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Remember that time when Fall Out Boy and Panic! at the Disco went on tour with Blink, and Brendon kept getting that one word wrong in Don't Stop Believing? Every time? (On purpose? I don't know.) Good times.

Right, so American Idol. Anyone else miss Simon being around to call performances self-indulgent?

However! I am really enjoying Jimmy Iovine (and company) being around to mentor this season, and tonight was a perfect example of why. Oh. My. Gosh. If there is any audience more terrifying than Lady Gaga in that makeup, in front of that white backdrop, I can't imagine what.

( and some blathering about the final four )

In related news, I am bewildered by the announcement that Paula Abdul is joining Simon on X-Factor. I also feel bad for Randy. Just me?

There are about 100 things I have not posted or written in the past few weeks. So here, have ( this picture of Kris Allen and Michael Esper backstage at American Idiot ) instead. Pictures of Kris with pretty much everyone else in the cast can be found at the tumblr thinger.

My entire home smells like bleach. I was confused by why the contractor felt that the units needed powerwashing. So was the guy who was doing the powerwashing.

Things I learned watching Top Gear: There's a model of caravan called the shamal. That seems ill-advised? Almost on par with the Chevy Nova. Does Britain lack trailer parks? I know they have tornadoes. Because the last thing I want to reference, in terms of a trailer, is wind.

I am unreasonably frightened by the fanworks that a fair percentage of the How to Train Your Dragon fandom seems to be producing. (This does not include Stoick/Gobber. I am totally cool with that.) Someone has written some sort of SPN AU/hybrid/I don't know what (found on my network page, so maybe one of you has clicked through) and I am fighting the urge to click through to either the summary or the actual fic, because I don't want to scar any more of my brain.

( a handful of sentences about SGU, containing major spoilers for Sabotage. )

( I watched some other TV tonight, and even some of the commercials. The movie commercials. )

Despite the fact that as Jamie Foxx pointed out, "Music is the soundtrack of our lives," I still sort of don't care who wins Idol. ( Because I am more excited about the judges than the contestants. )

ETA: because I don't think I've made this clear before, SGU, what I want is for you to acknowledge that there's a line - not even a fine one, a FOR-REAL LINE between "I love you for your mind/soul/heart, our bond transcends physical appearance," and "Sure, I don't care if you're wearing someone else's body, let's screw." I don't even need you to stop doing it. I just need someone to be conflicted about it. You guys should be good at conflicted by now. Conflicted for any number of possible reasons. I am not picky.

I find Harry Connick Jr. really hilarious. Not really in an intentional way? I was a big, big fan of his around the time of Red Light, Blue Light and Star Turtle, where by big fan I mean I only really like two or three tracks, but I listened to them obsessively. Sort of the way I'm a fan of Michael Bublé now, so I suppose I should have seen that one coming.

Harry Connick Jr. has very blue eyes (and well, Sinatra), which reminds me, did anyone watch Conan O'Brien's thing on 60 minutes? Did anyone else think that his eyes were literally frighteningly blue in the part of the interview when he was wearing the blue shirt, and not so much in the rest of it?

( more nattering about Idol this week )

I'm excited for The Good Guys. Bradley Whitford! Whatisname (Colin?) Hanks! So excited. I expect that to last until about a week after the premiere, as is my habit.

And finally, it's totally karaoke and pale in comparison to their Across the Universe from last week, but Wes Taylor and Matt Doyle, still adorable.

This is not that big entry about movies and things. This should probably be a tweet? But omgz! The Ford American Idol commercial this week is a The Academy Is... song - "We've Got a Big Mess On Our Hands" - Which is awesome? But random. And... not much of an ad, unless Ford is moving into the street sweeper market.

I am going to put forth the idea that the message behind the Ford Fusion ad campaign is "Any idiot can drive a Ford." It started out somewhat more subtly, with Kris Allen assuring people that all you need to do is talk to use the fancy systems in the car.

In this ad, Tim gets out of his car, trips over a rope, and sets loose Rube-Goldberg-like chain of events on the street. Spilled paint, runaway fruit cart (fruit cart? really?), spraying water. And then Tim gets back in his car and drives off, leaving the mess behind him for everyone else to clean up.

(and rights to music continue to baffle me. @billbeckett: American Idol cast just sang Big Mess for a Ford commercial?! Awesome! Were muddy pickup trucks involved?")

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Finally got to go see How To Train Your Dragon. Everyone's seen this by now, yes? If not, you should go. Really. I'll wait.

I really loved it, but - and feel free to disagree with me here - the thing that requires the most suspension of disbelief is not the teenage viking engineer, or the fact that apparently dragons are giant flying cats. It's that they are giant flying cats that listen to you when you tell them to do something.

( and you can hatch your own dragon egg on the movie's web site. wheee? )

As a couple of people on my f-list pointed out, Ryan Seacrest was totally loopy last night on Idol. Drunk, or... what's the Hollywood code for that? A bad medicine interaction? Either way, that was totally the highlight of the night. I think this is the first season I've watched where I really, really didn't care who wins, in the sense that I wouldn't buy any of their albums. I'd like to see Crystal take it, sort of on principle, but I think she'd be another Taylor - whatisname. Taylor? the guy with the gray hair, and the Woo! - in terms of mainstream success or lack thereof. I reserve the right to change my mind if we ever get to hear one of her original songs.

Docu-drama! ~~Last week, on The Hills...~~ This season on The Deadliest Catch, it's less documentary and more melodrama. Family drama, competition drama, Russel-on-his-third-ship-this-year drama, ~~babies~~ deckhands switched at ~~birth~~ the dock, and a ship goes down. Maybe it's just that I watched season one last week, which was actually about crab fishing, and during a derby season, no less, so there was really no time for stupid squabbling.

