Country Kick

Recently Blake Shelton released the video for his single Honey Bee which will be apart of his album that drops on July 12th. I have fallen in love with this song and have probably played it every day for the last week and half. Since I can't find a version of the music video to embed, I am going with his performance of the song at the AMC Awards, please enjoy!



Blake Shelton has intrigued me since I first saw him appear on Chelsea Lately back in March 2010. I am fairly certain that if you watch the interview, you can understand his appeal, I immediately started following his twitter account after the show finished. (@blakeshelton)


Chelsea Lately - Blake Shelton Interview by butterflykisses82

Last night, I downloaded his album Loaded: The Best of Blake Shelton and had it playing all day at work. His voice is just so soothing and fun. In the interim, between now and July 12th, I think I will get the Thompson Square album to deal with my country cravings. My friend sent me the link to their song Are You Going to Kiss Me or Not and I found it rather catchy and pretty awesome. Looks like this might be a country kind of summer!

Amy Sedaris is pure joy

My mother sent me a to Amy Sedaris's new book "Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People" asking if I would be interested. The book centers around crafts for people with no money. I am taking this as proof that mother knows me well. She understands that a) I love crafts, especially tacky ones and b) I often tell her that I am poor - mainly due to my life choice of living by myself. I was thinking about posting about the book, even though I don't own it, but had been holding off. I am glad I did, because if this had gone up 3 weeks ago, she would not have yet interviewed with Wendy Williams.

Amy Sedaris is one of those comedians that I love and forget that I love until I see her again. Strangers with Candy was a great show, which, if memory serves me correctly, only lasted a season. Shame. Personally, I think she is the funnier Sedaris.

Anyway, she was on the Wendy Willaims Show. I have only seen clips on The Soup, but Wendy seems like a hoot and a holler. Having a wack-a-doo like Amy had to become entertainment joy. And it was.

The only other interview that I have seen of Amy was a few years ago when her first book came out. She was being interviewed on Chelsea Lately and decided this would be a great forum to discuss female health issues...with homemade props.

20 seconds of face time. I'll take it

Chelsea Handler had a book signing before her show yesterday. I love watching her show, and if I could be someone famous, it would be her. Not only does she have sweet job of reading tabloids all day, talking about them for about 15 minutes with fun coworkers and then interviewing celebrities in a no-hold-barred way, but she is sponsored by Belvidere and has Margarita Thursdays.

The line for the book signing wasn't too long, granted my friend totally got in line early and let me join in with her when I showed up. But either way everything moved along rather quickly. There were some 40+ women who were ahead of us and they tried to keep up their conversation with Chelsea as she was signing our books which made both my friend and me concerned. We didn't stand in that line to not even get to say hello!

Unfortunately, I couldn't think of anything particularly clever to say to her, and I was fairly certain most people would have told her she was f*cking hysterical, so I let her know I loved her shoes (see March 2010 Marie Claire). She told me I was cute for saying so, and then complimented me on mine since they were in my hand at the time.

I don't mind that the exchange was short and over in the amount of time it took her to sign my book. I wasn't deluded thinking we would have a chat over some tea, there were people wrapped around the block! Her 500th episode is coming up, I am sure it will be super fun. Hopefully, things continue to go well for her and in another year or so she will be touring again, and I can stand in line to have her sign another book. Hopefully by then, I have a little more disposable cash and can afford a bottle of whatever high price vodka she is plugging at that point to have her sign. Right now, I can't justify the bottle of Belvedere , but I did justify the Grey Goose cocktail at the W Hotel prior to the show...

Three girls who have less of a reason to be famous than Kim...

For the last few weeks I have seen advertisements for "Pretty Wild". All I ever understood was that there were three sisters that were supposedly famous and got a tv show for it. I never had the attention span to figure out their back story, after all, it took me years to be able to figure out why we care about the Kardashians. Thankfully, because this show is on E!, Chelsea Handler had the three girls on Chelsea Lately.

I learned that Alexis was in the Bling Ring (aka Burglary Bunch). In case you have forgotten what this pop-culture reference is, the Bling Ring was a group of over privileged adolescence who thought there was nothing better to do with their time than to burgal homes of young Holywood (think Orlando Bloom, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, etc) in 2008 and 2009. If you haven't heard this girl talk yet, trust me on this one, she was in no way the brains behind the operation. When asked what she was doing with her time right now, the answer was not school even thought she is 19, but instead she a Pilates, hip hop, pole dancing instructor. The clips let us know that there is a pole in the house so that she can keep up her skills.

What these three girls go onto explain to Chelsea is that they are followed because they follow The Secret. The Secret is the philosophy of the Church of Religious Science. Basically you think about what you want, it will happen. The example that they gave was that they wanted to be on tv and then E! offered them one. Case closed.

I said before I would never give in and watch Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and have since become a fan if marathons are on E!. But I am very VERY certain that even I cannot be sucked into the story of three sisters who pole dance and do playboy (the 20 year old was a Cyber Girl).

Jimmy Fallon's Amazing Martini Race

Normally I don't watch the late shows, or late late shows, but I saw that Chelsea Handler was going to be on Jimmy Fallon's so I DVR-ed it. This morning while getting myself ready, I opted to fast forward to her interview (which was hysterical). After she finished promoting her new book, Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang, Jimmy asked if she would participate in a martini race. The race was too good to not share with you all:



Once Jimmy went down I busted out laughing. I especially loved the hope that through the magic of editing the home audience would have been spared some awkwardness and blood.