Idol: Michael Lynche on relationships...

812am... West Coast

Ita early in El-Lay... My driver is here at 9 to take me on my return flight home. I'm trying not to get up but I need to pack up and bounce...

There are sooooooo many pics online right now and ill post even more videos and stuff when I get a second... Prob on the plane!

I can't wait to get home... :-)

More later!

Rules handed down for tonights Top 12 party...

... And in the party there are no cameras and no video...

Its because they want to make sure past idols and current guests can get they "freak" on without becoming compromised. Last year we did shots with Justin and Kim Caldwell and more. Its always an interesting event...

Working on content for hot995.com right now!!!

More later with less gush,

-t.

Its 6:28am...

This is where the West coast jacks you up... I'm going to try to sleep for a lil bit longer... We've got a busy day but it should be a productive one.

Here we go!

Ridiculous the way this show is executed. Ryan with a million dollar smile and an amazing crew. While intros are running, they set up so much so fast...

Lee on now... He's the shizzy. My personal fave. I liked him since 2 wks ago...

I think word "pitch problems" is the easy thing to say for the judges. Kara just gave him mad props...

Simon and Kara playful... Show so well timed out... And in break ryan is cutting promos for the top 12 show next week... Will be rolling stones... Tuesday... Next week on fox...

Back in to show.... Seg two... Alex not Adam Lambert... Gettin his soul on. He's good but to me lacks something.... Idk what...

Kara has so much heart... She's amazing. She's taken the paula role...

Simon went waaay past cut time... I guess he can...

Tim... This is a heavy song... And he's nailing it....damn he's good and judges seem to agree..... And ellen is on.... Love her and her wife... So cute the love peck from portia before the show started...

Kara and Simon... Very impressive. Tim is gonna be a contender...

What do u think that Dunkleberger dude from season one is doing?

I'm really impressed by the great amnt of love bt ellen and portia... They love eachother deeply and its evident...

I'm sitting next to portia d - ellen's wife - She's amazing. The dude from Detroit (i think) is b/t her and i and it's like sitting in her living room watching the show with her. the pure love she has for ellen just radiates - and it's an amazing thing to see... like every commercial break, she goes to ellen for support, to be there, to aid her... it's amazing...

Andrew Garcia... This is the first time I've seen the crowd get up... He nailed this.... Portia and I discussing his performance... Simon called it desperate... I don't agree... He's on fire...

Impressed by level of artistry in this season...casey james is on fire too... Ellen agrees...

Aaron kelly -- oversinging imho, but pulling it back into the chorus... Randy agreed... Ellen did too.... Kara and simon... Well ok...

Todrick just nailed it. His pipes are his weapon... Ellen called him brave... I agree...

Michael lynche is on....FIRE!!! I'm so moved... So touched... I gotta go call 1866idols 08..

And wrap! First one over to see us is Kara. She's so moved... and so amazing. She's trying to have a baby so the last performance moved her so deeply... Shelly (Chicago) gave her a kleenex... lemmetellu Shelly is an under rated supernova of a star b/c she lives for this. We should steal her ;) Randy comes over now and he and I talk about the last performance... he's moved... vocally Lynche did some amazing things and I don't know if it came through on tv... but it was awesome... 


Alright... we're off to the hotel now for dinner w/ Ledger and Miram from Fox... I gotta cut away b/c i need to make a call to say goodnight 2 someone who's had about as much sleep as I have lately... unless she's already asleep in which case, I'm jealous... 


More later... 


-t.





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Sitting at idol...

Were behind the soundstage right now and its interesting...

All pics are banned, twitter is banned, its amazing how the idol apparatus locks everything down to protect the security of the show. Were 1645 away from air and its like it usually is... Busy but hectic.

Idol has a hype man... He's this dude who I guess is just a hype man who loves to, well, hype. Not sure of he's on radio in la. I doubt it. I'd not hire him.... He prob makes like 75k a year. In LA, I bet that's like 35k. I feel like I'm at a bar mitzva. Mazel tov!

