Fikaked: April!

1. Unfortunately, it sounds like NBC is planning to pull the plug on one of the best shows on television, Life. Apparently the "let's move the show to a different time slot every week and see if anyone can guess when it's on" campaign didn't turn out too well. Nice one, NBC. Boo.

2. Free Richard Alpert! Hopefully this is accurate. It's been a long time coming...

3. Jeremy Enigk's new album, OK Bear, is out there, finally, and it's really solid. Continues along the same lines as World Waits, but not as dramatic or produced. "Mind Idea" is awesome.

4. Best top 5 American Idol has put together since I've been watching the show. No question. They don't know how to shut up, and Adam is downright obnoxious, but all of them can definitely blow.

5. Finally watched Role Models this week. HILARIOUS.

6. Iron & Wine have released both an odds-and-ends compilation (Around the Well) and a live album (Norfolk). I don't have to tell you they're both great - it's Iron & Wine, isn't it?

7. I had a friend call me the other day to let me know that only about 5 people showed up to a Junior Boys show in Lexington, KY. I'm assuming people there are still trying to get their lives back together after the Wildcats lackluster basketball season. There really is no other possible explanation.

8. The new Dirty Projectors album, Bitte Orca is at best a grower, and at worst something that I'm never going to be able to figure out/get into. Their collaboration with David Byrne on Dark Was the Night and the first single from Bitte, "Stillness is the Move", are both pretty catchy, but evidently that isn't their m.o. Definitely not for everybody.

9. Is there anything cooler on the internet than Daytrotter? Here's a list of all the bands that have played for them (you can download their performances for free on the site, by the way).

10. Two other absolutely awesome websites: This is Why You're Fat & FailBlog. Go check 'em out. Guaranteed you'll be a repeat customer.

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Cup of Soup: A Truly Flaming "Ring of Fire"

This is borderline inappropriate:

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Cup of Soup: Bon Voyage

Tatiana Del Toro is many things, but being a person that I want to see on American Idol twice a week (or ever again, for that matter) isn't one of them. The ridiculous laughing and the fake drama-ish weeping, along with the incessant begging, pleading, and "thank-yous" were just absolutely intolerable. But the last straw for me was the sudden development of both a Spanish accent and an inability to talk without using broken English on Thursday night - two nights after those same traits obviously had something to do with a different contestant getting voted through. Ugh. And Seacrest is just racking up awkward moments like there's no tomorrow:

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Cup of Soup: Magical

I consider the Police's "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" to be one of the best songs of all time. This, however, is just absolutely unbearable:

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Awkward...

Last night, American Idol was just short of a flaming disaster.  The judges were weird, the little sit-downs were worse, and 2/3 of the contestants were either not very good or just plain awful.  Oh yeah, and this happened:

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