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Blake on American Idol is slaughtering one of my alltime favorite songs evereverever: Mack The Knife. Why is this happening? Simon's going to slap him down.

So I've been drawing a while, right, because I haven't felt like writing in the last few days, and when I don't feel like writing but am still into my own little world, I do rappy drawings. I haven't done crappy drawings in maybe a year or so though, and I forgot how I ever did it. But here's the thing I'm noticing, though. I decided to paint it, as I always do, using OpenCanvas. As I'm painting, I realize I've got the shade drawn, the light in front of me off, the lights behind me on, and the screen turned all the way down so I'm almost looking over the top of it. I can't see the screen otherwise. I've got my glasses off because I have to get close to reduce the glare, but then when I back away I have to put them back on in order to see anything. Then when I turn the screen back up and turn the light on, the colors and depth both look totally different from what it just looked like. And I start to think, you know, all these times when people look at my computer paintings and tell me they're overpainted or underpainted or the colors and shadows are weird, I wonder, is this because I can't frigging see?

Just some mana'o.

WHY is Simon not slapping Blake down for massacring this song? WTF? And dude, Phil Stacey just OWNED. And the judges didn't like it? What's going on here? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

Oh! My friend asked me to dance at a party a week from Friday. Whoa, Hula season is starting early this year. I wonder what I'll dance? :) Yay for parties. Yay for people allowing me to dance at them.

I have to go download "I Who Have Nothing" by Jordan Sparks and make it my new song along with "I'm Not That Girl."

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Oh, there've been times I've been so obsessive and anal that I would wacom paint a pic over numerous computers, and they've all got different settings or something. I never know if my original is too dark or too light, and so I just go off of what my favorite monitor tells me.

I hope that your actual eyesight is not the case. Must be a trick of the light. I'd get that checked though, just to be safe.

I stopped watching American Idol ages ago. But I do know that Simon is constantly surprised by the fact that the singers sound different live than when it's on tv. Methinks he should stop saying that and the judges should all wear headphones so they can hear what WE hear. Or spend money on better audio so that WE can hear whatever the fuck they're hearing.

Well regardless, I'm getting Lasik surgery in two weeks. From what I hear, that's supposed to correct minor color problems (just by making things clearer) and also depth perception. I've always had real bad problems with depth and distance. Hopefully the surgery will at least help with that.

Then I'll have no excuse for sucking. ;)

I've never heard Simon say that he thinks the singers sound different in TV. I know that I usually agree with him, but on some nights I'm just like, "WHAT??" Tonight was one of those nights. Dude, but there's one kid on there who has got to go, like, now. O_o