Footprints on the Moon

I’m just sitting here watching American Idol, and I thought I’d check in. I’m totally rooting for David Cook, and so far in the show, I’m sticking with that. Though, Syesha is singing Fever, and she’s strutting around the bass player. Am I the only one who thinks he kind of had a look on his face that said “oh my god, stop touching me”?

Anyways… I’m having a hard time wanting to write on my blog lately… the whole debacle with having them deactivated has left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth. Then I had to upgrade to 2.5, the dashboard is completely changed and I don’t like it one bit. So I click over here because I’m supposed to write about medicare supplement and all I can think is ew, I don’t like this one bit!

In the meantime, my eyelids are getting heavy… I don’t know if I’m going to make it through the rest of American Idol tonight. I might just press pause on the tivo and watch the rest in the morning. Have to watch the whole show though because I have to be able to discuss it with my boss at work in the morning! LOL

Oh my god!! I’m currently watching American Idol, and I’m so disgusted that I just can’t help but write about this immediately. The guy on my TV has a baggie in his pocket full of pieces of his fingernails that he has PEELED OFF AND SAVED! It makes me think of the movie Fever Pitch where they’re talking about the guy who had bags full of his hair and toenail clippings. I always thought they made that up… oh goodness, was I wrong!
I’m only disappointed that I don’t have the VCR recording right now… This would be fantastic diet control! Next time I was tempted to get a piece of chocolate or something, all I’d have to do is play that little clip back and I wouldn’t want to eat chocolate anymore! They let him through to Hollywood, and I only pray that I don’t have to see his fingernail shavings on my television again. *gag*

I haven’t posted about American Idol lately, but I’m still watching. I actually can’t comment very much right now either because I haven’t watched last night’s show yet. I saw the first few minutes, and then set the VCR and went to bed early. Don’t worry, you haven’t missed much from me… if I had been writing every other week it would have all looked something like that “SANJAYA MUST GO HOME! NOW!” But he’s finally been voted off, and all is right in the world! With such a widespread “Vote for Sanjaya” movement, a lot of people were starting to get nervous that he’d make it to the end. That would have ended up with a lot of people boycotting the show, I think. My current favorites are Jordin, Lakisha, and Melinda. I say that, of course, with the whole season in mind because I haven’t seen the most recent episode. Who do you think will be going home tonight?

Well, this week we say goodbye to four more Idol hopefuls. You may have noticed that I never posted an opinion on the girls performances this week. Well, that’s because I haven’t finished watching them yet!!
This week A.J., Nick, Alaina and Leslie are all going home. I can’t say that I’m surprised by the results this week, except for the fact that Sanjaya didn’t go home. Over and over again I was reminded why I stop watching the results shows every year. First of all, they drag it out… I hate the way he lets people know they’re going home. And until the final 5 or so, it’s more of a popularity contest than a singing one.
And Fantasia and Kelli Pickler? Are all the good Idols busy??

Tonight was the boys who made it through last week… as usual, I missed the first three (I think) performances. I’m not really feeling like I missed much though. I don’t know. I guess I’m just not that into any of the contestants so far. I am a big fan of Sundance, but that’s as far as it goes and most of that is from his audition!

Simon said to one of the contestants that it lacked charisma, and I had to agree with him– for several of them! The singing itself wasn’t bad, but there wasn’t much feeling behind most of the singing. I would break down who sang what, and what I thought about it, but to be honest, I haven’t gotten to know them well enough to keep them straight!!

One more thing I will say though, does anyone else get the impression that the judges are being far nicer than they would have been in previous years?? After so many seasons of American Idol, you start to get a feel for what the judges might have to say about performances, but so far I’m just seeing them not entirely willing to say “Dude, it just wasn’t good.”

I just got done watching the tapes of American Idol this week… I set the VCR so I could catch a few extra winks before work. I only caught the last hour of the guys performance, but I got the entire girls show. I’m disappointed that I missed Sundance’s performance because he’s one of the only ones that stuck out to me during the audition stage. (I missed all of the Hollywood stage as well). From watching the recaps though, it doesn’t look like I missed a whole lot. There were a couple of not-so-good performances last night, but on the whole, I think the girls blew the boys out of the water. When it gets like that, I think the 6 guys and 6 girls thing is a little unfair.
I’ve got the VCR set to catch tonight’s show because I need to be heading back to bed. (I should be sleeping now.) I’m not really sure who will go home. Noone is really standing out to me as a favorite thus far, but especially at this stage, America tends to be swayed by the judges opinions. I’ll be a little more forceful about who I’d like to go and stay as we go along. This early on, I just don’t feel like I’ve had the chance to really decide one way or another.
How about you? Any early favorites? Who do you think should/is going to go home?

Show of hands, who is watching American Idol this year? I have to admit, thus far I’m rather unimpressed. I love AI though, so I’m hoping it gets better before too much longer. I don’t understand all the backlash though. All the contestants signed waivers, this is season number six, and they all know darn well what they are getting themselves into. I do think they are being a little harsher this year than in other years, but so far that just seems to mean not letting mediocre people through just for the sake of being nice.

As far as tonight’s wanna-bes… not a great bunch it seems. I really liked, what was his name? Sundance? Shame that his parents were that mean, but I really liked his voice! I can tell already that he’s going to be one of my favorites going into Hollywood, and hopefully on into the competition.
I had to laugh at Tamique (I think? I didn’t catch the spelling of her name…). She had the personality of a cardboard cut out.
I didn’t really have anything particular to say about any of the rest of them, but those two stood out. One good, one bad.

Is Idol on tomorrow night?? I think so, but until they get on their “regular” schedule, I can never keep track.