#147 - kingdom of the crystal skull

just got back from seeing indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull and let me tell you that movie was GLORIOUS! for all the worst reasons. y'know before the movie i was thinking it would be pretty fun to get drunk and see harold & kumar instead, but actually i should've gotten drunk for indiana jones, it had a real mystery science theater 3000 feel to it, that would've been pretty sweet. but on it's own it had a ton of merit, and my "merit" i mean it'll probably make for a great new ride at disneyland. heck, you wouldn't even have to edit the movie, just do a straight cut & paste, same clips, same sound bites, it'd work perfectly with a little pirates of the caribbean water ride or some kinda haunted mansion thing.

well, if you haven't yet seen the movie, i don't wanna give away anything because you've just gotta go see it, but if you have seen the movie please contact me anytime, day or night to discuss. i could talk about it for hours. in fact, without giving away too much, let me note down the best parts of this movie, in order of appearance:

1. groundhog reactions
2. flying magnetic gunpowder
3. machine gun invincibility
4. 30 second automatic jet engine ignition starter
5. atomic bomb-proof lead lined refrigerator
6. de-nuclear fallout radiation scrub down
7. sharks vs. jets
8. cobwebs
9. pygmy midget blowdart leprechans
10. skeletons
11. mummies
12. more cobwebs
13. more skeletons
14. disintigrating mummies
15. russian woman's crystal skull voice-over monologue
16. snake rope
17. cameo by the black smoke monster from lost (paving a road in the jungle)
18. russian woman with rifle and sword striking (several) poses on the back of a moving jeep
19. swordfight across moving jeeps (when guns are available)
20. magically retracting jungle vine
21. tarzan and the monkeys
22. ant army (apparently they were relatives of the scarab beetles from "the mummy")
23. extra bendy giant tree limb growing out of the side of the cliff
24. "what does he mean, '3 drops?!'"
25. COBWEBS
26. how long were those guys living in the walls?
27. who resets all the booby traps?
28. torches are both self-lighting and easily accessible in ancient south american caves
29. cobwebs, cobwebs, COBWEBS!! we love cobwebs!
30. aliens get their kicks by waiting around for some dumb humans for hundreds of years, but instead of sticking around to gloat, they hike it up and take their show elsewhere, so that's kind of selfish huh? get a life aliens.

man and i know there's so much more too, i wish i had brought a pen and paper into the theater so i could write this all down. too sweet. haha. now if that doesn't make you want to see this movie...


by the way... about the "real" crystal skulls... i watched that documentary and read some articles, and the story that they present really isn't that compelling of a myth. what i'd be most interested in are the light channels and the theory that the skulls hold information. these seem like likely candidates for further scientific query and could be very testable, providing very intriguing evidence for parts of the mythology:

1. when they laser imaged one of the skulls they found channels of light being directed through the eyes and mouth - although my thought is that the rest of the skull is rounded, so wouldn't all the light naturally be channeled into the multiple facets of the eye sockets and mouth anyway?
2. the skull is made of the same kind of material that is now used in making computer chips and so it might be like an advanced CD that we don't have the technology to read... yet... - too general of a statement, but worth investigating, of course, i could also say that water and metal wires both conduct electricity so icicles must be like caveman extension cords right?

okay, so lots of bs when it comes to the mythology of the crystal skulls, but some of it could be cool to explore with more scientific studies of the skulls themselves, we have the technology!

#146 - you can't win

i'm such an idiot. for some reason i just can't win when it comes to food. buying food. making food. ordering food. picking up food. eating food. i can't get it right. usually it's the ordering food thing that gets me in trouble, i take forever to finally decide what i want to eat and then i get something wrong or they give me something else that i didn't order. today i'm just a total loser at food.

so on wednesdays i work out at 24 hr. after work, and since it's at the shopping center and i'm hungry after and don't have much time to make dinner i buy something for dinner. which i really like to do because it's a nice break from cooking and it's like a treat at the end of my workout. so after the workout i go to foodland (cause the new sale starts every wednesday) and they have this special steak plate only on wednesdays, $6.50 and it comes with rice, salad, steak, i get the steak and shrimp plate, a little less steak (you don't need a lot anyway) and some shrimp scampi. really yummy right? so that's my wednesday treat and it's all hot and fresh off the hibatchi so it's good to take home and eat right away.

