Canadian Idol Auditions

Is it really season six?? 

I don’t like the audition shows much.   I was at work last week when the first one aired, but last night I watched.  And my goodness, old habits die hard, because I found myself picking up pen and paper to scribble down a recap of sorts.

And here’s my notes. 

- Lloyd Robinson is kind of flat.  But handsome.  And wears a nice suit.
- Phillipe from Montreal (accordian boy with caterpillar eyebrows) sings School’s Out: yikes.
- Cocky leather jacket dude Ralph is able to sing with absolutely NO body movement other than his face. That’s an interesting talent.
- Flat turban fellow from Pakistan uses an invisible microphone and  breaks out some bizarre dance moves, prompting Zack to call it “genuine crap”. HAHA!! I love Zack.
- Melanie from Ingleside has a lot of confidence, despite the fact that she never has dated except for prom and cannot sing to save her life. And she won’t be going to TO.
- Amber Lee with guitar – YES!! (Unfortunately, that’s all I wrote….) I think she’s the one that Sass has already chosen as the next idol.
- Canadian Tire guy showering in forest – nice voice, poor song choice.
- Ben screw-up clips. Looks like he’s planning on sticking with that disgusting hair for life.
- Big bald leather clad metal guy with parents who sing opera. Good gawd. I have no clue why they put him through.
- Red-head 16 yr. old Katherine St. Laruent, very cute despite her large teeth; I think she is singing well,  but I am distracted by Jake’s flaming pink shirt.
- Many screaming people are running out the double doors in quick succession waving their gold tickets and hugging people.

Vancouver:
- Shaun Francisco – talks back to Jake who finds him boring. Gets through anyway.
- Beany boy from Australia in camoflauge shorts sings “this song’s gonna get stuck in your head’. They sent him away!! Why????
- Bouncy boy Andrew Hennings, bald, glasses, goes on and on (and on and on and on and on) ……..prompting Sass to begin praying for the end of time.
- King of Swing wanna-be Pat, with grease dripping hair and oblique eyebrows, sings to a roomfull of smiling geriatrics. His rendition of the last bars of Oh Canada puts him through. The make up people behind the scenes at CI place an order for several truckloads of gel.
- Who the heck is Jully Black? She’s hilarious.
- Afghanistani Mozhdah is beautiful, but deemed ‘not ready’ by the judges.
- Vincent from Liberia sings “You’re every woman” to Sass.  And he’s off to Toronto.  Again, I’m not sure why.
- 9 more screamers come tumbling through the door.

Winnipeg:
- Kayla Luky, who is extremely cute, does a good job of Big Black Horse and a Cherry Tree. She’s in.
- Laura Gallant does a ridiculously off key version of….I don’t even know. She’s out.
- Katelyn Dawn from Steinbech gets lots of camera time, taking her cute little dog to a nursing home. Awwwwwwww. She’s beautiful. So everyone except Sass says yes.
- Steven Porter sings Moondance and gets a big YES! across the board.  Now there’s a kid I like a lot. 
- 8 more screaming crazies exit the room of doom.
Last but not least there’s a mixed up montage of the good, the bad and the ugly to close the show.

They are certainly rushing their butts through this process, aren’t they? Or the coverage of it, at any rate. Ottawa, Hamilton, and the East Coast are next. That should take, what – fifteen minutes? Including filler from the singer amongst the trees showering camper guy…….Who, by the way, is sounding better and better.