Today is Wednesday October 28th and I am in Bozeman, Montana and it is snowing outside. Actually, it is not snowing right now there is just a lot of snow on the ground. Oh – here is the update – I just looked out the window and it is snowing a bit.
I was not surprised about the snow today at all because it was snowing very hard last night when we came back from the pizza restaurant.
Now back to the subject of what I am not going to write about today.
I am not going to write about how I saw polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba on a tundra buggy. I am not going to tell you about the 4 polar bears that I saw napping or the one named Paul that was the biggest and scariest and ate bananas or how he came on board the tundra buggy and started to drive. He drove us to the shopping mall to get some more bananas. The shop keeper didn’t let him buy anything because he didn’t have any money so everybody on the tundra buggy paid for him to get 500 bunches of bananas. He goes bananas when he doesn’t get bananas.
Alright, that was a lie. He really doesn’t like bananas. Here is a polar bear fact – polar bears eat fish and seals, they are carnivores and they don’t even eat fruit although if it is a matter of life and death they will.
I am not going to talk about the Bear Jail where they keep bad bears. The bad bears are those that come into the town of Churchill and try to eat the food from the garbage cans. One stripe is their warning, the second stripe and they are out. There is even a bear police. It is all very serious because no one likes bears eating trash – because if they eat all the trash the trash workers don’t get paid. And if the trash workers don’t get paid then they quit and then if the bears stop coming then the trash builds up – it is all very confusing.
I am not going to write about making chocolates with Julia – my mom’s friend who is now my friend too. The hardest part about making cakes with Julia is the taste testing because you always need to make sure the cake isn’t poisonous. To do a cake taste test you have to take a bite of the finished product, in this case chocolate cake, and the secret ingredient is fish. And that is not a joke.
Julia told us that the cake makers have to be very happy when they are making the cake or otherwise the chocolate turns bitter. I told the cake some jokes and we were all very happy anyway because we knew we would get some chocolate when it was done. I can never imagine a chocolate cake maker who wasn’t happy.
And I will not even tell about a hotel we stayed in in Chamberlain, South Dakota. The first one had a wet floor, the second one smelled like cigarettes smoke and the third one had weird coffee stains on the sheets. But the final time we went to the manager he was really upset that we were upset and he gave us a complimentary upgrade so we got to stay in a suite.
Today we are off to Idaho Falls – I hope the storm doesn’t follow us.
Adios Amigos.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
I Hate RV Elementary School - Fiction
RV Elementary is the worse school I have ever gone to. The teachers are terrible because they make me do really boring work. You may think we are the luckiest people on earth – well, you don’t know what it is like to go to RV Elementary!
The teachers clothes are very ugly especially Miss Snodgrass and Mr. Higgenbottom - or Mr. HagissButt as I should say. For example – Mr. HaggisButt always eats haggis and it dribbles down on to his socks and Mr. HaggisButt doesn’t wear pants and has haggis on his head. He says it is refreshing, but I don’t believe him
Miss Snodgrass’s hair is so long it makes her trip. She has tripped all the students and they get tangled up in her hair. There are about 500 kids stuck in her hair right now and all the class pets are stuck there as well. Such as James the Gerbil, Thomas the Turtle, Harvey the Hamster and Dom the Dog. The only way to get out of her hair is by her tripping – which happens about every 30 seconds.
Miss Snodgrass wears rags – she doesn’t have any proper clothes. She wears a tunic the color of swamp green and the reason why it is swamp green is from the annual Swamp Trip where you go swimming in a swamp. At first when the Annual School Field Trip was announced everybody below second grade ran to sign up because they thought they were going swimming. All the second graders warned the first graders so they didn’t go. We forgot to warn the kindergarteners so they came back smelling of a swamp with tons of flies all around them. Nobody wanted to be near them, except for the flies, but I don’t think they count as people.
