More of the same actually, but! This time, with pictures!

At AOL.

The Top 4 reveal which of their co-contestants delivered their favourite performance of the year, plus some of Jason's sing out. From MJ's.

Thanks to one of our readers for sending in the link to Ryan's post-Idol interview with Jason on KIIS-FM. Click here and find Jason's picture under "Browse All Videos".

It's not all candy and roses out there so follow links at your own peril. We'll cut and bring over the positives because this is our house and we don't want to track mud in.

AllMusic.com's Stephen Thomas Erlewine:

As I said yesterday — the day when I called him Jason Cook, as the show has clearly worn me down, too — he’s done enough to have a career outside of the show and my money is that he will make an album about as good and true to himself (the ultimate Paula criteria) as David C.

Msnbc.com's Craig Berman:

That doesn’t mean he won’t make it in the business. His sound translates well to both radio and the stage, he has a likeable personality, and he could easily wind up with the best musical career of the remaining finalists. Kellie Pickler was the resident “Idol” doofus two seasons ago and has done just fine since, using both her personality and her voice.

Just wanted to re-post the links to the video interviews we were able to track down today. Thanks to everyone who helped out in tracking these down by posting the links in our forum or e-mailing them into us. These videos are also loaded on our TV, if you'd prefer to watch them there (as is Jason's official AI Exit Interview). Scroll down to the bottom of the play list; they are labeled as Top 4 Interview - (Name of Interview).

If you're aware of any Fox News videos that we've missed, please feel free to e-mail us a link so we can add it for everyone's enjoyment.

MyFox Atlanta.

MyFox Boston

Cleveland

Dallas/Ft. Worth

MyFox Houston

My Fox Kansas

MyFox LA

MyFox Milwaukee

MyFox New York

MyFox Philly

San Diego

St. Louis

MyFox Tampa Bay

Twin Cities

Washington, D.C.

From Rickeys

Luna has posted an article and pictures of their visit to Hollywood to give each of the Top 5 their custom guitars. The pictures on their site are small, but they've noted that professional pics will be added later.

In the meantime: gratuitous shot of Jason and his Trinity.

Katie Byrne of MTv has her interview with Jason up here.

Q: Since you had less experience than most of the other contestants, what do you think the judges saw in you to put you through to the top 24?

A: I think it was the potential, you know? Just because I was so new at it and what I had done so far, I think it showed enough potential that I could be something. ... I'm very much what the show was originally about. I am kind of as raw as it gets. I haven't done much of anything, singing-wise.

Tom Breihan of the Village Voice has had a well-rounded love him/hate him relationship with AI Contestant Jason Castro this year. But he's going to miss him nonetheless. And then he's moving on.

And even if the lyric-flub in his take on "Mr. Tambourine Man" was pretty glaring (how hard is it to remember "jingle jangle morning"?), his pared-down version was, I thought, one of the night's stronger moments. The judges and producers might be breathing easier now that he's gone (their anti-Castro campaign over the past couple of weeks was some serious Bay of Pigs shit, Paula gaffe and all), the show is going to be a whole lot less interesting now

AT&T sent out an invitation to text chat with Jason to some of their subscribers. HUGE thanks to Faith from our forum for making a transcript of the session when I could barely keep up flipping back and forth between the Q and A's. Most of the session is posted after the jump.

The majority of the questions were pretty fluffy and I'm bummed that not many substantial questions were asked, but this one? This one was worth the entire conversation.


What is your biggest fear?

My biggest fear is wasting my life.

You can read more of his exit interview at EW.



McLovin says: I was just going to post that, Lemon.
Here's my favourite Q & A from the interview:

Did you want to kill Andrew Lloyd Webber for dissing you on stage?

No. I thought it was humorous. He was really very kind, but we're just different people. I don't think he gets me. I saw a lot of passion in him, but he couldn't pick up on my passion.

Jason revealed in the print media press conference that he would have been performing this song from the movie Garden State next week, The Carey Brothers - Blue Eyes

I'm sad, but it reaffirms my belief that he has really good taste in music.

We're starting to get some information from the print media conference call that all the eliminated contestants have to do the day after they leave the show. We'll update as more come in, so check back to this post for additions.


Atlanta Journal Constitution

L.A. Times

USA Today

Jason will be in New York next week for some television appearances and - thanks to some of our lovely readers, we've got some contact information you can use to forward questions, marriage proposals, sales pitches or whatever else you've got regarding one Mr. J. Castro:

Good Day New York has an on-line form you can use to submit questions.

Ellen Degeneres' E-Mail Ellen page

Live With Regis and Kelly contact info (scroll down)

Fuse's The Sauce: Info@fuse.tv

Just because it's not on the front page anymore, and it really should be.

Irresistible Object vs. Immovable Force
Uploaded by castrocopia

We keep seeing the following on KIIS's webpage, but the interview isn't up yet on the play-on-demand section. Keep checking back here for it to be uploaded.

We've added the twelve MyFox interviews that we've found this morning to our TV. Scroll down to the bottom of the player to the "Top 4" interviews and you'll see them there.

If you know of any we've missed, please feel free to notify me: mclovin@castrocopia.com

People lists 8 of Jason's 14 solo Idol performances as 'memorable'. Why they left out Daydream and I Just Want To Be Your Everything is beyond me, but 60% is pretty damn good anyway.

And where's the memorable Jason In The Group Sing list? Oh, yeah. Jason pwned all the group sings, so they'd have to just list them all. *Sigh* I'm going to miss the dork dancing. Thankfully (and thanks to DM), we've got them all on our Daily Motion Channel. (I Think. I better double check.)

Thanks to kbkysun for the heads up.