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lydjocelyn Sorry it won't work out this time...but maybe we can hook up when I'm back in Chicago for our big (2,000 attendees) conference the first week of November...I'll be here a whole week then. bottlecap Where in the East are you? I'm actually from North Carolina and grew up in a small town there about 20 miles from Charlotte, and in Virginia. I have some good Clayfriends in NC, VA and PA...and my inlaws are in Delaware (where my hubby's from)...

I'm going to risk being a post ho and go ahead with my scintillating analysis of the Diane Warren Results Show, too! Again, Clay seemed so subdued, so solemn throughout...Although I MUST say he was especially beautiful...whoa...the looks in the camera, into the audience...those EYES...holy crap...he was incrediblly gorgeous that night... ahem...where was I? Although I thought Trenyce sounded better than the judges did, since three had to be in the bottom group, America got it right. For me, it was a toss up between Josh and Carmen, although I admit I was happier not to have to hear Carmen anymore than Josh. I noticed little things like... Clay putting his hand on Ruben's shoulder while waiting to hear Ruben's 'fate' Clay doing the 'in the hood' handshake with Ruben after hearing Ruben was safe Clay doing that "Thank you VERY much" silent mouthing into the camera that always made me feel embarrassed for him. Especially after reading later how the judges made fun of him doing this all the time. Clay reaching back trying to touch Kim while Ryan read about her performance the night before. Clay's look when the camera caught him after Carmen was sent home. Clay's look as Carmen was singing her swan song---pride and affection.....sigh. I also noticed Clay a little bit.

Shall I assume that since no one responded to my all call for Chicago-based women for a little tete a tete while I'm in Chicago on business...that: 1. There ARE no Chicago based women reading and posting on this board or 2. There ARE, but none that want to meet up with me or 3. There might be but none that think they have the time or logistical ability to help make it happen.. Or 4. There are no women reading and posting on this board that read MY posts? Anyway...I leave for Chicago tomorrow morning and will be there until Wed. evening. I'll have internet access so that's no excuse!

Well, all righty then.... Kim---GREAT! I've always liked the tone of Kimberley Locke's voice and I agreed with the judges that she begins to be a threat to Clay and Ruben here (for the casual fan, of course...for moi? No contest...but I DO see the improvement in Kim.) Clay---sigh...This was one of my very favorite outfits he wore...and...I loved hearing the first words out of his mouth in that leather jacket--"Lying here with you...listenin' to the rain...smiling just to see the smile upon your face..." Gah! and triple gah! (insert thud emoticon here) I think he sounds great on this song...Always loved the richness and deep, full quality in the word 'life' (I remember all my life....)...and I also remember thinking how he seemed to be holding back those 'facial expressions' that Simon had commented on from Tell Her About It....I also remember feeling so, so, so crestfallen (as did Clay, IMO) at Simon's harsh words that he wasn't what they were looking for. Of course....that was then...we know now that those words were actually just one of the helpings of CROW that Mr. Slimon has eaten since those days three years ago.... Clay's face when Simon was 'not being rude' and 'being honest', etc....the eyes. Now that we "know" Clay the way we do, I can only imagine how he was feeling then and all the things he really wanted to say to that English asshole. (PS...Just in case you haven't figured it out yet, I liked this song. And how Clay sang it. And how he looked while he sang it. ) Trenyce---I thought she sounded very good. Tonight while listening and watching, I kept thinking how lame the show's contestants (overall) have been since Season 2...All three of these first three performances on this Diane Warren show make dog food out of any of the performances so far this year. (IMO) Josh---I was never a big fan of Josh's voice. Since the show, though, I've heard him and he sounds just fine---as a country singer. He didn't do it on this song, though. I agreed with Randy---he sounded 'pitchy' through most of the performance. Simon's comment about his hair was, as usual, ridiculous. Carmen---To me, this was one of the songs that REALLY showcased the 'goat' part of her nickname...especially the last note that she held. Lord! That was embarrassing. I remember thinking after this night that both she and Josh should get a bus ticket home. Ruben---I can appreciate what they (and he) were saying about this song being a change for him. He did 'a-ight' on it, but it didn't blow me away. I could hear some notes that revealed the strain on his voice---what I feel is the weakness of his voice. I like the quality of Ruben's voice; he just never seemed a STRONG vocalist to me...I didn't trust that he would nail the challenging notes. And I remembered that that night I agreed with Simon when he said Ruben and Clay needed to watch out for Kim! Clay seemed quite...serious in the red room at the end of the show, didn't he? No smiles...Still pissed at Simon, probably. I love him.

