Sephy’s Platzish

I decided to switch to the beta version of Blogger; the surface isn’t terribly different (except that there is no options to republish everything anymore - in fact, when you make changes to your site, you don’t need to republish either!)

Other than that, and a few new templates, it looks pretty good

Oh, and there’s a new date/time format for the Comments

I decided to go through a google blog search for the Rockstar show, and there are a couple of funny sites and/or posts that I’ve found -

First off, “Leper Pop Rocks” - their recaps are pretty hilarious. This segment from tonight’s episode is gold to me -

I’m guessing the camera crew got the day off since we were not allowed into Pulse Studios this week to see the rehearsals/tryouts. We’re apparently on a need to know basis, and all we need to know is that Lukas is this week’s Suave Porn Featured Dancer.

Suave Porn/Lukas – It’s On: I can’t see them filling arenas with this guy at the helm. In fact, I’m not sure they’d make enough money to fill the tank in their tour bus.

TLee then wanted to thank all the maniacs in internet land that have nothing better to do than sit in front of their computer and make webpages about a goddam reality show. Bunch of losers. Umm, wait a minute. Nevermind. Strike that.

And then there is this post on a site called “This Is Babble On”, entitled “F— You Rockstar Supernova” in reaction to the result of tonight’s show. Sometimes it’s fun to see how you type when you are slightly imbibed…

Good morning Los Angeles!

All-time high voting, more than doubled the vote from last week, and the highest ever in the program’s history.

Everybody loves a rock performance at 8.45 am

Let’s recap the events from Sunday to this morning, shall we?

Interesting that Storm thinks that she’ll be the one leaving…

this week the song is “it’s on” I guess it’s time to have the slow framerate time again…Lukas is chosen to perform on it. I normally don’t comment on these “reward” performances, but there is a hint of his voice being stretched again there…

coming up the encore and then bottom 3

-adbreak- 7.14 back 7.17

encore? i think it’ll be toby…but first we have to announce the winner of the MSN Spaces comp…the winner is r. carlos seattle, wa 2 tix to the grand final 13/9

and it is toby

time for the bottom 3… my prediction storm ryan magni

first up -
Ryan
Storm
Lukas (big gasp. do these people watch the show?)
added overnight
Toby
Dilana (no reaction at all to her announcement…..strange; you’d think that she’d get a bigger reaction than lukas)

We find out after the break who it is.

-adbreak- 7.25 back 7.28

Brooke points out that Magni had the most votes. In theory, this could be true, but it could be that he just missed being in 4th at any point overnight. Since the show doesn’t release exact voting numbers, we really will never know.

First in bottom 3 - Ryan - Baba O’Reilley - Champagne is supposed to be for celebrating a victory I thought; but what the hey, let’s drink it at 9.30 am or whenever it was by time they got this far! This is just bizarre to me.

Second - Storm - her favouriteist beatles song Helter Skelter - I’ll say that it’s better than last night; there is something about the presence she brings to today’s show that is a definite plus in her column. Also, it helps that the song is more for her vocal range than last night

Who will it be?

-adberak- 7.37 back 7.41

Lastly - not Toby - Dilana. now the crowd reacts. - Psycho Killer - What the? Did she stick her name in there again?!? It certainly sounded like that. Hmm….

-adbreak- 7.47

My thoughts are that they’re going to send dilana back, but the dummyspit is the clear reason why she’s there. It’s really between Ryan and Storm; Tonight Ryan was a bit too bizarre for my taste, and he’s the only one who’s been in the bottom 3 before. It’s tough, almost a cointoss. I think it’s going to be Ryan, but really it’s a crapshoot as to who goes between all 3.

back at 7.51

Band’s thoughts. Ryan - been a massive adventure, definitely changed from the start of the show; great tonight, but is he right for the band? Storm - first time - some great performances, really solid, but not much change during the show. Dilana- shocking even for the band; seemed a bit lost in the performance; earned a lot of cred with the band.

tommy - three really good performers. it’s about what’s best for the band. Ryan’s come the farthest, but it’s time to go. The crowd doesn’t like it; nobody liked it

Hey, verizon are bringng back an eliminated rocker to perform on finals night. Sorry non-verizon subscribers, you can’t vote

-adbreak-7.55 back 7.57

credits - storm - ready to sing again last few wednesdays; Dilana is right that she’s let her fans down; it’ll be interesting to see if she’s in the bottom again next week.

