American Idol Buzz

By shay

August 16, 2006 8:38 AM | Link to this

morning!! O.k. here is my take on the audition process. I think it is a matter of luck when making it to the next round. Of course you have those that are naturally talented on stage, but that is only less than 5%. The rest make it to the top 12 by pure luck and a process of elimination that is biased. If you have one bad day, you are out of there. If you sound just “o.k.” you may or may not be sent to the next round. Some that sound very good get sent home because of other issues like appearance, song choice, etc. Out of 60,000 people auditioning, you can’t tell me that Diana Degarmo, Jasmine Trias, Justin Linguini, Pickler, Chicken Little, the little black kid who sang the Whiz song from season 2, etc were some of the best. I just don’t believe that!!

By Carla

August 16, 2006 8:41 AM | Link to this

Morning. You’re funny shay. You know the producers choose the contestants that they know will give the show some pizazz. Of course there’s going to be your good singers, but they have to have people with personality (Mikayla) and those that you want to hate (Brenna) for ratings. Everything is about making money.

By Apple Bottom

August 16, 2006 8:44 AM | Link to this

Morning Shay & Carla i’ll have to check these auditons out i’ll comment later, have a great day all!

By shay

August 16, 2006 8:47 AM | Link to this

I know Carla, but it’s not fair for someone with a little spunk like Mikayla to make the top 12 and then they send someone else who actually has talent home.

By Carla

August 16, 2006 8:52 AM | Link to this

Hey AB! Of course it’s not fair shay, but life isn’t fair. Many things in our own lives function the same way. Does every person with a high paying job deserve it? No! But they got the chance and maybe someone more qualified didn’t. Such is life!

By Apple Bottom

August 16, 2006 8:53 AM | Link to this

If chicken little can make it to the top 12; anybody can make cause that poor guy could not sing. And to think he broke up with his girlfriend cause he said he would’nt have time for her now that he was a celebrity? Yeah right “chicken man”. Justin G. aka “Hair Boy” can not sing at all…let me start working i’ll check back in later….this blog can be contagious & i may need therapy

By shay

August 16, 2006 8:54 AM | Link to this

Oh hush up Carla! I know, I know. But that doesn’t mean I have to like the way the audition process goes. Heck, I should try out. Put a little extra money in my pocket and make a country album. I know about two country songs. Surely, I can be the next Queen of Country Music.

By Apple Bottom

August 16, 2006 8:55 AM | Link to this

Carla & Shay may i ask what do you 2 do all day? I work from 8am-5pm and pop in on here when i can, i’m just curious and hopefully i’m not stepping nobody’s toes :-)

By shay

August 16, 2006 9:00 AM | Link to this

Apple Bottom, I work as a paralegal. I have some busy days and some not so busy days. I have my own office, bathroom, etc and I am the only person on my floor. I work from 7:45-4:45 M-F but my job is very flexible.

By Carla

August 16, 2006 9:07 AM | Link to this

You’re too old shay!:-) I work in insurance sales so my job is pretty flexible as well. I get here when I do and I leave when I get ready. Nah not really, but there’s no one looking over my shoulder. As long as my work gets done. I’m very good at multitasking.

By shay

August 16, 2006 9:07 AM | Link to this

Carla was working at Visions M-F until they closed and now she work with Jex at Majic City. Carla works the door and Jex dances.

Hey yall guess what, I was passing Majic City Sunday and this girl had been inside to get an application. She was starring at it like it was in French. And I said to my self, it couldn’t be that difficult to read. The questions were probably

Question #1 - What are your measurements? Question #2 - Do you have any client references? Question #3- Have you ever taken off your clothes before and been paid for it? Question #4 - Do you have any family that care if you dance in this club?

I mean come on, these aren’t trick questions.

By shay

August 16, 2006 9:10 AM | Link to this

Carla, I guess I am too old but Master P came out when he was like 49 so I can make an album too.

By Carla

August 16, 2006 9:10 AM | Link to this

Ha ha!! You’re a funny lady shay. AB don’t belive anything shay says. You go to a club once in awhile and now all of a sudden you work there. I can truly say I’ve never been to MC, but I can’t speak for Jex.:-) Dang shay were you getting an app too?? I think you put it out there yesterday that you have the assets for the job.

By Carla

August 16, 2006 9:11 AM | Link to this

But not on AI. Try Oprah’s pop star.