Anyway, he uses the same stchick every year, asks the same questions to hype the crowd and stuff and, I guess its cool. Idol works because its got certain "familiarities..." He seems to be safe, hype-driven and fun in a family friendly sorta way.

Its funny to watch the radio peeps sneaking tweets and whatnot. Were 10 mins away from being live...

The set is controlled but electric. So much stuff goes on the small stage... Its pretty surreal.

More to follow....

Venting at the blog editor for the stations...

I'm venting. I've had no sleep. It's pretty much a senseless rant... 



So is this...

More from the hotel...

Here's some more pics of the Hotel Palomar room I'm in while here... I like the eff outta this hotel. Good people. Good hotel. Belldudes who remember me. Word...

I just thought this was appropriate to share. It's the first place I make the Diva Limo dude take me when he picks me up. It used to be to In-N-Out burger, and then, it would be to the grocery store because there's booze there and to drink in the hotel is just highway robbery, but this time, it was to Starbucks.

I'd go pick up some booze, but, for some reason just don't really feel like it. LOL. I think you gotta shake it up every now and then to keep it fresh and we've got a lot to do over the next day or so. Plus, that party always runs late... and my flight out is early (9a west) on Friday. I know. You're saying "9 isn't early..." but it is for me LOL! When Kyla's with mom, my sense of getting up early and such is out the window, although lately for some reason I've been, um, getting up at like 7am.

This is the sink. It's in the bathroom... 

I told you I'm loopy. And, Mrs. Booger will call me out on this too because now she'll see these pics and know that I'm just playing with my new camera I brought out here for the red carpet thing tomorrow. I mean, I have too be, right? Who in their right mind would take this picture that doesn't work for a travel website or magazine? Oh, btw... here's another...

That right there is a toilet. Yup. And a damn clean one, too.

More later. And even more here right now. 

At the hotel...

Banging out an update for hot995.com and uploading some pics... More here soon. The hotel is awesome and I'm eating kashi and blueberries.

Yum.

I feel like a panda at the national zoo.

And I need a power nap.

More later...

-t.

In flight... over Utah...

I love Virgin America...

Since I am out here for the stations, I just blogged over on the station sites.

LOL I have a new camera, it's a Canon T1i and it's pretty awesome, but, LOL I just accidentally hit the flash and took a pic and in the expanse of serenity which is the Virgin America cabin, I think I freaked the guy in the row in front of me out. One-Nay-Nay packed some tasty healthy sorts of in flight snacks which essentially became breakfast in flight. Yum. It's gone. Except for some of the raisins... just 'cuz I wasn't feelin' them this morning.

Anyway, it's off to check some emails, clean out some space in the in-box, take care of some bills and more... all from the comfort of the exit row on my Virgin America flight which I have to myself... while we zip along at 35k feet!

More later...

6:52am east... VX terminal...

So the flight isn't full. That's a good thing because VX main cabin seats kick some ass and when its not full you get crazy room. Secret: fly in exit row if flying solo. More room, easy access.

I always have to fight the urge to upgrade to first on these flights, but, in my new efforts to be less "bougie" I didn't really think about it this time...

... For too long.

Mas tarde,

-t.

Wednesday AM... Off to IAD....

I don't know how Kane does it. This 4am wake up stuff is tough... But I sorta slept and am on the way to catch my flight to LA for Idol's top 12 red carpet event...

Its early. Need coffee.

I'm riding shotgun in my car going over a million things as Renee drives to drop me off... Nay - idk how u do it but thank u... And for volunteering to make the drive... I owe u... Probably red lol...

So ill email here along the way. VX has wifi so ill try to keep busy on way out....

Here's to a safe flight...

Talk to u from the air,

-t.

Ps: its effing early.

Kelly Clarkson...

When u gotta go....


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The real threat to our national security...

... are the people and companies opposed to health care reform.

Bottom line, this has gone beyond a process of politics to a real threat to the "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" that each of us are entitled to as Americans. People are dying every day because they can't get the care they need.

Why?

It's too expensive.

Some corporate suit wants to make a bonus so a real claim of need is denied.

Some executives at health care companies want to be paid their multi-million dollar bonuses while at come conference in Aruba or whatever.

