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“Never stop and then start again”…says the woman whose career has stopped and restarted about half a dozen times in the last twenty years. Anyhoo.

So here’s a conversation between CU and I last night, kicking off Lord Andrew Night on American Idol.

CU: David Archuletta should so sing “Love Changes Everything” from Aspects of Love.
Snarkwife: {blank stare, then pause} You do realize how incredibly gay that just sounded.

But then…Mr. High School Musical Theater couldn’t place Syesha’s “Dreamgirls Sans Roller Skates” rendition of “One Rock ‘n’ Roll Too Many.” HA! Listen to me. What do I know. My musical theater knowledge revolves around the motion picture soundtrack for Chicago (wait, we saw the actual musical too…with Lisa Rinna), watching Legally Blonde on MTV and the 800 times I’ve seen Phantom of the Opera.

Which by the way…how uber-creepy was it when Lord Andrew basically demanded that David Cook fantasize about fantasizing about a 17-year old in the chorus line? “Well, since I’m 25…” was about all I caught of Lord David’s stammering before they cut away. Poor guy. At least he didn’t pick the Dying Diva Cat song…that really would have gotten Lord Andrew’s britches in a bunch.

I did love Carly Smithson’s rendition of “Jesus Christ Superstar” and…she looked great. I know that sounds like a cliche, but with the song and her general New Modern 60s look…everything really connected. I do find it interesting that Carly was supposed to be the Second Coming of Kelly Clarkson, which didn’t exactly happen. I suspect this was because there was no Swing Night this season. Well, that and she already had a record deal that dried up.

Bottom two tonight…Jason and Brooke. My heart stopped when Brooke’s singing stopped and started back up, but the damage was done at that point and sadly…the song wasn’t as good as it could have been at that point. Ironic, since Brooke’s performance was the big buzz before the show.

But, as much as I love Jason…at some point the ones who are cute but aren’t Top Two material need to go home.