Constantine Maroulis Jumps the Shark

Reality Blurred brought this Village Voice interview of Constantine Maroulis to my attention. The interview is like watching a car wreck - you just can't look away, despite knowing that you should. There are som many cringe-worthy quotes in the article that I simply don't know where to start. Here's a sample:

"I mean, whatever," Maroulis said as he took a drag off the joint, "if people think that's so terrible that I like, ooo . . . took a puff off a little joint. You know, I'm a fucking artist."

"'I've paid my dues.' That is a phrase Maroulis employs often to explain that he is not a loser like the other American Idol losers."

"Maroulis continued checking his BlackBerry and talked to a friend. He began to grow agitated as the consensus from family and friends was that his hair was in his face on TRL. But Maroulis had tried to put his hair in his face on purpose, he said, to hide the side view of his double chin."

"He believes the fact that his family was from an affluent New Jersey suburb and appeared on the week he was voted off could have been a factor. 'It's fucked-up,' Maroulis went on. 'You put Scott Savol's poor overweight kind of white-trash family on there stirring the spaghetti and some ketchup and all of a sudden you get, like, half the country's votes. That's just the way it is.' Savol beat out Maroulis and entered the top five before being eliminated."

"Throughout the night Maroulis checked his BlackBerry about every six to seven minutes, sometimes just pulling it out to look at it and then putting it back in his leather jacket. In fact, almost everyone in his group had a BlackBerry or some kind of BlackBerry-esque device. At various intervals the table fell silent because everyone was checking their messages."

Can you hear it? Can you hear it? Yep, that's the sound of his last little bit of fame going away....

[Photo from Village Voice]