So, I'm pretty much disgusted with American Idol voters this year. The top 36 ran in three sets of 12 as you may or may not know, of each set of 12 they selected the top guy, top girl and third top person. Everyone else left so they dropped 9 people per week. Last night they brought back the 27 dropped people and had the judges pick 8 people to sing in a wildcard show tonight for the final 3 spots in the top 12. The problem is that most of the people with personality were sent home yesterday.
Anyway, before I get into the top 12 and Wild Cards... Here are this weeks reviews and who made it through...
Guys:
Scott MacIntyre
Jorge Nunez
Nathaniel Marshall
Von Smith
Alex Wagner-Trugman
Ju’not Joyner
Girls:
Taylor Vaifanua
Kristen McNamara
Lil Rounds
Felicia Barton
Kendall Beard
Arianna Afsar
Made it to top 12
Lil Rounds
Jorge Nunez
Scott MacIntyre
-There were so many great girls in week 3 to have Jorge Nunez go instead of another of the girls is really shitty.
Top 12 so far:
Alexis Grace - Middle of the road singer from week 1
Michael Sarver - Worst sounding guy from week 1
Danny Gokey - Best guy from week 1
Adam Lambert - Best guy from week 2
Allison Iraheta - 2nd Best girl from week 2
Kris Allen - 3rd Best guy from week 2
Lil Rounds - 3rd Best girl from week 3
Scott MacIntyre - Best guy from week 3
Jorge Nunez - 2nd Best guy from week 3
Wild Card choices:
Anoop Desai - 3rd Worst guy from week 1
Tatiana Del Toro - Best girl from week 1
Ricky Braddy - 3rd Best guy from Week 1
Jasmine Murray - 2nd Worst girl from Week 2
Jesse Langseth - Worst girl from week 2
Matt Giraud - Worst guy from week 2
Von Smith - 3rd Worst guy from week 3
Megan Corkrey - Best girl from week 2
The only two wild cards who have any right being in that group are Tatiana and Megan. I'm honestly shocked that they didn't select Nick Mitchell or some of the other amazing girls from week 3. As of right now I'm very frustrated at the top 12 and this maybe the year I stop watching depending on how the early rounds go.
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
American Idol Season 8 Week 1
Quick Recap... Last night at dinner I was told that I write blogs that are silly long and as I said then the reason the blogs are so long is because I don't blog frequently enough so the tend to get very wordy... I have not blogged since I was in the air on Friday so I have a few days to recap but I will do them in the quickest way possible...
Landed Friday night and got home real late... Woke up lazily on Saturday and got ready in time for Lynz to come over for lunch, went to the Courthouse for my regular "welcome home" meal. Normally I would do dinner there but Sara is now doing a raw diet.. Speaking of dinner, Sara and Ryan came over and we (me and Ryan) had rice pasta with sausages and Jessie's raw sauce. Jessie and Sara had zucchini instead of pasta with the sauce.
Robyn was supposed to come up for Sunday but her car was not going to let her get here. Instead I went with Jessie, Sara, and Ryan to a vegetarian restaurant for a late brunch. We got to brunch at 3pm so it was basically our only meal for the day.
Monday I met Kaitlyn for lunch at the Amherst Brewery which had some good food and good beer. I had the Heather Ale which was very tasty, but not nearly as tasty as the beer that Kaitlyn got me which was a Raspberry Barleywine Ale from Berkshire Brewing. I just looked it up on BeerAdvocate and it's apparently an alias for their Raspberry Strong Ale. Monday night Jessie went out with a guy she met on OKC and hung at the house and caught up on TV..
Tuesday night was our family dinner and all the regulars were there and one new addition in Hoyle.. I can't really say all the regulars.. Matt and Sile were not there again, they are down in NJ right not because Matty just left EMC for a new job and is training this week.. Rowan was also not there because he was off with his Renae in Canada. Speaking of Renae, her and Joe got tickets to come with us to go see Toad. Last night I made a raw dish.. I should post the recipe on the Tuesday night blog but that would require logging in there so here goes...
