thelake | oh my, busy day is a good day.

First of all; thank you all for replying to my "sudden depression" entry yesterday, I really appreciate it ♥

I've been working non stop the whole day! I'm done with the overdue project yay! It looks so nice :) And today I started another thing, it's about the telephone banking and it's my favourite so no worries here. I feel like I'm solving a puzzle, fun fun fun! (really!)

Today's my brother's 19th birthday! ♥ We didn't call him or wish him a happy birthday today, acting like we all forgot about it, but I'm almost sure he doesn't care a bit LOL! I'm not sure if he actually knows it's his birthday today. My airheaded brother is like that... (not all the time though, LOL, i just love him so much ♥)

So Kris Allen won American Idol, huh? I don't watch AI at all, but seeing from all of you guys, I gotta say he was my favourite. I've seen some performances on youtube and I thought he was really good (don't know anything about Adam though, so not a very good judge)
I'm looking forward to hear more of him. Gimme song names, special performances and such. SEE THE COMMENTS FROM fauxkaren! SHE PICKED THE BEST STUFF! ♥

It's 5:20 pm now, the work day is almost over, and suprisingly I'm not that tired today, yay! (It must be about the birthday cake I'm gonna devour tonight. Yummmmmmmm.)

And before I go; I watched the 1st ep. of Lost Season 5 a couple of days ago and dude, it's too complicated, I need ultimate brain power to get into the "Lost state of mind" again! Seriously.

Eta: I'm so excited about SMG's new show: The Wonderful Maladys (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1299395/) *points to the icon* Isn't she the cutest! ♥
I know it's gonna be an HBO series, but I don't know when it's gonna air, you guys have any idea?

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ETA: I failed at embedding these videos! It should be fixed as much as possible now.

Now for some of Kris's best performances! Unfortunately the actual videos are always taken down quickly from YouTube and the official videos don't work outside the US, so these are just sound, but here ya go!

Ain't No Sunshine - Performed as his reprise song on the finale, and I think it won the competition for him. (This video has the random intro stuff in the beginning and the judges at the end, but this was the best quality I could find). Ugh! I can't find a good quality vid that will embed, so I'm just gonna link you to the video.
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5111622/13554355

Heartless - Top 3 night, Kris completely reworked this Kanye West hip-hop song into a cool acoustic number. (again with the intro and judges, but it's worth it to get Kris's pretty face in good quality) This was actually where Kris became a front runner. Everyone was expecting him to go home that night, but he came out swinging! Again, I'm just gonna link to the vid here.
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5058940/13441495

She Works Hard for the Money - On Disco Night, Kris made this Disco anthem into a really chill song with a bit fo a Latin vibe.

Finally, Kris rocked out on this duet of "Kiss a Girl" with Keith Urban last night. I don't even like country music and I loved this!

Ahem. And if Kris managed to pique your interest after that, he has an album of songs that he wrote and recorded independently before Idol that you can download here. I think it's a great album and it's been my jam for the past few weeks.

YOU ROCK MORE THAN WORDS CAN EXPLAIN! :D ♥ thanks! I'll go through them one by one! *excitedddd!*

oh.my.god. ain't no sunshine = ULTIMATE WIN. totally. I have goosebumps...

his performance is probably one of the best versions of Heartless. ♥ I love that song, but this way it sounds better than ever!

oh my she works hard for money! unbelievable LOL! very very nice..

and I love country music and it's so amazing how he can sing EVERY KIND OF SONGS. I'm downloading the album right now, you'll see me as a happy fangirl starting from today. He is amazing, really. I don't know about the other contestants, but Kris Allen totally deserves being the idol! ♥

Thanks for all these :) I would have never found these all myself! I'll love you forever for this ♥

Oh you're very welcome! I enjoy infecting other with my Kris Allen obsession. He just has such a way with making a song seem unique even if it's one that's been done over and over again.

His album is really good for an independently produced album. And you can see that he has a real talent for song writing, so I'm hoping and praying that Idol lets him put his own music on his debut album instead of the stuff that a lot of Idol winners get saddled with. His album is very singer-songwriter, and it reminds me a lot of early John Mayer with a bit of country flavor every so often.

I listened to the album (well, some of it) when I was coming to work this morning, and it is REALLY good. I was gonna say the same thing about his song writing skills. and early john mayer is definitely what I would call it too! Plus, piano & guitar is love.

Can I ask if that album you're linked to has all 11 songs or just 8? I have it as well but with only 8 out of the 11 songs that's supposed to be in there because the rest hasn't been leaked.

it has 11 :)

Oh, awesome! Except DivShare doesn't allow free DLs from China & Southeast Asia, so I guess I have to find those three somewhere else..

Or beg you to upload them somewhere *gives you lots of bribe cookies?*

All I have are Be My Lady, I Was Played, Running, Wipe It Away, Brand New Shoes, Beautiful Moon, Wastin' Time, and Land of Smiles.

sure! where do you want me to upload the missing songs? is mediafire ok?

mediafire acted all weird on me so i uploaded them on sendspace, here you go: http://www.sendspace.com/file/dlde74
enjoy!

Thank you! :D Sendspace can be hard for me sometimes but this time it's working. So I'm DLing now :D :D

oh my, busy day is a good day.

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