American Idol Star and soon to be Paramount Star, Ruben Studdard, decided to settle down and get married.  I wonder if his new bride will be in the audience when he comes to the Paramount in January for the 30th anniversary tour of Ain't Misbehavin'

It's up to you dear friend, to enjoy your millionaire status and do not allow sin, greed and selfishness destroy it. You can be very happy and be a multi-millionaire, but you can only experience happiness when your heart, mind and soul is clean.

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Happy photos, sad photos, funny photos, cute photos.  But Flickr, in an OBVIOUS attempt to force its users to upgrade to a paying account, had our account "break" on us.  I cannot add new photos to my stupid photostream, because stupid Flickr won't let me freakin' delete any photos.  No deletion, no adding more.  It is a free account after all.

So what do I do?  I am now hoping someone can point me in the direction of a new free RSS enabled photo sharing system.  I am trired of FLickr not working.

Flickr Sucks.

I will never give in to your ways of tyranny!  Never!  You hear me Flickr?  NEVER!

What's happening, Las Vegas!

The city that never sleeps must be hopping with all things "Idol". Are they rocking your city? We want to hear all about it.

So please add your comments, photos, video links and juicy backstage tidbits right here on this thread.

You can also email all of the above to masterclasslady@hotmail.com.

Have fun but respect all the Idols and their fans when posting comments on this site. Thanks so much.

"The guy can sing." THANK YOU.

Also "Faithfully" video:

David Archuleta has been captured in both song and in interviews during the first few idol concerts this summer.  This is the beginnings of  a Superstar!  Enjoy!

Glendale , Az:

Fresno, CA

Interview in Arizona

Another Interview

Handstands with David Cook

Why not add some nostalgia:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rJAo3Em_xqs&feature=related

Auditions will be held as follows:

San Francisco, CA Thursday, July 17 Cow Palace

Louisville, KY Monday, July 21 Freedom Hall

Phoenix, AZ Friday, July 25 Jobing.com Arena

Salt Lake City, UT Tuesday, July 29 EnergySolutions Arena

San Juan, Puerto Rico Saturday, Aug. 2 Coliseo de Puerto Rico

Kansas City, MO Friday, Aug. 8 Sprint Center

Jacksonville, FL Wednesday, Aug. 13 Veterans Memorial Arena

East Rutherford, NJ Tuesday, Aug. 19 IZOD Center at the Meadowlands Sports Complex

Specific information for the San Francisco auditions is below. More details for the additional audition cities will be announced shortly.

San Francisco "American Idol" Auditions

WHO: Men and women 16-28 years old as of July 15, 2008, who are eligible to work in the U.S. Some restrictions apply please visit americanidol.com for specific information.

WHERE: The Cow Palace
2600 Geneva Ave.
Daly City, CA 94014

WHEN: Thursday, July 17

HOW: Wristbands will be distributed from 7:00 AM on Tuesday, July 15 until 8:00 AM on Thursday, July 17. Auditioners will not be permitted to camp out; therefore, once they obtain their wristbands, they will be asked to return to the Cow Palace on Thursday, July 17.

Audition information, including forms and requirements, is available online at AmericanIdol.com.

"American Idol" is created and executive-produced by Simon Fuller, founder of 19 Entertainment; and executive-produced by Cecile Frot-Coutaz, CEO, FremantleMedia North America, Inc.; Nigel Lythgoe, President, 19 Television; and Ken Warwick, Executive Producer, FremantleMedia North America, Inc.

2. UP lanyard is so loove. If you know where to buy UP lanyard, please text me, I want to have one. Jealousness is killing me.

3. One of my favorite professors, Sir sonYa is waiving three deserving students for his workshop. Pakingshit, I wasn't able to submit a sample work. Shit talaga.

4. The biggest buzz of the week: Pinoy pala si Rickey of the infamous rickey.org- Ooops, you can relate to this if you really are a fan of American Idol, I mean avid fan like Archienoys. LOLOLOLOL. ;p

5. I went to Quiapo last night with friends, Mic and Nessa. Quiapo is the goddess of poetry and inspiration plus the creativity reservoir and that effective aesthetic lover, I must say.

I bought ten DVDs- Blow Up, Central Station, Crying Ladies, Cavite, Epidemic, Shall We Dance?, Lost in Translation, Bridges of Madison County, Million Dollar Baby, and American Beauty. ;p

Yeah right, buying DVDs in Pirates of the Carriedo is a career for us film majors. bleh!

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Almost two weeks of absence, and yes, tomorrow I will be a protestant again.

Happy 4th of July to my American friends and a belated Happy Canada Day to my northern neighbors!

