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While You Were Sleeping: Is Lindsay Lohan's Career Over?

Brian Fairbanks — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:08:00 GMT

The New York Times just figured out that the sexting craze means some teens will go to jail.

This Rob Schneider interview may be the best thing we've read all week. Yeah, we know-- Rob Schneider...

Apple is preparing to raise iTunes download prices to $1.29. We suspect this might have something to do with preparing people for the high price Beatles downloads will be.

An eye for an eye is about to be taken literally in-- you called it-- Iran.

Nice try, IBM-- you want to lay off American workers, outsource to India, and collect stimulus dollars? Hell no.

Four women who dressed as stewardesses and volunteered in the New York City subways to help people get around have been asked to stop by the MTA. As if the MTA is flush for cash and can themselves pay people to provide that service. Morons.

New York finally began the process of fixing the evil/horrible Rockefeller Drug Laws.

Our hero David Byrne has officially ruled out ever playing with the Talking Heads again. Asshole.

Bruce Springsteen saved the famous Glastonbury summer music festival. Angel.

Lindsay Lohan's only unreleased film (at present) is going straight to DVD.

And a schoolteacher showed up drunk to class, blackmailed her students into bumping and grinding with her, then later passed out by a swimming pool.

Teacher In Lesbian Sex Scandal Story Not Helping

Amazon Giving Away Lots of Great mp3's

Brian Fairbanks — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:44:00 GMT

Someone alerted us to this list of 500 free Amazon mp3 downloads. While most of them are obscure and probably terrible, we must remind you: they are free. (You think we actually sat there and downloaded them all... and then listened to them? You must really believe that old rumor about us bloggers sitting around in our underwear all day watching Oprah. No way, man, we have schedules and-- worse-- laundry to take care of.)

Some of these are weaker album tracks you probably wouldn't have downloaded with your purchase of the hit singles by these artists, but with the economy the way it is, you could save $17 on a Valentine's Day CD purchase by just downloading these for your significant other and then calling it a mix CD. (We especially recommend you all download the first song listed here, which is just one of four near-classics on the new Eno-Byrne album. The Bell X1 and Loudon Wainwright tracks are particularly good, as well...)

Strange Overtones by David Byrne/Brian Eno

100 Days, 100 Nights by Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings

Dead Sound by The Raveonettes

Motel Blues by Loudon Wainwright III

Skunk (Sonically Speaking) by the MC5

Eve, The Apple Of My Eye by Bell X1

Everybody's Got To Learn Some Time(Dna Mix 93) by the Korgis

...and a few we haven't heard that might be decent...

Another World by Antony & the Johnsons

Hesitation Blues by Asleep at the Wheel w/Willie Nelson

How Come (Album Version) by Ray Lamontagne

Hurtin' You by Ben Kweller

Prayer Wheel by Nels Cline

And with that, here's the full 500.

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Best Naked Music Video of the Year

Scanner Matt — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:48:00 GMT

This is one of our favorite music videos of 2008. David Byrne never ceases to amaze us. If it wasn't for MTV the world could have been so much cooler. It's your fault too.

Pitchfork, this century's authority on music, has released a whopping 2008 list featuring the top 40 videos of the year. Yeah, that already-boring Beyonce one did make the cut, but that's the very least of this batch.

The BPA [ft. David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal]: "Toe Jam" [Keith Schofield]

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Sloppy Seconds: It's Friday, How About A "Love Vacation"?

Brian Fairbanks — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:20:00 GMT

The woman accused of poisoning her Marine husband in order to obtain his $250K insurance policy and buy herself breast implants has been vindicated. [CNN]

Woah! Jay and Bey are gonna get an annulment? At a Barack Obama fundraiser the other night, Jay Z was on stage when the DJ put on his centuries-old duet with his new bride. Jay went crazy, it was reported.

Storming to the mic, he yelled: "Fuck that. Sorry Bey, but fuck that - let's play something else."

Beyonce allegedly, and quite correctly, took offense and stormed off the stage... but not before tripping and falling down a flight of stairs. (Kidding!) [The Mirror]

Without a doubt, the highlight of our year: David Byrne and Brian Eno are going to tour. Music's J.D. Salinger of live performance, Brian Fucking Eno. Can a "Talking Heads" reunion be too far off? [The Daily Swarm]

Scarlett Johnasson denies being a "brazen harlot." Some people don't know how to take a compliment. [Starpulse]

Scanner Exclusive: Amy Winehouse is working with "Back In Black" genius boy/producer Mark Ronson on the theme for "Quantum of Solace," the next Daniel Craig Bond movie, due this October. Since "Quantum of Solace" is even easier to rhyme with than "Octopussy," Winehouse announced her latest track will be called "My Blakey Breaky Out o' Jail With Some O' Diss Crazy Spy Shit."

And workers in Finland figured out what we Americans have known all along-- divorce is a great excuse to not show up for work. They're going to pass a law to institute mandatory "Love Vacations." In other news, Erica Jong is officially irrelevant. [New York Times]

Headlines of the Day:

1) Bloomberg: Next President Will Be "Adult" [via CNN]

2) Pope Meets With Many, Many Victims of Pedophile Priests [We're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat] [via Wonkette]

Photo: Vanity Fair

Sloppy Seconds: Barbie Parts Make the Cutest Necklaces

Nicole Pasulka — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:00:00 GMT

Earrings fit for an A.M. Homes story: Jewelry made of Barbie bits.

Russell Crowe's gone baptizin'.

Mitt Romney would have liked to see Adam and Eve wearing bigger leaves.

David Byrne on IKEA: "Like entering a videogame world."

The church lady sex addict