Come To Get Me When The Stars Die

For those of you who have been asking yourself, "When is Frank going to take those Margaret Berger 'Robot Song' and t.A.T.u. 'Cosmos' tracks that he talked about so eloquently on sm_woods' livejournal and, rather than linking them via stupid imeem feeds that stop working after you play them once, put them on his MySpace profile playlist instead so that we can all enjoy them?" well, I have now taken "Robot Song" and "Cosmos" and put them on my my MySpace profile playlist so that everyone can enjoy them.

( Playlist described )

American Idol decides not to have a winner this year

( Preliminary technicalities )

The two I remotely care about:

Megan Corkrey: Her voice is stone hard without being cold; she's the only one with a solid vocal character, but also, given her voice, you don't know how she's going to use it or what to expect. Or, rather, you'd expect her to go boringly for jazz chops and singer-songwriter respectability, which she can do, but I actually felt more than that when she sang the KT Tunstall horse song.

Allison Iraheta: Rocker chick in nonrock contexts, emits a river of passion, "Give In To Me" a great choice on Michael Jackson night, but the voice actually is not powerful enough to bowl everything over with feeling, and she ends up straining for her payoffs.

( All right, I'm feeling Adam too, and as a ham he'd be all right as Liberace or Vincent Price )

h/t to andthatisthat and justfanoe and ludickid for reporting more faithfully and knowledgeably than I.

Meta Week Continues On The Interwebs

What are the advantages of upgrading to a Plus Account?

I don't mind reading the ads on skyecaptain's and dubdobdee's journals, so I don't suppose people would mind reading ads on mine. And I would like to support keeping lj in business. But the only thing that jumped out at me as an advantage of a Plus Account is that I get to post polls. I mean, I'm only using one user pic as is, I don't need 15. But are there other advantages that would pass me by until I tried them?