A couple of busy days have left me negligent here. But a brother has to eat at some point, right?
We had a great night taping Monday night. Now I have to sift through the four hours of tape and decide what to keep and what to toss.
Those decisions are made a little more difficult when I start to read or hear what others pick up or comment on when they listen to the show.
Generally what happens on taping night is that I just start recording when people to start to gather around in the house. A lot of interesting and/or funny things happen when people are just being themselves and not trying to say something forced.
So what happens is that I can start a show segment that is in the middle of something that isn’t a normal way to start. Instead of saying, “hello, how are you?” maybe Alex Storm is talking about picking up an old mattress and stuffing it in the back of his van on the way over here. If it’s interesting or funny, that’s how it ends up being there in a place that is not expected. Trying to re-create that moment is tough when we’re dealing with people who have never done this type of thing before.
Those decisions are made a little more difficult when I start to read or hear what others pick up or comment on when they listen to the show.
Generally what happens on taping night is that I just start recording when people to start to gather around in the house. A lot of interesting and/or funny things happen when people are just being themselves and not trying to say something forced.
So what happens is that I can start a show segment that is in the middle of something that isn’t a normal way to start. Instead of saying, “hello, how are you?” maybe Alex Storm is talking about picking up an old mattress and stuffing it in the back of his van on the way over here. If it’s interesting or funny, that’s how it ends up being there in a place that is not expected. Trying to re-create that moment is tough when we’re dealing with people who have never done this type of thing before.
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| Shelton, Levine, Aguilera, Lo |
Regardless of whether or not this lasts a long time, doing these shows had been great for me. We already have created some memories that will last a long time for those involved. It’s also just nice meeting new people and inviting them over to basically have a party every Monday night. Sure, the discussion always degrades to something nasty and not always appropriate for everyone else to hear, but we all have fun and letting loose while trying to be creative is definitely therapeutic.
I broke down and watched The Voice and its premier episode last night. It was ok to me. There are a couple of interesting twists on this singing competition. Having four talented artists as judges and coaches who basically pick singing teams while hearing just singers voices seemed to work for me and kept me watching throughout the 2-hour show.
I missed the first ten minutes or so but it was clear that there were initial auditions somewhere and then the better singers were called back to perform on stage with the judges.
I broke down and watched The Voice and its premier episode last night. It was ok to me. There are a couple of interesting twists on this singing competition. Having four talented artists as judges and coaches who basically pick singing teams while hearing just singers voices seemed to work for me and kept me watching throughout the 2-hour show.
I missed the first ten minutes or so but it was clear that there were initial auditions somewhere and then the better singers were called back to perform on stage with the judges.
The judges will each select 8 people for their “team” and then try to coach them to victory. They will weed the 32 down to 16 and then the audience will vote from there. When a judge listened to the singer and they wanted to try to pick them for their team, they would hit some button, turn around, and then the singer would pick one of the judges to work with if there were more than one.
The judges are country singer Blake Shelton, Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, Cee Lo and Christina Aguilera. I never really heard ofShelton
Aguilera was the big signing for this show. They would have needed an equal talent to get me to commit any time to this one. I found her a little disturbing to watch here though. What seemed to disturb me the most was simply her bleach blond hair. She also was a little chubby too, but that was just an observation as opposed to a criticism. The hair was just awful.
Am I sort of sounding a little gay there, talking about a hair style? Who the heck did I become all of a sudden?
I don’t know, see for yourself.
If I continue to watch the show, and I might since there really isn’t much of a choice right now on Tuesdays, then I’ll mention some of the singers, some of whom so far have been pretty decent.
Carson Daly is the host of this show. He does the Ryan Seacrest imitation and stands outside the backstage door and talks to the singers ready to perform and then with the families watching them on closed circuit. Was this really necessary? I try to figure out how this guy got another high-profile job like this. He brought absolutely nothing to the whole show, just like Seacrest brings nothing to AI, and he’ll skip happily to the bank while my jaw continues to remain on the floor as he is doing it.
The thing I really didn’t like about the show and any show like this, is the live audience. I really am so tired of coached audiences standing on command and clapping like maniacs all in unison because some stage producer is holding up a sign that says, “Clap like seals for 30 seconds.”
Just keep the show real. If the audience isn’t thrilled and eager to clap like one of those wind-up battery-operated stuffed monkeys holding the cymbals, then they shouldn’t have to do it.
It’s also clear that they have to pump in additional crowd noise and that’s just insulting.
Just be real and be real with a real reason for a host to be there so I don’t have to sound like an old, bitter jealous, near bankrupt man, ok?
For the record, I was flipping back and forth to a couple of baseball games so I could continue to keep my straight credentials intact.
I was right about the Angels Jered Weaver’s record about reaching 5 wins in the fastest time in MLB history. He then became the fastest to 6-0 the other night. The Angels after that win were 13-10 so he is the difference right now between that team being a winning team or a losing team.
Whenever a player has this kind of start or record I root for him. That is one of the cool things for me about baseball; getting a chance to perhaps watch history unfold like that.
The chatter, in this case, might be about Weaver’s chance to be the first 30 game winner since Denny McClain in 1968. The Dodgers Andre Ethier extended his hitting streak to 23 games last night so now the chatter is about the record of 56 games set by Joe DiMaggio. Pick whatever the statistic or streak might be and once involved in following it you just know why this game is the best game ever.
