So opinions are running the gamut from OMGZ GREAT to OMGZ YAY and y'all already know where I stand (YAY!!!!!), but let's take a minute to discover why.

Introducing, the StickyKeys Live Blog
f. FANT ASIA on IDOL 5/14/08


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Fantasia is a niche artist, you either love her or you hate her and that's about it. Nina remarked that she ain't gettin' no new fans so she might as well cater the heck to the ones she has, and that's what she does.

I love her because WYSIWYG and anything less would not be FANTASIA

I love that she's so true to herself that if you try to put her in a box and she fails you have no one to blame but yourself.

I love that when you realize exactly who she is she can blow your mind away.

I love that she's comfortable with the show and with the judges to just go out there and give it her all.

I love that the Season 6 kids listened to her CD while they were on tour.

I love her because she too wants to make out with Ryan Seacrest. Sloppily.

I love her because while she's contempo r&b now, she has the kind of voice that can easily spin into clssic genres and ensure her longevity, and she can do it anytime she wants.

I love her. Simply. Her ghetto hot mess fire that ignites my ears and eyes. Her inability to be anything less than over the top and her rampant desire to never hit bottom.

Syesha tried to claim her, but I'm taking her back! She's MY idol, and I love her.

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I know officially he got TWoP in the divorce, but I had to take a peek:

Next up is Fantasia, singing...wow. You have to be very, very confident to get up and sing a song called "Bore Me." Particularly with Simon Cowell within 5000 yards of you, much less right there in your line of sight. Is this song title a hidden clue from the producers that Archuleta's got this in the bag? Or, wait, are the producers conspiring against him now? Every year it gets harder and harder to keep up. So Fantasia's painted her hair red, and not a single word she sings is decipherable in the slightest, and she borrowed all the beeps and snorts from Beyonce's "Work It Out," and as always it sounds like it must hurt a whole lot to sing like Fantasia, and ultimately? She's totally fantastic. And capital "I" Insane. Did she always know how to dance? This is awesome. Cut to Simon, mouth agape, struggling to comprehend. She has literally knocked Simon's brain clear across the room. He's finished. So am I. Wow.

And then? Just as Ryan's about to send it to commercial, she pretends to make out with Ryan. I vote we just declare Fantastia a Double American Idol and call this season a wash. Who's with me?

Ha! That Joer really gets it sometimes!

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Got dang if this isn't catchy like herpes, but in the good way... the Valtrexx way. Or something. No, that's not good at all. I'll come up with a better analogy later. You know I would just buy the thing EXCEPT THE LINK ON HIS OFFICIAL SITE WILL NOT WORK AHHHHH!!! I'd love to watch it actually synched up is all, heh.

I'm really just posting this to see if I can piss off the posters at lucasgrabeel.org. Those are some entitled heiffas! I think I'm a little jellus.

Anyhoow, this is also for Robert, Leila, and every other HSM head because we all know who the real club head in that group is.

And cameo by Zac Efron! Wii!



I'm especially interested in what Christo thinks about it. No reason, just wondering.

So we all know Mika is high the greater part of the day, right? Well this video does nothing to disprove that notion, and dangit if I don't love him for it. This song was my freaking life's motto for a good amount of time. This video? It's completely off the mark, but still oddly perfect.

Pretty much just like Mika. As long as I don't ever hear him talk...




I have a track by track started for this but it always gets way too emo. I may post it sometime soon. Till then, enjoy!

AND THIS! And yes, yes, I know, I know, but shut up because I love it despite itself.

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I got tagged 16 years ago (and boy are my arms tired!) to complete a few memes and I'm just now able to catch up. The first was ganked from MonkSeal whose powers include thwarting the Websense system. Well done sir.

You know a band have truly made it into the national consciousness when you can ask the average man in the street “what is your favourite song by X” and know you’re pretty much going to get an answer. And the answer is going to be selected from more than about 4 or 5 songs.

So I have personally sat down and decided my favourite song, via a tortuous process of sitting with the Guiness Book Of Hit Singles on my lap, looking through all the releases by a particular band, and then sifting out a chosen one. And then maybe racking my brain a little to think if there’s a non single that I like, although I’m not really a music historian, so that’s not really the case for many of them.

Yeah, so basically I'm ganking his list and putting my fave song, and you can feel free to gank this list and put your fave song by said artist. To mix it up I'm going to take out five of Chris's artists and put in five of my own that are considered very popular(and that I know because they're American, heh).

