David Cook!!!!!!

Well, as you probably already know, David Cook won season 7 of American Idol. At first I was upset. I really wanted Archuleta to win, and I thought Archuleta would win. The judges seemed to like him more than Cook, and I thought the people who watched American Idol were mostly teenage girls, and I thought all those teenage girls with their cell phones would vote for Archuleta a ga-zillion times. But mostly I wanted Archuleta to win because he's Mormon. That's a really unfair and biased reason, but so what? It's my reason- it doesn't have to be reasonable.

Anyway, now that I've had a little more time to reflect on the results of American Idol, I think it's good that David Cook won. He seems more like a rocker than David Archuleta. And Cook might have more talent when it comes to arranging music and playing instruments. And he's older and has more experience than Archuleta when it comes to making music. And he's really smart, too. When he's interviewed, he seems to have intelligent things to say, and last night Simon Cowell said that David Cook was one of the nicest, most pleasant people ever to come through American Idol. Archuleta is a very nice guy, too, but doesn’t seem as smart or experienced as Cook. David Archuleta's interviews usually go like this:

Reporter: How are you doing today, David?
Arch: Oh my gosh.. um... good? I think um... goodness! Ha ha ha!
Reporter: What do you think has got you this far?
Arch: Geez.. I just love it and... everything is wonderful, you know? I'm like having a blast and gosh! Ha ha ha!

I bet you think I'm a traitor for turning my back on Archuleta after he loses. Maybe I am. I still think he's good. It's funny. I really thought he would win, and I said to myself, "when he comes out with an album, I'll buy it." My wife really likes Archuleta, and I like him too, and David Archuleta seems like a really big deal right now. I think Archuleta will still get a record deal, but I don't think I'll buy it. Archuleta is last night's news, you know? It's horrible. I was so close to Archuleta emotionally, you know. I rooted for him. My wife voted for him over twenty times. And now that he lost, I'm not friends with him anymore. Oh well. I've got lots of other albums to buy before I buy any of the American Idol albums.

Blah blah blah. American Idol this, American Idol that. Blah blah blah.

Another word about American Idol: There was this guy named Renaldo La Puz who auditioned for American Idol and he did this really funny song called, "We're brothers forever,” Now, Renaldo is probably a little bit crazy, but he's one of those cool nice crazy people, like Elwood P. Dowd from Harvey crazy, and not like Hannibal Lector crazy. So anyway the footage of Renaldo's audition got on You Tube and lots of people started singing, "We're brothers forever" and making remixes of the song.

I sincerely like "We're Brothers Forever" and the song's composer. I actually think it's catchy and uplifting.

By the way, have you ever heard of Wesley Willis? He's a schizophrenic guy who makes albums that are "so bad they're good." That's a funny phrase, but I get it. There's another thing out there that's "so bad it's good" that I want to get. It's "The Transformational Man," William Shatner's first album. I've sampled part of the album on iTunes and it's pretty wacky-wonky.

Well, if Wesley Willis can get a record deal, than I think Renaldo can, too. I just wonder if people are making fun of him or they are actually celebrating his talent. I actually enjoy it because it's so fun. I get tired of Bob Dylan singing about social injustice and depressing things like that. So what if folk songs are "true" and "important?" "We're Brothers Forever" is fun fun silly-willy!

Oh but there's another problem: Renaldo's voice is bad. He's not a good singer. But he sings so passionately and happily that it's cool. And his untrained voice makes it seems like he's one of us, one of the common people. Hmmm... what do you think?

When I started this blog, I intended to be very serious about the artistic quality and intellectual fortitude of Telemoonfa Time. I thought I would treat Telemoonfa Time as a sort of scholarly journal that discussed religion and art and philosophy and also showcased my original literature. But now I'm a little less picky. Now I’m a little more lackadaisical. And now I'm unashamed to say that I am a fan of American Idol. It's just fun.

How I’ve changed. When I was a teenager, I denounced all things commercial. (Just read my article about Wal-Mart if you want to see how I felt about commercialism and cookie-cutter manufactured stuff. It’s buried in this blog somewhere.)

But I am glad that this season of American Idol is over. I'm ready to go to the forest, away from TV and computers, to read books.

Speaking of going to the forest, this summer I'm going to work at Camp Raymond Boy Scout Camp again, in the kitchen. My wife is staying here in Flagstaff, though. I'll be back on the weekends. So I won't be adding posts to Telemoonfa Time on a regular basis. Maybe if I write a good poem I'll put it on here on a weekend. (Or maybe I should say if I just write a poem I'll put it on here. Ha ha ha.) Not that I've been a consistent blogger anyway.

OK, see you later, whoever you are.