Brandon's Buzz

“Maybe look inward, Gary. Maybe just look inward —
take a big swim in Lake You and see what you find.”

— Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath, conferring combatively (yet, seemingly, resigned to his imminent fate) with fellow teammate Gary Busey (easily one of the most wonderfully batshit wackydoos in the history of reality TV) just prior to being (unfairly) fired on last night’s installment of Celebrity Apprentice, which airs on Sunday nights on NBC and which, thanks to its marvelous cast of misfits — numbering among them this season: Meat Loaf, Star Jones, the surprisingly brilliant John Rich (the “Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy” dude!), and the completely crazy LaToya Jackson — has become the two hours of television I most look forward to catching each week.

Sara Bareilles — “Uncharted” (from Kaleidoscope Heart) —

Bareilles follows up her Grammy-nominated radio smash
“King of Anything” with this pleasant, harmlessly charming little piffle whose surprisingly sweet video — which features the likes of Josh Groban, Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles (an absolute hoot rockin’ out in her jammies), Ben Folds, Cary Brothers, and Maroon 5’s Adam Levine lip-syncing this tune’s lyrics — is an utter, unexpected delight. A few more smartly-played moves like this, and I’m really gonna have to start liking this girl a lot more. (Said video can be seen in its entirety below, and if you’re up for a little extra credit reading, my buddy Blake recently chatted with Sara and has filed this dispatch.)