J

To all my neighbors to the South, especially my loyal readers, I would like to wish you a very Happy Independence Day. July 4th is a time to celebrate and reflect on the wonderful lifestyle we enjoy in this great land of freedom and opportunity.

It also is a time to reflect on and pray for those less fortunate - those suffering from extreme illness, poverty or abandonment.

Hopefully, with time and diligent effort, we can all work together to create unity and harmony, not only throughout North America, but also throughout the world.

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
LYRICS: JOHN LENNON

Watch and listen to David Archuleta perform this beautiful rendition of John Lennon's "Imagine":

Reports are that Simon Cowell has bought ex-fiance Terri Seymour a "house" that cost him nearly 5 million dollars! Rumor has it that Terri wanted to settle down and start a family and Simon could just not bring himself to slow down.

After 5 years together Simon seems to be pretty generous. My theory? Either Terri knows some serious dirt on this guy and its hush money or he is buying it for her and she is paying him back. No one gives away a parting gift this big.
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So You Thigh You Can Dance had its first truly difficult moment.

A case of shoulder prejudice.

That nice, tall, blonde girl should never have been in the bottom three.

She had a face like Uma Thurman and was significantly better proportioned.

(I once stood next to Uma in the bar at the Baltazar and her torso was as long as the Mississippi. While her legs were shorter than a coke-addict's attention span.)

Kourtni Lind was, I think, her name.

And she was rather broad across the clavicles.

Apparently America was not fond of this.

Hell's Teeth was clearly not happy, as he would have preferred to deport the rather dull Comfort, whose solo resembled a Thursday Tourette's Night in an Indiana bar.

Yet he was overruled by Napoleon and Josephine, expressing solidarity with a fellow hop-hipper.

Maria sided with them.

May I say, as an insanely late arrival to these mesmerizing proceedings, that I am finding Maria's voice slightly less soothing than a power drill being slipped into my right nostril.

Her high-pitched, maximum-decibeled screech would not only break the panes of Notre Dame Cathedral.

It is also powerful enough to sever the heads of small animals.

I am sure that Toyota could design a car powered by this polluting energy source.

However, I am dwelling in the wrong wigwam by even mentioning things negative.

The dancers again provided more inspiration in this one week than all of the American Idol contestants in the last seven years.

There was that Chelsie (why must they all spell their names like, well, masseuses?) girl, a ballroom dancer allegedly, inspiring the most exalted emotions while performing a routine entirely removed from her own metier.

To think that Sanjaya Malakar, as metierless as any supposed artist on the Idol show, managed to take Stevie Wonder and create an algae pudding out of his music.

He still made the Top Ten.

His equivalent in So You Thigh You Can Dance would be scratched from the auditions like a wayward zit on the bottom of a supermodel.

If you consider that Comfort and Thane, the least inspiring of the remaining dancers, still have more talent than any Idoler other than Jennifer Hudson, then you might ask yourself why you have allowed yourself to watch the Idol Torment in such numbers.

Rubbernecking, perhaps.

But rubbernecking is not theater.

Twitch, Mark, Courtney Shortney, Gev, Kherington, Will, Katee and Joshua all managed, in one show, to do something that lifted both the spirits and, albeit temporarily, the quality of something that masquerades as art on the flat screen.

I remain fascinated by how these temporary marriages the producers have created will develop.

How is it that dancers can instinctively give to each other, often making each other better in the process, while singers in the supposedly equivalent show contrive to surround each other with nothing more than the sad niff of mediocrity?

The world is not a fair place.

If it were, America's iPods would be full of Joshua, Will and Kherington, rather than the beige bilge provided by the Whites and Archuletas that fog our ears and just very slightly disturb our digestive systems.

The Pond thanks kalandrakas for reminding us of the power of harmony.

MARK and CHELSIE:

TWITCH and KHERINGTON:

GEV and COURTNEY:

JOSHUA and KATEE

These past few months have seen the rise of what I consider the most promising crop of up-and-coming talent in recent years. Phil Stacey has his work cut out for him trying to prove himself worthy to compete; amid the Ashton Shepherds, James Ottos, Emily Wests, Darius Ruckers and Lady Antebellums, I'm afraid he's beginning to stick out like a sore thumb. Grade: D-

Listen: "Old Glory"

EDIT: For a solid list of patriotic songs that do the theme (more) justice, check this out.

Here is a thread just for you so you can post your comments or add your links to videos or photos.

You can also email me your Idol videos or photos at masterclasslady@hotmail.com and I will add them ASAP.

Have fun guys and gals! However, please be respectful in your comments toward all the singers and their fans.

