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PopMuse Produced: SXSW Special

Well I'm off to Coachella for the day job (filming some News spots there) but in my absence I encourage you all to watch a new TV Special I produced.  It's called SXSW: Behind The Badge and you can get a sneak preview on IFC.com (TiVo info coming soon.)  So support The Muse and be sure to check it out! 

Not sold yet?  Well it's getting tons of text all over the blogsphere...  Read about it HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE or HERE. 

WATCH: IFC NEWS SPECIAL: SXSW BEHIND THE BADGE [ifc.com]

And if you watch it and are impressed feel free to shoot the kind folks at IFC an e-mail:   info@ifctv.com

Or visit the big bosses blog and comment on how much you LOVED it!

Paula Abdul Lead Vocals

It is getting uncomfortable watching Paula on American Idol these days, she is just so wasted!  And every time she opens her mouth it's like she's jumbling all the lines written for her, (must drive her writer CRAZY!)  That girl simply can not get a succinct soundbite out of her mouth.

WATCH: PAULA ON IDOL MONTAGE OF MOMENTS 4-25-06 [tvgasm]

Then I was reminded of a Paula Abdul press conference where she was defending herself against a lip-syncing accusation in 1991 and even there, reading from notes, she couldn't get her words out.  Damn Paula, take a public speaking class already!

WATCH: PAULA HOLDS A PRESS CONFERENCE TO DENY LIP SYNCING MTV NEWS 1991 [mov]

What's Left of Lachey

Is it wrong that I'm totally buying this whole Nick Lachey as a brokenhearted man thing?  I totally thought it was a publicity stunt until I saw the MTV Special "Nick Lachey: What's Left Of Me". (I highly recommend a TiVo add.) 

It was deep, he really seems shattered by the Jessica divorce deal, repeating his parent's mistakes, and the dark side of Reality TV.  Maybe I'm just a sucker for PopDrama?  Watch the clips below and you tell me...

WATCH: NICK TALK ABOUT TABLOIDS & NEWLYWEDS & KIDS [mp4]

WATCH: NICK TALK ABOUT BEING ALONE [mp4]

WATCH: NICK TALK ABOUT FAKING IT FOR THE CAMERAS [mp4]

WATCH: NICK LACHEY "WHAT'S LEFT OF ME" THE VIDEO [youtube]

WATCH: "WHAT'S LEFT OF ME" MTV SPECIAL ON YOU TUBE [youtube]

Robin Williams is the new Eminem

File this under "The embarrassing moments of Robin Williams".  Well, I guess they're all embarrassing, but this TV Trailer for RV is truly terrible in so many ways.  Williams is defending his kid from a group of White Wannabe-Gangsters, so it's Ebonics by Beverly Hills.  Can you imagine being on set with Williams, trying every line reading like a million times with a million different characters and accents, nightmare.

WATCH:  ROBIN WILLIAMS' THUGGY TV COMMERCIAL FOR "RV" [MP4]

And get a load of this gift Bloghungry brought me home from Chicago.  It's Mork on the cover of Playgirl circa 1979.  No, he doesn't revel any skin, just some fur, but he does talk about masturbation (gag.)

Read: Robin Williams in Playgirl '79 Page 1
Read: Robin Williams in Playgirl '79 Page 2
Read: Robin Williams in Playgirl '79 Page 3

OPRAH WATCHES FLAVOR OF LOVE!

You can file this under 'PopMuse is watching television so you don't have to.'  And yes, I've gone back to Oprah.  She had the worst season of her career, that horrible Celine Dion inspired set, the "it's all about Oprah" topics, the bashing of James Frey, it all pretty much desecrated her credibility.  But PopMuse is here to tell you kids, Oprah is back.  She's going back to her roots, and getting back to shows people actually want to watch (instead of the wild times of Oprah & Gayle.)

Last week she did a show  on Pink's "Stupid Girls" controversy.  The episode of "Oprah After The Show" on this topic featured a moment that has been haunting me for days...  You'd best be sitting... Oprah. Winfrey. Watches. VH1's. Flavor. Of. Love.  Don't make me say it again... Just watch the clip below...

