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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 11:29 am
Bonzacat, are you sure they're replaying last night's performances? The Fox statement says it will be a live show, 'encore' may just mean the contestants sing the same songs again (rather than being able to choose another). I think it would be interesting if they did replay last night's songs, but had the contestants comment on their own performances.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 11:30 am
OK I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR A PARTRIDGE FAMILY SONG AGAIN
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 11:31 am
quote:Those dreadlocks are always a turn-off - I just always think of how dirty they must be since you can't wash them....eewwww!
Excuse me, but who told you that you don't wash dreds? Everyone I know that has them has very clean hair. sheesh
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Rabbit
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 11:43 am
Rabbits spring training report on his draft picks: Bo - good hitter, hits for high average but is always a long ball threat. Last night showed his versatility as a hitter by taking an outside pitch and hitting an opposite field double. Can't miss prospect to make it to the bigs. Nadia - Not a homerun hitter but a bold playmaker, takes risks but last night got thrown out at second trying to stretch an opposite field single into a double. Ran past base coaches stop sign. A big league prospect when she learns to harness her arsenal of talents. Carrie - Swings for the fences on every pitch. Can't field, is batting 1 for 5 with her homerun last night. But 45 homeruns a year even with a dismal 200 batting average puts you in the big leagues ala Dave Kingman. Anwar - scouts nightmare. Crowds gather to watch him hit upper deck blasts off the 60 year old pitching coach during batting practice. Against real pitching he can't get the ball in play, pulls slow curves wildly foul and last night he couldn't get around on a fast ball. Has skills, but may lack the mental toughness to make the big show. As we have spent a high draft pick on him I suggest we bring in a special coach and maybe some performance juice. Kick myself over passing on Scott, he looks as much like an Idol as Kirby Puckett looked like a centerfielder, but we know how that one turned out.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 11:46 am
The Kirby Puckett analogy is absolutely perfect in every way.
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Auntiemike
Member
09-17-2001
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 11:50 am
Back to the dread locks for a minute. I would not describe Anwar's hair as dreadlocks so much as I would consider it braided. It looks like extensions may have been braided into his hair. The hair moves too freely and loosely to be dreadlocks in my opinion. And, yes, you can wash braids and dreadlocks. He always appears clean and dresses nicely. If anyone looks grungy I would say it is Constatine. He never looks totally groomed to me.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 11:58 am
Kitt - This morning on Fox's L.A. station, during Good Day L.A., their reports discussed the replay of last night's performances combined with "cut-aways" and "intros" by Ryan. The best quote I can find from an article states, "...This new show will combine new live elements with encores of Tuesday’s performances from the remaining 11 contestants." Sooooo - I think it's a combo of new, live - mixed with last night's performances.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 12:47 pm
I'm no expert but they sure look like dreadlocks to me, and glad to have backup on my statement that of course people do wash them.. and Anwar looks very clean and put together in general. Such a cutie!
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Conejo
Member
08-23-2002
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 1:06 pm
As to my comment on dreadlocks, I always thought that you couldn't comb them and washing them to get between the hair fibers would be an impossibility. I understand that people may 'wash' them, but do they get them clean? It just seems impossible to me. ETA, I remember when my sister would take her hair out of braids prior to washing in order to get her hair clean.
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Crzndeb
Member
07-26-2004
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 1:11 pm
http://origin.idolonfox.com/contestants/anwar_robinson/ Looks like dreads to me
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Auntiemike
Member
09-17-2001
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 1:22 pm
They are the nicest, neatest, tightest dreadlocks I have ever seen. He sure looks great. And, seems to have a nice personality too.
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 1:27 pm
Am I the only one totally turned off by the cheesy stunts Scott and Nikko did with the throwing the hat & glasses and dropping the clothes? Sheesh.. I thought it was so awful I could barely listen to them sing. Enough with the theatrics already! I thought Bo sounded really boring doing Time in a Bottle. I had that song performed at my wedding! I think Anthony gets a raw deal by the comparisons to Clay. If it weren't for the glasses and spikey hair, there would be nothing to compare. I think he has a nice voice and I enjoy listening to him. Jessica had by far the best performance of the night. Now I have to go and vote for her all over again?!! Argggh! What a mess. The one thing I thought was, "Someone is probably going to get fired over this one!" It was a prerecorded show and they couldn't take the time to check that the numbers were correct?! I didn't even notice it since I always just list them and my thoughts about their performances by number and go by that. I thought Carrie sounded good and is the most consistent. Please, please, please... stop torturing us with Mikalah already! Go home little girl! And could someone explain to me how she speaks like she was raised in a burrow of NYC when she grew up in Vegas?! I don't get it!
