If you had read my last blog entry, you know that I wasn't able to see the show. American Idol has been bumped back to midnight in the Twin Cities because of the (inconsequential) High School Hockey Tournament. So if you want to read some good "griping," scroll down friends. Even though I haven't watched the show, I will still attempt a rudimentary review of the results. According to internet sources: Jon Peter Lewis was the fans' choice. Leah Labelle, George Huff, and Jennifer Husdon w...

171Hey there friends. I hope that you're all enjoying yourselves today. I am awfully tired. After another busy day at work (and they're only getting busier,) my friend Meagan and I gave a speech about ESL to a group of teachers in our district. I think that the speech went well. We had a lot to say. Tomorrow I will have three new non-English speakers starting at my school. I helped their mother sign-up for classes today. Since they are Russian-speakers, I was the designated transl...

Hi there friends. I hope that you've had a happy Tuesday. Here at my house, we've just finished watching the American Idol wild-card show. It was really fun to watch. Here is the show as I saw it: The first segment: Four contestants were eliminated. The four who were eliminated never had a chance to perform on the show. How disappointing for them. I thought that this segment was really harsh for the contestants who didn't make it. It really seemed as if the judges were pret...

173 Hey there friends. Well, the results' show is over. Matthew the football player was eliminated. He left in a pretty classy fashion. Even though I didn't really care for him, I was a bit sad to see him go. Weird, huh? Each week I am impressed at how the votes usually go toward eliminating the poorest singer of each individual night of the competition. This week's show is no exception. Camile and Matthew had two of the weaker songs. (Diana had the disadvantage of going on firs...

Hey there friends. The show has just finished. I will take a few minutes to write this here blog, and then do my nightly turn on the "Dance Dance Revolution" game. -I skipped a day yesterday. Had a meeting after work... Tonight's results show was fun. In the group song, we could really notice that women outnumber men in this year's competition by 2:1. That should be good news for the guys who will be able to grab more of the "I have a crush on..." that will be split among fewer guys. ...

179 Hello there friends! My wife and I have just finished watching tonight's episode of American Idol. It was an interesting one, even though the performances in general were not all that special. I am changing the format of my weekly recaps. It turned out that as I was spending so much time writing critiques of each of the performances, I was losing what I liked most about the show. I enjoy just watching the people sing, and listening to the judges. A few miscellaneous comme...

186 Hey there friends. I hope that the day was good for you. My wife and I had a nice day. We visited the immigration office to get my wife's green card extended. After that, we had a nice lunch at a Vietnamese restaraunt. Once we got home, we put up our koinobori (Japanese carp streamers on a flagpole.) -I will post pictures of the koinobori once the wind picks up. They're not so impressive when they lay flaccid. We finished our daily activities in time to watch the final ...

180 Hey there. We just finished watching the results' show on American Idol. It turned out that Amy Adams, LaToya London, and Jennifer Hudson were the bottom three vote-getters. Amy Adams -one of my favorites- was the contestant who was ultimately voted-off. Conspicuously absent from the bottom three were Camile and John Stevens. John's performance last night was absolutely horrible. Camile's performances have never been as good as they should, but I think that the audience notic...

I like to watch American Idol. I write about each episode on my weblog. Tonight's show (the wild card round results show) is being pre-empted in the Twin Cities market because of the Boys' High School Hockey Tournament. How many players are there on a hockey team? 20? Assuming that each of these 20 players have two parents, two teams worth of players amount to 80 people who actually care about the game. I would bet that the majority of those parents will be watching the game live. ...

**For up-to-date results, please visit my "main page" at: http://jamieburnside.joeuser.com Thanks!* Hey there friends. Tonight's American Idol was a results' show. The final result of the show was that Camile (my hitherto favorite) was eliminated. I am now a George Huff supporter. Camile, Jasmine, and Diana were the bottom-three contestants this week. I don't think that Diana has too many weeks left in the competition. That's too bad as she is one of my favorites too. N...

193 Hi there friends! Just finished watching tonight's episode of "American Idol." The theme of tonight's show was "Favorite Movie Songs." The theme kind of threw me off at the start of the show. The contestants would talk about their favorite movie, and then they would sing a song from a different movie. There were a few, "Was that song really in that movie?" moments before I finally figured out what was going on. The guest judge was Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino came off as p...

Hey there friends. I hope that you've all had a happy day. My wife and I have just finished watching the twelve "Idol" finalists in the first elimination round. Tonight's theme was "soul music." After the first two songs I was worried that I wouldn't be able to recognize any of the songs during the evening, but fortunately the contestants started singing songs that I know. Once the "trifecta" of Fantasia, George, and Jennifer hit the stage, the show really hit its stride. In genera...

196 Hi there. I am a teacher, but since I work at three different schools, driving between job sites is part of my daily routine. As I was driving between schools today, I heard the song "No More Tears" on the radio. That song is really cool, and it has a pretty nifty guitar hook. "No More Tears" is a song that I enjoy to turn up loud and sing-along. Singing along with the song today, I thought: "This song's lyrics are nonsense." It was like Ozzy took a bunch of miscellaneous...

197 Well, American Idol is over. We had a good time watching it here at my house. Tonight's theme was "The music of Barry Manilow." I remember the first time I was exposed to Barry Manilow. He was the earliest guest that I remember seeing on "The Tonight Show." I remember that he had a piano with him on center stage, he had a gigantic nose, and that Johnny Carson was sitting near Barry's piano as he sang a song. (I must have been 6-7 years-old at the time, which would make the year...

Click here for my most recent post 198 Well Well. American Idol is over for this week. The results' show was awfully surprising. LaToya, Jennifer, and Fantasia were in the bottom three. I would have to say that the three contestants have suffered as a result of being coined "The Three Divas." I read the results of tonight's show to be that since there are only so many "diva" fans to go around, the three young ladies ended up cannibalizing each other's votes. One of the three being ...