By shay

August 16, 2006 9:16 AM | Link to this

Girl, I am too old to be “dropping it like it’s hot”. I was just passing by hatin’ on the young ladies. Jex was trippin’ because she was there and i called her by her real name and she uses her stage name when she is working!

By Carla

August 16, 2006 9:18 AM | Link to this

What’s her stage name????

By shay

August 16, 2006 9:20 AM | Link to this

Flexy Jexy. That girl can bend her body like you wouldn’t believe.

By Carla

August 16, 2006 9:26 AM | Link to this

Wow! I had no idea.

By shay

August 16, 2006 9:28 AM | Link to this

Yep, according to the fellas, she is really good at what she does. I haven’t seen her in action, I am only going by word of mouth.

By mystique

August 16, 2006 9:28 AM | Link to this

Mornin’ All! It has been so busy around here! But I think I have finally crawled out from under the pile of work :)

Unfortunatley the audition process is only based on about 10% talent. The rest is made up by the all important looks and personality. They let the not so hot singers and total biatches through to create a little drama and interest. I mean, c’mon, would we really be that interested in it if there were nothing but flawless, sweet-natured singers. Probably not.

Girl, just apply at hooters with me! Tips are great and there isn’t nearly as much dropping it like its hot required.

By shay

August 16, 2006 9:36 AM | Link to this

I can do Hooters. Do I have to wear those booty orange shorts.

Mystique answers with a yes

I do, o.k. count me in!! What do you wear in the winter time?

By Apple Bottom

August 16, 2006 9:36 AM | Link to this

Carla & Shay y’all are a mess - lol thanks for the info i was just curious, my job is very flexible govt/acctng

By mystique

August 16, 2006 9:49 AM | Link to this

Sorry, just gotta freeze your @$$ off in the same old booty shorts!!

Although if it is snowing out we do get to drink all the free brandy we want to stay warm.

By shay

August 16, 2006 9:50 AM | Link to this

OMG, where do I pick up my application. I get to be sexy all year round.

By Carla

August 16, 2006 9:53 AM | Link to this

I think you are just looking for a good excuse to wear some booty shorts shay. Um Mystique, where have you been?? You know it’s blog first work second.:-) AB, you ain’t seen nothing yet. When they get going, things can get a little out of hand on here. It try to control it, but it’s not much I can do.

By shay

August 16, 2006 9:58 AM | Link to this

Oh, don’t act like you don’t be cuttin’ up too. When Carla gets mad, she will go off!!! LOL!

By Carla

August 16, 2006 10:06 AM | Link to this

Only on MPDs.

By Wanda

August 16, 2006 10:25 AM | Link to this

Yeah mystique, do you have an excuse for missing blog yesterday? I’m the only one who has sick days at will around here. I’m probably the only one who doesn’t work also!

By mystique

August 16, 2006 10:31 AM | Link to this

Shay, Hooters on P’tree is hiring :)

Carla, I know. I got my priorities all screwed up! But I am back on track now.

Welcome AB! It has been known to get pretty wild in here. Strippers, liquor and speedos. Hope you are up for it!! Cross your fingers ladies that since school is back in session the MPD’s will leave us alone.

By Carla

August 16, 2006 10:31 AM | Link to this

We only allow Wanda and Deirdre time off. Other than that attendance is mandatory.

By mystique

August 16, 2006 10:36 AM | Link to this

Lets see here, I had my boss type up a little note to excuse me. Mystique goes fishing through her purse to find it Here ya go. OOOPS! That was a gum wrapper. Sorry, don’t worry, that will come out.

Oh, here it is slips the excuse across the keyboard to Wanda, hope it works Pass that to Carla and Shay when you are done, please!

By shay

August 16, 2006 10:39 AM | Link to this

Mystique, this ain’t gonna get it. “I had to wash my hair” is not a good enough excuse. Carla, right her up please.

By ,,,=^..^=,,,

August 16, 2006 10:47 AM | Link to this

linny sits here, laughing until tears running from her eyes girls girls GIRLS! you do not KNOW how much i needed to laugh this morning!!!

welcome back AB, hey mysti, where ya been, gal? shay..carla…jexie (flexie jexie omg omg omg — linny starts laughing again ) i love you guys!!!!

now…back to work!

meow!

