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2009 MTV VMA Aftermath & Why I Wasn't Blogging It

Y'all? I can't even hire my TiVo to babysit the VMAs for one night while I go out and do something because it just lets Kanye out to just do whatever his stupidly-shaved head's ass is going to do. GAH. I was all, "Ooh, I have concert tickets for that night, I'll just record the show and watch it the next day - no biggie. It sucked the last few years, so I'm sure I won't miss much." Then I get an ominous text from my brother telling me to wait until I see what Kanye has pulled, but giving me no specifics. I knew it had to be bad, because it actually caused my brother to type "omg" for the first time in his existence. He is 36 years old. ANYWAY - I found out about the Kanye mess when I got home last night and then watched the show tonight and found out that it was actually enjoyable. How did that happen? Well played, MTV. Well played. Since I wasn't around to liveblog, I'm just going to be lazy and give you my thoughts after watching the show tonight and then I'll tell you why I wasn't home last night to see it - here's a hint - it involves a Blind love of mine. Shall we?

- Should I just get the Kanye thing out of the way first so we can move on? Anyone who has read any of my award recaps knows that I do not hide my hatred of Kanye. I've never liked his ass and never will. I'm sure he's talented musically, but nowhere close to the degree that he believes he is. To me, he's the Spencer Pratt of music - he just needs to shut up and go away. Kanye's actually worse because he has success so he can do things like go on stage and be an asshole on TV and ruin and excited 19 year-old's moment. And dear Kanye - Taylor outsells your ass so get lost. Beyonce was all class at the end when she brought her back. Go ahead, girl. And MTV really should have learned its lesson about even inviting Kanye back after he complains about not winning things all the time and vows to boycott. Idle threats! DO IT. PLEASE. Okay, I'm done. Now, on to the other business....

- MJ tribute opening - Madonna looked quite lovely, didn't sound so British and was pretty classy. But still - nothing can top my excitement for Scream with Janet coming out. I LOVE that video. Once again I say, go ahead, girl.

- Russell Brand. I have nothing to say about him actually since I fast-forwarded through every word he said. From what I hear, he wasn't really funny anyway. What's that sound my TiVo makes? Be-coop!

- Taylor Swift on the F train - I was on that exact train one week earlier and no fun dance party broke out. Damn. It's nice to see she's sounding better live, though. Go ahead, girl. (I know, I will stop. Why can't I stop saying that? I don't ever say it. Maybe it's in my head from someone saying it at the salon the other day.)

- Oh, Green Day - you can even get J. Lo on her feet and dancing. Also? I rock that song in Rock Band. Just saying.

- I think it's time to talk about Lady GaGa. I...I have no idea. She's mental, right? That red outfit she accepted her award in? Even Bjork would be like, "No thanks." But let's talk about why they randomly wheeled out a dancer in a wheelchair during her performance while GaGa walked with an arm brace for about 30 seconds. What am I missing? Why are there cripples in the dance number? I just sat there during the whole song saying, "I have no idea what is happening right now." The weird thing is that I really liked the whole thing, I just am so confused. Help me.

- Okay, so I don't really want to admit this shit, but that extended trailer for New Moon looked goooood. Damn. And Robert Pattinson? DAYAM. Totally reminded me of why I have a cardboard cutout of him in my room, watching me sleep. Ahem.

- Beyonce, Beyonce, Beyonce. I liked everything but looking at your ladybits. Seriously, it was like porn when she was dipping it low and grinding. Lower those leg cuts, missy!

- When did Chris Hardwick become the lead singer of Muse?

- What was up with Tyson Ritter of The All-American Rejects covered in glitter when they jumped in with the house band? Is he trying to be a Twilight vampire and sparkling in the light? He looked ridiculous, and he's usually ridiculously hot. Get it together, Ritter.

- And finally, I'm happy to see that Eminem is FINALLY lightening up. Maybe he can give Kanye some tips. Nah, he was never even 1/4 as bad as him.

So those were some thoughts on what I remembered. Barring any events that pop up, I should be here with you on Sunday live-blogging the Emmys, so make sure you come by for that and let me know what you think. I'm VERY excited for NPH. And if Ben wins for Lost.

