There's a place in the south of Sweden where it rains horizontally. Not at an angle - horizontally. People who are sent to the area often have to leave. They can't stand it. Rain comes right at you. Right in your face. You probably get paranoid. Why is this rain coming straight at me?
Where we are in our current 'paradise' it's been raining nonstop for ten days. Unbelievable. The combined weather forecasts give us a chance of partly sunny one day in the coming week.
It's time to ask for a refund and get out. This is bloody ridiculous.
2009-01-24
2008-12-08
Eulogy
So she didn't make it. It was probably inevitable. She had a bit of a comeback but the sickness and above all the mad insanity and vitriol of the tweenies rooting for other acts seem to have taken the geist out of her. And wee Eoghan was playing game after game with her, crumbling her down. Now he's after Alex of course.
Enough of these dumb talent shows. Nobody really cares anyway. Simon said it all two years ago: Leona Lewis was the only person up to then who'd had any real talent anyway. And since then it's been your typical washout. Until this year.
Diana is not a technical singer like Leona. She does a lot of fancy stuff with her voice but she doesn't have a 'big' voice and she knows it.
But she's also the most original artist ever seen on any of these shows - including Leona. Brutalising this girl as people have done is unconscionable.
Gary Barlow wants to sign her. OK Gary. Do it. Simon says 'no thank you I can sign her' to Gary. So OK Simon. They you sign her. But one of you sign her. Now. And do the smart thing whoever wins her: hire on Cheryl Cole as her manager and mentor.
Cheryl Cole's got the X Factor.
Enough of these dumb talent shows. Nobody really cares anyway. Simon said it all two years ago: Leona Lewis was the only person up to then who'd had any real talent anyway. And since then it's been your typical washout. Until this year.
Diana is not a technical singer like Leona. She does a lot of fancy stuff with her voice but she doesn't have a 'big' voice and she knows it.
But she's also the most original artist ever seen on any of these shows - including Leona. Brutalising this girl as people have done is unconscionable.
Gary Barlow wants to sign her. OK Gary. Do it. Simon says 'no thank you I can sign her' to Gary. So OK Simon. They you sign her. But one of you sign her. Now. And do the smart thing whoever wins her: hire on Cheryl Cole as her manager and mentor.
Cheryl Cole's got the X Factor.
2008-11-19
2008-11-15
X Factor: The Old Queens and the New Queens
If the X Factor is to survive another season Louis Walsh will have to go. He's already been kicked off once; Simon Cowell promised he would never be back; Sharon Osbourne tossed water on him on live television; he's a grumpy old man - a grumpy old gay man. He sits there in his own wee world, he knows he's under siege by everyone, he takes notes. Takes notes? Notes for what? You're supposed to listen to the music, not write your memoirs! But Louis does this as his 'tell' - he's trying to run from his embarrassment.
And he's so spiteful. And so mean. Almost everyone he's ever worked with hates him. And he has to continually wag his tongue at the other judges and remind them of how many hits his (former) 'groups' have had. He's not wanted anymore.
Sorry, Louis. Bye, Louis. Won't miss you, Louis.
Simon's over the hill too. More and more his repugnant arrogance is becoming yesterday's worst news. His excruciating caution in meting out compliments together with his unabashed delight in insulting people doesn't work anymore. And his taste in music is atrocious. He's the one had Robson Green record a horrifying cover of Unchained Melody; he's the one who chose Leon Jackson's painful holiday single last year. Simon Cowell doesn't have it.
Unfortunately the X Factor is his show so if he's not smart (and he's not) he won't be turning over his chair to anyone else.
Then we have Dannii Minogue and above all Cheryl Cole. The new queens of the X Factor. (Simon and Louis are the old queens.). Watch Dannii and Cheryl talk to the artists. Their eyes don't waver all over the place furtively as especially Simon has to do. They look them straight in the eyes, often with a big beaming smile. They encourage the artists. They don't revel in putting them down. They nurture talent. And particularly in the case of Cheryl Cole they know what people want and how to get their artists to produce it.
Watch the 'Man in the Mirror' clip below. But don't watch the singer Diana Vickers - watch Cheryl Cole. She's literally beaming at Diana and sending messages across all the time. Watch how Diana answers her.
Watch the 'Call Me' clip immediately below and see the close contact Cheryl has with Diana.
Watch the 'Man in the Mirror' clip again, particularly the introduction, and watch how Cheryl wraps her arms around Diana so protectively. Cheryl's found an even higher calling.
And he's so spiteful. And so mean. Almost everyone he's ever worked with hates him. And he has to continually wag his tongue at the other judges and remind them of how many hits his (former) 'groups' have had. He's not wanted anymore.
Sorry, Louis. Bye, Louis. Won't miss you, Louis.
Simon's over the hill too. More and more his repugnant arrogance is becoming yesterday's worst news. His excruciating caution in meting out compliments together with his unabashed delight in insulting people doesn't work anymore. And his taste in music is atrocious. He's the one had Robson Green record a horrifying cover of Unchained Melody; he's the one who chose Leon Jackson's painful holiday single last year. Simon Cowell doesn't have it.
Unfortunately the X Factor is his show so if he's not smart (and he's not) he won't be turning over his chair to anyone else.
Then we have Dannii Minogue and above all Cheryl Cole. The new queens of the X Factor. (Simon and Louis are the old queens.). Watch Dannii and Cheryl talk to the artists. Their eyes don't waver all over the place furtively as especially Simon has to do. They look them straight in the eyes, often with a big beaming smile. They encourage the artists. They don't revel in putting them down. They nurture talent. And particularly in the case of Cheryl Cole they know what people want and how to get their artists to produce it.
Watch the 'Man in the Mirror' clip below. But don't watch the singer Diana Vickers - watch Cheryl Cole. She's literally beaming at Diana and sending messages across all the time. Watch how Diana answers her.
Watch the 'Call Me' clip immediately below and see the close contact Cheryl has with Diana.
Watch the 'Man in the Mirror' clip again, particularly the introduction, and watch how Cheryl wraps her arms around Diana so protectively. Cheryl's found an even higher calling.
2008-11-14
2008-10-26
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