Carrie Underwood Review, Pearl Harbor Day, and eye black legends

So, I hope everyone had a fabulous St. Nick's day.  The jolly old man brought me a tie conveniently for the show I was to attend in the evening and two used albums: Smokey Robinson & the Miracles Greatest Hits Vol. 2 and The Temptations 25th Anniversary Album.  I spent my St. Nick's Day attending my company's Christmas party.  If you read yesterday, you'd know that the talent was Carrie Underwood.  I know I was all about Team Kelly yesterday, but hearing Carrie's voice live makes me want to change my mind.  Her voice was amazing.  It felt like every time she hit a note, she was cheating on her husband with me.  I will have plenty of pictures up later on that I will post on the blog once I upload them from the actual good camera I used, but for now here's a ridiculous photo of Carrie from my cell phone. 

Here's my review:  It was the most unique concert I've ever been to because it felt private.  You aren't sharing the moment with an arena full of people, but just with coworkers and close friends/family.  With that being said, the audience was stiff.  No one really got into it like it was a real concert which kind of took away from the experience.  Everyone was all tight, which makes a little sense since you are in the presence of bosses but I wish people would've sang along, clapped along, and cheered like we were at a concert.  Now, the whole thing was free and I had a spectacular view and Carrie is a talented person, who just won female artist of the year the night before, so I have no complaints.  I had a stupendous time and I got to dress up which I love to do.  The food after was great and who could complain about free drinks?  The Carl Lindner memorial video was very touching and actually brought a tear to my eyes.  Carrie sang every song that I knew of hers except for her cover of Home Sweet Home and that new Mamma's Song.  I wish she would've sang Home Sweet Home because I love Motley Crue, but only for selfish reasons and I'm being very nit picky.  It's what you are supposed to do it a review.  She gave no encore, but the people didn't cheer enough to get one quite frankly so she was right not to.  I respect her because when she talks she seems very down to Earth and very sweet. It's not a persona she just makes up for cameras.  That's really her.  She was a journalism major...I love that.  I was a journalism minor.  She was in college wondering what she was going to do with her life, and she decided to try out for American Idol and it changed her life.  She's married to an NHL star, and that dude is a lucky man because he's married to a beautiful lady with an amazing voice and personality.  She just seems like someone who'd hang out with you, you know. She's not one of those stuck up, I'm better than you people.  I think it's because 6 years ago she was in our shoes.  She sang her heart out at this gig too.  Like, she just was at this big country awards show the night before and then came up here and sang her heart out for a few thousand people the night after. I really appreciate her and Great American for throwing the party.  Carl Lindner is one of the most amazing men to live to start this years ago, having many great artists like Carrie perform for his employees and employees reflect their leader.  Carl was a great man.  Cincinnati lost a great man who touched people.  He has already changed my life for the better and I never met the man.  I appreciate everything he has done, and I hope his sons can continue the tradition of the Christmas party.  It won't be the same without Carl but the party can be thrown in his memory.  I am grateful for everything Great American does for me.  Sometimes I sit back and say, "Do I really deserve this?"   But anyway I'm getting off track...Now for my grade of the Carrie Underwood concert:


Voice- A
Outfit- A- 
Song Selection- A
Audience Interaction- C-
Audience Involvement- D+
Band- B
Lyrics- A+
Performance- A
Overall- B+


Winner of the Day: America.  On this day, back in 1941, "...a day that will live in infamy," according to FDR, Pearl Harbor was bombed and ambushed by the Japanese.  353 planes attacked the Harbor, sinking four battleships.  2,402 Americans were killed that day, the largest of any attack on American soil until September 11, 2001.  America declared war on Japan after the attack of Pearl Harbor, who awoke the sleeping giant that is our country and of course the rest is history.  A crappy movie with Josh Hartnett and Ben Affleck was made about it and Ben's huge white teeth distract you from the movie, which is about an hour too long, but anyway  shout out to anyone in the military.  I'm proud of each and every one of you. I know it's cliche but you are my heroes. 

Loser of the Day:  The neighbor of Jinx.  Jinx was an 8 year old dog who was killed by eating hotdogs stuffed with needles.  The neighbor had complained Jinx was in his yard so he decided to be cruel and do this.  It's horrific.  Read the article for details.

