My roommate Tracy and I started watching America's Got Talent this season because we know some people who tried out for it. (For example, ArcheDream for Humankind, who have spent years producing blacklight shows that are much more rich than the cool but gimmicky stuff put on by the Fighting Gravity frat boys who are now in the semifinals.)
One of my favorite acts on the show has been ArcAttack!, whom I saw performing a scaled-down version of their electrifying show last year at Gizmodo Galley 2009 . In any case, Sharon Osbourne, one of the judges, uttered a pretty hilarious racial slur this week. Due to their Frankenstein theme, I think she meant to call the members of ArcAttack! a group of "geeks and ghouls" or "geeks and spooks" but instead called them a group of "geeks and gooks."
"Geeks and spools" would have been more technically accurate.
Listen for it in the clip here at 3:29.
love those acts too. they all have a dream.
Here's a video of a person who was forbidden to pursue her dream of singing & was told she wasn't good enough her whole life by her parents/family (although they meant well because they just wanted her to have a better life than they did, which is why they sacrificed everything to come to the US so that their children could have a better life), but it is very hard to know your own family doesn't believe in you.
Through it all, she still took care of her parents while also trying to still pursue her dream despite constant opposition from her family.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUByaTlFido
Cindy Chang singing O Mio Babbino Caro
Posted by: C | February 02, 2011 at 11:15 PM