Damn withdrawals.....

Okay, so no new pictures of Taylor Hicks for this post, and I am totally wigged out that I won't be able to watch American Idol tonight like I have been for the past 4 and a half months! But the good news is that I got to see another snippet of Taylor on television today. He was on Live with Regis and Kelly, singing (sorry, selling) the new single. The interview aftwards was pretty short, and Kelly kept cutting him off. Oh well, Anderson Cooper was the guest host instead of Reege, and I loves me some hawt newsdudes too! :D

So that's all for now, as I have to stop wasting time and go fix up my resume so I can go jobhunting. But before I go, I have to give a shout-out to a really cool blogger that found out about on the Gray Charles site. It's all about the "sweet soul music" and I am so gonna have to hang out there and download massive amounts of new music to listen to! It's called Taylor Is The Boogie, and it is way cool!

Even more Taylorized goodness...

Yep, I'm in full-on commercial, American Idol-withdrawal, "I want more Taylor Hicks" mode right now! And I don't care who the hell knows it! So there! Anyway, so I figured I would share some of the sonic goodness that is Taylor, especially since he was doing his thing before Idol came along. So here's a song that he wrote (from "Under The Radar")....it's called Soul Thing, and it rocks! I'm seriously contemplating making this the ringtone on my cell phone.

And oh yeah, here's the Soul Patrolman rockin' a killer jacket! (See above....) So now I'm gonna shut up so that my Taylor mp3 downloads will go faster, and so that I can re-watch the Larry King Live with Taylor and Kat and Randy for the third damn time! Sheesh, am I a junkie or what?

It's a Soul Thang!!!

Aaaaaahhhh!! I can't believe it! Taylor Hicks won the American Idol title, and I could not be happier! This guy kicks all manner of unbelievable arse musically, and I am looking forward to following his career for a good long time. Oh yeah, and how cool was it to be able to stick it to the man (in the form of Simon Cowell) and prove that good material will always rise to the top of the heap if given the proper chance and encouragement.

He has two CDs out that he did with his band before he the Idol thing, and I have put down my simoleans for the only one that's still available for legitimate sale. I'll likely be borrowing the Idol CD from a friend of mine to turn into mp3s for myself, and I've downloaded a ton of Taylor's early live material. Again, I know I must sound like a damn commercial by tis time, but this is really the first time that I've ever been able to get in on something so cool at the ground floor. In fact, I'm going to check my mailbox when I finish here, just to see if my Taylor CD has come in the mail yet. It probably hasn't, given that the only place selling it has been totally backlogged on orders for it. The whole damn country has jumped on the Soul Patrol bandwagon, and all that Simon and 19E have to do is sit back and wait for the money to roll in. I hope that the first album he does isn't a total cheesefest, but I'm buying it anyway. Anyway, on to bed so that I can get up and watch the morning shows and see if Taylor or Kat or Elliot show up on any of them. And before I forget......

SOUL PATROL!!! WOOO!!!!!

Cuz nobody else I know cares....

Okay, so I have a confession to make. American Idol has made me its bitch this season. I got started watching to laugh at the ridiculous auditions (of which there were plenty!) and then we got to the last day in Vegas, and there was this old guy on my TV screen. Well, I thought he was an old guy, anyway. He turned out to be one of this year's finalists, Taylor Hicks.

/commercial mode on/OHMIGOD I LOVE TAYLOR HICKS!!!1!11!!! /commericial mode off/

So now that I have the teenage droolery out of my system, let me explain why I love Taylor beyond all reason. He has something going on with his voice and his attitude that totally draws me in. He's genuine, and Simon is completely bemused by him, and he makes me smile everytime he's onstage. Add to that the fact that his original material rocks, and here's someone worth wasting two hours of my time for. (Voting, that is....) Honestly, this is the first musician that I have actually cared enough about to buy new material since a friend introduced me to the music of Rush 13 years ago. I mean, I enjoy Taylor's cover performances on the Idol stage, but I *really* dig the stuff that he wrote himself and was performing with his own band in Birmingham before any of us Idol watchers had ever heard of him.

Okay, so now that I've posted a completely unauthorized commercial for this guy, I have to go so that I can take my internship paperwork to my school. Oh yeah, and try to get some job leads from the placement department. I have to get a job so that I can quit being bored and make some money and maybe try to buy tickets for the American Idol tour. (Cuz my son is just as big a Taylor fan as I am....!)

She's baaaaaaack!

Wow, has it really been so damn long since I posted to this lonely little slice o' cyberspace?! *checks posting dates* Yep, it's been that damn long. God I'm pathetic!

Ah well, at least I have the excuse of the internship from hell to fall back on. My boss sucks big ol' donkey balls and I can't wait for it to be done! But I should only have a couple more days and then I can go back to looking for a job. A real job, one that pays money and has benefits and all that good jazz.

Oh yeah, I'm also geting ready to send in the application and money for a penpal service for both me and Allen. I need mail that isn't just bills and movies, and Allen needs to practice his writing skills. And once I turn in the applications, I can get some publicity for my tiny li'l blog to people in other parts of the world too! W00t!