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Now - why wasn't I home for the VMAs last night? Why, because I was at the American Idols Tour seeing Blindy. He was honestly the reason I went - remember, not so much musically but just because I love his awkward, adorable blind ass. I want him to be my best friend. Paul? Not so much:



But we had fun the rest of the night (except for me almost vomiting during Adam Lambert's set. Ugh.) and were quite happy to find that we weren't the oldest people there without children by a long shot. Yay, we're not creeps!



...Or are we since we went outside by the buses after the show? If so, then we were 3 of MANY creeps out there, almost all without kids so I felt better. Most were there for Adam (again, gross):



Paul wanted me to get a picture of him for him and I tried to resist, saying my camera was going to get herpes, but I took the risk. I do have to admit that he seemed like a vey nice guy and not as pompous as he was on the show. Still, gross. He was gyrating during the show and making me sick. Not in front of the kids, Lambert. We also caught glimpses of Anoop:



Matt:



Allison:



Megan, who I didn't get a picture of, but who was gorgeous, and Mr. Danny Gokey, who won my prize of best singer of the night. Seriously, he blew the roof off the joint. Cute, too:



Kris, Lil and Matt hadn't come out by the time we left, but we didn't care because I was only back there for one person and one person only. BLINDY. And he didn't disappoint me. He and his mom came out and she walked him around - he took his time going down the line of people and she would hand him things to sign and guide his hand to give out many of the high fives people were asking for. Oh, Blindy.



The only bad part about the whole "waiting by the bus" thing was that all of the idols were behind a half stone wall and there were so many people out there that if you were more than 3 people back you couldn't get near them. They just came out and signed stuff, so there was no opportunity to have your picture taken with them. But do you think that would stop me from trying to get my picture with my Scotty? Oh, no. I would find a way, even if it was an unconventional shot. I enlisted the help of Paul, who called to Blindy to look his way and smile. Blindy obliged, and now I have this:



Yay!

In the immortal words of one Mariah Carey: "If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you're gonna make it happen." Go ahead, girl (SORRY!!! No more!)

Summer Vacation....

"Tune in, groove on, bust out."

Why, hello there. It's been a while, my lovelies. Apparently I decided to take a blog summer vacation. Who knew? I don't know why, but I just haven't been in the zone or inspired to sit down and take the time to write much outside of a Bar Tuesday review (and I even have two of those I haven't gotten to yet!). On the one hand, I have been keeping pretty busy this summer, which is always a good and fun thing because we know that will all change when fall TV starts, but on the other hand I fear my summer vacation may turn into a fall one, then winter....

I don't know, maybe I'm just getting old and crotchety and I'll be back here posting away as soon as September hits. Or maybe it's because I'm getting old and outgrowing all of it. I'm going to be 35 next month and I am not looking forward to it. That is OLD, y'all. I'm going to be out of the target 18-34 demographic! NO! Does this mean I'm going to have to start watching Diagnosis Murder repeats? I REFUSE.

Ahem.

Anyway, as I was saying, things have changed since I started my blog way back in January of 2003. Things have happened, life has happened and I have been happy to go through a lot of it with you guys. Maybe that's what will keep me coming back. However, I'm not in my 20's anymore - I initially set up a blog just to keep myself in the habit of writing. I had been out of it a little bit and wanted to keep at it to keep my writing "muscles" toned. The practice helped me in developing a stronger voice in my writing and my blog found me a lot of fantastic friends. This is another reason that I may come back and hang around more often, although I now have other ways of keeping in touch with them. As my age keeps creeping, life keeps happening to and all around me - friends are married and having babies and chnaging careers and going back to school and all kinds of things. Our priorities and wants and needs in life evolve, mine included. Perhaps the need to write just to write has gone away for me - maybe there's more important and other things for me right now. Maybe they're waiting in Brooklyn. Who knows? One can hope for more, right?

I guess what all of this senseless rambling is trying to say is, "Hi. I'm here checking in, but who knows how long I'll keep checking in for. I'll probably take most of the summer off, but before I do, here's a highlight of some things I've been up to instead of being here." Wow, I should have just said that from the get-go.

So lete's do this - the highlights of my adventures since my last entry. Shall we?

