BONUS PICKS - WEEK TWO

Time for those bonus picks. Once again we have 4 picks worth 8, 6, 4 & 2 points. You can assign them to ANY contestants you think will get voted off. Team Seacrest out got all 20 points last week. Can they do it again?

I would have been writing this much earlier in the evening, but I keep having to go comfort my son who seems to be having some nightmares tonight. I think I know why. We let him watch the first handfull of performances tonight. This is what is probably haunting his dreams --->


Here are some of my thoughts from the Week 2 Performances ...


I am tired of Randy and Paula saying "it was the wrong song" instead of just saying they did a bad job. I mean if they sang it well then you wouldn't have had any problems with the song. Amanda didn't pick the wrong song, she just sounded like crap and looked even less appealing. More on that later ...

Chikezie and David Hernandez get the "most improved" award for the guys. I am still confused as to who is in charge of Eze's wardrobe. Nobody has ever accused me of being fashion conscious, but it seems like Chikezie is dressing the way my mom would dress me if she still could. Twenty bucks he had on navy knee socks last night.

Speaking of wardrobe - I am confused by Alexandrea's clothing choice as well. First it was the suspenders look which was fine with me. Tonight she mixed a Northern Exposure look with Jamz shorts. I actually liked the song she chose - which the judges told her was the "wrong song." They then said that she has a powerhouse voice that she needed to show off. I think they are wrong. She is sweet and all but her voice is NOT that good. Mark my words.

Danny looks like he is about 6'10" when he wears those skinny jeans and that checkered sweater. I thought his vocals were much worse this week than last, but I guess the judges are hearing something different.

Mrs. Commissioner liked Brooke's performance. Although I like Brooke as a person and I think she probably gets the "most improved" award for the girls, I couldn't quite stomach her performance. I was turned off by a mixture of how she strummed her guitar and her jerky head movements. She is strangely not ugly and uncomfortable to look at at the same time. Dang. Another way she is like Haley Scarnato.

I totally called it about David Cook and his guitar. I actually thought he did OK.

I think Kristy Lee Cook looks much prettier in the footage of her at home with her horses. Now she is all frizzed out and is wearing something old ladies wear to church.

Jason Yeager. Jason, Jason, Jason. I guess if you are going to pick a song with only three notes in it, you might as well sing it like you are performing at Pigeon Forge. If he makes it through this week you know that his son has organized a voting army.

Carly hit the big notes tonight - I guess. She seems to be proving that she can sing but I don't think anyone cares. When she is performing I feel like I am watching her play a video game that she has been practicing a long time. She is totally into it and thinks that we are as excited as she is about finishing each level when really it is just boring. Pretty soon we might just be happy to see her lose.

Speaking of Carly, next week should be songs from the 1980's. I think it would be totally weird if Carly did a Culture Club song because I am convinced she looks even more like Boy George than she does Steve Perry.

Here is what will happen to Mr. Castro next week. He will follow the judges advice to ditch the guitar. He will do an uncomfortably sub-mediocre vocal performance. The judges will tell him that it wasn't his week and somehow he didn't seem like himself - that he lost what it was that made them like him. Without the guitar he could just be a weird singer with funky hair.

Strangely enough, Alaina might actually be one of the top three final girls. Even if Ramiele, Asia'h, Syesha and Carly are better - Alaina is more likable than Carly and tradition has shown that with all of the young white people concentrating their votes on her, the minority votes will get split pretty easily.

Luke Menard just sounded weird. Apparently his wussy helium voice is just what that acapella group needs.

If Asia'h can sport some hair extensions without any criticism, I guess we should treat Robbie Carrico with the same respect as well. Honestly - I can't imagine him actually wearing a wig. I mean, it does look like it - but that is just so pathetic. It would explain him wearing a hat all the time (even under his drag racing helmet). Mrs. Commissioner said tonight that if his hair piece fell off during a show it just might be one of the greatest moments in American Idol TV history.

I can't pass up the drag racing bit for Mr. Carrico. To what lengths will this guy go to prove that he is hard core? He almost cried when Randy said he didn't seem like a rocker. Next week (if he is around) he will probably be sporting a new tattoo on his neck. If that doesn't work, he might just pull out a Glock and shoot Ryan Seacrest in the thigh to make a point.

You know things are bad for Amanda when even Paula is making comments about how weird she looks. The bad thing is that they can't tell her to dress naturally because that will either be the biker clothes she has been wearing or the classic P.E. teacher outfit that consists of tight gym shorts, K-Swiss shoes and a whistle around her neck. Paula did say that Amanda could dance. Well, in an amazon tribal kind of way - I guess I agree.

Michael Johns was OK - but didn't really nail those big notes. There really isn't much more that is endearing about him.

Speaking of endearing - we might as well just crown Archuleta winner of Season 7. That really was one of the best vocal performances I have ever seen on AI - and I have seen almost all of them (I am sad to say). He really is like Melinda Doolittle to me. Melinda was as kind as she was vocally flawless. Archie has the advantage though with the young vote and all of the crazy girls that love him. I read a quote today saying that if Melinda and Archuleta had a kid, it would win hands down - not just American Idol but the lottery, bingo, etc..

OK - get those bonus picks in.