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Rock Star Supernova Winner: Lukas Rossi

Tonight’s episode of Rock Star Supernova was the season finale and saw the Winner finally be announced. I have to say, first off, that I’m glad they packed it all into a 1-hour season finale, I hate when they drag finale’s out for 2-hours when there is simply no need to do so.

Now, on to the Rock Star Supernova Winner Recap:

Everything starts off as usual, with a recap of the previous nights performances in all their total awesomeness.

The announcement is made and the contestants to have been in the bottom two at one point or another are:

Magni
Toby
Lukas

*dramatic pause*

The contestants at Risk are:

Magni
Toby

Magni performs “Fire” by Jimi Hendrix

My Thoughts: Great performance again, the song was totally rockin’ and he did fantastic work with the guitarist for the house band again. With that being said, the first time he did it was a bit better then this round, but this round was still pretty good.

Toby performs “White Wedding” by Billy Idol

My Thoughts: Toby seems to be lacking some of his energy in this performance, it’s not as high as usual. The performance was decent, the vocals were only so-so, it really wasn’t his best job and he needed it most at this point in time.

Tommy Lee makes the announcement and the tommy-hawk falls squarely on Magni.

Booooo! I really liked Magni.

That leaves us with the Final 3:

Toby
Lukas
Dilana

Tommy Lee, Jason Newstead and Gilby Clarke of Supernova give everyone a chance to say their final piece and why they think they should be the lead singer of Supernova.

Lukas says it would be an “honor to lead them [Supernova] in a world tour.”

Dilana says “this band needs someone 1000% dedicated” and that “Lukas is amazing. Toby is incredible, but I’m the one!”

Toby keeps it simple and says “I feel like I’m ready now.”

With their final sentiments being spoken, Tommy Lee makes the request to hear everyone sing just one more song.

Lukas performs “Bitter Sweet Symphony” by The Verve

My Thoughts: Weak song, but a strong chorus. Good performance, but over all, sub-par vocals. Lukas didn’t do very good this time around, the previous version was MUCH better and much more genuine.

Dilana performs “Zombie” by The Cranberries

My Thoughts: The vocals weren’t bad, but not great by any means. The performance was a so-so effort and overall, it wasn’t anything special. Again, the first time around was much better. What is with these guys tonight?

Toby performs “Somebody Told Me” by The Killers

My Thoughts: Toby shouldn’t sing any songs by The Killers because they never end up sounding right, his voice just doesn’t fit properly with the songs. Though his performance was great and as high in energy as ever – much better then his performance for White Wedding.

Jason Newstead takes the mic and essentially says that Toby’s voice is fantastic, Supernova has never doubted it through-out the entire competition and it can cut through the guitars with no problem at all, and they love that.

Then he promptly drops the axe and cuts Toby.

Super Boo! Toby was my favorite to win, I can’t believe they cut him, he did fantastic in this competition. He’s so going to make and release his own album, without a doubt.

Toby’s parting words were that he had “the best time ever” and that “you boys, you taught me so much.” Good on you mate! You rocked it out.

That leaves us with the Final 2:

Dilana
Lukas

Both of whom received the highest votes from last nights performance show, surprisingly.

And, of course, Supernova threatens to make their decision, but first: the obligatory 5 minutes of suspense and annoyance creating commercials, yay!

Back from the commercials we come and the final words are spoken of each contestant. Supernova says that Lukas was “really, really amazing for us” and that Dilana was “enchanting” and her “voice is amazing.”

Supernova announces that they are making their decision based on the highest votes received from their fans, which means the:

Rock Star Supernova Winner is Lukas Rossi!

Everyone says how awesome Dilana is and that she has a few surprises in store for her as well:

Tommy lets her know that she can come on tour with Supernova and front the House band.
Gilby Clarke offers to help write and produce Dilana’s record.
Tommy Lee and Dave Navarro BOTH offer to play on her record as well.

That is a pretty sweet deal for coming in second place.

Supernova takes to the stage, hugs all around for Lukas and they break into their first song as a complete group, “Be Yourself.”

