Celebrity gossip marauders tmz.com have every possible detail of this week’s landmark Lindsay Lohan nosedive: Lindsay: “I Wasn’t Driving, the Black Kid Was”
According to the group, Lindsay suddenly jumped in the driver’s seat of the Denali, started the engine and began driving — chasing the assistant’s car.
They say at one point, Lindsay boasted, “I can’t get in trouble. I’m a celebrity. I can do whatever the f**k I want.”
Also: TMZ has obtained the 911 tape describing what went down with the Lindsay Lohan incident.
David Sedaris’s books are notorious for causing public LOLs. The books collect his essays, so reading this one in a recent New Yorker may serve as a preview for a future book. But the real reason you should read it is because it’s great. Sedaris’ This Old House
If you saw Ratatouille, you might have noticed that the voice of that beautiful rat was one Patton Oswald. If you know him, congratulations. If you don’t? Watch:
Going into their 11th season of Emmy-nominated television, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have created these animated shorts depicting the words of philosopher Alan Watts.
The above short, Music & Life is an indictment of the American Dream, and a perfect example of why this is such a great fit - Watts is a defender and of critic of Western values, and loosely affiliated with stoner culture.
Via Neatorama
Check out more Alan Watts animations here
TORONTO:
Check out the stacked lineup for Sport Pig at Captain John’s Boat this Thursday:
CHINO FROM THE DEFTONES
ECLAIR, SHIT LA MERDE, DENISE BENSON, SYNTONICS, FIERCE HELDER DIE MANNEQUIN, THE SIN-TONES, KARAOKE BY BOBBY BOOGIE & THE HUSTLE QUEEN.
Buy tickets here. Yeah, THAT Chino, from THAT Deftones. It’s $10 at the foot of Yonge street. See you there?
With last year’s self-titled album, Alex Gopher tossed aside his electro persona for an all new solo project: a pop rock band. In a country renowned for its dance music and its weak rock, perhaps it’s fitting that an electro producer breaks out with a hot rock record.
The new single from the Alex Gopher album is “The Game” and features this colourful video.
Alex Gopher’s Myspace
The only place to buy Alex Gopher in North America
Jason Fox’s Aunt Jackie Video blends old school hip hop / dance flavours into one big bowl of Jermaine Dupri record deal. Last year’s Chicken Noodle Soup was a dance craze with no apparent quality and kind of made me angry at the direction Harlem was going, but Aunt Jackie is more my style. Did you know that in the 80s rap was backed by disco beats? Thank you, Jason Fox.
In other news, the #1 Album of Year contender so far has a wikipedia page.
When Billy Corgan took out a full page ad in two local Chicago newspapers to whine about his life or something, it catapulted the band into my Don’t Care Zone indefinitely.
What a pleasant surprise to see the video for their new single Tarantula really bringing it. I like the colours and the Sabbath motif. Billy and Co will always hold a special place in my eyes, they’ve always been able to knock out a good video.
Happy birthday America. Now watch this video because it’s amazing. But also I will summarize/transcribe it for you if you’re too lazy. Mind my paraphrasing:
Hi, it’s Weezy. I’m here eating Dominoes - Dominoes, holla at me I’m here for you. I am checking in to let you know what I’m up to.
You probably heard The Carter III leaked, so I’m gonna put out a Carter III mixtape called The Leak with all those songs for free. I gotta take better care of my sh*t.
I Can’t Feel My Face the new album with Juelz Santana out this year - new single by the end of this month. Expect Carter III 2008.
A bunch of my click and cash money dudes are coming too.
I have a new band called Bad Ass Grasshopper - B.A.G. The first album is called Put the Party in the Bag and the first single and mixtape is gonna be called Rap, Rock & RnB.
I’m single, Ladies. There’s rumors that I’m goin with her, goin with her - NO. I’m chillin, I’m eatin’ dominoes with my money and my daughter. She’s 8 years old - if she doesn’t approve of you, you’re not steppin’ in. She ain’t approved someone in years.
Shootin the new Birdman video Pop Bottles, I wrote the treatment.
I just got a liquor deal - its gonna be a champagne. Haven’t named it, send your ideas for names to ideas@youngmoneyent.com
Clothing line - Double U & Foreign Money for women and men.
I’m single - that was the point of this video - IM SINGLE AND READY TO MINGLE and I got pringles. [chuckle]
Via the amazing Sasha Frere Jones
Melbourne’s Midnight Juggernauts recently got a big shout out from Justice on BBC Radio 1. If i remember correctly, Gaspard said he liked them because they were a new electro artist but they were a sort of classical pop group, too.
I really dig Into The Galaxy because it seems to rewrite a lot of old space rock like Roxy Music and Bowie but with a more punk rock edge. Now with the video even moreso - it manages capture the energy of this new rock music in a very traditional performance-video. No gimmicks required.
To help us celebrate Canada day here in Toronto, German producer Boys Noize is in town playing at the Guvernment superclub. I would love to go see him DJ if it was a smaller venue or shorter show, so I will celebrate his presence by listening to his music.
The Boys Noize sound is very hard and heavy, emphasizing distortion and huge beats. It’s like techno sounds, but with a modern electro’s experimental, stompy vibe. Check out some tracks on the myspace page - especially the remix of Feist’s My Moon My Man. The debut album Oi Oi oi will be out worldwide in September.
Here’s the video for the Boys Noize remix of I Robots’ Frau:
