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Update: Gene Simmons on Celebrity Apprentice Week 2

Corey Koehler — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:54:23 +0000

Welcome to another installment of me telling you about my latest guilty pleasure; watching Gene Simmons on the reality show “Celebrity Apprentice.”

This week Gene ruffled some feathers and took a few risks but ultimately led the guys to another victory. But, didn’t look to hot for Gene and the boys for awhile though.

After they were tasked with creating a commercial for the Pedigree dog food company – which basically encourages the masses to adopt a pet – Gene got a little sexist with “The Dons” daughter Ivanca when he accused her of ease dropping for the ladies. In all honesty I thought it was a pretty stupid move, but he did apologize in the board room so all was good.

He also made the decision to send all of the other guys back so that he and Stephen Baldwin – the chosen director for this project – could work on the final edit alone. This ticked the other guys guys off who felt they needed to be involved since their butts where on the line. This was a little shocking at first but not surprising after thinking about it. After all, every one of these dudes is successful type-A millionaire, they’re used to control.

There you have it, another small update on antics of the “God of Thunder.” If you haven’t had go check out the show at the Celebrity Apprentice website.

Update: Check out the Celebrity Apprentice Wikipedia page. It lists the celebs bios and keeps track of their wins and loses.

See Gene Simmons Rock on Celebrity Apprentice

Corey Koehler — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:04:41 +0000

If you like cocky, ultra smooth and unapologetic rock stars and celebs matching wits with billionaire Donald Trump, then you will dig the show Celebrity Apprentice. Gene Simmons in particular makes viewing a real treat.

Being referred to as the “secret weapon” by actor and teammate Stephen Baldwin, Gene plays lets his presence be known in the first episode.

First, he impressed The Don by coining his teams name – “Hydra.” Second, while all of the other celebrity’s argued about the best way to sell hot dogs for their first, Gene calmly started calling wealthy friends and getting sales. Thanks to him, the guys crushed the women by raising $50,000+ to the womens ten something.

You can watch it Thursday nights on NBC, Saturday nights on CNBC and/or any time on the Celebrity Apprentice website. When you are finished you should swing over and check out the Gene Simmons bio on Celebrity Apprentice site. You’ll see that, other than playing music, spitting blood and endlessly flashing his freakishly long tongue, he has led a pretty interesting life (did you know he dated Diana Ross? Me neither).

Thoughts on the Last Few Nights of American Idol

Corey Koehler — Thu, 24 May 2007 13:01:51 +0000

This almost pains me to discuss American Idol because I think the show is a tad bit cheesy. However this is the Musicgoat and there were some good music moments on last nights show.

First, I want to give it up 17 year old sweetheart Jordin. She really brought it and performed with a ton of emotion over the past few nights and you know as well as I do that that is the ticket in music. Every song seem to be in parallel with what she was experiencing. She has a bright future. Oh and is Ryan Seacrest that short or is Jordin just that tall? Find funny seeing them stand next to each other.

Blake on the other hand seemed to be a little out of his element. I almost felt bad that he had to sing the final song. It just wasn’t him. It would be like having Justin Timberlake sing a bad Celine Dion song. They should have let him arrange it ala “You Give Love A Bad Name.” He may have improved the tune and had a fighting chance.

Speaking of the song “This is My Now.” Is it just me or does every American Idol finale song sound the same, sterile. Maybe if it was stripped down and intimate with o lot less orchestra.

Chris Daughtry closed the first show and showed everyone that he is the true idol from last years show. He is everywhere, and outside of a few Ford commercials, I haven’t heard anything from the people that finished in front of him. Things always seem to find a way of correcting themselves if you let them.

Joe Perry and Kelly Clarkson doing a Beatles song. Anything is possible. Wonder if he was able to have a few drinks with her after the show (wink, wink).

One last thing, I don’t care what anyone says about Simon. The guys is a genius and his honesty is refreshing. I would love to have the guy critique my gigs.

Can You Name The Hair Band?

Corey Koehler — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:48:53 +0000

A few weeks back a friend of mine sent a “name the hair band” quiz to me. I tried it out and learned something interesting about myself. I figured I would pass the quiz on to you but before I do… you wanna hear something funny?

I had zero wrong.

Now I wasn’t completely surprised by my wizardry since my head was constantly buried in Hit Parader and Circus magazines back then but it does raise a question. What is wasted youth? I’m sure there are better ways to waste ones youth but this certainly ranks up there.

Anyway, good or not, this stuff is fun. I will just throw it in the guilty pleasures bin along with a the Loverboy and Kenny Rogers cd’s in the collection.

Before you laugh to hard you might want to give it a try.

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