1. Elvis Presley : "A Little Less Conversation". Love the original, love the remix, love everything about it. I was never huge on Elvis as a vocalist but the man knew how to entertain. I still haven't posted pics from Elvis Fest, but I will sometime. Anyhow, this song is perfect and timeless to me, and the lyrics are fun.

I also find that "In the Ghetto" song absolutely hilarious in the wrongest way. So double points there.


2. The Beatles : I really like "Hey Jude". I don't know if that's cliche or not. I only like it because of the "better, betTER, beTTER, BETTER" and "NAHHHH NA NA NANANA!!!" parts, but still. Great song.
(ps. I like The Monkees better, heh. SUCK ON IT!)

3. Queen : "Bohemian Rhapsody" naturally, no matter how camp it still gets the crowd going. Even those who grown at its beginnings will get into some crazy song within the song. I'm also pressure to Under Pressure even without the Vanilla Ice drama. Tssss.

(ps. I was looking at JoistMonkey's answers and he reminded me it was indeed Queen who sang "I Want to Break Free" which I forgot I loved. Not as much as BR though.)

4. Madonna: "Human Nature". Love it, love the video, fab.

5. Elton John : "Rocket Man (I hadn’t even heard this all the way through until last year, but it’s such a perfect Elton John song)"

Chris said this and I've got to agree. Except I will say (and he'll probably hate me for this) my all time fave song f. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN MR.ELTON JOHN! is... you've guessed it, DON'T LET THE SU-UN!! GO DOWN ON ME-E!!! That song is my crack, I think it must have been played to me in the womb, I have no music 101 reasons for loving it. I JUST DO.

6. Michael Jackson : Chris mentioned "In the Closet" which I love without reserve, though I think sentimentally speaking my fave is "Man in the Mirror". I dont' know, I was 8 or so when I heard it and it spoke to me. Shut up. Ooh, and that Egyptian one he did where Eddie Murphy was the Pharoah! Ooh, and that song he did with Eddie Murphy! HA! Eddie Murphy!

7. Takout(David Bowie : It's not that I don't know a David Bowie song, it's that I know a lot of songs that I'm pretty sure are him, just not well enough to name any. I did like "Baby's on Fire" by Maxwell Demon in Velvet Goldmine, I know, shut up.)

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Boyz II Men: Jesus Lord, I can't choose! I think I'll have to go with "Please Don't Go" off the CooleyHighHarmony album. Such a great mix of '90s instrumentation, banging harmonies, and cute accessible boys who could sang your panties off. II was probably the greatest followup album ever producing hit after hit after hit. "Water Runs Dry is still my joint though "On Bended Knee" was the anthem for a long time.

8. U2 : There's a mix of "And I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" that has a choir on the chorus and I like that part. With or Without You is nice. And I like that Hello, Hello (Hola!) song. I'm pretty meh on U2. I like all their stuff, but not enough to hold an opinion.

9. Takeout (Frank Sinatra : I don't care enough to answer this, heh.)

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Luther Vandross: Everyone says "Superstar" and rightly so, and even "Hello" which is also lovely, but both are remakes. For original Luther one song I love is "Holds My Heart":

"I'd rather have bad times with you, than good times with someone else.
I'd rather stick with you through the storm, than safe and warm all by myself.
I'd rather have hard times together than to have it easy apart.
I'd rather have the one who holds my heart."

Awww, so pretty and sweet.

10. Diana Ross : Keep Me Hanging On. I've always loved it, like to play with the lyrics "If you don't love me, why don't you babe?" Love it, so lush and simple and airy, but totally tugs on the heart strings.

11. The Rolling Stones : "Paint It Black". Sure, why not?

12. Take Out (ABBA : I'm sorry, I just don't know enough about them to care. I like parts of "Dancing Queen" and "Fernando", but that's about the extent of my knowledge.)

Adding:
The Mamas & The Papas - Monday Monday. Love the multiple parts and fun roundness of the song. Good times.

13. Meat Loaf : A conversation:

Him: But what won't he do? He's all, But I won't do that, but he never says!

Me: It's cheat. He says it right after the chick is all, "Sooner or later, you'll be screwin' around!" and then he says, "but I won't do that." The real question is why he evidently considered cheating being something done for love.

