Lee DeWise...... Really?

If I needed another reason not to watch next season of American Idol other than the fact that Simon will be absent, I have just been given that reason.  They are hand picking the fucking winners.  Come on!  Did these people watch the final competition.  Lee didn't even show up!  WTF!

When he sang "Beautiful Day" I thought that he oughtta be arrested for murder... of an awesome song.... damn.
Are we really going to have to hear him do a version of that?  man....

Bowersox is 10 times the singer that he is.  And I'll give you that she seems a bit uncomfortable sans guitar but so the hell does he.

Anyway, this has been the worst year by far of Idol ranked by how much I agreed with the judges and how they just seemed to bask in Lee's rays from the beginning.

Oh well, can't say it wasn't unpredictable but, after last night's show I thought that Crystal had a pretty damned good chance.  So much for what I think!

Online Music Contests

I'm looking for contests to enter online such as singing / songwriting contests.

This is one
http://www.riffstar.com/

Playing Live On SecondLife

I really want to do this.  I think there is a legal way to do it, ie, not getting kicked out of Second Life.

Here is a WikiHow on how to do it.  Not sure if it is the legal way or not.

Here is SL wiki on how to stream music.

Live Performance on SL

Guitar Wall Hanger

Here is an instructable on how to do it yourself.

Steve Vai and Orianthi

I had never heard of heard before, but apparently she knows Steve. Maybe she plays on his Favored Nations label or something. I will check into that.

Meanwhile, here is a video with the two: