19
August
2008
Somebody ask David Cook about his penis Sunday night when the American Idol concert was in Charlotte, NC. They asked him if he was a tripod, meaning someone having three equally long legs. People are making such a big deal about it. I think it’s kind of funny, honestly. I understand that it sort of objectifies a fellow human being, and that it is definitely an uncouth question, but he’s a big boy and apparently he laughed about it. I would think it was bad if someone said it to 17 year old David Archuleta, so young and innocent with the Mormon upbringing, but Cook was a bar tender and performed in bars, I’m sure his ears have heard worse. There is even a video of him singing a song, “Fuck Her Gently,” to a girl on her 21st birthday.
People need to learn to chill.
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18
August
2008
Celebrities are always adopting kids or causes so why shouldn’t we adopt them?
So here’s the thing, when I was a freshman in high school I met my best friend, who just happened to have never met either of her grandfathers. The same year the movie Hannibal came out and we became huge fans of Anthony Hopkins. Being 15 we cooked up this whole thing that he should marry her grandmother who’d been widowed 15 years earlier. It was all stupid girl mutterings but somehow we’ve taken to calling Hopkins her grandpa in a very matter of fact way. It’s like, “oh I was going around on the TV and your grandpa was on.”
My grandfather died two and a half years ago, and I’ve been seriously thinking I will adopt Walter Matthau as a new one because he was funny and adorable and, well the two are a lot alike. For the record my friend’s grandfather didn’t eat people and we do think it’s weird that we fell in love with Hopkins from a movie where he ate people but I digress.
We obviously know that these men aren’t actually related to us and we would probably not mention that do this if we met them (well actually just Hopkins, Matthau is dead). It’s just a fun little thing we do. It’s much like when tweens call Joe Jonas their husband; at least I hope they know he’s not-lol. So I am letting out this secret so that others can join in the fun as well.
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17
August
2008
It’s been a hard week for Ali Lohan. First Anderson Cooper says that she looks like she 60 and now people are wondering if she had a boob job. She’s 14 or 15 by the way.
In case you missed it, Cooper was co hosting Regis and Kelly when he started talking about “Living Lohan,” the reality show about the less famous relatives of Lindsey. He called mother Dina stage mom (the nerve of him saying the truth, oh wait that’s his job as a newsperson) and she pushed Ali so hard to be a star that she was going to end up being a stripper. Dina shot back through the press that Cooper’s “karma” was sure to be affected by his being so mean.
So now the rumors that little Lohan has breast implants and Lindsey takes a minute to take her tongue out of her “friend” Samantha’s mouth to say that her mother is a good mother and a responsible women who wouldn’t allow that.
I don’t know if it’s true- or actually care- but I do know that Dina was going to bars with Lindsey when she was not that much older than Ali is now. I guess we have different definitions of “responsible.”
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16
August
2008
Today is my uncle’s birthday, he’s turning 62. He probably wouldn’t want me to tell you all that. He wants no reminders of it whatsoever. It’s not the youngest age in the world, I know, but I get baffled when people don’t want to celebrate their birthdays because they think they are old. Even better is when people say they don’t celebrate birthdays, only accomplishments. Living is an accomplishment. Health is too.
My uncle has managed to live to be 62 years old. He’s still active, heck he’s more than active. He does more stuff than half the people I know my age. He goes paint balling, wild water rafting, and spend a week each year going hiking on the Appalachian Trial. He’s even still good looking as far as dads go, all of my friends have called him a DILF (dad I’d like to, well you get it).
So many people don’t live a long life. Look at Anderson Cooper’s brother, dead at 23, or even his dad who was gone at 50. There’s also Heath Ledger, James Dean, and countless others.
Getting old might not be the greatest thing in the world but compared to the alternative, it’s awesome. Everyone should remember this the next time they are embarrassed to be aging.
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15
August
2008
For a good laugh, try watching the Olympics, particularly the gymnastics. Gymnastics is probably the most physically-contorting of all the events. Because of this, it is the funniest to watch and even funnier when they mess up. Wednesday night it seemed that every male gymnast screwed up a bit and everyone was falling. They fell after the vaults, they fell during floor exercises, they fell from the bars, and one poor man even fell off of the rings.
The best thing about the fact that they fall is that they have to finish with that weird “Y” of the YMCA dance, arm motion. I called that the “Ta dah” and it’s ridiculous to do after you’ve just falling off the matt and landed in a camera pit. Probably the thing that makes it even funnier is I watch the events around midnight and I’m slap happy so the normally funny things that are happening, becomes downright hilarious.
It might not be what the Olympics are meant to be, but trust me, if you need a laugh look no further than China.
