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Quote of the Day: "How long is this Beta guy going to keep testing our stuff?" - Real Life Dilbert Quotes

Don't forget: Since I have to live vicariously through the adventures of others, I will be making a donation towards this (for more information visit: Pacific Crest Trail Field Guide Project) as well as following the adventure via the blog Justin and Li An's Blog: Story the Walk.  They need to raise enough money by May 12th.  I don't usually ask for donations for things via my blog (except donations of love), but I think that this is a pretty cool idea and I would like to see it come to life.  So, take a moment and just go check it out.  I'll owe you one!

Let's talk Idol...

Hmmmm...where to begin?  Last night's episode was such a mish mash, I'm not sure where to start. There was Randy dressed like a student at Hogwarts, Jennifer Lopez not wearing any pants, Stephen Tyler having an actual moment of lucidity, and duets. I suppose starting from the beginning would be the simplest way, so here I go.
Carole King night begins with, SURPRISE, the same friggin mentor we've seen every other week.  WTF.  How much did you sell your soul for, American Idol?  Just curious.  Only this week, they did another "pretend" mentor by bringing in Babyface.  Oddly enough, I recognized him on sight.  I'm wondering how many other people did.  In my house 4 out of 5 people did NOT know who he was, even after they described who he was.  Apparently, American Idol is all about resurrecting the dead.  (NOTE: Upon looking up Babyface in Wikipedia, it would seem that there is a stretch of highway in Indianapolis that has been named after him.  Interesting...)  Anyway, the best part about Babyface was the bored look he had on his not-so-baby-53-year-old-face.  I shared that look.
Moving right along, we start with Jacob. Yawn.  And then there was some more yawning.  I guess he sings alright if you are into that genre of singing, the genre being BORING.  I keep trying to imagine him on the radio and then I imagine myself changing the station tout suite.  Then there was some horrible cameo by the always angry looking Miley Cyrus.  And that Country Girl singing the theme song from Gilmore Girls (LOVED THAT SHOW). Then, I think the next thing was Ryan making the waggly eyebrows and looking sort of frog-like while insinuating that there is some sort of horrific romance going on between Casey (kids call him Evil Jesus) and Haley.  Let's focus on that for a moment.  I'm thinking that Haley secreting has some major personality issues or Casey is like some sort of sex ninja because on what planet other than scripted tv would those two end up together?  There was a mildly amusing, yet uncomfortable interview and then the two of them singing a duet.  Haley crushes Evil Jesus when it comes to singing, and the parts where they sang together sounded like ass. This moves us right along to, crap, I forget the order they sang.  All I remember is that Scotty didn't suck, James actually sounded really good and reminded me of David Cook's performances where he just sounded awesome and didn't try so hard to be a rockstar, Scotty and the Country Chick sang their duet together and per usual sounded great together.  Ryan tried to make us think there was something going on there but Scotty looked sort of disgusted by the whole idea.  Casey was just sort of meh and I'm sort of over him.  Haley is better each week.  She has to be since she always picks the dumbest songs.  Or maybe like Steven Tyler, I was distracted by her legs.  He said he heard God in her voice, but i'm thinking it wasn't her voice he was thinking about.  He's like the aweseomest dirty old man in America. Then, in the biggest surprise of the night, James and Jacob sung REALLY well together and we were all almost treated to a nationally televised Jennifer Lopez crotch shot.  The episode was altogether sort of whatever and I was actually disappointed that no one chose to sing the Locomotion.
I will say that I think this is the most evenly matched group that I've ever seen on the show.  Last year it was so obvious that Crystal and Lee were the interesting ones and everyone else was there to sing ok every so often and lose.  The year before it was so obvious that Adam Lambert was the most interesting human being on earth and that Kris was going to win because teenage girls are who vote. The year before that David and David where obvious from the beginning.  This year, no one really stands out. I feel like whoever is the worst each week is the one that's going to get booted.  There are no obvious winners in this group.  It's a race for mediocrity.
There was a commercial for X Factor and I got one glorious moment with Simon.  I treasured that moment.  


In other news...

My poison ivy still itches.  And the smell of calamine is not my favorite.  Oh, and I've totally sold out to Amazon - FYI.


Jenn - The sun came out for like 30 seconds today!!!