Ok, I can’t take being silent any longer. It’s time to get back into this.
I am someone who suffers from depression and there are simply times when it doesn’t matter how much I would like to write, that the battle with it makes it unwise to do so.
But Spring is here now which means baseball season is upon us and that is reason to have cheer.
But Spring is here now which means baseball season is upon us and that is reason to have cheer.
Except if you root for the Mets, like I do.
Damn, now I’m depressed again.
I am a fan of American Idol, as you know by now, and one my regrets about not writing for a while is not being able to prove that I have again picked a bunch of singers who have made it into the top ten.
The ones that I picked early on during the show were Jessica Sanchez, Phillip Phillips, Elise Tostone, and Hollie Cavanagh. I did also pick Shannon Magrane, daughter of former MLB pitcher Joe Magrane, but she was eliminated in 11th place and out of the tour.
The ones that I picked early on during the show were Jessica Sanchez, Phillip Phillips, Elise Tostone, and Hollie Cavanagh. I did also pick Shannon Magrane, daughter of former MLB pitcher Joe Magrane, but she was eliminated in 11th place and out of the tour.
Magrane was actually selected by the AI terrorists at www.votefortheworst.com as one of the worst singers. Granted she had one real bad night that spelled her eventual doom, but at 16 years of age, she belonged there.
The one who doesn’t belong there is Deandre Brackensick. (Lets just call him Brackensuck right now.) This kid is horrible in the mold of Sanjaya from a few years ago but at least Sanjaya didn’t shriek in falsetto and bop around like a bobble head on stage.
The VFTW terrorists have chosen Heejun Han as their worst of the group right now, and while Han has really blowin off tune the last couple of weeks, he at least has real personality and is funny. Brackensuck just sucks and needs to go.
It’s more obvious than ever that the voting audience is heavily female since Brackensuck is still hanging around and getting votes while decent singers like Magrane and particularly Erika Van Pelt, who was booted last night, are now gone.
The one who doesn’t belong there is Deandre Brackensick. (Lets just call him Brackensuck right now.) This kid is horrible in the mold of Sanjaya from a few years ago but at least Sanjaya didn’t shriek in falsetto and bop around like a bobble head on stage.
The VFTW terrorists have chosen Heejun Han as their worst of the group right now, and while Han has really blowin off tune the last couple of weeks, he at least has real personality and is funny. Brackensuck just sucks and needs to go.
It’s more obvious than ever that the voting audience is heavily female since Brackensuck is still hanging around and getting votes while decent singers like Magrane and particularly Erika Van Pelt, who was booted last night, are now gone.
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| DeAndre Brackensick |
I think the two most interesting people left are Phillip Phillips and Colton Dixon right now.
Phillips is a humble southerner who took advice from singing coaches Jimmy Iovene and Diddy (or whatever that dude is calling himself now) and from fashion advisor Tommy Hilfiger and tossed it all out of the window. Iovene told Phil Phil to lose his guitar and Hilfiger said to never wear grey on stage. Phil Phil came out with his guitar strapped over not just one, but TWO gray shirts and blew the house down with his rendition of a Billy Joel song.
Phillips is a humble southerner who took advice from singing coaches Jimmy Iovene and Diddy (or whatever that dude is calling himself now) and from fashion advisor Tommy Hilfiger and tossed it all out of the window. Iovene told Phil Phil to lose his guitar and Hilfiger said to never wear grey on stage. Phil Phil came out with his guitar strapped over not just one, but TWO gray shirts and blew the house down with his rendition of a Billy Joel song.
I’m agnostic so I’m not pushing anything here one way or the other. I admired that the kid stood up for what he believed in that case.
Both Dixon and Phillips stood up for what they believed was right for them and that is particularly courageous given the fact that major players in the music and TV and fashion industries are telling them to other things. Neither of them have reached high levels of success where it wouldn’t matter if the industry booted them to the curb so to risk sacrificing potential higher levels of success to do what they think is right is admirable for sure.
I was happy to see Haley Reinhardt singing on the results show last night. She was looking hotter than ever. Not sure that I liked the song but I liked watching her sing it for sure.