I wonder if there will be people who think that this was kind of the last straw for their viewing. However, this is the point of the show where the people who have a lot of support will be the ones going. I think that the main reason that Ryan was the one going this week was that he’s been in the bottom 3 previously. Ironically at the beginning of the show, I had said out loud that it should be Storm who should go, but Ryan’s performance, like I had said, was just way too bizarre to me.

If I had to give predictions for how the show will pan out over the last 2 weeks, I’ll say that it will be Storm or Toby going next week, and that the final will be down to either Dilana or Lukas.

Over the last few weeks, the local major phone company (i.e. the one everyone else has but my town has) has been running ads touting their new-look Yellow Pages. Ours finally came today via regular post. In fact, the local Post Office deicded to send out a standard truck in advance of the regular route in order to deliver just the phone books; the rest of the mail came in the usual manner - delivered by the postman in his own car

Now, you’d think that a company as large as AT&T would have had the few pennies in their budget to actually bother looking through the phone book to make sure that there were no traces of the old name of the phone company, right?

Of course not! First of all, the book is published by Ameritech Publishing Inc. (in other words, the name of the phone company some 5 years ago), and all of the ads highlighting the unused logo services in the phonebook mention that it’s from SBC. Oops.

Anyways, I can stop fretting about the phone book not coming.

Viewers’ Choice week

Just 2 weeks to the grand final!

We start with the big dummy spit. Something I didn’t mention was Lukas’ comments about wanting to take what she had said back for her; to me, that’s something that he probably should have said to her (however, I don’t think that she’d take it in the right light at the time). Also, when she threw the glass, one piece just missed Magni’s eye by no more than 1 or 2 cms.

I think she’s gonna get the good attitude back now. However, what happened last week will probably hang over her head personally for some time to come. Judging from the way she answered the question, it seems like she was digging for the “right’ thing to say - “I feel like I’m gonna rock the s–t outta this place”. It might not be brought up externally, but for certain she’s going to keep it in her mind. I have a feeling that this might affect her performance in the polls. Then again, there might be a lot of people who still will like her for her talents. As someone said in the comments on Dave’s site, she is one who you either love or hate.

-adbreak- 8.07 back 8.10

Viewers’ choice week; now we see scenes from the reveal on the IE7 box. I don’t think that it’s a copy of Vista on that machine, but a different theme for XP Media Center…however, the icon for Windows Media Player didn’t look right to me. Ah well, I’m over it now

A nice little “Yay, Team!” speech there from Dave

First - Lukas - Lithium - Is it me, or am I sensing the loss-of-breath phenomenon from him again? Nevertheless, he is showing a lot of energy. Hmm…pretty good; didn’t do that back to the crowd thing this time.

Second - Magni - I Alone - He could be a pollie i think with that speech :p - pretty darn good; much better than last week. However, his support in the voting is the only thing keeping him in the bottom 3. I think he deserves votes based on this performance.

-adbreak- 8.22 Double eviction on Thursday’s BB … back 8.26

Go to the site, buy tix, get entered for a trip to Vegas

Third - Darkhorse Ryan - Clocks - Yikes…that falsetto maybe wasn’t the right thing to start with. Wasn’t it a guitar to break…not a grand piano? A weak start, a great middle, but I think that the slithering onto the piano on the end, while cool-looking, might have been a bit too much…

Three to go then you vote! website, Verizon SMS or Windows Live

-adbreak- 8.31 back 8.35

Fourth - Storm - Bring Me to Life - It’s not a good thing when your competition outpowers you when doing backing vocals. I think Dave’s right - Toby did take some of the spotlight on that. I thought it was a bit too dark at the beginning, but she did find the energy when she got to the chorus.

Fifth - Toby - Rebel Yell - I’m impressed. I’d say that this was his best performance of the year. The only thing I”m curious about is that shirt with “Richland (trophy logo) Memphis, TN”. Like Magni, I wonder if he has the support to stay out of the bottom 3 this week.

-adbreak- 8.45 back 8.49 Folks, remember if you go to the casino, you can win a year’s pay, but don’t do drink driving unless you want your car to be filled with the beverage you have chosen to imbibe…

Sixth - Dilana - Mother Mother - I sense a broken guitar coming…aw darn…she put it down nicely…sorry, what dummy-spit? Wow

It’s time to vote peeps! My bottom 3 prediciton is Storm Ryan and Magni. I will not be surprised if Dilana is in bottom 3 due to the dummy spit, but hey, I think she deserves to win still

Toby will not be surprising either (due to flagging support)

-adbreak-8.55 back 8.58

websites on your screen? I had

First bottom 3 -

Storm
Ryan
Lukas

I say this now, if Lukas is in the final bottom 3 - he’ll be the first one sent back to the big group.