Hannukah Bush

I'm not sure if I've ever blogged about my small obsession with different covers of "A Song for You," my current favourites being, of course, Cher and Donny Hathaway, but I've just found a new version that I like very much.

The ONLY episode I saw of American Idol after college had a guy who I thought had an amazing voice and I later found out finished third, Eliot Yamin, and I just found this clip of him performing a version of the song that is clearly a copy of Hathaway and is quite QUITE good (especially considering the fact that he's had no vocal training).

Not the point.

Keep in mind when I try to say why I'm laughing that the guy's name is Elliot YAMIN and he couldn't look any more Hebrew -- I mean he looks like the Red Sea parted RIGHT before he walked onto the American Idol stage lol -- his mother being an American jew and is father an Israeli of Iraqi descent.

Anyway, the reason that I'm cracking up is that on his myspace page one of the comments he got (it's the second one down and you CAN'T miss it) is from this woman Lisa (careful if you click on it -- she has crazy guitar music) who says she hops (not hopes) that Yamin and his family will have a great Christmas with a HUGE electronic Christmas wreath. looool She's not only a little clueless but she's also a traitor -- on her my space page she lists the guy who beat Yamin as one of the three men in the world she wants to meet, and totally leaves out poor Elliot.

Mazel tov, Lisa!

VC