Last Sunday, I received ‘congratulatory’ messages through SMS and email from friends  and casual acquaintances telling me that ABC-5 took one of my suggestions to ‘save Philippine Idol,’ and implemented a two-hour voting period similar to American Idol, starting with this week’s episode. I don’t think I deserve any congratulations, although I did leap for joy when Ryan Agoncillo made the announcement that...

[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54ovD0bzYP8&eurl="] Wanna play a little ‘Six Degrees’ game that links Celine Dion to the Pokemon soundtrack? Meatloaf‘s new album, Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose, drops this Halloween, naturally. On that album is a revival of Celine Dion’s #2 hit, It’s All Coming Back to Me Now, penned by Meatloaf’s favorite songwriter, Jim Steinman. The track is now a...

I’m not a big fan of Gwen Stefani. I liked No Doubt before Return of Saturn, and I must admit that Gwen’s amazing ability to stay relevant despite the daily entry of new tarts into the American musical scene is something truly worth praising. With the upcoming release of The Sweet Escape, which drops on December 5, 2006, I have gained newfound respect for Ms Stefani. How? Listen to Wind It Up on Gwen’s official website. It...

My hits went through the roof yesterday after I posted my thoughts about free phone calls for voting for Philippine Idol. It was a pleasant surprise, and I received both positive and negative comments, on-blog and through email, about my thoughts on saving Philippine Idol. Well, such is a democracy, and I’m just pleased that we can get people to at least thinking about ways of saving the show, because it is a darn good show, and it...

Last night, Ryan Agoncillo announced on Philippine Idol that no Idol contestant would be voted off for the week, owing to technical issues on the part of Sun Cellular and Smart Telecommunications, resulting in votes unsent to Sun and confirmation messages not received by voters on Smart. Ideally, that results in two expulsions next week. This is not the first time Philippine Idol has allowed this to happen; just three weeks ago, Typhoon Milenyo...