Performance night again.
First off, the songs of Elvis was a hard theme choice. His performances have generated so many impersonations that it’s hard to bring something original to them.
I didn’t see anything original enough to wow me, but of the four I think Aaron Walpole came off the weakest. This wasn’t Suzi Rawn’s week either.
You’ll notice I have this blog still in my Blogroll, even though Sam died from breast cancer early this year.
I kept it in tribute to her. I had a few things published by DP7, the company she and her husband Todd founded. I never met her in person, but she was still like family.
I’m listening to some podcasts with the Windows beta for IpodderX right now.
My friend Evo Terra from the Dragonpage podcast network (he and Mike Meninguez put out several science fiction ‘casts) raves about this program on the Mac. Although Itunes has some problems, I find it a little more functional. Besides, it’s free; IpodderX is shareware.
I needed a breath of fresh air after finally listening to the free track from Itunes. For some reason they seem to offer mostly alternative or rock songs that don’t interest me.I think only Theresa Sokyrka and The Vanity Project, by the lead singer from the Barenaked Ladies tracks I’ve listened to more than once.
As a nice change of pace, I’m listening to Ray Charles final album, Genius Loves Company.
While I don’t share the religion, his duet with Gladys Night of “Heaven Help Us All” (a song by Stevie Wonder. In one bar they showed more soul than Casey Leblanc showed period.
Today at my gym was the first time I used my new Iriver. First time I worked out to Podcasts and it was also my first time hearing Couleur Jazz in weeks!
The programmers must have read my mind: while I was doing my exercises, they played one of my favorite Sonny Rollins‘ tracks also.
Finally, Casey Leblanc was eliminated from Canadian Idol.
As I always said, she has the vocal talent. She just didn’t have the stage presence or charisma to be a performer yet. She’s only 16, and you felt that on stage.
She can’t come back to compete again (I think. I’m not familiar with those rules), but if she pursues this she may learn to perform as she lacks the skill to do now.
I taped Canadian Idol for later viewing tonight, because I was out.
While most of the judges were up on Casey’s performance, I agreed with Zack: watching her was like watching paint dry. She went back to her old problem: technically her vocals are strong, but she has no charisma or stage presence.
Of the five people left, I’m hoping the final two will be Rex Goudy and Suzi Rawn. While their vocals weren’t the best this week, they have charisma to make up for it.
I’m guessing right now, but based on the performances Melissa was the weakest this week.
I got my new Iriver working today, so now I’ll be able to exercise with my new jazz MP3s!
Results night on Canadian Idol this evening…
The bottom three was composed of the three best of the Josh, Suzi and Rex. I was sure Aaron would be there this time, but he was safe.
In the end, Josh left this week.
I liked a point the judges made (I think it was Zack): the bottom three were all people who would make it in the music industry anyways.
Tuesday was Canadian Idol performance night again.
Surprisingly Casey Leblanc actually gave her best performance of the series. Based on what I heard, the bottom three would be Aaron Wampole, Josh Palmer and even more surprising Suzie Rawn. Those last two just didn’t perform at their best in my opinion.
Jeffrey Allan Boman is a writer/artist/filmmaker, with a few game author credits and a few script wins and NaNoWriMo (the National Novel Writing Month) novel wins since 2002.
I try to talk about Jazz music here, but life has many other twists and turns to talk about as well.
