top 6

this week's mentor:: SIR ANDREW LLOYD WEBER
WHY MUST THEY SPELL LLOYD WITH TWO Ls!!!?
he's the big musical guy, hot shot, big cheese, kahoona. yeah.
Syesha Mercado - One Rock 'N Roll Too Many
she was like CRAZY theatrics and dancing and hip swinging. that's where she comes from, she's an actress... i thought it was okay. i don't like the over the top stuff, but she was good.
Jason Castro - Memories
he didn't know it was sung by a cat. [clearly from Cats] i didn't know that either, but at least i'm not trying to sing it! he was boring, sleepy, why is he still there
Brooke White - You Must Love Me
she stopped again! she was like a few measures in, forgot the words, and asked to start again. it was cute the first time, not so much this time. it was BAD. plus, she didn't really feel the emotions of it.
David Archuleta - Think of Me
um... he sings another boring ballad. what else is new?

Carly Smithson - Jesus Christ Superstar
i LOVE THIS SONG! just because i find it kind of funny... she has amazing vocals, big voice...

David Cook - Music of the Night
from phantom of the opera. AH-MAZING. i thought. some people didn't like it, but i thought it was great. it wasn't just another rock song, it was ballady, pianos, he has a huge, wonderful voice, i loved it. plus, i love that song in the actual movie ((i know, play type thing)), so it was fantastic.

results.
i do not agree with this AT ALL. i thought brooke and jason should have been in the bottom two, it was syesha and carly
what the heck!
and carly went home.
again...
what the heck!
she was way better than jason, brooke, partly syesha, i think david archulety. she's great, and she was out too early.
oh well, such is american idol

top 7

this week's mentor was mariah carey. i was REALLY looking forward to what jason and david cook would do, becuase she's a bit far out for them... i was hoping jason would do "touch my body" lol. with dance moves.
can i first say that i am not a mariah carey fan, and i have heard of... maybe two of these songs?
David Archuleta - When You Believe
don't know this song. plus i don't remember. i'm going to say he was good, cuz he always is, but i didn't like him, because i never do. he's kind of a boring performer
Carly Smithson - Without You
she was pushing i bit too much for the high notes.
Syesha Mercado - Vanishing
she was apparently very good this week, say my sources. they say best of night. i disagree.
Brooke White - Hero
she's always barefoot! she kinda rushed through it.
Kristy Lee Cook - Forever
she was FANTASTIC!! me and sister ran around the house singing this song for... like 5 days. it was great.
David Cook - Always Be My Baby
holy crap. this kid... he was the best of the night for sure. he took this pop song and made it rockin. he was crazy crazy good. and he cried after. his brother with brain cancer or something was in the audience, i think it was just like, overload. but omg he's amazing.
Jason Castro - I Don't Want To Cry
apparently people went crazy for him. i'm betting he was just his usual. nothing spectacular.

results
i'm making this short
bottom three:: kristy lee, syesha, brooke
kristy lee is finally going home! i screamed!
then she sang her song again and i sang along because i love it

yay i was wrong!

aparenly, project runway IS going to start in july!
i saw a commercial with all the old winners, christian saying "fierce, fabulous, flawless." and then they said WHO'S NEXT?!
then they said COMMING IN JULY!
YAY!
but how do they do that if shear genius is on wednesdays? starting in late june? i don't think it'll be done by then... maybe unless runway moves days! that would be.... .... crazy!

my schedual

okay. i'm going to finish american idol before i do any more top chef. hopefully sytycd won't be really started by the time i'm caught up. maybe i'll even be cought up to top chef for the finale!
um... no...

5/14 and the winner is...

anya, fatima, and whitney have to do a photo shoot and commercial for covergirl. in english this time. all three girls have some issues with the lines, but it's not always about that.
whitney's commercial was just average, some still thought she was fake, but her picture was ah-mazing. apparently. i thought it was okay, but probably not anything to cream myself about.
fatima's commercial was robotic, her picture just okay.
anya's commercial was horrible, but she looked good in it. paulina said that anya looked stupid in her photo. like, not smart. that's really mean, even though anya isn't very bright.
anya is picked, whitney and fatima are in the bottom two
fatima goes home. thank the lord, i hated her, i loved whitney.
nigel shoots the girls in a seventeen mag. thing for the winner. i don't get that magazine anymore... oh no!
then they do a versace runway. there were all these guys in striped speedos that would just randomly walk down the runway. it was crazy.
whitney was like a power-house, but she forgot to pose at the end of the runway, so photographers can't photogrograph her.
anya was stunning, but she didn't walk strongly enough. she looked kind of like she was in a dream to me. like she was just .f. .l. .o. .a. .t. .i. .n. .g....
there is a BIG deliberation. it's a tough one for sure. i like both of them, but i wanted whitney to win more.
and the winner is...
whitney!!! yay!
she's the first plus-size model to ever make it that far, let alone win. then paulina was like, "i see nothing 'plus-size' about you." and they changed it to "full figured model". i'm good with that.
congratulations to whitney, and congratulations to me for finally finishing.

5/7 this is not a drag competition!

this week the girls had to learn to be photographers. they met with paulina and they took each other's pictures. then they each had five minutes to take pictures of paulina and direct her. anya was CRAZY, running all over, having her throw leaves. crazy.
fatima finally wins something, her only win, EVER, on a challenge. she gets 50 extra frames.
the photo shoot is the girls trying to get away from paparatzi or something like that. they have their man with them too. and nigel is the photographer.
dominique looked too drag in her picture.. something about how she can't wear lots of make-up because it makes her look like a man/woman.
fatima was just awful. she claims she doesn't know how to be "with a man" cuz she never had a boyfriend, but please. it was bad.
anya was bad too. until she tripped on the stairs and then they got the perfect shot.
whitney did okay. they said her man was like overpowering her. too bad.
fatima and dominique are in the bottom two.
i was okay with either of them going, they both suck.
dominique is out. good! she always looked like crap at the judgings, and she always looked like a man in her pictures.

OH NO!

I DON'T THINK THAT PROJECT RUNWAY IS GONNA START AGAIN IN JULY!
IT JUST CAN'T HAPPEN!
SHEAR GENIUS IS STARTING JUNE 25, SO RUNWAY COULDN'T BE IN JULY
I KNEW IT WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE!
I KNEW THAT THEY PROBABLY WOULDN'T HAVE LIKE THREE SEASONS IN ONE YEAR
AND NOW I'M UPSET
BUT I DO LIKE SHEAR GENIUS... AND ALL THE GUYS HAVE CRAZY CHRISTIAN HAIR!!
PROBABLY ONCE THE SG SEASON IS OVER, THEN WE'LL GET RUNWAY BACK
SO THIS FALL... I CAN WAIT. I HOPE...

the saddest thursday in history

y'all know about my 5awesomegays, right?

GREG QUIT!
this weekend, he quit. and everyone's like "we respect his decision"
but i don't get it! why did he leave. he's just like "it's time" or crap like that.
what the heck!
and, he took all of his thursday videos down, so i can't go back to watch them
wolf gang! i can't watch that. that was genius!
and today, the other four made a collab video all about him.
tyler has some mad editing skillz. and they had him singing in the background, a song he sang in one of his vids in like march. soooo sad.
he has a great voice.

they said they're gonna replace him...
i'm still depressed about this, and it's been like four or five days.

"M" doesn't like it when i refer to the guys as "the gays" i can't say "the guys" because there are lots of guys out there. she doesn't think they'd like it. um... that's why their chanel is called "5awesomegays", because they don't like to be called gay.
duh. so some people shorten it to 5ag. which i guess i could do. 'cause otherwise it's FAG. which spells fag. which isn't nice.
speak out against hate speech. (one of tyler's videos. find it)

okay, so i just had to vent. and to remind you that the 5AGs are amazing.

new music

this is... um... well you know...

tokyo police club (!) they're kind of techno-punky-poppy. they use some big words too, i used a dictionary!

• Tessellate (to form a mosaic). good song. not so sure at first, but now i love it. salavate? what does that mean... (make saliva) yeah... "lovers salave, broken hearts tessellate tonight". those lyrics don't really make sense... whateves.

oh yeah, i found that band on MTV's meet the artist or something where they had a song snippit. i was like "cool..." and they are

the audition

• You've Made Us Consious. i don't know if this was already on here... good song
• What Gets You Through the Night. slower, but really good too.
• Warm me Up. "warm me up beneath the sheets babe..." dirty? maybe... but it's good and it's stuck in my head...
• Don't be So Hard. i guess this is good... not my fave but it's new.. maybe i'll break it in...

um... mayday parade?

