Catching up with the American Idols

I'm watching the AT&T Blue Room live presentation of the Mile High Music Festival in Denver right now, which I meant to do yesterday afternoon for Jason Mraz but totally forgot. Wow, Colbie Caillat must be a disappointment for her fans: she has less stage presence than David Archuleta had while still on American Idol. Which was, as we all know, not much -- unless you count the potential of projectile vomit, which is always exciting. Her voice is seriously lacking live, which is something I realized very early on when I YouTubed her live performances last summer. Anyway, the point of this post was not to bash Colbie Caillat.

Both David Archuleta and Jason Castro made video blogs while in David's hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah.

This was DArchuleta's first video blog while on tour -- and it wasn't overproduced or directed like the last couple! It seems he "filmed" and uploaded the entire thing on his own, which is cute if you think of him as a twelve-year-old teddy bear:

[Courtesy of David Archuleta]
The content is pretty much boring as hale, but cute and interesting because it's David Archuleta. The highlight of the video is the pretty much the first 3 seconds before he realizes that it's recording.

Jason Castro, as usual, stood by his Tuesday Date Night promise:

[Courtesy of Jason Castro]
Carly Smithson joins him, which makes for a brighter, more chipper Jason. He's lookin' pretty good for someone who's been living out of a suitcase for the past 20 days. Apparently a lucky AI fan's sister just-so-happened to be dining in an Indian restaurant in Salt Lake City when Jason, Carly and Kristy Lee Cook were seated beside her. The wonderful guy leaned over and asked for recommendations, as he'd never had Indian food before. One thing led to another, and Carly got the woman and her sister passes to the next night's afterparty!

Semi-breaking news: Carly Smithson dislocated a hip during the American Idol tour finale song ("Don't Stop the Music", if you were wondering) and is on meds and hopefully won't be missing any shows, as previously rumored. Meds can be great -- so everyone who sees her say HAY and pray she gets you some passes to the afterparty or something. If you're interested.