I opted against the two hour finale of American Idol and turned it on at 9:56pm to find out that David Cook thankfully won by a very safe margin of 12 million votes. What a relief. I sort of wondered what I missed in the previous two hours but I also am pretty sure I don't much care. I'm just glad that Archuleta kid did not win. That would have been the biggest travesty ever.
I just watched the top two perform in the American Idol finale and I must say, I love David Cook and all but this has been the most underwhelming top two ever. Seriously, kind of a snoozefest. But the judges loooooove them some David Archuleta and I DON'T GET IT.
Another cuckoo week of week and extreme chaos. I'm getting through it and furiously trying to catch up on tv at the same time. We are down to two on American Idol and it's David Cook vs. David Archuleta. I so can't stand David Archuleta and if he wins there is something very wrong in world. As scary looking as he is, David Cook must win!
I have quietly been catching up on Desperate Housewives and it's kind of great -- Susan just had a baby with Mike the Plumber who found out that Bree's husband Orson was the one who ran him over with a car. Bree confessed to the rest of the ladies that her baby is actually her daughter's baby, and Gabby is married once again to Carlos who is now blind. Lynette has a huge problem on her hands in the form of Kayla, Tom's daughter from a previous relationship. Kayla is a really messed up little girl and bad things happen. And that is pretty much your season in a wrap - tonight is the season finale which will wrap all this up into something that makes you wonder if anyone will care what happens next season. Good times.
I kinda don't understand how another entire week has gone by already. Especially when it was the longest. week. ever. All I can really tell you is that Jason Castro FINALLY got booted off Idol. He did a terribly awful rendition of Bob Marley's I Shot the Sheriff and really shot himself in the face in the process, it was so bad. Really, I can't see any alternative to David Cook winning.
I have to work this weekend...again. After having already worked what seems like an endless number of hours this week. So sad. I need sleep!
It's been a looong exhausting week for your truly and tv has eluded me. I have worked many many hours in many many days (including Saturday into the wee hours of the night) and spent so little time in my apartment that I think my DVR feels neglected.
I think Brooke White got kicked off American Idol this week. Which is very sad, only because that means David Archuleta is still there. But is also good because it means David Cook is still there too!
This morning/afternoon when I finally rolled myself out of bed I watched the final episode of this season's Big Brother, a week after the fact, to discover that Adam won, Ryan only got one vote, and all the contestants were still as obnoxious as I remember them. I really really hope next season is a better one than this turned out to be - it had hope early in the season but then just went downhill to an awful place.
I am going to try my hardest to catch back up today, since I think it's going to be yet another really long, really crazy week. Oh how I love my job!
So between baseball, warm weather and craziness at work, I am so very behind in tv. Haven't watched a darn thing this week other than FF-ing my way through American Idol at lightning speed to see Kristy Lee Cook finally get voted out.
David Cook all the way!
My plan is to try and get caught up on the rest of this week's shows by the end of the weekend. Who knows if that works or not.
OMG my favorite Aussie Michael Johns got eliminated tonight from AI. Nooooooooooo!!! There is no justice in this world. I.am.devastated.
So sad :(
So I am catching snippets of Idol Gives Back (which is apparently a 2 1/2 hour affair). I know it's a great cause, but it's crazy loong and I'd be up all night trying to watch this straight through, so the FF button it is. Currently I'm watching Teri Hatcher sing a Carrie Underwood song. Since when can Teri Hatcher sing?? I half expected Simon Cowell to come out at the end and criticize her performance, but not so much.
Eli and Peyton Manning have made an appearance... and Eli most desperately needs a haircut.
There are lots and lots of celebrity appearances and lots of performances, but I'm now watching the Idol contestants singing Seasons of Love - one of my personal favorite Broadway songs ever! And so appropriate for this particular show, so it's quite lovely.
Miley Cyrus performs TWICE, which seems highly unnecessary. Brad Pitt shows up near the end and everyone goes NUTS! The show closes out with the Idol contestants singing something soothing and calming that immediately makes me decide it's time for bed. And so I will do just that now.