Miss Snodgrass wears baby shoes. She just crams one toe in each one. But baby shoes don’t count as shoes unless you are a baby. They do not look comfortable for any one I know.
Miss. Snodgrass’s voice sounds sharp and fierce. No one ever wants to be in her class. For instance she calls herself, “The Teacher from The Old Country”. And everything must be done like it was “In the Old Country”. It is very annoying.
For lunch we go to the cafeteria which is pretty good. That is the only good thing about RV Elementary. There are all sorts of delicious things like pasta with butter – they will cook anything you want.
Recess? We don’t even have recess at RV Elementary.
We are strapped into our chairs for about 15 hours each day. But it feels like 15 years. During that time we are suppose to be learning but really we are just listening to Miss Snodgrass read to us from the longest chapter book in the world called, A Long Way From Home. It takes about 15 years to read the entire book – well, that is the least anyone has read it in. She reads us a page a day and it has 5 billion pages in to. It is actually a pretty good book but she spits on us when she reads. I sit in the very back – that is my assigned seat – luckily. The kids in front, well, no one over likes them because they are always soaking wet from Miss SnotGrass spit.
Time for me to go clean out the rat cage. Bye.
The teachers clothes are very ugly especially Miss Snodgrass and Mr. Higgenbottom - or Mr. HagissButt as I should say. For example – Mr. HaggisButt always eats haggis and it dribbles down on to his socks and Mr. HaggisButt doesn’t wear pants and has haggis on his head. He says it is refreshing, but I don’t believe him
Miss Snodgrass’s hair is so long it makes her trip. She has tripped all the students and they get tangled up in her hair. There are about 500 kids stuck in her hair right now and all the class pets are stuck there as well. Such as James the Gerbil, Thomas the Turtle, Harvey the Hamster and Dom the Dog. The only way to get out of her hair is by her tripping – which happens about every 30 seconds.
Miss Snodgrass wears rags – she doesn’t have any proper clothes. She wears a tunic the color of swamp green and the reason why it is swamp green is from the annual Swamp Trip where you go swimming in a swamp. At first when the Annual School Field Trip was announced everybody below second grade ran to sign up because they thought they were going swimming. All the second graders warned the first graders so they didn’t go. We forgot to warn the kindergarteners so they came back smelling of a swamp with tons of flies all around them. Nobody wanted to be near them, except for the flies, but I don’t think they count as people.
Miss Snodgrass wears baby shoes. She just crams one toe in each one. But baby shoes don’t count as shoes unless you are a baby. They do not look comfortable for any one I know.
Miss. Snodgrass’s voice sounds sharp and fierce. No one ever wants to be in her class. For instance she calls herself, “The Teacher from The Old Country”. And everything must be done like it was “In the Old Country”. It is very annoying.
For lunch we go to the cafeteria which is pretty good. That is the only good thing about RV Elementary. There are all sorts of delicious things like pasta with butter – they will cook anything you want.
Recess? We don’t even have recess at RV Elementary.
We are strapped into our chairs for about 15 hours each day. But it feels like 15 years. During that time we are suppose to be learning but really we are just listening to Miss Snodgrass read to us from the longest chapter book in the world called, A Long Way From Home. It takes about 15 years to read the entire book – well, that is the least anyone has read it in. She reads us a page a day and it has 5 billion pages in to. It is actually a pretty good book but she spits on us when she reads. I sit in the very back – that is my assigned seat – luckily. The kids in front, well, no one over likes them because they are always soaking wet from Miss SnotGrass spit.
Time for me to go clean out the rat cage. Bye.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
What I Am Not Going to Blog about #2
Today I am sitting in a coffee shop called Timothy’s World Coffee in Winnipeg, Canada. Winnipeg is in Manitoba which is a Province. They don’t have states in Canada. I am drinking a hot chocolate and eating a big nice chocolate brownie thing.