• did i put Walk on Water or Drown on here? best flippin song flippin ever. i LOVE it to DEATH
• Take this To Heart. i might have already put this on too... i love this too
• i'd hate to be you when people find out what this song is about. i've probably wrote about this.... i'm going CRAZY.

the audition's being at warped tour too! super excited!

i found this other band with tokio something... spelled like that. i don't know if they're good though, i'll have to look again sometime... and i have to look up death cab for cutie, because i've heard they're good... pete wentz likes them...

4/30 WARRIORS!!!

the girls had to go watch gladiators, then become them!!!
they learned moves, then had to do them for a five-frame shoot. with some man gladiator battling them.
whitney won and got.... 1000 euros i think... which is a lot. she can either keep it all for herself or share. she shares with anya. would you rather...
buy twice as much but be lonely, or take a friend, make memories, and only buy half as many roman things?
tricky...
she took anya
the girls go into this giant old castle thing and have a shoot with tyra as the photographer.
they had some crazy wigs on man!
they all did... okay.
everyone loves anya, except for her personality
whitney's too sexy
dominique is too... gameshowy
katarzyna has too uncool eyes
fatima was good
bottom two::: katarzyna and whitney
out::: katarzyna
i was upset because i thought she could win. she was like my favorite.

4/23 long live rome!

the girls arrive, and anya falls on her face for her first steps in rome. how sweet... i laughed forever. replay button...
fatima is sick, has a fever, ugly pjs, anya cares for her and dominique is mean.
the girls have to do a cover girl commercial in greek. goody!
katarzyna is a wiz with language and does pretty good
lauren is awkward and stupid
dominique messes up the words so bad, not even a really old fluent greek could understand anything.
whitney overacts real bad, fake laughs, sucked in cheeks.
fatima was pretty good, she's strange though...
oh, and anya's speaking was terrible also. she laughed cutely though, so she was saved.
bottom two:: lauren and whitney
back to america:: lauren
good. i never thought she was that good, though everyone else did. why?!?

um... 4/16

i think i'm messed up on my dates. this was on wikipedia though. gotta trust my sources. and i thought i started this one like a month ago, but it's not here.
lauren cuts her thumb on a knife and has big ole' stitches.
they have to work a 'green' carpet and be natural.
whitney is fakefakefake. anya wins, and gets another nude shoot for 7up. this time she's covered in limes and lemons. you may have seen it in People Mag about... lots of weeks ago? she also got $10,000. wows.
fatima is struggling with something about her travel documents. if she gets farther, and they go abroad, she's gonna need those. so she goes to talk to the government, while the others have a photo shoot. nice one!
it's at an airport. they all are in it, but they pick the best for each girl. fatima never showed up...
[i'm making this one super short, as are all the next ones]..
she gets back later, and is still saved after missing a shoot! i would have been like "NO". BUT NOOOOOOO....
stacy ann is out, which doesn't really upset me, she was annoying and not very special.
then, (SHOCKER!) the girls are told that, since they have their luggage there already, they'll be going abroad. good timing, fatima! and they go to rome! yay!

to do list

here's what i still have to do. updated today. it's never ending!

i am NEVER going to catch up now, who am i kidding?

• 4/9 antm
• 4/9 top chef
• 4/16 idol
• 4/16 top chef
• 4/23 idol
• 4/23 top chef
• 4?23 antm
• 4/30 idol
• 4/30 top chef
• 4/30 antm
• 5/7 idol
• 5/7 top chef
• 5/7 antm

BUSY BUSY BUSY

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5awesomegays

so i found this youtube channel, called the
5awesomegays
i am in love with those guys
monday - andy
tuesday - korey
wednesday - stevie
thursday - greg
friday - tyler

those guys are hilarious, and very gay. but i love them.
oh and greg is really good looking. like, if he weren't 20 somethin, and gay, he'd be mine.
lol
each day they make a post, and each asks a question, then they all answer everyone's questions. you gotta catch yourself up though, like watch some from the past. i like 3/27 (wolf gang) cuz greg is like a.d.d. then 3/28 tyler is crazy funny. both deal with pochahontas. greg plays the recorder like nobody's business.
i love love love them! i have to watch them everyday, they're that good. not so much andy, he's boring. favies are stevie, tyler, greg. i do like korey too... no, i love them all except andy. i just like him. he's kinda ugly.

so watch them when you can, because seriously, they rock socks the way only gays could.
haha [heart] lizzy
i can't make the hearts with the arrow and 3, it deletes things.

top 8; idol gives back

this week they had to sing inspirational songs
Michael Johns - Dream On
i didn't find it inspirational. he was good. fine. i'm real tired of him.
Syesha Mercado - I Believe
this was by fantasia. so she was compared to that. she's good, but not very memorable. like, the audience doesn't get her.
Jason Castro - Over the Rainbow
this was freakin amazing. he PLAYED THE UKULELE!!!! holy poop! i thought he was the best of the night. it wasn't judy garland, it was some other guy. now, if you don't know who judy garland is, die.
Kristy Lee Cook - Anyway
i found it very inspirational for her because there was a line about how they may say you're forgettable, but you'll sing anyway. omg i laughed, because simon calls her forgettable. hehe. she was surprisingly good though.
David Cook - Innocent
again, not one of those songs that's like, POW! INSPIRATION! but i guess it was okay. i couldn't hear him. that always happens for idol. the music is too loud, and the singers can't be heard. i don't know if it's just my tv or what. he wrote "give back" on his hand and held it out. i found that cheesy, but sweet. it wasn't his best performance though.
Carly Smithson - The Show Must Go On
big rock song. i get it... she's always good, really loud
David Archuleta - Angels
i think he played the piano.... he was good, as always. i'm done with him though. like, i hate him. he is very very very overrated, because he's not as fantastic as everyone says.
Brooke White - You've Got a Friend
weird song, but she was good. her voice does this cracking thing, i kinda like it, but it does get strange.

idol gives back
it was a waste of two and a half hours. except the so you think you can dance dancers were there!!! that made me happy.

results
they have raised so much money it's not even silly.
like wayyy over 60 million. there are good people out there!
i'm not gonna waste any time.
they called them out one by one for the bottom three, but no one was in it... the last three in the back were it. clever!
bottom three:: carly, michael, syesha
goodbye michael johns. apparently america was really mad. i wasn't, i was sick of him.. but he did have fans apparently. and some people thought that because they didn't kick anyone off last year for IGB, they wouldn't this year, but they did.
good riddance.

YAYYYAY!!!

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE
STARTS MAY 22
THAT'S A THURSDAY!
OMG I'M SOOOOOOO EXCITED
i've been watching those fierce commercials for weeks, and finally we have a date!!!
I AM SOO ECXITED!

having a tamil text

so i'm having this thing convert my text into this font called tamil.
well, not text, but font.

i can't remember what i said, but it was something like that.

மகிங் ஏ தமிழ் டெக்ஸ்ட்

சோ இ'ம் ஹவிங் திஸ் காங்வேர்ட் மி டெக்ஸ்ட் இன்டோ திஸ் பொண்ட் கல்லேது தமிழ். வெள், நாட் பொண்ட், பட் லங்குஅகே.
புன், ஹு?

new season news!

i heard about the new season(s)!!!

i think the 5th is starting already in july!!! omg soo excited!

then sister told me all this other news about comming after that.
she said season 5 would be this summer, then i think 6 would be in the fall, so there's gonna be like 3 this year.
then the show is moving to... lifetime. i think. so they're leaving bravo. if they come back for more than 6 seasons. seeing as we don't even have a real date for 5th, lets not get our hopes up.

but gosh, my hopes are up!!! so excited!
oh, and guess what, christian won!
(sorry, but i'm still thrilled about that!)

