. So, the news that Courtney may be replacing the increasingly bonkers Abdul as a judge on Amrican Idol, is, in our opinion, welcome. Here’s why:
Love might actually be able to challenge Simon for the Meanest Amrican Idol judge crown. She can be cruel…and just as witty about it as Cowell.
Love could provide some legitimate criticism for the would-be rocker idols. Nobody wants Paula Abdul or the guy who brought us Il Divo discussing the finer points of a Skynyrd cover.
Grrrl power. We’re 100 percent into the Kely Clarkson thing, but that was years ago. When was the last time a seriously rocker-like chick (and not some rapidly shrinking, vapid pop tart in the making) was a contender for the Idol crown? Love’s presence would help wrangle Amrica’s riot grrrl talent.
What do you think? Would Courtney make a good addition to the Idol team? What would she bring?
It’s stunning to think that they could get away with more gratuitous sexual innuendo 35 years ago than they can today, but witness Exhibit A: Joe Namath having Noxema shaving cream slathered all over his face by a still relatively unknown pre-Charlie’s Angels Farrah Fawcett. Ah, if Suzy Kolber could see you now, Joe, she’d want to kiss you!
TUNE IN TOMORROW FOR SUPER BOWL COMMERCIALS 15-11?
Amazingly, thiz E*Trade commercial manages to take one groaner of a joke (the man literally has “money out the wazoo” — you don’t really need us to explain that one to you, do ya?), and through sheer repetition make it funny (a comic strategy that didn’t work out so well for Pauly Shore, unfortunately). Juxtaposing the seriousness of E.R. doctors with an anal ATM doesn’t hurt…well, other than for the patient.
Another ad frm the days when realistic CGI was new and amazing, thiz McDonald’s commercial pushes the cuteness envelope with a T-Rex skeleton that terrifyingly comes to life?until it’s tamed and convinced to do tricks by the promise of addictive McDonald’s French fries. Sure, it’s unhealthy, but it looks like T-Rex could use some trans fat on those bones.