- Connecticon. PEOPLE, Connecticon was an AMAZING event. As I probably mentioned before, Paul and I are going to be having our own public access variety show so we have started filming some of our adventures for it. A friend of ours works at the convention center in Hartford, Connecticut and told us all about this anime/comic convention that she worked last year. Paul and I thought it sounded like the perfect place to film some stuff, and it was beyond our wildest dreams. The convention ran from Friday-Sunday and after going on the Sunday, we had wished that we had gone to the whole thing. We were there for almost 6 hours just fascinated by everyone and everything. It was the best. We need to go to more of it next year. And we need to go to the furry convention in October that someone told us about. But I'm getting a little bit ahead of myself. First, let's start with the ensembles. We heard that people dressed in all kinds of costumes and such for it, but my brother pooh-poohed my idea of wearing my Wonder Woman costume (Next year!), so we opted to just dress in bright, fun outfits. Paul pulled one of his thrift store finds from the other public access show that we guest hosted, thinking he would stick out a little, but as we found out, we were pretty underdressed. Anyhoo, here's what we wore:



To give you a partial understanding as to why we felt underdressed when we got there, here is a woman who I quickly became obsessed with and stalked for a good half hour before approaching her:



She was AWESOME. She was also the one who gave us the tip about the Furry Convention, which is something I simply need to be at. I wonder if I can get a monkey head for it. Anyway, there was so much to do and see at the convention. First, there were the people themselves. You really didn't even need to do anything more than just hang out with the people. They were all so nice, too. There were a lot of people with "free hugs" signs and impromptu song & dance parties were breaking out everywhere you went. I believe that Paul and I joined into a dance to a Pokemon-related song, but I'm still not sure. We enjoyed whatever it was. Aside from that, there were video game rooms, dice, card and board game tables, larp-related swordfighting tournaments, etc. There was also a huge shopping area with vendors selling all sorts of things and another room upstairs where artists were selling their stuff. You could get drawings commissioned, so Paul took advantage of that after seeing one of the examples shown on one table. So here, for only $10, is a personal sketch of Paul sitting on the toilet:



What is better than that?

Well, I would imagine some video clips would work out better. We ended up taking about 45 minutes of footage, but here's a 4 minute teaser video I made to whet people's appetite for the full show. Enjoy:



Oh, Connecticon - we love you.

- Dating in the Dark - People, I am obsessed. Have you seen this show? If not, get thee to abc.com immediately and watch it there. I LOVE IT. It's so ridiculous but I got sucked right in. If you haven't heard about it, it's a dating show that features 3 girls and 3 guys each episode who go on a series of dates in a room that is completely black. They can't see ANYTHING. After 3 days, each person gets to pick one person to see lit up. After they see what the chose person looks like, then they decide to either meet that person upstairs on an outdoor balcony to go on another date after the show is done or else walk out the front door. Here's what I love - when someone is waiting anxiously on the balcony for their desired mate to come out and meet them they can look right down and watch the person leave out the front door if they are not interested. So you've got this poor guy up on the balcony all excited and then you see the girl wheeling her suitcase right the hell out of there and not look back. It's so great. What's even better is watching the reactions of the people when they finally see the others in the light. They only light one person at a time, so the other is left in the dark to react and we get to watch them all mentally say, "Yeeesh!" Then they go back and shit talk with the other contestants. It's so great, just watch. Guilty, guilty pleasure. Mondays at 10!

- THIS. I have already requested one for my birthday. That is a must have item if I've ever seen one.

- Still revisiting movies from my youth from time to time, and I just watched Purple Rain. That movie? SUCKS. Oh my God. I think I'd only seen the TV edit when I was younger and I didn't remember most of it. I just remembered the lake part and clips that were in the music videos from the movie. But seriously, why is that movie so bad? Do people know this? Are they distracted by the good music? Because that is the only good thing about it. Now I love me some Morris Day, but are we supposed to believe that he is a straight man in that movie? And what purpose does Jerome serve on stage? Honestly, watch the performance of The Bird and tell me why Jerome is there. Give the guy a tambourine or something. But the acting? Oh my God. And the horrible message!!! So Prince - wait, "THE KID" - sorry, so The Kid watches his father beat the shit out of his mother all the time and then he hits his girlfriend on MORE THAN ONE OCCASION and both women stay with them? And The Kid never even apologizes? That shit is messed up. Appolonia should have stomped on his tiny ass with one of his high heels. I can't even imagine what Under the Cherry Moon is like. I don't even want to know. All I know is that this movie does not stand up at ALL. It's so bad. The music, however, does hold up. How can it not? Although I had no idea what Darling Nikki was about when I was listening to the LP in 1984. That's probably best, since I was 10. Buy the album, skip the movie.

