I like this guy on the theremin (an early electronic instrument) better than AI’s Matt!
Allison has worn thin, too. Gokey’s improved, still a little pitchy. Simon’s crazy: Kris wasn’t all wet.
Adam–vocally over the top, again. Rather predictable. Good entrance on the staircase, but can he do this . . .
This is the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen: a page turner participating in an ending group bow! (Why isn’t he wearing the page turner’s uniform of red plaid–I mean tartan–pants, a camel-colored jacket, and Weejuns?)
Oh, and that Asian chick that sounds like a swarm of Sarasate flies is amazing, too.
(I keep threatening that I want to start learning how to play the erhu when I turn 50.)
Auburn coaches are recruiting this week.
Ridin’ in style. Boss Hogg style.
I’m not sure this is going to have the intended effect. (Photo pinched from courtesy of finebaum.com.)
1) I’m tired of the ads for the upcoming series Glee.
2) SU (me alma mater) should not call seeking money during Idol.
3) Simon needed a spaghetti sauce stain on his T-shirt to complete the look.
4) Visually, was that Adam or Wayne Newton?
5) I would rank “everybody else” thusly:
Kris (good, slightly dull), Allison (where’s “the long, melodic line”?), Danny (OK, too much “Phil Collins” vocal quality), Matt (needed more vocal agility), Lil (more melody, less scream, please), Anoop (pitchy).
6) Adam will win if he can avoid becoming a characterature of himself.
7) Susan Boyle: nice voice, vibrato is a bit wobbly.
I was done-in last weekend from stepping into a gopher hole (or, more accurately, a groundhog hole). I knew where it probably was, but in the midst of battling Wisteria vines, I had a momentary lapse of caution, an errant step, and a hip-pulling spill. All this was witnessed by a neighbor and about a thousand people zipping up and down the busy road in front of my house, which helped insure that nothing really serious was wrong with me (had I managed to break something, nobody’d be around, of course). At least the fetchy straw hat I wear for yard work gave me an air of “Greg Norman” dignity. ‘Cept mine has a tropical print for the hat band, instead of a shark (which happened to match the underpants I had on at the time, which would have amused the emergency room staff, had I needed treatment–too much information).
Anyhoo–now I have an very important task: naming my adversary. One must have a name for that which one is up against. From music school daz, I remember my music history teacher proclaiming that he’d no longer give partial credit (to give an example) for misspelling Buxtehüde’s name as Buckstahootie on tests. And since this sounds a little like Punxsutawney Phil (the official groundhog), how about calling my groundhog Buckstahootie Phil? Or, given the name of my town, Brookstahootie Phil? Or, given my pseudonym, Whookstahootie Phil?
Of course, a plainer name may be better. I’m considering: Hovis, Castro, Wohlfahrt (like the violin composer), Wetherell (like the FSU president), and Finebaum. Decisions . . . decisions!
In honor of the upcoming “Disco Week” on Idol, here is a classic they mustn’t even dare to hope to top!
(I just had a horrible thought: Danny dancing in the group number for the results show!)
Six way tie + Adam on another planet as usual. Perhaps Kris narrowly wins the night among les six?
I’m not sure who should go. Matt and Lil may be narrowly in danger with the public (based more on the judges’ reviews than the actual performances). Personally, I thought Danny and Allison were horrible tonight. Anoop only slightly better. But, nobody was Megan bad.
They got to Danny about the spectacles, eh? (Just how many sets of glasses does he own?) Allison looked like a young Tammy Faye Baker + a pistachio.
If Adam gets electronic reverb, everyone else should, too!
I wasn’t going to mention it, but Allison and Anoop (and Danny indirectly) are gonna get slammed for doing last-season Cook material–it’s already started HERE.
Kris, Adam, Matt, and Allison? Were they the top four (in that order) of the eight? I wouldn’t rank Adam first because his performance was “too indulgent.” I thought Kris was quite a bit better than the judges did.
Allison has been a little musically uninteresting. I want to like Danny–still rather “pitchy.” Matt, oh Matt, hats are OK for a stage performer only if one is losing one’s hair!
As for the other end, I think Scott’s in danger.
Just think, Her Majesty The Queen may well be listening to something like this on her gift iPod from Barack and Michelle:
‘Cause when you think of American theatre, you think of Reba!
MSNBC has a good article on American Idol code words and phrases–what Randy, Paula, Simon, and What’s-Her-Name really mean (click HERE).
We get those in classical music circles, too.
That’s one way of doing it! (Are you nuts?)
I don’t care whether you play it my way. (I don’t have a clue.)
Good recovery. (You don’t expect to win, do you?)
Sit tall. (Quit slouching, you @#$%^!)
They don’t sound like they used to. (My hearing is shot.)
The phrasing’s all wrong. (Doesn’t match my 1975 Bernstein LP.)
Always so well prepared. (No talent.)
Conduct not with locked knees. (Don’t expect my best gesticular advice.)
More feeling! (Softer with more body language.)
What heroic grandeur! (Too loud.)
That piano has a complex tone. (It’s out-of-tune.)
Don’t rush. (Don’t rush EVERY @#$% TIME.)
Rethinking Idol so far this year, I wonder if they have a new sound person twiddling knobs, since the back-up singers have been too loud on a number of performances, and the group numbers are being pre-recorded?
