American Idol Concert Tour Review

Well. Well. It's good that I gave myself a few days to calm down before blogging about the tour or it would have basically been a whole lot of unreadable jibberish that looked a little like this - "OMGhgkjk679ADAMLAMBERtgahhh679q9ue8w5789&%*"

Or something to that effect. (Affect? Effect...)

Anyways. The tour was GREAT. I may have even enjoyed it more than last year, because unfortunately David Cook was disappointing. However, no one this year was disappointing (that I cared about.) Adam was FANTASTIC - the energy in the room when he came out was electrifying (good word). Everyone was just so stoked to see him. Seeing him live was different than anyone else I've ever seen live because he was just so...good. Like, inhuman. ELECTRIFYING, if you will.

Allison, Matt, Kris and Scott were all also very good, and there was nobody bad. Megan was the most disappointing, just because she didn't really connect with the audience at all.

The group song was amazing, mainly because RENEE LOVES JOURNEY. That one song, to be more specific (Don't Stop Believin')

And then AFTERWARDS - oh boy. We got to see them and get SO CLOSE TO THEM IT WAS...electrifying. I touched Kris Allen's palm (not creepily, we high fived) and I squished my hand against Matt Giraud's chest (again, not creepily, I was shoved forward by some weirdo behind me - what kind of thirty year old male freaks out when they see Allison Iraheta? Pedophile. He totally pushed some little kids into the barricades. I feared for my life. Tangent.)

Then Adam Lambert stole my book. I was holding it out for him to sing because people held stuff out and then they got signed but I guess no one else was holding anything as weird as "The Sun Also Rises" because his rep misconstrued my gesture and thought I was giving it to him as a gift. She was like "Thanks, he'll love it" and then she took it. I didn't say anything, because I have to say, the thought of Adam Lambert reading my book - or more specifically Gab's book - makes me a little tingly.

So that was basically my American Idol experience, omitting the part where we got lost afterwards, wandered around downtown Vancouver for an hour and had to take a kabuki cab back to our hotel.

Renee Out

Renee and Gab's Unlimited Evite barbecue

There were too many people we wanted. So now we get everybody!

EDIT: OMG Renee forgot all her Grey's Anatomy friends!!

Added: Justin Chambers, Katherine Heigl, TR Knight, Sandra Oh, Kate Walsh, Patrick Dempsey, Sara Ramirez

EDIT: David Boreanaz

EDIT by Gab: I'd like to add Nick Hoult, Joe Dempsie, and Kevin Barnes + wife

1. Neil Patrick Harris
2. David Burtka
3. Cobie Smulders (+baby)
4. Josh Radnor
5. Alyson Hannigan
6. Evangeline Lilly
7. Dominic Monaghan
8. Matthew Fox
9. Josh Holloway
10. Daniel Dae Kim
11. Tyce Diorio
12. Lauren Graham
13. Adam Lambert
14. Allison Iraheta
15. Kris Allen
16. Bret McKenzie
17. Jemaine Clement
18. Regina Spektor
19. Ingrid Michaelson
20. Priscilla Ahn
21. Jack Johnson
22. Josiah Leming
23. BJ Novak
24. Mindy Kaling
25. John Krasinski
26. Jenna Fischer
27. Angela Kinsey (+ baby)
28. Ed Helms
29. Craig Ferguson
30. Ellen Degeneres
31. Joshua Jackson
33. Hugh Laurie
34. John Green
35. Andrew Bravener
36. Dustin Lance Black
37. Jed Whedon
38. Maurissa Something
39. Zack Whedon
40. Mitch Hewer
41. Nathan Trasoras
42. Markus Zusak
43. JK Rowling
44. Mark Kanemura
45. Katee Shean
46. Courtney Galiano
47. Joshua Allen
48. Twitch Something
49. Gev Manoukian
50. Travis Wall
51. Tyler James Williams
52. Portia DeRossi
53. Kristen Wiig
54. Will Forte
55. Seth Myers
56. Jason Segel
57. Amy Poehler
58. Tina Fey
59. Jake Gyllenhaal
60. "Ayn" Rand
61. Talent scout to discover "Ayn"
62. Idina Menzel
63. Kristen Chenoweth
64. Lizzy Caplan
65. Natalie Portman
66. Cate Blanchett
67. Jason Glover
68. Evan Kasprzck
69. Ryan Kasprzck
70. Other Kasprzck
71. Frankie (Bonus Jonas)
72. Jorma Taccone
73. Andy Samberg
74. Akiva Schaffer
75. Paul Lieberstein
76. Bo Burnham
77. Robert Sean Leonard
78. Olivia Wilde
79. Adam Brody
80. Ben McKenzie
81. Sean Astin
82. Billy Boyd
83. Tegan
84. Sara
85. Jason Schwartzman
86. Daniel Bruhl
87. Gael Garcia Bernal
88. Jon Abraham (Ellen DJ)
89. Angus Something (Two and a Half Men)
90. Kourtney Kane? (HIMYM writer)
91. Greg Laswell
92. Joshua Radin
93. Zach Braff
94. Zachary Levi
95. Ed Westwick
96. Milo Ventimiglia
97. Bjorn Turoque
98. Will Smith
99. Paul Simon
100. Art Garfunkle

The male to female ratio seems to be a little uneven, haha.