By mystique

August 16, 2006 10:48 AM | Link to this

Dang, well, it was worth a try. I just thought that you ladies might sympathize with me. It is a painstaking process; wash, condition, brush and dry. Oh, and I broke 2 nails in the process! That is a lot of emotional strain. I needed time to recover :0

By Carla

August 16, 2006 10:54 AM | Link to this

That’s not gonna fly. You should know better mystique. I don’t know how you expect us to run a successful blog and you’re at home washing your hair. That needs to be done before or after blogging hours.

By shay

August 16, 2006 10:59 AM | Link to this

Linny, glad to cheer you up. Now back to you mystique….. wait….. where is Jex? O.k. Mystique, you are off the hook. Jex is making this a habit. Have yall noticed she always take off on Wednesdays. I guess the club ain’t really paying too much during the week. A girl has to have some time to run her errands so why not let it be on Wednesdays. Jex, give me change for a ten. And don’t give me all those $1’s. I know you have a whole stack of em’.

By mystique

August 16, 2006 11:08 AM | Link to this

Hi Linny! Glad we could give ya a good laugh. Apparently, we don’t get off time so we are always available to cheer you up!

I heard that ole Flexy Jexy does a matinee show down at MC on Wednesdays occasionally, those businessmen that come around for lunch need a good ho, ahem, blushing, I mean show!

By Wanda

August 16, 2006 11:08 AM | Link to this

Wednesdays are golf days. Maybe Jex is out knocking a few balls around :-)

By Carla

August 16, 2006 11:10 AM | Link to this

LOL. Jex is going to get ya’ll!

By shay

August 16, 2006 11:13 AM | Link to this

those businessmen that come around for lunch need a good ho, ahem, blushing, I mean show!

LOL!!!

Flexy Jexy loves us. She won’t be mad at all!!

By mystique

August 16, 2006 11:18 AM | Link to this

Well, ladies, I am off to a painfully early office luncheon. Woo-hoo! What fun. If I am not back in 2 hours send out a search party.

By Carla

August 16, 2006 11:20 AM | Link to this

You bet we will mystique.

By shay

August 16, 2006 11:22 AM | Link to this

Slacking on your blog job Mystique??? You just got here!!! Carla, put a check by her name next to the write up. We will know next week when we start the layoffs that she is first on the list. No severance package for you missy.

By Carla

August 16, 2006 11:33 AM | Link to this

Will do! I would just think people would put more pride and effort into their blogging. You can’t just find a good blog out there anymore.

By mystique

August 16, 2006 1:04 PM | Link to this

Trust me ladies, lunch with the office at picadilly was not on my priority list!!! But, thankfully it is all over now.

By shay

August 16, 2006 1:07 PM | Link to this

LOL!!

By Carla

August 16, 2006 1:11 PM | Link to this

I ate there Sunday.

By mystique

August 16, 2006 1:31 PM | Link to this

The food looked pretty good and perhaps with different company I would have enjoyed it a little more! I am trying to be good and diet, and they don’t have much in the way of diet foods. So I just kinda picked.

OMG, do y’all need another reason to hate Justin Timberlake? Look over at the blog Rodney just posted. Timberlake is going to get his little butt beat if Jex reads that!!!!

By ,,,=^..^=,,,

August 16, 2006 1:33 PM | Link to this

shay…got a spare closet you can put me in on your floor? i’ll come work for you!!!!

i have nooooooooooooooo privacy here!

meow! linny-kat

By shay

August 16, 2006 1:36 PM | Link to this

Sure Linny! I have two empty offices on this floor with me that you can have.

By ,,,=^..^=,,,

August 16, 2006 1:39 PM | Link to this

whimper

By shay

August 16, 2006 1:45 PM | Link to this

Believe it or not Linny, it gets pretty lonely working by yourself. I love the privacy but I get tired of telling jokes to the rats.

By Carla

August 16, 2006 1:49 PM | Link to this

Rats??

By shay

August 16, 2006 1:52 PM | Link to this

Carla, you know I am kidding! If there were rats in here, trust, I would not be sitting here blogging.

By Carla

August 16, 2006 1:56 PM | Link to this

I didn’t know. Maybe you guys had become friends.

By shay

August 16, 2006 1:58 PM | Link to this

LOL!!! Nah, I don’t normally make friends with animals. The only rat in here is the boss.

By mystique

August 16, 2006 1:58 PM | Link to this

Some call it lonely I would call it peaceful :)

Rats?!? There best not be any rats in this office or someone is going to find out just how loud I can scream and how fast I can run.

By Carla

August 16, 2006 1:59 PM | Link to this

LOL!!! An attorney that’s a rat! Nah, say it ain’t so!