umpa lumpa food

is that how you spell umpa lumpa?
this episode was a looooooooonnnnnnggggg time ago! i just realized that...
quickfire
they had to do something will veggies and knife skillz. if you can't handle a knife well, you suck.
Bottom 3 - Nikki, Lisa & Manuel. how do you have a bottom for veggie plates?
Top 3 - Zoi, Richard & Dale
winer of immunity:: dale. congratz on the veggie/ knife skillz
elimination challenge
the chefs are in groups of two, or three for one group, and they are making a six course dinner based on movies. so each group picks any movie, and they get to make food based on that.
the teams and their work are as foll0ws::
Dale, Richard & Andrew - Willy Wonka
they get to use chocolate and they make a "fizzy lifting" drink. i thought that was funny. if you haven't seen the original willy wonka, leave the united states right now. then they said the thing about burping to get down from the ceiling (and impending death by huge rotating fan). the food was good, presentation was good. although andrew did want to dress up like umpa lumpas do serve it, that didn't happen.
Spike & Manuel - Good Morning Vietnam
they just wanted to do vietnamese food, so they picked a vietnamese movie. i think that's cheating. they did like spring rolls and stuff. it didn't seem very good, plus they cheated.
Jen & Nikki -Il Postino
it's an italian movie, so they made their own pasta. which i think is cool. i don't think it was great, but it was good enough.
Ryan & Mark - A Christmas Story
they were really funny. they did it beacuse in the movie there's no turkey, so they use duck. but the store (whole foods) didn't even have turkey or duck. so they used quaile. and there was something about chinese food, too. i don't remember. they were funny though, and did swell.
Antonia & Zoi - Talk to Her
it's some romantic spanish story. so they got to do spanish food. and they "wanted" bright yellow colors, from safron, but they didn't, because they wanted it to taste better. whatever. the food wasn't great.
Lisa & Stephanie - Top Secret!
i think that's how the title is, with an ! . this is one of those movies... i'm guessing like epic movie or meet the spartans, where it's not really a movie, more of a long joke. which is fine. i love epic movie. so there's this scene in it with a guy in a cow suit, so they made beef. they had lots of sauces... but the food was great, from what the judges said.
Top 2 - Dale, Andrew & Richard and Stephanie & Lisa.. as it should be
winner:: richard.
Bottom two - Antonia & Zoi and Spike & Manuel
packing their knives::manuel
thank the lord, i was creeped out by him

top 9

dolly parton comes this week, with her big hair, big boobs, and tiny waist
Brook White - Jolene
she was just good. i bielive she had her guitar with her. she was good, and the song was sung around the house, but it wasn't great
David Cook - Little Sparrow
he did this falsetta thing (is that it? i don't know, it was the "high pitch" thing). great. not shocking.
Ramiele Malubay - Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?
i remember the short shorts and tall boots, not so much the singing. she's a good singer, maybe not this week though.
Jason Castro - Travelin' Through
he was just okay. he lost his touch at this point.
Carly Smithson - Here You Come Again
um.... i don't remember this at all. she's always good though.
David Archuleta - Smokey Mountain Memories
same as carly. he's always "good". but i don't like him.
Kristy Lee Cook - Coat of Many Colors
um... i try real hard to mentally block kristy's performances. i know she was good-ish. she's been getting better.
Syesha Mercado - I Will Always Love You
huge song. pretty predictable for her. she always picks those big songs, then does okay. stuck in my head too.
Michael Johns
i have no idea what he sang. he's good. but i don't like him.

results.
there's an hour of fillers, then the...
bottom three:: kristy (gasp), brooke (real gasp), ramiele (nothing, not even sarcasm)
i knew it the night before who was going home. you could tell by the performance.
ramiele was standing between kristy and brooke, both her roommates, and they were at least a foot taller than her, easy. and she was like "you guys are too tall!"
then she went home. kristy was once again in the bottom two, but she was, once again, saved.
ramiele cried mucho. then sang. i wasn't broken, i knew it was comming, she knew it was comming. no one was surprised, i think.

i tried to keep it short this time. maybe too short? idk, tell me what you think.

I'D TELL YOU I LOVE YOU, BUT THEN I'D HAVE TO KILL YOU

BY ALLY CARTER
i have to do this quick.
i loved this book. cammie is at a private school for girls, and everyone thinks they're just stuck up rich girls, but they're actually training to be spies.
then she acidentally (one c or two??!) meets josh, a not spy from the near by small town. he sounds hot. there's some banter exchanged about a lucky cat, stuff like that. cammie tries to secretly date him, by sneaking out of the castle.
it's a good book, full of mystery and intrigue. not really intrigue, but...
i wanna read the sequel now, CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO SPY
i don't have the book now, so i can't quote it, but it was good.
plus, there were TWO, count them, 2! gilmore girls mentions in two pages! extra points for that!

youtube to ipod conversions

i will try to to this step by step... it's a bit self-explanitory, but i'll help.
go here... http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/

it should look like this...

click the circled one.

now it looks like this...

click the circled link

there will be a text box, just say "RUN"

wait for download. maybe say "RUN" again...
there is a setup thing. just say yes yes yes, install, finish.

now, i just learned this. you go to Start, All Programs, then find DvdVideoSoft

click free studio manager

then you get this little buddy. in the top box, you put the url. (youtube) then the bottom box fills with this computer jargin that no one understands. i think you can change that to a file name (such as "potter puppet pals" . or you can change it later.

now you open itunes, and go to your movies library.

go to file, import, pick the title, and open it.

then it should apear with all the other ones.

all you have to do now is go to your ipod part, videos, or movies, check the box, and sync.

i hope this works, i think it should. otherwise, just play around with it, the directions on line are a bit confusing, but they'll help if you're lost. i think i've done a pretty good job here. i think you can enlarge the pictures by clicking on them too, but i don't know...

that's it for now. tell me how it works!

she should have slid

there's issues in the house because lauren threw away fatima's coffee. lauren's kind of scary. like she gets angry and violent and scary.
the challenge this week is go-sees! which i love! they had teams of two for the go-sees, and gps's to guide them through new york.
Team 1 - Claire, Dominique, Stacy-Ann & Whitney.
Team 2 - Lauren, Fatima, Anya & Katarzyna
whitney was hurt on the inside by one designer because she's plus size, and they don't do that. that happens all the time to plus sizers, deal.
they had a winning team:: team 1
and one big time winner::: stacy ann.
they got to do a seventeen mag. foto shoot.
the bigg photo shoot this week was CRAZY AWESOME! it was at some strange circus type thing, with like acrobatics and craziness.
the girls had to lay in puddles, on a clear plastic sheet, in the air, with crazy lights behind them and the camera under them. so it was like... crazy. i liked it.
claire went first, and she was like, "i'm gonna slide in" which i thought wouldn't be dumb, like a slip'n'slide kinda. but jay was like "no". so she FELL! she just went straight... i'll draw it...
click to enlarge :)
she really did get like whiplash, because her head hit and bounced back hard. i felt bad, but also i was annoyed. she saw stars and had to sit out for a while.
why did they wear such nice fancy dresses? they got them all wet!
katarzyna's hair was cut this week. i do like it, but i liked it emo better. i should do my hair like the emo one last week, that was fierce.
the other girls did pretty well. not lauren. she was crap. she said her contacts fell out, and she couldn't breathe, it was just bad. so was claire.
whitney was good. they compared her to a "full figured fetus"(alliteration). which... makes sense, but not really. i liked her picture though.
fatima was good. she had these crazy finger things going on. strange, but good.
Order - Fatima, Anya, Katarzyna, Whitney, Stacy-Ann, Dominique.
Bottom 2 - Claire vs Lauren
in the end, claire is sent home. i was sad. she was like my favorite until she was dumb and fell onto the plastic. it doesn't bounce! but yeah, i think she's wayy better than lauren, or stacy ann, or dominique, but she's gone.
i think SA is just skirtting along, she's not great, but she doesn't suck. sick of it.
oh yeah, covergirl of the week is... katarzyna! not claire! omg!
i think my favorite now is katarzyna. or anya, she's really good, but her talking annoys me.
till next time...

omg i know that house!