so i ordered one today. as i was walking out of the store i just had a notion to check inside and good thing i did because there was rice and salad and shrimp but no steak. so i went back and they were nice and got me some steak. then i went to the atm (because the one in foodland gives out $20s instead of $50s), i put my plate and shopping bag down and get some cash, then i pick my shopping bag up and walk out to my car. see the problem? only as soon as i pull into my garage at home do i realize that i completely left my steak & shrimp plate at the atm machine in foodland. i was so sad! i thought i was gonna cry. i know that's not a very manly thing to admit but i felt like such a loser at that precise moment. i was really looking forward to that steak & shrimp plate, especially after my workout, especially because it's only there on wednesdays, especially since i had it all in my hand and i was proud of myself that i checked it and made sure to go back to get the steak.

i'm such an idiot. i know it's a pretty trivial thing, but after i realized that i actually did leave it in foodland (because i went through maybe 15 seconds of the stages of grief... denial, anger, bargaining, acceptance... oh i missed a stage, i don't know), i was so sad. i felt like i wanted to fly to mcdonalds and get the worst extra value meal there, and i don't even like mcdonalds but for some reason i think i felt like i had to punish myself for leaving my nicely portioned yummy dinner in foodland.

sigh...

#145 - idol is gone... but so is the vog

so, it's tuesday night and what am i watching on tv? no more idol, what am i gonna do every tuesday and wednesday night? okay, well, i actually do have more of a life than that, so i do have things to do. but, usually after all that i can come back home to watch idol, but, alas! no more!

oh well, actually, i'm watching idol right now (dvr... woot woot!). but after this i'm gonna delete it cause if i watched it anymore i'd just be a freak (more so than now) so after this i'm moving on. and tomorrow there's "so you think you can dance?" so i can transfer over to that (by the way, i love the fact that they used the "so you think you can dance" dancers during the finale idol results show, i thought that was really cool because even though you see idol finalists after the show ends, the so you think you can dance finalists disappear off the face of the earth so that's cool to incorporate the two shows, and in fact i think the state of american music and entertainment would florish with these kinds of shows more often, now it only happens at awards shows and then they've got all those requisite awards to gum up the show, but if they had something like what a lot of other countries have, like the japan red & white songfest or other european or canadian music shows, that would be so cool, but i guess american musicians are too high on themselves to do some kind of weekly performance show altogether with other artists, no they've gotta have their own shows or be the sole star guest right? oh well).

did you notice how long that last paranthetical reference was? haha.

but, taking a look back at all my previous idols posts (it started all the way back in post #108), i stayed pretty true to my convictions. i picked archuleta to win it all and syesha second (even though syesha got boring to me very quickly), michael johns was third and brooke white fourth. not too bad huh? but then again, i'm still 1-6 when it comes to my favorite actually winning american idol (i picked carrie in season 4). i didn't even see david cook coming, until he sang "hello." then once the top 12 were picked I went archuleta, carly smithson, michael johns, brooke white, and david cook. but i'm pretty pleased that i was wrong actually, it would probably have been a very boring and predictable season if i was right (well, predictable for me at least, obviously). so i'm pretty happy with the whole season.

anyway, back to the point, no more idol, but y'know i think this season is the first and only one that i would actually consider going to the tour concert, i could listen to most all the finalists again (carly smithson and michael johns did a pretty sweet song on the finale results show), plus there's no one that i really can't stand at all (even jason castro) so i think it could be pretty cool. plus it's be a nice excuse to travel for a little summer vacation, but i'd be a complete loser if i went by myself so no thanks. haha.

ok, now back to the point for real, no more idol so i'm moving on to other things. good thing was that the vog finally cleared this weekend and the sky is clear. it was messing up my life royally. well, not so much, but yes because i was feeling all sore throaty and sick and i was trying to stay indoors, running up my electric bill and being a complete couch potato. i've never had problems much before, and i very rarely get sick so this sucked. i was feeling all fatigued and couldn't go out and so the things that i wanted to during the week so i feel pretty crappy.

but finally there's blue skies this weekend and i got to do a lot, surfing at chun's today (waves were puny, but that's okay, i caught a couple of good sets that rolled in) and playing some tennis too. it's almost the end of the school year so that means time-off coming up for me soon, two more weeks to go.

by the way, i'm completely addicted to old star search videos on youtube now... been watching the stuff all day... i mean, what else am i gonna do without american idol on tuesday and wednesday nights? oh wait, yeah, i've gotta move on... well, tomorrow is so you think you can dance right? haha.