- Tinted Windows!! The guys, or as I like to call them, "James Iha, the drummer from Cheap Trick, the guitarist from Fountains of Wayne, and Taylor Hanson on lead vocals" are doing a couple of shows this summer and one of them happened to be in Boston on Monday, so you know I was there. After the first week of indecision about some of it, the whole album completely grew on me and is just so good. They've got an 80's retro power-pop thing going on and I like it. The funny thing about seeing them live is that it looks like a bunch of dads who invited the neighborhood kid to come and sing with them while they jam. Still - they sounded really good, and it was really cool to see Mr. Iha play. As always, pictures:





You can't really see in those two pictures, but Taylor's ass was unbelievable that night. He's usually hiding it behind keyboards or not wearing jeans like this or something, but it was mesmerizing. I tried to crop it out of another picture but it still doesn't do it justice and just makes me look majorly creepy:



Maybe a video clip I took will show it off better. Taylor's looking fine, and that's James Iha to his right:



I also love the novelty of Taylor telling me that I'm his Cha Cha. I don't know what that means, but I want to be his cha cha. IF he gets rid of that stupid tiny Nonytail. Yuck.


So that's some of what's been happening here. What's been going on in your neck of the woods?

Public Access TV Jackass: That's Me!

I have other entries to write, but no time right now so instead I thought I would share with you some clips from the public access karaoke show that Paul and I guest host. This is the one where we go shopping at thrift stores and dress like morons just to make it more fun. The first clip is from our most recent hosting gig - check out my GORGEOUS necklace - and the second is from our All-Stars show. You'll see why we called it that when you watch the clips. Let me know what you think in the comments because I've got plenty more where these came from if you want to see them. Enjoy!

2009 MTV Movie Awards: The Liveblog

Welcome, welcome. My, it's been a while since we've done an awards show together. Was it the Oscars? I believe so. Let's see if I can get back into the swing of things here.

So - MTV Movie Awards, aka the MTV Awards show where I actually know who almost all of the presenters and performers are. Will it be fun? Will Andy Samberg break out a laser cat? Will they ever be able to top the Lifetime Achievement Award given to Chewbacca years ago? For those of you keeping track at home, the answers to those questions are: maybe, possibly, and God no, are you kidding me? That Chewbacca thing was the greatest.

Hey, remember when Courtney Cox hosted this and she played the drums at the beginning? Am I making that up? I think that happened. Good Lord, I'm already loopy and this thing hasn't even started. Let's do this bitch - two hours with updates every ten minutes or so. Comment along with me if you'd like! And in the spirit of the subject of the awards...ACTION!

- Oh God, the screaming for Twilight has already begun and we're only a minute in. I'm already thinking of taking back what I said about this maybe being fun. That is going to win everything it's up for isn't it? Have I discussed Twilight here before? I don't think I have. Here's the thing - I haven't read the books, so I'm not as well-versed in the Twilight thing as people are. The only thing I know about it is from seeing the movie opening weekend and I hated it. I was bored, bored, bored. Jasper was hot, though. So just know that going forward. Anytime they win shit, I'm most likely rolling my eyes. Carrying on!

- Is the target audience for this show going to get this reference to The Reader? I kind of feel like young kids shouldn't see that movie for fear of them being scarred by shot after shot of Kate Winslet's creepy nips.

- Thank God Paul isn't over while Andy Samberg is telling them it's okay to fart tonight.

- MMMM, Zac Efron - maybe this won't be that bad.

- Ashley Tisdale's shoes are AMAZING. Sharpay would be so proud.

