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Willsfan

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 11:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Who knew Clay was so witty? LOL
I not only enjoy his singing but I enjoy listening to him talk, he's just so cute. I think whatever he ends up doing with his life he will do well.

Texasdeb

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 11:53 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Anybody know what Clay's schedule is as far as talk shows? I wish there was somewhere on the net where they would post this so that all of us who are infatuated with him won't risk missing anytime he gets air time.

Bailey

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 12:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
"Anybody know what Clay's schedule is as far as talk shows? I wish there was somewhere on the net where they would post this so that all of us who are infatuated with him won't risk missing anytime he gets air time"

Texasdeb, check out this link.. the have a section called "Clay's Calendar"..

http://pub77.ezboard.com/bthatstheclay

I know he'll be on Regis & Kelly on Wed.. don't know if Ruben will be with him or not.

Bailey

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 01:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hi everyone! I've been lurking around all season of AI2.. have been on this board since the beginning of BB1 but for some reason I only seem to speak up occasionally during BB. (can't wait for THAT to begin again this summer!)
Anyway, I'm giddy with Claylove.. I feel like a teenager all over again.. can't understand what's gotten into me! What is it about this guy that has so many people starry eyed for the first time in decades? :) I surf around the net and can't get over all the sites that are up about him and even the ones that are generally snarky about cheesey stuff are filled with people coming in out of the woodwork all ga-ga for this skinny little white kid. I even found all this Clay merchandise for sale from baby clothes to mousepads.
Needless to say, you had to wipe me up off the floor after Wednesday's results.. but after seeing Ruben with Clay on Larry King last night.. I felt so much better about the entire outcome. They are just too adorable together!
Again.. I ask.. what is it about Clay? :)

Texasdeb

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 01:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Bailey, that's what I was looking for. I've been "running around" in many of Clay's sights for the last 2 1/2 hrs. Alot of great articles out there. Putting my "Claymania" on hold for a bit. See ya later.

Nanarobin

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 03:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
To all Claymates....the site noted above also has a ton of links to the various audio/video clips and songs for Clay...I download them late at night when the server is less busy. Great sound...then you can listen to Clay and TVCH at the same time....mmmmmm....swooon- again!!!!

There is a great video clip on his hometown tv station web site...may have to scroll down to videos to find it..her is link that a friend there emailed to me:

'Idol's' Clay Aiken A Hot Commodity - WRAL

http://www.wral.com/video/2224260/detail.html

I found a avatar that says it all for me if I can get it to load here:

NOT TOO OLD

Wcv63

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 03:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Nanorobin...WRAL is selling a VHS and/or DVD of the clips from his hometown visit for 14.95 with all proceeds going to the Autism Society and the YMCA. Supplies are limited. I bought a copy.

Nanarobin

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 03:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I found this today regarding contracts for Idols:

"According to the version of the contract one entertainment lawyer posted to the Internet, Simon Fuller and his company own the names, likenesses, voices and personal histories of the "Idol" finalists, "in or in connection with" the show, forever. 19 Group can use that material however it wants, even if it's false, embarrassing or damaging.

If contestants reveal anything to anyone about the workings of the show or the contract they signed, they're liable for damages "in excess of $5 million." Their recording, management and merchandising companies, needless to say, are all owned by 19 Group -- a fundamental conflict of interest familiar to anyone who has studied the machinations of the music biz. "

Full article link (read ALL 3 pages to get full effect):
http://archive.salon.com/ent/feature/2002/09/18/idol_contract/index.html

Daisymae

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 05:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
WCV Where is the site you can buy the video of Clay's hometown?

Thanks

Daisymae

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 06:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I can't find it anywhere on that site. HELP

Daisymae

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 06:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I found the site for Video

Nanarobin

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 07:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ok....Daisymae...I tried to help you download mp3 files....where on the WRAL website did you find the info...it was so slow loading..and then stopped...do you supposed tvch-er's crashed their site...lol...please tell me where on site...thx

Chiparock

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 07:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks for the article and link, Nana. I'll bet your feathers got REALLY ruffled after reading it.

