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“SANJAYA”
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Indian, Hindu Mythology
Means: “Completely victorious, triumphant”

Sanjaya (sanjaya) is a character from the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
The name Sanjaya literally means “Victory”.

He’s the Bad singer with the Best hair and the cutest smile. He is mocked by late night talk show hosts, and the target of anti-American Idol websites He has received less than flattering endorsements from The King of All Media, Howard Stern, and has had the backing of the much publicised website Vote for The Worst. Com. His Google search hits have eclisped even those from earlier this season of Antonella Barba’s Bj scandal.

Web Results 1 - 10 of about 1,340,000 for Sanjaya Malakar. (0.07 seconds)

But Sanjaya Malakar has survived yet another round of American Idol, prompting an angry and passionate debate over whether America’s most watched TV show has lost what little street cred it had, or unwittingly created another (”Hung-ian”) “D”List superstar.

Over the past three weeks, Sanjay has reduced a 13 year-old girl to tears on national television, inspired a man, (Matt) and a woman, (”J”), to supposedly go on a hunger strike until he is removed from the show. And even after all of this, he somehow continually smiles through vicious comments from Idol judges, delivered in as many ways as he has hair styles and clunker notes. For example, this judging comment made by Simon last Tuesday, “Sanjaya, I don’t think it matters anymore what we say … I think you are in your own universe and if people like you, good luck,” said Cowell.

“Take No Prisoners”

Sanjaya (sanjaya) is a character from the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
The name Sanjaya literally means “Victory”.

Does Sanjay’s march to the Idol crown, appear to Hardcore Idol fans, as resembling Civil War General Sherman’s’ march towards the ocean, and the Burning of Atlanta?

Has Malakars mission now become a “Scorched Earth” journey to win at all costs?

It was reported that moments before Sanjaya was to take the stage last Tuesday night, he was confronted by his mother who was pleading with the singer that he couldn’t go out to perform with his hair looking the way that it did. Sanjays reply to his mother….
“Don’t worry Mom, I know what I’m doing.”

Now I can’t confirm that he actually said this, but I have suspected for a couple of weeks that Sanjay has finally realized that by being outrageous, by reinventing himself every week, he can survive this competition.

He has become unique by embracing his “Badness.”

He is surviving by being something that the others have yet to be, Entertaining.
Many would decry that Sanjaya winning the Idol Title this year would end the show.
I say, that if Malakar won, the show would grow even stronger in the years to follow because of the media overkill that would result.

If Sanjay won, people would be discussing American Idol long after the May finale. And don’t think that Fox doesn’t realize this. Remember when Idol was being promoted before this years shows began? Fox teased us with blurbs of how “This Year there will be more Surprises than Ever Before.” Could the biggest surprise this season be Sanjaya, WINNING?

“SANJAYA”
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Indian, Hindu Mythology
Means: “Completely victorious, triumphant”

Francis L.

With the mere mention of the name Iraq, feelings awaken.

Feelings, that with the current state of affairs, are usually contained within some form of hatred, mistrust, or fear.

While I was looking for any Idol news that didn’t have Sanjaya included in the story’s first paragraph,

I came across this.

Friday, March 30, 2007 • Last updated 3:15 p.m. PT

Iraq’s ‘Arab Idol’ captivates nation

By HAMZA HENDAWI
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

BAGHDAD — For four long years, life has been brutally unkind to most Iraqis, but Friday night they had one of those rare moments to focus beyond the daily violence that is swallowing their lives. One of their own took first prize in the Arab version of American Idol.

In Baghdad, a city that becomes deserted and plunges into darkness after nightfall, residents who had electricity to watch televisions celebrated with gunfire that briefly pierced the quiet just before midnight.

Wearing a turquoise evening dress, Shadha Hassoun, wrapped herself with the white, red and black flag of Iraq and broke into tears as fans swarmed the stage in Beirut, Lebanon, where the contest was held and broadcast live throughout the Middle East.

“Her triumph will show the world that Iraqis will still sing despite their wounds,” Israa Tariq, a homemaker from Baghdad’s al-Ghadeer neighborhood, said before Friday’s final episode.

Hassoun’s run to the final in what is perhaps the Arab world’s most watched TV entertainment program coincided with a particularly painful time in Iraq.

More than 500 people had been killed in the last six days alone. Most of them perished in a series of horrific suicide bombings targeting busy markets and in a sectarian massacre where innocent men were dragged out of their homes and shot execution-style.

Dubbed the “Daughter of Mesopotamia” by fans, Hassoun has for weeks served as a pleasant distraction for a people in year five of a war that harvests scores of Iraqi lives each day.