- Megan Fox is hot and all, but that hair! It looks like she just walked out of the shower. Girl, come on now. Nice Louboutins, though. Am I all about the shoes tonight or what? And say what you will, but I am very excited for the new Transformers movie.

- Am I the only one who feels like The Dark Knight happened so long ago?

- Shia kind of looks like he's going to rape someone. Sketchy.

- Poor Robert Pattinson getting screamed at everywhere he goes. You'll always be Cedric to me, Robby Boy.

- Do I really have to recap Eminem? Nah.

- Keyboard solo, J.J. Abrams! Nice.

- If Edward Cullen doesn't win breakthrough performance, I'll...eat my hat? Do people still say that? No matter, he won anyway.

- Bruno - Sasha Baron Cohen has a death wish doing that to Eminem. Oh lordy.

- Efron! Yum. What? He's 21 now.

- I enjoy the Ryan Reynolds. That's all.

- More people should have seen Wanted - that movie was fun.

- Loving the Andy Samberg song montage. Who knew Leann Rimes had it in her?

- Hayden, oh no. No. No rapping.

- Following the WTF Award, WTF is Leighton Meester wearing? Girl, take some tips from Blair.

- Miley is so annoying. Get away. ("IT"S MILEY!!)

- Commercials: Dear Danny McBride - at this point, I'll see just about anything you're in.

- Kristen Stewart is so thrilled to be everywhere. Girl, stop it. Grin and bare it. Look at Zac Efron! That should make anyone smile.

- The new Twilight clip - that werewolf looks RIDICULOUS. But hey, Jasper!

- Ben Stiller gets a big award and not ONE moment of Heavywights is shown in the clip montage? Lunch has been cancelled due to lack of hustle, indeed.

- Keifer is looking so put-together tonight - I'm not sure I like it.

- Commercials - Sims 3 - sorry to my friends, but you may not see me for a while.

- My Sister's Keeper - I can't even watch the trailer without tearing up.

- McBride and Ferrell? Yes, please.

- Best Villain, Heath Ledger - not given out live? BOO. C'mon, that was ripe for a Cillian Murphy appearance.

- Best picture coming up, and let's not even bother with wondering what's going to win - Twilight, yo. This could have been such a HSM3 year if it weren't for those damn vampires. Now someone go and buy those kids some combs.

I guess that's it - pretty uneventful this year due to the bloodsuckers. Samberg was fun.

See you next year, y'all!

The VFW, Cable Access & Thrift Store Pants FUN

We've had a fun last couple of days, starting with karaoke at a local VFW Hall on Sunday night, which is now our New Favorite Place to go. The crowd was amazing, the drinks were cheap, our singing was much appreciated, and Paul met his new lady-love, 86 year-old spitfire Lucy:





Lucy is the greatest - she was up on the floor every time Paul sang, dancing right along with him. People, you have not lived until you've seen Paul and Lucy doing the Destiny's Child Survivor arm-pump dance together. It was pure magic. We may have also all gotten up to peform the Thriller dance when Frito busted that out. I can't wait to go again next week.

Then, Paul and I headed up to our favorite public access karaoke show last night - the hosts have been out of town for the last couple of months and the fill-in host has been sick, so Paul and I have been hosting the show for the last few weeks and it just gets more and more fun. We didn't know if last night was going to be our last night to host, so we decided to assemble a guest list of our 3 favorite guests from the past for our own personal All-Star show. As always, we went to the thrift store to find St. Patrick's Day inspired outfits and I settled on a green sweater dress while Paul upped the ante with a black and green Cosby-ish sweater and green ladies pants. He also wore a gigantic green sequined bowtie and a green Mad Hatter's hat with a blinking shamrock on it. We looked...I don't even know. Paul looked amazing, but my dress made me look like a crayon or Olive Oyl. I wore a belt with it, but it fell off during the show. We actually have that moment on video - The Professor was in the studio taking pictures and he was able to capture a video of one of our guests reprising what we have all come to know as The Greatest Performance in the show's history. When I called him and asked him to sing this song, he said he would only do it if he had someone to sing backup. I immediately offered, and thus, this event occurred (watch for the shots of Paul in his outfit, jamming out):



There are no words to describe how much I love that man. He RULES.