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Auntiemike
Member
09-17-2001
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 1:38 pm
"Am I the only one totally turned off by the cheesy stunts Scott and Nikko did with the throwing the hat & glasses and dropping the clothes?" No, Watching 2, you're not. Count me in.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 1:42 pm
well as a mother, my immediate reaction was take that expensive raincoat off the floor!!!!!!!!
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Auntiemike
Member
09-17-2001
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 1:46 pm
LOL! Maris. I can totally relate.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 2:01 pm
Thanks for the confirmation Bonzacat! That's good, much fairer that way.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 2:03 pm
I had to laugh last night because somebody last week said something about Bo's leaving the stage last week and next week everybody would do it too - and they did! Kudos to whomever anticipated that!
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 2:05 pm
Lol,Maris! I may be wrong,but I got the feeling Scott's emotions in his song were real. I took it as he was singing to his dad. Yeah,but the coat,get that nice coat off the floor!
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Bluejaxrock
Member
04-23-2004
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 2:11 pm
Okay, I gotta confess...the voting snafu is my fault. Yes, it's all because I actually voted! Sorry! Love the retro comments. My DD is 19 and loves vinyl. She picks up records at thrift stores/flea markets, etc., and even found a stereo turntable w/speakers at a thrift store. Some of the albums she plays were in my collection, and to hear her call them "old" or "retro" slays me. Going back to last week when the excuses included "well, it's a 60's song and you've never heard it before" - I'm an oldie but goodie, and I listen to a little bit of everything when I'm in the car. I may not buy outside my preferences, but my listening runs the gamut. Shouldn't a person who's trying to pass themselves off as a musician be more well-rounded? And if they are musicians, shouldn't they be able to learn a song in a week? Heck, in church choir, we had less than that to learn new songs. And we didn't have the luxury of doing nothing else but learn the music-we had jobs and families to take care of. And we're old and our memory isn't what is used to be! lol
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Bluejaxrock
Member
04-23-2004
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 2:12 pm
lol, how do you have a double chin when you have no chin? I can always get a laugh here. I LOVE Y'ALL!
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Highlighter
Member
09-03-2003
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 2:16 pm
Hippy, if so, then Scott may be ahead of the rest in terms of learning because that was a lesson that Barry Manilow taught them last year! In fact, imho, it was a very good lesson! Thank you, Watching, I'm glad someone else appreciates Anthony's voice, too 
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 3:03 pm
Highlighter! I really do appreciate Anthony's voice. He's had a couple of performances that really gave me the warm fuzzies listening to him! Re: Retro - My 17-yr-old DS is constantly going through our old vinyl collection and has rescued a turntable from the basement and now has it in his room. He even listens to artists that I never listened to and who I thought were "before my time" but he's into so many different kinds of music since he's a musician! How many other 17-yr-old boys ask for Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald CDs for Christmas and also play in a punk band, a classic rock band and a jazz band?!! 
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 3:15 pm
Those Ella and Louis CDs are some of my favorites! In fact Verve has all three of them--Ella and Louis, Ella and Louis Again, and Porgy and Bess--packaged together now. He's just a 17 year old with good taste.
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Buggles
Member
09-07-2002
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 3:22 pm
I like Anthony too tho I thought last night was one of his weaker performances. Vonzell & Carrie were my favorites of the evening. Then Bo. Mikalah, Anwar, and Nadia were the bottom three IMO. I think I loved Constantine's knowingly cheesy rendition more than David Cassidys
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 3:25 pm
LOL...I got to tell my little girl that I had some Donny Osmond albums in the closet! (Right underneath my Jackson 5 ones.)
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