chickenshit...

okay, this is embarrassing. this post shall go down in history as the most embarrassing post of all times, but i'm so goddamn mad right now that i can't not write about it! so here goes, i can't believe i'm going public with this...

i got home a little while ago and made dinner. and i figured i'd turn on the television (the goddamn idiot box!!!) and find something mindless to entertain me while i ate. friends, this is why i don't watch TV... what i ended up watching was something i'd never seen before and that i sure as hell will never watch again -- the worst possible waste-of-time show, the most horrid evil ever made... "american idol".

(ugh, i totally just threw up in my mouth a little bit just seeing that in print...)

oh, but it gets worse.

so, the show is a total trainwreck (is this why i continued to watch it?). everyone on it is horrible. EVERYONE! and i expect that. but what's really got me all fired up right now is the way the show dealt with the last auditioner on tonight's program. it was this 18 year old kid named zachary. before they showed his audition, they had shots of him walking, shots that were focused on his footwear -- high heels. can you all see where this is going?

the kid gets into his audition, and all three judges are a little taken aback by how he looks. now, the kid is pretty, he's got a pretty face, longish hair, he's tall and skinny, very feminine. but he was obviously totally comfortable with himself. the one judge that wasn't the douchebag simon or paula abdul was all, "so tell us something interesting about yourself." and douchebag simon scoffs and says, "as if he needs to". but the kid was a total good sport, and says that he's talented and he's happy to be there and people confuse him for a girl all the time and he thinks that's really funny.

and one of the judges, maybe douchebag simon, but it could have been the other guy, says, "you mean you're not a girl?" and zachary laughs and says "no, i'm a guy!" and then he goes on to sing his song, a whitney houston song. and the judges stop him midway through, obviously very uncomfortable, and douchebag simon is all, "no. absolutely not. that was horrible. and confused." and paula abdul, queen wuss of wussland, says, "yeah, i just don't think your voice is ready for the competition." and if that's not bad enough, she goes on to qualify her statement by saying, "but it's only about your voice."

what! the! fuck!

so, the poor kid not only doesn't get to be on the crappy "american idol" show, but he's basically humiliated. and they show him coming out of the audition room in tears, all upset, and they're interviewing him and he's going on and on about how he should have known that "american idol" would be just as prejudiced as the rest of the world, and how he should have known that they wouldn't know what to do with a guy who decided to sing a woman's song. the kid was heartbroken and disappointed.

but here's the real kicker, the real proof that "american idol" ranks right up there with wal-mart and george bush on the list of things that suck bigtime --

the song that was playing in the background while this post-audition interview was going on?
"the crying game". everyone on the PLANET should be insulted right now!!!

barf barf BARF!!! i'm absolutely dumbfounded by this whole thing. not entirely surprised, mind you, but totally beside myself at how horrible and narrow-minded this stupid stupid packaged-for-mass-consumption society can be.