We just finished going to the Winnipeg Zoo which until 2008 contained the world’s longest living polar bear. But then in 2008 unfortunately she died. Unfortunately they don’t have any more polar bears at the Winnipeg Zoo.
Oh man, we are off the subject again…alright…so this is what I am not going to blog about…
First off I am not going to blog about how I really don’t like cherry pie with ketchup. I just wrote that for fun. Really I like my cherry pie plain or with any type of ice cream.
I am not going to blog about Minnesota or staying with Rachel and Leah and playing Knights of Sedonia on guitar hero until I was sick of it.
I am not going to blog about the Renaissance Fair and how I won a toy dagger with a game involving frogs and a catapult and a big bucket of water. That is for another blog another day that will only happen if I go to a city in an alternative universe in an alternative dimension 50 million galaxies away on a planet called Zenuom. But the chances are about 50 50 that I will go there.
I am not going to blog about Gabby and Isobel, the beautiful golden retrievers that live with Rachel and Leah or about how it makes me want to get a dog in our real house on the planet called Zenuom.
And I am certainly not going to blog about the book I am reading called Double Fudge by Judy Blume. Or how I am already on page 94 out of 213. I shouldn’t say too much because this is just way off the subject…
I am not going to talk about any of the parties that people had for us in Minnesota like at Auntie Julia where we played Scrabble and Electronic Life and Josh ate 50 billion cake bites. I only ate 3, don’t worry.
In fact I am not going to blog about anything.
Oh man, I just bloged about something.
Gotta go now.
Bye.
PS I like pie.
We just finished going to the Winnipeg Zoo which until 2008 contained the world’s longest living polar bear. But then in 2008 unfortunately she died. Unfortunately they don’t have any more polar bears at the Winnipeg Zoo.
Oh man, we are off the subject again…alright…so this is what I am not going to blog about…
First off I am not going to blog about how I really don’t like cherry pie with ketchup. I just wrote that for fun. Really I like my cherry pie plain or with any type of ice cream.
I am not going to blog about Minnesota or staying with Rachel and Leah and playing Knights of Sedonia on guitar hero until I was sick of it.
I am not going to blog about the Renaissance Fair and how I won a toy dagger with a game involving frogs and a catapult and a big bucket of water. That is for another blog another day that will only happen if I go to a city in an alternative universe in an alternative dimension 50 million galaxies away on a planet called Zenuom. But the chances are about 50 50 that I will go there.
I am not going to blog about Gabby and Isobel, the beautiful golden retrievers that live with Rachel and Leah or about how it makes me want to get a dog in our real house on the planet called Zenuom.
And I am certainly not going to blog about the book I am reading called Double Fudge by Judy Blume. Or how I am already on page 94 out of 213. I shouldn’t say too much because this is just way off the subject…
I am not going to talk about any of the parties that people had for us in Minnesota like at Auntie Julia where we played Scrabble and Electronic Life and Josh ate 50 billion cake bites. I only ate 3, don’t worry.
In fact I am not going to blog about anything.
Oh man, I just bloged about something.
Gotta go now.
Bye.
PS I like pie.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Wild Animals I have seen
Since we left Vermont we have been seeing wild animals all over national parks, national monuments and state parks.
Some of the parks I have been to are Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Devil’s Tower, Rocky Mountain National Park and Jewel Cave. And in all of these parks I have become a Junior Ranger – but let’s not get off the subject.
Back to wild animals.
The first wild animal I saw was a very nice one and definitely one of my favorites. So nice in fact that I spent my own money to get a stuffed one. I bought it at the Rocky Mountain National Park gift shop. Here are some hints to what it is: it bugles, its mating season is about now, the mating season ends in mid-October, the babies come in the spring. The antlers have velvet on them at first. The men have lots of females in their harems.
Can you guess what it is?
If you guessed Elk you were right. If you guessed anything else, you were wrong.
