Hello,
This will be a relatively limited "AI" blog. I've made up my Top 30, this is following the announcement of the Top 24. Starting with the 4 people who didn't even make my Top 30 and eventually going all the way to #1.
The following 4 didn't make my Top 30, but did make the "AI" Top 24. I don't really think these 4 are worthy of the Top 24. Once they get booted from the show, they should band together and form a boy band. Really where have all the boy bands gone? They have limited talent and all are so pretty, they could be the next O Town. I wish there would just be the Top 24 contestants overall, not breaking down on gender lines. I would've put Tasha Layton and Hope Johnson in over two of the following future boy band members.
themusicaddict's #31 to #34 in no particular order.
Tim Urban: he replaced the mediocre Chris Golightly after Golightly was ruled "ineligible". I've been underwhelmed by him so far. His take on David Cook's "Come Back To Me" was okay. He was also part of Team (Not very) Awesome. The two best singers of that team were Lee Dewyze and Seth Rollins.
Joe Munoz: we saw him singing a snippet of Michael Jackson's "Man In the Mirror". We will finally hear him sing this week, is he Top 24 worthy?
Alex Lambert: The thing he's most known for is being blasted by Mary Powers in the atrocious group round. (Thank goodness she's gone.) I've been unimpressed by his performances of "Sunday Morning" and "I'm Yours". He was in the aptly named group, "The Dreamers". Other than Hope Johnson, the rest of them were less than good.
Aaron Kelly: Will he be this year's Kris Allen, please no. So far he has forgot the lyrics twice and chose some less than amazing songs. He sang "The Climb" in the audition, I can't remember anything about it. I think he's made it this far is because his story is "inspirational". He was adopted by his Aunt and Uncle. If he doesn't get the teenage girl vote, he'll be gone quick enough. (Again I would much rather see Tasha Layton or Hope Johnson before the above mentioned four.
Here goes the Top 30:
30) Page Miles (new): She's been nearly invisible so far. She was part of Team Neapolitan, one of the groups who sang the excellent Lady Gaga song "Bad Romance". She wasn't even identified in that performance, I remember someone referring to her as Paige. These cannon fodders contestants usually don't stick around too often. There have been a couple of notable exceptions though: Jason Castro and Kris Allen. She's only in my Top 30 because she made the "AI" Top 24.
29) Jermaine Purifory (last week: 20): His "Brick House" wasn't masculine enough. He just doesn't have enough grit to pull that song off. He sounded good but sang the boring "Smile" in the audition round. He never did enough to stand out. The second time contestant has been sent home.
28) Jessica Cunningham (last week: 19): We only heard a snippet of her singing Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance". She sounded pretty good, but that was about all the screen time she scored. She was part of Team Neapolitan, they should have been called Team Invisible. Besides Miles and Cunningham the other members were Liz Rooney and Thaddeus Johnson. Thaddeus scored the most screen time of any of them when he melted down when he did not make the Top 24. Reason #1,000,004 you should be at least 18 to enter this contest. Who had the worst meltdown Jessica Furney or Thaddeus Johnson?
27) Angela Martin (last week: 25): Maybe of any one of the contestants, she had the most legitimate right to have a meltdown. What was worse finding out you didn't make the Top 24 or having Kara Disregardia deliver the news? I thought her "American Boy" in Hollywood was pretty amazing. I just don't think she was ever going to be your next "American Idol".
26) Tori Kelly (last week: 18). In the way the show was edited, it was down between her and Haeley Vaughn in who was going to the Top 24. It wasn't a real surprise Haeley Vaughn is moving on. Kelly advanced to the final 46, which was probably as far as she deserved to go. Try out again next year Tori.
25) Michael Lynche (new): The only reason I can think why he's still on the show is because they are afraid he'll beat them up if he doesn't move on. Lynche is a likable guy, but not a great singer. He's scored a decent amount of screen time so far, but he still hasn't had any breakout performances yet. I don't think he's going to last much longer.
Alright, alright here's some other news. Right now I'm listening to the Buddy Guy CD "Skin Deep". This is one of those great kick butt Blues CDs. Some of that powerful Blues music hinted at in the movie "Crossroads". (Not to be confused with the Britney Spears movie "Crossroads".) The Ry Cooder soundtrack to "Crossroads" is sort of underwhelming. You can skip listening to it.
In "Crossroads" Steve Vai clearly won this duel, he's a great guitarist but not such a good actor.