I have to say, I really got into this season of Rock Star Supernova and enjoyed it quite a bit. The competition was very stiff and big props go out to Lukas Rossi, Dilana Robichaux and Toby Rand for making it into the final 3. They all did fantastic and made the season a great one. I’m going to miss not having any Rock Star Supernova to watch anymore. I wonder what super band they’ll come up with next year?

Rock Star Supernova Winner: Finale Tonight!

Don’t forget, tonight is the finale of Rock Star Supernova and the winner will be revealed. The season finale starts at 8:00pm EST/PST on CBS, don’t miss it, it’s going to rock!

Tonight we will finally learn who is going to be the lead singer of Supernova and Rock Star Supernova Winner. Will it be Dilana, Lukas, Toby or Magni? Who knows, you’ll have to watch to find out.

My personal hopes are that either Magni or Toby become the Rock Star Supernova Winner. One thing is for sure, come 7:55pm I’ll be glued to the couch for at least an hour scribbling away on my note pad.

Stay tuned for the official Rock Star Supernova Winner recap post!

Rock Star Supernova Recap

Rock Star Super Nova is down to the final four and tonight’s show was the last performance show before tomorrow night’s grand finale.

The finale four contenders are Magni, Toby, Dilana and Lukas. It’s been a tight race for most of the show and it’s still all up for grabs.

Ryan Star was apparently picked as the favorite artists, for some reason, and got a chance to come back, sing another crappy song and plug his doomed album.

Ryan sang “Back Of Your Car”, which is his original and it sucked as much as it did the first time I heard it.
He plugs his new album, which is cleverly titled “Darkhorse” and thanks Dave Navarro for the idea.
He also wins Honda’s newly redesigned Honda CRV, yippy.

Now on to the actual show, sorta.

Everything stars off with a recap of the entire season for the final four contestants, shows how people have turned around, gotten better, gotten worse and evolved over the lifespan of the show.

Each rock star gets to sing 1 cover song and their 1 original again.

Toby sing “Kharma Police” by Radiohead

My Thoughts: It was so-so, certainly not great, but not terrible. This is my favorite Radiohead sone of all time, so it’s a hard comparison to make.

Then he sings his original song “Throw It Away”

Dave Navarro liked the set and called it a “great rock show.” Gilby Clarke said he seemed to get “a little lost” at the start of the radiohead song, but he pulled it all together in the end.

My Thoughts: I have to admit, this is a super catchy song, he sang it really well, has a great performance to go along with it and did a fantastic job. He’s going to be a hard one to beat. He also had Magni play backup guitar and he wrote EVS on the back of his head. Toby’s just plain cool.

Lukas sings “Fix You” by Coldplay

My Thoughts: Great performance, great song, by far one of his best performances yet, up their with Creep by Radiohead. He should really stick to these style of songs.

Then he sings his original song “Headspin” with a different arrangement then usual.

Dave Navarro introduces Paula Abdul and says Lukas did a great job, though he questions his performances all season, his multiple singing styles have shown through. Tommy Lee keeps it simple, as always, saying “Wow, cool as hell.” Gilby Clarke kept it simple as well and said “great, so good.”

My Thoughts: The all acousitc version was so much better then the original and I really liked this version. The vocals were much more powerful and he did a fantastic job.

Dilana sings “Roxanne” by The Police

My Thoughts: This acoustic version of the song was really cool. Dilana had great vocals and having Lukas, Toby and Magni sing backup was a great idea. Very good performance.

Then she sings her original song “Supersoul”

She jumps into the crowd, rocks out in front of Supernova, rocks the very back of the crowd, stops to say high to Paula Abdul and finishes the song off in front of Supernova.

Dave says “I think you’re awesome.” Tommy Lee says “We love you” and Gilby Clarke says he “looks forward to seeing you [Dilana] every week.”

My Thoughts: The performance was good, the vocals were so-so, I didn’t like this song the first time and that hasn’t really changed at all.

Magni sings “Hush” by Deep Purple

My Thoughts: The performance was very high energy, magni’s vocals were really good and the guitar and singing work with the house band guitarist was a great touch. Magni has great potential as a front man.

