You can call it karma, you can call it irony, you can even call it something more nefarious ... but after picking on Idol for the last few weeks, the power went out in Chicago last night at 8:22 local time -- which means that I missed most of the end of the finale. Mind you, Wrigley field, which is in just spitting distance of my apartment, miraculously had power restored within 15 minutes (as did the el tracks next to my bathroom window) -- proving the point that power controls power -- but my electricity didn't return for about an hour.
Happily, I did get to observe the following in the first 82 minutes (and so here's a one post only Idol theme week reprise) ...
Best use of lazy choreography technique: Alanis Morisette and Crystal prowling the stage
Best use of family values friendly lyrics/best swap out for ON and IN: "did he go down WITH you TO the theater?"
Clearest sign that the shark's been jumped: inviting folks to audition through MySpace
Ubiquitous Lazarus award: Bret Michael's appearance on yet another reality show
Worst commercial for the Idol Live concert: painful group performances that just invited the consumer to choose Glee:Live! instead for its polishedness
Most missed lead singer: Chicago without Peter Cetera
Double-take of the night: Is that Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake (or Andy Dick) or the remaining BeeGees?
Song that was probably good if we could just understand the lyrics: Xtina performing ... something
Most unpredictable but should have been so predictable moment: the Kanye moment where the fur lined idiot took the mic from Dane Cook
You've come a long way baby award: clips from the first season with hotel tables with hotel table skirts
Congratulations: to Lee DeWyze.
Here's to several months without the Idol bee in my bonnet -- months the producers should use to salvage this once enjoyable show and months I'll use to stop obsessing ...
PLAYING BALL IN THE DARK:
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=7464260
LOOK HOW FAST THE SONY MACHINE WORKS:
http://www.leedewyzeofficial.com/news
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