see you later when this hole in my head heals.

no, wait…to be fair, if I were a prepubescent girl living in a grain silo, I’d probably love this….if my silo was wired for interweb. Its not that bad.

On Weds, South Park kicked off their 13th season with a episode definitely engineered to create controversy…less so for social commentary, which they do pretty well, but more so because they “went there” by including this year’s many celebrity passings, drawing in Billy Mays, David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Patrick Swayze, Farrah Fawcett, Bea Arthur, Walter Cronkite, Natasha Richardson, Michael Jackson, DJ AM and more.

Honestly, it’s one thing to include all these celeb cameos…but another thing to just waste them. The plot here is too lame to balance out the “shock value.”

I enjoy fine art along with my pop art, and even though I don’t pretend to be an expert on the modern art scene, I stay up on the big stars and find my own personal favorites (like Ruscha, Prince and Yue Minjun). But some things just seem abstract for abstract sake. Yi Zhou is an acclaimed globalista who makes big multi-media art installations (not my fave medium) and even showed at Sundance…but aside from Pharrell’s C.I.A.-ready knife skills, the best part of this piece is the soundtrack by Ennio Morricone (especially the scratchy record-player white noise). On the other hand, this clip below, of Pharrell fighting Flat Eric (the puppet from French producer Mr. Oiso’s famous Levi’s commercial) looks very promising : )

After the jump…you can see the original Flat Eric Levi’s commercial…
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I love love love TV. (its a one-way affair.) So I tuned into the Emmys even though very rarely does anything interesting happen. I like the sparkly dresses and that Jon Hamm guy knows how to rock a suit. But the lame and numerous attempts to reference last week’s Kanye-Gate fiasco were tiring. Neil Patrick Harris=fail, Jimmy Fallon=fail, Justin Timberlake=fail, Ken Howard=fail (but extra credit for being hip for an old white guy), who else was there?

The high point was when Julia Louise-Dreyfus and Amy Poehler came out and Julia said: “Amy and I are honored to be presenting on the last official year of network broadcast television.”

The low point was Justin Timberlake’s unfortunate hair dressing.

more fashion good and bad after the jump…
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ok, I’m in a rush because I gotta check out of this hotel (a kind of bleh business-y megahotel) and check into a very small boutique-y hotel (but surprisingly not too expensive)….but I guess its important to post the current state of Kanye-Gate which I has aged and exhausted me at this point.
So here we go…the speed round.

We already know Kanye went on Leno last night and suggested a possible hiatus. (I kind of doubt it…unless its some away time in Hawaii again, which is creatively pretty productive) Then this morning, (alongside Serena Williams’ morning show mea culpa), Taylor Swift was on TV with her mom and said that Kanye hadn’t called her yet.

“He has not personally reached out or anything but if he wanted to say hi (I would),” said Swift.

And of course, Kanye promptly called her.

After Swift’s comments, West called her and the two spoke, according to a statement from “The View.”

“After the show he spoke personally to the country music superstar via telephone and has apologized to the 19-year-old singer. She has accepted Mr. West’s apology. The contents of the phone call are to remain private,” it read.

But meanwhile the internet friar’s club roast is still goin’ strong with a new website called “Imma Let You Finish.”

And while ‘Ye was at Jay Leno, Amber Rose made her runway debut last night at the Celestino show for NY Fashion Week…)

RELATED:

Kanye-Gate

Apology 1

Apology 2

The POTUS off-camera reaction

Apology Leno

(ok….no mas)

well, almost…

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the lesson to learn here is…Cam just won’t answer questions about Jim and Juelz in every interview. Perhaps its better to clear it beforehand…although awkward silence is entertaining sometimes. This get better when the topic of conversation moves to Lambourghinis, money, and Bill O’Reilly.
“What about Jay-Z’s song ‘Dig a hole’?” Cam:”What did he say on ‘Dig a Hole’…did he say he shot me?”
huh?

One part that I’m sure some music fans will hone in on: Cam’ron says that he tried to bail out Max B at one point. This tidbit was something that I thought would stay unspoken, although it was alluded to in that comprehensive Cooleh.com feature which I read via Nahright a while back.

UPDATE: so apparently this interview was done a while back. Still new to me tho. Carry on.

love this song.
(”I’ll pull down a cloud for you…” appeals to the rare softie in me)

don’t love the hair styling…and the redundant imagery a la “scrubs” and “scream.”

Prince is a musical genius, and one of my all-time favorites (shout to all the twitter family who followed my play by play from his recent 21 Nights marathon performance that I witnessed at the Gansevoort Hotel last year with the homie Jay Smooth)….and here he sits down for a rare interview with Tavis Smiley. (I wish they’d replay that great interview he did was it with Chris Rock? or MTV…I can’t remember but he spoke about his rivalry with Michael Jackson. So Classic)

Anyways, in this first half of the 2part interview, Prince shares his…um…unique POV on things like….why as a Jehovah’s Witness he did not vote in the last presidential election. And how he was cured of childhood epilepsy. And what he thinks of the fumes that come out of jet engines….oh boy. Fascinating if not dubious.

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Ballerstatus broke the story today that Ralphige, the prank-phone-call-guy who’s duped Jay-Z, Paris Hilton and more , is taking credit for that bribe-offer that Rick Ross referred to in a video (click to view).

Ballerstatus reports:
“According to Ralphige, the Miami rapper was agressive from the second he said he was from G-Unit. Although he told the him he’d receive a nice payday if he would back down in the beef, Ross laughed it off and declined.

“[Rick Ross] got excited as f***. He didn’t except, which is one thing I respect. He’s like ‘Nah, nah. F*** that. I’mma keep doing me. I’mma keep doing me.’ … I told him 50 doesn’t want it with you no more, he feels like you’re one person who gave him a challenge, he respects you, he likes you’re music, and he wants you to back down. He was like ‘Nah, I ain’t backing down.’”

Wow. What a plot twist.
I need to hear that phone call audio then.

Jadakiss feat. Swizz Beats & OJ Da Juiceman “Who’s Real”

(Props to Bobo & Nahright)

UPDATE:
Speaking of Atlanta rappers…..
Here’s video of Gucci Mane’s welcome home from jail party from this past weekend….that guy is a superstar down in ATL, I dont really get it. But…. I did hear there may be a special guest at his video shoot on Tuesday… ; )

(thanks to RealtalkNY)