That contract is shockingly Faustian, drafted by Mephistopheles and enforced by his demonic minions in 3-piece suits.

I thought the 13th Amendment abolished slavery and indentured servitude....

Nanarobin

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 07:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OK....folks...you AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET...tell you read the explanation of the missing votes..here is a link to the website line for the article that about the vote error...GET READY FOR THE SHOCK:

http://www.myinky.com/ecp/news/article/0,1626,ECP_734_1986648,00.html

This is the Evansville, Indiana newspaper site for the article...I heard this first from a pal in Raleigh (Clay's home town) but had not seen any article.

Nanarobin

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 07:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
After some thought...I worry about folks who have problems with the links lately...here is the entire article:
--------------------direct copy/paste--------------------

Sorry, wrong number
'American Idol' votes misdirected to Cinergy

By RICH DAVIS Courier & Press staff writer 464-7516 or rdavis@evansville.net
May 24, 2003

Joey Randolph and others at Evansville-based Cinergy Communications thought they knew who would win the "American Idol" showdown Wednesday night.

It had to be Clay Aiken, a student from Raleigh, N.C., and not Ruben Studdard, a soulful Birmingham, Ala., singer with a glorious smile.

No, they didn't have sources inside at the Fox network offices.

Because of misdialing during Tuesday night's three-hour voting period, Cinergy wound up taking 241,496 calls from people all over the nation attempting to call the "American Idol" voting lines, one designated for Aiken, one for Studdard.

"We took 169,382 calls for Clay, 72,114 for Ruben," Randolph, the company's residential marketing manager, said Friday. "We were joking we ought to find a bookie. It was a landslide for Clay, but it turns out we were wrong."

On Wednesday's finale, Studdard became America's newest idol by 130,000 votes out of 24 million cast nationwide.

If this were a political election instead of an entertainment contest, Aiken might seek a recount and call Randolph as a witness to discuss newer phone pads and the 7 button.

Cinergy Communications, known locally for its Evansville Online Internet service, also is a telecommunications company that provides telephone service to customers throughout the Midwest and the South. One of the services Cinergy offers is voice-mail back-up. If a call to a Cinergy customer's phone isn't picked up or the customer's voice-mailbox is full, Randolph said the call automatically forwards to a specific toll-free number for that customer.

On Tuesday night, Randolph said, Cinergy's voice-mail back-up system was flooded with calls. Tracking determined they involved two 800 lines designated by Cinergy for one of their customers: A church in Franklin Tenn., south of Nashville.

Normally, that church gets a few calls a night. Tuesday night it was more than 240,000.

"It filled up lines coming in (to Cinergy), caused some other (Cinergy) numbers to get busy signals, but there were no catastrophes," said Randolph.

According to Randolph, voters were supposed to be dialing (866) IDOLS01 or (866) IDOLS02. But apparently, they were hitting the wrong button. The confusion may have come because of newer phone pads (designed to accommodate text-messaging on telephones) where the 7 button now has the letters "PQRS" above it instead of just the "PRS" that appears on the older telephone pads. "Some people were trying to dial IDOL and were hitting Q, thinking it was O," speculates Randolph. That means they were dialing the Tennessee church number, instead of the American Idol number. Randolph said there is no way of knowing how many other misdialings may have occurred that night around the country or how any of this skewed the final result. But he doubts anyone had as many misdialings as in the Cinergy case.

Randolph said while many callers got a busy signal, those who got through to the church's voice-mail message - which clearly tells the caller that he or she has reached a church - still cast their vote. It was hilarious, he said. One upset lady, who apparently realized she had reached a church, left an irate message for church elders, said Randolph. "She said, 'I want you to know, you have the same number as American Idol.'"

Meanwhile, the folks at Fox headquarters in Los Angeles said it is not their fault that viewers can't punch the right phone pads. The American Idol phone number is repeated frequently for viewers during the show and the number is the same number used last season, said Scott Grogin, a Fox spokesman. "We get reports of misdialings from people all across the country. We can't be responsible for people who dial the wrong number."

