By Martin Cizmar
I very well may be the last man in American to hear Chinese Democracy. Almost certainly, I was the last music critic, and among last Guns n' Roses fans. Honestly, though, as bad as I wanted to hear it, I couldn't bring myself to log on to MySpace to hear the record I've been waiting for since seventh grade.
So this morning, I did it right: I got up at 9:30 a.m. after a long night of drinking, put on my Appetite for Destruction shirt and went to my neighborhood Best Buy where I
Think she's got one more week left in her?So before we review last night's episode, can we please discuss the guest judges or the celebrity mentors or whatever they're calling them this season? They started out making sense, with Randy Travis and Smokey Robinson. But for the past couple of weeks, it's devolved into weirdness, with neo-pulp film director Quentin Tarantino and last night's Jamie Foxx, who I understand won an Oscar for portraying a singer, but by all accounts isn't a very good sing
Time to say goodbye, Giraud.During his tenure on American Idol, Matt Giraud was like the Little Dueling Piano Player Who Could: Snubbed by the voting public in the Top 36, the judges made him one of their "judges choice" picks for the Top 13. Then, when he finally got voted off two weeks ago after his horrible performance during Movie Soundtrack Week, they used their save option to give him and the giant boil/birthmark on his forehead one more shot. And last week after yet another mediocre perfo
So I think we all knew going into last night's rock-themed episode of Idol that Danny Gokey was going to have problems. The guy is about as rock n' roll as my grandma after hip replacement surgery (Hi Nana!). I was honestly really excited to see him make a fool of himself, and, always eager to please, Gokey did not disappoint. His version of Aerosmith's "Dream On" was just about the most perfectly
horrible thing he could have done, and I watched half of it with my
hands over my eyes, like a horr
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