Two of the most satisfying eliminations EVER

[jlh]

I haven't seen Veronica Mars yet because Channel 9 sucks and the Nets don't, apparently.

Maybe it's because I'm writing about him lately, but I am just falling in love with Ryan Seacrest. If I didn't already have two GBFs (P and D) I would want him to be my GBF. I just want to go shopping for shoes with him. Shipping aside, I really love how he's been handling Simon lately, with amused resignation rather than trying to scold him into good behaviour. "You're a child, you know that?" is just a fantastic line, especially when Simon's response was a self-satisfied smile.

Anyway, I'm so glad, jesus, that Kellie is fucking gone. I never liked her; I was just resigned to her presence because she was "likable". I don't think Simon wanted to fuck her as much as he knew that she could sell like hotcakes and because he could admire someone who was so self-manufactured. I was also pleased that Simon admitted that they were all too hard on Kat. They had a point—it wasn't her strength and she would have done better with something intimate—but they really overstated it.

Next week: a song from the year they were born and a song from this week's charts. Get ready for a lot of late 70s-80s!

Stephen really, really dropped the ball tonight on Top Chef. He needs to get his head out of his ass. He gives a lot of blah blah about teamwork but in no way is he a team player. That said, I think the one bit of real critique that could have been given to Lee Anne is that she just worked on a team with Stephen and got burned by his front of the house antics, so she might have known he'd fuck off. But I'm really glad that she's not gone.

I just hope Harold can make it one more week because he is so dorkily adorable. He is not only the Nick or Jay-like narrative voice of the show but also the conscience. He turns against someone, they're gone. He points to someone, they win. He's got that flying under the radar-team player thing down. No one wants to throw him under a bus.

Comments

[didi75.livejournal.com]

Ha! I just commented on your last post. I'm surprised they took back their harsh words about Katharine.

And do you really hate Andrea Bocelli? Maybe I'm a sap, but I love him. If I ever got to see him live, I would turn into a big ball of Paula tears. Seriously, I died laughing when she started crying after Elliot's performance. She is priceless.

[nmalfoy.livejournal.com]

I love him too! (Bocelli) At the Bellagio in Vegas they have a water show with the fountains and there's music playing. The playlist rotates and the fountains are choreographed to go with the music. When we saw it, it was Bocelli singing and we were all kind of standing apart from one another, so, for that few minutes, it was just the water and the music and it was (and I know this sounds stupidO magical. It really, really was.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

It's an entire class of music I don't care for. I'm not a big fan of classical singing in any case and I'm not much for opera. It's too stylized for me or something. Of course, it could also be that I'm not a fan of the female soprano voice in any case and even contraltos are singing at the top of their range in opera. I've always liked lower: viola vs violin, alto flute vs. piccolo. I am not really interested in bird songs except from birds.

Also, I don't really like great big ballads that much. I like my love with a little something holding it back, like a Cole Porter song or a Gershwin song. There's always that hint of "well, here goes nothing" to their love songs, a "this might be a bad idea" or "this is a totally fucked up relation but somehow it works" or "i'm scared but I'm going to do it anyway". Divas and show stoppers and stuff like "Unchained Melody" leave me cold.

And all THAT said, I'm enough of a snob that I'm like, if you want to sing classical, that's fine; it's not my thing but it is clearly very, very good. But classical-lite bullshit on PBS specials is just terrible. Sing an aria, awesome, but don't sing some fucking David Foster song and espect me to have some transcendental experience. Like, all those Diane Warren movie songs? Can't stand the lot of them. I think I'm just that much of a punk rocker-jazz freak to not really like anything middle-of-the-road.

[didi75.livejournal.com]

I get that. I'm not really familiar with the David Foster/Andrea Bocelli CD, but I love Romanza. Plus, I really enjoy Bocelli's voice, it's so pure and powerful. I could listen to him sing anything. I do agree about some of the Diane Warren movies songs and overly sappy ballads, though. And I do like opera, but like you, I'm not a big fan of the female soprano voice. I much prefer a tenor.

Waiting for the next VM is the suck.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

I emailed WOR, the nyc UN affiliate and complained. I know a lot of people on TwoP did too.

The mailing addy is programming@wwortv.com

I got a form email back saying nothing but that they're sorry and my email has been fowarded to the appropriate department!

[trincesstiara.livejournal.com]

I hope you have seen VM now, because oh wow....and I live in Ireland and have no-one to squeal at!!