Today my SLT faithful is a sad sad fucking day. Reading Rainbow was one of the greatest shows on TV. In 7th grade this show single handed took me from a 2nd grade reading level to a 5th, and now I have no hope of ever raising from that. I could have been anything and now I am nothing. But honestly I had no idea this show was still around, it has to have one of the longest shelf lives…
R.I.P Reading Rainbow
Each episode of Reading Rainbow had the same basic elements: There was a featured children’s book that inspired an adventure with Burton. Then, at the end of every show, kids gave their own book reviews, always prefaced by Burton’s trademark line: “But you don’t have to take my word for it …”
The show’s run is ending… because no one — not the station, not PBS, not the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — will put up the several hundred thousand dollars needed to renew the show’s broadcast rights. [NPR]
Let’s get something straight… and by STRAIGHT, I mean straight. I have a man-crush on Justin Timberlake. He is funny, talented, hot…er… I mean… talented. Just funny and talented. In any rate, he hosted SNL this past week and it was superb. This skit, that served as an opening to the sequel to “Dick In The Box”, was my favorite. The line about Brit Brit was classique.
The SNL – Best of Amy Poehler was on this past Saturday (since I was home and NOT getting fed full vodka drinks by Hurricane I saw this live) and I saw this skit for the first time.
I have NO problems with Fallon rocking out to Bruce at the Super Bowl this past year… I would be right there with him. You know what I would NOT be doing? Rocking a generic Super Bowl jersey with “LATE NIGHT” on the back. Who does that? Fallon does.
Is there anything better than Michael Jackson night on Idol? So I do not want to toot, never mind just did…. Wait where was I.. oh yeah, I don’t want to toot my own horn here but Scott MacIntyre absolutely killed it last night. Not only will this guy get the sympathy factor because he is Blind, but he can also sing and dominates those black and white keys. The song below he had never heard or played until last week, and he learned how to sing it and play it on the piano in under 7 days. He will breeze into the top 4 and is my pick to win it all..
My buddy Anoop did not sing “beat it” very well, but he will get votes, never count out the indian nation.
Also how hot is Jasmine, she is right up my ally, I love this ebony godess..I can not wait until he turn 18.
So I stopped by the SLT HQ’s at lunch today for the first time to see what it looks like, and to my surprise it actually is Arthur’s work bathroom, which is a private single bathroom. It is very nice except for the fact there were two of us in there together putting our “thoughts” down.
Anyway, back to the point of the blog, last night was the unpresedented, never been done before, totally outrageous, absolutely phenomenal, magical in every way judge’s 3 picks for the top 12, or so we thought. So they go through the singers, yada, yada yada, time for the picks. The last 2 standing are some dude and ANOOP DOG. They say they picked the other dude, then ask Anoop to stay on stage, and Simon tells him”we very recently, very recently (dramatic pause) decided to make it the top 13″. I am not going to lie, I got chills.
This guy is absolutly amazing, and by far has become the dark horse for season 8. Now I am still going with the blind dude as my pick but Anoop dog will be in the final three. I mean this is the same guy who brought us a 60 page thesis on BBQ. One of the chapters is titled “Barbecue as Religion” for god sake. How could you NOT vote for him, and yes I have text’d vote before. not to mention he looks and acts like my friend Nan… and yes it is because they are both from pakistantian (is that a word) decent.. There I said it.
Editors note: I do not know what is going on with the font and do not know how to fix, so deal with it.
With all due respect to my friend and fellow blogger Arthur, there is no way the El Nino look alike is going to win American Idol. Everyone already forgot about the video montage about how he lost his wife. Is that even what happened? I forget. The clear cut favorite has to be Scott MacIntyre. The sympathy vote is out of this world. Even if he does not get voted in this week by the public he will get one of the three wild card spots the judges have and once he gets into the top 12 and can have a piano in front of him he is going to kill it..
Oh did I mention he was blind, def and dumb? No but he is blind, albeit partially blind, I think he can see shapes and such but needs a cane.
UPDATE:
The thing that sucks about Idol is it is tough to find video, so here is some audio.
