“We’re stuck in this piece of shit which I NOW OWN!” — Piven as Roy Cochran (”Judgement Night”, 1993)

Jeremey Piven may have finally hit it big with HBO’s “Entourage,” but I still think back to 1993’s “Judgement Night” whenever I hear his name. Piven played his character with such a sniveling and whiny quality that it actually became how I viewed the man in real life from then on. People love or hate Piven, so I’m sure most will be indifferent about this week’s episode of SNL. All I know is the regular SNL work week got tweaked since he was at the Golden Globes Monday night (Monday is traditionaly the day that week’s host meets with Lorne and cast for the first time). With this in mind and the fact that SNL couldn’t do much with the very talented Jake Gyllenhaal last week, I’m not expecting much.

Straight out of California comes AFI (aka A Fire Inside) to complete the bill. Apart from what I used to hear on Central Michigan University’s college station back in the late 1990s, I haven’t really followed this band. I do know their latest album, Decemberunderground, has gone double platinum, but if the music doesn’t live up to the hype, I’m grading down simply on the eye shadow factor with these dudes.