I actually listened to each of the songs (not ALL of each song, but enough) to form an opinion on who needs to go, and who needs to stay.
Lets start with the danger zone for the boys:
- Jason Castro - just kinda muddled through for me
- Danny Noriega - mostly hairstyle for me… that says enough about what I feel about his singing.
High points for the doods, two singers that tempt fate by trying to sing old standards
- Luke Menard - Killer Queen is a song only Freddie Murcury can do 100%, Luke gets in the B+/A- range though.
- David Archuleta - Imagine totally different arrangement, but the kid hit the vocals just right, honoring John Lennon’s lyrics.
The rest of the guys were just aiight. But I do admit to just barely tuning into their songs.
The girls
No Good (i.e bad):
- Amanda Overmyer - sadly the outfit and hair might come back and bite her, the song wasn’t strong at all, could hear the background vocalist more than her most of the song.
- Alexandra Lushington - not strong vocals, and a disconnect between song and outfit. Sorry if that seems superficial. We are talking AI though, they say its a singing competition, but it is an image competition.
So Vain (i.e. they probably think this post is about them, and they’re right):
- Carly Smithson - hit it with the Heart standard, and its her dream. I hope she gets to stick around more.
- Brooke White - though she forgot she was playing guitar halfway through, her vocals were good, and the judges were right about oozing the Carly vibe.
So I was having lunch with a friend yesterday, and as I was driving back to work I saw this sign that said:
GIANT BOOK SALE
I thought to myself, how discriminatory, a book sale only for giants, what normal sized people aren’t allowed?
then…Â Oh, maybe its a sale on gigantic books, the bigger the book the better, for oversized bookshelves only.
Did I invite you to my wife’s Super Bowl Party?
Last night’s Lost revealed another survivor (if he can be considered a survivor, in-utero) that made it off the Island.
Kate’s son, Aaron. Hey, wait! Aaron is Claire’s son, not Kate’s. Well, yes, but we don’t yet know the dark story of what’s befallen Claire, as Miles Straum might say, maybe she never survived the crash. But Kate wasn’t pregnant when she was on the plane, and she was under the watchful eye of the now-dead Marshall, how can she pull off the illusion that Aaron is her son. Well I don’t know, but its seems common knowledge that the ‘world’ sees Aaron as Kate’s; her lawyer wanted him in the courtroom for sympathy; her mother wanted to see her ‘grandson’ with all appearances being that she believed it to be Kate; and Jack has some reluctance in seeing the poor boy post rescue. Could Claire, or what happened to Claire (remember she is Jack’s half-sister) be part of what haunts Jack about the island. Its also fairly clear in Kate’s devotion to (as we know him) her adopted son, that Aaron is the ‘he’ that Kate said would be, “wondering where she is…” at the end of last season. So even while we sprint towards answers there are plenty of new questions popping up.
I’m loving the new pace of how things are moving.
On to some mythos. This weeks allusion to myth is Hurley’s selection of movie, the great muscial Xanadu with a feature song sung by Olivia Newton John. The last time we heard such a song was ‘Road to Shambala‘ by Three Dog Night. Both are semi-mystical places. Wikipedia, though, lists Xanadu as the winter home of Kulbai Kahn, and has no reference to a Xanadu myth (at first perusal). Shambala has a more mystical background, and seems to also call in the topic of Shangri-la, and digging in at Wikipedia on those brings up that Shangri-la was the locale for a 1933 novel by James Hilton titled (get this) Lost Horizon. Read the synopsis, and I gotta believe that J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelhof had some prior exposure to this book while crafting the larger Lost mythos.
Lyrics may have something to play in this as well, besides ONJ’s lyrics (with ELO’s music) the rock band RUSH also had a song with lyrics alluding to KK’s Xanadu.
But darn it, I got tagged, so I must play… besides its a post (yeah, I know thin gruel.. deal.)
- What time is it? 8:42
- What’s your full name? Jon Richard Stueve
- What are you most afraid of? fear is a weakness, you must snuff it out wherever you find it. oh look a mouse !!!! EEEEKKK!
- What is the most recent movie that you have seen in a theater? Article 6
- Place of birth? Portland, Or
- Favorite food? yes.
