it's therapy for me to wear my heart on my sleeve.

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ok, so i've had a few people recently ask me for some kind of formal introduction (so to speak) to my boyfriend david cook.

therefore, i give you:





ok, so. david cook:

-looks like this, for real.


-put out a solo album in 2006. it's called analog heart and you should download it.

-was born december 20, 1982. which makes him 25 and a sagittarius. he was born in texas but moved away when he was really little. he lived most of his life in blue springs, missouri, which is a suburb of kansas city.

-has two brothers, andrew, who's younger (he's 21) and adam, who's older (i want to say 36). there are also a few step-siblings but you don't hear much about them. mostly you hear about his brothers and his mom, beth foraker.

adam has been fighting brain cancer since david was a teenager. the AC on david's guitar is for him. (well, david says it's for both of his brothers since both of their initials are AC, but he's also mentioned that the AC was his way of communicating with adam while he was on idol; david refused to talk about adam while he was on the show because he didn't want sympathy votes; here's him dodging an adam question on the show, heh.)

andrew was the one who got david to audition for AI. andrew had wanted to try out for years, and david went along as moral support and wound up trying out. he made it through, andrew did not. apparently things were tense between them for a while, but now they're ok.

david, beth, and andrew.

♥

david was in two bands before idol. the first one was called axium and was formed while he was in high school and lasted until 2006, although the last album they released came out in 2004. livehead16 put together an AMAZING axium resource post/primer if you want more info. if nothing else, there is lots of free music there, and axium was actually a pretty fucking good band.

the other band david played in is a band called MWK (which i'm assuming is probably on hiatus for a while, since its lead singer [andy skib] and lead guitarist [neal tiemann] are now in david's band). MWK (it stands for midwest kings) is a band based out of tulsa, oklahoma. david met them through axium, and when he graduated from college, he moved to tulsa and joined the band as...i think he started with them as a rhythm guitarist and then played bass for them for a while. idk, i know he played both with them at various times.

while you don't hear much about the dudes from axium, the boys of MWK are quite relevant, so here is an awesome video of david and andy (lead singer for MWK) singing "hunger strike" by temple of the dog. ok, the video itself is eh, but it's awesome anyway.

-david attended the university of central missouri. he actually started off there as a musical theater major (he had a scholarship). he decided he wanted to pursue music and that he needed a practical backup plan, so he gave up the musical theater scholarship and changed his major. he graduated in 2006 with a degree in graphic design. he was a brother of phi sigma kappa. very little is known about his frat boy days, which breaks my heart, because omg, can you imagine him pledging? *dies* if anyone has gossip, hook me up!

-his girlfriend is kim caldwell. she was on season 2 of american idol. i didn't like her then, i don't like her now, and i refer to her as "my nemesis," lol. if you're dying for more info about her and about the two of them, you'll have to find it elsewhere. :P they're seldom seen together anyway so there's really not much to say.

-his band is full of hot.

neal, joey, kyle, david and andy. aka the band of ultimate hotass.

-ok, so, american idol. he auditioned kind of randomly, like i said. he kicked ass pretty much all season. he was never in the dreaded "bottom 3" because he's awesome. in the finale, he won 56% of the 90-something million votes.

here are some AI videos in chronological order:

all right now by free (the important thing here is the pre-song video; it's what made me fall in love with him)
hello by lionel richie (his first breakout performance)
billie jean by michael jackson (he does the chris cornell version - this was top 10 week but i think it sealed his fate as the winner)
always be my baby by mariah carey (his brother adam was in attendance that week, which is why he's so emotional ♥)
some girl calls in and asks if he's single (it's cute and funny)
music of the night from phantom (the behind the scenes stuff with andrew lloyd webber is lolarious)
all i really need is you by neil diamond (this makes me swoony, tbh)
amusing awkwardness in which a girl calls in and asks him to go on a date with her
top 3 hometown visit (not a performance but DEFINITELY worth watching; this segment won an emmy)
i still haven't found what i'm looking for by U2 (idk i just think it's awesome)
the world i know by collective soul (his last performance of the competition and my personal favorite ♥♥♥)
here is his guitar hero commercial (it aired during the finale)
WINNING THE FUCKING SHOWWWW

ok, um, other things! videos and such!

