So far I have made $5.77 on Google. Another 5 bucks and they'll actually pay me...

In other news, I actually voted for Bo Bice on American Idol last night 100 times. This does not mean that I dialed the numbers 100 times. I probably dialed closer to 500 times, because more often than not, the numbers were busy. My original goal was to vote for Bo Bice 25 times, but then when I got there I was like, "Well, last week I only voted 23 times, this is hardly better than that, I mean it is the final after all, and I really really hate Carrie Underwood. So let's try for 50." (Until last week, I hadn't voted at all.) When I got there, I went for 75. Then 85. And finally I was just like, "I've spent the last 90 minutes dialing these numbers, what's another 15 votes?"

It was midnight and I had nothing better to do, and like I said I don't want Carrie Underwood to win. I read this article on MSNBC about how Carrie Underwood has some advantages over Bo in this last episode. For instance, she performs second, and so she'll be the last person any viewer sees. Plus, she's had major screen time ever since she auditioned (unlike Bo who had to start from scratch)--it was as though she was a producer's favorite and I'm not entirely sure why. The chick has no personality! Blonde hair and a southern accent does not an interesting person make. She reminds me of an automaton, just sort of standing there, doing what it's told to do. Plus, she struggles if the genre is anything but country--whereas Bo always excelled. However, Simon gave Carrie the biggest advantage of all last night by saying that she probably did enough to win the competition. Damn him! Why did he have to go and say a thing like that? He even noted that her singing was out of tune. Why is American Idol a popularity contest? Just because Carrie is from Podunk, Oklahoma, and smiles vacant smiles, why does this engage viewers? I don't get it.

Well, in one last trubute to Bo Bice, I have procured the following performance, my favorite performance (other than this solo he did last week, courageously singing without music at all). It's the For Love of Money Song, but now you'll get to hear and see it the way it was meant to be seen: Click Here to see Bo Bice sing the Money Money Money song.

If you've gotten this far along in the post, then thanks for hanging with me through my rant about Carrie Underwood. This also qualifies you to recommend some music to me. See, I want to obtain some of the best pop songs from the 70s and 80s. But I don't really know what to look for. I can listen to the radio and hear songs that sound cool from the 80s that I sorta recognize, but the DJs never announce the band. So what are your favorite pop songs from the 70s and 80s?

Personally, I am a big fan of Footloose. I mean, before it was trendy to like that movie, my whole family were big fans. We'd sing and dance out all the scenes when the soundtrack would swell. I got a walkman that had a record feature when I was 9, and I recorded all the music from Footloose, and then miraculously I was in a Thrifty's (before Rite Aid bought it out) and they were selling the tape soundtrack of Footloose for $7.95! I remember some kid asking me once what my favorite movie was. I was 8 years old. I said, "Footloose." And then I was mocked. I didn't care. I idolized Kevin Bacon.

And I was the only kid who knew how to moonwalk.

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at May 25, 2005 12:21 PM  Lorie said...

Hmm...there was so much sucky music in the 80s, but let's see what I can think of that I've always enjoyed.

I had to look this one up on Google, because all I knew were the lyrics:"All I ever wanted/All I ever needed/Is here in my arms/Words are very unnecessary/They can only do harm" But apparently that's "Enjoy the Silence" by Depeche Mode.

"Obsession" by Animotion & "Don't You Want Me" by Human League (I put those together because I get them confused sometimes, so either one will do for a bit of synth.)

I have to admit to being somewhat of a George Michael fan. ("Freedom" is my favorite, but I think that might have actually been early 90's.)

"True Faith" by New Order
"Right Here, Right Now" by Jesus Jones
"Don't Forget About Me" by Simple Minds

And that exhausts my mp3's and memory. I'd probably do better with other genres or eras.