Green Room - Week 39 - Day 3

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Like a car on fire crashing into a dynamite factory – LJ IDOL Season 8 is coming to an end!

Tonight!

Which means you have one last chance to decide who you want to win this thing - http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/603806.html

The last time I looked, it looked like we could very well be coming down to the wire again! Which is appropriate, given the talent level of our final two!

It also means that this is the final Green Room of the season. You also have one last chance to enjoy this space. Because the staff is getting anxious to get in here and start cleaning! Or at least attempting to… I’m really not sure about some of those spots. Especially in the corners.

The DJ has started the music down in the Banquet Hall and it’s about time to move out of here… so get your group pictures of “Us in the Green Room, in happier times” out of the way, before it’s too late!

I don’t know about you, but I’m going to miss this place.

So, thank you Green Room, for another season of, well, everything it is that you do! Whatever that happens to be! ;)

And (if you are so inclined) remember to tip your wait staff!

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Most of all though, we have one last chance to enjoy this moment.

They don’t come around all that often, and you should definitely take a moment to let it all sink in when you get the opportunity. Where you were when we started. Where you are now. Where you see yourself going now, and where all of this craziness fits into all of it!


“A punk rock song won’t ever change the world, but I can think of a couple that changed me” – Wingnut Dishwashers Union

I’ll see you later tonight with the results and the Afterparty!

Season 8 Winner

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Season 8.

Damn, what a finish!

That’s how we do it in Idol, and that’s certainly consistent with how this season has been since Week 1!

I don’t think that I have to lavish praise on either of these two. I think that they do it for themselves, and have all season long, with their entries!

But since I get to eliminate one last person, I will say that the second place goes to the individual who was referred (by that mystery almost Gatekeeper that unfortuantely couldn’t join us in the first round - and who I’m keeping secret, because I hope to use him next time! ;D) as “the clear winner”.

She might not have taken away that prize, but calling that she would be in the finals - from that far out, that’s a pretty good trick!

Having seen her work over the past 10+ months, it’s been nothing short of delightful. And although I’m kicking her hippie foreigner self to the curb with a steel-toed boot, it’s with the knowledge that she deserves every single bit of her success (as well as every single kick! :D)

Congratulations to our second place finisher for Season 8:

notodette!!!!


Which brings me to our Winner. I started hearing people say that she could win quite early in the season. When she came into town a few months back, and I saw her for the first time in about 20 years (eek) and heard her strategy (as laid out in her final entry) I started to think that she might prove them right.

I also thought she would have a hard road to get to this point, with a ton of pitfalls. She would have to not only excel as a writer, but as a competitor as well. She managed it.

When I say “hippie foreigner” - I’m not lying when it comes to her.

She has now, officially, become our FIRST INTERNATIONAL WINNER (being born in Canada and living outside of the US for most of the season). People said that it couldn’t happen. That was just proven wrong.

She has also just tied everything back up on the “winners with kids” scale, as well as “where in the alphabet their user name falls”, becoming our second W! I guess next time will decide it once and for all!


Congratulations to our Season 8 Winner: whipchick!!

and thank everyone for a fantastic season!

I’ve quoted this before, but it’s one of those things that continue to be true. Craig Finn of the Hold Steady says it quite a bit at the end of their shows, and if you can say it after doing something, and mean it, you are ahead of the game.

“There is so much joy in what we do up here.”

There really is. I hope that is one thing that you take away from this experience. The sheer amount of joy involved in it. The sheer amount of love.

Thank you to each and every one of you for being a part of it.

Dreslinski out.

Wrap Party/Friending Frenzy

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The dust is settled and the results are in, and people are being “encouraged” to leave the Green Room by the gas that is seeping in through the grates.

As the final one is carried out on a stretcher, desperately hanging on to the piece of chair they broke off in their last stand, even as it tumbles from their raptly going limp hands - the doors to the Green Room are slammed shut, locking from the inside. So that no one can open them, until the resortation is complete and we meet again next season!

For now, it’s off to the Banquet Hall, and from there - maybe, just maybe, there will be a door back to “your real lives”. I know you don’t remember them, and some of you will prefer to stay here, where it’s safe. But I’m sure there are folks who probably miss you out there.

I can’t imagine why! ;)

Welcome to the Banquet Hall! There is a buffet and an open bar. There is also a good old fashioned “Friending Frenzy”.

So, if you have been waiting to friend someone, or just want to put yourself out there... or tell a friend or 15 to stop on by, it’s a great way to cap off a great season, and a way for newbies to stick their head out and get to know people!

So step up and say “Hello!” and tell your friends to come on in and do the same!