Season 3 is over already?

Well Beauty and the Geek Season 3 flew by this year. I think the fact that they had two episodes on the first night and barely skipped any weeks with new episodes made for a really quick season. Everyone I spoke to was somewhat disappointed with this season. From a producer of my season to relatives of a cast member from my season to a fellow cast member this season... the list goes on.

I really only got a chance to hang out with Nadia and occasionally Erin this season. Nadia is an absolutely awesome person and should have won. No slight to Megan. Erin was a really cool chick as well. I missed the night at Drew's family's restaurant unfortunately. I saw Megan on the premiere episode party... I heard she was engaged. I'm not sure why that didn't make it into the reunion episode. In fact, I'm not sure why a lot of stuff didn't. It was really lame that they didn't put all the cast members in one room. The solo or duo interviews were kind of lame. Congrats to Mario on getting married. I find it hard to believe that he wasn't already dating the girl when he came on the show if he got married the following october. I guess it would hurt his credibility so the producers told him to present it that way. Which brings me to my next point. If I were the head person for Batg4, I'd fire the casting people for season three. This is a little bold, but I'm definitely in the majority when I tell you people didn't relate to the cliquish, backstabbing nature of this season. People enjoy the show because it's a vacation from the cliques and abuse typical in high school and many social situations. It's a chance to show people who want to learn, improve and make strides.

I think that's all I have about this season. Now I'm one more year removed from the show, so I imagine life will return to even more normalcy soon. I did get recognized at dinner the other night and signed a cd for our waitresses daughter. That was kind of fun. No discount on the food though :( She waited til after we paid. Doh. Hopefully they pull it together for next season and/or do an all stars season. That'd be so awesome. Cheers.
Joe

Who do I still talk to from batg2?

Some of the people have been MIA. I can go through the list of people and how much I personally keep in touch with them.

Brittany: talk to her almost every day, see her somewhat regularly
Danielle: talk to her regularly, see her occasionally
Amanda: receive random forwards from her and see her seldom
Tristin: talk to her seldom, see her even less seldom
Ty: talk to her online sometimes, haven't seen her since the show
Cher: haven't spoken to her in a long while, haven't seen her since the show
Sarah: talk to her on the phone seldom (my fault, she's good about calling back), see her very rarely
Jennifer: got one email from her right after the show, haven't heard from her since in any capacity

Karl: live with him. see him every day
Tyson: talk to him regularly. he visited once
Chris: talk to him regularly, visited once as well
Ankur: talk to him occasionally, visited once
Brandon: used to talk to him occasionally, has kind of disappeared since he isn't at umiami nor is my little sis any more
Wes: talk to him online sometimes, haven't seen him since the showjosh: a couple emails after the show, haven't seen him or spoken to him since

So that's everybody. Jennifer wins the award for most reclusive. I try to stay in touch w/ everyone and there's still mass emails here and there. I agree our season was awesomer. I have no idea what next season will hold, but i think they should fire the casting people for this season. Pretty bad job in my opinion, although they were more backstabbing, which made for more conflict than our season. I heard they couldn't air some of the crazy stuff that happened too, like a lesbian kiss or something. Who knows, I wasn't there. I could be wrong as well. Hope that helps.Joe

March 2nd... Come witness Rock!

Hey all. We just got added to a bill at the Double Door here in Chicago on Friday, March 2nd. If you could come and bring all your friends, or tell your friends who live in Chicago to come, you'd be my heroes! Seriously. It's a big show. I don't have details of when we go on, although we're not supposed to be last. Someone else is headlining this time. A cool band called Blackout. We're also playing with one of the same bands from last time, Moxxy. Really cool dudes and band. I think its $7 and supposedly going to sell out. You can buy advance tickets on ticketmaster, although I'd wait until they add our name Gnome Attic onto the www.doubledoor.com website. You can listen to our music or drop us a line at www.myspace.com/gnomeattic. Hopefully we'll see all of your smiling faces at the show! Woo!
Joe

Finale

I watched the finale last night. I actually had predicted the ending. In fact when I was watching an episode with Nadia, I told her that I thought that's what they would do to prevent the 'less favorable' team from winning. I wish they would have done that for our season. Can I say that? It's kind of sad that the fate of your winning is not determined by you, but in someways I guess it still is. I'm glad Megan and Scooter won, although I think other people on the show were more deserving. But I'm biased because I had the priveledge to watch some episodes with Nadia and co. I thought she made it to the end or that Drew's team did. It's kind of crazy that the team that kept the lowest profile won. It's a good strategy. In fact I think I talked about that in my blog about strategy for winning beauty and the geek, did I not?

I really don't have too much more to say about this season. I watched it. The survivor style tasks were my favorite ones, moreso than getting phone #'s or building things. I'll probably watch next season, but with less enthusiasm than even this one. Unless of course there's more Chicago people that are really cool. If you want to be on batg 4, I have a previous blog entry about how to get on the show too. And how to win if you're into that sort of thing. haha. Ok time for another entry!
Joe