*Note: we would have invited high profilers like Obama and the Dalai Llama, but that would just make our guests uncomfortable, and what kind of hostesses do that?

The RSVP's should start pouring in any day now! Just like our fan letter replies...

Renee Out.

Gab and Renee joint dinner party FINAL DRAFT

1. Neil Patrick Harris

2. Tyce Diorio

3. Cobie Smulders

4. BJ Novak

5. Adam Lambert

6. Ingrid Michaelson

7. Mindy Kaling

8. David Cook

9. Ellen Degeneres

10. John Krasinski


Seating plan:

*****John BJ Gab Renee Cobie*******
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Mindy********* TABLE************Neil
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*****Ingrid Tyce Ellen David Adam*****

Craig got the axe because we decided he would be over the top for our mellow dinner party, and we thought Regina Spektor might be too quiet. LOVE how seriously we are taking this! The seating plan took wayyyy too long for us to make considering this is fictional.

Can't wait for our non-existant party!!

Renee and Gab Peacing Out and things.

Update #10

Renee Out.

american idol finale; fingers too sad for caps lock

oh no. my heart. it is bleeding.

WHY AMERICAN IDOL?????




why?



i ask you this. from the bottom of my bleeding heart.

renee out.

Bonus Jonas mention!

Danielle! Watch this, even if you're on your itouch!



I need to stop posting.

Renee Out

Teenage Adam Lambert

Oh wow. Without all his product and dye and stuff he looks EXACTLY like Rolf from the Sound of Music. Please tell me you see it gab. I'm not crazy - it's frightening how similar they look.

Adam would've made a kickass Rolf.



Why do all his classmates seem to be laughing at him? Oh well. I bet they're regretting it now!

Renee Out.

KRADAM FTW

I am SO glad that Danny has finally left. It's not that I hated him; it's just that I liked everyone else better. Also, he claims to own 27 pairs of glasses, but honestly, they apparently all look the same. I mean, I'm pretty sure that he has 14 black half frames, and 13 black full frames.
I am just so so so happy right now. Kris totally deserves to be the top two. He really is talented. Also, I downloaded a few songs that he wrote himself and they are really good. He's a really talented songwriter, and I have faith that the CD he will inevitably release will be very good. I, for one, will be buying it.
Also, I'd just like to briefly mention how a) good and b) gutsy his performance of Heartless was last night. I mean, to go on stage with no music, only you're guitar, on AI is rare, and he did such an amazing job. That performance ties, but is slightly above, Tracks of my Tears. Bravo.

(I couldn't find the actual video; it's been taken down)

Peace, Gab

David Cook and his good taste

David's favourites are Adam and Kris! Good boy! I knew I loved him for a reason.

Renee Out.

Renee Responds Promptly

Haha, that's the best quote ever, where did you find that?

I don't even really care who gets voted out tonight. Although they were better than I gave them credit for last night. Turns out I WAS in a mood. Fancy that!

I'll respond more soon, I'm in Comp. CIv. right now though, shhh.

Also - what is GTFO? And what is Y/Y?

Renee Out.

Riffraff Post

Less is more, Renee, less is more. Plus, the quality of my posts is like a thousand times better than yours. 

I have basically given up on AP Calculus. I mean, I don't think I am going to learn anything more tonight. 

This is going to be a mish-mash post.

1) Kris is the sexiest thing ever to sing the AI stage. Furthermore, he did a respectable job tonight. Unlike *cough* Danny. Danny deserves to go home for his performance. But, here is how it's going to play out: Danny fans are going to vote extra for him to ensure he is in the final three after such an awful night. Adam will obviously be in the top, leaving Allison and Kris. For the past couple of weeks, it has been a toss up as to which would be in the top 3, but it's looking like it will almost certainly be Allison. She just has a better voice. As attractive as Kris is, his looks will only get him to top 4. My ideal final 3 would be Allison, Kris, and Adam, though.

GTFO Danny!

2) Renee, my favourite animal post obviously counts! I mean, what about your eyes closed post? It doesn't even make sense!

3) Renee, we seriously need to take some photos together. Y/Y?

