AI
 

Whoops! Guess one of your little teenage fan sites was wrongo. Perhaps they do better on Survivor?

In the excellent news department
 

Salon says that A Mighty Wind is supposed to be even better than both Guffman and Best in Show. I think I must see this movie tonight.

AI
 

Billy Joel...

In my deck of 55 playing cards of history's gretest monsters, he's probably a jack, between Bruce Springsteen (queen) and Bono (ten).

I have it on good authority that if we locate Hussein in an embassy or mosque, we plan to flush him out by playing a loop of "Scenes From an Italian Restauarant," "The Entertainer" and "The Ballad of Billy the Kid" at top volume.

S(a clear violation of the Geneva Convention)D

AI
 

Hell no. At least BJ can sing and play and his music reflected the times.

However, that guy from Rush who should be shot for ever singing outside the privacy of his shower is an abomination against God.

p(yeah, bring it on Rush fans)j

AI
 

I hope Puffy is an Ace on your list. He has perpetrated many crimes against humanity, not the least of which was encouraging Jennifer Lopez to record an album.

AI
 

Atticus,

At the Jersey Shore, "Goodnight Saigon" is a required group sing along, followed up by a howling chorus of "Thunder Road."

I was at a wedding two years ago where the groom was hoisted in the air and thrown around to a room full of Miller Genuine Draft drunk gelheads screaming "Thunder Road." Viweing this specatacle helped to liberate a knot of rubber chicken, rancid rice pilaf and Maker's Mark from my stomach, so maybe there's a benefit to these sing-alongs we snobs don't get...

Most annoying gimic song of the 80s - "We Didn't Start the Fire" or "Its the End of the World as We Know It"?

Who is Anne Elk?
 

I'm Anne Elk and no one else.

AI
 

I had a roomate in college who was a Rush fanatic. He also played tight end for the football team. We took mushrooms together once and he made me listen to a whole slew of Rush cds while he kept the television on a NASCAR race. I haven't been the same since.

Its amazing 3 musicians as obviously talented as Rush can make music that fucking atrocious.

AI Review
 

First of all, I hope you're not online at 11pm to be the first to post your AI critique, that would be just sad.

Second of all, Kim L. was only good with "It's Raining Men." The song suited her and she did well. You were just so blinded that you failed to recognize it. I have no idea how she did in any of her subsequent songs.

Third of all ("of all" doesn't sound right after "Second of all"), can you or someone else list the contestants and the songs they sang? I'm curious to see who sang what.

TM

AI
 

Clearly, "We Didn't Start the Fire" because it was a boomer song, and therefore, automatically annoying.

(Sorry, Wonk and Bilmore.)

On bad regional songs . . .

One of my uncles married a hoosier. At family gatherings, we sing "House of the Rising Sun" and "Margaritaville." She sings "Jack & Diane." Ick.

AI
 

Puffy's a monster, but nowhere near the league of Springsteen/Joel, who, of course, are nowhere near the right hand of Satan - which is reserved for Celine Dion and Barbara Streisand.

Sean Hannity is court jester in that ring of hell.

AI review and a Randy Jackson Rant (Sorry)
 

I finally was able to see a whole show. It's great when the little fishes go to bed early.

Kim C: Bleh. She's merely okay. Would probably win the talent contest at the trailer park? Six flags, Seven Flags, commercial jingles? Absolutely, but American Idol? No. no. no. Bottom three.

Ruben: Still the class of the competition. Not his best performance and as Simon and others have said, needs to show something different. He knows he's the best here, and might be coasting a bit.

Kim L.: I thought she did a nice job with this song. I actually felt she was better than Trenyce that night. A few problems, but overall a very good job and a good song for her.

Carmen: Fucking terrible. How she has hung on so long is beyond me, plus its almost unimaginable that out of the thousands of contestants that tried out that she would have even gotten on the show, let alone hung on. I almost fell off my chair when Simon told her she sounded like a child singing at a party and if she were his child he would tell her to shut up. Bottom three, and please, if there is a God, she will be packing her bags tonight.

