American Idol

Let me preface by saying i can only watch one of two things while its being DVR and id rather live blog about idol than dwtstars.

7:00pm: Well its the start of my first live blog, I only choose American Idol because its culturally relevant and I like it. He hate me rod smart knows whats up. So tonight is top 9 (again) because last week amurrica inexplicably voted off big mike (one of my personal favs) but the judges saved him and this week two will be going home.

7:04pm: The theme is announced and its elvis pressly. I enjoy when they do legends as they did the stones and beatles previously but do you not think Elvis lends an advantage to the guys? You would think but it never ceases to amaze me when the contestants do not take control of an advantage. Its as if they dont think sometime and are just caught up in being on idol, rather than trying to WIN a competition. The mentor is Adam Lambert. WHO? I mean i know who he is but really the mentor is adam lambert? I get ursher and hannah montana but lambert blows. GIMME KELLY DAMNIT!

7:08pm: Crystal Bowersox up and adam lambert gives her some stupid advice, and shes singing a song i did not catch but it doesnt really matter because she is probably the best contestant and shell be right there in the end. I really like her evolution, at first she was obviously talented but was not embracing IDOL. Now she is and you can see it in her body language, her face, her charisma and honestly that would be the only thing holding her back, but shes startin to get some swag.

Randy is up and lets set the over under on yo's at 21 and dawgs at 15, and hot at 6 im picking over for all of them.
2yos. 1hot. says it was hot. and randy once again offers nothing
Ellen sucks and stutters and says she is going to be a broken record. Wait really ellen, you are going to be a broken record? Never ADDS anything to whats being said. I dont really get having her on the show.
Kara says something and Simon likes it. its obvious they all like her and she is going to be around to the end. I like those set of comments short and sweet.

7:16pm: Andrew Garcia is up. And seacrest asks him about another contestant (big mike) dont get asking something like that but garcia answers well. Hes singing hound dog, lambert says its boring as his hair stands 7 feet tall. Im sorry lambert but you are boring and should not be giving anyone advice. Tells AG to step up his game. Well not shit sherlock. its american fucking idol you better step up your game

AG starts terribly, and I can already tell the judges arent going to like it. Probably will say something about kareokee , loungy, boring, or musical something to that effect. But it will be right. And now he is trying to make up for it by using a lot of the stage. Ugghh what a BLAH performance,
Randy: 3yos, and there we go first word Kareokee..
Ellen: Says he pulled it off, yet another example of why she shouldnt be there
Kara: You gotta own it. She is right.
Simon: Lazy, unpredictable, musical like, says he has no coolness. And they cut simon off.
Seacrest asks ellen what she sees that nobody else does and she says that she really likes it. I dont know why they even let her talk. When she does its just so out of place it makes me shake my head. That performance was terrible. NO SWAG doing elvis? is that possible? Are you on a local version of american idol? No you are on AMERICAN IDOL the top 9 and thats what you come out with, and probably one of the easier vocal songs from elvis. I have never like AG and he needs to go bottom line. And next up tim. Im afraid lambert might sexually assault this zack efron wannabe. We will see. I bet lambert at least acts more excited.

7:26 -- tim is up and is singing cant help falling in love. At least Tim picked a good song for him. But lambert says hes pushing tim beyond comfort level and obviously AL has not watched the previous episodes because that is not what tim is good at.

Decent start but they are going to tell him they need more or something like that, too safe etc. That is the problem with tim, when he plays it safe he usually does it well and rocks out. When he tries to do more he SUCKS. I dont want an idol to be safe. I could do that shit

Randy: 2 yos - says I like it.
Ellen: Talks about being an alocholic, then compares it to liking tim.
Kara: Best Tim performance
Simon: zero to hero

Well they all liked it, and to be honest I did to. But I want more. I dont think Tim has more, but when he does what he is good at he does it well. I thought tim was garbage at first, which he was, but I think he is finally realizing that this is more than just getting his 15mins of fame and he has a shot. Thanks to those dashing good looks and singer/songwriter vibe that all the ladies love. Good job Tim didnt expect that from you. But it was really safe, but weve seen what happens when you dont play it safe.