Corn (1 pound)
String Beans (little pile)
Wax Beans (little pile)
Apples (2 whole apples sliced into thin wedges)
Bean Sprouts (big pile)
Shitake Mushrooms (1 package)
Sesame Seeds (approx 2 tablespoons)
Pistachios (1 bag of raw - crushed)
Grapefruit Juice (2 grapefruits worth of juice)
Speaking of recipes, Sara made a raw mushroom burger patty out of Jessie's Living Cuisine book. I need to photocopy the recipe for Drew but I need to take the book from Sara first unless she wants to type it up for us.. :D
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See, that was a quick little blog to get you all up to date... I know I missed some stuff but I wanted to keep it short... Oh, one more thing.. I had my cousin create me an Australian voip number which forwards to my cell phone. Unfortunately the number he got me has a problem on it and tech support is currently trying to fix it.
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I am sitting here watching last nights American Idol. This year they are doing the top 24 very different. They narrowed it down to the top 36 before bringing it to the votes. They then took the top 36 and split them into 3 groups of 12. Last night the first group of 12 went and of those they are going to keep three, top girl, top boy and the next top vote getter. Now, I'm currently watching the elimination episode but here is my ranking from last nights...
Very good guys
-Danny Gokey
-Stephen Fowler
-Ricky Braddy
Good guys
-Anoop Desai
-Brent Keith
Eh guy
-Michael Sarver
Very good Girl
-Tatiana del Toro
Eh Girls
-Ann Marie Boscovich
-Alexis Grace
-Jackie Thonh
Bad Girls
-Casey Carlson
-Stevie Wright
My vote for who should stay
-Danny Gokey (top male vote getter)
-Tatiana del Toro (top female vote getter)
-Stephen Fowler (third most votes)
Who actually stayed
-Alexis Grace (had to be the third most votes)
-Michael Sarver (OMG! He was the worst guy)
-Danny Gokey
I really can't believe Tatiana didn't make it in. She was really the only girl who was even worth having in the competition from last night. I think that her changed attitude might have burned her.. In her audition and in the Hollywood weeks she was quirky and fun, in last nights episode she was all demure and serious and tried saying how that was how she really was. My guess, she watched herself on TV during the last weeks and decided she needed to change because American would think she was too off the wall to be an American Idol... /sigh
Landed Friday night and got home real late... Woke up lazily on Saturday and got ready in time for Lynz to come over for lunch, went to the Courthouse for my regular "welcome home" meal. Normally I would do dinner there but Sara is now doing a raw diet.. Speaking of dinner, Sara and Ryan came over and we (me and Ryan) had rice pasta with sausages and Jessie's raw sauce. Jessie and Sara had zucchini instead of pasta with the sauce.
Robyn was supposed to come up for Sunday but her car was not going to let her get here. Instead I went with Jessie, Sara, and Ryan to a vegetarian restaurant for a late brunch. We got to brunch at 3pm so it was basically our only meal for the day.
Monday I met Kaitlyn for lunch at the Amherst Brewery which had some good food and good beer. I had the Heather Ale which was very tasty, but not nearly as tasty as the beer that Kaitlyn got me which was a Raspberry Barleywine Ale from Berkshire Brewing. I just looked it up on BeerAdvocate and it's apparently an alias for their Raspberry Strong Ale. Monday night Jessie went out with a guy she met on OKC and hung at the house and caught up on TV..
Tuesday night was our family dinner and all the regulars were there and one new addition in Hoyle.. I can't really say all the regulars.. Matt and Sile were not there again, they are down in NJ right not because Matty just left EMC for a new job and is training this week.. Rowan was also not there because he was off with his Renae in Canada. Speaking of Renae, her and Joe got tickets to come with us to go see Toad. Last night I made a raw dish.. I should post the recipe on the Tuesday night blog but that would require logging in there so here goes...
Corn (1 pound)
String Beans (little pile)
Wax Beans (little pile)
Apples (2 whole apples sliced into thin wedges)
Bean Sprouts (big pile)
Shitake Mushrooms (1 package)
Sesame Seeds (approx 2 tablespoons)
Pistachios (1 bag of raw - crushed)
Grapefruit Juice (2 grapefruits worth of juice)
Speaking of recipes, Sara made a raw mushroom burger patty out of Jessie's Living Cuisine book. I need to photocopy the recipe for Drew but I need to take the book from Sara first unless she wants to type it up for us.. :D
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See, that was a quick little blog to get you all up to date... I know I missed some stuff but I wanted to keep it short... Oh, one more thing.. I had my cousin create me an Australian voip number which forwards to my cell phone. Unfortunately the number he got me has a problem on it and tech support is currently trying to fix it.