#144 - indiana

okay before i start my post let me just say that i'm still completely hung up on post-idol news. i know i let myself get caught up in the whole season of idol hype this year, but i think it's because these guys really do seem like good guys. not like in the past where all the contestants seem kinda indifferent to each other or only have one or two close friends, these guys this year all seem to be genuinely friends, and that makes me like and root for them. anyway, they announced that archuleta got a record deal with jive, which is one of the idol affiliated companies (jordin sparks signed with them as the winner last year) so those producers definately wanted to snag him even though he didn't win. which i think is a good move for both archuleta and for idol. anyway, i'll be waiting for both archuleta and cook's albums to come out...

ps - remember alexandrea lushington? she was in the top 24 or something but didn't make it to the top 12 (or "the real show" as i call it). remember when archuleta bawled like a scared puppy when she got outsted? it was because they were friends from star search... he won the junior male singer title and in some champions round they faced off and david won. weird huh? i actually liked her, i wanted her to stay on but she didn't have very good performances so too bad.

you know who else was on star search?
- alanis morissette
- aaliyah
- christina aguilera
- destiny's child (their name was girls tyme)
- drew carey (they used to have a comedy round)
- diana degarmo (from american idol season 3)
- brad garrett (from everybody loves raymond)
- jessica simpson
- kevin james (from king of queens)
- carlos mencia
- rosie o'donnell
- leann rimes
- ray romano
- sinbad
- britney spears
- sharon stone
- marc summers
- justin timberlake (his name was justin randall?)
- lisa tucker (american idol season 5)
- dave chappelle
- nadia turner (american idol season 4)
- kimberly caldwell (american idol season 2)
- usher
- wade robson (hip-hop choreographer from so you think you can dance)

weird huh? so now imagine in another ten years what we'll be saying about the contestants on american idol??? also, did you know that colbie caillat girl (that girl who sings "bubbly" and some new one on the radio now)? she tried out for american idol in like season 5 and didn't even make it past the first round. so really just goes to show you it don't matter how you start, it's where you end up right?

okay so back to the original purpose of this post... last weekend scifi channel had an indiana jones marathon so i've been watching that all week (dvr... woot woot!). it's funny how you remember all these great movies you watched as a kid and then when you see them again like 15 years later they're kinda crappy. well, these movies were from the 80's, y'know pre-terminator 2 so you know what kinds of effects and fake-punch stunts you're gonna get. but what i didn't realize was how crappy the acting and writing were, especially for temple of doom, but let's take each one separately.

raiders of the lost ark. check out the cheesiness of the movie poster, he's smiling in mid-whip, ha! anyway, this was a good one, obviously, it was the first one. but what i really liked about this one is the girl (re: love interest) wasn't so wussy. plus, i think the biblical references suit these archeological adventure-type stories best so that made for intriguing plot. plus that guy's face MELTED! COOL!all i remember about the temple of doom was that i was scared of the guy who pulls out people's hearts. but watching it again at age 26 i realize this is the crappiest movie ever. first of all, i wanted to shoot that girl myself, she was completely wussy, had the lamest lines at the worst times, and her acting was like watching olive oyl run away from brutus. the storyline itself was pretty lame, special effects were not only unrealistically created, but not even plausible (although i may be jaded from watching too many mythbuster marathons). good thing they made a third one because if indiana jones ended on this one that might've been the end of harrison ford's career.now the last crusade was a great movie. this is the one i watched first (because i was 8-9 years old at the time it came out) so i knew nothing else about indiana jones aside from cameos and references in tiny toons cartoons. that last part when he's making his way through to the grail sticks out as one of the best closing action/adventure sequences in my mind. right? jehovah begins with an "i" in the latin? who's ever gonna forget that? no one that's who. plus, sean connery is funny! who knew?
so let's hope kingdom of the crystal skull is good. i've heard junk reviews, but really, looking back at all the previous indys, they were never plot-proof masterpieces right? let's take it for what it's worth, little bit of action, detective work, light comedy, let yourself overlook the bad writing and problematic plot and enjoy the ride right?

