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ONLY A FEW MORE DAYS TILL STAR WARS!
Posted by Jimmy: Monday, May 9th, 2005 :: 9:16 PM PST :: Comment On This Post

May 19th is quickly approaching and I can't wait for it to get here! The final installment of the current trilogy is coming out next Thursday and Episode III: Revenge of The Sith will see the return of my personal hero and mentor...Darth Vader! I may even go and see the midnight showing on Wednesday night. I'm such a Stars Wars geek!

American Idol almost infuriated us last nite. First of all, Paula Abdul is seriously incapable of developing her own opinion. All she ever does is follow Randy's lead and echo everything he says or at the very least, when someone has a sucky performance, she'll just say "you're a beautiful person" or something like that. It's not a beauty contest or a "great person" contest...it's a talent contest. She should be able to form her own opinion and tell someone when they did bad or she shouldn't be a judge.

Second issue: Vonzell Needs To Go! She acted like a big cry baby last night because she had to sing a country song which she obviously didn't like. Her performance was horrible and proved once again that she is only capable of singing in the high range and totally sucks in the low range. Part of being on American Idol is singing different types of music and everyone has had to sing something they didn't like including Carrie who's had to sing R&B even though she's clearly a country girl. Only difference is she didn't cry about it. She sucked it up and did a great job. The same can't be said about Vonzell and that's why she needs to be voted off...that and the fact she sucked last nite.

Third issue: I don't know what was wrong with the judges last nite. Sure they gave her mad props on her first performance but then they slammed her on her second and we couldn't figure out why. She did great, wasn't "pitchy" and showed she could sing Motown type music while Vonzell was still backstage boo-hooing about having to sing country. The crowd cheered wildly for her but Randy dumped on her which meant Paula had to do the same and well...Simon almost always has something negative to say.

Not to worry, I pulled out all our phones and went to work voting for her...and Bo and Anthony so we'll see what happens tonite!

Breaking News: A casting call went out in Los Angeles today for what is being billed as the "next" Star Wars movie and I am the first person to post it on the net believe it or not. I have a "friend" on the inside who knows I'm a Star Wars nut and gave me a copy of the "top secret" casting sheet earlier today. It may be a big hoax, it may never see the light of day but if it does, I will have the honor of being able to say I broke it on the net first!

Remember, I have no idea if this is legit but let's hope it is.

Here's the copied casting sheet;

It's amazing how we went to war in Iraq because they supposedly had "weapons of mass destruction" and yet North Korea really does have them, they admit they have them, and are essentially daring us to do something about it. Sure, I voted for Dubya but I can't understand for the life of me why we let North Korea get away with this. I guess it's because they don't have any oil.

• http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/09/north.korea/index.html

It's true that I don't get out of the house much and it doesn't take much to amuse me but this truly blew me away. This woman can pop her eyes pop out of her head/face almost like what you used to see in cartoons. I'd give anything to be able to do this! I would be looking at people from across the room and doing this for no reason other than to freak them out.

• http://www.big-boys.com/articles/bigeyes.html

Other Cool Entertainment Links:

• Magic Carpet Ride - Ride along with an F18 pilot...very cool

• Amazing Talking Parrot - Post before but too cool not to post again

• Real Home Theatre - Talk about the movie theatre experience

Cool Aps:

• Free PDF Creator - I have Acrobat but this one is FREE and it works!

Today was Mother's Day but we're a long way from home so we had Sunday brunch with Abbey (see Abbey's Back Post below) and her bo Wade. Me and Wade got to talk politics (he's like me) while the girls chatted about...well, whatever girls chat about. LOL. It was lots of fun and we plan to be doing more with Abbey & Wade now that they're back in Cali.

And don't worry, we both called our Moms to wish them Happy Mom's Day!

As you may recall our friend Abbey moved away last summer for a job in DC but she couldn't stand the cold and missed the South Bay so much, she quit her job and moved back here. Just goes to show that it's hard to leave this place once you get used to it.

She got in earlier tonite and I helped get her into her new apartment and hopefully we'll get to spend some time with her this weekend once she gets settled in. I know Kim is glad to have her gal pal back!

Welcome Back Abbey!

Here's some more interesting "stuff" to check out...

• Scissors - Pretty soon airport security will have more scissors than God

• CyberTan - You can actually get a tan from your computer screen

• Mister Bone - Just like me, fun to play with! ;)

• Fun Game - Addictive little game, I could only get up to 27 seconds.

• MOONBASE - This is totally freakin AWESOME! (Hit F11 for better viewing)

This is my favorite of the week because it reminds me of girl I used to work with at RTP in Virginia. Actually, I used to work and she used to sleep all night but that's a whole different post entirely. Anyway, she was an ebonics pro and used words like bidness (business), idn't (isn't), wadn't (wasn't) and my personal favorite...aks or axe (ask).

I remember one night she said "can I aks you a question?" and I replied "only if I can chop you an answer." at which point me and Shane Gravitt nearly fell out in the floor laughing which didn't help cause she was pissed. We couldn't look at her for a week without cracking up. Ahh, the memories!

• Most mispronounced English words and phrases

Take a look at this sculpture. How much do you think a sculpture like this would be worth? $1,000? $100,000? Even $1,000,000?

Try $27,000,000!

That's right! This sculpture entitled "Bird In Space" by Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi (1904-1957) was found in an attic in a European mansion last year and auctioned for a record 27mil last night by Christie's in Manhattan, NY.

Now I'm a HUGE fan of art but even if I had 100 billion dollars...I couldn't see spending that amount of money on a freakin' sculpture. Think of all the homeless people that could have a hot meal and a warm place to stay with that money! Some people have more money than sense.

• http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/04/sculpture.record/index.html

Still reeling from the fact that Constantine was let go last week, we tuned into American Idol again this week to see who was going home and luckily, America got it right this time. Viewers sent Scotty "the body" home after weeks of poor performances. Granted, he was a funny guy at times but how he managed to stay longer than Constantine is beyond belief.

So now there are just four and it's clear who needs to go next week...Vonzell. Sure, she can sing the high stuff like nobody's business but she can't sing in the local vocal range to save her life and Simon seems to be the only one who sees that. We'll be doing our part...we'll be voting for Bo, Carrie & Anthony next week cause we got lots of phone lines in our house! Vonzell must go!

Ok boys and girls...here are this week's fun clips and interesting links to check out when you should be working!

Cool Video Clips

• Video Game Choir - Super Mario, Tetris & Legend of Zelda...a cappella.

• 7 Inches Longer - Hilarious Dodge Commercial

• Cry Baby - Dude cries after pillow fight....weakling!

• Operation Crotch Rocket - Guys will be guys!

• Horny Donkey - NEVER take a whiz near a horny donkey!

• 5 Year Old Arrested - The kids grow up so fast these days.

Cool Websites

• 46 Free PC Utilities - I use some of these...you can too!

• Crazy Illusion - I couldn't believe this when I saw it but I replicated it in Photoshop and sure enough, it's true.