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At 8pm this evening I was an unhappy camper. Canadian Idol was on and I was stuck at church practising songs for service this Sunday! Trust me, I did not want to be there. Was God really more important than hearing Elena Juatco sing?! If this wasn't the best (and most literal) example of the "you shall have no idols before me" commandment, I don't know what is. Fortunately (for my salvation), I chose God. But it was a close decision between the big guy and Kalan Porter lemme tell you!

At 10pm this evening I was incredibly giddy and a little emotional. I watched the top 6 performance on tape and to my surprise, Gordon Lightfoot songs were extremely moving and entertaining! Who knew?! I always thought of him as an "adult contemporary" singer... oh who am I kidding, I thought he was a big old geezer! But the contestants delivered such great performances tonight that it made me want to discover more of his songs. And as a small bonus, my dad watched the entire episode with me because he knows a lot of Gordon Lightfoot's music. It was nice sharing a television program with my father, y'know? (Ooh.. I promised myself I wouldn't cry...) Yeah right.

I know people think I only like Elena because she's Asian, but c'mon, how good was she tonight?! Amazing. I like this toned-down Elena a lot better and the song not only showed her range, but also her maturity. I definitely think this was her best performance yet.

Theresa was good too. Usually the words "Sarah McLachlan" are an automatic tranquilizer for me, but Theresa made me want to pay attention and listen to her sing that song.

Kalan was perfect as usual. And kudos to the make-up department for getting rid of that horrible eye shadow Kalan had on for the past few weeks. But no-kudos to them for putting the eye shadow on Jacob instead. *shiver* (And speaking of make-up, what is with the cheesy Loreal commercials? Tanya Kim's hawking hair products but she's got the worst grown-out roots on TV! And she should know a thing or two about fake tans! *shiver*)

Anyway - Jason has got to go. You know the word "honky tonk?" Look it up in the dictionary and it would say "Jason Greeley's performance tonight on Canadian Idol."

Alright. I gotta go put my fore finger on ice. It was dialing in votes non-stop for like half an hour. And people say young people don't vote! Psssh!



posted by Tim at 11:08 PM