Last season was pretty surprising for me actually. I really thought that David Archuleta would go all the way, and be the next American Idol. When David Cook won (which I didn’t really mind), I thought to myself how I could have missed that. Then again, I wasn’t able to catch Cook sing that Mariah Carey song. I heard it only much later, and when I did, I thought to myself that I could understand why people would want to vote for him.

So it’s a new season, a fresh start, and yet another opportunity to make a complete fool out of myself, telling friends that someone’s going to win, only to see him or her either booted off the show, or falling to number 2. Oh well. Then again, I watch American Idol most weeks anyway, so I’m thinking why not write a little bit about how well I think particular people perform. Internet real estate’s free after all. And apparently setting up a blog isn’t all that hard. So I’m looking forward to watching Idol and blogging about it.

Then again, it’ll still be quite some time before we actually get to the point where America gets to vote on the contestants. Before then, will have to slog through what I hope won’t be too many freaky contestants and freaky auditions. Please American Idol. You’re a musical talent show, own it. Stop going down the freak show route.