Quote of the Day: "Press on: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.  Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.  Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.  Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."-Carl Lindner


Song of the Day: Jesus Take the Wheel by Carrie Underwood

Eye black Legend of the Day: John Randle

A Tribute to The Best Blog in the World, and some leftover Carrie vs Kelly

I had an entire blog written about Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood that started like this:





Tonight I will be attending my company's Christmas party, and the entertainment for the show will be Carrie Underwood.  This had me thinking about the old American Idol debate, Kelly Clarkson or Carrie Underwood?  Who is better?  Now, Kelly burst on to the scene after winning the first season of the show.  Carrie won the 4th season.  There of course were other winners, including my personal favorite, Ruben Studdard, but none compare to the two talents mentioned above.  One, a mainstream pop princess with one of the biggest hits of the 00's; the other, a country goddess and every song that comes out of her mouth strikes gold.  So who truly is better?  Let's review their resumes:

And I chose Kelly due to without Kelly there'd be no Carrie even though I believe Carrie would have a much longer and successful career, but for some reason, my blog timed out and never autosaved after I wrote long resumes for each side including Kelly's horrible performance in From Justin to Kelly which makes Mariah Carey seem like an Oscar worthy actress.  I included how Kelly has won a Platinum ranking 9 times while Carrie's debut album went 7X platinum.  I added that Kelly's Since U Been Gone was #5 on Vh1's Top 100 Songs of the 00's while Carrie's Before He Cheats was #99.  I added Carrie had guest appearances on Blue Bloods and How I Met Your Mother and is married to a hockey player.  She has collaborated with Randy Travis while Kelly collaborated with Reba, who is a ginger therefore I can't stand the woman.  Anyway, I had all this worked out.  Kelly is hot right now, her album's huge, so I went with her.  I'm not redoing the compare chart, because for some reason google timed out on me and I lost all the information I typed.  I had the whole blog written and it was awesome.  These are just a few of the facts I had.  It was probably the best blog I've ever written..You can't dispute it because you never wrote it.  Kind of like the Tenacious D Tribute song, "This is not the greatest song in the world.  This is just a tribute."  This is a tribute blog to the best blog ever written. Yeah it was supposed to be about Kelly versus Carrie, but it branched out into the meaning of life, the sound only dogs can hear, the feeling one gets while making love or going down on a roller coaster....that's what reading today's blog would've been.  Unfortunately though, google ruined it.  I won't even capitalize your  name google, you are not worth it.  Yahoo! is calling my name.  Does Alta Vista still exist?  Remember the old search engine battle?  Now all you have is Bing, google, and Yahoo! Is ask Jeeves even around anymore?  There were about as many search engines as 10-10-321 long distance numbers back in the late 90's and early 2000's.   As you can tell I am angry at technology.  I'm like Will Smith in the black people version of the Terminator, IRobot.  I feel like I'm Hulking out into like Ving Rhames with bullets across my chest in army pants and no shirt, with a machine gun wanting to pick off anything that moves.  I'd be wearing eye black of course.  Anyway, google, you giant and pioneer of the final frontier of the world wide web, yeah you with your fruity colors and probably soon to join with Amazon to create a super website that already owns YouTube.  You destroyed my greatest blog ever, and disappointed my tens of viewers who look at this daily. I will boycott you until I have to look up some useless fact like who invented Big League Chew or who sang that one song in the 80's that bombed but was sampled in a new rap song which made it big?  My blood is now pumping and all I want is to snap necks.  You can mess with me.  Just don't touch my writing, you bastard.  Internet, you suck.  Why did you time me out anyway?  It's freaking google.  I checked that always keep me signed in box yet when I'm in the middle of something you just log me out.  At least wait until I'm finished.  I'm really lightheaded from this.  I think I need Michael Clarke Duncan to come suck the sick out of me like he did Tom Hanks.  So when you become an angel on Earth would you have big wings like John Travolta in "Michael" or would you be a gigantic black man in overalls with a mouse as a friend?  Anyway, my tribute to the best blog in the world must sadly end because I actually have to do some work, so have a good day readers; I'm sorry you are stuck with this tribute rather than the best blog ever written.  It's kind of like going to see a horrible cover band, rather than the real deal, but hey it's all I got left in me.

Winner of the Day: 

, for taking my soul.

Loser of the Day: My readers, for not being able to read my best of blogs.

Quote of the Day: "Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."-Gertrude Stein

Song of the Day: Tribute by Tenacious D

Tribute Item of the Day: Nelly's Band-Aid.  He wore the thing on his face because his homie, City Spud, you know, the guy from Ride Wit Me.  City went to prison and Nelly wore it in memory of him.... What a tribute.