The Student Has Become ... The Teacher!

Yep, I, who was once a lowly rookie page, is now the one dispensing my own world-weary brand of informative advice to the newest crop of fledgling newbies who enter the page program with bright-eyed hopes and Hollywood dreams. Funny how I still have no idea what the hell is going on most of the time.

Take today for instance. It's 9 am and I'm supposed to have a tour. Next thing I know it's 9:30 am and I'm escorting a group of eight-year-old child actors across the NBC Studios, explaining to them why we keep every prop that has ever been used on Days of Our Lives and informing them as to the meaning of a parabolic camera lense. Craziness.

Yesterday I was excited for the Tonight Show, as I mentioned, because Alannis Morissette was going to be live and performing a vintage (if accousticed-up) version of a classic Jagged Little Pill song off her new anniversery album. At one time, during those crazy days of middle school, I will freely admit to you, I loved that album. So I was pretty disappointed that she chose to sing the song "Perfect," which is unlikably mellow and boring, at least in my humble opinion. Sure, maybe it pleased the hardcore Alanis fan, but I was hoping to see her belt out some angst-ridden old-school femi-rage song like "You Oughtta Know" or "All I Really Want." Oh well. Never liked her all that much anyways ...

Also appearing on yesterday's show was Marishka Hartigay (again) of Law and Order: SVU fame, and some championship poker player from Australia, who as I described to my friend Kirsten, currently studying abroad (or is that a few broads? hehehe) in the land down under, was responsible for a pretty funny scene. Basically, in the middle of this guy's interview with Jay, about 15 of his "mates" who were in attendance randomly stood up, upon hearing mention of their native land, and belted out a bellowing chant of everyone's favorite international chant of patriotism: "Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie, Oy Oy Oy!" three times in a row. Pretty cool, though pushing the limits of acceptable Tonight Show decorum.

On a random tangent, that chant made me remember how hilarious it was on the British version of The Office whenever Gareth would answer his office phone and greet his friend Oggie on the other line with a chant of "Oggie Oggie Oggie, Oy Oy Oy!" Oh and I'll say it one mo' time for the haytas out there - the British Office = great, classic, amazing, hilarious, tragic, a masterpiece. The US version = mediocre, sometimes funny though rarely hilarious, Americanized dumbed-down network TV recycled attempt at being original.

MORE RANDOM STUFF:

- speaking of likes and dislikes, I have long ago succumbed to the awesomeness that is "I Play Chicken With the Train" by the unlikely (or is it?) pairing of Big and Rich featuring Cowboy Troy. I never thought I'd love a song sung by a country music band and a rapping cowboy, but dammit all ... I can't get me enough of this song, especially now that it plays EVERY DAY before the Tonight Show. And I'm not alone, for once! Cowboy Troy fever has caught on at the page program and everybody is loving them some urban country hip hop funkayness. Ya' dig?

- also gotta mention that the song, don't know it's name, by the Kaiser Chiefs that plays before Leno every day is really growing on me as well. Will have to look into their band. Luckily, not every song in that opening music montage has caught on with me, and I can still say with plenty of confidence that - don't you worry, Rob Thomas sucks as much as ever.

- Interesting that this new class of pages contains yet another BU grad who as far as I know I have never met. I guess that happens when you have 30,000 undergrads, but still ...

- Speaking of pages, my blog has somehow become a new topic of discussion in certain circles of the ol' workplace. So, um, hello pages. Glad you're finding some time in your busy schedules to read my little rants. Actually, now that I have your attention, go back and read every post I've ever written. It's good for ya' and hey it's not like you have anything better to do!

- Finally, it's time for: DANNY'S BIG REVELATION OF THE DAY:

- While eating some dinner tonight I was watching a classic episode of The X-Files on DVD, as has often been my custom of late. While watching the episode, entitled "Eve," I realized that one of the characters in this story about a government-sponsored mass-cloning experiment was, in fact, named "Eve 6." Hmm, I thought, I wonder if there's any connection with that 90's rock band, Eve 6? A quick Google search later, and lo and behold - there is! The not-so-kick-ass "modern rock" band was actually named after the character Eve 6 from this extremely-kick-ass episode from the X-Files' first season! Finally, the connection revealed!

On that note, it's 'bout that time again. Time to sign off and say - until next time.