By shay

August 16, 2006 2:03 PM | Link to this

Shut yo’ mouth and say it ain’t so!!! Nah, he’s a good guy. One of the select few that you can actually trust. His momma raised him well. Carla, had he been a little younger, you could have had you an attorney. But he’s too old.

By Carla

August 16, 2006 2:12 PM | Link to this

You know I don’t like old men.

By mystique

August 16, 2006 2:14 PM | Link to this

Shay, just how old we talkin’ here?!? Don’t count him out just yet, Carla. Old means mature, stable and possibly rich!! If he is good lookin’ then you have the full package!

By shay

August 16, 2006 2:18 PM | Link to this

42.

By Carla

August 16, 2006 2:22 PM | Link to this

Too old.

By mystique

August 16, 2006 2:28 PM | Link to this

Yeah, that is a bit too old. Whats your cutoff age, Carla?

By Wanda

August 16, 2006 2:32 PM | Link to this

42 too old! Lord have mercy, you yung’uns just don’t know!

Mystique, did Picadilly have fried catfish today? I love fried catfish :-)

By Carla

August 16, 2006 2:34 PM | Link to this

It’s usually 33. I had the catfish on Sunday and it was fabulicious.

By shay

August 16, 2006 2:34 PM | Link to this

I guess 28 and 42 is a bit much as far as the age difference but my husband is 10 years old than me, so who am I to talk.

By shay

August 16, 2006 2:36 PM | Link to this

33 is a good cut off age. 5 years difference makes sense especially if you plan on getting married and having kids. Carla, do you still want 10 kids?

By mystique

August 16, 2006 2:38 PM | Link to this

Sorry Wanda, didn’t see any fried catfish. I had some sort of baked fish and it was just so-so.

33? I guess mine would be about that. I would feel creepy dating anyone older than 40. Not that there is anything wrong with a person over 40, it just weirds me out to date someone about old enough to be my father.

By Carla

August 16, 2006 2:38 PM | Link to this

10??? WTH??? Where’d you get that from?

By shay

August 16, 2006 2:39 PM | Link to this

mystique, you are still young. Dating someone 40 would be too old for you.

By Carla

August 16, 2006 2:40 PM | Link to this

And I’m not still young?? What are you trying to say shay?

By shay

August 16, 2006 2:41 PM | Link to this

Didn’t you say you wanted to have alot of kids or was that someone else? I could have swore you said you wanted a football team of kids.

By Carla

August 16, 2006 2:43 PM | Link to this

You’ve never heard me say that. I hope I want kids one day. I just don’t see it now.

By shay

August 16, 2006 2:44 PM | Link to this

Carla, LOL!!! You just told me I was too old to release an album and we are a couple of months apart in age, so I figured you were old as hell too.

By ,,,=^..^=,,,

August 16, 2006 2:51 PM | Link to this

linny rocks back and forth peacefully in her antique rocking chair, her crocheting laid aside in the heat, as she listens to the chil’ren…

By Carla

August 16, 2006 2:55 PM | Link to this

No I said you were too old to do AI. Make that a year apart.

By shay

August 16, 2006 2:59 PM | Link to this

when is your b-day? I can still do AI. Taylor is 29 right?

By Wanda

August 16, 2006 2:59 PM | Link to this

Wanda pulls up a rocking chair beside linny and offers her some sweet tea

By shay

August 16, 2006 3:01 PM | Link to this

Wanda and Linny, you too are funny!

By Carla

August 16, 2006 3:03 PM | Link to this

March. Yeah I think he and Mandisa are 29, but it still doesn’t mean that they aren’t too old for AI. If they keep expanding the age, the rapping granny from that other show will be auditioning.

By shay

August 16, 2006 3:06 PM | Link to this

So you just turned 28. You are a baby. March what? My husband’s b-day and my anniversary are March 5.

By shay

August 16, 2006 3:08 PM | Link to this

I will be 30 in January so I will officially be over the hill.

By Carla

August 16, 2006 3:10 PM | Link to this

18th. Are you going to have a big celebration for the big 30?

By mystique

August 16, 2006 3:11 PM | Link to this

Wanda and Linny y’all are a hoot :)

Heavens no, shay, I wouldn’t date someone 40. I wouldn’t do more than 7 years older than me.