Him: What?

14. Tom Jones : "It's not unusual" Yeah, pretty basic and I don't care.

15. Oasis : "Don't Look Back at the Champagne Supernova on my Wonderwall" Honestly I can rarely tell these songs apart and when I start singing one I somehow transport it to another and I MAKE IT WORK! Love it, and love the crazy insanity that is Oasis.

16. Stevie Wonder : I like this song called "Always", the first time I heard it was on The Best Man soundtrack and I bought it just to hear that song and it wasn't there! I MUST HAVE THIS SONG!

17. The Carpenters : "You're so Vain". Yeah, but I love it, love the drama behind it, love singing it randomly to people, it's just an overall fun song and probably one of two that I know are by the Carpenters.

18. The Bee Gees : "You Should Be Dancin" Sure, why not?

19. Take Out (Bob Dylan: I don't think I actually know a Bob Dylan song. I did like that One Headlight song though...)

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The Monkees: Shut up, I love them. Okay, I really like the style of "Going Down" and "Laugh" albeit predictably, makes me smile. "Words" has great vocals, and let's not forget the great instrumentation of "Listen to the Band" or "Randy Scouse Git", but overall I'd have to say my favorite Monkees song is "Love is Sleeping" with lead vocals by the incomparable Michael Nesmith. Such a lush sentiment put into really sensitive lyrics and music. The emotion just rides through the entire song and it's slightly upbeat, but wholly mesmerizing.

20. Tina Turner : "Nutbush City Limits" Yeah, "Rolling Down the River" is great karaoke fun, and "Mountain High" is fabulous, but "Nutbush..." is pure Tina soul and absolutely fantastic.

21. Prince : Okay, "Diamonds and Pearls" is the official ish, especially when they start spelling in the middle? Pure bliss. Even "Cream" is sexy in the most raunchy and classy way. But nothing will ever compare, Prince will never do better to me than he did with "SEVEN". OH MY LAWD I love that song!

"There will be a new city with the streets of gold-uh, young so educated they'll never grow old-uh. And there will be no death, with every breath, the voice of many colors sings a song that's so o o o ol ol old, sing as we watch them fall."

And the way the lines just kind of meander and collide into one another over Indian infused strumming and Lake Minnetonka beats, it's just.... it's my wonderland. I could listen to that song all day and find something new and wonderful in it each time, it's just that good.

22. Whitney Houston : "Run to You"? I think so. I'm trying to think of a song by Whitney that I just die over, and I can only come up with The Bodyguard album which I still contend is some of her most perfect work. Yeah, let's say "Run to You".

23. Eurythmics : Does Annie Lennox count? Like, could I say "Why?" or "Walking on Broken Glass" and still be good. I guess perhaps I should take time to see exactly who the Eurythmics are... be right back.

Ahh, so yes, it counts. I love "Sweet Dreams" naturally, and "Here Comes the Rain Again" is gorgeous, but... wow, it's a toss up between "Walking on Broken Glass", and "Why?". Or is it "Sweet Dreams"? I can't decide, she's too extravagant to only have one favorite!

24. Take Out (Take That) : Could It Be Magic? (Literally the only Take That song I like, so this one’s easy)
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Beyonce's Child: I really love their cover of "Emotions" and think it's one of the most melodically pleasing selections from their ouvre. It's one of the few songs I can listen to endlessly and not worry about pedantic lyrics or over production. I also like "Yes" from Beyonce's first "solo" album, and of course "Irreplaceable" is still the jam.

25. George Michael: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN MR. ELTON JOHN! Okay, okay, actually I like "Faith" a whole lot, and there's a song he did with Aretha Franklin that was good. I think I like his dance remix of "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" most of all though. And for that I do apologize.

I'm trying out posting via Semagic so I can do multiple posts, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to add additional accounts. Anyone know out there? Anyhoo, expect a crapload of updates about the chaotic hecticness of the last couple of weeks in the next few hours. Enjoy!

EDIT:
This might suck, because I have statcounter code I want to add to each post and there doesn't seem to be an efficient way to do this. sigh.

Well, at least it doesn't suck as much as this:



Yeah, Alanis called, she wants her shtick back. And I like Mandy Moore, I guess near the end it gets better. Kind of.

TODAY IS FULL OF SIGH!!!

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Here's some more of the guy playing and me trying to hit on him.

