http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/11/cowell.leaving.idol/index.html
Our tour guides at the BBC had 100 times more enthusiasm . . . and you know they've carted tourists around the Beeb thousands of times before. And for a fuckton less than Simon makes. (As a side note, if you visit the CNN link, I must ask: does every American media outlet look for the worst photo of Piers they can find? He looks great in real life, I swear.) The contestants this time around seem pretty shitty, IF I'M BEING HONEST. I DON'T MEAN TO BE RUDE BUT are these people the best they could find? That one chick who butchered "Landslide" this week looked like she spent more time going to the optometrist's office to get a pair of Angelique Bouchard contact lenses than rehearsing the song. Fuck me, her performance was bad. The dude who said he didn't want to be a diva and throw the band under the bus totally came off as a diva. I feel like AI jumped the shark when Paula could no longer string together coherent sentences. That was the downhill slide to oblivion. Then the addition of a needless fourth judge. Now we have only 2 remaining from the original configuration and all the magic is gone. Simon's phoning it in. He could just Skype himself in from his Beverly Hills mansion and probably do a better job. When we were in London and it was rainy and awful there was a clip of Simon on British X Factor at his BH mansion and the sun was shining and it was gorgeous outside. And I was like, "See-- that is why we like to vacation in LA and that is why Simon would rather be there than here." But I digress.
On an unrelated note, a couple of diet/fitness related quotations to motivate and inspire you:
"I am simple. When I like somethin', I want a bunch of it. Period."
(my friend on why he has struggled with binge eating-- I laughed riotously)
"If having a dirty mind burned extra calories, I'd be an Olympic athlete."
Giggity.
