I can't spell aficianados, but those of you who are music aficianaanaananados, please help me out.

Has someone recently covered Elton John's "Tiny Dancer"? I was driving home from work and I heard this really awesome version of Tiny Dancer on the radio, but I have no idea who sang it, but he had a really nice voice. I waited for the DJ to announce it but he didn't. I tried looking on the net and I only found Tim McGraw and that's definitely not it. The version I heard was kinda guitar-heavy, compared to the mainly-piano of the original. I'm not sure if that helps. And it was a studio version, it wasn't live or anything like that.

I don't even know if it's a recent cover, but it sounded kinda 'modern' so I'm guessing that it is.

I wish Jake Gyllenhaal would stop being seen in public dressed up like a homeless hobo athlete. Does he own nothing but shorts and T-shirts.

This is highly depressing.

OMFG VERONICA MARS

Best. Finale. Ever.

Please give Kristen Bell an Emmy now.

EVANGELINE LILLY models herself on ANGELINA JOLIE and dreams of following in the campaigning actress' footsteps. The LOST beauty insists she shares Jolie's passion for charitable causes and her love of children too. Lilly, who is dating Lost co-star DOMINIC MONAGHAN, says, "She's a phenomenal example to young women because she's a successful career woman, a humanitarian and a mother too. "The concept of acting in movies, being an international delegate for the UN, adopting children and being a mother is so much responsibility. I have a lot of respect for her. "If I could take one item to a desert island with me it would be a child to keep me going. I've been working with children for the last ten years in so many different places and I love it. "It's something that drives me. When I was a young girl I used to say I wanted between twelve and twenty kids. Children will always be a huge part of my life."

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Sorry, I had to laugh at that. Funniest thing I read all day.

First off: a child is not an item. And, whenever anybody asks you that question you always say you would bring a boat!
Secondly: Wouldn't it be, I don't know, kind of cruel to drag a child with you to the desert island so you could feel better?

Oh Dom.

Help!

I've been out of the Dom fandom for a while (yeah, go figure, how did that happen?) and now I have this feeling like I'm missing out on a lot of glorious Dom pictures and stuff, because I sometimes see some icons with pictures of Dom I've never seen before, look like photoshoots, and I've tried searching the web for Dom fansites but those are tragically out of date (we're talking 2005, people!) and I really don't know where on LJ to start looking.

Anybody can point me to a place where I can find up to date photos of Dommie? Please?

Just what will it take to get Kellie Pickler off my television screen?
ARGHH.

OK, so I'm totally in love with the new Rascal Flatts album (yeah, I know.. me.. country?). But this love is a double edged sword since it made me realize I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.My favorite song in there is "He Ain't The Leavin' Kind", which has lyrics that go:

"They tried their best to drag him out
of a courthouse down in montgomery
Now they want to kick him out of school
and take him off our money
They can take those words off of paper and stone
but he aint gone, no

He ain't the leavin' kind
He'd never walk away
Even from those who dont believe
and wanna leave him behind
He ain't the leavin' kind

She stayed mad at him for a lot of years
for taking her husband ..."

OK, now, if I had half a brain I would have figured out that the song is about GOD, but oh no, ever since hearing it I've been thinking "Which President is this song about?". I even Googled for it, trying to see which President was thrown out of a courthouse, and whose face we wanted off our money, and it must have been some President which started a war or something which is why the woman is mad her husband got sent to war. And I'm like, wow, this is a really patriotic song! Sigh. Blonde moment.

BTW - Ryan Seacrest looks sexy dirty with his beard. Methinks he's trying to impress Teri Hatcher. But FAILED.

I suppose this interview was probably a bit out of context, but I think Natalie Portman just called me a whore:

She said: "I don't want to ever be working for money because then you are no different to a prostitute."

And also what's fun is that when you search for "Natalie Portman" under Google News, one of the headlines is "Natalie Portman: Hollywood Whores" and right underneath it, it says, related link: "Natalie Portman begged for Vendetta role". Oh, GoogleNews.

But I still love Natalie. I saw V for Vendetta last night, totally awesome movie.

You guys, isn't Jake like the cutest psycho stalker you've ever seen?:



BTW, about one hour after this picture was taken, the mutilated bodies of Ang Lee and Uma Thurman were discovered, Ang Lee's Oscar suspiciously missing.

(found it on wranglers)

( Oscars )
Who was the beardblonde sitting next to Jake? I thought Jake had a relapse and it was Kirsten Dunst at first but thank God it wasn't.

Like I need ANOTHER reason to love Jill Sobule. She has written this song called "Dick and Harry" about the Dick Cheney shooting incident, and she has given it a Brokeback Mountain spin. It's just plain awesome, and suddenly everything makes sense...

Robin Eaton sings on this, not Jill, so don't get surprised by hearing a manly voice.

Download the mp3 here

Harry Whittington, you better run, I'm counting up to 5
Harry Whittington, what have you done, you shouldn't have told the wife.
We've been coming here for 30 years, they thought it was for doves
But it was for love.. Sweet, sweet love

Seriously, Jill, I love you.

GIP! Finally made a Brokeback icon:




Text is from this awesome song called Guinivere by Shaye (Which you all must listen to OR DIE), which goes:

"In a way I can't blame you for working so hard to make me make sense
You had no armor and we all know that loving is the worst defense"