2/9/07 – added photos for the contestants going on to Hollywood

8:01 – Oh, Katharine. *sigh* You know, her CD‘s out now. I should go pick it up, even if it is r&b-corrupted pop. Hey, you know, I sort of thought it was Olivia Newton-John in the brief clip yesterday! But I didn’t believe it. She was just on Grease: The One That I Want on Sunday, too. I guess she’s doing a twofer.

8:03 Martik – This guy’s scaring me. Yeah, he’s in the wrong business.

8:07 Sholandric – Nope. Aw, Olivia’s nice. “Unfortunately your pitch is not on.” Hee.

8:13 Marianna – 16 years of training, mother in show business, sounds like Kat’s background! We’ll see. Oooh, that’d be NO. Forget I mentioned Kat in this context. Wait, what, her mom’s coming in? Geez.

8:17 “Do you want me to do some cartwheels?” Um. No?

The times are all screwed up now, because I paused it to answer the phone. So I’ll leave off the times.

Alaina – I wasn’t into it at first, but the second part was good. I like her, but she needs to keep confident. Simon “Oh, definitely yes.” He’s crushing on her. ;)

Phuong – Your family is right. You should keep pleasing them by abandoning music.

Brandon – Another background singer…the last background singer (Melinda) that auditioned was awesome. The thing is, you know background singers at least have voices, or they wouldn’t have gotten the backup job. Whether they can front is a different question. Definitely a yes.

Brian – Another Hollywood-week reject. Didn’t blow me away, but wasn’t bad. Sort of agree with Simon–good, but forgettable.

Sherman – So you can get around the rules by doing a petition? Interesting. Okay, that’s possibly the best thing I’ve seen on this show. That was truly beautiful. *wipes eyes* And I’m not being sarcastic.

21 contestants through on day one–or, as Ryan says, “earned a trip to Hollywood.” Aren’t they already IN Hollywood? “Yes, here’s your…uh…bus fare.”

Cavett – What is she doing? Her boyfriend’s right outside the door, and she’s making inappropriate gestures at Simon! That’s just disturbing. Actually, it would have been disturbing even if her boyfriend weren’t outside.

Darold – Hee. Okay, she’s singing love songs to Simon, and he’s lamenting that his girlfriend is leaving for another man. Hmm. Interesting set of song choices.

Eric – Sometimes not having heard anything like that in a long time is a VERY GOOD THING. OMG, Randy and Paula’s infamous DVD again. Wow.

19 more today. So that’s 41 from LA. Not bad at all. Another audition stop next week? I am getting so ready for the auditions to be over. Wait, though…there was a girl in the commercials before the show even started who was singing “Stormy Weather” and I really really liked her. Haven’t seen her yet. Did I miss her? Anyone see her? Of course, we’ve had a lot of sort of bluesy singers, and it’s possible they showed a clip from a different song she sang and I didn’t recognize her.