so far 1.Bowersox 2.Tim 78.Andrew garcia

7:36 Lee Dewyze is up and Lambert is actually giving a good bit of advice. Lee looks like a scared puppy at all times

Singing a little less conversation and a reall good shot to rock out.
He does a good job, but nothing to wow me or make me think you are an idol. Which has been his problem all along

Randy: 5yos Says it was good
Ellen: Broken record
Kara: Points out he took a chance on his vocals, and shes right
Simon: Argues with kara about god knows what, then says he nails it.

For someone who has gotten positive feedback almost every single week, this is like the first time ever he is smile

7:41 Aaron Kelly and he rightfully is scared of lambert. Singing blue suede shoes. I think hes got the best voice but can a 16 yr old be the american idol. Not yet kid.

He obviously can sing, but his stage presence lacks seasoning and once he gets that he will be great. He doesnt look like he is enjoying his own performance, but lays a sweet breakdown.

Randy 3yos: Half and half says half was good halfs was not.
Ellen: Stutter stutter stutter uhhh uhhh to totto today junior. Says he does a good job
Kara: Says she likes the out of the comfort zone
Simon: Disagrees with kara (wierd) likens it to a high school talent show. didnt like it.

I would have to agree most with simon. The kid is just a few years away from this show. Which unfortunately for him wont be around in a few years. Up next siobhan. She may mate with AL.

7:51-- Siobhan up singing suspicious minds. Adam Lambert sucks. just plain and simple.

I cant question her talent, but I still question her place in this show. Who is voting for her? Not the people who will matter if it comes to record sales. And I for one am sooooooooooooooooo over the scream note. Its not even really that impressive. SING me a note.

Randy ONLY 1yo: Good vocals etc.
Ellen: you look great and repeats exactly what randy said, almost VERBAITUM
Kara: Actually points out the problem
Simon: Everyone hates simons opinions but he alwas gets it right. always>

Siobhan talks about how she isnt a label type of girl afterwards and while she is right, I feel thats what Idol wants. Define your style and genre. It was not a good performance and you have to be sad when tim urban did better than you. so far 1. CB 2. TU 3. LD 4. AK 5. SM 68. AG

8:03 Big Mike up singing in the Ghetto. He is my favortie. And i dont know why he was voted off, but he does need to bring it. he has great vocal ability and great personality. Going acoustic already starts well. Missed a note there a little flat but keeps on trucking. You can actually feel the emotion when he sings. Which is something that cant be said from most of the other contestants. Good job big mike. That was great.

Randy 4yos: 2hots: Great vocals
Ellen: Glad we saved u
Kara: Great Job
Simon: Million times better

8:11 Katie Stevens up singing baby what do you want me to do. Saying she is frustrated with the judges. This chic can sing, its to bad shes not like ridiculously hot or she would have already won.

For someone who is 17 she can own the stage, and i actually am liking her performance right now. she is rocking out. Missing some notes here and there someone might say pitchy. put it on the board.

Randy 2yos: Nice vocals, sassy, entertaining
Ellen: Says its a horny song, (alot of horns in it)
Kara: Showed us whats up
Simon: Loud and annoying, didnt like the song. Ends up saying they liked it so it doesnt matter what i think.
I think she did a good job, and she has got great charisma and confidence for a 17yr old. Best voice IMO.

8:20 Casey james up singing lawdy mrs. clawdy, I think he has the best chance to win as a male, he is like lee dwyze with swagger and stage presence, and personality. He is the most overall talented male, and I think he will end up in the top 3

Giving a normal casey james performance, outstanding.

Randy 2yos: Nothing different solid
Ellen: Not exciting enough but always good
Kara: Not up to expectation
Simon: Wasted opportunity, but good vocals.
Here is a prime example of a contestant not siezing the opportunity of an advantage, the Elvis show is made for casey james. and thats what he picks and sings? It was good, but he shoulda rocked it out and he didnt.