With a nighttime curfew in force and the streets too dangerous after sundown, Iraqis have been finding refuge in the wide variety of TV channels provided by satellite dishes, banned under Saddam Hussein but now sprouting on nearly every rooftop.

Iraqis have been glued to their TVs each Friday since December, eagerly monitoring Hassoun’s progress in the “Star Academy” contest that is produced by a Lebanese satellite channel.

Hassoun, a 25-year-old brunette who has lived most of her life outside Iraq, outpaced three other finalists - men from Egypt and Lebanon and a woman from Tunisia.

Television viewers across the Mideast voted for their favorite performer by e-mail and text-messages to the satellite channel.

Iraq’s al-Sharqiyah satellite channel devoted hours of live coverage Friday, urging Iraqis to vote for Hassoun and broadcast a phone-in program for her supporters. Some fans called to say they had voted for Hassoun so many times they had used up the credit on their prepaid phone cards.

“How beautiful we, Iraqis, can be when we are united,” said one caller, alluding to the support Hassoun received from her countrymen and women of all ethnic and religious backgrounds.

Al-Sharqiyah also sponsored a gathering of hundreds of Hassoun fans in the Kurdish city of Irbil, where fans carried banners and portraits of the young Iraqi and watched the contest Friday night on a giant outdoor television screen. The crowd erupted in jubilation when the Lebanese host of the show announced Hassoun had won.

A similar gathering would have been impossible to organize almost anywhere outside the Kurdish region, possibly the safest place in Iraq. However, al-Sharqiyah could not keep the minds of viewers off their troubles at home for long.

During commercial breaks, it aired a government ad that seeks to discourage sectarian cleansing. It shows an elderly woman in a black chador in tears and pleading with masked gunmen not to evict her and her family from their home.

Images of Hassoun, who has a Moroccan mother and an Iraqi father, have for days appeared in front page newspaper ads by a local telephone company. News of her progress on the show have for weeks been a fixture in the entertainment pages of most Iraqi newspapers.

Hassoun captivated Iraq the same way the country’s soccer team did with its dream run in last year’s Asian Games, when it reached the final but lost to its Qatari hosts. With every win on the road to the final, Iraqis celebrated with intense celebratory gunfire in Baghdad.

“She is the daughter of the land of two rivers. The daughter of one Iraq,” Baghdad student Ali Yahia said of Hassoun. “Every Iraqi will hold his head high when she wins.”

Ziad al-Qaisi, a 31-year-old clerk from Baghdad, saw Hassoun’s triumph as a message to all Iraqis to abandon violence and shift their energy to something constructive.

“Iraqis should focus on art, music and sports where they can find love, beauty and tranquility.”

The Winner

What i forgot to Remember

They escape though Idol just as we do. They have their passionate favorites, just as we do. Those fortunate enough to have phones, vote, just as we do.

I guess I posted this because as I read it, it hit me how even with the wide chasm of differences between us and the Iraqi’s that war creates, we really are more alike than we would ever want to admit to being.

Francis L.

With all thanks to a great man, and Excellent Blogger and Humanitarian.

Thank you Chuckling.

Edited for relevancy to my situation in regards to my IdolMe Blog, here are the top four reasons why my Blog sucks.

Link To Chuckling’s Blog

Why Your Blog Sucks

Possible reasons not as many people read your blog as you would like:

1) You don’t post often enough. People click on a website regularly when they expect it to have new content. If you’re a thoughtful writer who tends to write longer essays then you’re at a disadvantage. Generally, one post per day, followed by a couple of updates, and some participation in his comments section. Oh, and truly excellent, original, and important content.

Excellent, original, and Important………Gotcha!

2) Your page design sucks. I know there are some blogs I’d read more often if the design was more appealing to me. I’m not talking about sexy and beautiful, I’m talking about basic readability issues. For example, light text on dark background makes my eyes bleed.

Bleeding Eyes, Sexy and Beautiful, Readability issues? You Mean that all of the blogs that I posted with white print on white background were never seen? Shit!

3) You need to get some mad blogwhoring skills. Look, good marketing/PR is a skill. There are lots of ways to try to get attention. If I’m not linking to your awesome blog it’s quite possible I’m not aware of its awesomeness.

This one’s easy, I’m well acquainted with being a Whore for attention.

4) Your blog actually sucks. Maybe you’re just not offering something that is original and timely enough. Maybe you don’t have a good sense of what is or isn’t important. Maybe your readers don’t know what the hell you’re talking about most of the time. Maybe you’re not as funny as you think you are. Atrios

OK, this pretty much buries me. I’m nothing if I’m not a brain dead, plagiarizing, uninformed dope.

