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Fame Academy

18:53 / 22.11.02

Apologies for being so low brow and such a wannabe teenager but sitting here biting my nails, awaiting the verdict on Sex God Ainslie. What a star! So many notes so flat they made Holland look hilly! And poor, wretched, on-probation-every-week Katie. The girl done good.

David, pack your vanity case, boy.

But that dreadful Kielty man. Shoot him, please.

21:24 / 22.11.02

i am here just to say that ainsley is fit. read http://spizzazzz.blogspot.com for fame acadamy commentry: it will bring a nation to it's knees.

22:39 / 22.11.02

Yay, suds! Long time no read... Strange how I was thinking of you when I posted the above.

And the wee Scottish Sex Hamster lives to sing out of tune another day. Be still my beatin' heart!

Now, I need your help to burgle The Magick and steal their secrets so we can hex cheesy David before he irks me with his cockiness for another week. And while we're at it, we might as well sniff out a few charms to give whiny, adenoidal Malachi a long-lasting bout of laryngitis.

19:38 / 23.11.02

i can't believe katie left! i found out today when i was watching top of the pops saturday. i missed the show because i was on a train.
i can't believe that the public voted to keep malachi. he's very annoying. i guess out of ainslie and katie i would have voted for ainslie aswell because he crys over the rain and writes songs about sex.
but poor katie! i used to think she was a total brat but she always looks so flawless and cute even when she's been dancing around for hours. she must have felt really bad being nominated every week.
i *want* to like siobban but she reminds me of 80s pop sensation sonya. lamarr is cute but sort of boring.
i was pleased when nigel left!

Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes

23:45 / 23.11.02

But that dreadful Kielty man. Shoot him, please.

Hey, save a few bullets for Cat Deely though.

16:03 / 27.11.02

i think ainslie is getting depressed. it upsets me to see him like this!

16:23 / 27.11.02

Bullets. Cat Deely. Oh dear god, yes! Even her fringe is annoying.

I like Ainslie too - he's sweet, and has that lovely Scottish accent. He does slide in and out of tune a frightening amount, but I guess that might be part of the charm. He'd work better in a band, maybe - he reminds me weirdly of Brian Molko. Lamar will probably win...he has probably the best and most reliable voice.

16:35 / 27.11.02

dude, how come everyone is pissy with cat deely at the moment? my housemate can't bear her because she "has a wonky nose"! i don't understand why she's annoying everyone, and i love her new fringe!
*slinks away*

19:26 / 27.11.02

I'd just like to say, having seen (on BBC Choice) the remaining students perform 'My Way' for the chance to go out tonight, it's a travesty of justice that Ainslie didn't win. He positively sparkled, he really did. The best by far...

22:28 / 27.11.02

But Lamar's so kewl and dull, Chol... Can't wait to see Ainslie's My Way but think I'll be lugging furniture up and down stairs or from Scotland hither. Oh well, just have to rely on you guys to keep me abreast.

I think Sinead's going to win out in the end though.

08:22 / 28.11.02

Know what you mean about Lemar (having checked the spelling)...but he can sing, and he might be most commercially viable. Reliability counts for a lot, methinks.

Regrettable Juvenilia

14:40 / 01.12.02

Having seen this for the first time on Friday, I would just like to add my support for Ainslie. He writhes all over the floor, he scowls sensitively, he wears the leather pants of moral ambiguity! I thought his performance of 'You Really Got Me' wiped the floor with the other two, and was very relieved that Lamarr and David 'saved' him. Malachi is just a big dopey pint of Guinness, isn't he?

Liked the song Lamarr & Ainslie co-wrote as well: good to see even a SHALLOW pop show like this understands the need to show REAL songwriting...

14:59 / 01.12.02

I've changed my mind. I really think Ainslie should win, 'cause it turns out he can actually stay in tune for a whole song, and when he does, he kicks arse. I might even consider buying his album if he got a recording contract. I liked 'Lullaby' too.

15:01 / 01.12.02

With his 'neurotic boy outsider' wan intensity (well, relative to the technically-perfect-but-dull MOR wasteland around him, anyway), Ainslie has a certain retro-80s appeal. If he could only carve 'ON PROBATION' into his forearm before passing out, he'd be perfect.

Think the trousers were satin, though. His pants, on the other hand, could well have been leather. There's a thought...

16:48 / 01.12.02

i am usually ruthless with shows like "fame acadamy", but on friday as i saw sinead, malachi and ainslie standing there waiting for the audience's vote, i felt nothing for them but pity. it was unbearable, i felt so fucking sorry for them i almost switched channels. almost.
i'm going off ainslie. i read on the fame acadamy website that he likes coldplay and radiohead. it really puts me off. i think i'll always fancy him a bit but i now want lamarr or sinead to win. sinead is beautiful and i think a girl should win, but lamarr is has the best voice. plus, he's hott.

17:51 / 01.12.02

But Ainslie sounds like Robert Smith (it's true, dagnammit, he does!).
If Ainslie had been voted out on Friday, I would've had to stop watching it altogether, I really would.