Update: He's crazy, but that's okay, I'm just here for the LOLZ!

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I'm wholly impressed now and don't think he's crazy as much as proud. The music gets me everytime y'all. Evidently his name is David Jefferson and he's been to conservatory to hone his craft as a gifted pianist. He's on a pretty crappy piano and still managing to play the utter crap out of it. I may try to gank phone post some more, we'll see.

On my iTunes I have a playlist called "New Ish" where I put anything that I need to listen to and form an opinion on. Currently it houses DJ Jazzy Jeff's Return of the Magnificent (which is actually pretty solid and features an interlude where some drive-thru chick asks "Where's Will Smith?"), Joy Denalane (which will graduate soon), and Paris Bennett. I'd only listened to a part of it and wasn't really impressed, but today while working on The Shady Stix Sketch Show (like what I did there?) I actually listed to the entirety of the Paris/Kevin Covais rap.

And it's totally cute! Kevin has a little flow in him, but most of all this reminds us that Kevin? Can sing! I'd forgotten. It was really his personality that got on my nerves and not his voice that much. I think there were several that were better, and he actually won me over after that little dance, but I was surprised by this small little interlude on the album.

Enjoy!

Now I'm in love with Clay Aiken.




But would I hit that? Hmm...

Harvey Sid Fisher: Good for the Soul

I'm finding that the way Ace of Base made me feel inadvertantly and in retrospect is the way Mika is making me feel incredibly and currently.

And I like it.

It's good to catch up.

That's all... I'll actually update about my weekend soon.

So my guy friend -who is really grand- he says to me he says:

"I mean I like you and [all] Sticks, but if you start sending me imaginary conversations where we talk about love I'm changing the locks."

And like, totally. So why when I knew something like that was completely insane, did I do it to the one person who had the uncanny ability to make me that way? Then I realized therein lied my answer.

I make up conversations of what I know he'd say because he won't talk to me about those things as they relate to me. I told him in so many words that I fell in love with him before we were friends,

"We'll always be friends." He says, but he doesn't understand that my friendship is a two way street and we were traveling using different maps. Afraid to ask for directions. Well directly at least, and I need some direction, lest I start running the wrong way.

So I told him directly what I thought he thought about love and he taught me (for he's a teacher, albeit reluctantly at times) indirectly what he thought I thought about love and how idiotic it was and I wonder wonder wonder wondered why but knew the answer was the same as it always was.

(Because)This(he)is(said)why(so).

If only it were just that. The frustrations of my life piled onto my chest like an avalanche of revealed agenda and regret. I spoke to my mother of things I never wanted to, we reminisced about those who were no longer there. I remembered one of their middle names, when I'd forgotten the week earlier. As I broke down crying in the bathroom at the Village Inn, Phil Collins came over the intercom to tell me I was taking it all too hard. Good man.



Maybe so.



Oh Jesus God I'm being so ridiculous! Ahh well...

For this is when I allow myself to cry.

Sometimes I wake up and just wish this were all some terrible dream. Why can't I be more patient? It was something we definitely needed to talk about, but why couldn't I have waited until he was ready?

Because he would have never been ready.

"This isn't all your fault", my head tells my heart, but my heart doesn't listen. So it beats into my chest, harder than normal to keep up the semblance of energy, wholeness, and progression. Yet when my heart does this my stomach doesn't know what to think, so it lies empty, waiting for substance, while my mind runs out of ideas, and my eyes run out of tears.

You know there are issues when High School Musical makes you cry. Seriously.



Don't worry, it will get better. The situation, and the posts.

me:11:44 AM I don't know if you checked the blog, but I am currently obsessed with this song called Fantasy by Timbaland.11:49 AM Yeah that works

Me: "Shock Value" is the 2nd best Timbaland Album I've ever head.

Them: Really? The 2nd?

Me: Yeah

Them: What was the first?

Me: Future/Sex Love/Sounds

Where "Promise" failed, "Fantasy" succeeded. As is the norm.

I had a fabulous night, then I watched Shortbus, which was supposed to be self indulgent and irreverent. Then it made me think, and then I put on this song.


I can't get no satisfaction
through this lack of productive action
Masturbation would be defeatist, but only externally.

Bo-oy


More soon.

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Upon reflection: I find that though I don't drink there are several ways to appear drunken. This post is the effect of one of those ways. I'll let you guess which way.