#143 - i got a fever...

and the only prescription is more cowbell. okay not really "cowbell," but something i think because i'm in a funk. a total funk. i've been messing up left and right and left again. i blame vog. i think. i'm not sure. probably started last week tuesday, it was an extra voggy day and i went home and crashed because i was feeling crappy, i left my windows and sliding door open (like i usually do) and when i woke up i had a full on sore throat. i thought i was getting sick from not enough sleep (that usually happens if i don't get at least one full 8-hour night's sleep in the course of one work week), but looking back it was just because of the vog. nevertheless i spent the rest of the week taking cold medicine and crashing during and right after coming home from work. then i had that tremendously horrible sunday (see a couple of posts ago) when i slept from midnight on saturday to 9:30 am sunday... then crashed again from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm! i felt completely crappy the whole rest of the day. and i completely missed my tennis lesson that day... it was at 2:00 and i slept through it!

then on monday i think i was still feeling hangover effects from that awful sunday. i was super sour on monday and it was a rotten day. i tried to make up for it by going to workout (i had skipped all my workouts the week before because of my sore throat) but i could only get in maybe a 2/3rds workout because i was still feeling crappy.

then on wednesday my bro archuleta didn't win. sad. although i'm really happy that david cook actually did win, and i'm sure the producers of american idol are even happier, they're probably thanking their lucky whatevers that cook won, they snagged themselves a bonafide star artist and redeemed credibility of their show i think. i think he's gonna do great. but fox news also said that david archuleta will ALSO be getting an american idol sponsored recording contract, which i think is very smart of the producers. archuleta's got great appeal for their "target" demographic (their actual demographic has been increasing in age pretty drastically, probably influenced by the dearth of current artists willing to be guests on the show) and could really fit in nicely with their new disney affiliations i think. plus, i've been downloading tons of idol songs off of itunes and i've downloaded 13 archuleta songs to only 6 cook songs so... but from interviews and stuff throughout the season and post-finale, it really seems like both archuleta and cook are real sincere and genuniely stand-up guys, so i'm happy for the two of them. look how cook invites all of them up on stage with him at the end, good for him!

oh, and today all i did was read internet news posts about american idol. can you tell? i've completely got idol fever. idol on the brain. i can't think about anything else. it's kinda scary. i mean, i know i let myself get submersed in all the american idol hype this season (for good reason i think), but i'm totally hanging on idol still. now all i've got are my itunes downloaded songs and my anticipation for any new archuleta or cook news that i can sniff out anywhere.

so here's me today... with the itunes songs blasting and in completely a weird state all day... and i completely missed my volleyball game! there are two matches a day, one at 6:30 and one at 7:45, i thought it was at 7:45 so i get to the gym at that time and they're already playing, so i jumped in right away and hit the first ball UNDER the net. then i played like 5 more points and the game was over, i was confused, i asked if they started early and all my teammates looked at me weird... the whole match was over already! they played the first match and i had arrived right at the very end of the whole thing. grr... and i even had it written down as 6:30 on my calendar but what the heck? i'm dumb. so that's the third fun sports thing i missed out on this week. OH YEAH, and i was supposed to play tennis with my friend for the first time yesterday too (because she lives all the way in town but was gonna be in mililani), but it was pouring rain!! grr...

so what's it gonna take to bump myself back into life? i'm stumbling down a weird road and i've lost my right path. i've been bumping into things and spilling things all over the place (literally, i've probably got three new bruises on my knees and the top of my head and i've been dumping juice and water all over my floors). there's all these little things that i can't get right. get myself out of this weird crappy can-just-something-go-right-please?! funk i'm in right now. how do i get back on the right track?

and then of course, He answers. just gotta quiet yourself down and take a listen. there's this cool quote from mother theresa...

