...Oh the weather outside is delightful
Attention shoppers of the world - hit up the Gap tomorrow. This time we're really serious about weeding down those sale racks, so get on it dawg. I am talking mad deals, so it's worth the effort to elbow old ladies aside and go tomorrow for optimum selections - we're definitely at the final markdown for a lot of spring items, so stock up on polos, ts, and sweatshirts while you have the chance. Mucho bargaindos. On account of markdown madness, I need to go into work at 8am tomorrow, jeez louise, that involves hitting snooze about an hour less than I'd like. It's just after 9 now, it would be wise to take some nyquil and call it a night, but knowing me, I am going to watch some B movie on HBO and spend the morning double fisting coffee drinks.
Dawgs of the world unite, and not to sound as bubbly and optimistic as Paula, but good show tonight, very solid. Since we've moved into the top five, we get a double shot of each performer, and that is good news and it makes the program much more exciting. I think tonight was solid, and sorry to say, Kristin, to borrow a phrase, Josh was
the Weakest Link tonight. Help me out here, what do we say to the weakest link??
Goodbye. I think that I saw Josh shine in moments tonight, but I think he has the deck stacked against him as a country star in an American Idol race. Now, stranger things have happenned - Carmen stuck around an three extra weeks when she should have been back in Mormon Country, so maybe he'll cheat Trenyce out of a week, but I think he's wearing the target tonight.
Now, this isn't the first time I've levied the complaint about contestants either bending or completely disregarding the instructions. Tonight's theme was very open-ended, any song from the 1960s. Trenyce picked "Proud Mary." Fair enough, bring on the CCR. Instead, our resident diva-trainee doesn't do it up CCR style, she gets up and performs Tina Turner's version. As far as I am concerned, she did an 1980s song, not a 1960s song. I don't think she should be "disqualified" but it seems like unclean play. That aside, I was more impressed with the new innovative versions of the Neil Sadaka songs. I think that the fresh arrangements really fit the performers and it made the program more interesting. I think that Clay reached the deepest into the songbook and really shined during "Solitaire." I've never heard that song before, but he made it his own. All of the judges applauded him for shaking some of his quirky facial tics, but I think that his performance tonight still slid him into the Broadway catagory. Now, I am talking about the $125 a ticket and above, sold out for months, kind of Broadway, it is intended as a compliment. But he's dramatic, his voice carries, and I just see him on that kind of stage rather than alongside JLo's flygirls (flygirls? one word or two?). I like KLo's second performance more than her bountiful bust-ariffic premier number. I think Ruben was solid as ever, but Clay really stole the show tonight. I've been bored and down on Clay for the last few weeks, but he redeemed himself tonight, well done, old boy. We'll have to wait and see what tomorrow brings.
The "game" of Idol takes an interesting turn as the contestants dwindle, because it isn't really a matter of performance week to week, I think. Honestly, I think that each Idol is working off a regular fanbase and I think this has more influence than song choice or hairstyle. If the military vote really pulls through, then Josh might get to wear out his welcome for another week and Trenyce might be up to
turning her old tricks again on the mean streets of Tennesse. Anything can happen. In fact, this part of the game bugs me because it is an inconsistent and therefore unfair system of judgment. There's no justice in this system - Carmen deserved to go weeks ago and kind-hearted sweet voiced Ricky got the axe long before he was called to pasture. I predict that it is Josh's time to go and I think that Clay and Ruben will come down to the final two - any more than that, I really don't know. I predict that all of the top five will go on and do something musical - whereas we really only see great things from Tamyra and Kelly from the first show, thus far. Others from the first season seem to be breaking into the biz slowly, but I fully expect to see a whole row of "previous Idols" at the listening station at your local Virgin Megastore.
I am a little itchy for new music. The one thing about my job - it is so repetitive. You literally fold the same shirt several times a day and just carry it between table to fitting room and back again. Get to the register, type the same keys, sign at the X, reciept in the bag... have a nice day... wash, rinse, repeat. And you are forced to do the same task over and over again while the same two hours of music starts gets older and less fresh every day, and this Justin Timberlake "Rock Your Body" song starts to sound like the lead single on the government's psychological torture mixtape.
posted by lmjasinski at 8:52 PM
