Saturday, April 30, 2011
Kanye West and Jay-Z Get Beyoncé and Bruno Mars for 'Watch The Throne' Single "Lift Off"
Kanye WestandJay-Zare preparing for "Lift Off," the first single from their highly anticipated long-awaited collaborative album, and have snatched upBeyoncéandBruno Marsfor the Jeff Bhasker-produced number impacting radio and your iTunes music library sooner than you think.
Kanye WestandJay-Zare preparing for "Lift Off," the first single from their highly anticipated long-awaited collaborative album, and have snatched upBeyoncéandBruno Marsfor the Jeff Bhasker-produced number impacting radio and your iTunes music library sooner than you think.
Mariah Carey Gives Birth to Twins, Finally
"It's a boy and a girl for Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon! Mariah Carey's twins were born at 12:07 a.m. on Saturday morning, according to a statement released by her rep. Nick and Mariah have yet to name the babies, though we can't wait to hear what the new parents pick. Nick was apparently so nervous that he initially went to the wrong part of hospital and the two listened to her hit "We Belong Together" after the twins were born. Nick and Mariah got married in 2007 and were planning to renew their vows on Sunday. Congrats to Nick and Mariah on their new additions!"
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Jojo is Trying to Make a Come Back Sans Bow Wow
JoJo (Post Puberty) in the first set of promo images for her oft-delayed third album "Jumping Train".
Shitty Deal of the Day: Vans Warped Tour 2011 Band List
3OH!3
A Day to Remember
A Skylit Drive
Abandon All Ships
Against Me!
Asking Alexandria
Attack Attack!
August Burns Red
Bad Rabbits
Big B
Big Chocolate
Big D and the Kids Table
Black List Royals
Black Square
Black Veil Brides
Blood On the Dance Floor
Cold Forty Three
Continental
Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows
Dance Gavin Dance
DC Fallout
Demerit
Electric Touch
Enter Shikari
Every Avenue
Eyes Set to Kill
Family Force Five
Foxy Shazam
Freshman 15
Gatsby's American Dream
Go Radio
Good Guys In Black
Grieves and Budo
Gym Class Heroes
hellogoodbye
I Set My Friends on Fire
illScarlett
Ionia
It Boys!
Jack's Mannequin
Larry and His Flask
Less Than Jake
Lionize
Lucero
Machree
Madina Lake
MC Lars with Weerd Science
Middle Class Rut
Miss May I
Mojo Morgan
Motionless In White
Moving Mountains
My Arcadia
Neo Geo
New Years Day
Of Mice and Men
Paramore
Passafire
Peelander-Z
Pepper
Permanent Bastards
Places and Numbers
Planet Smashers
Rapid Decline
Relient K
River City Extension
Set Your Goals
Sharks
Shut Up and Deal
Sick of Sarah
Simple Plan
So Long Arletta
Stephen Jerzak
Street Dogs
Terrible Things
Tess Dunn
The Acacia Strain
The Aggrolites
The Black Pacific
The BOTS
The Dance Party
The Dangerous Summer
The Devil Wears Prada
The Expendables
The Exposed
The Menzingers
The Narrative
The Ready Set
The Sheds
The Suit
The Wonder Years
The Word Alive
There For Tomorrow
Unwritten Law
Veara
Vonnegutt
We Came As Romans
We're Doomed
Winds of Plague
Windsor Drive
Woe. Is Me
Yelawolf
Pippa Isn't With My Ginger FYI
Negative. Pippa is dating former England international cricketer Alex Loudon, who now works as a successful financier in London.
Friday, April 29, 2011
Shitty Deal of the Day
Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld doesn't go anywhere without his traveling companion and museBaptiste Giabiconi. Now he's reserved a very interesting honor for the comely young man: Uncle Karl has sculpted the boy in chocolate. Remember Karl, it melts in your mouth, not in your hand. We wonder what it's filled with when you bite into it!
The work debuted today in Paris, where Karl is hoping to promote ice cream brand Magnum by unveiling his sweet, sweet sculpture of Baptiste, who also stars in the commercials Lagerfeld directed for the brand. Naturally, if you're going to make a chocolate sculpture of the man you want to be your lover, he's not going to be wearing anything but a tiny pair of white briefs. White, Karl? Isn't that going to make a mess?
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Queen has good taste: Ellie Goulding to Play at the Royal Wedding Reception
She'll be belting out her back catalogue and hopefully some wedding classics such as Oops Upside Your Head, The Time Warp and Land Down Under.
A source said: "Wills and Kate are huge fans of Ellie and were keen to sign her up.
"Her music goes down well with the young ones, plus a few of the older guests will be nodding their heads along.
"They really wanted a top British talent and the couple are delighted Ellie agreed to perform. She can't wait - although she's a tad nervous."
You can't blame Ellie if she has had a few sleepless nights before the big day.
