David Cook Wins, and Videos of His Best Performances

This year's American Idol has finally come to an end. No more rushing home on Wednesday and Thursday evenings to catch the repeat telecast of shows. LOL. This time around, my favourite singer actually won the competition. Lets give it up for David Cook!

Despite being out-sang by the other David (Archuleta) during the final night, he managed to pull in a whopping 56% of the total 97.5 million votes cast. My take on young Archuleta: he has a very nice voice, but I think people would tire at hearing the boring ballads he belts out on almost every show.

David Cook on the other hand has shown major versatility and an uncanny ability of making a song his own, much like last year's runner up (and sadly, current record flop) Blake Lewis. Here are some of David Cook's best performances on American Idol:

1. Arguably his best performance in American Idol, Lionel Richie's Hello was taken to "rocky" heights:
   
   
   


2. "One shouldn't abuse a Mariah Carey song, especially in this manner". That was the comment I got from a friend on David Cook's version of Always Be My Baby. I thought it was pretty nice:
   
   
   


3. A Michael Jackson favourite of mine, and a version done by Chris Cornell. I was pleasantly surprised at Billie Jean sounding the way David Cook sang it. It rocked. A lot. Can he do Dirty Diana as well? Pretty please?
   
   
   


4. I bet that many people were suprised or were just simply in awe of David Cook's performance, singing Music of the Night from The Phantom of the Opera.
   
   
   

Invitation By Proxy...and This is American Idol!

I'll be watching Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End on the 24th, thanks to Aaron who got the tickets from nuffnang. The previous installment left another friend of mine squeamish as we had a sushi meal before setting our eyes on Davy Jones and his raw seafood mish-mash of a crew. Suffice to say that said friend was rather quiet throughout the movie.

American Idol viewers were in for a surprise tonight, as Melinda Doolittle gets the boot. Even though it's sad to see one of the best singers this season leave, at least my favourites are in the finals, say hi to Jordin and Blake. They probably do a good job in the final and it will certainly be a tough call, I'm saying this despite being more a Blake fan (beat-box...woot!)

Footnote: I'm in the opinion that Jordin's 2nd rendition of I (Who Have Nothing), was more "hebat" compared to that of the first time. You know what would be cool? Blake performing Quincy Jones' Ai No Corrida in the finals.

I'm Back!

It's been a busy holiday week, and I finally get to sit down and blog. First of all, the visitor count has broken through 3000, since March (when the counter was installed). Secondly, a warm thank you to those who commented. A big shout out to El Maz, who took the time to comment on my post regarding the i am 8-bit exhibition even though he really didn't have to. Thanks man, I really appreciate the gesture.

El Maz, on the inclusion of Earthworm Jim in the exhibition:

"hey there, a friend of mine directed me to this site. i might be able to clear something up for you. i am the artist that painted the earthworm jim piece in the "i am 8-bit 2.007" show. anyways the title of the piece is "sixteen versus eight". the idea of the piece is to have a 16 bit character(earthworm jim) hunting a bunch of old 8-bit characters(paratroopas, bullet bills, duck hunt, etc). hope that clears up why jim was included in this piece/show."

On to other things, American Idol is probably the only thing I watch on TV these days, and did you catch Blake's performance on Wednesday? My brother and I were watching the show and at first when Blake mentioned that he was going to perform "You Give Love A Bad Name", we were really skeptical. Come on, this was to us the ultimate rock song when we were kids, and I still sing along to it whenever it comes on radio. Thank goodness his rendition was safe to say, jaw-dropping.

Compare them for yourself:

Last night was Spiderman 3's night, as I was lucky enough to get tickets for the movie. No spoilers here, but interested parties would like to know that it makes for a rather satisfying end to a trilogy.