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14
August
2008
So I went to the Jonas Brothers concert Sunday night. I would have written about it sooner but it’s taken until now for my ears to recover. I actually quiet love the music that the”Jo-Bros” play and sing, which is why I bought the tickets. However, I didn’t get to hear much of it. The teen and preteen girls in attendance (who continuously started at me like, “what are you doing here?”) did not stop screaming. I get that they are excited but you can’t hear the music if you are screaming over it.
I have a new rule: No concerts for performers under 21 years old. My ears can’t take it.
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13
August
2008
I know that politicians will philander. It’s rampant right now, has existed through history, and is almost a staple of the world. It normally doesn’t bother me. I feel bad for the wives obviously, but other than that, it’s almost politics as usual. However the John Edwards thing bothers me.
Maybe it’s the fact that he was the family man, he was all about family values. Then again politicians lie so that shouldn’t shock me. And yes he seemed down to Earth, a people’s person, and was very good looking but those just make it more likely that he would be someone who could sleep with more than one women.
I do believe, then, that my problem is he just seemed to love his wife so much. He stood by her with cancer, not once but twice. The pictures, the vows to always love her, it all just seemed so genuine. He was- it seemed- one of the few truly good guys in this world. The kind of guy a girl could dream about, almost like a really prince charming. I suppose hearing about his affair is like finding out Santa isn’t real again.
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12
August
2008
It’s like I was the kiss of death. The impromptu dance moves that David Cook and Michael Johns (whom have been given the combination name Mavid, much like TomKat and Brangelina) do every night during the American Idol Live final number, Please Don’t Stop the Music, had become one of the most sought out videos on YouTube. However hours after I wrote the blog about the dance, I found out that a letter came down from the heads of American Idol telling the boys to cut out the foolishness. Ridiculous! Johns and Cook are fighting to bring it back however so we shall see.
LATE EDIT: The dance will return tonight. According to Michael John’s “We won.”
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11
August
2008
Ok so here’s the thing, I was going to stop writing about American Idols Live. I did Ten posts, one for each performer and I was going to stop after cook. The thing was, I couldn’t figure out where to put the finale number. I figured that it would look weird if the Cook post also had something else with it because none of the others did. I decided I’d ignore it and if, after reading my blog, somebody who hadn’t known about the tour previously decided to go see the show that that would be a surprise at the end. But David Cook and Michael Johns wouldn’t let me.
A few weeks into the tour these two, both of whom warned that they were the prankster of the group, decided to improvise dance moves in the otherwise choreographed rendition of “Please Don’t Stop the Music.” It started innocent enough, a few break-dance moves, but it has quickly escalated to the most important question asked about the concert. They’ve imitated Mama Mia’s dances, mimed baseball games, and even reenacted the “Jack I’m Flying scene from Titanic.
Here’s a sampling on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKuprt8utes
So that’s all about this concert, I promise, you have my word. Other concerts are fare game though. Next up, the Jonas Brothers.
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10
August
2008
David’s set is prefaced with Lazar lights and flashes of light spelling out his name. There is no doubt who American Idol thinks is the main attraction in this show. The Room literally rocks with anticipation. No one is sitting down. Cook appears via a spotlight as he shoots up onto the stage singing “Hello” and rocking his guitar. With a pink shirt that says BAD and so much eye make-up he looks like a raccoon, he is in full star mode. He runs around the stage, he knee bends, he jumps on the stage barricades, runs back and forth, and throws picks into the crowd. When the song is over, and my heart is still racing, Cook takes a moment to thank the fans for allowing him and nine of his best friends to live out their dreams every night. He must have been listening to Jason Castro’s speech earlier.The first few cords of the winning song, “Time of My Life,” begin to play and he thanks the crowd once again for making the song so popular before slipping back into star mode. This is followed up “I Don’t want to Miss a Thing,” the love theme from Armageddon. Half way through the song he raises his hands to allow the audience to sing along and I notice that he is soaked in his own sweat. I normally don’t like sweat, I mean really who does, but standing there so confident and proud, not to mention talented, it doesn’t bother me. Neither does the fact that he’s wearing 5 times more make-up then I ever do. He is sex incarnate. It’s the only way to describe it. When the song ends, Cook again talks to the audience with gratitude. Thanking everyone for their support of him and his family and friends. He dedicates the next song to his brother Adam (whose tumor has stopped growing!) and he starts in on the Foo Fighter’s “There Goes My Hero.” If the other songs were amazing, this performance is beyond definition. You don’t just hear it, you feel it. The music goes through you, stays inside of you. After several minutes of applause and screaming, Cook disappears backstage. Presuming he is done. The audience doesn’t stop the cheering and soon a spotlight crosses the stage as Cook reemerges singing his rendition of “Billie Jean.” Soon, too soon it is over, and Cook leaves once again and prepares for a group finale. Cook wasn’t available for fans after the show. He was whisked away to Manhattan to go record his upcoming album straight through the night.
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