gettin right to it...
quickfire
reinvent a high class taco... and still make it taste like street food. i guess it's okay...
richard was using some other sort of thing to make shells, not real ones. it was weird.
Bottom - Erik, Lisa & Ryan
Top - Andrew, Richard & Spike
winner: richard. i think spike was mad... whatever. richy rich gets immunity.
now padma makes them go in the cars, in teams. red team gets a red car, blue team gets a blue car.
Blue Team - Richard, Manuel, Stephanie, Nikki, Antonia, Mark & Lisa
Red team - Zoi, Dale, Andrew, Spike, Ryan & Jenn
they end up in this strange neighborhood. they have to cook for the 'hood's annual block party. for the food, they have to go to the peoples' houses and ask for it. haha!
omg. i have seriously been to that neighborhood! it looks just like my mom's friend's 'hood. and i totally went to the block party!! i was just like :0!! because i swear i've been there. i was looking for the kids i know, but i didn't see them. i won some Swiss Rolls at that block party.
so while i was waiting for the chefs to get food from the house that i have SLEPT AT, they ran like crazy. they never went there.
they needed mucho food, for like... 40+70... like 110 people! plus they needed kid-fun-dly food. ( i mixed friendly with fun!) i think i'm losing it here...
then they go back, prepare food at the place, bring it back to street, and prepare for crazy. ness.
blue team menu:: Paella, Slaw, BBQ pulled pork, bean salad, Inside-out cookie, sexy drink, fruit cobbler, mac n cheese.
how do you have a "sexy drink?" i didn't get that part.
red team menu:: sliders, corn dogs, pork skewers, sangria waldorf salad, pasta salad, taco salad & s'mores
they stuck marshmallows on a stick and used a flame torch. funny. but the corn dogs were soggy. ick.
all the people come, get food, enjoy, red team plays basketball with the youn'uns. i didn't see anyone i know...
blue team wins. yay!
winner: stephanie, for fruit cobbler and sexy drink.
packing their knives: erik. he had soggy wieners. or soggy doggies, if you perfer.
lol byebye

more nower music

so i've found more!

the maine

• the way we talk. bit dirty. "sex cells, and your sex cells, make all the lost boys drool". but it's a good song. plus i like this line... "you're as fake as the moans you make, you're as weak as the hearts you break." funny song...

every avenue

• where were you? omg, this was like my ocd for a few days. bit more poppy, punky, maybe, not sad. i love it. makes me want to sing.. which i shouldn't

all time low

• coffeshop soundtrack
• six feet under the stars. i just got this so i don't know if i love it yet, but it does say "fierce.."
• dear maria, count me in. not much to say. good. creepy laughing though...

the academy is

• slow down. i didn't know if i liked them, but now i do. it's all the lyrics...

maday parade

• jersey. like the state or the name... it's always stuck in my head, and i just bought it 2 minutes ago. somehow it was in there before though. catchy i guess...

the starting line... i just found them. these are the songs i bought, but i don't know about them much yet

• the best of me. listening to it right now. it's good.
• bedroom talk. kind of funny i think.
• island. listening to this right now. good hooks. i don't really know what hooks are, but i talk like i do. it's good...

i'll probably be having these like weekly, because i'm always finding new songs. which i love.

THE SCHWA WAS HERE

BY NEAL SHUSTERMAN
woah. i just noticed that the E in shusterman is upside down on the cover. because that's what a schwa is. the upside down e, like for pronouncing things in the dictionary. but it's also the kid's name. and he's kind of invisible.
this book is really really weird, but good. kind of confusing, but not so much that you get lost and frustrated.... that doesn't happen to me much. Malmie said i'm a real good reader :D.
the kids kind of solve a mystery, one that they didn't really want to know. there's lots of parts of this, lots of drama... a girl, loss of friends, parental discrepancies, broken hips, madre madness.
that's all i'll give away. oh, and afghans, the dogs... huh...
clipclipclip...

" 'are you looking for this?' i heard another voice say. the voice was scratchy, like a kid who's screamed a little too much. i turned, and i swear to you, the first thing i see is Manny's manequin head floating in midair. i only see it for a split second, but it's the creepiest thing. then in that split second my brain does a quick retake and i see that there's a kid holding the head under his armpit. i couldn't really see the kid at first on accounta his clothes are kind of brownish gray, like the rocks around him, and you know how your mind can play tricks on you when the light is just right."

the book is written funny, like by a 14 year old new yorker, cuz that's who antsy is. funny name. funny story.

JEREMY FINK AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

BY WENDY MASS
i thought this book would be dumb a year ago. sister bought it, we just had it. but then i read it. mostly because i had already read most everything in the house. including shampoo bottles. twice. so i read this. and let me tell you, it is wayyy better than i expected.
so jeremy and lizzy (i know, it's me!) are besties, and very troublesome. but funny. and he gets this box from his dead father. but he can't open it because he doesn't have the four keys. uh oh! so they go on adventures to find them. they meet lots of interesting characters. learn things. hula hoop.
the plot does seem to meander a bit, just in the middle, when they are temporarily sustained from the key search. then at the end, all at once, they find them. nice ending. it was a bit sad. i didn't cry though.
here's my clip...

" 'Um, you might want to turn that over,' Lizzy says. i just keep shaking the box back and forth, mesmerized. she finally grabs it from my hands, flips it over, and hands it back. staring up at me are the engraved words THE MEANING OF LIFE: FOR JEREMY FINK TO OPEN ON HIS 13TH BIRTHDAY.

i'd recognize my dad's handiwork anywhere."

okay... well... read it i guess. i won't force ya to though, but it is good.

top 10

this weeks theme:: sing a song from the year you were born fun! we also get childhood stories! funner!
Ramiele Malubay - 9/6/87 - Alone
she used to walk up to kids, bite them, and walk away. social skills
this is a really big song and she isn't big enough for it. i think carly sang it already this season... i thought... and carly was better
Jason Castro - 3/25/87 - Fragile
lol. he and his brother had fake instruments a "keytar" lol that's my favorite new word, cuz it's like a guitar, with keys. haha.
what's with all the languages for this kid?! last week french, this week spanish. it wasn't great. simon think's jason isn't serious about Idol, and he's like "i guess i could practice more". haha
Syesha Mercado - 1/02/87 - If I Was Your Woman
um... don't care about her life story
it was boring, but really good. she has a big range, but i don't think she conects to the audience enough.
Chikezie Eze - 9/11/85 - If Only For One Night
um... he's african.
it wasn't a crazy song! but it got boring, and a little cheesey, because of that.
Brooke White - 6/2/83 - Every Breath You Take
she hears a song, and can play it on the piano. that's amazing! she was a really nerdy kid...
she started, wrong key, and started again. i was like :0! but the judges said that was really professional. she's good, and the piano was good.
Michael Johns - 10/20/78 - We Will Rock You/We are the Champions
um... he's austrailian
i was confused because this is 2 songs. but they were released together, as kind of "one" so it was kinda like a medley. i love medleys. he was good this week, but the strobing lights freaked me out.
Carly Smithson - 9/12/83 - Total Eclipse of the Heart
she had HUGE curly hair.
simon didn't like her clothes. whatever. she was good.
David Archuleta - 12/28/90 - You're the Voice
um.. he's a boring kid. he danced with his sis.
simon didn't believe that he picked the song himself. i kinda liked it. it was funny. oh well. you know he was good...
Kristy Lee Cook - 1/18/83 - God Bless the USA
loser kid.
i hate her but she didn't suck this week. that's not to say she's gonna win, but she didn't suck. simon said it was the best song choice in years, but.. .maybe. probably not though.
David Cook - 12/20/82 - Billie Jean
omg. he had a HUGE head! he's really funny.
this was a michael jackson song! but he used someone else's version of it, so we have to give that guy credit. but omg it was amazing. now every week i tell my story about how i said that he would be the dark horse and become the one to beat, and i was right. he's amazing. my new favy fave.

results show
um... yeah, i don't really remember this, and i'm sick of writing about it...
soooooo.
bottom three::: syesha, jason (gasp!) and chikeze.
ryan asked jason what he felt, and jason kept on rambling like a fool. he's not bright. so he's talkin and talkin, then ryan's like "sit down" so he did. i was releaved, but i don't know why.
bottom line::: chikeze is out. good. i've been sick of him forever.
it was the hand touching, my friend. the "cheesey ezie" ness of it. lol.
lizzy out!

