Click here for my latest article. Tonight we got to see what the final ten men could do after a so-so show for the ladies. Happily, we were treated tonight to a significantly better show. So since it is late, I will get right into the performances. Tonight's Performances: 1. Taylor Hicks sang "Easy" by the Commodores. I thought that Taylor sang the song as well as Lionel ever did. I enjoyed Taylor's song tonight. The judges however, weren't as impressed....
Click here for my latest article Tonight's American Idol featured the Top Ten Women finalists. Compared to last week, the quality of performances was a bit down, but the show was still entertaining. The biggest problem that I had with tonight's show was that I was unfamiliar with about half of the songs. What's up with that? Randy and Paula seem to be continuing the trend (that started last week) of being a bit off-the-mark on their assessments of how the c...
Click here for my latest article. Here are a couple of articles that I hadn't been able to post: Women 12 Finalists: Click here for my latest article. Tonight's show featured the twelve female finalists. Whenever there are twelve contestants on a show, I always know that I'll have my work cut for me when writing my recaps. Writing this after the show, I hope that my joeuser.com website comes back up in time for people to enjoy this. In the meantime, I will be posting this re...
Click here for my latest article Last night the field was pared to 44. Tonight twenty were sent home, leaving us with the final twelve female, and final twelve male contestants. There were lots of contestants on tonight's show who were either fleetingly or never featured on the show up to this point. It is always fun to "discover" these new faces once the studio shows start up. I do feel for a number of the contestants who had come this far, but were basically un...
Click here for my latest article. Tonight's episode featured what has become one of the true highlights of each season of American Idol, the group song competition. Groups struggle with personalities, egos, work ethic, and musical talent in order to hammer-out the best performance possible. This caustic mixture always produces entertaining results. From these group performances came immediate cuts, and then a subsequent paring of the lot to a mere 44. Tomorrow's episode will see the g...
Click here for my latest article. Tonight's episode of American Idol (days one and two from Hollywood), marked the beginning of the "more enjoyable" part of the yearly series for me. The singers are better, expectations have been raised, and the rivalries get intense. I can hardly wait for next week's group competition. Before that, a number of the weaker contestants need to be weeded-out, and tonight we were able to catch (mainly-fleeting) glimpses of those who will...
Click here for my latest article. Well, here's my second go at it. For some reason my first attempt at writing this article was erased by the JU site. That was a bummer, as I was half-way done. So tonight was the last night of the auditions. Yay! I am looking forward to the Hollywood round. As the previous season five audition shows have gone, so went this episode. A few good auditions, mixed in with a ton of lousy ones, none probably havi...
One of the best things about changing cable/ satellite service providers is discovering new channels. In my family's recent switch, we sadly lost the Game Show Network, but gained Boomerang (among others). Boomerang is a channel (which is an extension of Cartoon Network) that had been playing "classic" cartoons. When I began to receive Boomerang, I was happy to see lots of "Popeye", "Looney Tunes", "Tom and Jerry", "Underdog", and the like. For some reason, the programming staff at Boome...
Click here for my latest article Only one more audition show left before the show moves to Hollywood. Watching tonight's show from Austin, Texas, I was struck by the number of "bad" auditions that have been aired this season, as well as a spike in country singers. (I think that neither is a good thing.) Tonight's show was once again interesting, although a little skimpy on the "highlights". Tonight's "Highlights" Simon Cowell has license to say a lot of thing...
Click here for my latest article. The auditions continue, and it actually seems that we're getting near the end. Thusfar there seems to have been a number of capable singers who have gone through, but I am still not "excited" about anyone yet. I suppose that sooner-or-later someone will emerge as my favorite in the contest. Tonight's Las Vegas episode featured a lot of poor auditions with a few goodies sprinkled in. I will comment on a few. Tonight's Ido...
A few years ago, my wife and I watched "Kill Bill" in a movie theater. I remember being essentially entertained my the movie, but I also remember feeling unsettled by the whole experience. After seeing the first movie, I figured that I "might as well" see "volume 2", but there wasn't much urgency. I found "Volume 2" on TV the other day, and I recorded it. (We watched it last night after the kids were sleeping.) I really liked "Volume 2". It was interesting, excit...
Click here for my latest article These audition shows are really hard to write about! Tonight's show was entertaining enough, but it didn't leave as much of an impression as other shows have. The main "news" of the show was that Paula and Randy had pestered Simon enough after two days, that Simon left before the end of auditions. (I really don't understand why Randy and Paula were going after Simon so harshly. It was really unwarranted.) One singer could possibly ...
Click here for my latest article The third audition episode was held in North Carolina, home of Clay Aiken and Fantasia Barrino. It was a fun two-hour episode. (The shows are really heavy on the commercials this year, aren't they? I started watching twenty minutes after the show had started, and was already at "real time" by just a little after the second hour started.) Not so many memorable things from tonight's show, besides one contestant: Kelly Pickler . ...
On Friday night I received a telemarketing call from my cable company. Instead of instantly hanging up, I actually listened. Apparently my promotional rate was expiring, but the cable company was willing to give me everything that I already have for one year, plus HBO and Cinemax, plus the Starz movie pack, for what would be $8 less than they had intended to charge me once my promotional rate ends. Nice. So now I have access to all sorts of movie channels. I suppose I ...
Click here for my latest article Once again, my wife and I were on survival mode. We're still sick, but I think that each of us is noticably better. We both went to the doctor today, and we both heard that we're dealing with viruses. (Going to the doctor, one is always hopeful that it'll be something bacteriological, so at least something can be done about it. Anyway, we have a few medicines to help deal with symptoms, and we're gradually getting better. Tonight's American Idol audit...