This is the tip of the iceberg. We've got people who are unemployed, underemployed and who have to choose between food or a doctors visit. Between clothes or a prescription they need.

What do we tell 'em? Well, the opponents of reform would just assume they ask nothing, and be told nothing. Maybe it will get better, so just go about your business, you don't need a doctor.

Yeah. The people who are elected to serve who take millions for elections from these insurance companies and lobbyists and who also have the best healthcare on the planet.

Trust me, I know. My dad worked for the Federal Government. That insurance is amazing.

And knowing this, it makes my blood boil that these people who "represent the people" are telling those same people with these robo calls and scare tactics that they don't deserve to have what they do.

It's a crime.

It's evil.

Opposition to the health care reforms and the people leading the fight against it are no better than the people who flew the planes into the twin towers and Pentagon.

The difference between 9/11 and now is that we see the attack coming, and the attackers are supposed to stand up for us. It's sinister, because the attacks and fear tactics are being financed by big business which have just thrown so much money at those opposed to reform that they're drunk from receiving it. To me, it's like organized crime. Big money paying off people to turn the other way so that innocent people can die.

Every time care is denied, very time a claim is denied, every time a person dies, in my mind, pre-medidated murder has been committed.

If those opposed to the reforms can live with this blood on their hands, then, well, we know what kind of people they are. And we know that they don't represent us... at all.

Today, President Obama stood up and said "it's time to get this done..." He called for an up and down vote. Watch this very carefully. We're about to see who exactly stands for the people and who stands for the domestic terrorists who believe profits are more important than you getting the care and treatment you need.

I know. I called 'em domestic terrorists. Well what else would you call 'em?

Terrorists use fear. The GOP is using fear.

Terrorists are well funded as was the case with Osama's people. The opponents of health care are funded with millions in campaign contributions from those pulling their strings.

Terrorists use propaganda to confuse and strike fear. Opponents of health care reform have slung so much propaganda that the noise is almost deafening.

Do the math. The data shows similarities. And while I admit I'm using incendiary rhetoric to prove a point, the truth is that as it is now, it's broken. It needs to be fixed. Americans do not deserve to die this way.

It's not socialism. It's not some mandate. It is, conversely, very American. In fact, it's an idea rooted in the very soil which a group of religious dissidents claimed as their own when this land was founded. The idea that all people are created equal who are endowed by their creator with inalienable human rights. Life. Liberty. The pursuit of happiness.

Health care is a human right. Those opposed to it are opposed to our very way of life, and to quote the American President who took the fight to the terrorists, well, "we need to smoke 'em out of their holes...' and remind them "if you're not with us you're with the terrorists..."

Finally, let me tell you again why I believe the way I do. Tomorrow, because of my gig, I have great music and I'll be going to get my annual physical. I have great insurance and I can afford my premiums which have risen like everyone elses in the past years. I'm pretty sure all will be ok for me for the most part, but I worry about what might happen if, God forbid, something happened to me and Kyla, who has my healthcare as her mom is currently self employed, were to lose hers. She's soon to be six years old, and things just happen when you're a kid. Because she's got the same healthcare I've got, she's pretty much covered. If something happens to me - boom - that's all gone. So Kyla will have no healthcare, her mom has no healthcare and that's just not okay to me.

Ky's going to have a new niece, born to her mom's sister. Her mom lives in Mass, where they have public healthcare. Kyla's uncle, by brother, lives in Mass. Thanks to this public option for healthcare, Ky's aunt who is meeting many challenges which are so common to so many right now, will have the help she needs when it comes to the pregnancy. Kyla's cousin, Che, lives in Mass with my brothers family. He's got the health care he needs and it's great thanks to the public option. It works up there. Mitt Romney made this happen for Mass, and he's a Republican. Scott Brown, the Republican "savior" supports it.

It just makes sense. Hawaii even has it and, well, Rush called the health care system there the best in the world when he had his heart issues.

Passing this and getting it done makes sense. The people want it. Republicans have supported it. It's time to liberate our own people - freeing them from this evil from within - by passing health care reform now.

Thanks for indulging me. Goodnight.