Separated At Birth?

Is it just us? During Girls night my husband said, "Doesn't she look like Barf from Spaceballs?" And she does.


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Eight Down, Sixteen To Go

So, the results are in and I was pretty surprised. After another embarrassingly uncomfortable musical number Ryan settled down to the business of crushing people's dreams.

Happily for us all, Jason Yeager was given the boot and hard last night. My husband and I were laughing so hard at his little goodbye video when he said, "I hope this works out because I will never hold down a 9 to 5 job." And then they ask Simon should he continue trying to make it in the "industry." Are you kidding me? Dude, go get a job at a grocery store or cell phone kiosk because you are NEVER going to be a famous singer. Give it up and do some actual work to put food in your child's mouth. It's over.

I did have a scary moment for a second when I thought Jason Castro might be eliminated. I seriously love Dreadlock Guy. I know he won't win this thing, but I want to see what he does the next few weeks.

Poor Danny Noriega, he gets so upset during the elimination episode. Every time he finds out he's safe his little eyes get so big and you know he's thinking that it should have been him.

But then, instead of Luke Menard, Robbie got sent home. I was surprised only because his performance wasn't that bad. Luke's was definitely worse. I guess people are just absolutely sick of that scarf headed poseur. Seriously, it's 2008. It's not cool to look like Brett Michaels little brother.

I am happy that Michael Johns was safe, because he didn't do great this week. Please please let him knock us out with something next week.

I was very surprised by the girls results. I gues Vote For The Worst must be doing a bang up job because Amanda Overmyer was safe this week. I though for sure that she was gone after that horrible rendition of Wayward Son. I really hope that she takes this opportunity to do a better job next week. Pick a better song and for Pete's sake do not wear chaps. At least her hair looked a bit better last night. She had some extensions and it was pulled off of her face. But they need to get a colorist down there STAT.

Instead of Amanda it was Alexandrea Lushington getting the shove off last night. I have to say it really did surprise me. She wasn't that bad. I think she was out of her league vocally, but so have many other Idol finalists. I guess she just didn't connect enough to get people voting.

And the other shocker was poor little Alaina sobbing her heart out after she was sent home. And Kady Malloy gets to stay after that absolutely atrocious performance. I can't believe that. I don't love Alaina but she was better than Kady. At least that tool Ryan gave Alaina the choice to sing or not because she was so emotional.

Next week should be interesting.

And I did eat my hat this morning. Well, not my hat, but one of my hubby's old baseball caps. It was gross.

Noooooooooooooooooo!!!!

I don't know where Vote For The Worst gets their info but according to them the top 12 contestants will be performing Beatles songs. I may have to stab myself in the ear. I am seriously considering skipping that show. Otherwise some of my all time favorite songs will be ruined forever. Who authorized this travesty? I see Yoko Ono all over this. Oh my god, I am breaking out in a cold sweat. I can only pray to sweet Jesus that someone has been misinformed.

Amanda Overmyer Busted For DUI

I found this on Vote For The Worst, it was actually broken by TMZ. Amanda Overmyer was arrested for DUI in October 2006. The pic above is her booking photo. The shocking thing is that the mug shot shows she has had that hair style for at least two years. She has deliberately maintained that hideous two-toned 'do for years. Someone get Stacey London on the phone.

Who Will Go Home Tonight?

Tonight there seem to be some pretty clear cut losers. I will eat my hat if Kady Malloy and Jason Yeager don't get sent home. The other guy has to be Luke Menard. As for the other girl, my guess is Amanda Overmyer. She is interesting, but she did everything she possibly could to alienate viewers. So again, here's my list:

Jason Yeager
Luke Menard
Kady Malloy
Amanda Overmyer

Right?

EW does a great Idol recap, check out today's here. Michael Slezak says that Alaina Whittaker is Skipper to Kristy Lee Cook's Barbie. That gave me a little giggle. Check it out, it's really good.

Top Ten Girls - What A Mess

What to say about last nights performances? Once again, the only word that comes to mind is crap. Total crap. Carly Smithson did great with her heart song but almost everyone else completely sucked. Kristy Lee Cook was actually much better this week, she did pretty good by Linda Ronstadt's "You're No Good." She looked so much better also, without the tons of eye makeup and false lashes. Brooke White charmed the judges with "You're So Vain," which was a great song choice for her, and she is a really likeable contestant, but I didn't feel like she sang it as well as the judges thought she did.

