Showing posts with label American Idol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Idol. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Well, first things first. I am done with finals! I turned in my Enviro law final 2:49, almost 20 minutes before it was due. W00t. The 30 hour final was pretty grueling, but it wasn't quite as tiring as i thought it would be. It was kind of like waiting until the last minute to write a paper. The questions were hard, but I managed.

Even had time for an American Idol break. Kris was so good last night. I hope Danny gets kicked off. Also, I really hope they get rid of Kara. She brings nothing to the show. And Adam was terrible. People need to stop encouraging that.

In case you're wondering, this is what a 30 hour final looks like...



To celebrate, I am going to let my brain relax for a while. Am watching S.Darko, which is the sequel to Donnie Darko. I watched it out of morbid curiosity, for the lulz, and because Chuck's in it. So far, it is absolutely terrible. Words don't even describe. I am not sure what I expected. There isn't even good music in it so far. I mean, I don't know what to expect when it came straight to DVD, was not directed by Richard Kelly (though, I can't give him much credit anymore because Southland Lands was terrible), and the only cast member who returned was Samara from the Ring. Also no Jake and mullet Alex. I think Frank might actually make an appearance *cross fingers.* If not, this movie and I are done professionally. Apparently Seth Rogen was in Donnie Darko as well. I found that out earlier this year. Anyway, I'm hoping this movie might get better.

Anyway, speaking of Chuck, I was not a big fan of Monday's episode. They cut the prom episode in half to introduce that Valley Girls spin off. The spin off, which may not be happening anymore, was pretty bad. Little Lily and her sister sounded terribly valley girl for people who recently moved from NY. Also, there was no Rufus. And the No Doubt cameo they've been hyping for months wasn't that exciting. Those are my thoughts. Season finale of that next week. And LOST tonight. I'm going back to watching this terrible movie.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

First things first: Happy Earth Day!

I'm taking a break as I head into the final stretch of my Contracts Outline. I'm debating trying to cut out crap from this (which would fit in the spirit of Earth Day), but I'm afraid that'd be a monster in itself. I might have to live with this near-60 page monster of a Contracts Outline. I'm afraid of how long the other ones are going to be. Soon, I will be making an outline to this outline (this actually helped with some of the other finals I did last semester).

Enough of that, though. Before one of my favorite contestants of this season might possibly be in the bottom for a second time this season and actually get kicked off, I wanted to share my current thoughts on the Idol Contestants.

My favorite three are Allison, Kris, and Matt.

I didn't like Matt at the beginning of the competition. I think I started liking him around country week, but his performance during Motown week is what made me a fan. I was very sad when I first heard that he was going to be kicked off last week. Glad the judges used their save. He can be very hit or miss though. His Fray performance was absolutely terrible and his performance tonight sounded like N Sync doe the Bee Gees (but not in a good way). Actually I think N Sync did Staying Alive at some point in time, but I don't recall. Don't have enough power to dig into that part of my brain right now.

Allison's been one of my favorites for the entire competition. She's got an amazing voice. Not just for a 16 year old, but just in general.

When I first saw Kris perform, I did not think he was going to make it that far. He was good, but kind of boring. He also didn't come packaged with a sob story, disability, or kids, like many of this seasons other contestants did. I felt like that was going to spell doom. Fortunately, he's hasn't hit the Bottom Three yet (despite Dial Idol's predictions...they're seriously full of fail this season). He's also been getting better every week. Also, he gets eternal bonus points for doing Falling Slowly and doing a decent job with it. I loved his performance this week. It was like Jason Mraz meets disco. He and Allison were my definite favorites this week.

Danny was my favorite in the beginning. Mostly because I thought he looked like Robert Downey Jr. He was pretty good for the first few weeks. His performance of Hero way back when was amazing. Then, I started realizing that all of his performances sound EXACTLY THE SAME. The judges will tear apart someone like Matt for their lack of creativity or originality, yet they shine heaps of praises on to Danny. I really don't get it. He sounds like Taylor Hicks, but he's not absolutely crazy and therefore does not make for good Idol entertainment. He's probably slightly more marketable than Taylor, but the judges should realize that he's headed for fail.

I felt similarly about Lil Rounds in the beginning. Probably one of the best at the beginning of the competition. Unlike Danny who maintains a level of mediocrity each week, Lil Rounds seems to be getting worse each week. The back up singers out performed her this week. I don't know how she thought she was going to pull off I'm Every Woman when other contestants have done a much better job with an already tough song in the past. She needs to go. I'm tired of her talking back all the time to the judges. I hope she's out tomorrow.