So yes, we're still coming down from last night's festivities, but while we recover, please do enjoy this clip of Paul after we got back to his house last night. He was having the time of his life with those ladies pants and somehow it all turned into a DEAD-ON Sally O'Malley impersonation (SNL viewers will know her as the Molly Shannon character who is 50 years old and likes to stretch and kick!):



Perfection.

(We'll try to get more clips from the public access all-stars show up soon!)

Another Example Of Why I Love Elmo

Y'all, when Elmo first hit the streets of Sesame years ago, I was all, "Who is this red Grover-wannabe trying to take over things?" I was jealous for the other muppets. I was VERY closed off to Elmo and his love of tickling. Then my blackened heart started to open a little bit to the little red lover of the third person. When he finally started showing up on talk shows and I realilzed what a ballbuster he is, I fell in love. Elmo's World with the theme of the day sung to Jingle Bells? It's genius. Still, I love off-Sesame Street Elmo the best, because that's where his ball-busting shines. When I came across this video clip online today, my love was renewed once again:



Elmo's Muppeteer deserves a zillion Emmys. Or he just needs to come and live with me all the time so Elmo and I can bitch together. Yes, I like that one even better.

American Idol: Semi-Finals Week 3 & Wild Card Round

I know this seems like it has turned into the American Idol blog around here, but I have a few other posts in the wings - they will just take more time, which I do not have right now. But I still have a whole NYC trip to jabber on about along with a few other adventures. But right now I just have a few stolen minutes to talk about my obsession with Scott, I mean to talk about this week's Idol. And lord, there is much to discuss.

First, let's start with the final group of 8 this week:

Alex Wagner-Trugman: why are you breaking my heart like that?? WHY did you have to start with that weird growling and shouting? What is that all about? You sounded so perfectly lovely outside of all of that - if you had done the whole song just plain singing it, you may have made it, kid. Aww, I will miss you.

- Why did Scott's handler/brother not look good on Tuesday but then turn on the hotness again on Wednesday and Thursday? Was his hotness in hiding? He looked like a whole other person! I'm so glad it's back, though. Keep bringing your brother on stage, mister. I'm going to be voting for the handler.

- Speaking of Scott - people, you do not even understand how much I love him. And it's not for his singing. I probably shouldn't even be talking about this, but hey. I am just utterly amused by the whole thing. He is so lovable from his awkwardness to his Air Supply see-through hair to his creepy eyes - I need Scott to stay in. His dorkiness is making me rewatch him. Plus, that handler is HOT. But Ryan, please stop talking to him like he is a retarded person. He is just blind. He was on the USA Today Academic All-Star Team, for crying out loud. Now shine the light through his hair again...YES!

- Lil Rounds = LaToya London

- Kanye West next week? NOOOOOO! I hate his ass.

Wild card thoughts:

- Why in the hell was Nick/Norman up in the room of possibility and not Mishavonna Henson or Ann Marie Boscovich???

- Jasmine? Really? No. Please swap her out with Jesse.

- Sorry, Matt - you're okay, but Ricky was ROBBED. Loved him.

- All I have to say is: ANOOP. I'll be rooting for you and Scott the whole time, but for ENTIRELY different reasons.

So what say y'all? I love me some Megan Corkrey, but she wasn't very good for her semi-final run, so here's hoping she gets better now that the show kicks into gear.

American Idol: Semi-Finals, Week Two

Sorry there were no live thoughts during the show this week, but the second half was on the same time as Lost, so we all know where my TV was tuned for that hour. Anyhoo, I'll see what I can remember about this week and as always, leave me your thoughts as well in the comments.

First, I do remember thinking, "Wow, these people are not very good." Also, a lot of the previously good ones choked BIG time (I'm looking at you, Jasmine Murray.) So what else happened?

- For starters, Adam Lambert officially became my Constantine this season, except with much more talent. But seriously you guys, I cannot take a whole season of that guy and his Mr. T jewelry and his deep and abiding love for himself. Take it down about 40 notches, Lambert. Criminy.

- Megan Joy Corkrey, what happened to you? Get it together for the wild card show, because I like you. I also hope Jesse Langseth gets a wild card shot along with my boy Anoop.