SO YESTERDAY

BY SCOTT WESTERFELD
again, with the scott. he's just a genius i think.
17 year old Hunter is just that, a hunter. of all things cool. it's like his job. kinda funny. so he meets Jen, someone with cool shoe laces.
then his boss goes missing. mysteriously.... it's a suspensful book. well, almost, not really.
it's a good book, i learned things, which seems to be one of scott's themes. actually... i can tell you the story line of all the the books of his that i've read....... ...

mid to late teenager finds themselves in some sort of pickle. whether it's saving the smoke or the world or their boss, it's a pickle. they meet someone a bit strange, of the opposite sex, of course, and true love ensues. they solve the pickle together, and exchage witty comebacks as well as saliva.
now, i have nothing wrong with these books, they are some of my favorites. scott westerfeld is still great. but it's predictable.
although, predictable might not be so bad here, because said predicted theme is still good.
so yes, read this book, even though i haven't said much about it, but you get the picture. it's good.

the music of... now

i can't put off making a music list for "M" any more. so here goes...
deffinately anything mayday parade. like really

• champagne's for celebrating (i'll have a martini) ... my current ocd
• you be the anchor that keeps my feet on the ground, i'll be the wings that keep your heart in the clouds. sister didn't believe that title. but the song rocks...
• one man drinking games ... kinda sad, but great
• ocean and atlantic... good song that makes very little sense, but manno.
• when i get home you're so dead.... and get the music video too
• i'd hate to be you when people find out what this song is about. ... "tongue tied and terrified"... good
• miserable at best
• black cat
• jamie all over ... louder, peppier, just for you "M"
• three cheers for five years. ... not my favorite but definately good.

cute is what we aim for

• finger twist and split ... it says "fierce" what more can you want?
• moan... bit dirty (lol or "risque" if you like big words) but really really really great
• risque ... though it's not really dirty...
• sweet talk 101. i just like it for the line about the mirrors. funny.

the rocket summer

• do you feel

motion city soundtrack

• everything is all right ... i like this better. "i'm sick of the things i do when i'm nervous, like cleaning the oven or checking my tires" lol
• this is for real

now, some of these songs you may have to listen to a couple of times to get the real feel for them. Anchor song, i didn't like so much at first. but once i listened to it a few times, i couldn't turn it off. and you have to listen to the WHOLE THING. don't listen to 10 seconds, decide it sucks, and drop it. you have done that multiple times to me "M" and it makes me scream.

for songs that i'm not sure that i love, i've been getting the videos for them from youtube. not music videos, just random ones made by peeps who like them, usually with the lyrics. then i learn it. i can teach y'all how to cheat the system, sometime soon.

if i find any new HUGELY amazing songs, i'll just post 'em

luvyameanit(sometimes)

house of pain and alarm clocks

there's a big debacle over dominique's alarm clock, because it keeps going off at six a.m, then she doesn't wake up, but claire does. i'd just throw it across the room. dominique is the center off all hubbubs in this house. and she's like "why everyone hatin on dominique!?" i hate that she uses third person sooo much. it's annoying.
claire is like crying because her milk is drying up. she was the one who pumps her milk so when she goes home to her baby, they can still breast feed. kind of icky, i think.
claire, whitney and lauren are all ganging up on dominique, for a multitude of reasons. they all hate her. lauren is crazy. and apparently she has found friends with whitney and claire, and they form their own little gang. it's weird...
anyways.... they get in their FabCab (lol) and go to some place. turns out tyra was their driver! lol i think she's on some sort of drugs, cuz my sister said she's just as crazy on the Tyra Show as she is on antm. she's like crazy! trya tries to teach them all how to walk, in a dance type studio with mirrors. and she sprains her ankle!! oh no! help tyra! just kidding, she was scaring them and "posing with pain". so they all have to do it.
someone had hurt hands... who was it... they were really bad.
they find out later, via tyra mail, that it was a secret challenge, and there is a winner. the winner::: anya. she was good, i think she had shoulder blades. i don't know how you hurt those, but whatever. she gets a photo shoot with nigel barker! yay! i love him. anya is naked on a bed. how original. her hair is really blonde! i don't like how she talks. she's from like honolulu or somewhere in hawaii. ugh it annoys me...
when she tells them about it, we hear this big thing from aimee, who was mormon, so she doesn't like to be naked. good thing you didn't win then. i really like her new hair. i love it, actually. we see a lot of her in this episode, and non of stacy ann.or katazyna or.... lots of them.
photo shoot:: the girls are each depicting a different style of music, okay, i like music.
claire had country, which i don't like, and she didn't do very good. it was awkward kinda, she was too high fashion and couture for the country
they didn't tell us what katazyna was, but from the outfit i knew. she was alternative, indie, my buddy. that's my music! later they called it "emo". whatever, i still like it. i thought she did great, and i liked her hair. they made her usually long dark hair short, and put some blonde like on top. tyra liked it too, because she said that next week someone will cut her air. i hope they do, i liked it.
aimee was boring being like aretha franklin or somthing
whitney was grunge, and she almost scared me, but she was good.
fatima fatima fatima. i'm sick of her. she had rock, and she just kept posing and being strange with a guitar.
dominique had folk music. lol. i thought she did okay, she deffinately looked peacefuller.
stacy ann had "house music". what is house music!? like "..." i can't even immitate it. she has like 6 poses, and they were always the same. boring.
here's the Judges order - Whitney, Katarzyna, Fatima, Lauren, Anya, Dominique, Stacy Ann
Bottom 2 - Aimee & Claire
i was worried cuz i love claire
but aimee is out, so claire is saved for another week.
i should have seen it coming, all that camera time aimee got.
predictable

news

i got a haircut!

i really like it too...
but those head sinks hurt my neck. i was like spasming.

PEELING THE ONION

BY WENDY ORR
i love this book. i read it this summer, and it started weird, but i just had to read it agian, so ya know it was good.
anna is in a car accident after the big karate tournament, which she's won. she's with hayden, her new boyfriend. or.. almost boyfriend? i don't know... eventually they are "going out" but she can't, because she broke her neck. but she didn't die.
so all of her is messed up, her ankles, thumb, neck, head.
the book is basically about her recovery, and almost not recovery.
then there's luke. i won't say anything.
here's my book quote:::

"a woman looming over me... smiling... blue uniform- an ambulance?

'how's the pain?'

past pain into a new dimension of horror: neck shredded, strangled; spasms from hell.

something over my face, i can't talk, have to tell her, maker her understand, make her fix it! squeeze my fist in the air, tightly and rhythmically; desperately. i can't take much more, my fist screams.

the woman smiles. 'not too bad?'

a nightmare. it has to be a nightmare."

it's set in austrailia, which i didn't realize till the second time of reading.

some key words:: old ladies, cake, collar, couch, uni, costa.

this is a reallly really good book. pretty sad sometimes, but i didn't cry. then... i never cry at sad things, but still, it was bearable. you feel bad for her, but by the end, not really, because she's happy again. isn't that what books are about?
omg i just found out wendy orr wrote nim's island, which is being a movie soon. lol. see, she is famous. i thought she was just a one-hit-wonder. but no...
so read this book. now! lol...

good enough for a mondkey to eat

we come in to jennifer and zoi, the couple, switching shoes. they are kind of identical shoes, but they just keep switching for like 10 minutes. it was weird...
quickfire challenge
they are brought to the Green City Market. they have to make an entree, using just 5 ingredients. the only ones that don't count are.. salt, sugar, pepper, and oil. okay...
so everyone is running around because they only have a half hour. but spike just sits there, listening to the music, taking his time. then he says something that amazes me. the quickfires really don't matter. they can't send you home because you fail! i think that's genius, and also cheating the system. i like it.
mark was spazy, being all mean and Australian. he like opened up some poor lady's cart to see the meat or something while she was with another top chef. and she was like :0. then he went to this one place and forgot his bag because he was in such a hurry. oops. oh well, he deserved it.
the guest judge is some ugly guy with ugly hair and crazy sideburns. he's like a... molecular something. just like Richard. they use crazy tools and fire and... yeah.
Richard is using eucalyptus, like the pandas. apparently it's not poisonous in really small quantities! well, then, let's embue our chicken!! is that the right word? it reminds me of elisa and her spiritual spit marking... but his chicken turned out oily and icky.
andrew the tard... he used balsamic, as a sixth ingredient. dumb. he's like "i can only focus on so many things at once, i'm kinda scatterbrained like that." no, really?
spike got the wrong meat, so instead of creating a new thing, like a steak sandwich, he kept his old menu, with the crappy meat. not smart.
wylie picks the best and the worst
bottom: erik, spike, richard
top: valerie, mark, ryan
winner: mark, he gets immunity

elimination challenge
they all draw knives, and there are weird animals on them. there are three in a group, so there are... five groups. they have to cater a staff party at the zoo. i don't know which one, but it's big. and... the menu has to be based off of what their animal eats. soo...
bear:: dale, spike, nikki

• venison something (i think it was okay)
• salmon (probably good)
• stuffed mushrooms (looked like turds. they weren't going to serve them, cuz they weren't hot either, but nikki did. nobody was tasting these before they served it)
• little honeycomb and cheese things (good)

penguin:: andrew, lisa, jen

• shrimp and crab salad (pretty okay, didn't suck)
• zuccini (i have no idea how they felt about this.. i don't think it sucked though)
• squid civiche (everybody liked that)
• jello-ish mint glacier, for cleansing the pallet (crazy cool)

gorilla:: stephanie, antonia, valerie ( oh yeah, valerie and stephanie already knew each other too, cuz they worked at... stephanie's restaurant together. friends!)