"slience leads to prayer. prayer leads to faith. faith leads to love. love leads to service. service leads to peace."

and that's when i clicked around and found these two songs written by merrick christensen and sung by DAVID ARCHULETA... from like a year ago. not the fanciest, but a great message i think. check out "angels in the alleyway" and "the most beautiful part about this is..." at:

http://merrickchristensen.com/blog/

y'know i used to listen to a ton of christian music (think relient k, switchfoot, hawk nelson), and maybe i need to get back to some of that... puts me in the right state of mind i think, y'know? well, anyway, i think these two songs sung by my bro are a good step back in the right direction.

plus i get my post-idol fix. haha... and here's more!

see? david was always like that, i don't think he's ever gotten to pick his own songs to sing:


ps - some news article i just read said that if archuleta wasn't a singer he said he'd be an ENT (ear, nose, and throat doctor, medical cousin to the speech pathologist)! haha, how's that for little bro?

and with that last comment i've now realized that i've gone completely overboard to the scary point with all this american idol stuff so now i need to stop.


but...speaking of post-idol hangovers... good job to fox for putting the first episode of "so you think you can dance" on the very next night after the idol finale. thank you very much. i'll be watching that show for the next couple of months, and while it can't match idol (mostly because dancing and singing are just too different to compare), it definately meets my post-idol cravings. plus, some of this stuff is pretty sick, check this:

#142 - oh no!

i checked dialidol.com this morning and it said that david cook will win for sure! but i REALLY want archuleta to win, i mean c'mon, i've been rooting for little bro the whole season. especially after last night i definately want archuleta to win. i thought he sang tremendously better than cook, although i liked cook's picks of songs better (except for imagine). i mean, those song contest songs are always gonna be completely crappy (remember last year? "this is my now, and i am really in the moment..." come on...), but at least cook's one was a little catchy, archuleta's one was boring, but i do agree would at least be a better "winning" song like simon said (y'know, picture him singing it with all the confetti dropping down if he won). i actually really liked that collective soul song, but not for cook to sing as the last song, it was too weak of a song for that. it would be a nice middle-ing song, but not as the last impression. i would've gone with "always be my baby" or "hello" for him instead. but how perfect was archuleta ending with "imagine" right? come on, he's gotta win! but my predictions have only been right two out of six times in the history of idol, and those were pretty much gimmies with kelly clarkson and that afro-creep and fantasia and diana degarmo who completely blew it in the finals, so we'll see what happens. i don't really mind david cook winning, but i can't imagine watching the ending with archuleta NOT winning y'know? so i hope archuleta wins it...

#141 - penultimate idol post

two more days of american idol and then it's all over! i'm kinda sad, it's such a great conversation starter week to week. i thought this season overall was pretty awesome, in talent, horribleness, and pure entertainment value. personally, i think that david cook should win for being the most talented, but i think that david archuleta should also win for being the more marketable. and i think that archuleta should (and will) win because even though i think cook has more fans, archuleta's fans are the ones who are gonna spend all FOUR hours on the phone voting whereas cook's fans will vote a few times and go about their lives. either way, i think this is the very first time on idol that i think i would actually buy the winner's cd, either david. but then again, there's itunes so...

and since this is my second to the last idol post... here are my top 5's of the season:

TOP 10 performances:

Honorable Mention (i had to put this one in there because it got stuck in my head for like weeks after the show): david archuleta - think of me


10. carly smithson - come together


9. david cook - little sparrow


8. david archuleta - smokey mountain memories


7. syesha mercado - vanishing


6. david archuleta - another day in paradise


5. brooke white - let it be


4. michael johns - it's all wrong but it's all right


3. david cook - hello


2. david cook - always be my baby


1. david archuleta - imagine



TOP 5 CRINGE-INDUCINGLY HORRENDOUS (but every entertaining) performances:

5. kristy lee cook - eight days a week (with maddening purple star background!)


4. david archuleta - with you (i need you BOO.. haha couldn't stop laughing throughout the whole thing)


3. amanda overmyer - baby please don't go (what...)


2. jason castro - michelle (how did that make it to top 4?)


1. fantasia - bore me (HOLY... CRAP.)

