Ask and you shall receive:

Declaration

And it’s terrific.

TOML has been platinum for what? Like two months? I think he was at a loss for words at the ridic OTT pretending that this is all new to him. It was kind of funny, the way the announcer phrased it, like, wowee, we’ve got this big surprise, and then….it wasn’t a surprise. Because Cook already knew weeks ago. It would be like someone saying…hey, I have this awesome Lost spoiler! About the island’s location! You aren’t going to believe it! And you kind of know what they are going to say, but still you think, this person couldn’t possibly be talking about the island moving in the finale, right? It sounds like more than that. ANd you get kind of psyched thinking it’s a real spoiler and then they say…..”Ben moved the island with a big wooden wheel!” “Gee, thanks, but I knew that LAST YEAR. Do you know some more info?” “Um, no, but isn’t that cool?” “Um….if you say so.” It was kind of like that. Which wasn’t the reaction they were going for, so the announcer guy kept trying to get a big reaction out of him and….and there’s your awkward.

I also hardly think that Fuller or 19Alphabet have done anything that warrants any tomatoes being thrown at them. It’s not like being booked on one of the major four TV networks on New Year’s Eve was a bad thing. I had no complaints with the venue or performance. It not like the Jet or the Mirage were like a coffee house event in Pennsylvania. I’ll take a broadcast live performance for more ears and eyes to hear his band perform LO any day. That was the focus for me, not a brief segment presenting a plaque. I’m sure when DCTR hits platinum there will be other opportunities.

As for ratings for last night’s NYE show: Fox came in third. But I don’t know if Letterman was a repeat, heh.

From 11:30 p.m. to 1:15 a.m., ABC, Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest averaged an 8.5 household rating in preliminary numbers put out Thursday afternoon. NBC and Carson Daly scored a 5.0 rating from 11:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Fox’s bash, from 11 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., put up a 3.4 rating. On CBS, David Letterman scored a 2.5.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/01/abc-wins-new-ye.html

The platinum presentation was awkward, but honestly, I don’t think that I would have thought too much about it but for the comments here. The phrasing of it was odd—it made it sound like he was getting the platinum for the “album,” which would have been a huge surprise to him (and, you know, the rest of us), but then it turned out to be for Magic Rainbow, which I’m sure he knew was platinum, but he probably was not expecting to get his plaque awarded publicly. So, he kind of had a double surprise, “What are they doing? What, the album has been certified platinum? Oh, okay, it’s for Magic Rainbow. Now, I’m with the program.” But really? My initial reactions were a lot less complex: huh, a little awkward, pretty plaque, Andrew looks a bit bored, why didn’t they immediately go to commercial.

Ah, well. He and the band sounded great. I don’t like the new pendant.

Oh, and reports are that ESPN used Heroes in their football bowl preview this morning.

Eh. Who knows? Since it also looked as if they were spending pennies (instead of dimes) to do the whole thing, maybe they didn’t want to retape anything. The whole thing was terrible.

I thought Cook was trying to be funny with the “many of first” or whatever the comment was, and it went over like a lead balloon because Feresten seemed to have no facility whatsoever for actually acting, like, say a HOST might want to act.

As I watched and heard the host say platinum album, I thought oh no, they are giving him a plaque for shipping platinum. Why couldn’t they wait for him to sell platinum. Why now? And why this guy presenting it?

Then I saw that it was for TOML and a little of my sense of panic went away.

So I do wonder was David surprised? And if he was, what was going through his mind?

If Cook is wondering “how he got stuck there” he should ask 19M why such a lousy gig. I’m sure there about 50,000 struggling rockers who’d be perfectly happy to do if he’d prefer to hang with his pals. I really can’t muster much pity for Cook in having to do it. It’s still a national TV show. And of course, it didn’t spoil his New Year’s Eve in the slightest. Although anybody who actually watched the whole crapfest last night might have their night spoiled a tad..

Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m sure he was wondering how the heck he got stuck there rather than hanging out with his buddies or GF on New Yearà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s Eve. I hope he was able to leave and head to a real NYE party.

Luckily, it was taped on the 30th, and Cook didn’t have to sacrifice his NYE at all. .

And I agree, Cook has thanked his fans plenty in other places and contexts. I think he’s got that part covered.