• black olive blinies. (made early, not good, everyone hated them)
• banana bread (good!)
• lamb something (i think that was good...)
• and some sort of salad thing on chips (she ended up not using the chips, but her salad was soggy because she dressed it too early...)

vulture:: mark, manuel, zoi

• chicken on tostada chips (good)
• lamb meatballs (good)
• something with anchovies (everyone LOVED it, mark made them "anchovie believers")

lion:: richard, erik, ryan

• bison (where do you buy bison?)
• salad, goat cheese foam (ew, but of course, they have richard)
• prime rib, horse raddish foam (huh?)
• chicken somthing

everything was pretty good, nothing sucked for lion

top two:: vultures and penguins. liked the squid, glacier, anchovies. winner:: andrew. he was the person behind the squid and the glacier, so it's deserved.

bottom two:: gorilla and bear. poop mushrooms, crab (lol crap) salad, blinis packing their knives:: valerie, because of her blinis

good, i'm done, tell me how you like the layout of it, because i'm still a bit confused...

top 11

beatles week. yay.
Amanda Overmyer - Back in the USSR
i don't get this song and i don't get her. i'm really sick of her cuz she always does the same thing. yucky.
Kristy Lee Cook - You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
i am UBER sick of her! mann. she's boring too. i can hardly stand to watch her or amanda anymore.
David Archuleta - The Long & Winding Road
better than last week, that's for sure. kind of a boring song for him.... i hope he's losing fans, cuz he's really not that great.
Michael Johns - A Day in the Life
hate him too. he's not very good.
Brooke White - Here Comes the Sun
talk about awkward. manno. she didn't have any instruments with her, and she was totally lost. she's a musician, not a performer. she did these dumb dance type things... she was just weird. i almost felt bad for her, because she knew she sucked too.
David Cook - Daytripper
he is crazy. omg he had this voice box thing, and it makes these crazy noises. i don't know how it works.... he like throws his own little concert whenever he's on stage. fantastic. although simon thought he was a little smug, cuz he did soo well last week. i can understand that...
Carly Smithson - Blackbird
she has a voice! but maybe not her best ever performance...
Jason Castro - Michelle
talk about awkward again. he's like brooke, he's a musician, not a performer. david cook is both, but they aren't. he didnt' have his guitar, he walked around, very strange... and the song was half french, so we didn't know what he was saying.
Syesha Mercado - Yesterday
she's strange. don't really remember her. i know she had weird hair though.
Chikeze Eze - I've Just Seen a Face
another one of his crazy performances. harmonica. it started in his slow, kinda country thing, then BAM! harmonica! then some quick tardness. it was weird. but very chikeze.
Ramiele Malubay - I Should Have Known Better
i've forgotten her already. not that great. not as bad as the week before, but she's still missing something, and i think it's getting worse.

results show
i don't really watch the group songs anymore, but i know it was an interesting one. ramiele's mic wasn't on, so she was singing with brooke, but not really. and, the camera guy spazed and almost killed someone.
they do this new dumb thing where the people come out from the back one at a time for their results, then sit on the nice couch or the crap stools. here goes nothing::
brooke:: top ten
david a::: top ten
michael johns:: top ten (unfortunately)
carly:: bottom three. what!%^$#@! jeeez.
break for ford camercial. i always love these. they're funny actors.
david cook:: top ten
jason:: top ten
ramiele: top ten
kristy lee: bottom three (did we have any doubt?)
viewer calls! i find these rediculous, silly, and great.
does simon want to do a "kiss scene" sequel with paula? (season 2, fake kissing scene) apparently he wants to. and then something about paula being a good kisser. EW!
last thing ramiele downlaoded for her ipod: R Kelly, i'm a flirt. seriously? she looks embarassed.
mantage of kelly pickler! why? cuz she's singing for us!!! yay! she's kind of annoying, but really funny. and apparently really famous. she sings to simon. gag me.
idol gives back. i'm sick of them mentioning it. elliot yamin and fantasia went to africa, and they named a baby after elliot. he was crying. then he went outside and he's like "i'm a godfather!" good for you, kid! but i don't really know if he was, i thought he just used his name... whatever.
back to results finally
syesha: top ten
chikeze:: top ten (ah)
amanda:: bottom three.
this week again krisy lee is in the bottom TWO, with amanda. guess who's out? amanda! i hate how kristy lee just keeps floating on by. yuck. but i'm glad amanda is gone, i was tired of her. she sings again..
lizzy out!

the 3 C's

drama is brewin between whitney and dominique. dominique is a freak. she always talks in third person! what is up with that!
they go and meet benny ninja. he's a freak too. but apparently everybody loves him. they walk up and there's all these kinda gangsta lookin people striking poses.
the three c's are:
commercial (smile pretty)
catalog (show the garment)
couture (pose freaky)
then the girls are supposed to have a pose-off, with two teams
Team A - Dominique, Anya, Aimee, Lauren & Fatima.
Team B - Stacy Ann, Katarzyna, Claire, Whitney & Marvita.
marvita sucks, but team b wins. then there is one ultimate winner. all of the girls get all this free crap, but claire, the winner, gets a trip to... somewhere in asia or the middle east. i don't know.
back at the house::: whitney set up a phone time schedual. which is not a bad idea. but dominique missed her turn cuz she's dumb and didn't know about it and no one is in charge of dominique(!) so they didn't tell her. so she creates this huge argument with whitney, and ends up calling her racist. which really hits whitney below the belt.
so she has the BEST line probably in ANTM history...
she's all "don't. call. me. racist." and then... 'my best friend is BLACK!'
omg i still laugh every time.
i really liked this week's photo shoot. it was just a head shot, and they had people dripping paint on them. plus they had like these colorful clearish plastic things like on their eyes or their head. hard to explain. kind of like my read seran wrap.
marvita sucked. she used to be good, right? she does these 2 poses, holding her necklace up. it was retarded.
fatima doesn't shave her armpits. cuz she's from africa. learn to be american. sorry if your country doesn't, but now you're in america.
someone stole lauren's shoes, and tyra's like "it was me!" i think tyra's like on crack or something.
tyra CANNOT say katarzyna's name! i know how to say it. tyra and all the judges are dumb.
order:::
Stacy Ann, Dominique, Claire, Anya, Lauren, Aimee, Katarzyna, Fatima.
Bottom 2 - Whitney & Marvita
i don't remember why whitney's picture was bad. marvita's was terrible. the judges didn't believe that either of them really tried or something like that.
oh well> out::: marvita. good i think.
oh yeah, covergirl of the week is claire (again) she's like heather last year. claire is one of my favorites. along with... katarzyna, aimee, and kinda whitney. i HATE dominique.

cooking in chi-town!