Anoop can be hit or miss. He's got a very good voice, but lacks stage presence. I also get an arrogant vibe from him. I really liked his Always On My Mind performance. I generally like him, but I'd rather see him go than Matt tomorrow.

I'm so sick of Adam. I'd accept another week of Lil Rounds if it meant that Adam was gone this week. He screeches every song he performs. I almost liked his performance this week and then he started screeching. He's absolutely ridiculous. He tries to hard. I can never forgive his performance of Ring of Fire. The only thing that I can compare him to is the store Hot Topic. The fact that he used the Gary Jules version of Mad World instead of the Tears for Fears version does not make him original. It just shows he watched Donnie Darko. That does not warrant a standing ovation from Simon. He didn't even do the Gary Jules version that well. In theory, I should like him. He's got the Broadway background. He actually does sing well. He'll probably win. I don't know. David Cook turned me around after Smurf week last season, so maybe he'll change my mind in the next month. Maybe.

Actually, I liked disco week a lot more than I thought I would. Wonder what next week's theme will be. The more important question is whether I'll actually watch the results show because there's no Lost tomorrow and all.

Speaking of Wednesday programming, the new show Better off Ted is absolutely hilarious. Portia de Rossi's in it, which is why I first noticed it. My Contracts professor also mentioned that it was good and he was pretty funny, so I trusted him on that one. It's bizarre and funny. The fact that I like it means that it's probably going to be canceled soon. (please no?)

Friday, April 10, 2009

I am going to take a break from outlining the Statute of Frauds to post here. Hi. meant to post on Tuesday and Wednesday but never got to it. Last few days have been busy.

Tuesday - volunteered at GAAP and got a rose from one client I helped. i think he brought it in to give to anyone who helped him, but it made me happy. And now it's sitting in a water bottle. did homework. went to the Immigration Clinic with a TON of people because I guess the immigration class has to do mandatory field experience. got cookies at this good bakery we discovered last time we went on the way out and then stopped by the Coffee Bean and frozen yogurt on the way back. I even made it back in time to watch Idol. Um...yeah Adam Lambert was terrible. He was nor worthy of Simon's standing ovation.

Wednesday - killer day of classes. they switched our thurs/wed conlaw/contracts on us, so we had TWO hours of contracts in the morning. then we had to do a make up class for property, so we had three hours of property after that. There was some panel on legalizing pot between K and property, but I knew i was going to be worn out and wanted to get homework done, so i skipped out. it was in the room we had property, and it looked like it was kind of big deal. a LOT of newspeople there. The last hour of property was interesting too. Our prof brought in one of the attorneys who worked on the marriage cases. Interesting talk. Got back and had to bake a carrot cake for our hall dinner. The outside burned, so it tasted a little more like carrot bread, but I was able to disguise this under a thick layer of frosting. The floor dinner was good and a lot fun. Outlined and went to bed.

Today - two (more like 1.4) hours of Con Law. Read most of my Enviro law before GAAP. GAAP was really slow today. I only helped like one or two people. Came back and finished enviro law and have been doing an uber outlining session to make up for the work i'm not going to get done this weekend. not quite as productive as I'd hoped in terms of property outlining, but i am making some good progress in contracts. ... decent maybe is a better word for it.

Also, I haven't posted the last few books I read:

#14 - Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons - I think this was the first graphic novel i've ever read all the way through. AMAZING. the movie was apparently very well translated. Except, what was up with Night Owl's goofy snow suit in the novel? Lolz. Now I really want to watch the movie again.

#15 - The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall - picked it up at Green Apple Books while Jeanne and I were waiting for our table at Burma Superstar. The back looked intriguing, but the book was SO WEIRD. I'm still not sure if I completely got what happened.

#16 - Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin - Really inspiring account of this ex-mountaineer (Mortenson) who ends up building over 50 schools in Pakistan. Gianni got it for me for my birthday. Great read.

Speaking of books, some of my friends here have decided to do a book club over the summer. I am really excited about this, but now I'm purposely holding off on some books so I can use them as my suggestions for the book club. I got another book by Michael Chabon at the library last week and I'm dying to read it, but that's one of the books I want to hold off on.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Today actually turned out to be a pretty busy day. Somehow, I managed to get most of what I wanted to do done too. That's definitely a plus.

