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American Idol Season 11 – Who Makes The Top 6 For Real This Time?
As I wrote last night, America must’ve been smokin’ that stuff last week when Jessica Sanchez was nearly eliminated before Jenny Lo and company decided to save her. But there is no save this time. Will America be smokin’ that stuff again?
Here’s my top and bottom 2 from last night:
Top 2
1. Skylar
2. Joshua (edges out Phillip by a some chest hair)
Bottom 2
1. Elise
2. Hollie
I fear that my droopy faced girl Elise is going to […]
Commercial-isms: Volkswagen Passat vs. Madness “It Must Be Love”
Always much more popular in their native Britain, the seven-man new wave ska band Madness are mainly (and somewhat erroneously) known here as a one hit wonder. That hit, “Our House” which hit the Billboard Top 10 in the summer of ’83, remains a staple of 80s party playlists. It’s a great song, but it’s tended to overshadow the rest of the band’s copious singles catalog from their classic 1979 45 “One Step Beyond” (The […]
New Single! Keane “Silenced by the Night”
My main problem with the British band Keane is the same problem that I have with photographs of autumn landscapes: the prettiness, the infernally unquestionable prettiness of it all. It’s so freaking easy to love what a Keane song sounds like that it almost feels like you’re missing something, like you’re falling for something that somehow isn’t quite real. Like you’ve ridden a fake elevator to the top of a skyscraper and […]