so i guess i'm giving ya pictures of them. i've decided that this season is really ugly. all of them.
jennifer. ugly. kind of boring. most of these people have not big personalities.
zoi. kind of serial killer looking...
apparently, jen and zoi, are a couple! everyone meets at this pizza place in chicago. which i guess is perfect.... and they're sitting with each other. then they have an "announcement". they 'know' each other back in SanFran and they are a couple. they just wanted to get it out. good for them. did they know that they both were going to top chef, or was it like, "um.. honey, i'm goin for business for like 3-30 days..." and the other was like "oh, me too.... well, bye." that would be wierd... i think it's gonna be harder for them because they are a couple, but at least they already have a friend!
erik. pretty dang ugly. he has scars on his bald head.
dale. kinda ugly. he reminds me of hung, and dale, from last season mixed. strange. he seems kind of mean though, just like old hung.
antonia. besides the weird name... just a bit ugly. she doesn't really get a lot of air time though, so i don't really know her. not that she's been kicked off, but they just don't show her.
andrew. oh my gosh he has like ADD, ADHD, and OCD all rolled into one. and not the OCD that i have, where i'm just obsessed with things, it's like the twitchy kind where he has to do things.... like washing your hands five times after every meal. i just made up his diseases, i don't know if he really has them. but he's crazy! and he drops the effer every like 2 seconds. that'll get annoying quick...
nimma. strange name. she didn't socialize on the first night there. loser. you have to make some "friends" here before you can make enemies...
i have no idea who this girl is... nikki! i had to check online... obviously not a big personality.
mark. he's from austrailia, mate! an' 'e says mate li' six bloo'y times a se'ntence! i don't know if austrailians say "bloody" but what ever. he's kinda funny though, also ugly.
manuel. ugliest in the bunch! manno. why do they let ugly people on these shows!? don't they know that people want to see good looking chefs, even if they suck?'
ryan. there we go, he's a bit better looking. i don't know that he cooks well, too, so maybe we're in luck... that sentence made absolutely NO sence to me...
lisa. ugly. she just may be the dark horse, though, cuz she hasn't done anything great yet, but she doesn't suck.
valerie. kinda spaztic in that picture. she's not a great either, but we'll see...
stephanie. her hand had the shakes for that first elimination challenge. i was afraid sauce would be all over the place.
spike. he's deffinately the charmer this season. maybe not such a hard worker. what's with the constant wearing of the hats?
richard. he's one of those freaky food scientists, so he uses all these chemicals and such. strange, but okay.
so i don't really know how i'm going to do this... um...
quickfire
make a deep dish pizza. some people didn't know how. i think nikki was the one who had like 75% crust, and no sauce cuz she used mushrooms or something. it looked okay. some were good, some were not.
they went to the guest judge's house with their pizzas. i don't know who it was... but apparently it was their house, so they got to stay there. there were 8 winners and 8 losers of the quickfire challenge.
elimination challenge
the 8 winners from last night got to pick one of the losers to have a cook-off with. but the loser got to pick which dish. there was a soufle. obviously, that went last, for poor erik and... someone.
winner
stephanie. she made "duck a'la orange" or something crazy like that. i'm pretty sure that's what she made.
packing their knives
nimma. good ridance. she was boring. and she made some SALTY shrimp.

so next time, i hope, it won't be so picture-y and the challenges will

be a bit more in-depth, once i really find out what i'm doing here...

umm... i have no "good-bye" catchfrase for top chef yet.. help me think of some!

PEEPS

and no, i do not mean the easter sugar messes shaped like bunnies or little bird things, that ultimately look kind of like turds.
no, i mean the book. the fierce book by scott westerfeld, who, at this moment, is, like, the fiercest guy i wish i knew. lol i'm gonna turn into annie in "Misery". i hope not. (i was watching that this afternoon, let me tell ya, she was one crazy that i would hope not to meet) but she loved the author guy, paul, so she smashed his ancles to smitherines so he couldn't leave her. heart warming, no?
but this post is about Peeps. i got it on Easter, yesterday, and i finished page 304 this morning. now, either i have absolutely NO life, or i just really loved this book. probably both. but i didn't spend my whole day reading, otherwise i would have finished it yesterday. no, i went places. but it was fabulous.
so Cal, this kid from Texas, moves to New York, as a college freshman, and finds himself all alone at a gay bar. i have no idea why... but he... he gets this 'disease' from this mystery girl. he was drunk. he doesn't know her last name.
but it's not your regular STD. no, this kid is a freakin vampire now, but they call them peeps. but he's not crazy, like most of them, he's sane, just a 'carrier'. but apparently, the 'parasite' wants to spread like crazy, and the only way it gets that is through kissing... or the other thing. so call made his first girlfriend into a crazy canibalistic vampire, with real icky finger nails.
instead of cal being crazy himself though, carriers are really... really... "horny" as the book would put it. like all the time. seriously, probably the most used word in this book, besides "peep".
so, yes, this book is a bit dirty. but not graphic. in that way... they do fight a giant worm thing... the we is Cal and Lace, short for Lacey. i would have left it as Lacey, but whatever. she says dude wayy too much. but he hasn't even touched a girl for like 6 months, so he doesn't make more peeps. now, this is a teenage boy, plus all those crazy extra peep "things"... here's a tidbit from the last chapter, not counting epilogue (like my favorite part of all books, the epilogue)

" 'what do you want to do, cal?' lace said softly.

i took a deep breath, wondering if i was saying too much, too soon, but saying it anyway. 'i want to stay here, with you.'

she nodded slowly, her eyes locked with mine. 'me too.;

'God you two,' morgan said. 'just get a room.'

i realized that this was in fact a hotel bar, and that Brooklyn or the west side seemed much too far away right now. i raised an eyebrow.

lace smiled. 'dude. why not?' "

see? but it's a good book. my mother asked me before i started reading if it was "appropriate" for me. i'm like, yeah. then on page 23.. "go out and shag someone". ... well... mommy didn't know that the rest of the book is all about "STDs" and safe sex. at least it's an almost good message...

plus i learned some really gross things about parasites, as every even numbered chapter described a new one.

read this book read this book read this book. it's fabulous and i may have to read it again real soon... so read it!

top 12

yay!
big new fancy stage. new opening that i don't like very much...
Theme - Lennon - McCartney Songbook
we get their life stories this week, no one cares, so i'm not telling you about it. just the songs.
Syesha Mercado - Got To Get You Into My Life
i think she's good, but she's not the best. and i don't like her. she bores me. i know she has a personality, but she... doesn't.
Chikeze Eze - She's a Woman
this kid is crazy. but i finally realized that yes... he's a pretty good singer. but i still hate him for taking away danny! so it started slow, kinda country, then he like EXPLODED, and he was jumpin all over that stage. it was like... i can't even describe it. then ryan was crazy, jumping around, rubbin chikeze's head. which was weird. ryan has gotten very weird this season. and he and simon keep exchanging little "convos" that are clearly supposed to be about very dirty things...
Ramiele Malubay - In My Life
she dedicated this to all her besties who left, mainly danny
she's got a great voice, she's really good, but the judges were right, she was boring.
Jason Castro - If I Fell
i still love him... but i might be waining. is that the word? he's not a powerhouse, and i love him for that, but jeez, he's gotta do something. he's good, but too shy and he makes too many faces. simon compares it to a student singing in their room at midnight. then ryan... (oi vey) says something like "i suggest when it gets dark, you get out of that student's room". duh. then simon goes "ryan, carefull" like there's some dirty scandal with ryan and a student after hours that's just dieing to get out. i hope so, that'd be good. but simon was creapy.
Carly Smithson - Come Together
apparently she used to sing this all the time in her bar. is that a risk? no. she's a real powerhouse, though, and she's real good. it was a big song, but she didn't have to scream it, cuz she can sing.
David Cook - Eleanor Rigby
i love this song. probably one of my fave beatles' songs. he's crazy good. rockin out. simon said he could win, if it stays a talent competition, and not a popularity contest. probably true. he still looks kind of like a scumbag. he needs to shower more and shave.
Brooke White - Let It Be
omg she started crying. she puts soo much heart into it. maybe too much... and she has to play the piano barefoot. but she's really good, i thought.
David Hernandez - I Saw Her Standing There
he's pitchy, gross, not TERRIBLE, but not at all good. yuck.
Amanda Overmyer - You Can't Do That
yuck again. and why does she always wear those ugly scarves? her voice drives me crazy. not in a good way either. she's hard to understand with all that screaming, and she doesn't look like she likes it up there.
Michael Johns - Across the Universe
i'm tired of him, he's not good anymore. but i like that song. but i was soo bored, i couldn't even focus on him.
Kristy Lee Cook - Eight Days a Week
she made this song country, cuz simon said that would be good for her. i don't think he meant that drastic. it was like crazy country. i can't even watch her any more, i just skip her on the dvr. soo bad.
David Archuleta - We Can Work It Out
HE FORGOT THE WORDS!!!! he should have been kicked off right there, but no, people love him! why!??! he's retarded! jesus! this is the top 12!!! you cannot go around forgetting the lyrics. and his breathing is still terribly bad.