Tomorrow - back to business with elimination night!
It's "Inspirational Week" on American Idol in honor of Idol Gives Back and my favorite Aussie is up first with Aerosmith's Dream On and we're off and running! Paula and I loved it, Randy and Simon not so much. I don't think Michael Johns could ever do wrong in my eyes.
Syesha sings Fantasia's I Believe and we're all reminded that Fantasia actually did win a season of American Idol.
Jason Castro sings one of my favoritest songs of all time - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's make of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, so even though I still think he's a bit weird and I'm not in love with him like the rest of America, I LOVE IT.
Kristy Lee Cook, who has been skating by the past few weeks by the skin of her teeth, finally has a fabulous week and MIGHT actually not be in the bottom three again this week!
David Cook sounds like... well, like he does every other week. Don't get me wrong, he sounds good - but I'm starting to not remember what songs he's sung from week to week because they all now sounds exactly the same!
Carly takes on Queen, which bugs me for pure fact that I love the way Michael Johns has rocked out to Queens in earlier episodes and she doesn't do it NEARLY as great as he does.
David Archuleta - the 12 year old America loves and I still don't really get why. Even the judges love him!
Last up, Brooke White singing Carol King's You've Got a Friend and even though I don't love her hair tonight, I do still love her, even though I much prefer her with the piano.
Oh yeah, Paul's boobs are so spilling out of her top.
Just got home from my third night in a row of after-work socializing, and I am trying frantically to keep up with tv - I have very quickly FF'ed my way through this week's AI results show, and the bottom three consists of Chikezie, Jason Castro and Syesha. I am SHOCKED Syesha is in the bottom crowd and even more shocked when Jason Castro gets sent back to safety - I'm so over him! And so we're down to Chikezie and Syesha and it's a bye-bye to Chikezie. Which I kinda feel bad about, since he's actually been doing decent, but am also glad about because Syesha had a most wonderful performance this week and deserved to stay! And then there were nine...
It's the top ten on American Idol and I'm still hanging in there, even though it's been a tough season so far. This week each singer has to sing a song from the year they were born. Mind you this means like, 1987. Oh man I am old.
Ramiele is so very adorable and lovely, so I am so very sad that she didn't sound very good - but she is a bit under the weather, so I think she gets a pass and will hopefully make it through to next week.
Jason Castro continues to bore me.
Syesha has a most fabulous performance in her breakout week and I actually really like her now!
Chikezie just doesn't do it for me.
Brooke White is still fabulous, even without her crazy curls, because she is lovely with her piano.
Michael Johns was born in 1978 - that's my year! And born just 22 days after me. And is as adorable as ever, heehee. And totally rocks it out with Queen! Ohmygosh, I totally have such a crush on him! (Me and every 16 year old girl in the country I'm sure.)
Carly Smithson is lovely. And her husband has lots of tattoos on his face. Weird.
David Archuleta is really, really overrated. I don't quite understand why America is so fascinated with him. Maybe it is because he was born in 1990 and I'm just mad at how old that makes me. He looks about TWELVE, for cryin' out loud.
Kristy Lee Cook finally has a decent week but I'm already so mad at her from her last few really awful weeks that I fear this was too little too late.
David Cook is a rockstar!
So who's going home? Whew, this is tough one this week. If I had to pick, it would be bye bye to Jason Castro.
This week starts the Top 12 on American Idol and I am smitten! It's John Lennon week which is GREAT because that means a myriad of Beatles songs and such for contestants to sing, and I love that. Normally this is where I start to do a contestant-by contestant recap week to week, but I'm too tired for that this week, sorry!
So the judges HATED Ramiele's performance this week and yeah it was a tad on the boring side, but she sang In My Life, one of my favoritest songs ever, and I love her! She's so adorable. Oh, and I love how she talked about how she works in a sushi restaurant so she smells like sushi all the time. heehee.
Generally speaking, most of the contestants stepped it up big time for the top 12 performances. Yay!
