interesting TV viewing
Since channels 11 and 13 are the only channels that come in decently on my TV, I usually watch whatever is on there whenever I'm yearning for mindless viewing. That's usually when I'm having trouble falling asleep but am too tired to read. Last night I watched Jay Leno and overall it was an intriguing program. Dennis Miller was the first guest and while I'm usually a huge fan of his, he basically spent the whole time talking about how great war and Bush is and more or less denouncing his liberal heritage. I was hurt and confused. The next guest was some little girl from Star Search who, while her voice may be fabulous after puberty, just yelled through some R&B ballad and struck a few too many overly-mature poses. Then came the most interesting part of the evening: the musical guest. A Russian duo going by the name t.a.T.u or some capitalization like that. I've heard of these girls before and their main shtick is that they're lesbians…or are they? Perhaps they're just very affectionate and the lesbian stuff is a marketing ploy. But who really cares? In any case, I'm going to have to just come right out and say that their music is just not very good. But beyond that, their performance was a little too rehearsed. Let me explain. It's very obvious that they can't dance and their stage presence is lacking as well. So they had a choreographer come in and give them specific moves to do at specific times, all the while incorporating the lesbian aspect. It resulted in them singing this unremarkable song while absentmindedly caressing each other. But then came the bridge of the song. At this point both girls stopped singing and leaned into each other. It was fairly obvious to me that they were going to spend the break making out with each other. But before the home viewers were allowed any “action,” the camera quickly switched over to show some very boring shots of the band. I could hear some manly cheers from the audience and that about confirmed what I figured was going on. But I was perturbed that NBC chose to censor the kiss. I know that lesbian and gay kisses have aired on network TV before and I was confused as to why *this* one wouldn't be allowed. It was all very weird. When their performance was over Leno came over to thank them and end the show, making no indication of what had just happened. That is, until Arsenio Hall (who had showed up as moral support for the Star Search gal) came running over and tried to kiss Leno. Very strange indeed. Leno is one of my least favorite TV personalities, anyway.
I have a huge pimple on my chin that hurts.
