BONUS PICKS - FINAL 11

Time to make your bonus picks. WE CHANGED THE SCORING SYSTEM FOR BONUS PICKS - so if you didn't read the "Fuzzy Math" blog post a couple of days ago then please pay attention.

For these bonus picks, you have 15 points that you can sort among 3 contestants. You have to give each contestant at least one point (that means the most you can give a contestant is 13 points - giving 1 point to each of the other two). When a contestant is voted out tonight, you will get the amount of points you allotted to that contestant.

Make these picks before the show starts tonight by leaving a comment to this post.

Since I haven't watched the show yet, I will give you some comments sent from an outsider. This outsider is familiar with many of the people in this league. I won't tell you his name, but I will give you some clues. He lives near Kansas City. He was not in a band with his wife and some friends called Landshallow. He was watching the episode with Team 35 and they forwarded me these comments ...

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING COMMENTS ARE RATED PG-13 for language

This guest commentary of last night’s show comes to you from Team35’s American Idol Strategic Gameplay Command (a/k/a couch), from media maven and general music mogul, Don “The Conductor”, who is visiting from Kansas City. DtC’s commentary below:

Amanda Overmeyer
“Show these jokers what you got.”
“She’s about to lose her voice – but that’s cool.”
“I just think she’s the real deal.”
“See? That’s the kinda $h!t I’m talking about.”

Kristy Lee Cook
“I don’t like this girl.”
“Weak link! Out!”
“Don’t get me wrong. She’s pretty enough.”

David Archuleta
“This will either be… well, it will be bad.”
“He is pretty good. Yeah, he’s killing it.”
“Ah, that was pretty good. But that is one of my least favorite Beatles songs.”
“I thought he took the right amount of liberties.”

Michael Johns
“Oh yes!!”
“A little pitchy tonight. I think his voice is hurting.”
“I want to see how they get into that B section.
“I didn’t think it was a mess.”
“It was nice to hear him wrap his voice around those melodies – though he didn’t do a good job of wrapping.”


Brooke White
“She reminds me of Carol King. But don’t play $h!tty guitar on it though.”
“I like her tone and she seems authentic.”
“She said “woo”…”
“She looks sorta like a Chiquita banana. Ooh! Not so much with the moving around. Ouch!”
“Not the success of the last one.”

David Cook
“I don’t really like this guy. Oh NOOO..! Is he gonna do a TALK BOX SOLO?!?! Get ready for it ladies and gentlemen…”
“It sounded like he said ‘day stripper’.”
“D@mm!t , I don’t like his look, his taste... yeah …as much as it offends everything I love about music, that worked alright.”

Carly Smithson
“This is gonna be a disaster.” “Listening to a $h!tty piano arrangement of a great guitar song.” “Yeah d@mm!t . I really like her though.”
“Well at least the guitar came in there.”
“She does have some bizarre-o Marylin Manson / Tales From The Crypt makeup going on.”
“Other than the song selection, pitch, phrasing, tone, arrangement, performance and make up.. that was amazing. But I like her.”
[on Paula’s comments] “It’s like the ante-room for an AlAnon meeting - they’re just showering each other with co-dependant mutterings.”

Jason Castro
“I’ve heard he’s good.”
“Sometimes that band sounds awful - it sounds like the demo from a Casio keyboard.” “Mmmm! That’s a real guitar tone! That bass line sounds like “Happy Trails”.”
“Weeeellll, that was pretty good.”
“You know, he really has that Menudo quality – just effeminate enough to appeal to the young girls.”

Syesha Mercado
“Aw.. she did a good job on that. It wasn’t boring like I expected it to be.”

Chikezie
“Ehhh. He’s doing it roughly right.”
“Wow this is like a bad john Denver concert. Ahh NO! What’s happening here?!?! Wow. Scratch that… it’s like a Hee Haw episode… …featuring Darius Rucker.”
“He’s got to remember that if he’s gonna do that hayseed thing, it needs to have a funky underbelly.”

Ramiele Malubay
“She’s terrible, right?”
“What’s that dance? It’s like a penguin.”
“While I was determined not to like her performance, it was actually passable.”