- What’s your natural hair color? what ever appears from my scalp, it varies, I’m weird.
- Ever been to Alaska? yes.
- Ever been toilet paper rolling? I unroll paper, rolling it seems unsanitary.
- Love someone so much it made you cry? yes.
- Been in a car accident? yes, once by my hand, no other cars involved, sometimes I trip over my own feet too, satisfied?
- Croutons or bacon bits? croutons.
- Favorite day of the week? none of the above
- Favorite restaurant(s)? yes.
- Favorite Flower? flowers have no purpose, see Will’s speech in ‘A Knight’s Tale’
- Favorite sport to watch? yes.
- Favorite drink? liquid.
- Favorite ice cream? yes.
- Disney or Warner Brothers? The Rat.
- Ever been on a ship? yes
- What color is your bedroom carpet? mottled.
- How many times did you fail your driver’s test? I don’t fail tests…
- Before this one, from whom did you get your last e-mail? this didn’t come by email… MAN
- What do you do when you are bored? Whatever I want to do - GOSH!
- Bedtime? often.
- Who will respond to this post the quickest? most likely a spambot.
- Who is the person you sent this to that least likely will respond? a real live reader of my blog.
- Who is the person that you are most curious to see their responses? Curiousity is a weakness, see #3.
- Favorite TV show? yes (Lost, Chuck, The Office… and the list goes on)
- Last person you went to dinner with? My fam, plus Dad.
- What are you doing right now besides being on the computer? Being a DORK! GOSH!
- What are your favorite colors? Blue
- How many tattoos do you have? None (needles, yeah right, the doctor’s aid is lucky to survive…)
- How many pets do you have? none, well four if you count my kids..
- Which came first, the chicken or the egg? chicken, though the actual form my have been egg like.
- What do you want to do before you die? one more Quiz… well at LEAST one.
- Have you ever been to Hawaii? yes. all the islands except Lanai
- Have you been to countries outside the U.S.? yes.
- How many people are you sending this e-mail to? none, see #23 GOSH!
- Time this survey ended? 8:50
My guess is the six includes Jack, Hurley and Kate. As to the other 3, I haven’t the foggiest, but I’m going to go with Michael (just because I saw Harold Perrineau’s name in the credits, and if Desmond can’t navigate away from the island, I doubt Mike and Walt will be able to as well), Juliet and Desmond (because they have people to come back to). Mike was in the casket.
Lost dead pool candidates:
- Rose
- Bernard
- Claire (and baby)
- Walt
- Christian Shepherd
- Benjamin Linus
- Sawyer (he put his foot in it with his “I’m always surviving” schtick.
First apologies to all for my lack of content. Work has been crazy busy, Upward season is in full swing, and my motivation to bloviate on the blog dwindled. As apology, not excuse. Mea culpa.
However, back in the days of old, when I was in sequence, Navigator, Crazy Gator, MisplacedKeys, I felt a desire to opine on topics theological. I’m feeling a desire to resume such topics, and now that I’ve scared the majority of my readers away, I can safely assume that the readers that still click over, may not be offended by my topic de jour.
The reasons for this is legion. I’m a better thinker when a write. It is a time for communing with my Lord. It makes me get into the word, to either prove my hypotheses correct or invalid. It opens my thoughts up to the scrutiny of others, and most of all I do enjoy it.
That said, I’ll still hit it with some Lost posts and more pop-cultural stuff. I’m not going Blog365 and insanely post everyday, because I. MUST. BE. HEARD. I hope to quietly explain the way I live, and perhaps provide an answer to those with a question.
There is a wind in the air in our family, our church, and even my work. I want to feel the breeze and enjoy the air.
It started with this picture
and this message: r u dun werking?
And went downhill from there…
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Test lifted from snarkwife and sweetbippy
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BuaHahahaha…
I said yesterday to Matt on IM, that the MacBook Air was like a cheap and sleazy tabloid while my lappy (Dell 700m - pictured here beside the air’s more mature and responsible older sister MacBook) was like a sturdy text book with a great personality.
I hope I don’t cause my lappy to get all depressed and have some sort of eating disorder. I love it just the way it is.