#140 - disturbed

is my life too boring? i really don't think so, but i guess my brain thinks so because it felt like it had to inject like a humangaloid load of drama into my dreams last night. not only was it super emotionally traumatic, but it was unbelievable cohesive with a plot and plausible connections and transitions with hardly and of that random dream filler. plus it totally messed up my waking day today so that totally sucks!

so the dream started off pretty mundane... i went to bed maybe around 12:00-12:30 last night... i was walking around an apartment building and i wasn't really supposed to be there, but the elevator opened up in front of me so i got in and i needed a keypass to operate the elevator but the attendants in there asked me what floor and i said 34 so they just pressed it (there were two, and i thought, why do you need TWO elevator attendants?). but there wasn't a button for "34" or any number, but there was a button for the tens digits and the ones digit so they pressed the one for the tens digit three times and pressed the ones digit button four times. the elevator was glass and it was kinda like a disneyland ride because it went up and then on certain floors it cirled in an upwards spiral so that we could see everything on each floor and as we went up to the display floors there were people dressed up in fancy clothes seated in like an orchestral arrangement playing music, like a concert. and i saw two of my friends sitting playing with them and i was surprised to see them because we're all old and out of high school and out of band already. and then i saw a lot of other people i know so it was really surprising because it looked like they must do this a lot and i never knew anything about it. so i got off at that floor and went to talk to them (even though they were playing music) and asked them what they were doing. and they told me that they'd been doing this a long time, one even mentioned that last year they all went on a trip to europe or something to play music. then i got jealous and asked why no one ever told me about it so i could join them and go to europe too. and no one would answer me so i started getting mad, like telling them everyone knew about it except for me and they all should know that i would be the very one to want to join them. but still they were all playing it off like i wouldn't be able to join so i got even more mad. then i spent the entire rest of the dream going around the hotel finding all he different people i knew and asking them all kinds of questions like how long they knew about this and why no one told me about it like it was a big secret society where they all had fun and went on trips and played concerts together and i got even more mad!

then, i woke up because i had to pee, and now it was 9:30 in the morning, so that was like 9 hours of sleep but i was still kind of sleepy and it's sunday so i plopped back down into bed to rest a little bit more, but i feel asleep (like instantly) and the dream continued (which usually doesn't happen right?). but now i had found out that my sister and all her friends were in the orchestra thing too and that made me completely enraged! like look at all these people who were all having fun and going on trips and everything and NO ONE told me about it even though everyone knew that i would love to join them. so i followed my sister to one of their rehersals and confronted her... by this point i was completely out of my mind angry (it's really weird and almost scary how intense emotions can be in a dream, mostly because you have no control over how intense your emotions are in your dream and then it's scary to think that you're capable of ever feeling anger that intense). and she tried to explain but i wasn't having any of it and completely told everyone off. it felt like a really long second half of that dream and when i finally woke up from that i was exhausted... it felt like i actually did it in real life. but i was so happy to be awake and that i was only feeling those emotions in a dream and not in real life. so i get out of bed and go to the living room and the clock says 2:08!!!! holy crap that was almost a 5 hour second dream!!! i couldn't believe it, i mean, i had already slept for 9 hours with a horrible dream and then i went back to sleep for another uber-disturbing 5 hour dream?! the worst part is i had tennis lessons at 2:00 so i completely missed that without calling! so not only did the awful dream mess up my brain for the morning/afternoon, it also wrecked my tennis plans (which i really look forward to on sundays so that royaly sucked). grr...

for a couple minutes i almost thought i was still dreaming because i couldn't believe i slept for another 5 hours, i mean who wakes up at 2:00 pm on a sunday? i feel completely off now. y'know for a couple of weeks i've been feeling kinda off, like i'm not quite with it in terms of doing things i need to do or things working out the way i envision them. maybe this maddening dream was my brain's way of telling me that i need a vacation... well brain... message heard loud and clear. i hear you. you got it.