In the What Was She Thinking Category, Amanda Overmyer sang Kansas, and not well. I was actually proud of Paula for doing something that was pretty uncomfortable but necessary, telling Overmyer to tone down the hair and makeup. Seriously, it's just too much with the eyeliner, the bride of frankenstein hair, and the chaps. She looks 15 years older than she is. It may not matter in this competition though, because she will probably go home tonight. It's too bad, because she is an interesting aspect to this season, but she just can't let go of that "I'm a rocker" thing long enough to make a sensible song choice. How great would she have done at some Eagles? Hotel CA or New Kid in Town. Or, even some Aretha Franklin, you know, mix it up a bit. Oh well.

Kady Malloy will also get her walking papers tonight. She also sang Heart, but was never once on key. It was so very very bad. And she is just not an engaging or likable contestant. I seriously hope this is the end for her.

Syesha Mercado also made a terrible song choice. She sang Me and Mrs. Jones, but changed the pronoun and sang it about Mr. Jones. So irritating. It really rubbed the judges wrong, and I'm sure many voters felt the same way I did. It wasn't cute. I like her, but come on.

Alaina Whittaker actually sang "Hopelessly Devoted to You." Like, she's probably seen Grease 100 times and it's like her favorite song and she was like so excited to sing it. Well, she like, sucked. She can sing, no doubt, but why why why would you sing a song from Grease? Find a great song from the 70's and sing it. How hard can that be? It just shows how young she is.

And here's a tip for Asia'h Epperson and all the female contestants: DO NOT SING WHITNEY, CELINE OR MARIAH. Just don't. Don't these contestants ever learn? You cannot sing as good as they do and no matter what you will suffer in comparison. Epperson closed the show with "All By Myself" which has been done by both Celine Dion and Mariah Carey. The song was way too much for her and she and her ridiculous hair extensions got spanked by the judges.

As for Alexandrea and Ramiele: Eh. That's it. Eh. Not good, not bad.

Next week should be good for some laughs since it's gotta be 80's week. Can't wait.

Top Ten Guys - It's 70's Week

Well, I am sure everyone is talking about David Archuleta today. The guy basically won the whole thing last night with his version of John Lennon's Imagine. I mean, you almost wish they would just give it to him and send everyone else home. Almost. Because there is always the chance that the kid will really screw one up at some point in the competition, which would be horrible and wonderful all at the same time. Anyway, last night's performances were better overall than last week's. It's just that everything paled in comparison to Archuleta's amazing performance and humble acceptance of the judges accolades.

Here are the rest of my critiques in order of best to crap:

Chikezie: Sang "I Believe to my Soul." Complete turnaround from last week. I loved it, he did a fabulous job.

Jason Castro: Sang the Bee Gee's "I Just Wanna Be Your Everything." Maybe that's an Andy Gibb song, not a Bee Gee's. Anyway, I really liked it. The judges tore him a new one, but I thought it was pretty good. I really like him a lot and of all the contestants he seems the most authentic. And his eyes are beautiful.

Michael Johns: Gave us some Fleetwood Mac. He's in my top three (after D.A.) just because I still love him, but he has got to step it up a bit. He did such a good soul song at his San Diego audition, belting out Otis Redding, that it makes me wonder why he wouldn't choose something more along thos lines. For Pete's sake, the seventies were chock full of of groovy souls songs. I like Fleetwood Mac as much as the next person, but he really didn't do himself any favors with that song.

David Cook: "All Right Now." It actually was all right now. He was kind of cute and I liked him with the guitar.

David Hernandez: "Papa Was A Rolling Stone." Well, I have to give the guy some credit. He can sing, he does stay in key. I just don't like him or his voice.

Danny Noriega: This guy is actually starting to rub off on me a little. His performance of "Superstar" was so much better than last week's Elvis mess, and he actually got some props from Simon. They're going to have to change their focus at Vote For The Worst if this keeps up.

Robbie Carrico: Really, who cares?

Luke Menard and Jason Yeager: It's a tie between these two crapsters this week. I hope Jason has his bags packed because he is outta there this week. His Doobie Brother's was horrible and his dance moves made me vomit. Luke ruined one of my favorite Queen songs. I will never again be able to hear "Killer Queen" without a little shiver of disgust. It was atrocious. He is good looking for sure, but just so blah. And he is in some sort of traveling singing group so I guess he can sing good sometimes, maybe just not on this show.


So it seems like there are some clear frontrunners among the boys. I just really hope that MJ does better next week. I guess it will be 80's week next week, which can bode no good. Lots of Pat Benatar and Whitney Houston.

Also, Vote For The Worst has a leaked list of what the girls are singing tonight. If it's accurate there looks to be a great mix of good and crap.