Tonight was a rough night for me, television viewing-wise. The one hour American Idol results show was on at the same time as the final hour of The Amazing Race. No problem, right? Just record one. Well, that would be an option, except that I only have a DVR on one television, and it was already occupied recording Lost. ARGH. There’s nothing on at 9 p.m. Why couldn’t one of these shows be on then?

ANYWAY, enough of my television viewing issues. I DID manage to watch the results show, while flipping back and forth between the Amazing Race (the hippies won, in case you were wondering, which makes the first time in the history of my viewing of The Amazing Race that the team I was rooting for actually won).

The first half of the show was basically a review of the three finalists’ trips to their hometowns. Then they each sang a song from the American Idol album. And, FINALLY, the revelation of who would go home this week. This was a really close week. The lowest person received 33% of the vote, the second lowest 33.2% of the vote, and the highest 33.8% of the vote. They didn’t reveal who was in first and second, but the lowest number of votes went to Elliott Yamin.

While I’m a true blue Taylor fan, I have to say that I think Elliott has a brilliant voice, and he seems to be one of the nicest contestants American Idol has ever seen. You can tell a lot about a man by the way he treats his mother, and Elliott is any mother’s dream. I’m sure he’ll have a great career, and I look forward to hearing his first album.