#139 - boo

that was just about the funniest thing i've seen on tv in months... i nearly fell off the couch laughing when david archuleta sang "i need you BOO, i gotta see you BOO..." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! i think he could've slipped a "shorty" in there too.

but even though it was way awkward and completely dorky (complete with dancing and i don't know what to do with my hands hand motions) i think it worked perfectly as a way to appeal to all the little preteen girl voters and middle aged housewife voters. i mean, i'm sure that's probably the kind of thing he sings in the morning when he's getting ready for school, without his dad having any input haha. plus, sandwiched between those two other boring (but well-sung) ballads he needed to do something intersting... and it was interesting.... i mean c'mon, that's good tv, for any american idol haters out there, get over it, this is good stuff! nevermind that it's probably all contrived and the producers have their hands all over it twisting and contorting the contestants and results and what-not, but who cares, let yourself go with it and it's good tv. don't take it too seriously because it's main purpose is not to find a recording artist or "the best undiscovered talent in america" or even be a singing competition at all, it's to be a great tv show, and that's what they've done and that's what they'll put above all else, so don't get too worked up about it and take it for what it is and enjoy it.

anyway, i really hope it's the two davids in the final, i would be very very disappointed if syesha made it to the final. sure she has a pretty good voice (i actually liked the alisha keys song, but not the other two) in places but the whole thing is so generic, like all her choreographed moves, it's lame. so i really want the two davids in the final, then i think it would be better for david archuleta to win and for david cook to do his own thing. we'll see...

#136 - post #136

post #136 was about mrs. zarves. there is no post #136. there is no mrs. zarves.






hahaha! i didn't notice but i skipped right over #136 when writing up my posts, i just caught it as i wrote that last american idol post... so i'm inserting it in here now.

by the way, anyone remember this book? i loved this book. this was maybe only one of three books that i actually read (the whole thing) that i actually liked (i was a very hard book critic as a student, i thought so much of it was total crap, but this one i liked). so much so in fact that i might even read it today... in fact, that almost inspires me to go to the library and borrow it! how freaky is that?! it freaks me out at least.

#138 - if the last girl cries then they'll win

so does jason castro WANT to be out? seriously, that was horrendous. but whatever, the only thing that matters now is david or david? i really liked little bro's stripped down versions of stand by me and love me tender...
but my critizism is that this was "rock 'n roll hall of fame week" and he gives us bongo drums and solo piano. i mean, i love the acoustic-ness of the bongo drums and solo piano, but this was rock 'n roll week! gotta blast it up a bit. oh well. not like anyone else did any good, except for david cook's second song.



that one i really liked.

but back to the title of the post... my prediction is that jason's out and syesha gets the sympathy vote. even though jason sucked ass i think that he's got some kinda fan base (whether they really like him or they like the fact that he's pro-mj or they're visitors to www.voteforthestoned.com, he gets votes) i still have him the edge in the jason vs. syesha battle. although how completely obvious is it that the producers of idol are telling ryan and the judges to do whatever they can to get jason out and continue hailing the praises of archuleta?

whatever, anyway, the point is that syesha cried, and did it pretty convincingly. that means she gets through. in japan there's an annual song festival with the popular guy singers against the popular girl singers and celebrity judges vote for either guys or girls at the end (of course this is japan so they're way less individualistic and kinda over-the-top conformist) and it's a huge deal. anyway, so the last singer of each group is supposed to be the best or oldest or most seasoned performer or whatever and they've got the weight of the entire gender on them (there's like TONS of performers and performances by the way, it's like 6 hours long) and so they've got tons of pressure (they're japanese, of course) so the last girl either cries out of sincerity, in which case the girls will win, or strains to squeeze out even one drop of eye fluid at all, in which case the girls will lose.

syesha managed to cry pretty sincerely (or at least they were able to play it up that way), in which case the top three will be david, david, and syesha.

#137 - high as a kite

and i just might stop to check you out.

that song was stuck in my head for like three weeks. why? because there's a whole fricken lot of pot around. well, i went to kokua a couple weeks ago and the jason mraz concert this weekend, and yeah, people are flying high all over the place. not to mention american idol, y'know...

this one. i won't even start on paula (although she's on something completely different...). but all around me suddenly there's tons and tons of pot. weird. but... if you were flying high right now... i bet these animals would completely freak you out:

komondor dog
komondor puppy (possibly a dead one)
komondor dog jumping over a hurdle
evil sloth!
alpaca
angora rabbit
pink fairy armadillo
axolotl
blobfish (what else would you call it?)

anyway, speaking of weird looking things... my friend thinks that david cook looks like the edgar suit from men in black... what do you think?