The Morning After: A Little Bit Country

Random observations while mostly ignoring the show while the wife watched it via TiVo to FFWD the annoying speeches and artists (*cough*GeorgeStrait*cough*):

1. Everyone but Carrie Underwood got the Little Black Dress Memo, I see
2. Sara Evans = yummy
3. Taylor Swift = jailbait (tall jailbait!)
4. I still don't understand the whole Gretchen Wilson phenomenon, but then again, I don't understand most country, period
5. Kenny Chesney isn't doing himself any favors with the whole "is he gay?" thing by bringing his mom to the awards

All I know is that at 8:15 EST my Time Warner DVR was still telling me it would record Pushing Daisies at 8 and Dirty Sexy Money at 10. Stupid Time Warner DVR.

Even though pretty much everyone at the country music awards was a fellow Okie, I really missed my weekly dose of Pushing Daisies. Starring another more refined Okie, Kristin Chenoweth.

@ James
Hey. I know nobody watches Life, and I know this is two days late about the video game playing on tv shows, but on Life yesterday, there was a 20-ish second clip where a girl was playing the XBOX Prince of Persia, and it wasn't the "thumbs flailing around, and someone shaking a controller at a fake TV" variety. It was a bit of a montage, but showed the girl staring into the camera very zombie-like and fingers were moving very normal-like. She had no lines or anything. You could actually see the tv glow on her face and kinda flash. The zombie image of her montaged with the actual video game scenes as she was progressing through the levels.

As for Kid Nation, I thought the funniest part was the preview of next epi, when Greg told Anjay (Sanjay?) that he would punch him right in the face. Not that violence is funny, but just the way that was said. I wonder if the camera-crew will step in or if they're not allowed to break the fourth wall.

Greg appears to be the most entertaining of the bunch (at least tv-wise). His little threat to throw the competition was very Survivor-like. Although, I think it would've been the ultimate in all-time backfires if he threw the contests just to mess with Paris and Nicole, but then have his squad leader say "Okay, since you and your buddy threw the contest, you get to do all the dirty work while Paris and Nicole supervise you." That would've been hilarious. (okay, I know. Paris & nicole were acting like princesses and people don't like princesses. But still, throwing a contest? That's punish-worthy)

As a life long Okie who loves both kinds of music, country AND western, I didn't bother to tune into the CMA.

I only caught the second half of Kid Nation. I still say that the kids are being coached in their comments to the camera. How many kids after hearing a kid play the piano would proclaim that it was like Chopin had come back to life? Seriously?!

I still get a kick out of Daved (sp?) nominating herself repeatedly for the gold star.

Mini Kid Nation Watch: Kind of boring episode this week to me. But I like that we got a little attention to some of the kids, Like "Paris and Nicole," that the camera has never noticed. In that sense, KN is kind of like Lost. 40 castaways, a dozen of whom get screen time.

The CMAs were surprisingly good...lots of performances. Miranda Lambert's hair was a mess but her song is pretty fiery - a nice opening. And Kellie Pickler's near-breakdown during her performance near the end was legitimately kind of heart wrenching. I'd bet money that Carrie Underwood is kicking herself a bit this morning for going the standard operatic route with the frou-frou dress and the orchestra instead of turning on the tears. The high school band with Brad Paisley was also a fun touch.

Ditto on missing Pushing Daisies, though!

Do you think that Kellie Pickler act was real? I could be wrong, but I thought that looked totally planned and just ridiculous.