WATCH:  OPRAH ON THE BACHELOR AND FLAVOR OF LOVE [mp4]

Hear more about this Oprah Episode on the latest WOW Report Podcast.

Cokehead Assholes

Now I don't expect political correctness from the Sopranos, but last night's episode was one continuous monologue on how disgusting it is to be gay.  Nice.  It went on and on, character after character, no violence, no action, no subplots, just one speech after the next explaining how disgusting Homosexuality is.  Nice. 

Now I don't really care, I was kinda getting bored anyway, my TiVo will be fine without it,  but what gets me was how awful that must have been for the gay crew and cast members on that shoot.  Yup there are Gays working on The Sopranos.  There are also drug addicts.  I know for a fact they nearly the whole cast and crew are a bunch of coked-up crackhead messes, (working on The Sopranos landed one PopMuse friend in rehab.)  Boy I hope I didn't hurt anyone's feelings. (PopMuse smirks.)

Plus it didn't thrill me that as families were gathering together to celebrate Easter and watch the some HBO, they were treated to this beautiful work of hate.  Here's two of the scenes from last night's episode "Live Free Or Die".

WATCH:  Sopranos on Homosexuality Clip 1 [mp4]

WATCH:  Sopranos on Homosexuality Clip 2 [mp4]

TORN ANUS

I spent the good part of Easter Sunday downloading music from my favorite Brit Pop Music Blogs:  Zappin' and Spark*Pop.  (Whatever, I'm Jewish, what do you expect me to do, dress up in a bunny costume and hop around my condo?  Well I did that, but just because I found some amazing new music.)   

Amongst all these great discoveries, Spark*Pop did a post on old Tori Amos, and it got me thinking about a funny Tori MTV Commercial in the PopMuse Video Archives.  Tori's talking about the cross-breading of musical genres in the late 90s and it's one her most endearing moments.  It involves the quote, "He's not taking my dress and I'm not taking his dress..."  Rememba?

WATCH: TORI AMOS 1997 MTV COMMERCIAL [mov]

And now PopMuse's Favorite Tori Tunes:

LISTEN:  TORI "A SORTA FAIRYTALE" [mp3]
LISTEN:  TORI "TEAR IN YOUR HAND" [mp3]

Los Super Elegantes are the new Brazilian Girls

Remember how fresh the band Brazilian Girls sounded the first time you heard them?  Well at Amoeba Records I discovered a new hipster band that remind me of those dinner-party-music-kings Brazilian Girls.  They are called Los Super Elegantes and they hail from Los Angeles.  They are self described as 'a unique punk-mariachi-hip-pop group' which just means, they live in Silverlake, but don't hold that against them, they transcend hipster.

LISTEN:  LOS SUPER ELEGANTES "JE SUIS BIEN" [MP3]

Their first CD is called "Channelizing Paradise" and I think it delivers on that promise.  Like all below-the-radar items this CD is not easily found, it's not on itunes or amazon, but you can purchase it HERE.  And be sure to check out their super fun website for more Elegantes Info.

WATCH:  LOS SUPER ELEGANTES AMAZING  FIRST VIDEO "SIXTEEN"

LA Morning

OH MY GOD!!!  It's not even 10am and I have already had such an insane LA morning.  So I go to the West Hollywood Post Office on San Vicente (I love it there) to pick up a package and I was trapped in line (a very long one for 9am) behind this crazy chick doing a spot on Courtney Love impression (not on purpose).  She was a stripper screaming into her pink bedazzled cell phone...

"I'm totally broke!  I had to get my tits re-done because of complications and now I got fired from the club, and I need money bad.  Can I come over and give you some private lap dances or a massage or something!  Yeah, come get me pleassse!" 

After the fourth call saying the same thing to a different John she decided to turn her attention towards me, and of course I forgot my blackberry so I had no choice but to acknowledge her presence.  She was so twisted on H. her eyes were rolling back in her head as she yelled come-ons AT me.  I of course, dying of embarrassment, was like "Please leave me alone." and cried inside. 

