P.S. I would like to watch American Idol with Jamie Burnside! A Results' Show would be better to watch with me than a performance show. I spend most of my time during the performance shows taking notes, so I may not be so fun to watch the show with.
Click here for my latest article. Tonight Chris, Taylor, and Katharine found themselves in the top-three. Elliott and Paris were in the bottom-two. After a suspense-killing 9:00 local news promo which implied that Paris would be eliminated, we found that it was indeed Paris Bennett who was eliminated. (Minnesota media outlets love to push "Minnesota ties." Apparently Paris lived in a M
Andy wrote: Jamie, if Katherine doesn't make it to the finals, do you think Taylor will take her place? The answer is "Yes."
Click here for my latest article. Since the number of contestants is dwindling, each contestant was to sing one song from the year of their birth, and one from a current "Billboard Top-ten" list. (Apparently these top-ten lists are pretty wide ranging, as Taylor was able to find a "this week in history"-type song to sing. All in all, the performances were either average or good. Nothing too terrible, so that's nic
As the title says, I am wondering about people's favorite episode of "The Simpsons". Forgive me if this is a rehash for some of you. (It is possible that a similar discussion has been posted in JU before. As a matter of fact, I may have even written the article. I'm not sure.) Today is May 1st. That means that it is the beginning of the sweeps period in American television. For the next four weeks, we will be able to enjoy the best
Funny! I went to that site, and started playing ZORK. I'd bet that I haven't played that for twenty years, but I still know what to do! I might have to do some more of that some day!
Here's a real "Blast From the Past" coming up in forums. Two replies in here are over a year apart.
You know. . . I'd bet that the book would seem much less funny after seeing the movie. (If that were to be the order that you watched/ read.) Seeing the movie first, one would have to deal with preconceived characters. Since the movie (in my opinion) wasn't all that good, the effects of that may taint what you read. (Especially the Guide excerpts!) Maybe I should read the book again in order to see if it was as good as I always thought it was.
When I was a pre-teen I enjoyed a lot of the world that Douglas Adams created. I read all of his "Hitchhikers"-related books. I watched the BBC TV series. I played the Zork-like text adventure game on my Commodore 64. I also listened to the radio play based on the book. That was all good stuff! Being a fan, I was surprisingly late to see the recent movie. (I think it came out in 2005.) The movie was shown on one of the STARS channels the other day, so I scheduled it to record.
Thanks. I fixed that. My mistake was a remnant of a previous conversation that I had during the day.
Click here for my latest article. In an unusual move: the top-two, middle-two, and bottom-two vote-getters were announced as such. Chris and Katharine came in as the top-two. Elliot and Taylor in the middle, and Paris and Kellie were in the bottom two. In the end, we saw the elimination of Kellie Pickler. The top-two (Chris and Katharine): Is there any doubt that these two will be there in the
Click here for my latest article. This is a nice part of the American Idol season. Once the competition gets down to six finalists, it is pretty clear that each contestant holds their own special appeal. From this point, it gets increasingly difficult to seperate oneself from the competition. The theme of tonight's show was "Love Songs." The guest coaches tonight were singer Andrea Bocelli, and his producer/ song
The best part of the story was that the guy who changed the locks didn't make a big deal out of everything (or write a report or something) once the incident was finished.
Click here for my latest article. The day after "The Great American Songbook" show, Rod Stewart stopped by to sing a song. It is really interesting to observe how effortlessly a veteran performer can sing a song in comparison to the young Idol contestants. Rod made it look really easy to sound good. Next week's guest star/ coach will be Andrea Bocelli. He'll help the contestants with "great love songs." -I
Hey Jamie, I think it'd be great if you can comment on songs/albums you heard on previous Idol contestant. Maybe post recommendations? Interesting that you say that, as I have just acquired 4-5 CDs of past Idol contestants. (My aunt mailed them to me. Apparently they came via my cousin.) Here's what I know so far: I loved Clay Aiken on Idol, but the CD of his that I have isn't any good. I have seen Carrie Underwood's video. Ruben's, Fanta
what was up with his Steven Segal look? I was telling my wife that I thought that he looked like Jean Claude Van Dam.
Yankees. No more needs to be said.
Click here for my latest article. Tonight, the Idol contestants worked with Rod Stewart on the classics of American Standards. The performers on the show seemed to be more on their game than usual. Rod Stewart was pretty cool. He was friendly, approachable, and very humble. Of all of the guests that Idol has ever had, Rod seems like the one that would be the most pleasant to be around. (Barry Manilow probably isn't all tha
I actually like it that the movie spiderman can make his own webs. The inherent weakness becomes that he can't make webs when under certain kinds of stress. That unpredictability makes for a good story. . . .of course the original web shooters often jammed, or ran out of fluid. The movie version of the webs' organic generation is actually more plausible than a kid building web shooters in his bedroom.
Bucky shouldn't have been sent home on a week when he was one of the better performers. I think that the biggest outrage now is that Ace is hanging on.
Click here for my latest article. The other day as I was browsing around the internet, I visited the American Idol-related website: votefortheworst.com. VFTW was interesting. There is a spot on the site where someone does weekly reviews of each episode. Name, song, commentary, and a letter grade. Reading through those recaps, I was struck by how similar the style and commentary are to my weekly recaps. Gran
Something's wrong with Taylor. I keep waiting for him to do something fantastic, yet he underwhelms each week. And to the previous poster about Elliot: He could have done a lot better with a more suitable song.
Click here for my latest article. So there it was, the American Idol episode that I've been waiting for. The songs of possibly my favorite rock group: Queen. Sadly, tonight's show was plagued with a number of poor song choices and below average performances. 
Click here for my latest article At the end of last night's Results' Show, Ryan announced that next week's theme will be "The Songs of Queen". Wow! What a great theme! There are so many good/ fun/ entertaining songs to choose from. That said: there are a few Queen songs that are simply dangerous to sing. Here are some of my thoughts on song choice for next week's theme show. Good Queen songs to pick: <B
That should be on my main page (not just in the comments) Dynosaur.
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