Joe Sixpack vs. King of the Mods + Albert Reyes
Last night, we attended the Jimmy Kimmel Show taping. There were tons of Paul Weller fans there--so many that assistants had to remind the audience in the front sections that "it was the Jimmy Kimmel Show, not the Paul Weller Show." Lots of suits, badges, and British accents in the crowd (so to speak).
The show? The British guy from Lost seemed like an okay guy, and Donatella Vercase was a spectacle. I'm not a fashionable dude, but she is an icon and she looks and acts like it, too-- oozing with unusual style and confidence. She was badass enough to wear a patent-leather corset with a pointy bra, but humble/big enough to say that she liked SNL's parodies of her. There were also some aspiring actresses who found fame in a YouTube video about a bride that freaks out. Two out of three isn't bad. As he does onscreen, in the studio Kimmel comes off more like a regular guy than a phony host while handling banter with the best of them.
This is not from last night, but that's pretty much her look.
The warm-up guy's ham-fisted style wasn't really my thing and I thought the band's playing ching-chong music for the Japanese guitar player was wack, but I guess that kind of humor comes with the territory. At least it's in the studio and not on the air. The crew moved like clockwork. Producers, assistants, and camera folks do everything in one take with no messing around or screwing up, and they got Wendy and me to the front row of the lobby stage to see Paul Weller and the band play "From The Floorboards Up" and "Thick as Thieves," too. Good looking out!
Albert Reyes was supposed to demonstrate his spit art on the program as well, but that was delayed until tonight. To see three masters of their art forms--Weller, Versace, and Reyes--in one night would have been too much! So if you missed his performance at GR2, check it out on ABC tonight...
The show? The British guy from Lost seemed like an okay guy, and Donatella Vercase was a spectacle. I'm not a fashionable dude, but she is an icon and she looks and acts like it, too-- oozing with unusual style and confidence. She was badass enough to wear a patent-leather corset with a pointy bra, but humble/big enough to say that she liked SNL's parodies of her. There were also some aspiring actresses who found fame in a YouTube video about a bride that freaks out. Two out of three isn't bad. As he does onscreen, in the studio Kimmel comes off more like a regular guy than a phony host while handling banter with the best of them.
This is not from last night, but that's pretty much her look.Albert Reyes was supposed to demonstrate his spit art on the program as well, but that was delayed until tonight. To see three masters of their art forms--Weller, Versace, and Reyes--in one night would have been too much! So if you missed his performance at GR2, check it out on ABC tonight...
posted by gr at
3:52 PM
I just happened on this blog, saw the Paul Weller performance and, wouldn't you know it, the Jimmy Kimmel show had just started. It's the Wednesday night show and no sign of Weller or Versace but they do have the spit artist. Don't tell me I missed Weller by one day. I would've loved to see him perform Thick As Thieves, one of the Jam's best songs.
At any rate, I did see Weller on Conan O' Brien where he played Running On The Spot. Unfortunately I didn't like the way Weller slightly changed the vocal styling of the song. Also the fact that he's older and his voice deeper did take away from the song's youthful urgency.
I also didn't like the way he was trying to make some kind of pertinent political statement by playing that particular 25 year old song - you know, we're running on the spot, things haven't changed. That song, at least in my opinion, is so glued to the spirit of the old punk/mod era. Imagine if we were to hear the Clash play I'm So Bored With The USA in a reunion show - you know, the war in Iraq is bad.
That kind of punk/mod spirt just like 60's style hippie liberalism is long gone. The social/cultural environment which supported those earlier movements has long been replaced by savvy, manipulative, sinister, self absorbed neo-cons and equally as bad, though not as well publicized, neo-liberals who have done in art, entertainment, academia what neo-cons have done in government, military, corporate world. Self righteousness + colonial paternal/maternal mentality + conservatism = neo-con/liberal. Two sides of the same coin. But anyway, nice to know that Paul Weller is still around.
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