American Idol last night was horrible, so I'd already had all the soul sucked out of me by the time the less-bad parts happened. Andy Garcia sang Forever, and all I could think was that he was hunched over his guitar really awkwardly. And that he had a string section accompanying him from the audience, wth. Lee Dewyze shows up with an up-tempo song that's not staged like its a Vegas act, and all I can think is that "you've got to treat her like a lady, she'll give in to you" is a horrible lyric. Seriously, really horrible. Also, awkwardly sort of third-person once-removed song. I don't see any way that someone singing that song can connect to the audience over it.

Crystal Bowersox, still awesome, but I couldn't be excited about her performance, either. Sigh.

And this has nothing to do with the entry I was going to make today, but OMG, I can't remember the last time I was so depressed after two hours of television, and that includes embarrassment-squick reality programming, and movies where the pet dies.

ETA: Okay, just when I thought this week on Idol couldn't get worse. I. What? What was that opening to the results show? That is taking mashup culture and sponsorship/product placement/synergy/whatever to a place that makes me want to turn off the TV for the rest of my life. I can't even describe it. It was the closest thing I've ever seen on tv to inexplicable badfic.

ETA2: Why why why why why does big Mike have a rat tail hanging off the back of his hat. Is the country being punked? Am I suddenly a participant in some sort of experiment to see at what threshold I will throw something at the TV, like that experiment for how long it takes rage to set in when you're on hold?

ETA3: my impotent rage cannot be contained in text. I literally yelled at the tv 4 times during the results show, and none of it had to do with the actual results.

So, I went to play league volleyball tonight, and it was the single most frustrating hour of volleyball of my entire life. And then I took a hard spike directly to the nose, which has never happened to me in... 15? years of play.

I am actually more frustrated that it doesn't appear to be bruising, because I was really, really pissed, and I would welcome the invitation to complain about it for a week or so. I could probably count on one hand the number of times in my life that I have been mad enough to really want to hit and/or break things, and this was one of them.

In happier news, I loved everything about American Idol tonight, including the Iron Man trailer, and Kris Allen's Ford commercial. I don't know what is wrong with my brain, because I am not even that big a fan of his, but I will totally stop fastforwarding through commercials to watch him. So precious.

I don't generally vote for Idol, or anything else that I can't do via the web. It's probably just as well, because I don't now who I'd vote for.

Also, you can totally add me to the list of people who have a crush on Lee Dewyze. A pre-reformed bad boy with legitimate talent and apparent mild self-esteem issues? Where do I sign up for one of those?

I'm a little frustrated with the cut-down Top Gear episodes on BBC America, but not quite enough to make the effort to find the other bits. I'm still having a hard time deleting old episodes off the DVR, so I probably might as well download some seasons.

My nose really fucking hurts.

I finally caught up on The Daily Show, now on to this weeks Colbert Report

Best use of one of the worst sequels ever (from the intro to Obama Date Night coverage):

"It's actually true what the experts say: Marriage takes work. It was my anniversary a little while ago, and so Saturday night, decided to show the wife a kind of a good time. I defrosted a pizza, popped in a copy of Die Hard 2, and, uh, put on pants. And we celebrated by watchin' it, and, uh, it was really, it was awesome..."

( John Stewart is funny, and Justin Long takes his comedy very seriously )

Also, apparently Adam Lambert is gay. Apparently US Weekly thinks this is news. I am staying far, far away from AI fandom until everyone gets the Rolling Stone interview out of their system.

ETA: er, waiting for the having a crush on Kris part to die down, that is. I'm sure Adam is precisely as gay in fic this week as he was last week.

Oh well, it's my penultimate American Idol post for the season.

So I have been not-at-all-shy about my intense hatred for Adam Lambert's performances this season. And then he comes out and hits the final with three beautiful, powerful, and restrained (for him) songs. I still love Kris, and actually I'd be really interested to see an Idol who's happily married in the spotlight, but now I'd be perfectly happy for either of them to win.

I sort of figured Kara was going to write the winner's song when I realized they weren't doing that competition thing again. I love that Simon thought the song was cliched. They've all been pretty horrible.

Other things I love! I love TV shows where characters burst into song. I love musicals. As I've said about a hundred times in the past couple months, I am so, so, so excited for Glee that I can barely stand it. I told my parents that I was excited, and I can't remember the last time I bothered discussing TV with my parents because we have such massively different tastes.

So, Glee! spoilers! not so much for the episode, but for something revealed in the trailer at the end. But go ahead and read it anyway, cause this is a show about singing, not, like, Lost. And I spoiler-tagged the bit from the trailer anyway.

( By its very definition, Glee is about opening yourself up to joy )

In summary - hooray singing, totally lived up to my very, very shallow expectations. I suppose I will be able to suppress my need for singing shows with the new season of So You think You Can Dance.

And in random Dancing with the Stars wrapup, I'd forgotten that Tony Dobelani partnered Stacy Kiebler in season 2. I would have been equally excited for any of the three finalists to win. I like this season about 100 times more than last season's, so I'm not even going to say anything about who won. I like when celebrities have more than one skill. It was fun to watch. It's like people who say they're just happy to be nominated. I just liked watching the show, unlike season one, when I was so mad after the finale that that soap chick won instead of John O'Hurley that I could barely talk about it.

Also, wow, Sam Champion (New York WABC sports anchor) has gray hair. When did that happen?

And, speaking of ABC news, here is a heartwarming story about ducks.

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