nothing to blog about...

...but i really wanna capitalize on the office broadband while i've got access to it. so i thought i'd blog/rant, mostly about Nellie McKay, 'Princess of the Protest Ditty'.

caught an ep of Late Night with Conan O'Brien over the long weekend. more than 'an', actually (it was, after all, a 'long' weekend), though i refer only to one here. i'd started to realize how much i hated the life-numbing effect of having an actual television set in your home, with channels and cable and sofas and a remote control and everything, but coming home a couple nights ago i got gummed up on the sofa...true, Conan's stand up just keeps getting worse (imho), but he *does* have his moments, the show can be encouragingly bizarre (and funny. i personally miss Victory) and Max Weinberg is hands down the funniest talkshow sidekick on late night TV (don't get me started on that annoying Paul Schaeffer guy), and anyway, Michelle Trachtenberg was on the couch.

yes, i've said it before, i'll say it again: i have a thing for Ms Trachtenberg. i even sat through an ep of Punk'd once coz she was the vic. anyway, back to the Late Night ep, i was only too glad to have seen the House ep they were talking about, where she was beleaguered by, of all things, (SPOILER ALERT) cooties (whoops. too late, was it?) and i was delighted to learn she'd caused Hugh Laurie's 'huh' on that ep...well, enough spoilers. see for yourself what Ms Trachtenberg had to say:



(here, from youtube.)

but i digress. i'd meant to rant about Nellie McKay who i know next to nothing about, except that she's really, really good:



(here, from youtube.)

not the Late Night gig i caught, she seemed much more enjoyably unrestrained (banging away at the keys to make that delightfully wicked disjointed bang-tinkling sound) on Late Night playing with the Max Weinberg Seven, but really, really good nontheless.

here's her website:

http://www.nelliemckay.com/

nothing much on there, pretty much just a few newsbits and the mailing list, you can find out more about her here:

http://www.nelliemckay.org/

right. possibly more 'interesting' things later.