This week begins the part of American Idol where it's on about nine times a week (okay, three) for a total of approximately 23 hours (okay, five.) Point is, its a LOT. Which makes it super hard to keep up, but I'm trying! I'm currently watching last night's top 12 guys perform while my DVR is currently recording the top 12 girls performing. Simultaneously, Big Brother is also on about three times a week. Whew, talk about exhausting!
So far none of these guys are all that interesting to me - and some I don't even ever remember seeing before! How the heck did they end up in the top 24? Have I been paying that little attention so far this season?
In a most exhausting week where I have just spent three nights in a row at Yankee Stadium, tv has not really been high on my priority list for no real reason other than the fact that I just haven't spent very much time at home and when I AM home I'm dead tired and sleeping. However, I did manage to speed my way through the American Idol finale since I figured I would hear about it otherwise and wanted to find out who won.
In an unprecedented turn of events, this season's finale was actually worth watching! Some highlights:
- The Top Six guys performing with Smokey Robinson in snazzy all white outfits.
- Blake doing a BAD ASS beatboxing performance with Doug E Fresh! Friggin' awesome.
- Super adorable Carrie Underwood doing a way-better-than-the-original rendition of I'll Stand By You.
- The Top Six Gals performing with Gladys Knights, also all in snazzy all white outfits.
- Jordin singing a FAB duet with Rooooooo-bin of one of my all time favorite classic songs, You're All I Need.
- The Beatles Medley with a bunch of former Idols and this season's top 12.
The lowlights:
- Sanjaya actually got his on frickin' performance. Seriously.
- Kelly Clarkson's crazy outfits and way overdone eye makeup, though to her credit, she sounds great.
- Taylor Hicks got to perform twice. What's up with that?
- BETTE MIDLER? And not just Bette Midler, but Bette Midler singing Wind Beneath My Wings of all things?!?
Oh yeah, and so I finally get through the two hour finale (with some FF-ing involved of course), only to find out that the Fox producers f*ed up and the show ran over by 10 minutes or so, and you know what that means? I didn't actually get to see who won! It made it all the way through the Beatles medley, goes to commercial, and then never comes back because 10pm rolled around and my DVR stopped recording! DAMN YOU FOX. So thank you to Kingston for informing me who the winner was (even though I would've found out the next morning who it was anyway, but at least I slept better that night).
And that's a wrap til I can catch up on the rest of this week's tv!
So after a weekend of margaritas, socializing, and cupcake making, I am mostly caught up on tv - as one of what amounts to probably about two people still watching The Bachelor, I found myself wondering how I missed most of the season and there were suddenly only three girls left, even when I've been recording every episode. I guess I wasn't watching all that carefully. So after hometown dates in Hawaii and the usual fantasy suite invitations (abc needs to come up with something a little ore creative), we are back to the rose ceremony, and it's bye-bye to Danielle, which is fine with me because she wasn't all that memorable anyway. So the final two are Bevin, who I find a bit irritating and Tessa, who I think is adorable and I hope she wins!
As for American Idol, we also go from three to two this week! Each contestant sings three songs and they are all fab for different reasons.
Round 1 was the judges' choice: All three of them rocked it, but Doolittle wins round 1 due to a crazy fantastic rendition of Whitney Houston (nice pick, Randy).
Round 2 was the producers' choice: Another fab round but I especially loved Blake in this round because he sang Maroon 5 and I loved it!! And could he be any more adorable? Round 2 goes to Blake!
Round 3 was the contestants' pick: Yet another lovely round and at this point, I have no clue who I think will win (though I did vote for MY pick) because everyone is great!
On to elimination night:
Lots of recapping to show how we ended up at the final three, a plug for the AI Tour, Elliott Yamin looking like a COMPLETELY different person with his big hair, Maroon 5 (yay!), and then first Jordin makes it through to the finals and then OHMYGOD Blake makes it in!! Okay seriously, nothing against Doolittle at all, she is FAB and will no doubt go on to bigger and better things, but you know how much I love Blake so there you've got it -- Jordin vs. Blake in the final two. Whew, good thing I voted ;)
I'm not really sure what the theme on American Idol is this week (disco? ballad?), but it's a bad one -- and I don't particularly love ANY of the performances and it's very difficult to identify who's stayin' alive and who's goin' home this week. I can't really get over how generally terrible everyone sounds overall and these songs were just not very fun at all.
