You're So Ugh!

1. New Beaties song with above title. It's gonna happen, people. PS - does anyone in my readership wanna record some vocals for these demos I'm putting together? Because my voice w/ HELIUM EFFECT is...um, kind of creepy. Yeeeeaaahh.....

2. Great new Rules of the Game column by Frank Kogan: Hero Story. May post about this in more detail later.

3. In the middle of the weirdest damn Pandora set EVER:

The Underdog Project - "Tonight" (never heard of 'em, but they are responsible for this video, which is great).
Raveonettes - Love in a Trashcan (Funkstorung remix)
Slope - Want Choo Longa (no idea what this is, for some reason it suggests TVOTR doing a teenpop song. Hm. Their album is called "Slope Is Dope.")
Bad Boy Joe - Party Your Body (from Best of Freestyle Megamix 3...reminds me that I wish I could go to this.)
Maroon 5 - "If I Fall" (this is actually a trying-way-too-hard live cover of "If I Fell" by the Beatles, which I believe was Emily's parents' wedding song. I don't think they would have gone for this version)

Jack Johnson kills the WTF set. Oh well.

4. The Orange Bowl episode of the The Ashlee Simpson Show is exactly like the end of the Monty Python episode "The Cycling Tour." Build-up to her performing -- massive tech glitches, Kelly C. messes up, Jessica frets in the sky box, Ashlee's freaking out, they made her change the lyrics and she can't remember them and already suffered the indignity of PROVING to the censors that "she would sing the appropriate lyrics" after she messes up in rehearsal, people screaming, dancers dancing, pyrotechnics pyrotechnicking...she gets up on stage, performs, rips out her ear piece (which is just feeding her static) and then "MAKE ME WANNA....SCREAM!"

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[SCENE MISSING]

Jessica, backstage: You did awesome! That was great. You sounded SO great.

End episode.

...

WHAT.

I'll probably still write about the Orange Bowl fiasco some other time, looking back on an old post I wrote describing a passage in Aesthetics of Rock about the Beatles' Shea Stadium performance. But I won't get any help from the show, which is really getting on my nerves in the second season. More later.