Month: May 2009

Not being a paid hack, i refuse to write about any legal issues that involve eyneee (any) presidentiable wannabe (oops, “presidentiable” is not in the Word dictionary but i don’t want to use the word presidential which has a veneer of dignity to it). And that’s: Eyneee (any).

355 days of avoiding it. That means the blog would be limited to 1) legal issues of public interest, that involve other people ; 2) maybe, media law issues; 3) “health” issues or my layperson’s understanding of it, with verification and disclaimer when necessary — lots of people interested in health issues; 4)pictures, pictures, pictures; all-original; videos originally shot, edited, and produced by blog admin when i have time for it, maybe once a month; and 5)American idol singing contest (the last, today, as it seems.)

So, if you see this blog discussing anything that involves any presidentiable wannabe, that means:

I’ve been paid for it!

i’m shameless!

The exceptions are: 1) as reply to comments, when necessary; the last time was with Atty. Jayson Lamchek’s query and comment on certain politicians; discontinued, he was probably really busy; or 2) if any of the wannabe’s are unlawfully arrested.

So, i headed for the door after the American Idol results were announced. Sus ginoo, any Filipino singer was ten thousand times better than that Kris (the winner); you can see/ listen for yourself; not remarkable, not striking, very ordinary voice, dinaan sa pagpa-cute (he got by with cuteness) he sounds like a tambay in the kanto (a guy in the street corner) singing with his buddies. If this is a singing contest and you’re talking solely about vocals (you know…. voice!), or range (you know…. coming from nowhere and being able to hit the big notes and the low notes, in perfect tune, not screaming, with just enough rasp), creativity (being able to rearrange and interpret), and emotion, any singer, songwriter, arranger, music teacher, or record producer or vocal coach, will tell you Adam Lambert wins by a million miles. Ask Ryan Cayabyab. Go ask him. Ask Jim Paredes. Go ask him. (oops, busy pala sya sa “Artists Revolution & Movement 4 Good Governance” baka magtaka yon) — Ask any expert.

(of course, it’s not the experts who buy the CD’s, it’s the…screaming tweeners.)

Adam Lambert is out there! There is no competition. Well, that’s just me. You can go listen for yourself, click this, it’s here in my blog: (1st cut) All photos: Myra Lambino-Ramos. Music: American Idol cover, Bee Gees classic, arranged by Michael Orland &

Adam Lambert

or this:

Chem Prof’s “Magnificent Laughing Headstand”. Music: American Idol’s Adam Lambert & Allison Iraheta, cover of Slow Ride, foghat

i’m guessing… not solely a “singing contest”, but image and package: Adam Lambert probably did not get a chunk of certain votes because his sexual orientation was visually ambiguous, and he says as much in interviews when asked (he doesn’t answer with a “yes” or “no” but with “i’m an honest guy”. and he is, he didn’t want to be a hypocrite). Plus, of course, he wears eyeliner and mascara (you could actually imagine, if he were in your house, he’d say “Tita, can i borrow your eyeliner”). Plus, he has certain gestures and mannerisms. Plus, he sticks his tongue out too often, in fact, everytime he hits the high notes. Plus, he wears glitter on his face too; flamboyant clothes; black nailpolish….”middle America” was not ready for him; or maybe the silly tweeners voting in American idol are not (sorry, ah).

So you can check it out, click the links given above. When you hear Adam Lambert sing, you almost want to say: “No one, no one should be allowed to sing that well.” If it were the end of days and the Devil himself suddenly popped up with a last bid for human kind to pick its best to pit in a singing duel with him, and the stakes are the fate of human kind, you think you’d pick the lame, mediocre Kris-what’s-his-name? You think? Go listen to him –– we’d be ashes; we’d be saying, “oh no…no!!!” while burning.

We’d simultanously look in one direction and and push and pull and push Adam Lambert to hit it; he’d blast the Devil to smithereens — and we’d all live a second chance.

(next to that would be Ogie Alcasid).

Sorry ah, i don’t want to write about what’s going on, most of it involves the presidentiable wannabes.