Next I saw a coyote in Rocky Mountain National Park. The coyote was a good coyote. I saw him but he didn’t see me – luckily. It was walking in the prairie. It was stalking it’s prey. I don’t know what exactly it was stalking – it could have been a mouse or something. But it was stalking the prey alright.
He was yellowish in color and he was licking his lips and his blue tongue was very long. Well, it wasn’t really blue I was just saying that for fun. But its tongue did reach past its nose. But then quickly I saw its tongue lash out and then it was chewing something.
In South Dakota at Badlands National Park we saw Prairie Dogs – many, many, many of them. They were really cute popping in and out of their houses squiring along. But unfortunately I was in a very bad mood because my parents were making us listen to cowboy music that was playing on the radio. Every Sunday from 1 – 2 PM is the Cowboy Hour in South Dakota.
Cowboy music is the worse kind of music on earth. I don’t like it because the music is really weird -- the singers sing about sad depressing things. One song was about a man’s dog named Shep. Shep was an old and blind dog and the man had to shoot him. But he couldn’t because he loved Shep too much.
Another one was about a constipated cowboy who finally went to an outhouse to go potty. His friends decided to play a trick on him and have a bull run him over in the outhouse. And it worked. The cowboy finally pooped and the bull ran over the outhouse.
Oops I am off the subject of wild animals again.
We saw lots and lots in bison. They are like buffalo but they are not buffalo. We saw them at Yellowstone National Park. Some of them were cute, some were ugly. Some were stinky, some were clean. Kind of like people.
The average bison weighs 2500 pounds. That is about 2450 pounds more than me.
And now I am sorry to say that it is time to finish up with chipmunks.
Chipmunks are sometimes wild and sometimes they can be pets. There was once a chipmunk that pet me – or I pet him – but who cares. I was walking out of the RV to get something for my dad when a chipmunk came bounding towards me. It curled up next to my leg and I stroked it and it fell asleep. I had to wake him when I remembered I needed to get something for my dad.
Seeing all this wildlife has made me think we all need to help animals because if we help animals they will help us.
Good bye from Simon’s Blog
Some of the parks I have been to are Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Devil’s Tower, Rocky Mountain National Park and Jewel Cave. And in all of these parks I have become a Junior Ranger – but let’s not get off the subject.
Back to wild animals.
The first wild animal I saw was a very nice one and definitely one of my favorites. So nice in fact that I spent my own money to get a stuffed one. I bought it at the Rocky Mountain National Park gift shop. Here are some hints to what it is: it bugles, its mating season is about now, the mating season ends in mid-October, the babies come in the spring. The antlers have velvet on them at first. The men have lots of females in their harems.
Can you guess what it is?
If you guessed Elk you were right. If you guessed anything else, you were wrong.
Next I saw a coyote in Rocky Mountain National Park. The coyote was a good coyote. I saw him but he didn’t see me – luckily. It was walking in the prairie. It was stalking it’s prey. I don’t know what exactly it was stalking – it could have been a mouse or something. But it was stalking the prey alright.
He was yellowish in color and he was licking his lips and his blue tongue was very long. Well, it wasn’t really blue I was just saying that for fun. But its tongue did reach past its nose. But then quickly I saw its tongue lash out and then it was chewing something.
In South Dakota at Badlands National Park we saw Prairie Dogs – many, many, many of them. They were really cute popping in and out of their houses squiring along. But unfortunately I was in a very bad mood because my parents were making us listen to cowboy music that was playing on the radio. Every Sunday from 1 – 2 PM is the Cowboy Hour in South Dakota.
Cowboy music is the worse kind of music on earth. I don’t like it because the music is really weird -- the singers sing about sad depressing things. One song was about a man’s dog named Shep. Shep was an old and blind dog and the man had to shoot him. But he couldn’t because he loved Shep too much.
Another one was about a constipated cowboy who finally went to an outhouse to go potty. His friends decided to play a trick on him and have a bull run him over in the outhouse. And it worked. The cowboy finally pooped and the bull ran over the outhouse.
