my david cook playlist

these are actually songs in my playlist that i think david cook will totally nail. and who knows, maybe he's sung some of them already. it's not far out actually (he sang collective soul, man!)

1. stone temple pilots, interstate love song
2. bush, comedown
3. don henley/the ataris, the boys of summer
4. the calling, stigmatized
5. live, selling the drama (or all over you)
6. jeff buckley, last goodbye
7. greenwheel, breathe
8. dishwalla, somewhere in the middle (or any of the others: angels or devils, home, counting blue cars.)
9. lifehouse, spin
10. foo fighters, everlong (acoustic version)
11. goo goo dolls, black balloon
12. switchfoot, on fire (or only hope. i can't believe he likes mandy moore! lol!)
13. u2, new year's day (or one, stay... the list is endless. he can do bono!)
14. the police, tea in the sahara (or anything really)
15. the who, won't get fooled again

i wonder what he'll pick?

a short - and very much delayed - american idol post-mortem

so, david cook won. for the first time, someone i was betting on with all my heart finally won one of these reality singing competitions. even if simon cowell totally owned the title "master manipulator" with the reverse psychology pimping omg.

i actually had mixed feelings about him winning instead of archie. there is still some sort of stigma attached to the show, and there is the danger of too much pimping and unfulfilled expectations. taylor hicks ring any bells? i also felt a little bad for archie, because he needed the win more than cookie did. but it's done, and i can only hope for the best for those two and the other finalists.

so, my favorite performances on ai season 7:

1. top 8, seasons of love - it seriously gave me goosebumps the first time i saw the video. even if kristy had a louder mic and brooke didn't have a solo part.
2. michael johns, across the universe - i didn't know this song except as a title for that movie. i looooove this performance.
3. brooke white, let it be - i'm sure she was genuinely thrilled to perform this song on top 12.
4. jason castro, hallelujah - if only because he bumped jeff buckley to #2 on itunes! but jason's a unique singer as well.
5. brooke white, love is a battlefield - another song i was introduced to this season.
6. david cook, happy together - lss factor! this first performance of david is a precursor of great things to come.
7. david cook, billie jean - anybody with the guts to bring chris cornell into ai has my utmost admiration.
8. david cook, music of the night - no, david cook is not a fluke. nor is he a boring rocker. he has serious vocal chops man.
9. david cook, first time ever i saw your face - hay naku kaka inlove ka talaga.
10. david cook, the world i know - this is why i decided that david cook is the best representation of the kind of music i go for. aside from chris daughtry, who else in the whole idol history could be counted on to bring in chris cornell, switchfoot and collective soul? obviously, wala. and this song is actually one of the best songs of the 90s alternative rock - i rank it up there with last goodbye in the senti factor. at buti na lang cookie left this song for the last, it made listening to this song all the more poignant because of the wait. omg david i so love you for that. thank you.

btw, idol gives back is such a disappointing show performance-wise, but the finale made up for it. especially archie's duet with onerepublic (this is the sort of song david archuleta would do really well in) and the "audition tape" for gladys knight and the pips. jack black you are so hilarious!

and i feel fine

so that took three years. i had a friend who was dragging her master's thesis and we all kept pestering her to finish it. eventually she did. i really know how she feels.

i have just submitted my mba paper last night. i don't think it's really sunk in yet that i am finally free. some of the 50-random-things-to-do-after-strama were popping up in my head last night, but i can't really grasp them. i do know that one i'll be doing pretty soon is visit my friend who just gave birth, and probably another is get a whole lot of sleep. because i now have the mother of all headaches, and not involving alcohol in it only made it marginally better. i also have a crick in my neck that is just pain.

though i've been already warned of an impending outing with classmates. out of town, with planes and accomodations involved. one of the things i missed out on while i was doing my penance from hell. and now i'm doing it. yay.

so, actually i'm not completely free of grad school yet, defense is still in the horizon. and it's the one thing that really scared me shitless in my last semesters attending class (which was already three years ago). and it's probably the underlying reason why i never got to this point much much earlier. i'll probably get the nerves again when i finalize my schedule, but right now, i just can't care less.

wangsting temporarily banned from my life. the world is just an intriguing shade of pink for me right now. and for now i can say with utter conviction: THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY.

all right now

snatching some time for some dc:

my idol manok, david cook, will be singing collective soul's the world i know next week (it was his song choice).

i've loved that song ever since it came out back when i was in high school/freshman college? it's seriously one of my favorites. omg i really really really love you dc i can't say it enough.

so with that, i am now trying to convince myself he's going to sing it badly so that i'll not expect too much from the performance (and consequently enjoy it as it is). at least my peculiar musical tastes are represented this year. god i miss rockstar.

and logan, you're gonna love this: jeff archuleta banned from david's practice. stage dad fallout much? kawawa naman si archie. and no, i don't think TPTB will kick him out. the money potential of a david vs david finale is incomprehensible.

for the deets:
www.rickey.org
www.myfoxkc.com

songs of the week: david cook, all right now; michael johns, across the universe (grabe caloy naging lss namin to ni anne kasalanan mo to)

i'm a believer

whenever i know i needed to write something, i end up writing a whole lot of nonsense on my blog instead. and now that i have twitter, i update as well. funnnnnnnn.

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i blog because i want to be heard. because i don't feel i'm heard enough in real life. like everything just goes on whether i'm there or just sitting in the sidelines. which i am most of the time.

and i put my feelings out there, somebody hears, but i don't feel like anyone's listening. do i expect too much from people? from some people, who don't even care?

or am i deaf to the people who really care, the ones who listen but dare not speak, for some reason?

comments of the day:
from the blog of rhojmp3downloads.multiply.com

commenter a: ...anyway, that priscilla betetr learn how to LISTEN. listen to other people's side before doing something else.

commenter b: paano naman niya magagawa yan...bingi nga

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on tv this week, and it's only wednesday

today on american idol, i was a little bit disappointed in david cook's performance. thats the problem whenever i look at rickey.org and see great reviews, i almost always end up a little deflated seeing the actual performance. also, minor gripe: baba o'riley was TOO SHORT. how many seconds did that clock in, hello? hungry like a wolf could have been better, but at least that was a little more upbeat. but i still love him. go cookies!

and, PUSHING DAISIES finally here! saw the first episode this morning, at 4 am (i missed the primetime). i seriously dig them both. anna friel is adorable! she would've made a good tonks, i think, and we'd have all dissolved in the utter romance of it all.

wtf? (i fail at life)

seven days.

blah blah blah and all that shite.

this is it, this is the moment, this is the wtfery.

i will not, i mean NOT call lei/mike/whoever and crycrycry again.

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so please please please let me let me let me
let me get what i want this time
- the smiths