Sunday, December 6, 2009

It's The Hoff's World; We Just Live in It

Spied on the back window of a van on my way to the post office. As we were heading over to Germany, we were advised that actor/singer/talent judge and hamburger enthusiast David Hasselhoff was (is?) a minor music star here, but this is the first sign of fan-dom I've seen. Obviously, it's an oldie from his Knight Rider days, and looks to be some sort of freebie sticker from a Hot Wheels car-- translated, it means "The Hottest of Wheels." The MTV European Music Awards show (which took place in Berlin) was broadcast last month, and "the Hoff" was there, looking sweaty, bloated, with a little too much plastic surgery work done... and obviously quite drunk. There are several videos around of this goofus at the show-- the backstage stuff shows him to be even more blotto-- but his 90 second presentation (he walked out to his song "Looking for Freedom," which charted in Germany around the same time the Berlin Wall came down, which he referenced, sort of) is plenty enough for me. That awards show was a trainwreck from start to finish by the way.

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