4) Gael is SO attractive. Even in the crack video. 

5) Hilarious quotation by Kris Allen (ignore grammatical inaccuracies): "Sharing a bathroom with Adam is well... We're very different. He's got a lot of stuff, and I don't. But the bathroom is plenty big enough where he can fit all of his stuff. So it works." Later, Adam: "It's great! He's got like three items on the counter and I have fourty-five."

Peace, Gab

6) Danny Hokey is the most boring person, ever.

RENEE WINS

So. I just spent like WAY TOO LONG going back and counting all the posts to prove to Gab that I have, in fact, posted more times than her. Here was the final result:

Renee: 131 posts

Gab: 90 posts

And p.s. gab, some of your lame posts shouldn't even count. Like the one where you list your favourite animals? cough*slacker*cough. Plus, you cantradict yourself in an earlier entry when you say that sea kittens are your favourite animal.

EDIT to American Idol post: the more I watch Allison's solo the more I like it. She was better the second and third time. She'd better not be eliminated. And Danny and Kris's duet gets better with more viewings too. You know which one doesn't get better with more viewings? Adam's craptastic horrorshow.

Renee Out.

American Idol Recap: Top 4

Oh yikes. Oh my. Oh my yikes.

Not good. Not good at all.

Maybe I'm just in a mood or something but tonight made me really depressed. Everything felt unfamiliar and dark and too loud and I hated it all. It made me miss my David. As much as I love Adam, he'll never come close to my boy Cook.

Everyone was bad tonight. Like BAD BAD. Allison was the best, she wasn't that bad actually. She was so unbad, in fact, that I'll forgive her for all her physical contact with Adam:) She's a good singer, and I was glad she talked back to Simon. But one good singer and two pretty good duets were NOT ENOUGH.

Adam - I hated his performance. I'm not ashamed - I hated it. He let me down. He made stupid embarassing facial expressions at the guitarist and I didn't believe him at all. He was so phony. And the song had no tune. AND HIS PANTS IN THE DUET. Oh my G. They weren't even hot. They were just...nope.

And BTW wth was Slash doing there? He's pretty much the greasiest mentor they could have possibly picked. Oh well, at least he sings. OH WAIT, he doesn't.

And then there was Danny. Oh, Danny, Danny, Danny. Just no. You can't hit those notes. Didn't anyone ever tell you that?

Kris. meh. It was too hard for him, poor guy. It just wasn't his week; we knew that it wouldn't be.

SO DISAPPOINTING.

Renee Out Disappointed.

AAAAAAAARRRGHHHHH

THIS IS THE SOUND OF RENEE HAVING A HEART ATTACK.

sjdjsghjsdh.....

this is the sound of renee slowly recovering from said heart attack because

OMG! Adam Glambert was in the BOTTOM EFFING TWO!!! gab is at her play rehearsals or whatever but i left one hundred messages on her phone so soon she'll know.

P.S. gab i know that i talk about hanging myself in every message but that's just an exageration.

I guess this is posibly a good thing. People didn't vote for him cause they were all "Oh Adam, he's obviously safe" so now they know and he'll be SAFE AS HELL NEXT WEEK. Or I will hang myself metaphorically.

Renee Out.

Dancing Through Life, Skimming the Surface

Haha, Ugly Betty, I loved that part. "Hola Jesse." I love how Marc and Amanda always imitate her so Spanishly. P.S. Gio is a fox. Of the short variety, but still.

Am I supposed to do that Thoughtful Thursday thing? I can't remember. Well, what I am going to do, since we all know that I'm chock full of pet peeves, is have a rant Thursday. Isn't that judgmentally fabulous?

Rant Thursday 1

People who use diction that they are not native to. PAR EXAMPLE people that are from, say, oh I don't know, Vancouver but take it upon themselves to use the word "y'all." Or people who are in no way British but use the words "bloody" and "wicked" frequently. It drives me up the wall. The word "wicked" should only be used if someone says "Oh wow, did you see Adam Lambert in Wicked, wasn't he foxtastic?" Or something like that.

Yes, I can see myself getting really into this. Next Thursday: people who say "Chuesday." UGH gives me goosebumps.

Renee Out.

I Love Dance Numbers!

Adieu, Lil Rounds! Adieu, Anoop Desai. Oops, sorry, Adam I did not know you were in the shower. HAHAHA, that's how this mind gets from point A to point B.

So anyways. Dance number ftw, I think Adam lost his lunettes de soleil unfortunately. The top five are pretty good, maybe minus Matt, I's looking forward to next week, two songs, yeeeah. David Archuleta, what a cutie.

Renee Out.

This blog is atrocious

We are disappointing our millions of readers. Shame on us (Gab mostly.)