Then he sang his original song “When the Time Comes”

Dave Navarro said “killer job.” Though Tommy Lee disagree completely and said that the other 3 originals were memorable, but Magni’s isn’t memorable at all. Jason Newstead said that he digged the original and Gilby Clarke said “great job! sang great, performed well.”

My Thoughts: Not bad, not great, so-so, not a big fan of the song. He could do a lot better.

So ends the nights performances, now all we can do is wait until tomorrow and the Rock Star Supernova Finale.

The initial rankings for tonight’s show were:

Dilana
Toby
Lukas
Magni

I have to say, I don’t like the looks of the early rankings, though those will certainly change by tomorrow.

Don’t forget to catch tomorrow’s 2-hour season finale at 8:00pm EST/PST on CBS.

Big Brother All Stars Finale Recap

Big Brother 10 winner
Big Brother 9 winner
Big Brother 8 winner

So tonight was the finale of Big Brother All Stars and, though I really liked the season, the finale was a bit lack luster, but I don’t know what I was expecting it to be like either. 😛

Here’s the recap:

Everything starts off with a recap of the entire Big Brother All Stars season, showing just how badly Chill Town worked everyone over. They really did a great job.

Scenes from the Big Brother elimination house:

Everyone dicussing who’s going to join them next, some people betting mike, others Janelle, no one seems to bet Erika.
Janelle walks in and the show begins.
Danielle defends how Erika played the game, said she did as just a good job as everyone else and lied just as much as everyone else as well.
Janelle tears on Erika for playing the game poorly and says that a floater should never win the game ’cause she didn’t play it properly.
Janelle is all about propping up Chill Town and trys to get everyone to side with Mike Boogie.
Howie, idiot of all idiots, defends Erika’s game play and calls her the “best player in Big Brother history.” Yeah… right.
Dani make the best comment all night and says “Do not make this personal.” Good girl, a great player through and through.

It’s question time! Just as a side-note, Julie was wearing some monstrosity of a horrible shirt for the show tonight.

Marcellas asked both Erika and Mike Boogie what their best strategic move was.

Erika says getting Janelle to vote will out was her best move.
Mike Boogie says his best move was not using the Coup power that he won.

George asked Mike Boogie if he’ll be asking his showmance Erika to marry him like he did in the previous Big Brother and asked Erika how she felt about voting him out after telling him he was safe with her.

Mike essentially says hell no!
Erika says she felt horrible but she had to.

Janelle asked if kissing butt and throwing competitions was part of Erikas strategy.

Erika says she only ever threw one game and that she hopes Janelle can respect how she played the game.

James asked Erika how her strategy was different then Janelles (I think?)

Erika says she had to battle to survive and played the game how she thought best.

Danielle asked if it was Erika’s decision or Chill Town’s decision to evict her and asked Mike to justify saying she was his Jason.

Erika said it may have looked like a Chill Town choice, but in the end it was hers. Not Bloody Likely.
Mike says if you look around the house there were lots of Jasons and he doesn’t apologize for anything he did. She seemed to like the answer quite a bit.

Howie asked Mike Boogie what happened to the bro’s before hoes strategy?

Mike says that he deserves the credit for getting Howie booted and was responsible for it, to bad so sad.

Dr. Will pulls another phone call bit with Mike Boogie and asked, hey Mike, are you in the final 2?

Mike’s response, was of course, Sure am, bwahahahaha.

Big Brother All Stars Winner:

Marcellas votes for Erika
Howie votes for Mike
Danielle votes for Mike
George votes for Mike
Will votes for, surprise, Mike
Janelle votes for Mike
James votes for Mike

Erika takes the $50,000 second prize with 1 vote.

Mike Boogie takes the $500,000 grand prize and the crown as winner of big brother all stars.

As an added extra bonus, a Jury prize is awarded to the fan favorite house guest, who happens to be Janelle. Boooooo.

So ends another dramatic season of Big Brother. I wonder what we’re in store for next.

