AI: Surprise, surprise

What a long and winding road it has been to the American Idol season finale. Although the match-up of David Cook vs. David Archuleta was not a surprise, it was still suspenseful right down to the finish. When Ryan Seacrest reported a 56-44 blowout early in the broadcast, I didn't know what to think. Did Archuleta's teenage groupies speed dial for four hours and inflate the vote? Or did Cook's fans want Archuleta to not win so bad that they put all of their time and energy into out-voting Little David? Clearly, it was the latter.

I guess today, the day after the results, I feel calm and happy. I was mentally prepared for Archie to win, but am really happy that Cook won. He deserved it more. Plain and simple. He is more prepared to be a star now. I still think Archie is going to be great and have a wonderful career in front of him, but he's just not ready for that yet. Tongue-in-cheek, I think Archie will have one of the best inevitable Christmas albums of all time.

That said, I actually enjoyed Little David's (sorry for the variety of nicknames) performances on Tuesday more than Cook's. I've watched his second song, In This Moment, several times on YouTube and it's quite beautiful. I hope he releases it as a single.

There's not much more to say except the following tidbits:

• I officially will not be seeing "The Love Guru" in theaters.
• Michael Johns & Carly Smithson showed once again last night how they were voted off way too early.
• George Michael actually has an amazing singing voice. I didn't know that.
• David Archuleta sounded better on the OneRepublic song than the actual lead singer.
• David Cook was much better in his Guitar Hero commercial than David Arculeta.
• This is the first year that I would actually consider going to the American Idol concert this summer, but I probably won't.
• I'm never watching this show again...until it comes back on next January.