Regular thoughts and incidents from the life of Jeff Boman, a writer, artist and website designer with a strange lifepath.
The group are... bland. Their music seems bland. They look bland. Even the concert venue was bland, and the recording looked cheap to me.
Why is it that everything made here in Canada has to look and feel like poor seconds to American fare? Even shows like Silk Stockings and Sweating Bullets suffered from that, going for the Miami Vice pastel look - but nearly a decade later.
We could do good products here. Only time we produce better work is when an American company work out of Canada.
Since the ratings for the show return have been quite low, it would make sense for ABC to try airing something that does gain ratings instead.
I noticed last night that Making the Band 2 wasn't on ABC at all last night; both episodes were pre-empted for the American version of Who's Line is it Anyways?
Could it already have been cancelled by its third week? Could it be that as I said, the boys of O-Town come across as too shallow for television viewers? We'll see.
Meanwhile, this was the first time in ages that I've watched entire episodes of the American Who's Line...; the original British show airs regularly on our Comedy network, but the American one usually conflicts with other shows for me.
Many of the improv-ers are the same for both countries, but one of the Americans really stands out to me: Wayne Brady.
He really has amazing improv talent. I think the producers go out of their way to have him do most of the song improvs... without any hesitation, he picks up the song thread and goes with it. Incredible.
So, I've begun to do what I should've to start with: giving them dry food in the morning only.
Not surprisingly, they aren't yet accepting it. They haven't yet made a dent in their dry food bowls, and beg me for the food they aren't getting all day.
The nights tend to still be a little crisp, but we've been mostly having daily weather like late Spring. More importantly, most of the cursed snow and ice is gone.
The warmer weather has started my creative mojo a bit more; I started a few project proposals today. I'm not as prolific as I've been (yet), but I'm getting there!
This news is already changed, as I understand now that protesters did initiate violence.
This upsets me on several levels: as a Canadian, I'm embarassed for my country.
As a native of Quebec too, I'm ashamed that my province has now made a fool of itself in the world's eyes.
On a newsgroup I'm part of, someone made a good point: you don't expect hard rockers to succumb to cancer...
(This article has some strong language; if you don't want to read it, don't go here.)
Usually, I'm against the death penalty. Killing a killer won't bring their victims back. I can't really see any of the survivors feeling any less empty because of this.
On the other hand... it's almost a cliché, but life is a gift. It can be difficult at times (I know this intimately), but just being here to experience it is a blessing.
Tim McVeigh took that gift away from over 100 people - many of them children, young people who didn't get the chance to see where their lives' journeys would take them. Worse, he has no remorse for what he's done; in fact, I've heard that he thinks he did America a favor by killing these innocents.
Someone like that doesn't deserve to live, in my books.
(Don't worry... those of you who read this Blog often know I won't fill this post up with "Eden's Crush are hot!" discussion - although band member Rosanna Tavares is very attractive to me. They are mostly under 20; I'll be 34 in May. My name isn't René Angelil)
First off, I do consider the girls more talented (I like their first hit), but more importantly, they seem more dedicated.
Consider the difference: on Popstars the ladies were under tight deadlines to perform, and they did it. They still haven't let success get to their heads (at least in the show);
In the case of Making the Band, the guys have acted like they are already stars from day one. They blew practices; they ignored requests from their bosses; almost every episode had trainers chewing them out for their disregard for the actual work they had to do.
A second season starts next week; too bad it's stuff from the past year, or I suspect we'd see them feeling like idiots in comparison.
I decided to go outside late this afternoon... of course, today was a day that the weather chose to be both snowy and rainy...
My usual Friday get-together with friends as a result was a meeting here at home; we ordered take-out and watched TV. Safer than me risking outdoor navigation again!
I went out today with my friend on another grocery run. Didn't do a huge amount of other things though. I did reconnect once more with old friends from High School via phone and email however. One lives a few minutes away from my mom in the Laurentians, one in Ottawa. That's all I'll say of our conversations; my life's an open book on this site, but not theirs.