results show
jim carey is in the audience, dressed like horton. i wanna see that movie!
and guess what! they're doing lenon-mccartney again next week! and i'm like NOOO!
group song: fine whatever.
they're doing results in groups
carly, michael, jason, syesha. stand.
syesha: bottom three. she sings. which i thought was weird...
we see the 12 at the horton premier. and jason yells "i love horton!" lol funny.
next group:
chikeze, amanda, david cook, kristy lee cook
bottom three: kristy. good. sing.
then they take viewer calls! i think this is stupid, time filling, but i kinda like it. which judge would jason be? we still don't really know that... how can this tard who tried out 6 times get on: you won't. why don't simon and ryan just fight it out: ryan suggests mud. do americans or brits have more talent: american singers, but british judges. haha good one, not really.
now katherine mcphee comes with some old guy and sings, fine.
jim the elephant goes to sit with the contestants. stop wasting time!
last four:
david a, brooke, david h, ramiele
bottom three: david h. song.
syesha is safe. david or kristy. i think kristy was like "it's me". but....
david, you're out. they both were just like ":0"
at least he didn't have to sing when he was all sad... i don't lie ruben's new song for the good byes... yikes.

my hair

omg i'm real sick of my hair. i wanna cut it.
i like that girl's hair in the so dead video. check it.
i don't know if i want it short though, or just real layered. i'm sick of it right now though.
maybe i should do something real drastic.
like this!

that is soo me. lol.

the fire is on! antm style.

sorry, i did miss the make over one, which sucks cuz that is like my favorite in the whole season. but everyone looks pretty good now. allison was out, but she was kinda witchy*, only some other word.
they get the tyra mail about their challenge. can i just say, i hate the new tyra mail thing. it's digital, so the words move slowly across the bottom. so all the girls read it slowly together! i liked it before when one girl would read it, then they could trick the others by saying something else. that was good.
they go to a fire house! yay! not really, i don't care. they had to change their clothes real fast, like the firefighters, into these skimpy "fire fighting" suits. complete with hats and these shoes that would not be practical in a burning building. fatima didn't get her shoes on in time, she was the only one. loser.then they had to walk, for fire fighters. good day for them, i bet. fatima is a bad walker. but lauren takes the cake for being the worst. manno. she's bad. amis skipped down the runway. trying to be "fun". she's a freak i think.
at home.... aimee wants to take a shower, but the other girls can't like go to the bathroom while she's in there, cuz she doesn't like people to see her naked. when you are a model, people see you naked. that's just how it is. make me a supermodel: they've been naked like every week. and no one complains then. then wittney jumps in and starts "helping" aimee. she is in the middle of every scrape in this house. she puts herself there. kind of annoying, but also nice.
then they go do a fashion show. for jaslene! she's annoying, i don't like how she talks. anne was there too, the 17 editor. whatevs. they had to change fast. they should have had more than one change, like a real show, but no. who's the genius behind that? wittney's boob popped out. fatima buttoned her shirt all wrong. lauren... um.... she like ran down the runway. like, creating wind. it was terrible.
later... jaslene asks lauren if she really wants to be there. lauren's like "yes. if i didn't, would i have let them do all of this to me?" which is true... that was kind of mean of jaslene. i don't think you should ask people if they want to be there, cuz they obviously do. except for that kim chick. and that one girl last cycle. what was her name?... i call her ebony, but i don't think that's it...
winner of the challenge: katarzyna. i think that's how you spell it. everyone says it wrong, and it's driving me crazy. learn. jeeeeez. she and two friends get to do a photo shoot with jaslene. she picks amis and marvita. wooopie.
for the big photo shoot: all the girls had to pose with meat. and wear meat. and touch meat. gross. plus, kinda mean to all those poor cows who died for fashion. it was a mean and gross photo idea, tyra, but some of the pictures were good. why didn't at least one of those girls say "ew.. this isn't right"? they were just like "this is gross, but okay". no, it's kinda not. call up PETA, that's what i say. like, this is bad.
cuttin to the chase here: panel.
amis wears this crazy jacket and this crazy headband (though they did match). she''s a freak. she should dress like a model. you can look different, edgy, silly, but in a model-esk way, not grimy. oh well.
order of photos - Anya, her talking annoys me; Whitney, Katarzyna, Claire, Dominique, Stacy Ann, Lauren, Marvita, Aimee - Bottom 2 - Fatima & Amis
long story short: amis is going home with her orange juice, grapes, and ugly headband.

FINALE PART 2

sorry this is reallllly late. lots-o-pictures for ya though.

tim checks in for the last time, "gather round designers". he almost cried. so did i.

christian's lost his confidence. which made me scared.

so they get to go to bryant park! chris is out, rami's in. tired they are.

model castings. jillian is an idiot. she's never done it before, and she's dumb. she picked all of these girls that didn't 'match'. christian's smart. he wanted "exotic" girls, then dark girls for the tan. nice. rami.. i didn't really see his pickings. i think they were all real white. jillian had all these girls, no cohesion. then she wanted to switch. the day before the show. nope.

omg. so lea models for christian, and she's complaining about the giant heels on the shoes. she's a model, what did she expect? and he's like "i walked around in those for a week in my appartment" good ole' christian. he tells the girls to be fierce for the show, skinny, and not to eat. haha.

hugs all around in the tents. it's a big tent. they had lots of preparations to do.

what is rami holding in his hands? is that fake boobs!??! omg rami... lol i find that real funny.

even with all of the stress, he still finds time to be a diva.

talk about divas! two of his models were real late. i hate when those girls do that, it's so stupid. i think they plan it for drama. he's just like "that's not cute for me". well... no, hun, it's not cute for anyone, not jay, not daniel. but they showed up, one girl looked really lost. she probably didn't speak english.

posh spice guest judges!!!and she never smiles.

except for here!yayay! good i got it on film. well, the photographers did.

so we see their collections... look below on the blogo. here's some runway guests!

yaya! i saw this, i was like "yay!" then... "who's that other creep?" get out of the picture! jeeez!

terrrrrrrible 'stache on that pirate wanna-be. jesus. is that her boyfriend? probably. strange. he's probably not terrible looking without it though.awwww! lifers!!!

anywayyyys..... back to the runway. here's posh, not smiling.

they had critiques for all of them... rami had "brady bunch colors". what's wrong with the colors that the bradys liked!!!?? i took that offensively. lol i love the bradys, they were like style icons. in their day. they say he has a real problem with colors. true. he either had hot pink or poopy brown and jade green. good book....

omg i can't remember the other two....

christian::: they said that you lose the detail in all the black. which makes sense, cuz if it's all the same dark color, you might not see all the pleets/ruffles/such. but victoria thought he was "major" , like fierce, but british. he made her smile. omg sooo hard.

jillian:: idk. but she's out first.

buh-bye. i want to say that i knew it, but really, i didn't.

christian starts losing it. o my gosh i felt soo bad for him. it was soo close, and i don't know if he thought he would win. all he planned on was winning. what's he gonna do if he doesn't?

luckily, he doesn't have to think about that!
CHRISTIAN IS THE WINNER!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!! it has been a long time coming, that's for sure. omg i almost cried, cuz i kinda was doubting it. not very much though. sorry "M" for waking up your dad... but this is big!!! did i call this or what? day one... i am good. this is like the only show i've done that for. usually i'm not so psycic. mann. reliving this now is like gonna give me a heart attack. lisa comes out. o lisa!! i knew she had it in her. she was like the best, plus lea. she tells christian how proud she is of him, and how much she believes in him, and i'm just like "awwww". then tim comes. he's like "can you believe it?!" and christian says "yea". good old christian is back! then victoria has a message for him. she loves his work and would wear anything of his. and he's like "thank you, anytime." turns out he made her like 2 dresses the day after this. she must have really loved him. then his family comes out, his sister, who he spins around. i didn't know he was that strong! his mom, i think step dad... but maybe the real one... he tells his mom that next time she'll be workin the runway. awwwww. how cute again. i am sooooooo sooooo happy cuz he was the best all along, and everybody knew it.

now, this is my last post for project runway. i'm pretty sad. what do i do with my life now? this was like my.... um.... vital organs? blood stream? .... something, for so long. but i leave you with one last picture of the joys of winning project runway season 4::

piggy back rides from hiedi klum. he has really nice teeth. so does she... plus she's pretty strong, and he's pretty short. oh well.

for one last time,

luvyabye!