I had class in the morning, as usual. Went out to lunch with Matt and Jeanne. Went to Ananda Fuara, the vegetarian restaurant on Larkin and Market. Been there before with Jamie. Good stuff. Had Property right after that. Managed to squeeze in paying rent during break.

After Property, they had some learn how to register for classes meeting that all the 1Ls were obligated to go to. I maanged to sneak in a trip to the B of A ATM between class and that meeting. I stayed for the first forty-five minutes, but I left early so that I could get rid of my laptop and property book before Moot Court.

Today was our last Moot Court meeting, which was kind of sad. On the upside, my Wednesdays are significantly less hectic. We celebrated the end with a trip to Chevys with some margaritas and chips. I've been craving those Chevys chips for a while. No idea why. Anyway, that was a lot of fun. Got to talk to my classmates out of the class context.

I had to leave the celebration a little early because I had to go to a KALSA board meeting. Turned out there was more food there. Talked about the end of the year BBQ and logistics for next year.

That ended a little before 8. This meant that I had an hour to throw things in the laundry before Lost. I did that. Actually, I had really good timing with Lost. It finished around the same time that Lost finished. While watching Lost, I also baked brownies for the GAAP bake sale tomorrow. I also have to finish selling raffle tickets. That is for tomorrow, however.

Also, Lost was pretty good tonight. Kate was surprisingly likable. This was a strange and rare experience for me. I'm just really excited because next week's got a Ben-centric episode and there has been a severe lackage of oldBen.

Also, I'm really happy America had the sense to vote out Megan Joy this week on Idol. She was terrible. She's been terrible. I don't even understand how she lasted this long. Now they just need to kick off Scott. Seems unlikely though. I just hope Allison doesn't go before he does. I also kind of wish Adam sang something like Muse's "Starlight" this week, but at least I didn't want to gouge out my eyes watching him perform this week. I think he's just growing on me.

I did Contracts reading for Thus last night because I knew I was going to be busy today. Read through ConLaw while watching Lost and spent the rest of the night working on my application for Moot Court tryouts. There are limited spaces on the team, so I probably won't make the team. Figure I might as well give it a go. The benefits of trying out and maybe getting on definitely outweigh the benefits of not trying out at all. Also, I really loved the process in the end. I also found out I got an Honorable Mention for Best Brief in our class, which was really exciting. I guess I do have decent research and writing skills after all. The only thing I really have left to do on this application is find some way to get my argument from 14--> 10 pages. I can do this if I change the font. Checking with my TA to see if that's all right. Hopefully I can turn in all this stuff tomorrow. The second part is a 5 minute oral on one of the topics on the site and an interview.

Seems intense, but the journal competition seems way worse.

Oh, cool. TA just got back to me on that question. Yay. Can turn it in before I table for GAAP tomorrow.

Still on the to do list:
Enviro Reading for Fri
Watch An Inconvenient Truth bc I slept through class on Tues where we watched it
get a summer job
clean my room
outline

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

I have to leave for the immigration clinic one hour from now and it's pouring outside. I'm hoping that it clears up before then. It's about a 35 minute walk out through the financial district. Don't want to have to trudge through the rain in that.

All eight bound copies of my brief are due tomorrow. I put the finishing touches on it yesterday and took it in to get printed and bound. They told us to give a day of leeway to print that stuff out, which is why I wanted to have it all done by Monday. It only took 30 minutes, though. I think it's good I did it today. Now I'm just fighting the urge to look at it for any final mistakes. It's been a tough battle.

I'm done with that though, knock on wood and assuming I pass the ten error check. Next hurdle to over come is that oral argument. I've got a couple of weeks to work on that.

Today, I also experienced a first at GAAP. One of the clients came in and started playing the clarinet while he was waiting. It was kind of cool, actually.

Anyway, I should try to get some work done before I head out to the Immigration Clinic (hopefully not in the rain).

Idol tonight. I still hate the set up this year.

Also, Gossip Girl needs to come back. I don't know why we have to wait until March 16. Heroes is getting better and Chuck's been really good lately. I enjoy my TV Mondays.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

This whole Moot Court on Thursday instead of Wednesday thing has thrown off my week. On the plus side, I got an extra day to make the final rough draft of my brief (that i'm turning in at least) look nice. I took me like 2 hours to find a stupid citation so that I could make one point that I was obligated to make. That was fun. But I've been enjoying watching Lost on Wednesdays night happily knowing that I'm done with Moot Court for the week and, well, that didn't happen.