We love them all, don't we? Sure you do! They are a great group of 10, aren't they? A perfect 10, I dare say! :)

I think I have mentioned before that I am a true enemy of just about every reality show on the planet - - with the exception of American Idol (ever since I saw that promo by President and Mrs. Bush, and figured if AI was a big enough deal to take our country’s leader away from wars and the like on Tuesday nights, then I’d better get on the bandwagon). And the summer TV schedule seems jam-packed with reality fare. Admittedly, I’m writing without personal knowledge or experience about shows with titles such as: The Mole, Denise Richards: It’s Complicated, and Celebrity Circus.

So, perhaps you can set me straight in the comments section if you have found one of these to be actually Emmy-worthy, or at least not conducive to mocking. But I am feeling rather like whoever was dating Tom Cruise pre-Katie Holmes…WHEW!!! Did I get out of THAT just in time!!!

Keep in mind, though, that a lack of subscription television hasn’t kept me completely out of the broadcast loop. Already this summer, I have caught up with the first season of Big Love, and Friday Night Lights, and I’m working on the second. I’ve fallen hard for those pigskin-lovin’ freaks in Dillon, TX. I’m even keeping up with my one summer guilty pleasure…the sports-themed sitcom “My Boys” on TBS. Thankfully, the good folks at Turner are kind enough to supply the full eps on their website…allowing me to enjoy the poor acting and silly plot lines for no money down.

The only downside I have discovered so far to watching episodes online is the repetition of the commercials. NBC’s video site, for instance, insists on playing the same exact commericial - - twice - - during every break. By the end of the show I have not only memorized the script, but have started to say the lines along with the actors. Unfortunately for the advertisers, I have also usually vowed never to buy the featured product because by the time you’ve said, “Bertolli, the restaurant experience you experience at home” for the eighth time in your head, it just becomes annoying. But other than having to have the Nissan theme song professionally hypnotized from my brain, I’m thinking this is pretty smooth sailing so far…at least until fall premiere season. And have you heard??? NBC is planning on streaming coverage for the entire season of the 2008 Olympics online!!! I am over the moon about that one.

But don’t go hating on me now, just because of my good timing…remember that I am probably compensating for something.

[thank you Cody for Fanblast!

[Thanks Rickey]

I was too busy looking at different hotels to stay at for the AI tour and planning everything out and listening to some of the Idol concert at rickey.org's live show. I think I'm addicted to blogtv haha. There's just so much energy in there lol. It's almost like we're at the actual concert...but not.

Thankfully there was no Lasagna Lady to ruin everything :P.

So tomorrow I'm going to be at a job interview, and after that watching a football game [LIONS VS ROUGHRIDERS] lol. Not looking forward to the interview at all...o well

LATER DAYS

PS It's actually not sunny today in Vancouver...Boo

American Idol: Taylor Hicks is popular on Broadway. 

Real World: Janelle on why she took Will back, and then dumped him again.

The Mole: Victoria Garza's detailed interview on why her strategy didn't work.

Tila Tequila: A Shot at Love 2: Tila picks contestant Kristy, who then dumps Tila. 

America's Next Top Model: Tyra Banks describes how she got back at her grade-school bully.

Voor de fans: ja er is full frontal naaktheid.

7/10!

Check out de trailer...

• Emmaline Brown (14) of Hillsdale
• Blair Grotbeck (18) of Adrian
• Teeshlee Hawkins (18) of Jackson
• Bobby Kucinski (16) of Chelsea
• Austin Olano (17) of Adrian
• Bridgette Powell (18) of Jackson
• Charlotte Prenevost (13) of Jackson
• Kelly Preston (16) of Jackson
• Jenna Roark (15) of Stockbridge
• Eden Zysk (18) of Somerset

Blair and Eden are returning from previous Teen Idol performances.

Look for these talented teens on Friday, July 18 at the Riverwalk Amphitheater in downtown Jackson, starting at 6 p.m. And check out last year's winner, Trevor, performing "Bridge Over Troubled Water" on our YouTube page.

The good thing is though, I get a lot of stuff done that I normally can't, like, learning Lies - Big Bang to play on the piano, really learning the tune to "The Wizard and I" from Wicked, drawing a picture of Hard Gay with my trackpad, and writing a couple of short stories that I haven't gotten to post yet.

Some of the stuff is pretty bad, like the drawing. :/

Behold!

I'm participating in a contest called "Soompi Idol"...which is pretty much the same thing as American Idol, but on soompi.com.
Keep an eye out for me :D The second round starts on July 8th, so stay tuned!
My ID is noraesonagi, and if you can't wait until then to hear me, my soundclick ID is yekki. :)

If there's a song that you think I should sing, go on and comment it. There are like...3 more rounds to record for. D: