muskifest

So bottlecap I'm with you on the pictures...you're probably right...he's marching to the beat of his own drummer with those size 13 puppies...fo sho'!

And when I saw that emoticon, I thought the guy was juggling...?????

I already miss the travelin' journal of the Clay man....think we could persuade him to write a daily journal of his CD recording process?

Ok...this is just funny. I noticed that for my profile info that appears on the side here, I'd mistyped my name...I'd put 'muskifIest'...(ironic, huh, since I gave two of you such a hard time for misspelling it...heh) ANyway, while on the profile update page I decided to put my location in and my birthday...

But you guys are slick.

I got an error page...Why?

Because I'd only put the month and day in....no year....

and evidently I can't do that....Well alrighty, then. You can just try to GUESS when my birthday is---never MIND the year....

The DAY, however...now that's a celebration day, to be sure! My momma called me her firecracker baby and many people who know me seem to agree with her... :25:

Well, I fell a trifle bit bad about mentally smutting the "all day in bed" and "sore the next day" sections

Oh, no...don't feel bad, bottlecap...I'm soooooo sure Clay wanted us to smut over these obvious smuts from him....

It's his brain that is the sexiest thing about him to me... (what?)...When I read these little ditties he inserted (ahem)....I had to go back and reread. He must have been cracking himself up while he typed that....

DAYUM, I love that man.

And FearofH2O, no you're not the only one: I just commented on EAYOR that even though I know there's a 99%chance that he never sees my posts on his blog, I just HAVE to say something...I so want to sit down with that little sh*t and exchange snarks and laugh and...

stuff.

I'll be danged! You're right...it's lydjocelyn not idyjocelyn...got it..

I post my stories on EAYOR and Claversity...If you read on CV, you could say hi! and whatnot. :00000442:

Thanks for the welcome, Ansamcw and idyjocelyn You guys spelled my board name wrong, which should give you an idea why it's my board name!

it's muskisfest (like 'musk' i fest), not musikfest---like the name of the concert.

See, that first concert there, for some reason, everytime I tried to pronounce the name or even when I heard the sound in my head when I read the word "Musikfest", I always said MUSKIFEST...have no idea why.

But it got to be a joke among all my friends...they loved making fun of my slips...

So when I joined EAYOR, and sorta changed home boards, I wanted a new name (I had been 'outthere' at the previous board)...and that quote of Clay's during an interview ("It must be my musk..."), along with the whole mispronunciation thing...

and there ya go...

Fascinating, huh?

Oh, and idyjocelyn If you're reading my stories on another board, thank you! And...why don't you say 'hi' sometimes on the story thread?

Crap! Was I supposed to 'catch up' before commenting on this episode? Heck, I'd never make it! Or if I did, I'd have to put my story writing on hold...and other little details, like my family.

Not that I don't WANT to, you understand...

Or that I won't...

because prolly I will...

cause doing that sounds like more fun than a lot of the things I really SHOULD do...

heh.

Ok..just watched the episode. I'll need to go backwards when I can to catch up...it's interesting to see and hear the JUDGES' comments. They were much more...CANDID, it seems. This season, especially, they seem washed out---they're never exactly MEAN and in some surprising cases, Simon is downright gentle!

But not in this episode of Season 2, however. Lord.

CLAY: I know a lot of people don't like this performance of his; I always have. When Pauler sid he didn't sing it with enough heartbreak, I thought I would scream. He tugged at me with his voice in this song. The catches in his throat at the ends of notes (gah), the dynamics of power and then head voice and then sliding so effortlessly between...of course, the eyelashes and eyes (gah again)..When I listen to this on my AI CD in the car, I always repeat it because the vocals are incredible...Can you tell I liked this one?

Criticism? Uh...Clay, just tell Mezghan to lay off the lip gloss. If you need those puppies moistened, call me.

Kim Locke My daughter was watching this with me and when it was over, she made a snoring sound like she was bored. (She did the same after Clay's song too, but that's neither here nor there.)..Seemed like the judges liked it; I like her voice most of the time...and the thing I agreed with the judges on here was her decision NOT to belt it the whole way. Definitely enough to keep her out of trouble this week.