This is my
promise to you,
my 7 readers….

I will endeavor from this point forward to improve my work to meet the exceedingly high standards and expectations of the intellectually superior American Idol baseline audience. What this means is that you can expect many more blogs on Sanjaya and people starving because of him.

And one final thing. If for no other reason, Sanjaya needs to be voted through to victory if only for this reason. The possibility that this woman will be on camera during the finale in a silk halter top.

Please leave suggestions in the comment section so I may be able to serve you better.

Francis L.

“Dorian Grey”

He’s in a Better Place Now

From the very moment that Ryan Seacrest announced that Chris was being “Removed” from the cast, the wave of relief that swept over Sligh’s face was “Deafeningly Apparent.” Chris could now start aging normally again.

It had been become increasingly noticeable over the last few weeks that Sligh had been just going through the motions with uninspired performances. I believe that the competition went south for Chris the week that he dared to confront Simon and his association with IL Divo and the Teletubbies.

From that moment on Chris’s fate had been sealed.

The Idol, “Walk of the Dead” curse, was in Place. Let this be a warning to all and any who delve into the realm of humiliating “King Simon” publicly, your days on Idol turf will be shortened.

All that remains now is for Chris to perform this summer for a bunch of snot nosed kids and old women, and then he can Do what he really wanted to do from the get go, Love His wife, write music, play his songs with the Band, and sleep in.

Francis L.

From the theater of the absurd……

More people whoring, (Sorry Pastor), off of Sanjaya and the need for Their need for Warhol Attention.

This video is creepy on so many levels. Images of chained up boys on a compound in Wyoming………

Here is the link to his Ministry

BeRighteous Ministries Link

Then there’s Buck

It’s from last week, but you will love him, He’s tuned in directly into the essence of Idol!!!!!!!

Francis L.

It was billed as a night of Songs from Gwen Stefani and her band, “No Doubt,” and the music that inspired them. To say that it was an eclectic genre assortment of music, would be an understatement. I chuckled to myself wondering if somewhere in Gwen’s “Inspired Past” there was, in the distance, an accordion softly playing a polka melody.

You had some Disco, you had faux reggae performances of The Police, there was even a Cyndi Lauper tune. There was a Chrissy Hind staple, and there was a kid who decided that feigning insanity over having talent is a good career move.

Because this is MY blog, I will break down the evening in the order of importance, as I saw it.

Let’s Start With Tonight’s Best

Yes my honey’s, tonight the Navy man shone brightest of all in the Milky way galaxy of “Idol Stars” His rendition of the Police’s Every Breath You Take was flawless. he still needs major help with his image on stage, but he did outstandingly well tonight.

Steve Dahl was Right

I want to mention up front that neither of the “Twin Mounds of Musical Rebound” are favorites of mine. The reason that I hope that neither titles as this year’s American Idol is because of the not so subtle way in which Fox, and the judges have already declared these two as in the finals.

Yes they both can sing, but nothing that they do on stage screams Star, and all the forced “Pimping” Fox attempts will never make them stars.

I’m sure that it was no coincidence that both chose 70’s Disco standards. There was an unbelievability with both performances. From the similar hideous multi-colored Rayon outfits that the two wore, which BTW looked even cheesier than the original 70’s styled garb, to the failed attempt at being “sexy.”

“MeeDoo” sang”Heaven Knows.” The problem that I have with “MeeDoo” is appearance. Yes, she can sing, but the image of a medieval troll doing a electric slide step around a stage as she’s singing makes my flesh crawl. I’m sure that she is a wonderful person. But then again so was the teenage boy in the movie Mask.

“Kiki,” the other half of the mountainous duo, performed “Last Dance.” Here we have a truly physically unattractive woman who can sing. As each week goes by she seemingly is morphing into a “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” Drag Queen. She needs to stop listening to the judges telling her how sexy she looks, she’s not. There’s a reason why there are backup and gospel church choir singers.

In 78′, unlike Tuesday night, this was sexy.

My Final two

If American Idol wants to redeem the down year of competition they have created, they will find a way to get “My final two Picks” on the next to last show. Blake and Jordin represent the only two fresh and innovative voices left in the whole competition. In my opinion, these two have the biggest upside of all of the final 10. I believe that the two of them will be the most financially successful of the remaining contestants.

Tuesday, Jordin chose to do a No Doubt’s Hey Baby. She is a beautiful young lady with potentially the best voice of the show. She seemed to really be having fun with the song. Every week she gains more confidence, and if I am correct, will peak at just the right time in the finals and win the whole thing.

