It's a great season so far for my favorite show. A great one. But what the hell?!

Last night's episode, "Scott's Tots" was quite possibly the worst episode not just this season, but in the entire series. And I've never labeled even the mediocre episodes as "the worst" because even in their mediocrity, The Office is still the best show around. (I still believe that, even with what I'm about to say.) But last night? It hurts my heart to say it but I'm severely disappointed.

( The Rant. With Spoilers. )

However, I did see a scene for next week's Christmas episode so I think the show will be back in top form once next Thursday comes around. This ep was just a bump in the road.

He's so hilarious! I'm so glad I got introduced to him through The Office. He's an amazing and very funny dude! And he's from Georgia, which is awesome because that's where I live...although I'm not originally from here. But that's besides the point. Point is, I'm having an Ed Helms moment!!!!

Ed performing "Stu's Song" (from The Hangover) on The Tonight Show:



.....aaaaand the studio version of "Stu's Song":



Those make me want to see The Hangover again. Man, that was a good movie!

More Ed goodness:

( The Daily Show - Why Do They Hate Us? )

( The Daily Show - Digital Watch: HDTV )

( David Letterman - Tom Brokaw Impression )

( Gay Al Gore Impression )

....with some of the cast members of FlashForward. I just felt compelled to share something on this group since I don't talk nearly as much about that show as I do another certain show I'm pretty much into.



You know how I say that the men of The Office are sexy? Well so are the men of FlashForward. Meeeeeeeow!

Today marks the Alter Bridge frontman's 40th birthday. Yes, 40th. Forty years old and looking THAT sexy. What's your secret, Myles? What's your precious secret?

Jokes aside, this musician means more to me than any other musician out there. Heavenly voice, amazing lyricist, fantastic guitar player, etc. He's just the total package.

Included below are six of my fave songs by him. Yes, six. He gets more because he's Myles freaking Kennedy.

( The Mayfield Four - Forfeit )

( Alter Bridge - Find The Real )

( The Mayfield Four - Overflow )

( Alter Bridge - One By One )

( Citizen Swing - You See It )

( Alter Bridge - Broken Wings )

So, I watched it last night. It was okay. I had no high hopes for it or anything. The only time my heart is with award ceremonies is when the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, and the Emmys are concerned. And even then, it's only because of The Office. I take those three award shows seriously, but I never, eh-eh-ever, take music awards seriously.

Some quick thoughts:

I enjoyed Janet Jackson's performance. A great start to the show.

Daughtry was phenominal but when aren't they? Also, with Chris being in the front the entire time, I noticed that the camera kept focusing on him with the crowd shots. Let it be known that although I don't crush on Chris Daughtry, I found him IMMENSELY attractive last night. Good gosh. That is one sexy....sexy man.

Kris Allen was looking good, too, and he's not even my type!

I cheered like crazy when Keith Urban won his first AMA! And yes, I have to mention his gorgeousness. Believe me, I'm not shallow, but when a man is good looking, I feel compelled to mention it. His performance of "Kiss a Girl" was okay. Not my favorite song by him, but enjoyable nonetheless. I was particularly fond of the black and white footage they had of him in the background. It was of him performing the song but instead of just putting it on the video screen behind him, they put it in black in white. I liked it.

Whitney Houston's performance of "I Didn't Know My Own Strength" was amazing and, in my opinion, the best performance of the night. She looked gorgeous and I'm so glad she's got her life back on track. Such a classy, classy lady.

Carrie Underwood is always worth a watch. I love her new single and I love the song even more each time she performs it. She's come a mighty long way since American Idol.

Didn't get why they had Michael Jackson nominated in so many categories. Heck - nominated at all. Ok, so I DO get it, but was it really neccessary? I don't mean to sound evil, because I do understand that his death was a huge loss, but it doesn't merit randomly putting him into these categories for nominations. You mean to tell me there wasn't a way to honor him WITHOUT having to push the other nominees to the side?

Adam Lambert's performance was just...ugh. I, for one, didn't like the bit where he grabbed the male dancer next to him and shoved his face into his crotch. And by the time they cut away from the shot, it was too late. We had already seen all of that mess. That was gross. Forget the fact that Adam's gay. If it had been a female dancer instead or if it had been a female singer with a male dancer, I still would've found that atrocious. Ugh, I wish there was a way I could "unsee" all of that. For the record, the performance of "For Your Entertainment" wasn't all that good, either. He would've done better doing "Time for Miracles".

All in all, it was a pretty enjoyable show. Some things I cared for, some things I didn't, but that's how award shows are anyway.

...then I don't know what is. Here, the Kansas City Chiefs brilliantly spoof The Office. As a sidenote, David Cook just so happens to be a KC Chiefs fan. Having said that, I've been saying to myself for the longest time that I need to get into football or some other sport. This just might be the thing to do it.

He plays Oscar Martinez on The Office. He turns 51 today. :-) I must say, he looks AMAZING for his age.

Sadly, he passed away in 1997 but if he were still among us, today would've marked his 43rd birthday. He was blessed with an extraordinary voice and he wrote some remarkable songs. I haven't been a fan of Jeff that long. I had never heard of him until I kept reading about how people would say that Myles Kennedy was a cross between him and Chris Cornell. Being the huge Myles fan I was (and still am), I scoped out Jeff's music and became so enamored with it. Jeff is one of those artists that I wish the whole world would appreciate. He was talent in every sense of the word.