Hey! I'm in Minneapolis til Monday on business and after a hellacious first day, the rest of this meeting will be a piece of cake. If anyone is in the area and would like to meet for a drink and maybe some CLACK sharing...PM me and we'll try to make it happen. Same for Chicago--I'll be there from Monday the third through Wednesday the fifth...if you're near there, I'm up for an informal get together...I'd love to meet any of you if we could get our schedules to fit! :trink3: :704: :bier: :nana:

May I say that after a very, very, VERY exhausting day I was giggling like a schoolgirl reading the comments in this thread after the last AI! I didn't get to see either the songs or the results shows...so it's interesting to read without a personal bias... I listen to my AI Clay performances in the car a lot and I'm constantly blown away by the consistent excellence of his voice. Even on the songs I didn't care for (Someone Else's Star, Tell Her About It)..he's just right on pitch and you can hear the feeling in his voice and he's just great. All the time. Every freaking week he was great. I have YET to hear anyone else on the AI shows about whom I can say that enthusiastically. And he's hot, too.

I'm so out of it.(shutup) In a hotel room in Minneapolis on the eve of a big meeting that I'm in charge of...and it's an important one in terms of how I will be 'assessed' by my peers and employer... And I just want to come here and on EAYOR and CV and just read and write about Clay Aiken. It's a sickness. Truly. I missed the whole AI thing last night---working late. But I saw the download of the Clay comments. Uh....huh? I THINK I understood what Simon was talking about, but after that...I was lost. WTF was Paula trying to communicate? and WTF did Ryan's comment mean? I honestly don't have a clue....oy. Ok...send positive thoughts my way, folks...Let's hope everything runs smoothly tomorrow (That's the really complicated day logistically. If that goes well, the other four days are a piece of cake.)

couchie I just HAVE to believe you fed that line for the sole purpose of drawing me out of my overworked-induced stupor to smut on it. Then again... That one's just too danged easy, ain't it?

I honestly canNOT read any more about some lucky bitches being able to watch Clay change his danged clothes...and I mean it. It gets me too.... :27: {whimper} So...how 'bout them Mets, huh?

Whew! bottlecap, I was beginning to think all was lost as I read your post...until I got to this... I feel better, now.

Well, HELL, women! We'll just have to have a gang birthday bash! My birthday is July 4! Hey, couchie! CD release party? Where? When? :04: :09:

Well, the little shit blogged...and then edited the blog to tell us more things he doesn't know. And then he purposely talked about stylists pulling and pinching clothes on him and dressing him for 10 hours... And then he teased us with pics that haven't been posted yet. And then he snarked about us speculating about what he might wear... And then I had to take a moment (tm Jemock) imagining what that little shit is probably like as a lover....all the teasing and the 'dangling carrot' (so to speak) and the s-l-o-w release (gah) of information....taunting us all the way... god.

I bet Simon was biting his tongue with commentary on Barry's painful performance....I've always thought Barry should just stick to the songwriting and pianoplaying and leave the vocals to others....(like Clay) I miss Clay so bad, so bad, so bad. Work is really, really busy and I hardly have time to write my story! This morning I listened to Clay's AI performances in the car and replayed "At This Moment' umpteen times....I LOVE that performance! The nuances in his voice, his delivery, his interpretation... gah sigh Hmmm....sounding a bit fangirly this morning, ain't I? EDITED: OMG! Ansamcw! We must have been writing the same things at the same time! EDITED AGAIN because I just noticed your post was written a couple of hours ago? So how did I miss it? I swear I didn't read it before I posted mine. Whatever... Obviously, we both have exquisite taste.

Once again I tiptoed in to find out before I actually watch just who got the axe....and may I say how very, very happy I am to read the news? I just couldn't imagine Kevin as part of a tour... gawd. Now...let's just enjoy watching Bucky, Ace, and Kellie go...(Kellie first, please.)

Didn't hear Mandisa..usually miss the first one just getting home... Bucky---sorry...didn't do it tonight for me. He seems like a nice guy, but...I can't imagine he'd 'make it' in the business... Paris---I actually thought she did a good job--vocally very strong. (I love this song. Used to be one of my numbers when I did my professional singing stint during my 20's. ) Got to say that I don't find her personality appealing, though. Chris---I like Chris, but the song tonight was a big 'meh' for me. I think he COULD make it in the music world. I don't know how versatile he is, though. And as for Simon's comment? Oh, yeah. Clay compromised every week, didn't he? :glare: Kathryn She got all the male votes tonight, didn't she? Bet they all were hoping the adhesive in her tape failed, too, don't you? She's freakin' gorgeous. :pissedoff And she can sing, too. I think I hate her. Her saving grace was that she wore hair extensions---to hide her nips, no doubt? :laugh: Taylor Danged entertaining! Not the best vocally, IMO, but the guy's a natural performer. He'll hang in there for a long time, I think. Kevin Oy. I have a horrible feeling that we're in for more weeks of Kevin, even though he was all over the place pitch-wise, IMO. His hair looked better, so that's one good thing. The hand in the pocket was a nice touch...but OH. I wish he'd go home. Lisa I'm feeling bad for Lisa these days. She was a fave of mine in the beginning but it almost seems as if she's geting weaker, instead of stronger. Tonight, not strong vocally---no intensity or breath control (You know, Clay has AMAZING breath control and when I compare other singers to him in that regard....the others' inferiority is glaring to me.)... Elliot Love the song itself (Kept wishing I could hear Clay sing this one. 'Teach Me Tonight' :drool3: ) I like him, but he doesn't move me, regardless what Paula said, and I dislike his kind of manic vibrato... Kellie Simon wants to bed this girl, which is all kinds of ewwwwwwww. :barf: Sorry, if I hear her say one more word about her ^&$%#(** eyelashes, I'm going to scream. I kept waiting for her voice to break when she was trying to hold a note...it doesn't inspire confidence. Ace Ace must have run out of shampoo. :glare: The falsetto note was the best one in the song. So that says a lot right there. I don't know what the judges heard; from their complimentary comments, it must have been a completely different song from what I suffered through. :dontknow: I'm underwhelmed. And although I think Ace sucked donkey balls tonight, I want Kevin to go home...because if he doesn't, that means that he'll be part of the AI tour! Not that I'll be going to see it anyway, but still! The idea of KEVIN on TOUR makes me want to HURL donkey balls! :o