Wedding singers face a tough job getting the party going.
She'll be praying PRINCE HARRY gets on the Pimm's early and demands guests move to the dancefloor.
No doubt he'll be backed up by ZARA PHILLIPS' fiancé MIKE TINDALL.
Rugby players don't usually need to be asked twice to throw a few moves - though they are usually just wearing a jockstrap when they do.
Ellie will have boyfriend GREG JAMES to keep her company. The Radio 1 DJ will be by her side all day.
When it's her turn to get on stage, Greg can pull up a chair by the buffet, grab a plate of sausage rolls and scotch eggs, sink a can of lager and watch his missus in action.
It will be interesting to see if Ellie sings Wills and Kate's first dance tune.
Her cover of ELTON JOHN classic Your Song did very well at Christmas and is bound to be right up their street.
But as the royal couple got together while studying at St Andrews University you can't rule out a song born north of the border.
They can't go wrong with Let's Get Married by THE PROCLAIMERS.
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Finding Out Your Hooking Up with a Gay Porn Star From Your Mother Can Only Happen on the Real World
Dustin Zito, part of the MTV show's current cast, kept his gay porn past a secret from his roommates until this week's episode. Andy Dehnart talked to Zito and the show's producers.
Among the eight strangers living together in the 25th Real World house—a suite in the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas—is Dustin Zito. He is a 24-year-old from Louisiana whose MTV bio says that he "grew up with a bi-polar, drug addicted mom and an abusive step-dad." But it is the part of his bio that says he was "a cast member on a website that featured an uncensored look at a house of attractive guys living together" that has earned the most attention.
MTV's language conceals the fact that Dustin did gay porn: Performing as "Spencer" on FratMen ("erotic nude jackoff porn"), he masturbated and engaged in oral sex in two videos. On its sibling site Fratpad ("straight frat boys in sizzling hot chat and webcam shows"), Dustin had sexual contact with other men, and gave and received anal sex with another man in a live pay-per-view show.
Considering the overlap between porn and reality TV and the proliferation of amateur porn sites, it was probably inevitable that the show would cast someone who'd had sex for money. Equally inevitable is the MTV audience's ability to find Dustin's porn past.
The surprising part has been the response: In Wednesday night's episode, Dustin's Real World girlfriend expressed her disgust and his roommates shunned him.
Dustin, who's 24 and identifies as straight("When I close my eyes to masturbate, I think of a girl"), is actually unembarrassed by the gay-for-pay work he did when he was 19."I'm not ashamed of what I did. It doesn't define me or who I am,"he told The Daily Beast, sounding more thoughtful and intelligent than he sometimes comes across on TV.
When the truth came out, "Nobody in the house, not one person, was like, 'Who cares?' I wanted that," Dustin said.
But no one in his life knew what he'd done. Dustin said he asked himself,"Why am I so scared? I didn't hurt anybody, I didn't do anything wrong." When a family friend's connection to the casting department at Bunim-Murray, the company that produces The Real World, gave him the opportunity to have his life taped for several months, Dustin thought the show "would be a tool I could use to get it out," he said. "I would never have to tell anybody again."
During the casting process, producers warned him. Real World executive producer Jim Johnston told me he said, "'You realize, Dustin, that you're talking about this on camera. You're aware of that, right?' We do want people to be aware when they do this that there's no privacy."
The show's co-creator Jon Murray previously told me that he liked Dustin's story because "whether it's that particular story, having done one of these voyeuristic websites, or some other mistake someone's made in life," that "how to move on is a really important story for our audience."
Yet when Dustin arrived in the Real World house, he found himself paralyzed with the same fear of judgment that had struck him at home. "It was scary to tell and I wanted everyone to learn about me first," he told me. While he'd intended to tell Heather, the cast member with whom he was having a relationship, he balked, "just like had happened time and time before with various family members." He said later, "When people find out about [the sex scene], their whole world changes about me. They just freakin' lose it. I'm a totally different person. I'm the devil."
Johnston said producers were "a little surprised by how long he waited to talk about it." But they also knew "it might never come out. It's not like we required it."
In the end, Dustin waited too long to tell his roommates. Instead, that revelation "was taken from me," he said. These are consequences of the Internet: When the show was filming last fall, Dustin was identified by a message board, and the connection to his work in porn was immediately made. Thus, Googling Dustin resulted in evidence of his porn past, which people outside of the house found and then told the cast, who then went online and saw confirmation. The drama that resulted unfolded on this week's episode of the show, which began airing Wednesday night.
When he was confronted, Dustin lied, saying he'd been naked and masturbated but hadn't had sex with other men. Lying, Dustin told me, is"one of the things that I do. Ah! I don't know why I do that. I get so scared," he said. When the truth came out, "Nobody in the house, not one person, was like, 'Who cares?' I wanted that," he said. "Everybody in the house kind of shunned me. ... I was kind of hoping and praying that someone in the house would be like, 'It doesn't matter.' But nobody took that role."
