Watching Sitcoms

I know there’s going to be another ep of American Idol tonight, and I know I’m gonna recap it, but my recaps don’t seem to give me enough space to talk about everything I’m thinking. Hence, this post, in which I am going to share a few of those random Idol-related thoughts I feel the urgent need to share.

Last night, after the show, Laura and I were looking up the American Idol tour dates to see which one we plan to attend. (We’re thinking Hamilton, ON, on 8/14, cause it’s a Friday, rather than Saturday in Rochester, NY, since we’re right in the middle of the two cities. But it always makes me wonder why the tour goes to random places like Hamilton and Rochester and not Buffalo, which is a much larger city than either. But I digress.) Anyway, it started us talking about the Top 10. Neither of us could recall where Alexis Grace was voted out. Turns out it was at 11, which means no tour for her. (And it makes me mad whenever I think about how much more awesome Alexis was than Lil, until that silly Kara told her to “dirty it up” or whatever, and she turned into a teenaged-looking hooker. I’ll get back to this digression in a sec.)

So I went back to look at my excel spreadsheet on which I list each contestant in the order they sing each week and which week they got voted off. (Yes, I do keep this list each year, so get over it.) Number 10 was someone named “Michael.” Since I neglected to put the last names in there this year (I’ll have to go fix that), I was like, Michael? Michael who?? Oh, right, Michael Sarver, I remember him. Vaguely. He’s in the Top 10? Really? Well.

Kara DioGuardi is a topic unto herself, really, and I could do an entire post about how much I don’t like her. Getting back to the Alexis “dirty” comment, it just makes me crazy, cause she has no idea what she’s talking about. She almost single handedly killed off Alexis’ chances with that attitude. What’s worse is, with all her sexual innuendo, Kara thinks she’s being provacative, when she’s really just being creepy. She is the single most irrelavent judge up there, and that’s including Randy Jackson. Cause although his comments are also pointless, they aren’t harmful. At no time in the past 8 seasons has one of Randy’s “Dawg, you can sing, dude” comments killed off anyone’s career. They haven’t helped, but they haven’t hurt. Paula’s kind-hearted but incoherent ramblings have probably saved a few people. And sure, Simon is rude and people have probably been voted out because of his utter distain, but its probable that a few have been saved beyond their expiration date, just from the pity votes after he blasts them. So it all equals out.

Kara serves no useful purpose whatsoever and if you try to bring up her relevance to the music scene of today and how she writes the songs people sing, I’ll kill you. The music she is responsible for writing is some of the worst, most fluffy dreck imaginable, sung by (as I’ve mentioned before) people chosen for their ability to dance. Yuck! OK, I feel better now.

Back to the Buffalo issue, the entire area around Buffalo (about 20 miles wide) has a population of around 1.2 million, Rochester has around 200,000 and Hamilton around 500,000. I suppose if you take Toronto into consideration, it bumps Hamilton way up, but I think Toronto is probably about as far away from Hamilton as Buffalo is, so that wouldn’t work anyway.

Alright, I’ll stop for now. But I could be back . . . soon.