What’s up, fellow AI watchers? After a brief hiatus, I am back, here to write on a Michael Sarver, Jasmine Murray, Jorge Nunez and Alexis Grace-less Idol. We shed a single tear for them all, and sing an off-key version of “I Will Survive” in honor of all their efforts.To…

Somebody accused me in one of my recent American Idol posts of writing something with a homophobic bent to pretty-obviously gay also-ran Ricky Braddy. Now, I’ve been accused of a lot of things in my life, but I pity the foo’ who accuses me of not loving the gays. If…

At long last, it has come to this–after weeks of watching tone-deaf wonders humiliate themselves during the first round of auditions, some slightly less tone-deaf wonders forget the lyrics to their songs during Hollywood Week, Casey Carlson give a bad name to bubble tea makers everywhere and Pacittigate–we finally get…

Coming from a long line of neurotic Jews and, on occasion, being one myself, I give mad props to anyone who can figure out a way to make a living out of doing what comes naturally to people who grow up with the guilt of the world on their shoulders…

Dear readers, we here at Up on the Sun love you all and think you are all beautiful people. So believe us when we tell you that this heads-up about The Biggest Loser auditions being in the Valley this weekend has nothing to do with our personal feelings toward you…

There was never really too much doubt that Scottsdale’s Scott MacIntyre would make the Idol Top 12, but last night “America” (as Seadouche condescendingly refers to the tiny percentage of the American population that actually watches the show) made it official. Scotty the Body (as Seadouche condescendingly refers to Scott)…

So, it’d be easy to reduce blind singer Scott MacIntyre to a series of puns about his visual impairment (read: the title of his post). Lots of other bloggers refer to him as Blind Guy, and he’s actually got a good sense of self-deprication about the whole thing, so we…

Before we get to the nittty-gritty of last night’s American Idol Group 2 results show, I just want to take a moment to brag and say that I called it. Yes, I know it wasn’t that hard to predict who, out of Tuesday night’s group, would get through to the…

After last week’s Group 1 train wreck, American Idol’s Group 2 was pretty much destined (to borrow a Randy Jackson-ism) to “knock it out the box” last night. And, overall, they did. Obviously, there were still some performances that made me want to strangle myself with my laptop power cord…

A couple of years ago, my friends and I attempted to start a Dilettante Society, where each week one of us would pick an activity of topics we had some talent in or some knowledge about and teach the other members of the group. It never took off because, well,…

So after sitting through two hours of complete pap Tuesday night as American Idol’s first group of 12 attempted to stay on key long enough to get halfway-decent remarks from the judges, you’d think we’d deserve a break, right? In the Land of the Sea-douche, however, there is no rest…

After a horrible, seizure-inducing Hollywood Week, I was actually sort of excited to get this show on the road and hear the offerings of The Best Singers in All the Land, as decreed by the “experts.” I should have known better than to be optimistic. Have I learned nothing over…

So, since Joanna Pacitti’s American Idol audition back in Louisville, I haven’t made any secretabout the fact that her ass should’ve been sent packing long ago, especially after she forgot the words to her song during Hollywood Week. In my opinion, Pacitti has used up all of her singing lifelines…

Before we jump into the review, here are a few stats you should know about Cedric the Entertainer’s show at Celebrity Theater last night. Number of performing comedians: 5 (including host Cedric and Aries Spears, Deray Davis, Tommy Davidson, and Kevin Hart) Number of comedians in the audience who didn’t…

Honestly, I didn’t think anything would be able to top Tuesday night’s people-sit-in-rooms-and- await-their-fates episode of American Idol in terms of sheer boredom, but Wednesday night’s people-sit-in-a-room-and-then-go-into-another-room-wherein-they-sit-down-and-await-their-fates managed to do it. I’m not kidding. It was two hours of people sitting. To make it “exciting,” a few contestants had to…

So before we delve into Tuesday night’s episode of Idol, I need to pose one very pressing question: What the eff was Paula wearing around her neck?! Abdul has worked some pretty funky neckwear over the span of Idol, but this particular piece of hardware takes the proverbial cake. It looked…

So we all know Phoenix is going to be brimming this weekend with all the ballers and shot-callers an NBA All-Star game usually brings with it. But between the popping of bubbly and the dunking of balls, we can all still carve out a little time for some culture, can…

I like to compare “Group Night,” during Hollywood Week of American Idol, to what I’ve heard it’s like to give birth: You look forward to it at first, because it seems like it should be so drama-filled and juicy and fun to watch. And then you start to watch (or…

It’s a day I was starting to think might never come–after three long, back-breaking weeks of watching American Idol auditions, we finally arrive at Hollywood Week, where the good-enough-to-make-it-to-Hollywood-but-too-mediocre-to-make-it-to-the-finals are weeded out and the best of the best are left standing. Well, that’s the idea, anyway. It doesn’t quite always…

So we’ve all heard Al Gore foretell the end of days in his Oscar-winning doc An Inconvenient Truth. But let’s be honest: Al Gore, God love him, isn’t the most, shall we say, engaging of speakers. This is the man who made kissing his own wife look creepy and robotic…

Hey! We’re almost there, folks! Almost at the end of the tedious Idol audition process and what is shaping up to be a yawner of a season so far. Hollywood Week starts on Tuesday, and that promises to be, at least, a little more exciting. When you put 100+ chicks…

I’ve never been able to pinpoint exactly the reason, but I’ve always had an extreme, visceral dislike of the state of Florida. Maybe it’s the alligators, perhaps it’s the humidity that turns my hair into a giant puff ball, or maybe it’s the fact that my parents forced my brother…