There are so many other things to say because I’ve been away for so long. I sort of want to get it all out in case I don’t write again for a while but no one will stick around that long.
So I’ll make shorter notes.
I’ve been watching a lot of TV because it’s the only thing I can really afford to do these days.
The next time I write I’ll say more about the Voice. I continue to like that show and soon they will do live songs from their finalists. The guy with the actual best “Voice” there is an opera singer and it will be interesting to see how he will get molded to get enough votes to win the competition. Again, more later…if I don’t hibernate again.
I am a fan of the show The Bachelor on ABC. I won’t watch the Bachelorette because there are too many dudes on it for me. But watching 25 desperate women trying to find “love” on a TV game show creates so many opportunities for good laughs for me that it is so worth watching.
I also happen to be great at picking who will win. I have successfully chosen the past two winners from just the very first show of the season. That’s right, Bachelor fans, I picked Courtney from day one and during Brad’s second season I picked Emily from day one (who will be the Bachelorette this season.)
This past week we taped our last weekly version of the Dungeon of Manlove. It’s been a full year that we have been taping that show which has now reached into 61 different countries.
It’s time for a change of pace for us in our podcast world and next week we will begin taping our new show.
The new show will be pop culture related and will be a mainstream show rated PG (ok, perhaps from time to time someone will curse but there will be a warning, if so.)
The new people on this show will have their own blogs, such as this one, which will help them expand further on topics that come up on the show but perhaps we don’t return to discuss on it.
The main reason for this change is pretty simple; the Dungeon show has a niche audience and those who are on the show are all afraid to tell their friends that they are on it!
I never cared about all of that. I had nothing to lose if people didn’t like something we were doing on there. Ok, perhaps somewhere I missed something to gain, but I never wanted to play by all of those rules either (much like Phil Phil and Colton Dixon.)
But for those who are starting this new show with me I would like them to have the chance to share what they are doing with their friends without taking the same of risk that I took myself. I certainly don’t wish to force that type of risk on anyone.
I still don’t know what to call the new show though. I don’t really want to call it the Marshal Manlove show, because there is no draw because of my dumb assed name. I have been thinking about calling it Poppourri (as opposed to Potpourri of course) or something like “The Culture Vultures” (even though a websearch for that name had a few hits.)
Any ideas for a name of the new show? Send them to me and I’ll give you credit for it, if you wish.
But for now, I’m
I also happen to be great at picking who will win. I have successfully chosen the past two winners from just the very first show of the season. That’s right, Bachelor fans, I picked Courtney from day one and during Brad’s second season I picked Emily from day one (who will be the Bachelorette this season.)
This past week we taped our last weekly version of the Dungeon of Manlove. It’s been a full year that we have been taping that show which has now reached into 61 different countries.
It’s time for a change of pace for us in our podcast world and next week we will begin taping our new show.
The new show will be pop culture related and will be a mainstream show rated PG (ok, perhaps from time to time someone will curse but there will be a warning, if so.)
The new people on this show will have their own blogs, such as this one, which will help them expand further on topics that come up on the show but perhaps we don’t return to discuss on it.
The main reason for this change is pretty simple; the Dungeon show has a niche audience and those who are on the show are all afraid to tell their friends that they are on it!
I never cared about all of that. I had nothing to lose if people didn’t like something we were doing on there. Ok, perhaps somewhere I missed something to gain, but I never wanted to play by all of those rules either (much like Phil Phil and Colton Dixon.)
But for those who are starting this new show with me I would like them to have the chance to share what they are doing with their friends without taking the same of risk that I took myself. I certainly don’t wish to force that type of risk on anyone.
I still don’t know what to call the new show though. I don’t really want to call it the Marshal Manlove show, because there is no draw because of my dumb assed name. I have been thinking about calling it Poppourri (as opposed to Potpourri of course) or something like “The Culture Vultures” (even though a websearch for that name had a few hits.)
Any ideas for a name of the new show? Send them to me and I’ll give you credit for it, if you wish.
But for now, I’m
Done.
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