Lost last night was amazing. I'm just going to pretend that Season Three didn't happen. I think that things would be better that way. I mean, really, I still can't believe they dedicated an entire episode of the show to Jack's dumb tattoo. Like we even care about it.

Tonight's episode answered a lot of questions. We know why Whidmore hates Ben. We know how Locke died. We saw him attempt to get people back to the island. There was an entirely unnecessary scene where doctors tried to fix Locke's leg.

My question is how Ben got Eloise to trust him. I hope they go into that more. We also still don't know what happened to Ben before he got on the plane (the theory I've seen floating around the Internet is that he's killed Penny). Also, what did Sayid do to get arrested?

Also, I love that Ben's been playing everyone the whole time. It's not that it wasn't expected or anything because that's his purpose on the show, but it was pretty cool. So if Whidmore's the "good" guy now, why is it that he sent that crazy guy to the island with loads of C4? I think Whidmore mentioned it, but I was reading for Contracts at the time, so I think I missed it.

That's all I can say for now as I've got to go run to GAAP.

Oh.

I hate how American Idol's set up this season. I hate this Top 36 business. I hate having a fourth judge. I hated how it felt like auditions dragged on forever. Anything else? I don't know.

Friday, February 6, 2009

I've got a lot of mini things to post about

1) I've finished Book #7 of the 50 books I plan to read this year. This one was A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain. I've started to like reading travel books, mostly because the authors get to go to fun places that I either have never been to or will never be able to go to. This one is about food. Food + Travel = Happiness in my mind. In this book, Bourdain travels around the world looking for the perfect meal. He goes to Russia, Vietnam, Cambodia, France, California, Morocco, etc. and tries everything from goat testicles to (the much dreaded) vegan food. In the process, he more or less comes to the conclusion that there really is no one perfect meal. I've never actually seen his show. Might have to at some point. He's got kind of a big ego, but his book's a fun read.

2) This season of Lost has yet to disappoint. What happened last night? A lot of things. It was a Kate-centric episode so we got a lot of Kate and a lot of Jack-face. Still no flashback, which is kind of disappointing. Sayid demonstrated more of his pure powers of awesome. Someone's lawyers are trying to take Aaron away from Kate since he's not really his kid. She stalks the lawyer to figure out who it is. The lawyer happens to go to Claire's mom. Jack, being Claire's half-sister, steps up and says "hay, i've totally got this." He confront's Claire's mom and it turns out she has no idea what he's talking about, so he Jack-faces away into the distance and tells Kate to leave as quickly as possible. We find out it's Benry's lawyer doing all of this. He's also getting Hurley (or Hugo, since that's what everyone seems to be calling him now) out of prison. Anyway, Jack tells Kate that they HAVE to get to the docks, where they meet Ben and Sayid. Kate is clearly pissed that Jack tricked her into meeting with Ben. Sun, meanwhile, is hiding in a car with Aaron and is holding a gun that she got out of a chocolate box.

Meanwhile, on the island, we return to Quantum Leap on crack. Charlotte, Miles, and Juliette get nose bleeds. Sawyer sees a scene from Season 1, they get shot at by random people, and Ziggy malfunctions once again. Oh, also...Jin's alive. Yay! He gets rescued by a boat full of French people and we get to see young pre-crazy jungle woman Rousseau. Given that they're quantum leaping, we won't see her for long, but I wonder if we're going to FINALLY get backstory on that woman.

Also, I wonder if present-Locke is dead for good.

Yup, I don't think we have to worry about Lost going back to the crapfest known as Season 3 for a while.

3) There was a lot of eating today.

For lunch, I went with Jamie and a couple of other girls to Ananda Fuara, which is a vegetarian restaurant on Market and Larkin. I pass this place whenever I go to Walgreens and it's intrigued me for quite some time. Unfortunately, I feel like it was closed whenever I walked by. Considering how drab and semi-Tenderloiny it looks from the outside, it's really cute on the inside. I was actually pretty nonadventurous today and had eggplant parmesan, something I could have just as easily gotten at Morty's next to GAAP. I don't know. I was in an eggplant mood. It was really good though. It's also relatively inexpensive and I've heard good things about their other dishes, so I guess I'll have to go back and try something else there some other time.

