Fandom Overload

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More AI (that's American Idol, not American Idiot) musings:

Last night was underwhelming. Lil was good, but not nearly as deserving of the praise that was showered upon her like the 2nd coming of Kelly Clarkson. Ragging on Jorge for his accent was lame-ass stupid. Blind boy has talent, but we didn't see it last night. And how funny is it that Adam (who makes an awesome drag queen) is actually the most masculine of all the gay guys in the show? There just wasn't a single one that I cared about one way or the other whether they made it to the final twelve, but Lil, Scott & Ju'not maybe? Certainly no one who can take on my boy Adam.

Found more lovely pics of him. I'm looking forward to seeing how AI handles "teh gay" given that at least 5 or 6 or the top 18 men are almost certainly homosexual (not counting Ryan Seacrest, of course.) Obviously, the best way to handle it would just be to act like it's no big deal, e.g. "So Adam, tonight in the audience I see your Mom and Dad and boyfriend have come out shown up to support you..." However, I'm pretty sure they won't be using any of these photos in the "This Is Your Life" montage.

So every time I post something about Gale Harold, something saying the exact opposite come out the next day! (OK, we're going to test this theory: "Gale Harold IS NOT going to meet me and fall madly in love with me next week. Nope, not gonna happen." I'll let you know how that works out.) TVGuide says their mole says Gale isn't coming back this season, now Kristin at E! says her sources tell her he is coming back. But honestly, her quote from Marc Cherry sounds like an older one. I believe they fully intended to bring him back, but at this point I'm guessing that, at most, we'll get a cameo in the season finale. GRRRRR. :-/

The big news in Green Day land is that they've hired ANOTHER touring guitarist (in addition to Jason White.) Turns out he's a buddy of Jason's from Little Rock, Arkansas named Jeff Matika. What this means is that Billie Joe Armstrong is going to spend a lot more time running around with a microphone being the frontman, which personally is just fine with me. Even the most ardent fan will admit that he's no Jimmy Page, whereas he is absolutely brilliant at entertaining and controlling large audiences, so what's wrong with playing to your strengths? Of course, there is much weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth from the kiddies at GDC, including threats(!) that they. won't. go. to the concerts. Wow, that'll show 'em! You know what? If they want to bring the USC Marching Band on tour with them, I am cool with that.

The other cool piece of news out of this is that they are planning a 19 month world tour starting this summer, including an appearance on Saturday Night Live in May. (As usual, none of this information comes from the fucking band! It's from someone close to the new guitarist.) But if they're going to spend that long touring, chances are they will be hitting California at least three times! YAY! I LOVE LIVING HERE!