Birmingham = Big Bird?
We've been to Birmingham seems like every season and with good reason. Birmingham has provided us with two winners - Ruben Studdard and Taylor Hicks (shout out to the Soul Patrol). Frankly, that alone made me leary of going back! Not that I don't love the city, because it's beautiful and the people are over-the-top friendly. But dang it y'all, maybe it's time for a dip into a different pool.
Since I was obviously not thrilled about this foray into B-Town, I only half watched the show. Paula apparently decided that Birmingham was an especially appropriate place to crank up her already zany antics and so we were treated to several amazingly lifelike sea lion imitations, actually getting up out of her chair and walking off screen during one performance (granted that chicka may have been purty as they say in the South, but was off the scale when it came to annoying voices) and then putting through that one ding-a-ling chick with the speaking voice which sounded like my 4 year old neice on helium. Ok, Randy put her through as well and since Paula nearly always reads off of Randy's script it should not be a shocker, or considered weird for her to do it again here. It was her reasoning that made this one bizarre. In fact, it was so convaluted that I can't even begin to recreate it here. Suffice it to say little girl got lucky. Not surprisingly, given her bizarre antics, Paula was faced with some "family obligations" and took her leave.
I would love to say that the talent got better. Heck, I would love to say I was even a little bit inclined to watch the show. But truth be told, I found a scuff mark on a pair of shoes in the garbage can and decided now might be the time to do something about it.
Having finished that little project, I sauntered back in just in time to catch Big Bird make a freakish appearance. Birmingham, have you really been reduced to showing us 50 year old Big Bird wanna-be's...with no talent to boot?! See what happens when you keep dipping into the same gene pool? Eventually you'll start getting inbred freak shows like the one we saw last night. Maybe I'm just in a particularly foul mood today...but damn...
Until our next dip in the shallow pool of talent that is Los Angeles...
Ta Ta for now...
j.
Since I was obviously not thrilled about this foray into B-Town, I only half watched the show. Paula apparently decided that Birmingham was an especially appropriate place to crank up her already zany antics and so we were treated to several amazingly lifelike sea lion imitations, actually getting up out of her chair and walking off screen during one performance (granted that chicka may have been purty as they say in the South, but was off the scale when it came to annoying voices) and then putting through that one ding-a-ling chick with the speaking voice which sounded like my 4 year old neice on helium. Ok, Randy put her through as well and since Paula nearly always reads off of Randy's script it should not be a shocker, or considered weird for her to do it again here. It was her reasoning that made this one bizarre. In fact, it was so convaluted that I can't even begin to recreate it here. Suffice it to say little girl got lucky. Not surprisingly, given her bizarre antics, Paula was faced with some "family obligations" and took her leave.
I would love to say that the talent got better. Heck, I would love to say I was even a little bit inclined to watch the show. But truth be told, I found a scuff mark on a pair of shoes in the garbage can and decided now might be the time to do something about it.
Having finished that little project, I sauntered back in just in time to catch Big Bird make a freakish appearance. Birmingham, have you really been reduced to showing us 50 year old Big Bird wanna-be's...with no talent to boot?! See what happens when you keep dipping into the same gene pool? Eventually you'll start getting inbred freak shows like the one we saw last night. Maybe I'm just in a particularly foul mood today...but damn...
Until our next dip in the shallow pool of talent that is Los Angeles...
Ta Ta for now...
j.
posted by Jonathan at 9:01 AM
1 Comments:
I think Elmo resigned after this show, Cookie monster gave up cookies, and Big Bird swore off women for good! :P
G-Rod
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