American Idol - Hollywood

The list got cut down to 104 contestants tonight. My overall review, I'm happy about a few that got through. Others... not so much.

It kills me that Ryan has to open the show with how it's "the biggest season yet." Um, don't you say that every year? What if it proves to be a letdown? Can I call you a liar?

One change this year was stylists and vocal coaches in the Hollywood round! Can I just tell you I was very excited for stylists? They also brought in Barry Manilow as a mentor or something. He really just gave the finalists a speech. Is it bad that I'm pretty much the opposite of impressed with him? Sure, argue that he's timeless, but with that amount of plastic surgery I could be timeless too! Hubby actually quipped that that's what Clay Aiken will look like in fifty years. It earned a laugh from me.

Little notes about the night:

• Dennis reminded me of Urkel. His face kind of said surprised or scared a lot. Not a good singer. I'm glad he didn't make it through. I think he's a little nuts.
• Nathaniel... I don't remember him from auditions, but he has a good voice. But what happened to the stylists? His outfit (and HEADBAND) was mildly distracting.
• Anoop is the guy that had some serious eyebrows and looked "geeky." (Simon said it, not me.) Either the stylists did a number on him or he doesn't always dress geeky, because he looked like he might be able to make it through for a bit. Helps that he really does have a good voice.
• Rose was the cute hippie chick. She sounded nervous. But her whole group made it through. And I think Jason Castro's brother was in that group! Any hope for more Jason is alright with me...
• I like Jorge, he's the guy who sang in Spanish and English. I hate that Kara called him "George." Really? Really Kara???
• Simon called Von "indulgent" and "annoying." I think I agree with the indulgent thing.
• Norman Gentle from auditions? Yeah, he was an alter ego of Nick. And Nick obviously doesn't give a spit about the competition because he unleashed Norman again. I think I'm with Simon in the "annoyed and ready to hurt him" camp. And for some reason they let him through.
• Danny is the one who lost his wife. AND I LOVE HIM! He's reeeeally good. I will be voting for him.
• "Bikini Girl" has a name and it's Katrina. Does anyone else find it amusingly coincidental that she shares a name with one of the worst natural disasters this decade? She made it through, but the highlight of her whole segment was Kara being catty after she left the stage. She totally turned to Paula and said, "Bring your pole tomorrow." I died.
• David Osmond is good, but I swear if they use him as a way to get Donny and Marie on this show for any amount of time I WILL CHANGE THE CHANNEL!
• Emily chose a completely different song than she had been practicing. She is totally lucky she made it through after a stupid decision like that.
• Erika annoyed me when she begged for another chance. She even threw in that it was her husband's birthday. Honey, the judges don't care.
• Brent, the one that made me swoon during auditions made it. Maybe I'll have to vote for him too...

There you have it. My breakdown of the night. And in case any of you are wondering how I kept names and quotes straight...

I totally took notes in my journal.

See you tomorrow for more!

OMGOMGOMG!!!

So I grabbed the paper this morning, but didn't read it. It sat next to me on the couch for the past hour. Just sitting, not shouting "READ ME!" But I finally picked it up. And what do I find out?

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK ARE COMING TO MY CITY!!!

I'm so dying. You have no idea. They were my first concert. I had countless shirts, pins, scrunchies... the fancy jacket! I thought I was going to marry Joey.

I must go to this. Tickets go on sale Saturday. I am willing to eat cereal for a week if that's what it takes to spend the money on a ticket. I will go. And it will be AWESOME!

I have an idea...

Hubby and I were watching the news last night and I realized just how depressing the news has been as of late. There's no escaping the fact that we are basically in a depression. Add to that the fact that I live in California where we're suffering a RIDICULOUS budget crisis, and all is not well in the world.

So I came up with something. Block it out for a day.

Take a day off from your news sometime this week. In fact, let's all promise to have a good Friday and take a day off from news. Don't read your paper (except maybe the comics). Don't watch your news. Don't be bogged down by water cooler talk about how bad things are. Don't check your Yahoo news, Google news or whatever other servers are normal in your day. Just don't!