According to lore the Crossroads is where you can go sell your soul to the devil in trade for music immortality. One story I've heard is that Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Bonham all sold their souls to the devil. However bassist John Paul Jones didn't and that's why he's the least famous of the bunch. (Maybe the real reason for that is because he's the bassist.) Although that rumor was going around before he joined with the super group Them Crooked Vultures. One of Eric Clapton's best songs is "Crossroads", which has some of that great Blues guitar in it.
Long story short you need to go check out Buddy Guy's "Skin Deep". This CD is amazing and has so many great songs. I still think that BB King and Muddy Waters are the two best Blues singers ever. Buddy Guy is probably somewhere in the Top 10.
I've listened to two of his CDs and both kick butt. Both CDs have that upbeat and intense guitar playing. I'll give you some songs to check out if you are interested: "What Kind of Women Is This?", "Everytime I Sing the Blues", "Skin Deep" and "Whose Gonna Fill Those Shoes".
Great reading: I've been reading some great books lately. I've been ripping through the Lee Child Jack Reacher books. These are very good books. I read the 13th in the series first and then moved on to the first books in the series. The 13th book in the series is "Gone Tomorrow", this has one of the all-time best opening chapters ever. Child grabs you by the collar and pulls you into the book.
I then read the second in the series "Die Trying" which is the weakest of the series so far. I just finished the second book in the series "Killing Floor", which is a great book. Jack Reacher stops in Margrave, Georgia looking for information about Blind Blake, a long deceased Blues musician. I thought he was fictional, but yes indeed Blind Blake was a real person. Although there's very little known about him. I listened to a couple of his tracks on napster.com. It's that old timey Robert Johnson sort of Blues, that's not the sort of Blues I like.
I'm also quite fond of Robert J. Sawyer's "Flash Forward" which was the inspiration for the TV series of the same name. I didn't see any of that series, but I'm loving the book quite a bit. I checked online and apparently they've shown 10 episodes so far and the show is coming back on March 18th. You can check it out online at ABC. I might check that out. But for now I definitely give thumbs up to the excellent book.
I went to abc.com and watched the first two episodes of the TV show "Flash Forward" on my computer. The TV show is a lot different than the book. In the book the Flash Forward is caused by some kind of experiment at CERN. Sorry CERN and the experiment they were doing is too complicated for my simple mind to understand. In the TV show it looks like its caused by a person or a group of people. In the book people flash forward 21 years, in the TV show they only flash forward 6 months. Both pieces of work have Lloyd Simcoe, but he's completely different from the book to the TV show.
After two episodes of this show, I'm really liking it. ABC is doing a lot of interesting things right now. "Flash Forward", "V" and "Lost" are all coming back or are resuming their seasons.
Sports: # 12 BYU has now moved to 25-3 by dispatching CSU and Wyoming fairly easily last week. BYU has a couple of tough games this week, but both of them are in the Marriot Center. BYU plays a hungry SDSU team, that's a good appetizer for the main feast on Saturday. # 10 New Mexico is coming to town, New Mexico beat BYU when they played at the Pit. The Cougars are looking for revenge and wanting to be the #1 seed in the MWC Tournament. From that they are trying to spring into a good seed in the NCAA Tournament. Maybe this is the year BYU can break through and get a NCAA victory.
Another team that's playing very well is the Utah Jazz. They've won 17 of their last 19 games and have won 7 straight road games. They are in third place in the powerful Western Conference, they only trail Kobe's Lakers and Chauncey's Nuggets. (Good luck to George Karl and recover quickly.) The Jazz also had an amazing comeback against Portland last night. With about 7 minutes left in the third quarter the Jazz trailed 64-39. The Jazz then rallied to tie the game at the end of regulation on a great Carlos Boozer put back basket. The Jazz then completed their comeback and won in overtime.
I didn't watch the game because it was on too late, but I was very excited when I found out that they won the game this morning. I was starting to get excited and thinking the Jazz might be a team of destiny, just like the New Orleans Saints. I then started thinking about it and realized I'm dreaming. They will get to the Western Conference semi-finals where they'll lose to either Denver or the Lakers.
Both of those teams have owned the Jazz so far this season. Denver won 3 of their 4 games, which means they own the tiebreaker. The Lakers have won 2 of their 3 games. Both Lakers victories have been complete domination. When they played in LA on December 9th, the Lakers took the Jazz to the woodshed 101-77. In their last game LA came into the horribly named Energy Solutions Arena and also dominated the Jazz. That was one of the Jazz's two losses over the last 19 games. More bad news for the Jazz they get to play the Lakers again this season, in LA. That game will be on April 2nd, right before the NBA playoffs start.
themusicaddict
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