In my life I have been able to watch and follow all sorts of historic baseball feats by players who were reaching or beating milestones set by the old-time players of legend. I saw Nolan Ryan surpass Walter Johnson’s career strikeout mark, Hank Aaron pass Babe Ruth in homeruns and then saw Barry Bonds pass Aaron. I’ve now seen most of the pitchers who have reached 3000 career strikeouts. I saw Rickey Henderson set season and career stolen base marks; Ichiro set a single season hit mark; Pete Rose break the all-time hits mark. It goes on like that for a while.
It just means I am old, I think. But as a life-long baseball fan I love having those memories of my favorite game.
Now I would like to see someone hit .400 and pass that 56 game hitting streak. Those are the two that many of us believe we won’t see happen. The single season doubles, triples, and RBI marks are also long standing, but not quite as glamorous.
For younger fans now I think there are a few that they will never see happen and are marks that will be even more legendary years from now. They would include Nolar Ryan’s all time strikeout mark of 5714, Rickey Henderson’s all time stolen base mark and his single season record of 130, I might add.
I think that it will be a long time before anyone sees a 300-game winner again too, unless some real men start pitching again. There have only been two 400-game winners so I haven’t seen that myself.
So if I get to see someone breaks one of those records this year and if Christina Aguilera just leaves her hair color natural I’ll be a satisfied TV viewer.
Done.
The judges are country singer Blake Shelton, Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, Cee Lo and Christina Aguilera. I never really heard of
Aguilera was the big signing for this show. They would have needed an equal talent to get me to commit any time to this one. I found her a little disturbing to watch here though. What seemed to disturb me the most was simply her bleach blond hair. She also was a little chubby too, but that was just an observation as opposed to a criticism. The hair was just awful.
Am I sort of sounding a little gay there, talking about a hair style? Who the heck did I become all of a sudden?
I don’t know, see for yourself.
If I continue to watch the show, and I might since there really isn’t much of a choice right now on Tuesdays, then I’ll mention some of the singers, some of whom so far have been pretty decent.
Carson Daly is the host of this show. He does the Ryan Seacrest imitation and stands outside the backstage door and talks to the singers ready to perform and then with the families watching them on closed circuit. Was this really necessary? I try to figure out how this guy got another high-profile job like this. He brought absolutely nothing to the whole show, just like Seacrest brings nothing to AI, and he’ll skip happily to the bank while my jaw continues to remain on the floor as he is doing it.
The thing I really didn’t like about the show and any show like this, is the live audience. I really am so tired of coached audiences standing on command and clapping like maniacs all in unison because some stage producer is holding up a sign that says, “Clap like seals for 30 seconds.”
Just keep the show real. If the audience isn’t thrilled and eager to clap like one of those wind-up battery-operated stuffed monkeys holding the cymbals, then they shouldn’t have to do it.
It’s also clear that they have to pump in additional crowd noise and that’s just insulting.
Just be real and be real with a real reason for a host to be there so I don’t have to sound like an old, bitter jealous, near bankrupt man, ok?
For the record, I was flipping back and forth to a couple of baseball games so I could continue to keep my straight credentials intact.
I was right about the Angels Jered Weaver’s record about reaching 5 wins in the fastest time in MLB history. He then became the fastest to 6-0 the other night. The Angels after that win were 13-10 so he is the difference right now between that team being a winning team or a losing team.
Whenever a player has this kind of start or record I root for him. That is one of the cool things for me about baseball; getting a chance to perhaps watch history unfold like that.
The chatter, in this case, might be about Weaver’s chance to be the first 30 game winner since Denny McClain in 1968. The Dodgers Andre Ethier extended his hitting streak to 23 games last night so now the chatter is about the record of 56 games set by Joe DiMaggio. Pick whatever the statistic or streak might be and once involved in following it you just know why this game is the best game ever.
In my life I have been able to watch and follow all sorts of historic baseball feats by players who were reaching or beating milestones set by the old-time players of legend. I saw Nolan Ryan surpass Walter Johnson’s career strikeout mark, Hank Aaron pass Babe Ruth in homeruns and then saw Barry Bonds pass Aaron. I’ve now seen most of the pitchers who have reached 3000 career strikeouts. I saw Rickey Henderson set season and career stolen base marks; Ichiro set a single season hit mark; Pete Rose break the all-time hits mark. It goes on like that for a while.
It just means I am old, I think. But as a life-long baseball fan I love having those memories of my favorite game.
Now I would like to see someone hit .400 and pass that 56 game hitting streak. Those are the two that many of us believe we won’t see happen. The single season doubles, triples, and RBI marks are also long standing, but not quite as glamorous.
For younger fans now I think there are a few that they will never see happen and are marks that will be even more legendary years from now. They would include Nolar Ryan’s all time strikeout mark of 5714, Rickey Henderson’s all time stolen base mark and his single season record of 130, I might add.
I think that it will be a long time before anyone sees a 300-game winner again too, unless some real men start pitching again. There have only been two 400-game winners so I haven’t seen that myself.
So if I get to see someone breaks one of those records this year and if Christina Aguilera just leaves her hair color natural I’ll be a satisfied TV viewer.
Done.
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