This Makes Sense.

So suddenly my guilty pleasure crush on the American Idol contestant has come into the light a little bit. After browsing youtube I found that he's been in a couple of bands prior to making it on the show.

It's alright. He's still a guilty pleasure.

Everyday I Come Home Expecting My Room to Look Like This.

and I will instantly turn to this.

I dream of houses and rooms with huge windows where I can sit and drink my morning coffee in, rooms with interesting closets that lead to more rooms, gigantic mansions with high ceilings and surreal wallpaper and magical twilit bathrooms with warm soapy waterfalls filling up the tub.

And then I wake up. I wake with a runny nose and a headache, the mold has gotten to me in the night. It's spread up my nose and into my brain, turning me into a swamp troll who's very grumpy and likes her privacy.

I tried putting baking powder on the wet spots of the carpet, the mold just ate them up.

Get me out of here.

This show.

My dad watches American Idol, he kind of loves it, which is a little unexpected. Last season I caught my father watching, made me want to puke all the sentiment that ever existed out my eyeballs. BUT. I've been spending a lot of time at my father's lately (him living in town+having awesome cable tv and my awesome little dog+my room turning into a swamp from all the leaks and mold=my dad's house being the place to be) and he's been watching this season. Last week he put it on, and I must say, I didn't want to throw up nearly as often. In fact, some of these people were kinda.. actually interesting? One guy did a Nirvana song, and it was a little strange, but the fact that he just let it all out there, no restrictions, I thought was pretty cool. Then I heard this other guy sing. He seemed like any other contestant, maybe with more blindingly white teeth than most, but then he started to sing. I mean it made me kinda feel warm inside, that is pretty much a first for this show. I try to gain as little amount of joy as possible from this show. Another first: this morning I found myself looking up the other songs he did, the ones from this season that I've missed. And I found that I was completely okay with whatever song he covered. Even the Beatles, which I am not normally okay with unless it's Harry Nilsson (I refused to even watch a trailer for Across the Universe, and have seen one scene from Sergeant Pepper and the annoyance boiling in my brain veins.) I'm okay with this one though. I kind of really like it.

He sounds a lot like Rod Stewart, yet he doesn't sound like he's ripping Rod off. He's got a completely different vibe. Here he is doing Maggie May:

Alright, when he sings, my heart kinda melts. And here's good ol' Rod doing it in '71:

It's definitely an influence but it's not very distracting for me. He's working with something good.

In some weird way, he reminds me of a less pronounced version this singer in a band I was really into in high school:

They both have that roughness, yet guided by sweetness and genuinity.

Also, I think American Idol finally quit taking themselves so seriously, and are just going with the bizarreness of a televised singing competition, as it should be.

Mae West

I've been all over her music lately. I only have about 20 records to choose from in my house at the moment, but it is nice to put her on and do the dishes, make some breakfast, just about anything.

Luna Lovegood Costume.

So, I love dressing up. And I love Harry Potter. There's a lot of fun to be had  in putting the two together. 

July is when the film finale comes out, so this is my last chance to go all out. At the release of the 6th book, I made Luna Lovegood raddish earrings and a cork necklace to wear. For DH pt.1 I dressed as Narcissa Malfoy:

Why wouldn't Sirius and Narcissa duel? My friend went as Cissy's Sis, Bellatrix Lestrange. I have a picture of us, just don't know where it went.

Anyway, this time around, for the final shebang, I'm picking Luna Lovegood once more. I already have the jewelry, and I'm thinking of buy these specrespecs off the interweb:

After that I just need a weird partly knit outfit with blues and purples, a light up wand (since those are cooler than the wands I've carved in the past) and some Quibblers. Making the Quibblers is proving much harder than I initially intended, so good thing I started early. They are very time consuming.