For dinner, I went with KALSA to Cocobang. It was a post-BOB party since KALSA hosted BOB. I was actually supposed to volunteer and pass out kimbap at BOB, but I could only get Career Office appointments at BOB time or GAAP time and I figured that helping homeless people was just a little more important than giving law students free kim bap. I missed Korean drums, apparently, though. That would have bee fun. Anyway, we went to Cocobang. Chris and I had been there before. It's definitely one of those places that's more fun to go to in a big group. We shared chicken, and bibimbap, and dokkbokki, and I don't remember what else. We also had soju. It was fun. A lot of the group went to a norebang after. Jeanne and I went back. Homework, what else?

4) Group auditions yesterday for Idol were fun. That Tatiana girl is obnoxious, but she's never going to bring as much drama as the twins from Season 5. In fact, they might as well give up trying to make Hollywood week seem uber dramatic becaus there is never going to be a Hollywood week moment as great as this one.

That's it. Sleep time.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Today was a very long day. The only reason I'm still up is because I'm trying to get ConLaw done for Thursday. It's literally like five pages, so it's doable.

Today's my early day. I have to be in class at the unheard of hour of 8:30. I know, law school can be cruel sometimes. Somehow, I'm like 2 lectures ahead in that reading, so all is right in the world of environmental law...I think. I'm still terrified of his final.

Okay, done with Con Law.

Anyway, I watched Chuck between Enviro Law and Con Law. I'm glad that show is back. I love it. It's a good contrast to Heroes, which sometimes takes itself too serious. Also, Adam Baldwin's kind of amazing on the show. This was the dreaded 3D episode. Thus, for all of us who do not have the pleasure of having 3D glasses on hand, we got to watch a blurry episode of the show with many lame attempts at making things pop out at you. What I found more intriguing about the preview was that they show Tony Hale shout "No touching." I have to imagine this is a reference to a certain canceled Fox show (they even played the "Final Countdown" later in the episode). We get to see Charlie back from the Lost-dead. He plays what I imagine Charlie would have been like when I was in Driveshaft. Well, I guess he'd need a little more heroine and a diaper to be Driveshaft Charlie. When is Scott Bakula coming to the show? That's what I'm waiting for.

I got called on during Con Law. It caught me off guard, but the fact that I mispronounced the name of the buyer actually managed to buy me a few minutes to review my brief. That helped.

GAAP went by really quickly today. I guess when you're there for only 45 minutes, anything goes by quickly. I spent the time working with one person and ended up getting vey little accomplished. We had to fax in some form and it takes a day to process, so it's not really anyone's fault. He's coming back on Thursday and we should be able to sort that whole mess out.

I actually very last minute decided to go to the Immigration Clinic with the Asian Law Caucus tonight. I missed the training last week because I wasn't sure if it was something that 1Ls could participate in, but they said it was okay when I emailed them. The office is really far from here. It took us about 35 minutes or so to walk there, but it was a very interesting experience. It's pretty much what it sounds like. You're helping people with immigration issues. I shadowed a more experienced volunteer today because I missed training last week. It runs every two weeks, that should be a fun experience.

Got back just in time for Idol, which was really lame. I was so excited for Hollywood week and today was just an extended round of auditions, except you hardly got to hear anyone sing. Also, the suspense has been kind of ruined because the Top 36 leaked on the Internet already. Tomorrow's supposed to be group day. That's where the fun in Hollywood lies.

While watching Idol, I started to bake brownies. We're supposed to sign up for a day to bring snack in to Moot Court and it's tomorrow for me. I decided to bake brownies and bring in chips and salsa. I made the salsa last night during Gossip Girl. Brownies were for today. When I got the mix at Trader Joes a couple of weeks ago, they were out of the really good truffle brownie mix. I was stuck with the fat free one. I got it anyway because healthy brownies aren't a bad thing... The batter was really good, so when I stuck the brownies into the oven, I expected delicious brownies to come out in 25 minutes. They weren't delicious. They have absolutely no flavor. Well, actually, no. I had to use two pans to bake these brownies. My baking pan was way too big. Jeanne's weren't big enough, so I just used two of hers. One pan of brownies were a little burnt, so they have slightly more flavor than the other one. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if "burnt" is a good additional flavor.

Bottom line is that you shouldn't get the no puge brownies from Trader Joes. the salsa came out okay. It needed more salt, though.

That's about it for today. Tomorrow's the long day of classes!

Thursday, January 29, 2009

I don't feel like I got anything useful accomplished today. Because I was so tired last night, I decided to take it easy today. I had signed up last week to help out with a KALSA funraiser, so I went to that from 12-1. We sold japchae, bap, and kimchi. It was pretty good japchae too. I ended up not going to GAAP after that. Even though GAAP is a very good break from studying all the time, I figured I could use the two hours to either catch up or take it easy today, so I did just that.