I know, it sounds weird, but let's do it. I promise the world will go on if you take a day off from learning about what company is laying off thousands of their employees. Or if you don't hear about which politician put their foot in their mouth. Or who is making entirely too much for their job (hello Manny Ramirez and your $25 million one-year contract). Take Friday and enjoy it. Read the comics instead of the business page. Watch Sesame Street instead of your morning news while you get ready for work. Visit icanhascheezburger instead of a news site.

Like this idea? Pass it on. I think we could all use a day of non-depressing news. Feel free to link to this post on your own blog, or forward the link to your office. See who you can get to have a fun, carefree day with you.

Let's see if we can all have a truly happy Friday.

Oh Happy Day

ABC is announcing their names for Dancing With the Stars on Sunday!!!! They're going to drop the names during their shows on Sunday, which I'm totally not going to sit around and watch. But that means the names will be all over the interwebz before I go to bed Sunday night!!!

Here's me being super excited at all this good news on a Monday.

EEEEEE!!!!

I love movies. You should know that by now. I especially love when movies are made from childhood favorites and look promising. I loved Transformers (hellooo Josh Duhamel) and have been waiting (not so patiently) for Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. Well, if you watched the game yesterday (I didn't, hubby found this online for me) you saw the FIRST TEASER TRAILER!!! I must share if you didn't see it...




There was also a teaser trailer for GI Joe. Dude, I grew up on that. My brother had all the toys and we totally watched the cartoon. Throw in the fact that Channing Tatum (hotness!) is in it and you got me...




Then on youtube, while I was looking up these trailers, I found one for Land of the Lost. Looks different than I remember it, but hey, it has Will Ferrell. Love him. So I'll share that with you too...




I am SO READY for summer to get here so I can get myself to the movies!!!!

L is for...

L is for "list." As in THE list. You know, your five celebs that you get to take off with, no questions asked.

My husband and I have always laughed at our lists. We've had them, mine has changed a hundred times.

On our way home from Disneyland the idea of a list came up. Tad was asleep but all of us were awake. I think I mentioned something about my list and soon mom and I are talking about it. It kept us occupied for a while. My dad didn't name anyone so of course mom was trying to decide who he would pick. Tim couldn't come up with five, even though I know he had five the last time it was brought up.

Well, apparently the list idea got stuck in my mom's head and she and her friend/coworker talk about it (they share an office). So out of nowhere my mom will tell me, "Oh I thought of someone else for my list." It's actually really funny.

So who's on my list? Well, I have a hard time thinking of five definite ones. I have a couple that are a constant. Some of the ones that have fallen off are Barry Zito (I'm just over him), Vin Diesel (also over him) and probably others that escape my mind right now. The new list...

1. Gerard Butler - will ALWAYS be number one
2. Josh Duhamel - he's been there since he was on All My Children, I looove him
3. Josh Holloway - I have to put him on, who doesn't want to get lost with Sawyer?
4. Ben Barnes - he brings the HOTNESS to Prince Caspian
5. Chris Daughtry - I can't help it, it's the singing thing, and the baldness

Numbers 4 and 5 are totally subject to change because I didn't think of them immediately which makes me question whether I would really ditch hubby for them. But there's my list. Who's on yours?

Lazy Sunday and some Musings

It's Super Bowl Sunday. Big deal. We're not going to any parties, in fact, I'm sitting here watching The Real World. Much better to me than two teams I don't care about.

We got the UFC fight last night, last minute plan. Tim's cousin is normally the one who gets it, but his wife had made plans for them (oops). I promptly vowed to Tim to NEVER make plans for fight night. Anyway, I was super stoked for the title fight: Georges St. Pierre vs. BJ Penn. I was totally for GSP, Tim was for Penn. Actually, the other three people who came over were ALSO for Penn. I was totally outnumbered. But then GSP won and made my night. I so should have bet them some money.

Today is one more day to relax before the week. Tomorrow I have to solve the problem school created. It looks like it will be easier than I thought. But now that I'm on my way to solving my problem, I read in the paper yesterday that our school district (my number one choice) is "suspending hiring." With the exception of emergencies. I don't think it's quite the same as a hiring freeze. So I might still be able to get in as a sub, since they aren't salary employees. There's also a school district that neighbors ours. So far they aren't in trouble, so hopefully I can get in there too.

But all stressful things aside, I'm just going to enjoy my day today. Maybe I'll get back to the crafting. We'll see.