Mystic Meg would have been proud. A while back I almost put a bet on Jessie’s Girl to have a resurgence and make it into the charts. If Journey can do it so can Rick Springfield. Whilst I wasn’t entirely right, the Glee cast still managed to push it into the top 40, not bad for a bit part song!

In celebration of getting my tickets for the London show (sold out in minutes) I’m posting a Flight of the Conchords clip.

Enjoy!

After seeing a couple of adverts on TV I decided to watch a few episodes of another new US import called Glee. Glee essentially is a high school show about a bunch of kids and their teacher who start a Glee club. Glee which apparently is the lowest form of social status in american high school consists of social misfits, stutterers, gays and wheelchaired students. Slowly they manage to attract a few football players and cheerleaders but also a host of enemies including the head cheerleading coach & the rest of the school. You’ll notice a few familiar faces in Glee, the cheerleader coach is the crazy lady from role models, and both of the Glee teacher’s love interests are former “Heroes”.

While the story line is filled with love interests, pregnancies and sabotages. The real reason to watch Glee is the music. I’ve always liked the odd choir-esk cover, those who’ve seen the movie slackers might remember the Ace of Base cover. But Glee takes it to another level, with 4/5 songs every episode and tracks you’d all know. To be fair, after hearing their cover of “Don’t stop Believing” I had to watch more and the song list doesn’t disappoint with tracks that include Gold Digger, Ride Wit Me, No Air, Push It & Confessions, to name a few. Those from the UK will also notice a heavy skew to Brit music (especially in the first few eps) with covers of Duffy, Amy Wino & Lily Allen.

One episode led to watching the whole of the first season in a week. I’d best describe it as a cross between Sister Act 2, High School Musical, American Pie (if it was PG-13) & any typical high school TV show. Glee for the past week has been my vice & while it won’t do my newly awarded biggest office metrosexual image any good, I’ll be catching it again when it comes back in April 2010.

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It’s no secret that I’m a huge Guitar/DJ Hero/Rockband fan. You’ll struggle to walk about my room without stepping on one of many plastic instruments. The newest installment for the Hero series is Band Hero which seems to be more of a hybrid of Singstar and Guitar Hero. The fun of the rest of the franchise but songs to please the whole family. Although I’ve known about the game for a while the latest ad caught my eye.

You’ll recognise the ad format from the unmissable Heidi Klum version (the spoof of the Risky Business infamous boxers scene) but what caught my eye this time was the line up of Taylor Swift, Rivers Cuomo, Travis Barker and Pete Wentz. You’d expect Barker and Wentz to lap up the publicity, but seeing Rivers in pants, shirt and tube socks is hilarious, especially with his awkward dance moves.

I’ve lined up both for your pleasure.

This song’s been out for a while now. I first heard it on the trailer for the Wes Craven remake of “last House on the Left”, but after hearing it on the new John Lewis Christmas TV advert I thought some UK readers might want to know what it was.

I like a good cover and it’s nice to see a piano version of the Guns N Roses Classic.

Enjoy

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I was watching Entourage yesterday when David Faustino aka Bud Bundy turned up in a cameo looking exactly as he did 10/15 years ago. So, wondering how Bud Bundy managed to blag a spot on Entourage I Googled him. Turns out that he had himself his very own webisode series a few months back called Star-ving.

Star-ving is pretty self deprecating and picks up with Faustino playing himself 10 years after the end of Married with Children. His mum’s a midget, his wife’s left him for Coolio, and the struggling child actor wakes up every day trying to commit suicide until the webisode’s story unfolds. I’ve watched a few of them now and they all are pretty outrageous,. Without spoiling it too much, so far he’s killed a retard, eaten shit, jerked off to his dead puerto rican maid and has pretty much spent most of it either in his Y-fronts or naked.

I’d describe it as human Ren and Stimpy on acid with Faustino as Ren and Corin Nemec his room mate (and also ex child star Parker Lewis) as Stimpy but I’ll let you decide for yourself. I was going to post episode one, but like most people the real reason for me watching was just to see the Married With Children reunion (episode 4) – see below.

I’m in the middle of posting the rest of the episodes on youtube so if you want to see them check out my other videos before they get taken down through some kinda copyright infringement.