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May 25, 2006
"The Generic Gospel Choir"
Tonight's rousing(?) finale of American Idol featured my NUMBER ONE, ALL-TIME MUSICAL PET PEEVE: The generic gospel choir.
Rising to prominence in the video for Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is," the generic gospel choir is an often-used tool that adds an annoyingly schmaltzy, fakey, non-offending bit of "soul" or "spirituality" to an otherwise godawful ballad or upbeat, soulfilled gospel-esque number. Often slowly appearing behind the performer during a key or tempo change, the generic gospel choir adds just the right amount of cheese to an already cheesy performance. The generic gospel choir that slunk out behind Taylor Hicks tonight was Grade A, primo cheese.
...and as far as Taylor winning goes, was ANYBODY surprised?
One thing that I might be the only one in the country to have noticed about Taylor thusfar: He sounds an awful lot like Lowell George and should be doing Little Feat songs. He might also want to look into a substance abuse problem. He's getting dangerously close to cruise ship level with all that quirky cuteness.
The baby is getting closer and closer to being with us. Last Saturday, we went to a baby fair at Erlanger's Women's East. Today, we received our packet for our free birthing classes. They start at Erlanger in September, and if we attend all six, we get a free car seat.
In related news: I love my wife more and more each day.
And so is the DVD... This week's AHOOTOH editing session at the Lazy Bear bunker was brief, but fun. I'm really getting excited about finishing this thing. (Current estimate: Late June.) Most bits don't need much tweaking, but I am working at home on a couple of key bits this week: the "Protesting" commercial and the "East Ridge Song" music video. I am shortening the commercial and re-recording the voiceover for it. I am also adding new music to it. As far as "East Ridge" goes, graphic embellishment and audio remixing is underway.
Writing. Much to do at work this week as I put the finishing touches on an essay about citizen journalism for next week's issue. It should elicit indifference, curiosity, mockery and anger, depending on the reader.
Tonight, while at a going away party for one of my wife's co-workers, I came up with a decent idea for a documentary film. It would be feature length, and devoted to a topic that I've been quite interested in for quite some time. (I'll not disclose the idea now, though. Maybe later...) In fact, I am SO interested in the pursuing this project, that I am about to E-mail Jeffrey Blitz (Spellbound) to ask him some technical questions. My idea has nothing to do at all with Jeff's film, except for the style of it.
The vacation is booked. Our last by-ourselves-before-we-have-kids vacation will be spent in August at the Helmsley Sandcastle in Lido Key, Florida. The hotel is on the beach, and we will do some serious chillin'.
BILLets | By colrus | 01:22 AM
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