Oops I am off the subject of wild animals again.
We saw lots and lots in bison. They are like buffalo but they are not buffalo. We saw them at Yellowstone National Park. Some of them were cute, some were ugly. Some were stinky, some were clean. Kind of like people.
The average bison weighs 2500 pounds. That is about 2450 pounds more than me.
And now I am sorry to say that it is time to finish up with chipmunks.
Chipmunks are sometimes wild and sometimes they can be pets. There was once a chipmunk that pet me – or I pet him – but who cares. I was walking out of the RV to get something for my dad when a chipmunk came bounding towards me. It curled up next to my leg and I stroked it and it fell asleep. I had to wake him when I remembered I needed to get something for my dad.
Seeing all this wildlife has made me think we all need to help animals because if we help animals they will help us.
Good bye from Simon’s Blog
Saturday, September 26, 2009
I like pie
Different types of pie I know
I like pie.
I like cherry pie with ketchup because that way it is very yummy.
I like apple pie with chocolate sauce because then it tastes like chocolate apple pie.
I like lemon pie with lemon juice that way it is extra lemony
I like chocolate pie with Hershey’s hot fudge because that way it is extra chocolaty
I like blueberry pie with blueberry jam. It is very blueberry that way
I like pumpkin pie plain because that is just the way that I like it
But my very favorite is white and dark chocolate fudge pie with dark and white chocolate fudge because that way it is very and white chocolate fudgy.
I like pie because it is yummy.
I have eaten pie in many different places but I have never tasted yummier pie than my Mom’s. My mom’s pie it always the best because of her secret ingredients. I have no idea what they are but I think it is cooked lima beans and liver pate because that is my mom’s favorite.
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Good bye
Simon
I like pie.
I like cherry pie with ketchup because that way it is very yummy.
I like apple pie with chocolate sauce because then it tastes like chocolate apple pie.
I like lemon pie with lemon juice that way it is extra lemony
I like chocolate pie with Hershey’s hot fudge because that way it is extra chocolaty
I like blueberry pie with blueberry jam. It is very blueberry that way
I like pumpkin pie plain because that is just the way that I like it
But my very favorite is white and dark chocolate fudge pie with dark and white chocolate fudge because that way it is very and white chocolate fudgy.
I like pie because it is yummy.
I have eaten pie in many different places but I have never tasted yummier pie than my Mom’s. My mom’s pie it always the best because of her secret ingredients. I have no idea what they are but I think it is cooked lima beans and liver pate because that is my mom’s favorite.
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Good bye
Simon
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Swinging
One two three four
Five six seven eight nine ten
Eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen
Seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty
Twenty one twenty two twenty three
I have done 24 swings so far.
I am sitting on a swing right across from my Great Aunt and Uncles House
That is right.
Number 1050 Vine Street.
One zero five zero
Twenty five twenty six swings
I hear some dogs barking and cars roaring.
I hear the crickets buzzing and the wind blowing.
I can hear the train whistle.
I can hear the acorns rattling on my head.
“Ouch. You naughty squirrel don’t throw acorns on my head.”
I hear the crunching of the leaves as I walk on them in my Mickey Mouse blue and green crocs.
I see my RV.
I see my great Aunt and Uncles Suburban.
I see stop signs, trees and bushes.
There are lots of vines growing on that tree and it makes me think about the jungle.
I feel the autumn mist in the land of Hanalee.
I am not swinging anymore.
I am winding the swing up so I can swirl around and around.
I like to go around and around but it makes me feel very dizzy – it feels as if the earth has been tipped upside down.
I can smell the summer air.
I am enjoying Springfield because I am here with my family and my Mama Jo.
I will see you on my next blog – all about a Minor League baseball game. I will tell you the two team’s names then.
Five six seven eight nine ten
Eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen
Seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty
Twenty one twenty two twenty three
I have done 24 swings so far.
I am sitting on a swing right across from my Great Aunt and Uncles House
That is right.
