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The career making moment

Some people go their whole lives without crossing the one threshold that sets them apart from the rest of their peers. This is fine for many people, as there’s a kind of stage fright that occurs when you realize that everyone is hanging on your every nuance, your every meaning…

But then there are others that seek the spotlight. They never find their moment.

But perhaps you do try to reach out, to do something that sets you apart from yourself.

You may surprise yourself, doing something so important that you realize later that what you did surpasses everything you have ever done before. Perhaps not to yourself, though. You can take a private memory, either good or bad, and that’s YOUR private excellence, but we’re not talking about how you view yourself here. We’re talking about how others view you, how perhaps you’ve just changed the way that everyone sees you.

Like I said, not everyone gets that kind of moment. But I witnessed one today, and figured I’d share it with you.

Chances are, you witnessed it too, if you watch American Idol.

And now that I’ve said that, perhaps you can also guess who I’m talking about.
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Not Playing That Game

I didn’t see much of American Idol - the rejection version - last night, but caught only pieces in passing.

When I did manage to glimpse at the TV, I noticed the youngest contestant, David Archuleta, sitting in the middle of the stage. I only found out later that David wouldn’t play Ryan Seacrest’s game.

The game was to split the seven contestants into the top three and the bottom three, and then have David choose which group HE thought he was part of. David has appeared to date to be rather innocent, and perhaps this was a way for him to either earn his halo or trade it in for a pair of horns, thus signifying the loss of his soul to the money machine that is the music industry…

When faced with the awful choice of pointing out the obvious lower quality threesome, David chose by not choosing. He sat in the middle of the stage and simply refused to play the awful game of pointing fingers at the less popular.

Kudos, kid.

David Cook on American Idol

There’s three songs to talk about this year on American Idol so far, and this one is one of them.
The first two were shortened for time and made me want to hear more from each:
David Archuleta did “Imagine”
Brooke White did “Let It Be”

and now David Cook has done “Billy Jean”

Sorry for the embed with the crap about David’s early life. The other versions on YouTube were advertising for something, and I’d rather have the early stuff you can fast forward through to get to the song than anything else. So, hit play, but feel free to hit Pause and let the thing load so you can drag the play bar over to where the song actually starts.

This version of the song was done first by Chris Cornell of Soundgarden. Cornell certainly gets credit for the arrangement which few people had heard before. One of the side effects of the Death Of Radio is that some songs just aren’t well known, and Cornell’s certainly should be.

If you are like me, and you only remember Michael Jackson singing this song, this will help you forget the crotch grabbing idiot’s version, because trust me, this is like an entirely different song.

In a good way.

UPDATE: If you want JUST the MP3 to put on your iPod, I’m sure ITunes has it. However, if you go here or here, you can also download it before it gets yanked.

Imagine adding this to your Ipod

You may not like the concept of American Idol,
but if you don’t think this 17 year old boy can sing,
you have don’t have a clue.

John Lennon’s “Imagine”
as sung by David Archuleta
flawed only by the facts that it was cut down for time
and that Paula wants to make some sort of sick car ornament out of the boy.

Sound definitely req’d — but you don’t have to stick around afterwards to listen to them fawn over him.

David Archuleta

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