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  • AMERICAN IDOL CONSPIRACY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I am not a person who is big into formulating or believing conspiracy theories. I do believe we actually landed on the moon. I do believe that September 11th was the work of crazed terrorists and not of our own government. I do believe that the connection between Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” and The Wizard of OZ is just a coincidence. I am a skeptic, but not a fanatic. However, after witnessing what I saw tonight, I do believe in one conspiracy, American Idol is rigged.

    If you are not a fan of American Idol or are tone deaf, then let me just inform you of something, Chris Daughtry makes no sense as being the latest person voted off American Idol. However, at the same time he does. He doesn’t make sense because he’s been easily one of the most popular contestants since the competition started. He doesn’t make sense because he has clearly been one of the top two or three best singers in the competition every week. He doesn’t make sense because anyone I talk to seems to think this guy is a superstar. However, for all these reasons it does make sense he was the last one voted off.

    Before you right me off as another psycho music fan with too much time on his hands consider this: If you are at the height of your popularity, isn’t that the best time to start selling records. Chris has been in my opinion the most popular contestant in this competition since day one. Why take a chance of him getting out sung in one of the show’s very final episodes and losing some of his juice? It makes much more sense if you were a record executive to have this guy put out a record A.S.A.P. As you may know, American Idol contestants have an obligation to put out a record with the show’s Producer Simon Fuller’s music label.

    Now consider the following, Katherine McPhee had an off night last episode due in part to the fact the theme was Elvis songs and she is a female. It would serve a popular contestant who may have taken a hit like that to stay on the show a couple more weeks to try and build back some of the fan base she may have lost. If you have Katherine win the competition, she will become a star. Chris Daughtry is already a star. Why have one star when you can play your cards right and have two?

    This conspiracy theory is helped by the fact that American Idol’s voting process is not published. How does the American viewer have any way of knowing who really got voted off? How do we know they even count the votes at all? If they published the results (which could easily be faked, by the way) it would take a lot of this theory’s firepower away.

    Call me crazy, tell me I have too much time on my hands, but the fix is on, and American Idol viewers are the victims.

  • Chinese Democracy, i’ll belive it when i see it!

    Every once and a while a new story comes long that is only true to certain people. If you are the kind of person that believes a person’s character is what it is and have no time to give second chances, please stop reading right now. However, if you are one of those people that believe in redemption and that people can change keep reading. I offer you this one caution; don’t believe a word that Axl Rose says until there is action to support those words.

    For Guns n’ Roses fans, the term Chinese Democracy has great meaning. Broken Dreams, false hope and frustration are just a few of the meanings that come to mind when someone says Chinese Democracy to me. Chinese Democracy is the name of the next Guns n’ Roses album. However in this case, next is a timeless expression. It has been years since the album has been rumored to be released by the newest version of Guns n’ Roses. There comes a point at which people stop waiting for something and start praying for it. However, rock fans prayers may have finally been answered (before reading the rest of this blog, refer to the first paragraph’s caution statement).

    According to an AP report, on Saturday night, radio host Eddy Trunk’s weekly classic rock talk show was co-hosted by Skid Row frontman Sebastin Bach. The discussion between the two turned to Guns n’ Roses. That’s when Bach jumped into action and placed a call to fellow frontman Axl Rose’s cell phone. Axl picked up and the call went live on the air. For shits and giggles, Bach asked Rose about the long awaited Chinese Democracy album. Axl responded by saying the album will come out “Sometime this fall or late fall…It will be out this year.”

    On the surface, it would be easy to get excited over Rose’s comments. The comments should be reason to believe that the decade long rumors of Chinese Democracy being released were finally coming true. However, this is Axl Rose talking, which means lies, bullshit and more bullshit. We have been down this road again, and each time it has lead to more disappointment and frustration. If the man could only be as honest as well as he could sing and do his famous snake-like moves on stage then I might actually take his comments seriously. However, once a liar, always can be a liar.

    Upon further thought, if you think about the title of the album (Chinese Democracy), maybe this album will never come out. Will there ever be democracy in China, probably not. Is this Axl Rose’s idea of a sick joke? Possibly. What makes this new fuel on the fire worse is their are also rumors circulating that former Gn’R guitarist Slash may rejoin the band.

    I as well as many other rock fans have been jerked around too many times by Axl Rose to believe him. The boy who cried wolf eventually got eaten, and what comes around goes around, so I can’t even be angry. I’m confident that if Axl is jerking us around again, that I won’t be the chain he’s pulling. But how awesome would it be to hear a new Guns n’ Roses album?

  • Rapper Proof Killed, Pointer Sister Passes Away

    The world of hip-hop is one that has a tragic tendency toward lyrics that display a glorification of violence, drug use and death. It’s unfortunate, but this is due in part to the fact that most rappers both grew up and live in situations where those things are far too common. Lyrics seem to mirror actions and because of that hip-hop gets the credit of being a journalistic outlet with the clearest lens you would ever see through, the eyes of the people involved. We are reminded time to time of how real the life of a rapper can become.

    One of those times came early Tuesday when rapper Proof, whose real name is Deshaun Holton was shot and killed in front of a Detroit nightclub in the wee hours of the morning. Unlike some killings of rap legends such as Tupac, Biggie Smalls and Big L, it seems Proof fired the first shot in an apparent gun battle which left the man he shot, 35-year old Keith Bender Jr. with a bullet wound to the head. The club all of this violence happened at, Club CCC on Detroit’s famed Eight Mile Road, was apparently operating at an illegal hour of the night. This is reportedly the third shooting in or around Club CCC. The rest of the details of the shooting including who actually shot the rapper are unclear as of yet.

    Proof becomes the second rapper in the group D12 to be murdered. Previously in 1999 another member of D12, Bugz was brutally killed during an altercation that got out of hand at an amusement park in Detroit. D12 was reportedly supposed to begin work on its next album this month. Details of whether that will change are not clear yet. This also mark’s another in what has become a long chain of events that have left rapper Eminem devastated. A couple of weeks ago, friend and fellow rapper Obie Trice was shot on a Detroit freeway but survived. Just a few days ago, Eminem filed for divorce from his wife Kim. Proof was Eminem’s best man at the ceremony. In addition, the killing is eerily similar to Eminem’s “Toy Soldiers” video, in which Proof is shot and killed on a Detroit street. Newly divorced and with the killing of a close friend and fellow rapper on his mind, Eminem’s world seems to be a little more gloomy.

    In other sad news, June Pointer of the Pointer Sisters passed away at the age of 52 on Tuesday at a Los Angeles hospital. June Pointer reportedly died of an undisclosed form of cancer. On her own, June recorded a top 30 R&B single “Ready for Some Action” in 1983. However, she will probably be best known for her work with her sisters, which included three Grammy awards and numerous top 100 Billboard singles. Some of the groups most well known songs include “He’s So Shy”, “Automatic” and perhaps their most recognizable hit “”Jump (For My Love)”. The Pointer Sisters songs were featured in some scenes in the 2003 hit film “Love, Actually”. In the film Hugh Grant plays the Prime Minister of England and listens to the songs of The Pointer Sisters throughout the movie.