You know how they say that when one door closes, another opens? Well, if there was ever any proof that this saying is true, it's the success story of Josiah Leming.

Yes, the American Idol door hit Josiah firmly on the behind on his way out during Hollywood Week, when he failed to make Idol's top 24. But now--according to a heartening report on Knoxnews.com--Josiah's kicked the door at Warner Bros. Records HQ wide open.

Yes, kids: Josiah Leming has reportedly landed a major-label record deal!

Josiah was back in Hollywood recently, playing the Hotel Cafe on March 7, and now it seems he was likely in town (with his newly acquired agent and lawyer) to start wheeling and dealing with Warner. Looks like Josiah's through to Hollywood now, for real.

Knoxnews.com even reports that Josiah, who famously once had to live in his car, just bought his father a new truck to celebrate this good fortune. How cute is that?

Bet Josiah's still crying his eyes out these days, but this time they're tears

Listen closely, kids. Hear that? That's the sound of John Lennon and George Harrison rolling in their respective graves.

Seriously, from Amanda inexplicably getting to sing the big "love you make" hook, to the Broadway-style line-formation singalong of the Abbey Road acid-casualty epic "Because," to the awkward moment when Ramiele's mic seemed to be turned off, to David Archuleta ironically singing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" so soon after his stage dad allegedly made him weep...well, tonight's opening Beatles medley had me and probably the rest of America crying out for "Help!"

Enough with the Beatles songs already, OK? Surely by now Nigel Lythgoe must realize that doing a second Fab Four Week wasn't such a fab idea. It's downright tragic to think that uninitiated youngsters unfamiliar with the Beatles may now forever associate this great band's music with travesties like this. So let's hope tonight is the last Beatlesque Idol episode for a while. And let's pray there's no Wings

The David Hernandez-less final 11 performed this evening--and just like last week, they sang Beatles numbers. Hey, Nigel Lythgoe's been trying to gain access to the Lennon/McCartney songbook for seven seasons now--did you think he was going to have just ONE night of Beatles tunes and then move on to Country Night or Disco Night or whatever?

Heck no! I actually wouldn't be surprised if Idol milks the Beatles' back catalog all the way through season 9, until there's nothing left to perform but virtually unsingable, backwards-masked selections like "Tomorrow Never Knows," "Because," and "Revolution 9." Or FCC-aggravating choices like "Why Don't We Do It In The Road." And I, of course, look forward to that! Especially if Michael Johns or David Cook is singing the latter...

Ahem. I digress. That happens a lot when I think of Michael Johns or David Cook. Anyway, instead of the show kicking off tonight with my fave guys, it started with my two least-fave girls. Argh!

Mushy-mouthed,

As covered in a previous Reality Rocks blog, X Factor winner Leona Lewis made her big bid for Stateside superstardom when she appeared alongside her mentor Simon Cowell on Oprah yesterday.

Well, Leona is already a huge enough superstar in her native U.K. (where X Factor airs) that her hit single "Bleeding Love" has been quite creatively covered by loony Liverpool indie band the Wombats.

The Wombats' wacky version of "Bleeding Love" is very, very different from Leona's glossy, perfectly produced original--and it probably won't secure them an endorsement by either Oprah or Simon any time soon. But I personally think it's awesome.

And their cover is solid proof that when a song is extremely well-written, an artist can do just about anything with it and it'll still hold up: