A Way to spend a Saturday!

So I am home...HOME! Gosh I've missed this feeling, it's been a while! I'm home on a Saturday night, I've been wanting to sleep for a few hours but I can't...I have tooth picks in my eyes and am up listening to Blake Lewis' farewell set in Seattle! I should have gone but I didn't...I wanted to but there are so many Seattle trips planned this summer and really...HOME was needed!!!

So as I sit and listen I think of AMERICAN IDOL...this year I must say WTF, and that's putting it polite! I will paste my blog I wrote last year...365-7 days ago! I re-read it tonight and could help but laugh! Have I really figured out the American Idol key...I've been saying since season 2 that every second year is a lame season...this year though is the lamest of the lame!!! I'm thinking it's because Seasons 10, the final season me thinks, will be a blow out amazing shhhhhhhBANG! Once you read my blog I wrote last year you will learn my distaste, this is the first season ever that I've missed shows! I record them on my PVR and do a fast catch up...I've only bought one track from the whole season from iTunes when I normally buy almost all of them. I have however bought the tour tickets for Seattle...in part because I love trips to Seattle and I will fail in life IF I miss one tour out of all of them...but it's also a weekend I can spend with mom and I want nothing more than to take her to LaPush, is it sad that I am more excited for the morning after Tour 2010 than the night of?

So be it! Prove me right American Idol...do your season 10 like no other and end on an amazing high note! Kara is already being more of a hardass and saying it the biz way, Ellen is funny and has taken over Paula but not as fluffy and Randy well...he's Randy! My guess American Idol season 10 will be the best we've ever seen and to fill Simon's spot...the best Idols from past seasons!!! I'd like to see Blake, Carrie, Chris Daughtry, David Cook, Kelly C and Kelly P! A ton of highlights shown and the best top 10 we've ever seen!!!

And here's my blog from last year...thoughts please!

12:13AM...Friday night...I turned on Larry King knowing Adam (yes I say him first) and Kris, and the other American Idol folks will be on.
I want to comment and tonight I am going to comment freely! Many have asked me to blog about this however I have waited until tonight, calm the rage...see the reaction and allow myself to speak my mind.
I started watching American Idol the last week of "audition week" during Season One! I was doing promotions that summer and remember being out but one girl had a VCR and I'd watch the show before going home for the night. By the end of season one I had my parents hooked. Sure my mom was going to love it but my dad was a truck driving harley guy!!! He'd call home on Tues & Wed nights from truck stops fighting who sung better and believe me he wasn't the only one calling home doing that!

Right off I'm gonna say Kris...I remember Simon saying he shouldn't have said he was married, true....honestly until the end that's the only thing I remember about him! I'm sorry Kris I think you have a great voice, you are cute but being a girl from Vancouver I see you all the time. Now before all you Kris fans come hating I DO wish him the best, I DO Like him he's actually my fave genre but in 24 months please ask me where Kris Allen is?

During this season I figure out a very important thing! Every second year it's a "downer year" as I call it. Think back to last year...David Cook..WOW It was big...two Davids going at it, teenie boopers against young adult boopers...it was huge! Now the year before that, last two Jordin VS Blake Lewis...SORRY but it was only one notch up from the sleeper season number 3. Don't get me wrong, I loved the Blake and Jordin Battle(Field) (go get her new song on iTunes it's wonderful) but it was a year I wanted to hide my face in a pillow.

America was not ready for Blake Lewis! Where is he now??? Remember Flock Of Seagulls??? Remeber I RAN??? Well now you can hear it in todays day and age! Blake has teamed up with people like DARUDE and other dance floor power houses and is taking the music world by storm....but believe me there is NO "calm before the storm" with this west coast superstar!

Now back to the voting!!! I remember back in the day when I couldn't vote (I've only voted a couple times being in the states and then again the final night this season & 6 in for Adam!) I remember when blogs would vote against someone to save someone else. Sorry Ryan Starr you were a victim of this, I remember when she was voted out and the work the bloggers did before hand.

I never watched TV much after the real 90210 ended and American Idol started, I was never "hooked" as much until then....once AI started it was like a game for me at first and it was like I studied it. The information would come to me, I guess the day and age of the internet it landed on my lap. Heck strange things always happened like us ending up backstage the second tour and changing shirts with an Idol cause mine said "Canada EH?"...oh the memories. I find it funny to say I have never missed an AI show, even if I have to catch up when I am away. I have been to every top 10 concert and do take this on as my personal mission. Will they make it or will they not? The last two years I sit during audition week with a pad of paper marking down ppl I like and by golly I am good at my game!

So now that I've given a bit of how I have felt over the years how do I feel about this season??? I knew it was a "down" season...it didn't seem to have that PHUMP and battle throughout. Adam was amazing since the start but what happened??????????????????????????

I've been a Perez Hilton daily (actually at least 10x a day) reader since for years now and saw the drag pics of Adam, being gay or not it still came out....and it came out that Kris was the "boy next door".Take things to the top 3 now...you have Danny in the mix ....all of a sudden you take Danny out and what are his fans going to do? Danny the great guy with the great story and voice? Yes his fans were going to vote for Kris. Sad fact but it does happen!!! Fans ban together via blogs and word of mouth.

Was Amerca ready for an openly gay (I know he hasn't admited it....but gay or not...perhaps those interesting pics could come into play...Adam lets share make up!) anyway was America ready??? NO!!!! Sad shame cause people are people no matter what the say.
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I've had friends mention "who cares second best does better!!!" It's not about that that this time on Idol...Adam was a clear front runner from the start which doesn't normally happen on this show. He was good and still pushed forward to keep growing. iTunes already has proved who has won....it really is the power of today.

I hope next year AI will push the boundries again. I hope artists like Blake Lewis will be invited back to show AI talented artists do all sorts of directions and sometimes it's even better than the cheese they serve with the wine I drink on Wednesday nights