BONUS PICKS - FINAL 9

Time to make your bonus picks. Once again - divide 15 points among three contestants giving each one AT LEAST one point (YoYoDawg didn't follow this rule last week - shame on you).

Here is a picture of Christian singer Jason Castro not smoking marijuana

A few thoughts from last night's show ...

Johnsie (as Mrs. Commish affectionately calls him) is back. It was hard to think of Dolly writing the "Sexy loving" part - but whatever.

Dolly Parton is awesome. For someone who is so unnatural looking at times, she is very comfortable in her "own" skin.

I thought Total Recall (Carly) did a great job. I liked that slower version of the song and she sang the crap out of it. She only made the Eddie Vedder face once or twice. It was crap for Simon to pee himself over Archie and put Carly down. She actually did great.

"You are ... ... ... ... ... Brooke White!" - Paula Abdul to ... ... ... ... Brooke White.

Mrs. Commish loved KKKristy's dress. That was the best part of the performance. It wasn't bad, just whatever.

How is it that I found myself thinking that David Cook might have the strongest vocals of all of the finalists? He sounded less butt-rock last night. NEWS UPDATE - Davy was rushed to the hospital last night for "heart palpitations and high blood pressure". Supposedly he is stressed about his brother who has brain cancer and had some sort of setback this week.

Brooke White should not have played guitar last night. Not only did it give her the intense strum look the whole performance, but her guitar playing sucked. She kept rushing the dude on the Cajon. I was actually really turned off by the way she transitioned from G to C to Am. I know it is picky, but I can't help it.

Jason Castro did a good job singing a song made famous by a Transvestite movie. I am sure Team IdolSmith was giddy with excitement that he sang about Jesus. That makes me happy too. He had just better hope that they don't do any random locker searches.

Syesha should have known better than to try to sing that song. She actually sounded pretty darn good, but after she started into the Whitney part I had to pause it and have this conversation with the wife ...
"Do you remember watching Whitney sing this song?"
"Yes."
"She was amazing."
"Yeah she was!"
"I mean incredible."
"Sho nuff, dawg."
Actually, I don't remember how the conversation ended. The point is that no matter how good Syesha was, she could never be that good. That is why one should always sing Gloria Estefan or Fergie songs because the original vocal already sucks.

Archie was the same old Archie. He got to sing about Jesus as well - you know - that guy Joseph Smith was always rambling on about. His vocals were good but they are getting kind of boring to me.

Ramie.....zzzzzzzzzzzz