Number 1050 Vine Street.
One zero five zero
Twenty five twenty six swings
I hear some dogs barking and cars roaring.
I hear the crickets buzzing and the wind blowing.
I can hear the train whistle.
I can hear the acorns rattling on my head.
“Ouch. You naughty squirrel don’t throw acorns on my head.”
I hear the crunching of the leaves as I walk on them in my Mickey Mouse blue and green crocs.
I see my RV.
I see my great Aunt and Uncles Suburban.
I see stop signs, trees and bushes.
There are lots of vines growing on that tree and it makes me think about the jungle.
I feel the autumn mist in the land of Hanalee.
I am not swinging anymore.
I am winding the swing up so I can swirl around and around.
I like to go around and around but it makes me feel very dizzy – it feels as if the earth has been tipped upside down.
I can smell the summer air.
I am enjoying Springfield because I am here with my family and my Mama Jo.
I will see you on my next blog – all about a Minor League baseball game. I will tell you the two team’s names then.
Monday, August 31, 2009
The American Idol Concert in St. Louis
A couple of nights ago I went to the American Idol Tour in St. Louis. It wasn’t really a tour, it was a concert, but who cares, anyway, it was about 3 hours and there were ten people – the top ten American Idols. I had been really excited. Unfortunately, my Mom wasn’t with us, she was helping my Grandma move, but we didn’t just buy 4 tickets, we bought 6 tickets. First there was my brother and dad, then there was my cousin Curtis and then my second cousins Mary Jo and Madison.
We had good seats. We were looking right down at the side of the stage and there were also two big screens. And out of all the concerts we’ve been to, it was the loudest. I couldn’t see one person who didn’t like it. It was so loud we had to use earplugs, but the earplugs unfortunately didn’t work too much so it was still pretty loud. Then we gave up trying to block the noise and just listened.
The concert started with lots of commercials. First there was one trying to get you to buy a very weird new car – they tried to say all the American Idol people drive this car, you should drive it to. In the commercial there were weird combinations, for instance there might have been half of a wheel at the bottom, for the body Alison (who was one of the top 4) and the head of Adam who came in second and then a big pink hat – you’d never know it kept swapping. But whenever there was a part of Adam or Kris or Danny, everyone would be like “whoo” because they were the top three. Kris came in first (unfortunately, I was rooting for Adam), Adam came in second and Danny came in third.
The concert started with #10, Michael Sarver; I gave him an overall 3 on a scale of one to ten. I liked the background stage and the lights, but his singing wasn’t the best.
Then came #9, Meghan Joy who I rated an overall 6 then #8, Scott MacIntyre who I rated another overall 6 then #7, Lil Rounds – I decided to rate her an overall 6 and a half. The way I remember these ratings is that I told my Dad the ratings during the concert and he wrote down notes [ed. note – I wrote them in the dark, which was a little hard, but they’re reasonably decipherable – anything to support Simon’s blogging habit]. After Lil came #6, Anoop Desai – I gave him a seven and three quarters. I liked his last song the best, it’s kind of hard to describe, but all I can tell you is he was really, really good [ed. note, he really rocked on a version of Bobby Brown’s My Prerogative].
After Anoop came #5 Matt, who we like to call “Matt in the Hat.” I don’t really like the hat much, he looks all weird. His songs were good. So I decided to rate him a 7 and a half. And the way the singers got up on stage was because there was a little square in the stage that you stood on and then you could go down or up (you’d only go down if you’re on the stage, up if you’re below the stage). It was really cool to see Matt come up on it with a piano. [ed. note – Dad really liked his rendition of Georgia on My Mind]. After Matt, there were three songs, all combination songs – the first one was Megan and Lil, then a piano duel between Matt and Scott [Billy Joel’s Tell her About It] and then for the last one all six teamed up and did Beggin’ by the Four Seasons. Then it was time for a twenty minute intermission. During the intermission we got some water and had to rest our ears and stretch our legs.
