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Finally, Jason's chance to sing 'Crazy'

Jason Castro got David Archuleta to stay out late -- way late, like 1 a.m. (All part of the go-kart extravaganza -- the venue even stayed open late for the Idols.) And Archie's dad was encouraging him to hang with the guys. "He's gotten kind of comfortable now," Castro says of his Idol-mate.

But Castro admits it's perhaps he who is most misunderstood among the group. "Somebody said I was dumb as a bag of rocks," he says (though he insists he reads very little of his own press, except for the occasional glowing dispatch forwarded over e-mail by his mom). "That's foolish. They don't even know me." Like, they probably don't know that the former Texas A&M student scored 1340 on his SATs "without even studying." He says he's like Uh-Huh in The Little Rascals, who said: "Actually, I've always had a rather extensive vocabulary, not to mention a phenomenal grasp of grammar and a superlative command of syntax. I simply chose not to employ them." Or Mark Twain (paraphrased): "It's better to remain quiet and let people think you're stupid than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

The Vans-clad Castro is refreshingly candid: "I have no record-label talks. 19 (Entertainment) told me one label showed a little interest but they weren't sure it would turn into anything." No matter. Castro plans to make music 2008-style, with or without a record deal. So he's writing his typical acoustic-heavy songs -- some "happy, beachy," others meatier -- in the meantime, though he's having a hard time getting work done on tour. "We're all in cramped quarters. It's not really conducive" to the creative process.

He's looking forward to singing his audition song, Gnarls Barkley's Crazy, tonight. (It never aired during the show because Idol couldn't get clearance.) Retooled in the style of Ray LaMontagne, "it fits me really well."

What he's not so jazzed about: the final group number, (Pride) In the Name of Love. (The group stuff, incidentally, was his parents' favorite part of the show.) "It's not a song I would ever sing. I feel awkward singing it. But it's fun." -- O.B.

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