United States. Canada. Australia. No matter which country, you gotta love Next Top Model. Except for Britain. For some reason, the UK's version bores me to tears. I think it's because none of those girls brings the drama like the Americans, Canadians, and the Aussies.

( Let's meet the Aussie hamsters )

In one especially entertaining episode the girls had to do a commercial for a tampon brand. And they had a prop of a stuffed animal of a beaver because a beaver represents a "woman's compartment" as Alyce so delicately put it. Oh dear God. You could not pay me enough money to act in a tampon commerical and saying stuff like "How do you keep fresh down there?" while holding a freaking beaver puppet of all things. Hell no.

Dehellza, Sam, and Alex get to go overseas to New York (so much better and fashionable than L.A., where they went last year) and Napoleon Perdis, the fat little oompa loompa makes another apperance in his NYC apartment. This guy has a home in Sydney, L.A., NYC and he's always popping up wherever they go. In NYC they walk in a fashin show for Malan, that guy fron Project Runway.

OMG and I cannot wait...there's going to be Project Runway...wait for it....AUSTRALIA! I hope to god they have it on YouTube. And they better show the fifth season of PR on youtube as well. I will be in heaven!

With the exception of maybe three or four singers, I thought everyone sucked last week on AI. I wish they had Motown week instead of just Diana Ross songs so they had a bigger selection to choose from. I think I only knew about four of the songs that were sung. I didn't think Blake's version of You Keeep Me Hanging On was THAT bad; at least it was much better than Chris Sligh's awful rendition of Endless Love. Dude totally butchered that song!

I am SOOO excited for the coming weeks. Now I don't know how accurate this is, but someone over at TWoP found out what themes they'll be doing for the Top 9, 8, and 7:

( Just in case you want to be surprised )

I was looking at some old AI videos from YouTube and Trenyce, Voldemort, and Kimberly Camerawhore could have taught this year's batch a thing or two. Now THAT is how you do motown!

Compare season 1's group sing of Joy to the World to season's 6's version. I like the former a lot better! Of course, to be fair, they had only their top seven while there were 20 freaking people in the other one...that's way too many damn people! But seeing that reminds me how much I wished AJ had made it. I loved AJ! He was so endearing when he sang the lyrics along to Alone when Gina sang it. Ha!

And speaking of group sings...season 2 was by far the best. My favorite (not only from this season, but all seasons combinbed) group sing is the top seven singing For the Longest Time. (Haha, Ruben is such a pimp with TWO girls!) Here we have S2 singing What the World Needs Now is Love. It fills me with butterflies and lollipops! And I love this especially cheesy group sing of All Night Long. I alway loved it when they went out in the audience...it always made me laugh that Ruben never seemed to never go out there. And WTF are Clay and Carmen (Clarmen!) doing there at the end! It seriously looks like there about to makeout! Hilarious! And I am totally bummed that I can't find the two group sings they did on Movie Night. They sang along to Foot Loose and I've Had the Time of My Life and the former is AWESOME because they're all (except Ruben!) in the audience and Camerawhore is dancing with JD Adams and in the latter they're all "paired up" (except Ruben, poor guy) and singing to each other. So awesomely cheesy. Someday I'm going to list my top ten favorite AI performances...or maybe top 20!

I also decided to check out the latest batch from Oz Idol (they just had their 4th season) and I must say I really like that Bobby Flynn guy. He's got a very unique-sounding voice and I really like it. I wouldn't even know which artist to compare him to. I read on Wikipedia that he sang Superfreak on Disco night and I can't find it on YouTube! Aurgh! I wanna see that so bad! That is just too fucking awesome!

Now if I were a 13 year old Australian girl, I would have totally voted for Dean Geyer. Hell, I'd still vote for him as a 26 year old American if I could. I love this guy! Please tell me he's not some massive tool. Look! He plays the guitar (sorry, I couldn't find one with just the performance), and he does backflips!. (You have to wait to the end, but he does some kind of cartwheel off the stage one minute in). He totally pwns Diana DeGarmo at this song, LOL. (Oh, God, I think that was during Gloria Estefan week...worst song week EVER!)

Also, the finale of Aussie Idol was totally awesome and so overdone that I just love it. Singing Coldplay outside the Opera House? Fireworks over the Harbour? Damn, I don't think I even saw that many fireworks when I was at Disney World! It actually gave me chills when I watched it. Why can't WE have fireworks? :::whines::: The second girl reminds me of Vanessa Carlton - they both have that nasally sounding voice. Who is the girl in the white pantsuit who comes in at two minutes? She totally looks like Jennifer Coolidge and I'm guessing she looks a lot older than she really is... I like Jessica's dress (the girl at the end), but are those hot pink leggins? Um, no!

I heart YouTube.

Time for some (very quick!) movie reviews:
( Awakenings )

( The French Connection )

( My Left Foot )

( The Grifters )

( Glory )

So after watching season 2 of Australia's Next Top Model on YouTube, I quickly devoured season 1. As a whole, I liked the girls from S1 lot better than the girls from S2. While there was still swearing, they didn't swear every fucking other fucking word like the fucking girls from fucking S2 fucking had to do all the fucking time! So they weren't as crass, so (some) of the girls from S1 could actually be Cover Girls!

( Commentary! Whoooooooooo-OOOOOOOOO! )

I recently finished watching season 2 of Australia's Next Top Model on YouTube. There are a lot of similarities to the American version, such as:

- Whenever the girls receive "Erika mail" they scream like banshees.

- The panel of judges include Erika Heynatz and three other people who are (obviously) in the fashion biz and there's a guest judge every week.

- The list of prizes is basically the same. They get a contract with some modeling agency and they get a spread in Cleo magazine.

-Before the judging, there's a little challenge the girls have to perform to se how much they've learned that week.

-The girls bitch and whine about their makeovers.
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Now I'm off to watch Season 1 of AuNTM. (Yes, I realize I'm watching them out of order!)