Ink Master review and some randomness of the day.

I was stoked to watch Spike last night to see who was staying/leaving on Ink Master. 10pm finally rolled around and I flipped to that channel faster than a diet is blown on Thanksgiving.
Anyways...The flash challenge was all about doing dimension on David Navarro's guitars. In the end none of the judges liked any of the guitars. Jesse ended up winning, but they weren't really happy about it because apparently they chose the "best of the worst." During the show they (the guest judge, the regular judges, and a couple of the contestants) were giving Jaime hades because after 17 years of tattooing he doesn't have ONE tattoo on his body. To make a long story short...Jaime got voted off. I was really nervous because there is only five weeks left; that's when the competition really fires off. I just felt bad for Jaime because he's so sweet. Bottom line: they basically kicked him off because he has no tatts of his own and you can't have an Ink Master without having any tatts, which I think is stupid. That's like taking acting lessons from someone and not considering their work JUST because they didn't star in some big hollywood production and then saying "Oh, you're not fit enough to give lessons because you have no clue what the business is about." Give me a break!
I'm anxious for next week's episode, it looks mighty interesting...at first I had a lot of confidence that Jesse would win based solely on his new-school AND doing other styles, but after last night he said he would rather go home doing his work than something that's not him...so that makes me nervous. After last night, I'm now betting on Steve. That gorilla tattoo won best of the week (and he's won like 5 times so far).
     Ok, so Christmas is pretty much on it's way. I have the radio on the Christmas channel for about 12 hours a day. I know that is probably pushing it, but it only comes on once a year, so I take it for all it's worth. The thing I can't stand is the newer music. I don't like the remakes of classics such as Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Dean Martin, just to name a few. I know we live in the 21st century and we need updated stuff. But I personally don't like the modern twist on classics that I like. No one will be able to hold a candle to Bing's White Christmas or Noel etc. Oh sure they can try and it may even sound nice, but I will take the classics any day of the week. They sound much more homey and Christmas-y, not like some chessy concert you pay $25 to go to. Which is what a lot of the modern Christmas songs sound like. They put more heart in the songs they sung back-in-the-day than they do now. Now it's all about money money money. They do a pathetic job and get paid for it. If that's how it's done than please bring a recording studio to my shower-sessions and I can "sing" too.