IN WHICH DAVID COOK IS FUNNY:
-he has a joke for you
-hilarious and adorable with david archuleta
-on best week ever
-on jimmy kimmel
-chatting up the crowd at ford day (here's the matador thing he's talking about)
-general hilarity on tour in tulsa; there are panties at about 3 minutes in

IN WHICH DAVID COOK IS A PRECIOUSFACE:
-with lindsey rose, a 7-year-old fan with cancer
-getting weepy on the last night of the AI tour
-performing a really pretty acoustic "living on a prayer" at a cancer benefit

 IN WHICH DAVID COOK IS GOOD AT MUSIC:
-doing "billie jean" on tour and being very hot about it
-teaching you how to play his single "light on" on guitar
-a preview of his walmart soundcheck
-doing "my hero" on tour with bonus lolz at the beginning (he'd been bitching earlier about his belt being stolen)
-performing "declaration" on saturday night live

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO LOOK AT MORE PICTURES OF HIM:
-i posted extensive picspam here and also here
-pictures of the hotness that is his band can be found here and here

IF YOU WOULD LIKE A FUCKLOAD OF DAVID COOK AUDIO:
-you should join davidcookai7 and check out this post

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO READ AN AWESOME ARTICLE:
-"tip your idol" in blender

IF YOU WOULD LIKE FIC:
-tulsa_gangstas is primarily focused on david and his band but welcomes all pairings that involve *any* of them (and is my personal favorite place)
-runs_on_dc is quiet but well-organized and all-purpose
-cookleta is for david cook/michael johns

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO STALK DAVID/HIS BANDMATES ON THE INTERWEBZ:
-david's official website
-david's youtube channel (he's got some cute vlogs fyi)

-david cook on myspace
-neal tiemann (lead guitar) on myspace
-andy skib (rhythm guitar/keys) on myspace [and to have heroes, his solo project which is A++]
-joey clement (bass) on myspace
-kyle peek (drums) on myspace

IF YOU WOULD LIKE AN EASY WAY TO STAY APPRISED OF IMPORTANT COOK-HAPPENINGS:
-you should definitely friend cooktastic 
-you are more than welcome to friend me or just poke through my DC tag at will

MOST IMPORTANTLY, HIS ALBUM WHICH IS CLEVERLY TITLED DAVID COOK COMES OUT ON NOVEMBER 18, 2008. BUY IT. don't download it. don't rip it from somewhere. don't get one of your friends to burn you a copy. buyyyyyyyy ittttttttt. HE IS WORTH YOUR TEN DOLLARS, OKAY?

Comments

[imogen-ph.livejournal.com]

Awesomeness. *smooches Cook. also expatiates*

[oatmeal-cookie.livejournal.com]

Oh, AWESOME. Well done. :)

More pimpin'

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Nicely done :) *bookmarks*

I'll add that if anyone who wants thoughtful discussion about all things David Cook should check out DC42.com (http://www.DC42.com). It's an offshoot from the David Cook: You Had Me At 'Hello' thread at TelevisionWithoutPity.com; TWOP tended to smack the banhammer on anyone who squeeed too loudly or often, and we needed a place where we could squeee while we talked like grownups. The name DC42 comes from a discusson on TWOP about the fact that some of us managed to see DC references everywhere; so DC became like the number 42 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "the meaning of life, the universe and everything". Anyway it's a fun place. Different vibe than either LJ or DCO or (shudder) AI.com forums. "We snark because we love." :D

Re: More pimpin'

[james-padfoot.livejournal.com]

TWOP is <3.

Re: More pimpin&#39;

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Alas, the TWOP thread has become a hatin' place, hasn't it? I don't really go there any more :( I got tired of Jacob and his hair-trigger on the banhammer.

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[james-padfoot.livejournal.com]

*nodnod* Hence the refugee camp.

[gossips.livejournal.com]

awesome, awesome. ♥ definitely memming this post because it wins at life, although i already knew everything, lol :D

[james-padfoot.livejournal.com]

you are <3. and you 'rox my sox'.

[misskatieleigh.livejournal.com]

omg you=win.

♥

[daughterjudy53.livejournal.com]

To all that you posted and all the responses I say this: WORD.

[waving-feather.livejournal.com]

wow, your hard work FTW. this is brill.

i'd refer this post to people i need to cookify. :)

[heartxdown.livejournal.com]

OMG AWESOME. Really good work!
Now I HAVE to show this to some friends of mine who only saw some videos I used on a english class project and keep saying that Jason should've won American Idol.
Okay, I love Jason too, but COME ON.

[kaia-kyrial.livejournal.com]

This is fabulous. Also, we ♥ you too bb! :D

[princessleia04.livejournal.com]

This is awesome. :) Thanks so much for putting this together. :)

[aquagirl77.livejournal.com]

This is so good. Thank you for posting it! *mems*

[playingwithcake.livejournal.com]

WOW!!!

[papillonpaige.livejournal.com]

wow you had some patience!

[btvs35.livejournal.com]

that's wicked, and must of taken you a bit of time so well done! like yourself, i refuse to make copies for my friends. analog heart yes bcus david said we can but the new album i am insisting all my friends pre-order now

[loveflyfree.livejournal.com]

you? are made of absolute win. ♥

[dee-lirious.livejournal.com]

BAND OF ULTIMATE HOTASS INDEED. ♥

[musictoyourlips.livejournal.com]

:D This post was super helpful, thank you so much for linking me here. I especially loved the video of him and Lindsey Rose, and I maybe teared up a little (something you should know about me, I am pretty much just as weepy as DCook.) because it was really precious. Ugh, his face.