20:56 / 01.12.02

So. Ainslie.

I got compared to him the other day, you know... Just thought I'd throw that in there. He's very nice, isn't he? I think I will live with being compared to him.

Tryphena Absent

21:39 / 01.12.02

yeah. Yeah. Ainslie.

Regrettable Juvenilia

12:35 / 02.12.02

I did actually notice that resemblance.

15:34 / 03.12.02

he's cute but he's really annoying!

18:40 / 03.12.02

He's wearing Sinead's skimpy undies now too. And singing With or Without You this weekend. , Ainslie. Mmmmm...

I am turning into the tragic central figure in Gilbert Adair's Love and Death on Long Island, played beautifully by John Hurt in the film. Middle aged man turns into a teenage girl, emotionally, and experiences an overwhelming crush on an unattainable but compelling young man, whom he then stalks, obsessively and hopelessly.

Bit of Death in Venice in there too. I'll likely peg out in front of the tv on Friday night with the tension of it all. With my hair dye running down over my pasty face.

Ainslie is the lovechild of Siouxsie Sioux and Marc Bolan.
Lemar [sic], nah. Dull, and he sings in that Maria Carey warble that appears to pass for soulful these days.
Sinead's OK. Looks like a remnant of the Spice Girls though.
David has the most annoying, smug little face and that bloody voice. Sings not bad but doesn't wear eye makeup and skimpy girlie thongs.

19:04 / 03.12.02

Ainslie rocks! He pouts! He preens! He withers on the floor! He's a scamp and we love him so!

He's just great to watch. He's a tiny little bundle of pixie energy. Sexy pixie energy. While I don't buy that I look like him, because he is hot, I am flattered by the comparisons. The world needs more people who don't know that that's not a mosh pit...

Tryphena Absent

22:46 / 03.12.02

Someone told me today that Lemar sings like he needs to cough all the time. Mwahahahahahahaha. Ainslie forever, slay the competition, keep the little bundle of pixie energy.

19:48 / 06.12.02

Bastard British public, bastard fellow Fame Academicals! How could they deprive me of the writhing lust machine? How will I cope now on these dark Winter nights?

Oh well, Friday night. Away to meet a friend off the Edinburgh train and get out of my face. But inside, I'll be weeping over Hamster Boy. *Sob*

20:21 / 06.12.02

Bloody British public/Fame Academy students indeed. Waaaaaaahhh!

Ainslie will return though - even the grumpy headmaster bloke thinks he's got a music career ahead.

Tryphena Absent

01:13 / 07.12.02

ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. That is all I have to say, my beautiful geek, I miss him already - actually I missed him 5 hours + ago.

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:33 / 07.12.02

He was on children's telly this morning, singing a tune he wrote with some of the other students. I hope he goes far...

Undecided about Sinead: she seemed really boring last week but last night she was pretty good - her & Ainslie doing 'Satisfaction' was probably the highlight of the show. Lamarr is a nice guy but musically sums up everything that used to be wrong about R&B in the early-to-mid 90s... the spectre of Boyz II Men... eek.

David is the villain of the piece.

19:37 / 07.12.02

The bastards! That version of Satisfaction was the best thing on the night, if only because of the look of joy on Ainslie's face every time he threw a silly gyuitar hero move.

He rocked.

yawn - thing's buddy

19:58 / 07.12.02

yeah, david is an asshole and in the edinburgh-glasgow contest I'm shamed to say, that ainslie, representing the eastern burgh, won hands down.

Glasgow don't look so cool now that we've churned up David and Darius.

That said, Ainslie is so clearly a Fran Healy wannabee and anyone who aims so low and with such mediocrity in their poison arrow deserves to be from Edinburgh.

Lamarr can sing. no question. the other two are pretty dull and have a very short pop-life.

Ainslie on the other hand, yeah, he would have been best cos he's this weird indie-template low aimin' kind east coast nonce, but significantly 'other' to justify this show's existence.

20:46 / 07.12.02

I've yet to be convinced that the technical ability to sing is, in itself, a vital or determinant aspect of what makes a pop phenomenon great. Lemar sounds, to me, much like any other tuneful-but-dull 'soul-singer' I've ever heard.

Where's the edge?

(It's like Bananarama never happened...)

17:39 / 08.12.02

being the self centred egotist that i am, i can't help but think that my loss of faith in ainslie was the reason why he didn't survive on friday night! i mean, i kept my faith in jade and now she's a millionaire. I'M SORRY AINSLIE! i never meant to hurt you...
ok, now who the hell voted david in? he's so super boring. i dig siobban to win because a) she's a girl and b) when her guitar strap broke she didn't give a fuck! holla!

17:55 / 08.12.02

And her name is Sinead...

yawn - thing's buddy

19:40 / 08.12.02

ganesh - of course you're right about tech abil to sing etc.

just the other two remaining don't have much other shit going for them either.

11:42 / 09.12.02

i wrote that at break neck speed and am amazed i got all other facts correct. bling bling.