Ricky I could never stand listening to Ricky for a whole song. To me, his type of voice is best suited as a harmony voice or a backup vocalist. There were parts of this song that I enjoyed, but for the most part...not so good. However, I wouldn't vote him off this week.

Kimberly Caldwell Well, the judges might not have liked this, but I did. I liked that she gave a different, softer song a go...and her vibrato didn't bug me like it often does on other songs. She looked great---only about 10 pounds of eyemakeup on instead of 20.

Josh The beginning and ending of this song was strong for him. In the beginning he had just the right country 'twang' and in the end he was on pitch and sounded confident. Like Randy said, he definitely had pitch problems in the middle, though. This was after the "Celebration" debacle, right? Good save, Josh.

Carmen Oh dear God. I always gritted my teeth whenever she got on stage. And I thought it was a cruel joke that Simon selected her for his wild card. The girl THEN at least could NOT sing; I actually thought she handled all the comments (that were NOT gently given) incredibly well for such a young one. But...please...just make it stop.

Trenyce This woman is a real odd duck IMO. She definitely can sing. She delivers most of the time. I never LIKED her, though, and this was before there were any rumors that she was difficult or a diva or beyotch or whatever. And that impression of her interferes with my...acceptance...of her talent. Unfair or not, there it is.

Ruben Well. The judges' noses were bleeding brown after the big man sang tonight, huh? They'd have to brush and floss quite well to lose all signs of kissing his butt so much with their 'criticism'. Sorry, I heard lack of breath support and scratchiness in tone here and there (which I usually did with Ruben). I actually like the kind of voice he has AND he's a good guy, I think. I just never got all worshipful over his voice OR his performances like the judges did. He sounded good, though.

Haven't watched the results part of the show yet. Of course, we know who went. But If I didn't know...just from this series of performances, I'd boot off Carmen and Ricky.

ETA: Just watched the results show. I'd forgotten that only one went home! The wrong one, of course---Carmen. But RIcky went...and it seemed that many of the others hated that. Clay put his face in his hands when it was announced. I wonder if he thought it would be Carmen, too.

And it's true...there wasn't a clip of Clay's song at the beginning of the results show---just not there. AND it was fun watching "All Night Long" and Clay and Carmen's little pretend flirting and kissy kissy at the end! Ha! AND...gee...eight people still on the show, but Ruben and a chick got a Ford commercial JUST FOR HIM?!?!?!

And oh, Lord, again! I'd also forgotten how lip glossy and 'sweet little looks' and 'thank you-y' he was at the camera as he sat there on the steps. This would be one of those times that supposedly the judges were making fun of his mannerisms, wouldn't it?

Oh, yeay! Ok...gonna go watch my season 2 Billboard Night show...then will be back to contribute my sterling commentary, which will make you all wonder, of course, how you guys ever got along without it before now....

And what's this about emoticons? You mean couchie isn't fond of emoticons? You mean emoticons like these?

:00000430: :04: :21: :all_coholic: (This last little guy looking suspiciously like couchie herslef last night...) Wow...there sure are a lot of drinking emoticons on this board... :00000462:

So may I play, too? I wanna play! :00000441:

Tip toes in and gives everybody at FCA a big kiss!

Sounds like the block party around Clay Nation was a success! Guess I'll spend all day tomorrow checking it out.

Sweet Dreams!

Hi, Couchie ! I'm stalking you. :00000442:

Hello, all! I'm muskifest and post most on EAYOR of RHT (Just a note to say I only post on EAYOR, not on RHT main! I know some of you from EAYOR or CV Reading Room or other boards, having met at concerts, etc. (or through PMs re: my...er...creative expressions in fiction..

I am in love with Couch Tomato so I thought I'd hang out where she does

Also, I'd love to hop in on this AI2 Season retrospective...is that possible? I'm itchin' to watch it all again and comment like you guys are doing....do you have to be a mod or administrator or something to do that?

Anyway...Clay Aiken and the network of friends and fun and newfound faith in good things in this world that he's brought to my life has made this ole' gal raring to tackle just about everything again...

So glad to be on this earth with the man.