beat box lives on.

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.

just one of those weeks

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!

she's not all there

So almost a week after the fact and just in time to be caught up to real time, I watched the midnight hour of 24. Highlights: Buchanan gets fired from his post as head of CTU by his wife, Doyle all kinds of f*s up Kiefer's rogue mission and Audrey has gone CRAZY! Like she's no longer quite all there crazy, not Martha-crazy. Speaking of.. what the hell ever happened to Logan and crazy Martha?

meet your new pussycat doll

After a week of falling tragically behind on tv due to work, baseball and other miscellaneous activities, I am spending my Sunday watching the NFL draft and baseball, cleaning my apartment and catching up on a work's worth of shows.

After lots of bitching and screaming at each other, a group performance of Lady Marmalade in which I though Lil Kim was going to jump up on stage with them, solo performances and the judges being tortured by not knowing who to pick because they couldn't separate the "singers" from the "performers" and decide which is more important... we finally find out who gets to be the next Pussycat Doll. First Chelsea gets sent to hang up her boa - I guess not being a true dancer finally came back to bite her in the ass - boo! So it comes down to Melissa and Asia and freakin' ASIA wins! She was my LEAST favorite out of the final three and so it figures this show would torture me by picking her. So there you have it, the inaugural season of the search for the next doll wrapped up - what are the chances there will be a season two?

what goes around comes around

Ahh yes, another karma-filled episode of Amazing Race. The Blondies basically bribe Danny & Oswald to yield Eric & Danielle AGAIN, and just like it never ceases to amaze me how huge Danielle's boobs are, it doesn't cease to amaze me how dumb all the teams are this season. After the yield, Danny & Oswald spend the entire rest of the episode worrying about bad karma - lo and behold, karma comes back to bite 'em in the arse since they can't beat out Eric & Danielle's 30 minute penalty. Suckers. Lucky for them it's the second consecutive week of non-elimination (booo!) and more importantly, it saddens me that a) the Blondies came in first, and b) Charla and Mirna are STILL IN THE RACE! What an awful, torturous season of Amazing Race this has been.

Can't wait to watch next week's fights between the teams, because you know the yield queens got everyone all riled up now!

A beautiful day in the neighborhood!

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!

what a girl wants

With the Yankees playing a day game today, I was able to catch up on some shows tonight and yes Ev, I totally have to agree that Melissa S is not so nice and Chelsea is just super adorable, so yay to the judges for making that beyatch Melissa S hang up her boa. Seriously though, waaaaay too much crying at the end of this episode, totally not what I want to see.

In 24 news: well, quite frankly this show is starting to driving me nuts. It's the same story season after season, hour after hour! There's terrorists, there's bombs, Kiefer kills a whole lotta people, finds the bombs, and then uses the remainder of the day to complete some mini-mission that may or may not be related to the season's storyline. I want something new! Can't we do something different next time? Have Kiefer use his super human powers to cure sick people or something like that? Oh come on, the man can bring himself back from the dead - why not cure cancer?

a little bit country

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.

something to talk about

Generally speaking, American Idol is terrible this season but of course I'm still watching and we're down to 7 and Sanjaya is still around! They've done a great job with the guest stars though - Gwen Stefani, J Lo, Martina McBride... fabulous! So it's country week but unfortunately, country week never EVER goes well, unless you happen to have nothing but Carrie Underwoods competing against each other, which we do not. That being said:

IDOLS 01 - Phil Stacy can sing country! Who knew?
IDOLS 02 - Listening to Jordin Sparks sing Martina McBride's A Broken Wing has made me decide she needs to win this competition. The girl is FAB. And only 17!
IDOLS 03 - WHY is Sanjaya still on this show?! And the hair... oh dear, I do not have words for the hair!
IDOLS 04 - I was so fixated on Lakisha's shiny gold boots that I don't really have any idea if her rendition of Carrie Underwood was any good.
IDOLS 05 - I literally have no opinion on Chris aka the JT Wannabe this week. Kinda boring.
IDOLS 06 - Doolittle looks much better with her new hairdo. She looks much better in general actually. Oh, and her singing was pretty good too.
IDOLS 07 - I love Blake! Super adorable and a legitimately interesting sounding singer!

Martina McBride is lovely. I hope Jordin and Blake make it to the top. And for the love of all things good in this world... please send Sanjaya home!

what karma?

The teams are off to Hong Kong, or at least trying to, but the first TWENTY minutes of the episode is spent with the teams fighting over standby lists at the airport, bitching about bad karma and not actually GOING anywhere.

Once they finally do get to HK, there is a lot of kung fu fighting, laundromats and people speaking bad English - you know, all the stereotypical Chinese stuff that makes Americans think that Chinese people only know how to kick things and clean clothes.

And in one of the most depressing episodes ever, Charla and Mirna DON'T get eliminated and I am forced to watch them for another week. blah.