Josh: Eh, okay. I don't think he was terrible and he was much better at the end of the song, but like many country singers, he is just not a great singer. Period. But that's - - okay. He could probably make a very good living in Nashville. Based on last night's performance, bottom three, but since Carmen is gone, he'll live to sing another week.

Trenyce: She has a terrific voice, but she appeared nervous and it took something away from her performance. Gotta agree with Randy, she was a bit pitchy. I'm not sure if she was uncomfortable with the song, but I have to admit, I felt the bluesy-ness more from Kim L. than I did from T. That said, she should be there in the top three at the end.

Clay: He does have a really good voice. Stretched himself a bit. I thought it was funny when he said he was going to get away from the ballads and the first half of his rendition was so slow as to fall out of ballad territory and become a dirge. He should have done the whole song as an uptempo number. It would have been better.

Simon's right, though. He's much better if you close your eyes. Watching him last night, I now know what the spawn of a drunken three-way between Tom Jones, Liberace and Pinocchio might look like. His mannerisms and facial expressions are disturbing and the Miss America silent mouthed "Thank you's" at the end are a bit much. Probably one of the three best talents on the show, though.

By the way, does anybody else think Randy Jackson is a big pussy? This guy can't criticize anybody! It's like he's afraid people won't like him if he ever tells the truth about somebody's performance. Either that, or he's just incapable of articulating why somebody sucks. I'm sorry, but I'm going to be harder on him than Paula, because he's a producer, and should know how to tell somebody specifically either how they could improve or why they shoudn't quit their day job at the Dairy Queen. A sample of how it usually goes when somebody has a really bad night (or when Carmen opens her mouth).

Randy:

Um, (place name here). I don't know, dawg, you were kind of pitchy and missed a note. I'm just not feelin' it, dawg. Not your best performance, dawg.

Guest Judge (In fairness, usually someone who is just happy to be there and be seen, like the great Smokey Robinson last night):

First of all, let me just say, I am so happy to be here and look! I'm not dead! About your performance, you were nervous. It is hard when you are out there in front of all these people. You tried. I give you a lot of credit. You hung in there.

Paula:

You had a chance to make that song your own. You didn't make it your own. If you did make it your own, you would have owned it, but we still love you, even though I know Simon will now be mean to you.

Simon: Dreadful. Just dreadful, awful, dreadful. (Simon then proceeds to list a litany of well thought out reasons why the performance sucked above the hisses and boos from the crowd.)
Randy pipes in, yeah, yeah, what he said, absolutely, yeah.

Ryan: Makes some stupid comment.

Randy then says, "I agree with Simon".

Well, pussy-boy, if you agree with Simon, why hem and haw about it? Fucking say it yourself! Be a man! I'm calling you out, Randy Jackson! You and me! After School! On the Playground!

spooky(damn, RJ annoys me)fish

edited because I misplaced a be.

The mouthed "thank you"
 

has got to be one of the top two most cringeworthy things that Clay does. I also hate how he bats his eyes like a false eyelash fell in and bows his head after he finds out he is safe. Like he got a stay from execution. A real execution, not the kind on the Mole. He is such a drama queen.

Ugly People -- New Protected Class?
 

L’Oreal to Ask S.C. to Review Ruling on Firing of Unattractive Worker

A lawyer for a major company in the international cosmetics market said Friday the company will ask the California Supreme Court to review a ruling that cleared the way for a discrimination lawsuit by a sales manager who claims she lost her job for refusing to fire a perfume saleswoman her boss considered unattractive.

http://www.metnews.com/articles/yano041403.htm

For any baseball fans...
 

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=230415104
(link to fan incident at Comiskey/U.S. Sellout Park)

The really disturbing (and FB relevant) question is: how does white-t like that get such great seats?