Since Gab is obviously NEVER going to post her number 1 artist (can you hear the anger?) we might as well start some new stuff. The new countdown is top ten TV shows and I get to start because I thought of it HA.

We need to make some new, honest to goodness posts full of our hilarious wit and pithy insights, not just embed a video and say "Hey look, Renee, I posted." Or vice versa but probably not because I'm so good about posting unlike some people who will remain nameless gab.

We need something for every week day to force us to come online. I've come up with a schedule.

Song Recommendation Monday - Both

Tube Tuesday - Gab

HIMYM Review Tuesday - Gab

AI Review Wednesday - Renee

Thoughtful Thursday - Gab (be philosophical about something specific eg. pita bread, mmmm)

NewHottie Friday - Renee

Catchy names haha, not so much.

Also, I am going to describe any interesting dreams I have from now on, because who doesn't want to hear about my fascinating subconcious happenings? (Answer: No one)

In recent Renee news, besides it basically being my birthday, I'm going to be best friends with Allison Iraheta I decided, because she's awesome and only one week younger than me! And then she'll introduce me to Adam and him and I will ride off into the sunset together. But even if that last part doesn't happen I am still going to be BFFE with Allison (besides Gab being my BFFE, even though I was kind of harsh at her this whole post, haha). So the blog must thrive in order for her to find it!

Renee Out, but not for long

American Idol Top 8 Review. What, NO, I'm not watching Dancing With the Stars now!

I'm pretty inconsistent with my reviews. I'm pretty inconsistent in general. The only thing I'm consistent at is being awesome.

I'll rank the people tonight, because I never remember the order.

8. Scott. I'm sorry, but he needs to go. He's sweet but he's DEFINITELY not good enough to be there anymore. He was very far from hitting a few of those notes. He always sounds just a little offkey. I always feel bad insulting the ones whose personalities I like.

7. Anoop. NO PROBLEM INSULTING THIS ONE. Haha, but he was actually less annoying tonight. Not being a tool, anyways. And he has my boyfriend David Cook's birthday, which is slightly cool. He was boring though, but a cute baby.

6. Matt. To be honest, I skimmed half these performances. It looked okay. I'm liking Matty a lot more lately. I going soft I guess. Maybe it's the recaps of their childhoods (I like kiddies)

5. Danny. He kind of ruined that song. I love Danny but I love that song more and he did things to it that I did not so much like. Also, he does too much of the...I can't even explain it. It's like "oweeeowee" kinda thing.

4. Kris. Maybe I'm putting him too high up, I just love Kris. Loved the taxi driver and ferris wheel stories ("Would you say hi to Adam for me?") But yeah, he wasn't so exciting tonight, and I find it distracting when they play in the audience. I don't remember them ever doing this before this season.

3. Lil. She needs our support! Why are they so brutal to her? Just cause she's black they take for granted her killer pipes. Racist! I love Lil. I hope she hits her stride soon. Or Leel, as her and her mom say, haha.

2. Allison. I didn't particularily love Allison (I realize now I'm being biased and putting people I like high up the list). But whatever. She's really good, her fashion sense imporved...minutely.

1. Adam! Yayy, Adam. I didn't love this one as much as some people (tracks of my tears is still my fave) and for a while he looked like he was sitting on a floating chari, but his flashbacks were ADORABLE ("I liked playing dressup, not soccer") He's the best by so much it's ridiculous. Love him!

There we go. Pretty good review, if I do say so myself, which I do. Pat on the back, Renee! Gold star.

Renee Out.

I like making crappy palindromes.

EMT Adam: hot, but tubtoh mad at me.

That took me too long, and it doesn't even make sense. PS Gab sucks at blogging and at asking people about their chemistry tests.

Renee Out

Who gave Paula a thesaurus?

Quick review, because I need to post four more entries (apparently I'm slacking). Well, maybe your mom's slacking.

Anoop: sucked, as always. And then he showed his true asshole colours by being a little bitch to the judges. Hopefully now America will start to hate him as much as I do.

Scott: boring, like always.

Danny: good.

Allison: not so good, but they didn't need to be so mean about her outfit. Did ALL of the judges have to mention it?

Adam: SEXY. Not as good as last week, but that guy could just go sit there and do nothing and the crowd would eat him up.

Kris: my favourite tonight. He did a good job.

Megan: i though it was okay. Too bad she went home. Cawing ftw, though!

Lil Rounds: they didn't give her enough credit. SHe was really good, and her kids are freaking adorable! "Randy, you're ready to be a Grandpa!" Thanks Ryan! Someone needs to let him know that he's not really young and hip like he thinks.

So yeah, wasn't as good as last week but it was okay. I'm lovin me some Adam.

Renee Out