Doosey of Love

FINALLY the newest VH1 "of love" show has sprung, putting one of my favorite silicone sweethearts from Bret Michael's Rock of Love center stage. While Daisy (season two) wasn't nearly as entertainingly cringe-worthy as season one's Lacy, her ditsy moments ("My life is not black and white--it's color!") may have been the highlight to the blandest of the three cycles.

While Daisy of Love just ain't no I Love New York, the gentlemen callers may just be worth the DVR space. From grabby Toolbox to whiny Cable Guy (really, she named him Cable Guy...as a complement...because cable guys are sexy), they really are the meat, no pun, of the show. Don't count on much wow from our bumbling host. I kind of don't see why VH1 thought she was strong enough to fly solo. "My life is not black and white--it's color!" I see.

But what, what, WHAT is 12-Pack doing back in the mix??? The I Love New York season one contestant may be a perfect fit for this show, but I'm guessing Miss Daisy didn't watch New York--or at least the part where muscle man confessed he's an actor and had no real interest in dating host Tiffany Pollard if awarded the final chain. Maybe she just thinks she's better than New York. Hopefully she never forms the balls to say that to her face. Come on, if Heather kicked your ass, New York will cut you. Ask Pumpkin.

-Briana Hernandez

The horrors that can happen in an mmmbop.

Super groups. I will never again be excited by that phrase. FromVH1's exploits of putting Ted Nugent and Sebastian Bach on the same stage to everyone getting so extremely hot over Jack White's power foursome composed of himself and...three guys no one gives a crap about, I'm pretty much unaffected by news of high-profile collaborations. That is until I got whiff of Tinted Windows: Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger, former Pumpkin James Iha, Cheap Tricks' Bun E. Carlos and a man I wanted to marry when I was 12, Taylor Hanson, formerly of brotherly trio Hanson.



How the hell did this happen? This "Rock After Dark" promo just makes it all the more surreal. The bad camera shots, creepy host and Miami Vice wardrobe just makes me sit in waiting for the NBC logo to appear at the bottom right corner of the screen just before Iha screams "Live from New York..."

But it just won't happen and I am left again alone with my deepened disappointment of the words "super group."

-Briana Hernandez

Jamie Stewart gets weird(er)

7x7, published 4/23/09

There is a scene I love in the movie “Baby Mama” where Steve Martin, as a pony-tailed vegan guru, rewards Tina Fey for a job well done with “five minutes of uninterrupted eye contact.” It’s just as hilarious and uncomfortable as it sounds, hence it was the first thing to come to mind while seeing Jamie Stewart sans Xiu Xiu at Café Du Nord last Friday.

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