Crossfire

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 08:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Heh, in other news, we learn that Rubens fans are better than twice as smart as Clays fans as evidenced by the fact that less than half as many demonstrated an inability to dial the phone properly in an unscientific survey.

Seamonkey

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 08:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Crossfire, I was just thinking the very same thing!! LOL.

It would be nice next year if the voice that answers thanks the caller for voting for <name of singer> so that people would know they got the right number,

Daisymae

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 08:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
NANAROBIN

For Hometown Video go to FOX50.com & click on Clay's face right on top, very easy to find. Hoorah I helped in here.

My sister downloaded 14 songs of Clay on Idol & made me a CD, I'm in heaven today listening to his music. FINALLY

Crossfire

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 08:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hehehe, Glad you saw the humor (no matter how weak) in that.

As a poor sap who cannot vote, I just assumed that it did that much already.

What does casting a vote sound like?

Nanarobin

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 08:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
No....just that perhaps there are more of us oldies who cannot read the letters on a phone due to that-over-40-ailment-of-the-eyes...
MAYBE--at least that is why my opthamologist made me start wearing bifocal contact lens!!!

Heck, I could have sworn that there was no "Q" on a phone...even one as old as mine (cordless that is even pre-900Mhz model!!

You should see me programming names into my tiny cell phone!!!

Some of you younger posters forget about us oldies but goodies. We can get caught up and swoon over these Idol/stars, just like when we were younger...we just have to TRY to remember, we cannot do much about it--ANYMORE!!!!!

Now, laugh...that was supposed to be funny.Making fun of myself at 58!!!

Crossfire

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 08:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Heheh, Aww come on, your not old, you are just barely old enough to be my mother, and I know if I called her old, it would be among the last things i said. :)

Nanarobin

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 08:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Crossfire....not sure I can remember...99% of my calls got a busy signal...in 3 hours, I only got in a few votes...mostly in the last 1/2 hour or so plus my text messages on my cell...which I have to pay for at 10cents a message.

The first 1/2 hour I kept a tick sheet...made 155 calls and got through once maybe. The next day my fingers had to take a rest and an extra Relafen!

Maybe if you Clay-nadians could vote, it would have made a huge difference. I look for changes for next year, though...or at least HOPE there are some for the voting!!

Have a great long weekend...folks...remember those who are no longer with us.

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Daisymae

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 08:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yeah Nana, I totally agree about the eyes at 59 & try to dial a cell phone with tiny numbers, I miss all the time.

I've never been so involved with a star in my life as I am with Clay. I want all his articles, everything I can buy of his.

Most of us Seniors can afford to buy all this stuff too. There seems to be quite a few of us seniors here.

Someone asked what is it about Clay? FOr me, it's all the love songs & he's bringing some respect to the stage or t.v. Reminds me of the 50's.

Nanarobin

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 09:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OOOPS....not only do I have problems dialing phones but I also have typing problems when staying online toooooo long.

I usually say that ole NOT old. See what happens when one gets the dreaded Ole-timers disease

No...I try to keep myself as young as I can...at least in my mind, I am still about 39. My MUM stayed 39 for a long time until my son got older and learning math. He asked his Nana Gladys just how she could be 39 and his mum was in her late 20's. He thought that it did not compute. I think then she 'became' 49!!! She was a lovely English woman with wisdom beyond anything I could ever hope to have! As I age, I become more and more like her...I even try to use the same excuses!! Just ask my son, who was 35 this month. He recentlly admitted to becoming like me with his two sons and my grand-dog!!

Night all...NanaRobin

Nanarobin

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 09:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
DAISYMAE....I did go and order the cd from Clay's visit...It turns out I was looking all over the WRAL site, and did not ever get the the Fox50 site...thanks for the help.

Not sure I should post this but I rec'd a personal email from another who is also nutty about Clay...I dare to quote her here:

""..It is hard to exactly put our fingers on why because it is such a combination of things...but there is something so sexy about him....so many women saying that he makes them as giddy as a schoolgirl and he does me too. I am half enjoying the sheer headiness of feeling like this ..made me swoon THIS much.""

my response was: clay