....
I am sitting here watching last nights American Idol. This year they are doing the top 24 very different. They narrowed it down to the top 36 before bringing it to the votes. They then took the top 36 and split them into 3 groups of 12. Last night the first group of 12 went and of those they are going to keep three, top girl, top boy and the next top vote getter. Now, I'm currently watching the elimination episode but here is my ranking from last nights...
Very good guys
-Danny Gokey
-Stephen Fowler
-Ricky Braddy
Good guys
-Anoop Desai
-Brent Keith
Eh guy
-Michael Sarver
Very good Girl
-Tatiana del Toro
Eh Girls
-Ann Marie Boscovich
-Alexis Grace
-Jackie Thonh
Bad Girls
-Casey Carlson
-Stevie Wright
My vote for who should stay
-Danny Gokey (top male vote getter)
-Tatiana del Toro (top female vote getter)
-Stephen Fowler (third most votes)
Who actually stayed
-Alexis Grace (had to be the third most votes)
-Michael Sarver (OMG! He was the worst guy)
-Danny Gokey
I really can't believe Tatiana didn't make it in. She was really the only girl who was even worth having in the competition from last night. I think that her changed attitude might have burned her.. In her audition and in the Hollywood weeks she was quirky and fun, in last nights episode she was all demure and serious and tried saying how that was how she really was. My guess, she watched herself on TV during the last weeks and decided she needed to change because American would think she was too off the wall to be an American Idol... /sigh
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Swing-a-dalla-doo
I finished listening to Twilight today, I didn't like it.. The book was about 17 hours and I would say for 16 hours the book was a badly done high school romance book, the one hour that was good was not good enough to make me download the next one... I am now listening to Nymphos or Rocky Flats which is so far a very good book about a soldier in the Iraq war gets turned into a vampire..
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I am watching American Idol from last night with Amber and Jessie. They (American Idol) are once again doing that annoying thing that they did last year.. The first few weeks are auditions which they show tons of people, some good, some bad and some REAL bad... The thing that annoys me is that they show a little about each person before they audition, what's annoying about that you ask? You can tell who makes it and who does not based on the videos they show before they audition, if they show any footage of the person at home or anything you know they are in before they sing... They should show that crap after they sing so that you the viewer can guess if they make it or not... /sigh
One contestant, Aundre Caraway, was so funny.. He was a pretty bad singer and was having so much fun dancing around on the stage, when he was done he said "swing-a-dalla-doo" in a sing song voice that made me laugh my ass off..
There was a few good people on Tuesdays episode but nobody that really blew my mind.. Onto tonight's episode..
Casey Carlson was one of the early ones in Wednesday's episode and she was the best of the two nights so far. I will be keeping my eyes, err umm I mean ears on her.. All in all Wednesday night had a better set of people than Tuesday did. I just finished up Wednesdays episode and I would say that Casey was the best of the two nights.
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I was going to write more about Tuesday dinner and all, but this AI episode is keeping me distracted.. Maybe I'll write more about that tomorrow.. :D
---Diversion of the Day
Aundre Caraway - Cactus
Uploaded by aiclips
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I am watching American Idol from last night with Amber and Jessie. They (American Idol) are once again doing that annoying thing that they did last year.. The first few weeks are auditions which they show tons of people, some good, some bad and some REAL bad... The thing that annoys me is that they show a little about each person before they audition, what's annoying about that you ask? You can tell who makes it and who does not based on the videos they show before they audition, if they show any footage of the person at home or anything you know they are in before they sing... They should show that crap after they sing so that you the viewer can guess if they make it or not... /sigh
One contestant, Aundre Caraway, was so funny.. He was a pretty bad singer and was having so much fun dancing around on the stage, when he was done he said "swing-a-dalla-doo" in a sing song voice that made me laugh my ass off..
There was a few good people on Tuesdays episode but nobody that really blew my mind.. Onto tonight's episode..
Casey Carlson was one of the early ones in Wednesday's episode and she was the best of the two nights so far. I will be keeping my eyes, err umm I mean ears on her.. All in all Wednesday night had a better set of people than Tuesday did. I just finished up Wednesdays episode and I would say that Casey was the best of the two nights.