After the intermission they did the top four. It went Alison, Danny, Adam Kris. I thought it should have gone Allison, Kris, Danny Adam. Unfortunately it didn’t go that way. Her songs were very good, I rated them a 10, a 9.5 and a 10 [So What by Pink; Cry Baby by Janis Joplin; Barracuda by Heart] Her last song was Barracuda which I know from Guitar Hero #3 – if it’s your first time playing, it’s one of the hardest songs, but after you’ve played Guitar Hero awhile it’s very easy.
After Alison came Danny Gokey. Danny was my second favorite on the TV show but unfortunately he came in third. I rated him a 9 and three quarters. [ed. note, he introduced his last number, Rascal Flatts’ My Wish by talking about his own personal loss just before the Idol competition and saying “Never be defined by a tragedy… don’t let bad things kill your dreams” – it was very moving. Here's a link to him performing it earlier on the tour...]
Then the lights were going off and on and for a second I thought the power was cut off and then Adam appeared. His first song was Led Zepplin’s Whole Lotta Love. I rated that song a 10. Then he did Starlight, by Muse which I also rated a 10. Then he did Mad World by Tears for Fears – it was my favorite song in the concert. [Here's a link to Adam doing it on the show ]I also saw him do it on the show, except on the show he was wearing all black robes and there was a lot of blue smoke. Then Adam and Alison did Slow Ride by Foghat, which I also remember from Guitar Hero as one of the first songs I did (although I started with The Story of My Life but I’ll get into that in another blog). [ed. note, Adam finished his set with my favorite number of the concert, a David Bowie medley of Life on Mars / Fame / Let’s Dance. There are rumors that Adam has been asked to be the new front man for Queen, and he certainly can pick up where Freddie Mercury left off]
Adam’s overall score I would say was a definite 10.
And then came Kris. I didn’t like Kris because he came in first and I wanted Adam to come in first. But unfortunately I can’t change what already happened. Kris’ final overall score was about an 8 and a half. Hey Jude was a really good song, I gave it a 10, but I wasn’t rating it just for Kris, because he was joined by the other idols.
Then all the idols came on stage and did Journey's Don’t stop Believing which I thought was the most appropriate song they did in all American Idol because it told all the idols even though Adam came in second it wasn’t the end of Adam, I’m guessing that he’s going to try out next year. And to all the people who want to get onto American Idol it’s saying that you can’t stop believing in yourself, you just can’t even if everyone is like “you can’t do it, you can’t do it” you just can’t say no.
For the last and final ending, I shall say 'bravo' and 'go on' to anyone who wants to join American Idol. I’m not stopping you, I’m encouraging you, Go On!
We had good seats. We were looking right down at the side of the stage and there were also two big screens. And out of all the concerts we’ve been to, it was the loudest. I couldn’t see one person who didn’t like it. It was so loud we had to use earplugs, but the earplugs unfortunately didn’t work too much so it was still pretty loud. Then we gave up trying to block the noise and just listened.
The concert started with lots of commercials. First there was one trying to get you to buy a very weird new car – they tried to say all the American Idol people drive this car, you should drive it to. In the commercial there were weird combinations, for instance there might have been half of a wheel at the bottom, for the body Alison (who was one of the top 4) and the head of Adam who came in second and then a big pink hat – you’d never know it kept swapping. But whenever there was a part of Adam or Kris or Danny, everyone would be like “whoo” because they were the top three. Kris came in first (unfortunately, I was rooting for Adam), Adam came in second and Danny came in third.
The concert started with #10, Michael Sarver; I gave him an overall 3 on a scale of one to ten. I liked the background stage and the lights, but his singing wasn’t the best.
