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		<title>The Road to Hollywood</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well that was not worth staying up until 10.  About 1/4 of a second of Ithacappella.  And it didn&#8217;t even say who they were.  At least it appears as though there are going to be lots of people who make it through in this episode.  I&#8217;d still rather be sleeping.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well that was not worth staying up until 10.  About 1/4 of a second of Ithacappella.  And it didn&#8217;t even say who they were.  At least it appears as though there are going to be lots of people who make it through in this episode.  I&#8217;d still rather be sleeping.</p>
<p>Jessica Furney &#8211; Well she has definitely improved over last year&#8217;s audition.  I&#8217;m not sure I like her, but it&#8217;s not every day you see that drastic of a change over the course of a year.  I&#8217;m impressed.</p>
<p>Amanda Schectman &#8211; Boring.  And I don&#8217;t like her personally either.  She&#8217;s pretty annoying.</p>
<p>Lee Dewyze &#8211; His voice is great, but he should stop humming.  That&#8217;s not quite as good.</p>
<p>Crystal Bowersox &#8211; Great, another dreadlocked person.  And another person singing Janis Joplin.  Fantastic.</p>
<p>Lacey Brown &#8211; I didn&#8217;t think it was possible for me to like her less than Megan Corkrey.  I figured I&#8217;d talk about how she totally deserved to beat her out last year.  But&#8230;she is equally as bad.</p>
<p>Rachel Hubbard &#8211; Boring.</p>
<p>Thaddeus Johnson &#8211; Way too many runs and such.</p>
<p>Genesis Moore &#8211; Yuck&#8230;she sang a Carrie song.  Therefore she&#8217;s terrible.</p>
<p>Michael Lynche &#8211; Uh oh&#8230;Unchained Melody.  Too many runs.  This song shouldn&#8217;t be played with ever.  And he totally didn&#8217;t hit the high note (I guess I don&#8217;t know that for sure because I don&#8217;t have any musical knowledge at all&#8230;but it didn&#8217;t sound good).</p>
<p>Didi Benami &#8211; I don&#8217;t like her voice.  She reminds me of a combination of Brooke White and Megan Corkrey.  And those are two of the worst people ever.  But hey, at least she&#8217;s not Carmen Rasmusen.  And she&#8217;s crying way too much.</p>
<p>Aaron Kelly &#8211; Hey, this is the kid I was told to keep an eye on because he&#8217;s from around Ithaca.  He was pretty good for a 16 year old.  I&#8217;d root for him.  Just not to win.</p>
<p>Hope Johnson &#8211; Wow, they really played her up to be fantastic.  And she wasn&#8217;t.  She was really boring.  And forgettable.  Bleh.</p>
<p>So the audition process is complete.  181 people have made it through to Hollywood.  No one really stood out to me this time around.  I&#8217;m hoping that&#8217;s not a bad sign.  There were some guys I really liked from Boston.  Jermaine?  He was good.  And the beat-boxer.  But I know he won&#8217;t win.  If Blake couldn&#8217;t win, that guy definitely can&#8217;t.  So I guess I won&#8217;t be picking a winner this year.  Maybe I&#8217;ll figure it out next week.  </p>
<p>Over the next two weeks, we&#8217;ll whittle the 181 down to 24.  And more importantly&#8230;Ellen joins the judges AND&#8230;GROUP PERFORMANCES!  The ultimate reality show (I never consider Idol to be a reality show, but Hollywood week&#8230;definitely is).  This should be slightly more entertaining than the last 4 weeks and far less entertaining than the following 14.</p>
<p>Until then&#8230; </p>
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