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I was going to write more about Tuesday dinner and all, but this AI episode is keeping me distracted.. Maybe I'll write more about that tomorrow.. :D
---Diversion of the Day
Aundre Caraway - Cactus
Uploaded by aiclips
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Monday ≠ Dining Out?
Plan for last night.. Quickly eat some food, do some food shopping, cuddle on couch and watch TV... Well, as you know the best laid plans and all that... Jessie got home and we were both hungry and didn't want to deal with cooking so we decided we would eat out and after a short discussion we headed out to Clasicos which is a mexican restaurant just over the boarder in RI. I am torn as to which mexican restaurant in our area is better between Clasicos and Casa Mariachi, we decided on Clasicos because they have better Margaritas and they are closer to Stop and Shop.. So, funny story, Clasicos is closed on Mondays.. /sigh
Well, since we were already in RI we decided to drive a bit further and go to Three Amigos which is another Mexican restaurant at the 44/101 intersection.. Guess what.. They are closed on Mondays too!? Now we are even further into RI so we decided we weren't going to turn back now.. A bit further down 44 there is a restaurant Jessie went to with Ryan which she said was really good so we decided to head there, on the way we passed two restaurants that were open (Chester's and some pub place) but since we didn't know them and we had a goal we continued.. Bet you can't guess what we found when we got to the restaurant that they had eaten at.. Give up? Ok, I'll tell you.. They are closed on Mondays!?!
Starting to feel a bit frustrated but also laughing we had a choice, go back to Chester's or continue on to the 44/295 intersection where I thought there was a Ruby Tuesdays. We decided that onward towards food we know was a better choice than rolling the dice on Chester's. Notice I said "I thought there was a Ruby Tuesdays", well I was wrong.. There was an Applebees an Unos and a Chilis.. We ended up at Chilis where I had mini buffalo chicken sandwiches and a molten cookie cake which was all very good. Funny side note, we drove by Chester's on the way home and there were fire trucks in the parking lot.. Guess we made the right choice..
So, back to the plan at hand.. Food shopping, check.. TV/snuggling, check.. All in all the plan worked out but we ended up having less snuggle time then I would have liked.. Oh well, we had a really fun and funny food adventure so it's all good...
Funny side note.. Last night at dinner I realized that American Idol should be starting soon, I sent a text to Elizabeth figuring she would know when it started and she didn't. Why is that funny? I woke up this morning and while checking Myspace I saw a big ad on the website for American Idol's two hour premier tonight! I set the TiVo to record it but I wonder if there is any interest in watching it during family dinner tonight.
---Diversion of the Day
http://xkcd.com/529/
Well, since we were already in RI we decided to drive a bit further and go to Three Amigos which is another Mexican restaurant at the 44/101 intersection.. Guess what.. They are closed on Mondays too!? Now we are even further into RI so we decided we weren't going to turn back now.. A bit further down 44 there is a restaurant Jessie went to with Ryan which she said was really good so we decided to head there, on the way we passed two restaurants that were open (Chester's and some pub place) but since we didn't know them and we had a goal we continued.. Bet you can't guess what we found when we got to the restaurant that they had eaten at.. Give up? Ok, I'll tell you.. They are closed on Mondays!?!
Starting to feel a bit frustrated but also laughing we had a choice, go back to Chester's or continue on to the 44/295 intersection where I thought there was a Ruby Tuesdays. We decided that onward towards food we know was a better choice than rolling the dice on Chester's. Notice I said "I thought there was a Ruby Tuesdays", well I was wrong.. There was an Applebees an Unos and a Chilis.. We ended up at Chilis where I had mini buffalo chicken sandwiches and a molten cookie cake which was all very good. Funny side note, we drove by Chester's on the way home and there were fire trucks in the parking lot.. Guess we made the right choice..
So, back to the plan at hand.. Food shopping, check.. TV/snuggling, check.. All in all the plan worked out but we ended up having less snuggle time then I would have liked.. Oh well, we had a really fun and funny food adventure so it's all good...
Funny side note.. Last night at dinner I realized that American Idol should be starting soon, I sent a text to Elizabeth figuring she would know when it started and she didn't. Why is that funny? I woke up this morning and while checking Myspace I saw a big ad on the website for American Idol's two hour premier tonight! I set the TiVo to record it but I wonder if there is any interest in watching it during family dinner tonight.
---Diversion of the Day
http://xkcd.com/529/
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