- Allison rocked, and I was so happy to see her make it.

- Hey dueling piano guy - you may have done well in Hollywood, but I still remember you kind of shitting on I Don't Want To Be during your audition, so it secretly pleased me when you murdered Coldplay this week.

- Contestants, especially ones that I like (Megan) - please stop backtalking to Simon. That will get you absolutely NOWHERE with me. No sass! (Unless you're Danny Noriega.)

- I'm not even going to go there with Mr. Gentle. Enough. That should not have even been allowed to happen. Jamal got cut for that shit? Please.

- Kris Allen, yay!

- And finally, I've been waiting two weeks for this particular end-of-the-show dance sequence to see my boy Scott MacIntyre shaking his thing and he did not disappoint. I LOVED him throwing his stick aside. I may have rewound it twice.

Anyway, what did y'all think? Does anyone find Adam as annoying as me? And is anyone else hoping that Alex gets through next week and that we finally get to see The Handler again? All I know is that I am already braced for Von Smith to start yelling at me.

American Idol Top 36: Group One

Sorry I didn't have time to weigh in on last week's Idol shenanigans, but let's get down to these semi-finalists, shall we? I'm just going to give some quick thought as I watch the show....

Jackie Tohn - Please get off of my TV IMMEDIATELY. So annoying. (P.S. It also pleases me that you sucked.)

Ricky Braddy - Who the heck is this guy? Good to see that we've seen even one second of him before the chair episode. Boy can sing, but no stage presence. Still, quite good.

- NPH! Someone please sing Freeze Ray.

Alexis Grace - Well, well. I didn't like your audition, but I'm digging you now. Well, all except for the random pink spots in your hair. No.

Brent Keith - I was pulling for you boy, but that wasn't the greatest.

- Randy - continuing to be useless. I love how he's just using things Simon has said earlier. Ugh.

Stevie Wright - Damn, that was bad. I liked her, too!

Anoop Desai - I love Anoop, that's all there is to it. He'd better make the top 12.

Casey Carlson - YIKES. Terrible, plus those awful cheesy faces! Goodbye.

Michael Sarver - Oh, Roughneck. This is his second Gavin song, and although he didn't do the greatest job with it, I still like him.

- Oh, and Paula Abdul had better back off of the Gavin.

Ann Marie Boskovich - I like her voice, even if the judges didn't love her performance. I hope she makes it through or at least gets a wild card slot.

Stephen Fowler - Rock With You? Really? That was NOT good.

Tatiana Effing Del Toro - I hate that she can actually sing pretty well. Still she should NOT have made it to the top 36.

Danny Gokey - Danny's been one of my favorites since the auditions and I'm still loving him tonight. Awesome.


My picks for making it through tonight:
Guy: Danny Gokey
Girl: Alexis Grace
Third: Anoop

Who are your predictions? Leave 'em in the comments!

AI Hollywood Week: Episodes 1 & 2

Wait, what just happened? So the Osmond and Deanna got cut, but Norman Gentle and Effing Tatiana stayed? How in the who in the what?

Okay, phew – breathing. Let’s see what else I thought about Hollywood week:

- Why were they pimping the blind guy so much and then not showing him perform at all? I wanted to see him dancing in the groups, dammit! Maybe he wasn’t shown too much because his handler wasn’t there. That handler had better come back.

- Not the Osmond, noooooo! But carry on with cutting Rose Flack.

- Thank you for keeping Alex Wagner-Trugman, my favorite closet-dwelling geek (Paul’s, too).

- On the flip side, how much more of Von Smith’s yelling in our faces are we going to have to take? Cut him already and put him on a plane with giggling Tatiana. Ugh.

- Oh, Roughneck – you are trying to win back my favor from Anoop by singing a Gavin song on Tuesday night. However, I notice that Anoop will be breaking out some My Prerogative next week, so how about I just split my love and throw you both a vote should you get to the semis? Carry on with the Gavin, though – you did me proud.

- Again, see you in the Top 4, Adam Lambert and your possible methface. In the meantime, please stop tucking your jeans into your boots. Thanks.

- Although I still like many of the contestants left, right now it’s all about Danny and his dead wife. He rules.

So what did you guys think?