Staying Awake for Grammy?
February 2, 2010 by Jason Shaw
My nose is so red, it’s now being used as a warning beacon to low flying aircraft, nope, I’m not auditioning for the role of lead reindeer for a once a year Christmas gig, nor am I retraining for a career fishing from a toadstools in someones front garden. I am, in fact a snot making machine, or veritable cornucopia of spherical filamentous particles 120 nanometres wide! In other words, I have the flu, which as ya typical British man, obviously means I’m knocking on deaths door and ready to meet my maker!
I’m a bit disappointed as it’s left me low all weekend and it’s not often that I have the whole weekend free from the constrains that is work. Oh well, such is life I suppose.
Can you believe it’s February already? It is, it slipped in the back door, while the world was sleeping, 2010 is already a month old and just 11 to go before 2010 gives way to 2011 and January is already little more than a memory. I’m not sure how I feel about it already being 02 now and not 01, I mean January hasn’t exactly been all that memorable, I’ve not been overrun with offers, in fact one could say its been a bit of a dull start to the year really. Indeed one could say that, and indeed I just have, but hey, I always look to the future with open eyes (hard to look with closed ones!) looking for the best, hoping for a miracle, glass is always half full and all that!
Grammy Time!
I stayed up late last night to watch The Grammy’s live, it’s wasn’t on TV over here, so had to watch it live streaming from CBS TV on the net, complete with all the adverts and trailers and the like and you know what? I So miss American TV, I never thought I’d say that, but I do, I miss everything about it, well perhaps not the level of ad’s or rather their frequency, a little over the top, but I miss the shows, the news, the trails and indeed some of the ad’s.
Prescriptive drugs, now, to me that strange thing to advertise, it’s not something that’s done over here in Europe, but over in the land of the Red Chevvy Colbalt and the Green Camero, not only is it allowed, they’re pretty frequent. But it’s not the product themselves that I miss, it’s the long list of side effects and of whom their are not suitable that also feature in the ad’s, that I miss. Isn’t that odd?
There’s an edge of excitement in the local TV news over in southern Illinois, even if it was only for the local football results, a level that is not often found over here in sleepy little English local news, the feeling of community that is fostered by the local American stations is also a refreshing difference. Perhaps that’s why even now, in fact only just the day before yesterday, I flicked through the local stories on the news websites for that area. I have a thirst for knowledge of what I wanted to have become my local area. I want to see how bad the snow was, what was going on, what was making headlines in Marion, Paducah, Carbondale and Carterville. Maybe because I have a, strained tenuous connection to the area, or maybe it because I’m a sad lonely middle aged man, still hankering after what I can’t have, the door of which has been so firmly shut in my face the reverberations are still buzzing around my skull, or perhaps because I’m a bit of a new junky! I like to think it’s the latter!
I did have a chuckle and thought it was a funny place to have a bus stop when I first saw these photos from local news media, a Saluki Express bus at the local movie theatre. Then realised that I knew where it was, that I’d actually walked passed that very place, that exact spot, the very last time I was over in Carbondale. It could have been me waiting for the bus! Although, wait for a bus, Saluki or otherwise is not a thing I did much of! Thankfully no one was seriously hurt in the incident and it’s really made me think about fate, buses and being in Carbondale. I do miss it, ya know, no, not buses, but being in Illinois, in Carbondale, indeed I’d need to bu
y a thesaurus to adequately describe exactly how and what I miss about that area, about the lifestyle, the homes, the media, the TV, in fact the whole thing of being there really. But, hey, I’ve not made that purchase and bore you I do not wish to do!
y a thesaurus to adequately describe exactly how and what I miss about that area, about the lifestyle, the homes, the media, the TV, in fact the whole thing of being there really. But, hey, I’ve not made that purchase and bore you I do not wish to do! Going back to the 52nd Grammy’s, which is why I started this post in the first place, before I got sidetracked by my own wayward mind, reminiscing on the past, or perhaps dreaming about it, which is a most dangerous occupations, for it stops you moving forward, onward and upward, so enough! Get on with it Jason!
It was great to see the lovely Beyonce picking up not one, not two, not three, but six of the little gold gramophones, good on ya girl, also Taylor Swift bagged a fair few of the awards, full list if the winners can be found here, it was also pleasing to see Kings of Leon take ‘record of the year’ with ‘Use Somebody’ & The Ting Ting’s nominated for ‘best new artist, lost out to Zac Brown Band – (who?) but was good to see em up there.
‘I Got A Feeling’ by the Black Eyed Pea’s stole off the ‘best performance by a duo or group’ which got a big cheer from me and the crowd inside The Staples Center in LA. The lovely, yet odd, Lady GaGa got a couple, that’ll make my little friend Ant, grin from ear to ear when he finds out! Other nominations that gave me a little cheer inside (Remember I was watching this at 2am!) was seeing our very own Neil & Chris – AKA The Pet Shop Boy’s nominated for ‘best electronic/dance album’ with Yes, and ‘best alternative music album’ to a group I’ve been raving about for months, Death Cab For A Cutie – ‘Open Door’ but is that really what counts as Alternative these days?
There was a lovely performance from Mary J Blige and Andrea Bocelli with Bridge Over Trouble Waters in aid if the Haiti appeal, also the Michael Jackson tribute was kinda good, even if it did have Usher taking part, but RIP stands for rest in peace, for a reason – peace! Anyway, all in all it was a good night/morning of telly watching, all be it in the small laptop screen, which now means that along with the flu, I also have an aching neck and sore eyes!
More soon from Jason Shaw, that odd British bloke running from one mini mid life crisis to another, this time with a streaming nose and sore eyes. Catch up on the blog The Seafront Diaries.
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