david cook is your american idol and last night i hated my tivo
man, so last night while me and taka were watching the american idol finale on about 1 hour delay (because i was watching that awesome lakers comeback), we got to the very end, i mean *THE* moment, and ryan seacrest said “by twelve million votes of american idol two thousand eight is…. david” and then i swear to god, my tivo made that little *bloop* sound and asked if i wanted to delete this recording. the fucking recording ended because the show ran long and it stopped *right* before they said the last name of the winner. taka and i started screaming, then laughing, and then looked it up online since it actually happened like 4 hours ago. i didn’t get to see his reaction until this morning when i watched the re-cap on good day la. stupid tivo.
and was i the only one imagining costin, ben and me in these blue suits during this entire performance?
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I heard about that tivo thing on KROQ this morning. Personally, I think it was intentional to punish all of the people who time shift and fast forward through commercials, but maybe I’m just a conspiracy theory nut. Either way, it’s all the more reason to just torrent everything!
wow, i wasn’t thinking about it, but i guess that probably happened to almost everyone recording it, since the clock on the tivo is set over the network. i found this on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8CE86nLpQY
man, thats absolutely hilarious. i have doubts about it being a conspiracy though. live broadcasts always run a little bit over and idol is pretty notorious for it. you just gotta set the buffer recording, yo. either way, you were better off than me. the crazy strong winds that night knocked my satellite out at 8pm and it didnt come back on until 11. i torrented it right when my satellite went out and had the whole thing downloaded by the time the show was over. god bless torrents :)
The timing was too perfect for it to have not been deliberate. Look how slow Seacrest is talking… almost like he’s wanting to stretch it out. They could have kept it on time if they had wanted to simply by making the announcement even a little bit faster. To have it go out exactly when they say the winner’s last name was either done on purpose or it’s an amazing coincidence. Anyway, torrents ftw.
actually the show ran for probably another 4-5 minutes after that announcement….crazy conspiracy theorist.
But the announcement was the only thing that anyone cares about, hence why that was the place they had it cut off.
dol, suckas…mine got cut off immediately after the announcement and the little guy walks off stage for some reason. i have no idea what happens after that.