By shay

August 16, 2006 3:12 PM | Link to this

I need to. I will already be depressed from turning 30. The least I can do is get drunk in the process. My b-day is too close to New Years. Perhaps I should just have a New Years Jammy Jam. My b-day is Jan. 6.

By Wanda

August 16, 2006 3:14 PM | Link to this

I’ll be in ATL (if I don’t die of old age first) the first week of October to celebrate my baby’s 21st birthday! It’s also my husband’s birthday that week. I asked him if there was any place special he would like me to take him. He said yes…THE VARSITY! LOL! My yankee boy loves them chili dogs!

By Carla

August 16, 2006 3:15 PM | Link to this

That’s my aunt’s bday too. It’s on a Sat so you better party hard.

By shay

August 16, 2006 3:16 PM | Link to this

I love the varsity and every time I leave there, I am sick for two days. That greasy food is the best!!! So what my cholesterol is extremely high and I can barely see when I leave.

By mystique

August 16, 2006 3:17 PM | Link to this

Shay, you just got married on your husband’s bday so he would remember your anniversary. Am I right?

30? Thats a big deal, hope you do something fun.

By Carla

August 16, 2006 3:17 PM | Link to this

Your hubby is hilarious Wanda!

By shay

August 16, 2006 3:19 PM | Link to this

Mystique, you got it!

By shay

August 16, 2006 3:24 PM | Link to this

I can’t believe March will be 5 years of marriage. This day in age, 2 years is a huge milestone!! Linny and Wanda, I take my hat off to you both. You have been married a loooooooooong time. I think I will have killed my husband by the 10th year!!

By ,,,=^..^=,,,

August 16, 2006 3:25 PM | Link to this

OMG wanda, my middle one’s b/d is 10/1 and he’ll be 21!!!

and my hubby and i love the Varsity too!!!

^5 (but i have to warn you, my oldest turns 36 on 10/12 so….)

granny rocks harder

By shay

August 16, 2006 3:27 PM | Link to this

36??? Linny, did you get pregnant at age 5. You don’t look that old at all.

By Wanda

August 16, 2006 3:58 PM | Link to this

Oh heck girls, I have only been married for two years! It took me 45 years to find a good one!

Linny, my oldest turns 32 in a few days. He got his bday present from me in the mail yesterday. I got him a #24 model car and a very cool display case from nascar.com. He is a #8 fan, but I just can’t buy one more Jr. item. I told him he had to represent for his mama!

By ,,,=^..^=,,,

August 16, 2006 4:01 PM | Link to this

lol thank you shay-ster…. i’ll be 59 in february, honest

having sons spread out over so many years must keep me somewhat young…now if i could lose about 75 pounds i’ve put on since the “baby” (who turned 19 this year) was born, i’d be pretty darn ok!!!

By ,,,=^..^=,,,

August 16, 2006 4:04 PM | Link to this

well i’m still w/ the dad of my oldest … we went thru some rough patches, but now the rough patches we worry about are the places on the roof of our 54 year old house (we’ve been in it since 85) that are beginning to go bad… roofing aint cheap, girls!

i may have to run down to majik myself…do they take … um … “full bodied” dancers laughing my self silly

By Carla

August 16, 2006 4:12 PM | Link to this

I’m jealous Wanda.

By Wanda

August 16, 2006 4:13 PM | Link to this

Linny, congrats on still being with the dad of your oldest. What happened to the other dads? LOL! Just kidding!

Sincerely, you have a lot to be proud of. That doesn’t happen much anymore!

By Carla

August 16, 2006 4:16 PM | Link to this

I think they like the employees at MC to be thick linny, so you’re cool.:-) Night everyone!

By Wanda

August 16, 2006 4:20 PM | Link to this

This is off topic, but what isn’t? Every time we come to Atlanta, I try to go to the Fox. I promised my husband that I would take him there one day, since I think it is so awesome. I’m not picky, but every time we come it’s either some kids show playing, or the theatre is dark (like it will be this time). Then I check around town for any other concerts. Chastain has Santana, which ain’t my thing. It has to be good to get me to put up with Chastain. I even checked Lakewood Amp, or Hi Fi Buys, whatever, and its somebody I never heard of. Where do all the good shows go when I come home? We like all kinds of music, theatre, ballet, anything! I think they head for the hills when they hear I’m coming down I-75!

By mystique

August 16, 2006 4:43 PM | Link to this

You know we don’t have to stick to a topic around here! Wanda, we just don’t really get a lot of good shows lately. Good luck finding something!

Goodnight all :)