I spent most of the day trying to get through enviro law reading for tomorrow. I'm not sure if I'm finished yet, actually. We're supposed to be going over Assignment 4 tomorrow, but he said to start on Assignment 5. I read half of Assignment 5. I don't know. We'll see.

I didn't know there was still more Idol tonight, but I ended up watching it because all of my regularly scheduled NBC shows for Thursday night were reruns. This was disappointing as last week's episode of 30 Rock has to have been one of the best episodes of that show. Idol was the same, except there was some uber hippy earth child contestant that I liked.

I dragged myself to the gym today. Tried to get in some more research for Moot Court. That's about it. I think I'm going to try to get some ConLaw reading done.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

American Idol - SF Auditions

I should be reading for Moot Court, but procrastination is so much better.

I watched American Idol tonight and the auditions were in San Francisco. I think I even saw my building, but they showed those SF shots so fast that I probably just imagined it. Did you know that Katherine McPhee auditioned in San Francisco? Whatever happened to her? Scratch that, actually. I don't want to know. I think the more important question is what happened to Taylor Hicks? He seems to be the bane of Idol's existence. I don't think there are any pictures of him in those little Idol winner collages.

Anyway, speaking of former Idol contestants, apparently the amazing Sanjaya released this gem today. I have no idea what the actual music sounds like that, but with a cover like that, it MUST be a winner, right? Speaking of new releases, check out Andrew Bird's Noble Beast. It also came out today. I'm going to go out on a limb here, but I'm going to say that it's better than the Sanjaya album. In all seriousness, though, the album's pretty amazing.

Back to Idol. Being that the auditions are in San Francisco, which is also the auditioning place of the infamous William Hung (isn't he a teacher now or something?), I'm pretty sure they showed more weirdos than anything else. The talent tonight was generally lacking. There were only a few people that I liked. I felt like they skimmed through most of the talented people people in order to showcase SF's finest. At some point they try to compare the Summer of Love to Idol's SF auditions. Because that's the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Idol auditions.

Speaking of weird things that happened at the auditions, someone really got married in line for the auditions? To each their own I guess...

I really did not like that Tatiana girl who started off the episode. Yeah, she had a half-way decent voice, but her laugh made me ill. I'm sure she's not going to last long on the show (but then again, you'd have thought Sanjaya would have been dropped a lot earlier). I don't even know why Kara let her through. She didn't like her voice. Oh well.

Some guy auditioned wearing some obnoxiously amazing plaid jacket. He wasn't that good, but I loved the jacket. I thought that Jesus guy was an okay singer, but I felt like he was only let through because they brought his kids out to hear what the judges had to say. He's not going to make it past Hollywood week, so I don't know why they're bringing the kids' hopes up, but I guess it would have also been sad to tell them that their dad isn't going through to their face.

I was hoping that the Rubix cube kid was going to be a good singer, mostly because he seemed like he'd be a fun contestant. I was wrong. Also, he was kind of slow with the Rubix cube compared to some people I know. Of course, I'm one to talk. The only time I've ever "solved" one of those was when Gianni solved it to the last two moves and then let me finish it. Save this project for my bucket list, I guess?

I thought Akila was amusing for the first five minutes. Anyone who learns how to sing from the Internet generally is. She actually wasn't as bad as I expected, but they really dragged on her audition. I was bored by the end.

I liked that Adam kid. He kind of reminded me of someone and I decided something about him (not sure what exactly because it's not necessarily the looks) reminds me of a scenester version of Oliver from the OC. Don't ask me why. Anyway, he's got musical theater training and was in Wicked. Bonus points with me and it would be fun if he he makes it to the Top 12 and they attempt the musical week again. He probably should not have auditioned with Bohemian Rhapsody and he was a little theatrical, but I think he was fun. Doubt he'll make it to Top 12 though.

They ended with Kai. I think he may already be my favorite. He seemed like a genuinely all around nice guy. I imagine that he's going to sing songs that are similar to what Jason sang last season, but that just may be because of the music they were playing in the background while they introduced him. And the hair. I thought he had a nice voice though. Hope he makes it through Hollywood.

That's all I really have to say about tonight's episode. Not sure if I'm going to be able to watch tomorrow's episode as Lost takes precedence, but it'll be another slew of auditions. I'm ready for the Hollywood drama, to be honest.