American Idol

So, Tuesday was American Idol auditions at Arden. Regina told me about this a few weeks back, so I was going to pre-register on the Fox website. I asked Mags if she was doing anything that day so she could pre-register too, but she said it was Zach's last day here. I signed up anyway. Come Saturday, Mags asked if there were auditions on Tuesday & I said yes. I pretty much decided to audition with her cuz I didn't wanna do it alone anyway. I guess Zach's last day was some other time?

Anyway, we arrive to Arden around 8:30 & we were expecting a huge line outside since the mall wasn't even open yet. There was no one there. We waited for someone to attempt to walk in the mall & we followed that person. Sure enough, the mall was open yet empty. Like an airport at 2AM. We finally saw a huge crowd in front of Nordstrom's upstairs & went up. The lines were pretty unorthodox, but we found the back of the line. It was hard trying not to do our ghetto black gurl voices cuz of all the black people in line with us, LOL. But we ended up making friends with two of them. Man, were they hella funny. One girl, who looked like Solange, was suuuper nice. She had a tattoo on her left boob that read "Rajon", her son's name. hahaha. She told us her whole life story. Like how her boyfriend is white & her brother's girlfriend is white and how they don't discriminate. ahhaha. This one girl in particular, Gabby, was mad annoying. Mags & I just could not handle her anymore cuz she just kept taaaalking. At one point she complimented Solange's sister (Shamani) on her purple & black sweater she was wearing. Shamani hella just mean mugged her & Gabby was just like "I'm just...saying." ahahah, poor thing. Gabby let us know that she didn't have any form of ID with her cuz she didn't know, so Solange was like "OMG, DO YOU HAVE YOUR BIRF CONTROL?......I mean....birf certificate?" omg, Mags could not keep it in. ahahahaha. Another thing was Solange hella had her birth certificate in her hand & she accidentally let it go & it landed on the roof of a storefront. She started panicking & started saying "I'm thinking, I'm thinking" then goes & grabs a mop stick in front of a store. It hella didn't reach so she put her sweater on it. She asked Shamani to go down to go catch it when it fell down, but she didn't realize there was a lip on the roof so she slipped it under the lip. She hella had to call for someone that worked there & ended up dropping the stick down to the first floor too. LOLOL.

The line was finally moving around 11, which was weird cuz pre-registrant auditions were from 10-12. I guess no one showed up? We were halfway there until they announced they found a top 20 already. There were 20 spots left. Then the top 20 performed downstairs on stage with a mic. They all suuuuucked. I have no idea how they all made it. We were finally in front of the old Calendar store where the auditions took place & we waited for a good 30mins. We got really scared cuz at that point, there were about 7 spots left so we thought we wouldn't be able to audition. While we were waiting, some lady got hella hood with security that I was getting a little scurred myself. ahaha. But anyway, we were lucky enough to get into the room. I sang "Bust Your Windows" & they asked me to sing another song, I sang "Black & Gold". I made it through top 40 as number 39. Maggie auditioned & didn't make it cuz she was super nervous. I felt super bad. ): All they told me to do was up the tempo when I perform downstairs.

So I get downstairs & wait to perform with the last 10 people that made it. This time, there were judges to critique. Odd, they didn't have that for the top 20. Whatever, I'm not tripping. So I went to perform my song & one of the judges said "Are you kidding me?..." In my head I thought, "omg, he's probably kidding around." & he goes on to say, "that was...awful." My jaw fell to the floor & I pretty much tuned whatever the rest of the judges had to say. I pretty much felt like Carrie Bradshaw when Big left her at the altar. I hella had to get out of there. hahaha. I was just bitter & sad the rest of the day. How the hell am I so awful that I even placed top 40? & how the hell was I the only bad critique? Ugh, whatever. Mags treated me to Olive Garden afterwards & we went to the driving range.

Went to Kuya AJ's later that night & chilled/drank with the bests. We're so random. Pizza, cake, alcohol, & "Teen Mom". haha, I love them.