four more cheers… four more cheers… okay, so i was joking that last week should’ve been metal week, right? well this week is rock week and that’s for real… Slash was apparently the mentor for the week and i can’t help but wonder why they don’t manipulate the theme song to fit the theme of the week…

oh, Ryan is talking about how the set is falling apart… apparently they were rocking too hard and ooh, this is interesting… duets… wonder how that will work…

THE FINAL FOUR

now playing: Welcome to the Jungle – Guns N Roses

“Wicked”… singing Whole Lotta Love and he shouldn’t be showing off his chest like that… well, this is rock week and the rules are loosened apparently… anyway… this is clearly right in Adam’s sweet spot… the week he’s been looking forward to… his voice just doesn’t stop… of course that was well done… everything we all expected and that guitar lick in the middle was hot… Randy says he was a rock star tonight… Kara says he’s a rawk gawd… Paula seems jealous about how much chest he’s showing… Simon jokes… then says that nobody will be able to top that…

“Red”… singing a Joplin tune to complement Adam’s Zeppelin… Crybaby… and, did Ryan just say that she and Adam are doing a duet? that’s a stacked deck there… again, this is right up her alley… the comfort zone and they’re totally setting things up for a finals between her and Adam… she’s had a few little pitch issues here and there, but the song is forgiving enough to let her shout through them and it was good… but pales in comparison to Adam, just needed some more energy and room to run… Randy says that he didn’t love it, but she can sing her face off… Kara says that she’s got personality… Paula says that she’s fearless… Simon says it was probably the wrong song choice… she gets feisty… great…

“Go K”… singing Renegade by Styx… and the clutch grind loudly as the show shifts down three gears in one fail swoop… i think this is really an unfair time to be doing a theme week that is so polarizing actually… it seems very clear that the producers are trying to push for an Allison/Adam finale… Randy says that there were great harmonies there… Kara says that the sum was better than the parts… Paula says it was cool… Simon says Gokey was better than Kris… what?

now playing: Let’s Get Rocked – Various Artist (Picking on Def Leppard)

“With a K” singing Come Together and pulling a back-to-back performance, which really seems unfair… this is Kris’s version of a curveball… a great way to diffuse the attention from the A-team and remind us that rock spans many decades… and the Beetles actually does fit into his wheelhouse… i liked it, but his vocals were definitely strained… Randy says he played the guitar really well… Kara says there was more to the song than Kris had to offer… Paula says that it was an artistic display… Simon says that he didn’t like it that much, because it was like eating ice for lunch… i think it’s really clear that this is a setup…

“Gokey Dokey” oh dear… Danny’s going all Aerosmith on us and he’s attempting to sing Dream On… i don’t know that he’s got the pipes for that to be honest… but i suppose we shall see… i do LOVE this song… but… it seems that i was correct with my original thought… “oh dear”… and with all these random shifts and stumbles early on, i’m really concerned for the finale… and yowsas… that was wretched… sorry Danny, it’s time to bounce… Randy says it was just alright, but it’s not his thing… Kara says that it was risky, but not perfect… Paula says something about being his fan… Simon says the last note was like watching a horror movie and that it didn’t work…

“Wicked Red” the other duet… this is what everyone seems to be hoping for… and the two rockers hit the stage together to sing Slow Ride… and take it easy… Slash should totally come up on stage and challenge the guitarist like in Guitar Hero III… I gotta say, these two are great and they’re doing well here of course, but i’m all but tuned out right now because this show has just been incredibly heavy handed… and i was pretty much already expecting these two to make it through… Randy says it was the Bomb… Kara calls them Gawd and Gawdess… Paula fawns over them and Simon gets cut off… and says that they win the show tonight… no duh…

now playing: Home Sweet Home – Carrie Underwood

so here are my picks… though i’m not thrilled about the way this one went… i expect just a bottom two, but i’ll throw in a third for kicks…

MY PICKS

Three: Allison, Kris, Danny

Going Home Sweet Home: Danny

peace… love… bdg…

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So, i went to a job fair today… i’m not really a job fair kind of guy, to be honest… the main reason i went today is because it was a smaller venue and it promised a closed, invitation-only attendance policy to limit the number of candidates and maximize the face time with the companies represented… i have plenty more to say about this, but not right now… for now, i want to talk about a product that spans generations…

FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS

now playing: Future – Verbs

Word of Promise Next Generation – New Testament: Dramatized Audio Bible

I’ve been a slow adopter of audiobooks… it kind of feels like i’m cheating, but every now and again, i’ll decide that it’s a good idea to listen to a book that i don’t have time to read or that i just can’t seem to bring myself to read… usually it has something to do with the book being in hardcover format and being ridiculously too large for me to bear to carry around with me or something like that… anyway, i’m off-track…

here’s a book that everyone should read and it’s also one that is big and one that many of us claim to not have the time for… and while i still don’t think that the audiobook format will ever hold a candle to actually holding a book in your hands and letting your eyes do the work of reading each and every word, this proves to be a rather nice complementary piece to reading the Bible… as a general rule of thumb, the more senses you can engage, the more likely you are to remember the text later and this is a fun way to engage your aural synapses…

As an added bonus, my boys have really taken to the idea that “kids” are reading the Bible to them from my iPod – and they don’t even know any of the actors and artists involved… I can only imagine how much more appealing it would be if they recognized the faces on the cover… regardless, they often ask to listen to the Bible and it’s become a neat way to reinforce the Scriptures with them… good stuff…

Anyway, the collection comes as a 3-disc set with a bonus DVD detailing the making of the project and all-in-all, it’s worth checking out… even if you’re not entirely sold on audiobooks quite yet…

peace… love… bdg…

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