So it's down to beat boxing Blake and the three divas and after lots of fluff, a cameo by Jessica Alba (!), REALLY bad group singing, a very random performance by Pink, a very WEIRD performance by Barry Gibb and some (lots of) other junk... my adorable Blake is spared another week and it's bye-bye Lakisha. Was hoping she'd plant another smacker on Simon before departing, but no such luck. darn.
oh, and the yanks are FINALLY back up to .500! whew.
The Yankees game officially got rained out, and so here I am watching the AI elimination episode. TWO people going home tonight! Lots of filler in the first half hour recapping performances and last week's Idol Gives Back special, and then just like that it's bye-bye Phil. And during his bye-bye montage I have decided that I am quite a huge fan of Carrie Underwood's I'll Stand By You. Hmm, might have to make an iTunes run for that one. Back to the show... some more fluff, a super cool Bon Jovi performance and then peace out JT (Chris)! I am sad indeed to see him go, but since it came down to him and Blake and I think I would have slit my wrists if it as Blake that got sent hoe, I'm okay with the results.
And just like that *poof* we've gone from 6 to 4.
Work's been the death of me, and combined with the debacle last night of me breaking my key and getting locked out of my apartment... well it's just been that sort of week and that's why my tv watching has been lacking. However, I'm currently waiting out a rain delay with the Yankees game, so it seemed like a good time to catch up a bit on American Idol for the week.
So it's Bon Jovi week, we're down to six, and this is what we've got:
- Phil sings first but I totally missed it because I got a phone call and talked through the entire thing, then couldn't be bothered to rewind and rewatch.
- Jordin sings Livin' on a Prayer and it actually made me cringe to listen to her, because it was not good, which is sad because I love her! I've got my fingers crossed that he squeaks through.
- Lakisha: eh. Sort of not memorable at all, pretty mediocre. The most entertaining part was AFTER her performance when she gives Simon a big smooch!
- Blake died his hair BLACK and did the most F-ING AWESOME rendition of You Give Love a Bad Name and it ROCKS. LOVE HIM!
- So Chris aka the local JT Wannabe sings what one would perceive as pretty decent version of Wanted Dead or Alive, but unfortunately since he went right after Blake, I was just sort of "eh" about it.
- So are we sure Melinda isn' already a professional singer? Because she is ridiculously good and I'm all abut Melinda and Blake as the final two!
And Simon must be in a good ole smoochy mood this week, because Paula gets a smooch too!
Yay! Finally we have warm weather! I'm rather happy about that, except for the fact that impedes with my tv watching because I am compelled to spend more time outdoors. That being said, I'd like to just mention that Sanjaya still haunts us even though he has been rightfully booted from American Idol. The boy and his hair is getting WAY too much media attention - he's getting invited to White House dinners, for cryin' out loud!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2007/04/23/whcd-2007-stars-slipper_e_46569.html
It's WRONG. So very, very wrong *sigh*
In non-tv and completely unrelated to anything news, I want to point out that it is incredibly difficult, annoying and time consuming to only be able to eat with one side of my mouth. Meals take twice as long and way too much concentration to keep the food corralled on one side of my mouth, so as not to disturb the stitches in both my upper and lower gums on the left side of my mouth. blah!
It's elimination night on AI and I must admit the group song at the beginning of the episode was kind of adorable. And to continue the theme of weekly random doesn't fit in to anything performance, they had Fergie perfom. Yes, Fergie. During country week. Can anyone explain this to me? So aside from a lovely performance by Martina McBride, this episode was filled with a whole lotta silliness and they did that thing that I HATE where they divide the contestants in half and then make Doolittle pick which side is safe, and I love that she just decides to squat herself in the middle of the stage. And Sanjaya is FINALLY in the bottom three and FINALLY. GOES. HOME. It's about freakin' time, America.