So she decides to change her approach, "Do you want to hear a Mexican Joke?"  Which of course I did, but said, "No thanks."  At which point the Post Office line begins to applaud, but she decided to tell it anyway, loudly.

Stripper: "Why were there only 1500 Mexicans at the Alamo?"
Me: Silence, staring at ceiling.
Stripper: "That's all the truck could fit."

I know. 

Finally some John shows up to get her (wearing a snake skin belt and black CK Jeans. I know.) And they left only to be followed in the back of the line by a 50 year old Meth Freak who decided to proposition the line with blow jobs if they'd let him cut in.  I know, West Hollywood.

Finally I got my package and I walked over to Starbucks, not Starbottoms, but the one on Robertson & SMB, and I bumped (literally) into John Krasinski, the cute guy from The Office, and the one time I wear a white shirt, now, covered in black coffee.  But of course because he is a star and I am a starfucker, he gets away with it completely.  Also it was my fault.  Plus he looks worse in person, bone thin, no-ass-kinda-skinny, gross.

All of this before I even make my bed.

LISTEN TO: BUTCH WALKER "UNCOMFORTABLY NUMB" [MP3]

Adam and Steve

Craig Chester and Parker Posey bring up such sweet memories of the 90s for me.  Keep that in mind as you read on...  Bloghungry and I went to see "Adam and Steve" tonight.  And let me tell you, Parker Posey is a revelation in this film.  This is a return to form for her.  She plays a terrible stand up comic and no one does not funny deadpan like Posey.  The rest of the film was fine too, I got what they were going for and I'm down.  Gay romance in a funny ha ha-stylie.  It's decent enough, you should support.

Also got me thinking of one of Craig's 90s flicks, "GRIEF".  Anyone else remember that one?  It stars a very boyish Alexis Arquette (who is ruling VH1's "Surreal Life 6"... Throwing a picnic umbrella at a homophobe is truly revolutionary Reality TV.) 

Anyway, here's a clip from this indie classic "GRIEF", it also features Madonna "Truth Or Dare" Dancer Carlton "It's F*cking BLUE" Wilborn.

WATCH: ALEXIS, CRAIG AND CARLTON IN "GRIEF" 1993 [mov]

PopMuse Approved

Today I'm working, overseeing a Color Correct Session for a TV Show I produced (more on the show next week.)  This part of post production is painfully boring, like, hellish boring.  I normally enjoy Post Production, sometimes more than production, but this step is truly miserable, and on a sunny SATURDAY none the less.  Wahhhh!

Anyway it's giving me plenty of time to search for new gym music and I'm finding some serious gems. 

Here's some of the tracks I'll be treadmilling to tomorrow morning... ENJOY!

LISTEN:  Rihanna "S.O.S" (Jason Nevins Elecktrotek Mix) [mp3]

LISTEN:  Pink "Stupid Girls" (Junior & Dynamix Club Mix) [mp3]

LISTEN:  Madonna "Get Together" (Jacques Lu Cont Mix) [mp3]

Madonna has Friends?

Madonna is about to embark on another Tour, and the kids are getting excited.  PopMuse on the other hand is fed up with the $325 ticket price, the complete impossibility of actually buying tickets legally and forget about scalped seats $1000, I'm so sure?!?   Now, of course I'm not too proud to turn down comps... Okay!

For now, let's reflect on previous Madonna tours.  Contrary to popular belief, my favorite Madonna tour was The Girlie Show.  Yup, I'd say Blond Ambition, but I can never forgive "Hanky Panky" NEVER! 

So here's a clip of an old Madonna MTV interview with ex-Mo friend and VJ Juliette Hohnen.  This was Madonna in her Meth-head Lesbian Anorexic Phase. Yeah.  Plus it features the dear Jean Paul Gaultier (wasn't it so much more fun when Madonna was pals with Jean Paul instead of Jaime King?)

WATCH:  Madonna, Juliette, Jean Paul discuss Girlie [mov]

UPDATE:  Listen to this live leaked track below and tell me if 2006 Madonna Tour is worth $1000?

LISTEN:  MADONNA PERFORMS "LET IT WILL BE (REMIX) LIVE" [MP3]