Vancouver Events: Body Worlds 3 Comes to Science World

Gunther von Hagens Body Worlds 3 is coming to Vancouver from September 15th, 2006 to January 14th, 2007.

Body Worlds will be setup at Science World in Vancouver’s False Creek and looks to be quite possibly one of the coolest things ever. Body Worlds features close to 200 real human specimens in all their anatomical wonder. These specimens aren’t your usual human specimens, but are actually plastinates, which is a groundbreaking technique created by Gunther von Hagens to preserve anatomical specimens perfectly. This method of preservation allows authentic specimens to be displayed in an incredibly lifelike fashion, offering a glimpse into the muscular and nervous systems that you have to see to believe.

The Body Worlds 3 exhibition not only features stunning pieces of human anatomy, but also includes animal specimens which are just as intricit and interesting.

For further information and details on the Body Worlds 3 exhibition at Science World, go to: http://www.scienceworld.bc.ca/whats_on/Body-Worlds/overview.htm

Reality TV: Big Brother and Rock Star Supernova Finales

Big Brother All Stars:

Don’t forget, tonight is the season finale of Big Brother All Stars! Make sure you tune in to find out who wins! My money’s on Mike Boogie, but you never know.

Tonight’s episode of Big Brother All Stars will be an hour long and should start at 8:00pm EST/PST.

An recap of the Big Brother All Stars Finale will come later tonight after I get done watching all my reality TV shows for the night.

Watch Big Brother All Stars on CBS

Rock Star Supernova:

Tonight’s episode of Rock Star Supernova is also the last performance episode and, though it’s not the season finale (that comes tomorrow), I’m, sure it’s going to pack a punch none the less.

I have the sneaking suspicion that someone is going to get axed by Tommy Lee‘s tommy-hawk tonight. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see.

A recap of tonights episode of Rock Star Supernova will also come later as well.

Catch Rock Star Supernova on CBS @ 9:00pm EST/PST Tonight!

Coast Mountain Bus Drivers at it Again

Yong_SA over at Metroblogging Vancouver made a post about a letter his wife sent to the Coast Mountain Bus Company today and after reading it I had to share it with everyone.

I’ve been a transit goer in the City of Vancouver and its suburbs for many years as I don’t have a vehicle, can’t afford one and don’t really want one. As such, I have seen my fair share of asshole, belligerent and flat out uncalled for rude bus drivers, but this story really pissed me off. Given, there are certainly some wicked bus drivers out their and a lot of the drivers for the Coast Mountain Bus Company are very helpful, friendly and generally cool people, but this guy certainly doesn’t fit that mold.

The driver of the #110 bus leaving Metrotown, heading East bound today at 3:34pm decided, for whatever reason, that he didn’t want to let a mother with a double stroller, two twin seven month old babies and a four year old child on to the bus because her double stroller was apparently to big, though she’s never had issue with it before.

Read the story @ Metroblogging Vancouver

dingoRUE: Quick Hits

I’m getting sleepy and don’t really feel like being on the computer anymore, so I’m going to dump everything of interest I wanted to blog about into a Quick Hits entry. Check it out!

Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin is going to be burried in the Australian Zoo where he used to be director and did much of his charitable work. [Blogcritics]
In a morbid twist of fate, Anna Nicole Smith‘s son dies suddenly only days after she gives birth to a brand new baby girl. [A Socialite’s Life]
Thankfully I’m not the only one sick and tired of watching Madonna‘s career sink further and further into the abyss. A priest has confessed to calling in a bomb threat on a Madonna concert. [A Socialite’s Life]
I saw this video a long time ago, but it surfaced again today and I couldn’t help but post it. Watch Kiefer Sutherland viciously attack an innocent christmas tree. [A Socialite’s Life]
Bored? Simpsons fan? Then spend some time creating your very own Simpsons character. [Stop Being Bored]
Today is the 5th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks that resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent people. Take a quick moment for everyone that lost their lives 5 years ago, today. [Pink is the New Blog]

And that’s that. Now I can go watch TV and get ready for bed, yay! 🙂