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Oh, Lordy...I didn't mean it that way.... :o I have absolutely NO concerns about Clay having a long career. The man's voice can't be ignored. Even if he didn't have US, his voice would insist on being heard and loved. He has no choice. Might take longer for word to spread without us, but I've never thought he wouldn't be successful without us.. Even people I know who say they don't particularly like 'his kind' of music still say what a good voice he has... No, I only meant how cool it would be for someone who loves CLay...maybe someone who was here from the beginning...to stumble across a copy of MOAM, his first CD, some day in the far future---long after many other CDs had come and gone...maybe she'd react the way you did when you saw that CD from Chad....

playbiller I don't know you and I've never heard of this Chad guy, but for some reason I got a little teary eyed reading your post..... What a great find for you! So...forty years from now (not that I'll be around to check it out... )...maybe somebody will find a copy of MOAM and gush like this, all happy cuz her copy wore out long before and it had been out of production for ages?? I love Tuesday nights! I'm sitting at my fave coffee shop with my laptop and latte and FREE INTERNET ACCESS...just cruising the boards and writing my story....while my daughter is in her gymnastics class. This is MY time.... just me...ME! Did I say that I love Tuesdays?

Oh, yes. Gary Dourdan from CSI has always made my blood pump. As has Johnny Depp and George Clooney. I have a love/hate relationship with Denzel... Nobody does to me what that skinny red head does, though. Nobody.

I'll always regret being slow to the gate for the AI2 concert. By the time I checked for tickets to the San Jose show, they were sold out...of course, I was such a concert virgin at the time that I took that as their 'final answer'...I know better now. But I do remember that, although I loved Clay by then and had definitely been twitterpated by him by then, I wasn't particularly"OUTTHERE" with my love and obse....hobby. I wish I had been able to be there for that first wash of feeling that is "Clay love" Now it's a basic food group.

No doubt a pesky detail that Clay's woman must have to deal with....

Ah....the smut writes itself whenever Clay's parts are involved.

Oh, Lord...that last pic was my avatar at EAYOR for a long time when I first went there. I can just sit and stare at it...and...get all... I want to lean close and gently blow that shirt away so that I can slip my tongue.... Whoops! I'm gettin' my boards mixed up... sorry....

Okay....I'm definitely OUTTAHERE! I was looking over this thread here at work, constantly worried that someone would see over my shoulder....then I went to erase the history but pushed the print icon instead! :o Holy shit! So I had to run to the printer (which is at the other end of hte office) and stand there to capture the printed pics of all these hotties before someone else came to collect whatever print job THEY had sent... And the danged thing kept printing and printing the pictures... I'm signing out....I LIKE my job! I wanna KEEP my job!

GOTSTA tell you all about my dream! CMSU! I was looking at the Sunday paper and in the "Pink Section", where all the entertainment news is. I opened the center page and there on two pages were all the new CD releases coming out the following Tuesday...and in the middle was... Clay's! The cover was a flame-colored, reddish/orangeish/goldish thing...and it had the appearance that our banners at RHT often do---a treatment of some sort that made it look as though the colors were in motion. Clay's profile, from about his waist up was there amid the colors and he had his mouth open in a sorta angsty expression, not quite a full glory note, but full of passion... And the title of the CD was..... ANIMAL!!!!!!!! In my dream I hurried to call a friend to tell her but she'd already left me a message on my cell phone and in the message was a single from the CD! I couldn't believe it! I was thinking, "How the HELL does she already have the CD? It doesn't drop til Tuesday!" The song was.....really a ROCK song---I couldn't tell you now if you tortured me exactly what it sounded like; I just remember I was blown away by the hard driving sound of it and I immediately imagined what he'd look like on stage performing it. THEN I thought how everybody was going to be totally :o and and (Slurp emoticon here) and (multiple thud emoticon here) when this "NEW" Clay Aiken was unleashed on the world!