American Idol Predictions and Idiocracy

I'm still mourning the loss of Michael Johns on American Idol. I really thought he'd be in the top 3 this season.

Even though I was dead wrong about this, I'll go out on a limb and make my prediction about this Season's winners. Here goes. David Cook and Carly Smithson will be #1 and #2, not necessarily in that order. Jason will finish #3 (click on the video below. I've never liked dred locks before, but he's so adorable with them. And I love his version of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" pictured here.)

David Archuletta will finish #4 Brooke will finish #5 Kristie Lee will finish #6 Sayesha will finish #7. However, if there's an upset, it will be that Carly is voted off early and in that case, I think Jason will be in the top 2. I've been guessing the #1 winner right for the past few seasons, if not the rest of the lineup. I really thought Chris Daughtry should have won his year, so I was wrong then. And I thought Constantine should have finished #3 in his season.

I'm watching "Idiocracy". I rented it again. I normally don't enjoy silly movies, but I this one works for me because the main character played by Luke Wilson is sane and trying to deal with an insane world - like a lot of the plots in my books. In case you've not seen it, Luke Wilson ("Joe") is the most average joe in the military and is put into suspended animation in a military top secret project. The project got shelved, he got lost, and he awakens in the year 2505 to a much different world. Unfortunately, it's not a better world, but a world in crisis. Suddenly, he's the smartest man in the world - by a long shot. Everything's nuts. It's not the Star Trek future. In this world, the buildings are leaning against each other and held together with big ropes or rubber bands. There's a highway overpass that's broken in half where cars just drive over - why do I always giggle at this scene? It gets me every time. :) The idiocy really annoys me in this movie, and yet, I like the movie. I think Luke Wilson and his costar, Rita, the most average woman in the world of 2005 when the army experiment was done, makes the movie. Get a glimpse for yourself. View the video above.