So what to make of this episode. Nobody played catchup to the favorites Bowersox & James but the dynamic seems to be changing. Siobhan early favorite seems to be going downhill, Tim an early target seems to be hitting his stride. The youngins have seemingly flipp flopped, and well andrew was the same (terrible) and lee was the same (boring)

if i had to rate it i would go with
1. Bowersox
2. Big Mike
3. Casey James
4. Lee Dwyze
5. Tim Urban
6. Katie Stevens
7. Aaron Kelly
8. Siobhan Magnus
9. Andrew Garcia

Thats not who i think will go home however. I think it will be Garcia and Kelly. Aaron Seems to have hit the wall, and Garcia just sucks. My top 3 Bowersox, James, Big Mike. My next two is stevens and dwyze.
Est 24 yos from randy, 0 things said by ellen that were not said by randy except tequilla reference and horny. Just a strange woman.


Well im done. This was probably not very insightful, funny, or worth reading but it helped pass my time. Next I am working on my Big 12 Early Basketball Preview.

day off

So I realized that having a blog would require me to have more access to the internet than i currently have but I am still going to do my best. So my job situation over the past year has been a nightmare. So lets just tell that whole story. 2 summers ago I did an internship for a independent league baseball team, the Sussex Skyhawks. I have always wanted to work in sports and this was a great opportunity. So I went to new jersey for the summer and busted my ass for this baseball team doing a variety of things, ticket sales, promo sales, sponsorship sales, media relations, on field promotions, stadium maintenance, running the ticket office, develop my own promotion day, the list literally goes on. Well after that I was pretty much sold on the fact that that was what i wanted to do. Well at the time I had a gf and she had graduated and moved to Kansas City for her job. As the semester winded down and i graduated that december, I accepted a job for a marketing company and had planned to move to KC. Well about christmas time my old boss emailed me about moving back to the northeast and being a marketing rep for one of his hockey teams as he had just accepted a job to be VP of Marketing for a hockey league in the northeast This is the entire reason i went to my internship, to bust my ass, make a good impression and get my foot in the door after I graduated. At this point I had quite a decision on my hand. I really wanted the sports job but also did not want to leave my gf of three years behind. Follow my dreams of follow my love? Well we had the ol h2h talk and she says come to KC i love you i want to spend my life with you etc. etc. chic flic bullshit blah blah blah...And sooooo I did I gave up my job offer and moved to Kansas City. Well the marketing company I worked for was the standard pyramid scheme marketing company, you do this for 6 months then your a leader, then you do this for 6 months and your a manager, you do this for 6 months then you are a director of an office blah blah blah. If youve ever had to search for a job you have probably run across this type of thing. And its the worst. I worked one day. The job consisted of "marketing" quiznos. And what my job task was, was to drive around to businesses in the metro area and solicit coupon sheets to them. You know you get them in the mail or sometimes with your order, well these were you standard BOGO coupons, 5 dollar off, free delivery, etc. I sold them for 5 dollars and made commision of them and no hourly wage. And you are wondering why I lasted a day?