Speaking of Cornell, he and Jeff were really good friends. Chris actually wrote a song in Jeff's memory entitled "Wave Goodbye".

Under the cut is my favorite song by Jeff which is one of the greatest songs I've ever heard.

( Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should've Come Over )

It's my epic 100th post and I'm gonna do it big. I figured this post would be a nice way to celebrate the occassion. It's something different and I get to touch on a lot of things that, well, make me happy. Enjoy the ride. :-)

We start off with The Office's John Krasinski who plays "Jim Halpert" on the hit show. He also stars as "Burt" in the movie Away We Go. Just watched that film this past weekend and was really amazed by it. You owe it to yourself to watch it. Anyway, here are bloopers from his online interview with Time Magazine. He's a natural charmer and although I didn't have a crush on him before I saw this (always thought he was hot, though, if that makes sense), I ended up attracted to him. He's just so....*sigh* The men of The Office are sexy. That's all there is to it.




( More under the cut.... )

Because I'm still missing him terribly. And I'm a proud owner of that mag with him on it. The cover is UH-MAY-ZING! I need to re-read his interview, though. It's been a while since I've gone through my WWE mags.

Without further ado, I present to you - Adam Copeland aka Edge....whom I miss terribly.



Geez, I just realized that I mentioned Chad Kroeger earlier today and now I'm mentioning Edge. Is today Canada Day or something?

Yesterday was the Nickelback frontman's 35th birthday! I didn't forget. I just wasn't online to wish him a good one on his special day. Doesn't really matter anyway. It's not like he takes time out of his busy schedule to hit this site and see if I've acknowledged his birthday in my journal. It's not like he'd hit me up on my cell and say "Vick, I'm calling to give you s&#t because you didn't wish me a good one on your Livejournal last night. I thought we were cool, man?! How you gon' play me like that?!"

Actually, that'd be awesome!

On a serious note, I was a huge Nickelback fan a few years ago. Got three out of their (at the time) five albums, watched almost every interview and performance I could find on the band, etc. I'm now a casual fan of theirs, but I still like to kick back and listen to them. I know it's "the norm" to hate them and stuff but I'm not going to jump on the bandwagon just because the rest of the internet community is. I can respect the fact that people don't like the band, but I'm not going to let the naysayers determine what is and what is not great music. You like what you like and that's all that matters. Having said all that, I'll leave you with one of my favorite songs by Nickelback:

( Nickelback - This Afternoon )

I LOVE THESE TWO!!!! If only there was a way to get Colbert on The Office and Carell on The Colbert Report. I'd mark out so bad from the epicness of it all!

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Even Stevphen - Agreement
www.thedailyshow.com
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All I have to say is this: This is gonna be one bad @#$ movie. Steve's got yet another hit on his hands. And I literally screamed when I heard Nickelback's "Burn It to the Ground"! Gah! Steve + Nickelback = Somebody KNOWS I exist! WOOOO! Roll on April 9th!

Let's call it what it apparently and obviously is - Mayfield Four Appreciation Week (MF4AW). For me, at least. I can barely listen to anything else this week, it seems, so I guess MF4AW is a perfect explaination! This band is just...no words for it. Why they didn't hit the big time back in the 90's is beyond me. Oh well, maybe it's a good thing. We do, after all, have Alter Bridge because of it which has given the world the epic tag team of Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti so why complain? :-)



( Don't confuse this for confession or as a plea for sympathy. It's just a window to a soul bound by all my insecurity.... )

Finally, a question I feel compelled to answer!

I could easily say my first thought (Alter Bridge's Blackbird), submit my answer, and go on about my day. But then I got to thinking "what about The Mayfield Four, Jeff Buckley, Michael English, Prince, The Isley Brothers, John Mayer, David Cook, etc?" Then I thought "what about future albums that are to come, like Alter Bridge's third album or Myles Kennedy's first ever solo record?" And then I focused on the words "one CD for the rest of your life" and I really got to thinking.

This question is pretty hard to answer. Millions of albums made the world over, generations of music that spans so many genres: Blues, Jazz, Rock and Roll, Country, Gospel, Classical, Baroque, and that's not even half of what's out there.

I'm 22 years old. Let's say I get to live to be 100. Well, that'd be 78 years of listening to just one CD. For the rest of my life. Sounds more like torture than enjoyment.

The rest of my life? I couldn't do it. Just listening to one album with 13 tracks, more or less, would eventually drive me crazy, no matter which album I'd eventually choose. That one album would represent one artist/band and only one genre and I'd be seperated from all the other forms of expression that are out there. And in my opinion, if you're only exposed to just one form of expression, you're not really listening to music at all. You're just limited and it is in that limitation that I would find suffering instead of joy.

Maybe I'm thinking too seriously on the question, but realistically speaking, it just couldn't be done.

Can't help it. I'm on a SERIOUS MF4 kick right now. Myles' voice just cannot be denied.



( If I had a drink, I'd drink it. If I had a drug, I'd take it. I'd do anything to peel away the pain I feel right now... )

...every time it rains outside now, I always hear Scott Stapp's voice singing "I feel it's gonna rain for days and days"?

Also, nothing against Scott Stapp and the temporary Creed reunion, but I miss Alter Bridge.