Friday, June 13, 2003
You Forgot it in MTV People.
In the second example of blog--Pitchfork synergy this week (see Esselle--Fork on June 9th), I was trying to concoct a Broken Social Scene post this morning and then saw they had the lead news story. So there you go. Anyway, I got this BSS record and my first listen did not go well, which is not unusual. My first runs through, say, Kid A and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot were semi-disasters (the latter producing the now-legendary IM declaration: Yankee Hotel S**trot. Ha ha.) So after one listen of this one, I thought mabye BSS was one "S" too many. Ha ha. In other words, I thought I had been Fork'd.
Disappointed, yet inspired, I immediately called MTV to pitch a new show idea (who is working at this joint these days? I asked for all kinds of people and they are like all gone: Adam Curry, Kevin Seal, that guy who hosted Oddville, Dave Kendall, Pinfield, Kenny Ober, Jimmy the Cab Driver, Riki Rachtman*, D.T. Julie Brown. Nobody. I even tried China Kantner. Not there. As a last attempt, I asked for "Randee of the Redwoods" and was treated to 5 minutes of laughter and demands that I repeat said request so others could hear it. Loder loved it.). I eventually got through to Gideon Yago, claiming that I had an iPod he left in Kuwaiti City.
The show would, of course, be called Fork'd and would star me (and girlfriend Kim Basinger - thanks, Sean!**), a team of Pitchfork writers, and Wee-Man. This collective would prowl L.A. for young, popular stars of film, television, and music and attempt to get them to buy various records. After the transaction is finalized at Tower, the targeted celeb would then be shown, via hidden camera, listening to the record. "What the hell, this isn't that good?!" they'll say. And we'll laugh. Hard. And then we'll do lines of wasabi with Steve-O.
Yago said the idea was "interesting" and claimed he would run it by Iann Robinson, who was busy working on a news story about the newly-revived Ukrainian death metal scene.
And so I listened to that BSS thing again and I'm starting to dig it. I even got a second opinon. At least half of it is pretty solid. Whatever. It gave me an excuse to reference China Kantner in a blog post.
*Riki will be back this Saturday night - he's co-hosting Headbanger's Ball on M2.
**Los Angeles, Friday 13th June 2003: Rap mogul SEAN 'P DIDDY' COMBS claims he started today's trend of celebrities dating each other.
The New York native, 32, romanced Latina stunner JENNIFER LOPEZ for three years before their relationship ended in 2001, and she is now engaged to DAREDEVIL hunk BEN AFFLECK.
And Combs believes he's the one who kickstarted many of today's celebrity pairings - despite the fact that the likes of ELIZABETH TAYLOR and RICHARD BURTON first got together years before he was even born.
The BAD BOY boss, currently dating on-off belle KIM PORTER, says, "The new trend of dating another celebrity - I basically started that. Right now in Hollywood, what it's about is which celebrity's dating which celebrity. That is so corny man."
Combs has been credited with introducing new pal ASHTON KUTCHER to screen siren DEMI MOORE, sparking one of Hollywood's hottest celebrity pairings.
(from wenn.com)
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