Blake, my dark horse to win A.I. did a good R&B version of the Cure’s Love Song. I thoroughly enjoyed his spin on one of my all time favorite songs. Blake along with Jordin have grown each week and are by far the most unpredictable of the remaining 10. These two are my final two standing. With Jordin Sparks your winner.

The Girls Next Door

Haley Scarnato and Gina Glocksen are two nice girls who are respectively adequate singer/performers. They’re both attractive in their own distinctive ways. Neither have a chance of winning. Oh, they’ll hang around for a few more weeks, but soon they’ll be packing their bags and heading over to the TV Guide channel where mid level Idol performers go to live out their lives in retirement.

Tuesday, Haley sang True Colors. What she forgot this week was to shimmy, expose, and bounce. So as some here at IdolMe.com would joke, “No Soup For You”!! Haley, No skin , no win.

Gina Glocksen chose to sing another favorite of mine I’ll Stand By You, by Chrissy Hynde. Her outfit was a little “Over-Goth-ed” for a Pretenders song, but I guess if you keep telling everyone that you are this years “Rocker Chick”, you have to wear the suede go go boots with the Gothic Crosses on them. Look, these two are just filler to get us to the finals.

Trading Talent for Insanity

At this point I believe that Sanjaya is flipping off each and everyone of us watching. It is my opinion that he knows he is at a huge disadvantage talent wise against the field. So he has made the decision to trade his lack of singing talent in for a big bag of insanity.

It’s apparent that Sanjy is going to do, sing, and be things, that he is not. Whether this is his idea, or Fox’s producers, it seems that he will now try to “shock” us until he is put down. Sort of like the way that a prisoner on death row might insult the watching audience through the glass at his execution. He will survive again this week, but only because of the dreadfully poor performances of the final two.

One of You will Have To Leave….

Chris Sligh has become tiresome. He is not a solo performer. He continually races beyond the tempo of the band playing the music for his songs. He rushed through the Police’s “Every Little Thing She Does.” His humor and wit have dried up like a 90 year old woman’s love garage.

He still dresses like a homeless man. That Brown sport coat with the patches on the elbows went well with the old designer blue jeans with the saggy ass area. Not to mention the 5 month pregnant belly look he was sporting that was straining the bottom button of his mismatched wrinkled polyester shirt. Chris is in his environment with his band. he needs them to be good again.

I now come to whom I feel will take the pipe tonight on the results show. Chris Richardson is Done. He will be the next to leave.

Francis L.

The Good Old Days, the 90’s

Tomorrow nights Idol extravaganza will be brought to you by the perfectly marketed money machine, better known as Gwen Stefani.

The sometimes lead singer of the Band “No Doubt” will collect a paycheck by pretending to “Mentor” the remaining 10 A.I. participants. No Virginia, the boys and girls won’t be singing songs from the extensive body of Ms. Stefani’s musical catalog, all 6 songs. Rather, they will be choosing songs in line with the night’s theme.

The Musical theme Fox producers decided to subject us to Tuesday will be “Pop” Classics of the 90’s. What this will materialize into is anybodies guess.

What are the Pop Classics’s of that long gone era of the 90’s?

My pick to click,

Sanjaya singing Nine Inch Nail’s

I Want To **** You Like an Animal

You let me violate you
you let me desecrate you
you let me penetrate you
you let me complicate you……

Probably Not…

So That Was the Reason

It appears that the one unanswered question from the 60’s, “Why were we ever there in the first place,” Was answered by today’s A.P. press release.

The Associated Press March 26, 2007, 11:35AM EST
Vietnam gets its own American Idol
HANOI, Vietnam

Television producers in this karaoke-crazy country are hoping to have a smash with “Vietnam Idol,” the newest version of the singing contest that is a major hit in the West.

A Vietnamese advertising company purchased the rights to “American Idol” for an undisclosed sum from FremantleMedia, which produced the first “Idol” show in Britain, according to Nguyen Chi Tan, deputy director of the Ho Chi Minh City Television network, or HTV.

The show, to be produced by HTV, will be broadcast on eight channels nationwide.
Following the same format as the Fox network’s U.S. show, a parade of would-be pop stars will audition before a three-judge panel and try to win the votes of television viewers across this nation of 84 million people. Fox is owned by News Corp.

About 7,000 contestants are expected to audition next month in the cities of Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho and Danang. The field will be narrowed to 30 singers before the show goes on the air in May.

