My sister is away at her little colorguard cram session this week but she has reminded me repeatedly about recording TRL today. Apparently, her musical flavor of the month, Avril Lavigne, is a prominent guest today. What have they done to this show? When it first started as MTV Live, or something like that, it was the little show that could combine a celebrity with music videos. Then, TRL happened. More guests started appearing. It even brought in a studio audience. Now the concept is dying. There's too much to do in a single hour. What kind of artist wants to see their hard work seen for just a few seconds so that the host can go back to talking to the next airhead who happens to find their way up to the studio? Case in point: the #2 video today, Kylie Minogue's "Love At First Sight" was seen for a lengthy 10 seconds today. 10! You know things were heading south when they moved it to 1pm. Who watches music videos at 1? Carson Daly has wisely busied himself with other things, not good things, but other things to partially flee the sinking ship. Now they have the idiot wheel of hosts taking turns to try to rise to prominence. Trust me, the blond white guy today? No chance to replace Carson. Fumbling words, looking lost, unable to think and react quickly.

Aside from Avril, the "big" story of the day was one of the ladies from 3LW was being forced out of the group. Oh my, watching TRL, you would have thought it was one of the signs of the apocalypse. The host said the whole world was abuzz with this news. The whole world? Come now, you've got to be kidding me.

In other news, the best band with a 40-ish lead female singer is coming to San Jose, Garbage! They're touring with the other band with a similar description (except their last CD and videos have just been awful, awful, awful), No Doubt. Set your calendars for November 14.