Instead, they put on a remarkable demonstration of self-centeredness, cattiness, and homophobia hidden in their contempt over his lies. "I would never do that; that's disgusting," Heather tells Dustin in the episode, and later asks, "Should I get tested?" Another writes Dustin a letter that starts, "I really want to hate you right now." Dustin told me that Heather is "editing herself" when she says she only cared about the lie, not about the content of the videos.
Part of the cast's bad reaction came from Dustin's previous judgment of gay people. At one point, he had told his roommates, "People were put on the earth for one fucking reason, and that is to reproduce." When the house was about to get a new roommate, he expressed his fear over the potential that the new roommate could be gay:"Over the years, you get a level of paranoia. You're walking and you see a gay person and you get nervous."
While Dustin understands why people viewed those comments as homophobic ("Of course, of course."). That perception"just hurts so bad," Dustin said. "That's not the case at all. Of course, I have my questions about everything. I'm 24; that's a part of your journey in life is to understand things. I'm young. There are still things like issues of marriage that I don't understand."
He said it was taken out of context. After having sex in a video, members of the site were "a little more aggressive with me" both online and in public, Dustin said, where some people even grabbed his crotch."I was disrespected. People thought I was gay; they thought I would be interested." His comment about a new roommate was, Dustin said, "fear in that instance that MTV would send someone that was aggressive."
After that episode aired, a gay friend called Dustin and said, "You don't feel that way, do you?" "Never would I be uncomfortable around gay people," Dustin said. "I'm a victim of editing, I guess."
Executive producer Johnston insists"there was no manipulation."Dustin's comment "was included because it was an issue for the other roommates."
After the season premiere aired, the Internet was being cleared of evidence of Dustin's anal sex scene. But by who? Viewers speculated that MTV or producers were trying to erase evidence that would otherwise interrupt the storyline of his relationship with Heather. But executive producer Jon Murray told me that producers had nothing to do with it, and Dustin denied involvement, too.
It was, in fact, the videos' producer, John Marsh, who owns the company that produces Fratmen and Fratpad, who asked affiliate sites to remove images. Affiliates are websites that receive commissions for sending traffic, and have agreements with the company that govern how images can be used.
But Marsh also worked to have Dustin's images removed from non-affiliate sites, sending a cease and desist notice to a blog that reproduced them. And after I linked to images of Dustin's anal sex scene on my website, reality blurred, Fratmen's Marsh sent me an email message suggesting, bizarrely, that the video may never have existed or that"one of the performers was under 18 years old on the date of production."
Admitting to using underage performers could be lethal for a producer of adult entertainment, and Marsh told me in an interview Wednesday that his comment"was clearly farcical," though it prompted Viacom and Bunim-Murray lawyers to immediately request documentation that Dustin was, in fact, of age. But Marsh also said that he didn't mind the underage story getting picked up by blogs. "It's in everyone's interest to let that story flail around a little bit," he said. "It's been a wild ride," he said, one he's "very excited and grateful to be a part of." As he said later, "We're all in this to make a buck."
Marsh requested affiliates remove some images because he was"trying to have a little more control over the brand," which he defines as "kind of a Disney of porn" that doesn't advertise its hard-core sex scenes. The anal sex scene wasn't officially recorded, Marsh said, and there was "an expectation, you may say naïve," that the scenes would remain private between performers and those viewing them. But one or more people viewing the live show did record it. The publisher of Dudetube, which was asked to remove screencaps of the scene, told me that "Fratmen pay-per-views have been widely circulated on file sharing sites."
Marsh said his only substantive contact with The Real World was related to footage they wanted to include on the show. However, he said that he removed images in part to not interfere with the production. "We had no idea what Bunim-Murray wanted in terms of public information. My initial reaction was to get this stuff down and keep from injecting ourselves into the process," he said. Of course, it had the opposite effect.
Images were also removed, Marsh said, because other performers"didn't want to be collateral damage to Dustin's popularity"; one is in the military. And Marsh added that, while Dustin had nothing to do with having images removed while the show was being broadcast, Dustin "made a request" earlier last year that a scene with him showering and having oral sex with another man be removed from the site because Dustin "was just concerned" and "really, really wanted to get in the cast."
Dustin said that while Marsh is "awesome," he doesn't plan on doing more adult film work (despite making an appearance with the company). And he has no regrets."Life after going to The Real World is so much better,"Dustin said."I would much rather everyone know about it than me have a secret. Of course I'm afraid of judgment and what people are going to say, but it's just so much better to have it out."
Johnston calls Dustin"a fascinating, passionate, fun-loving guy" and "a great Real World character regardless of the past he has."
But it's his past that has created the kind of conversation the show used to be known for.
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