Week by week, viewers will vote by mobile phone text message to decide which performers will progress to the next round, until a winner is selected in September.

“‘Idol’ is one of the most popular TV shows in America and Europe. We hope it will be the same in Vietnam,” Tan said. More than 30 countries have already broadcast their own versions of the “Idol” show.

The Vietnamese rights to the show have been purchased by the Dat Viet Advertising Company based in the southern business hub of Ho Chi Minh City.

Keep an eye Out For the Upcoming Iraq Idol……

It’s as Good a Reason as Any!

Starved For Attention

Starving For Sanjaya Link

An update comes our way from the emotionally disturbed “J” of The Myspace Starvation for Sanjaya website. Please America, for God’s sake, Keep Sanjaya in the competition for at least another month. That way “J” will finally realize her life long dream of fitting into a size 14 dress.

Here is a post that “J” sent out to her many, many, fans………

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Day 9

I know I promised you guys a YouTube video, but I am just feeling too tired and weak to do it tonight. I don’t even know how I’m typing this right now.

I have no idea why she made it, but for whatever reason I thought it was really funny, but kind of pathetic.
kind of pathetic, i know. but she’s sweet.
anyway, i’m gonna go back to sleep now.
peace.
“J”

Who says that the youth of today have no moral compass, no causes to champion? I for one have renewed faith in this country’s future leaders.

Sleep well “J”, and know that as your fight to fight the good fight goes forward, we will all be right behind you.

“J”, I have to go now, the Pizza guy just rang the doorbell.

Good Luck

Francis L.

If for no other reasons, here are the best “Two” reasons for Sanjaya to keep pursuing his Dream

Watching her while Little brother sings makes him sound like an angel.
How can something that looks like this?,

Be related to someone that looks like………

Go Sanjy Go!!!!!!!! You have to keep moving on!

Francis L.

Crying Without Tears

Francis L.

“I think America Got It Right.”

It wasn’t even close. VFTW, Howard Stern, little old ladies, and 12 year old girls everywhere, have made it possible that no matter what happens from this point forward, Sanjaya Malakar will be coming to a city near you to perform LIVE!!! I came across this original audition of San and His hot sister. Take five minutes to watch and see who really has the Talent of the Malakar Siblings.

Because of His Making the top ten finalists, Sanjaya now qualifies as part of the A.I. Summer Singing Tour. Go figure, people paying real dollars to hear him sing.

Stephanie walks the Plank

She was surprisingly unfazed by being asked to leave. She seemed almost relieved. I guess the prospect of having her own show on the TV Guide Channel has softened the blow of rejection.

It must also be noted that for whatever reason, the forced, end of show, “Last Sing of Humiliation” was omitted last night.

Hopefully the reason was because of time constraints and not that Idol may actually be developing feelings of sympathy for the contestants. The Final Sing, along with the “Group Sing” are my favorite parts of the show.

The Jolly Fat Man

I came across this on another blog. It has a subject matter that I am very close to. It addresses the issue of weight and the perception of what an Idol should look like.
Here is some of the original blog. Tell me if you agree/disagree.

The following is a reprint from the blog “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb”:
Written by Jimmy Moore

Chris Sligh has the vocal talent, but will his obesity become a liability

I am, and have been concerned about one thing regarding Chris since he first started progressing through the competition–his hard to ignore excessive weight problem. Chris Sligh is pretty fat along with that now-famous big curly hair of his. If the tens of millions of people who are voting in American Idol can look past the image of Chris Sligh and judge him on his singing, then he may have a shot.

But at some point I believe his obesity will become a severe liability. I noticed somebody was holding up a sign on Tuesday night that said “Bringing Chubby Back” while Chris was singing. I’m not so sure about that sentiment. While the “fat acceptance” movement people will probably enthusiastically agree with that statement and tell him to not be ashamed of his large size, the reality is Sligh’s looks will begin to hurt him more than help him at some point no matter how good he sings.

Plus, remember this is a television show looking for someone who a record label can put out there in the public eye as a marketable product. At least with Clay Aiken, they got rid of the nerdy glasses and helped him look as polished as that beautiful singing voice he has. For Chris Sligh, it’s going to take some weight loss that livin’ la vida low-carb could help him with. Unfortunately for him, it won’t be quick enough to help him before his American Idol experience comes to an end.

It leaves the question about the long-term implications of whether being fat will hurt Chris Sligh when all is said and done.

In this incredibly superficial world we live in, I’m afraid at some point it will

In a world that worships the size zero, Chis stands alone as American Idol’s pillar of adipose inspiration to the millions of chubby audiophiles.

Francis L.