So I quit with nothing else lined up for the next two months (Jan-Feb 09) I searched for jobs in KC with no luck. Finally I just got to the point where I decided to take ANYTHING just so i could have some money. So i get hired on with GE in the consumer finance division as a customer service rep. Lay terms. Credit card call center. decent pay and great benefits, leadership oppos, tuition reimbursement ( and this should have been my first red flag, they only did undergrad reimbursement....but wait i already have a bachelors degree..and as i came to find out, i was about the only one in the entire building who had one.) So it doesnt sound to bad and all i do is talk anyway so it seems fitting. At first it wasnt to awful people made me chuckle about how dumb, irresponsible, and mean they were. But it got OLD real quick. Every day all day, people yelling at you for no reason, dealing with peopls bullshit stories (once told a customer that they could not bullshit a bullshiter, yea definitely got in trouble for that.) about why they couldnt pay their bill, yet they still went out and used their credit card like it was going out of style. Some didnt understand that they needed to pay the money back, most people were old (because lets face it, anyone who is young, smart, responsible, etc. pays online and understands things like interest rates, late fees, credit limits, credit scores etc. ) and old people dont know shit. Trying to walk an old person through logging onto a website, or registering on a website, is like the most annoying most frustrating shit ever. I also hated the corporate bullshit i had to put up with. No bend, no break, no nothing. Play it by the book all day everyday, if you go against that you get in trouble. I understand the reasoning and logic behind that sometimes but seriously cut me some slack. It really IS NOT MY FAULT if im twenty mins late because there was an accident on the highway that backed up traffic for miles. I lived in kansas, and kansas drivers fucking suck. there was a wreck on i35 on a daily basis, i left 45 mins early to get somewhere that took me 15 mins, just to compensate for the inevitable wreck.

So Jan '10 my buddy says he can get my on at the IRS doing tax returns, boring work but easy and work on your own kinda thing. I would get paid more money and it was two blocks from my house? hell yea. It was a seasonal 5 month position, and I thought that would really give me time to search for a job i liked/wanted in sports because i was tired of doing stuff i hated. Well I started on Feb first and trained for 1 week. They didnt tell you this when they hire you so as to not scare you off, but after training they lay you off until the work picks up. Oh great. Well im thinking a week or two, kinda thing. Nope two fucking months. TWO MONTHS. Not doing shit, everyday thinking I was going to start working again the next day. Well I finally gave up on that and started applying for jobs elsewhere. I apply to a job with the Kansas City Chiefs that I get called to do an interview for. I go in and rock the bitch like I always do. (Ive never been interviewed for a job and not gotten it.) Start date is April 15th. Well i dont hear anything for awhile and i just assume i didnt get it. So then about a week ago i get called back to the IRS. Man I was at least glad to get to work so i could have some money. I start working there and then the NEXT day find out about the Chiefs Job. I got it. Of course i did! So after all this bullshit Ive been through I finally have gotten my break starting thursday. And I am not going to deviate from my plan this time. And ill never do anything for a chic again. Today was my last day at the IRS and I am glad becuase i was seriously bored out of my fucking mind. GEESH! So I am going to be a ticket sales rep for the chiefs, and im pumped to get to talk about football all day. Cant wait. Ok well im done for now. Upcoming post about Mizzou Sports will be following later this evening or tomorrow.

I will also use this blog as a social media much like facebook and twitter. Though most who view this blog will probably already be on my fb and twitter. but oh well. Funny video about how much KU sucks. also you should play around with this website its really fun, but if you dont have a good server or connection then it takes a really long time to edit and upload but it still fun if you think you are a creative genius.

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6312181/

1st Post

Ive decided to start blogging again. Im sure everyone is thrilled even though I generally have nothing important to say but mindless ramblings about stuff nobody cares about. I havent blogged for quite some time but now everyone is and it seems i was well ahead of the curve with blogging. I stopped blogging because i was made fun of to the point where it made me stop, it also probably had to do with the fact that most of my blogs were me whining like an pussy emo kid. But as a freshman in college where i went to, you would prolly whine like a pussy emo kid to. After transfering to mizzou I had a lot less free time. In college if i had time i liked to spend it drinking or playing sports. Neither of which i do much of anymore. So lots more free time and still the amount of opinions i liked to voice about anything and everything= blog. I dont know if i will actually blog all the time but another reason that has led me to this is blog is the fact that i dont have many friends where i live. Being at school and in a fraternity, no matter what was going on be it sports, movies, school stuff, politics, girls, girls, booze, tvshows, girls, frat stuff (the list goes on) there was always multiple people to discuss, argue and banter with about said topic. Now I have really nobody to do this with. So I will try to put my opinions here. More to come later. BUT FYI if you dont like sports, pop culture, or assholeism, than you wont like my blog. Good day.