Then came #9, Meghan Joy who I rated an overall 6 then #8, Scott MacIntyre who I rated another overall 6 then #7, Lil Rounds – I decided to rate her an overall 6 and a half. The way I remember these ratings is that I told my Dad the ratings during the concert and he wrote down notes [ed. note – I wrote them in the dark, which was a little hard, but they’re reasonably decipherable – anything to support Simon’s blogging habit]. After Lil came #6, Anoop Desai – I gave him a seven and three quarters. I liked his last song the best, it’s kind of hard to describe, but all I can tell you is he was really, really good [ed. note, he really rocked on a version of Bobby Brown’s My Prerogative].
After Anoop came #5 Matt, who we like to call “Matt in the Hat.” I don’t really like the hat much, he looks all weird. His songs were good. So I decided to rate him a 7 and a half. And the way the singers got up on stage was because there was a little square in the stage that you stood on and then you could go down or up (you’d only go down if you’re on the stage, up if you’re below the stage). It was really cool to see Matt come up on it with a piano. [ed. note – Dad really liked his rendition of Georgia on My Mind]. After Matt, there were three songs, all combination songs – the first one was Megan and Lil, then a piano duel between Matt and Scott [Billy Joel’s Tell her About It] and then for the last one all six teamed up and did Beggin’ by the Four Seasons. Then it was time for a twenty minute intermission. During the intermission we got some water and had to rest our ears and stretch our legs.
After the intermission they did the top four. It went Alison, Danny, Adam Kris. I thought it should have gone Allison, Kris, Danny Adam. Unfortunately it didn’t go that way. Her songs were very good, I rated them a 10, a 9.5 and a 10 [So What by Pink; Cry Baby by Janis Joplin; Barracuda by Heart] Her last song was Barracuda which I know from Guitar Hero #3 – if it’s your first time playing, it’s one of the hardest songs, but after you’ve played Guitar Hero awhile it’s very easy.
After Alison came Danny Gokey. Danny was my second favorite on the TV show but unfortunately he came in third. I rated him a 9 and three quarters. [ed. note, he introduced his last number, Rascal Flatts’ My Wish by talking about his own personal loss just before the Idol competition and saying “Never be defined by a tragedy… don’t let bad things kill your dreams” – it was very moving. Here's a link to him performing it earlier on the tour...]
Then the lights were going off and on and for a second I thought the power was cut off and then Adam appeared. His first song was Led Zepplin’s Whole Lotta Love. I rated that song a 10. Then he did Starlight, by Muse which I also rated a 10. Then he did Mad World by Tears for Fears – it was my favorite song in the concert. [Here's a link to Adam doing it on the show ]I also saw him do it on the show, except on the show he was wearing all black robes and there was a lot of blue smoke. Then Adam and Alison did Slow Ride by Foghat, which I also remember from Guitar Hero as one of the first songs I did (although I started with The Story of My Life but I’ll get into that in another blog). [ed. note, Adam finished his set with my favorite number of the concert, a David Bowie medley of Life on Mars / Fame / Let’s Dance. There are rumors that Adam has been asked to be the new front man for Queen, and he certainly can pick up where Freddie Mercury left off]
Adam’s overall score I would say was a definite 10.
And then came Kris. I didn’t like Kris because he came in first and I wanted Adam to come in first. But unfortunately I can’t change what already happened. Kris’ final overall score was about an 8 and a half. Hey Jude was a really good song, I gave it a 10, but I wasn’t rating it just for Kris, because he was joined by the other idols.
Then all the idols came on stage and did Journey's Don’t stop Believing which I thought was the most appropriate song they did in all American Idol because it told all the idols even though Adam came in second it wasn’t the end of Adam, I’m guessing that he’s going to try out next year. And to all the people who want to get onto American Idol it’s saying that you can’t stop believing in yourself, you just can’t even if everyone is like “you can’t do it, you can’t do it” you just can’t say no.
For the last and final ending, I shall say 'bravo' and 'go on' to anyone who wants to join American Idol. I’m not stopping you, I’m encouraging you, Go On!
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