Former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker and DJ AM (real name Adam Goldstein, the former fiancee of Nicole Richie) have both been critically injured in a Learjet crash in South Carolina.

FAA Spokesperson Kathleen Bergen confirms that the plane, which was carrying 6 people, was departing shortly before midnight last night en route to Van Nuys, CA when it veered off the runway and crashed on a nearby road before being engulfed in flames.
Associated Press

A hospital spokeswoman, Beth Frits, says Barker and Goldstein have been taken to a burn center in Augusta, GA.

Trav and AM have been doing a series of shows together recently and were even the “house band” at the MTV VMAs earlier this month. Other musicians, such as Gavin DeGraw and Perry Farrell were among those playing the same show in South Carolina, although it is unclear at this point whether either of those artists were on board the aircraft at the time of the crash. Officials will only confirm that the four dead are two crew members and two passengers.

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Ahh, Britney. I’m so happy to see her functioning and looking decent again. I can even excuse the fact that her new song “Womanizer” is less than stellar. Then again, I guess her music has never been about being “good” per se, more catchy than anything.

“Womanizer” isn’t set to be officially released until next week, but go ahead click here and have a listen.

If this gets stuck in my head as bad as “Piece of Me”, someone’s gonna get slapped

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Peep this:

Puff Daddy, Diddy, Sean Combs, whatever you want to call him…is bitching that he has to fly COMMERCIAL because he can’t afford the fuel for his private jet.

If mentioning the price of arugula makes you elitist, WTF does this make you?

Oh wait, I know. A big stupid jerkface.

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Totally unrelated to anything going on in the world today…but you guys need to check out this band. I’m obsessed with the band - “The Lodger” and this song “The Good Old Days” lately.

Bonus points for the vaguely weird video.

Pity whenever you flip on corporate terrestrial radio you hear the same 15 songs over and over again in some varied rotation.

Anyhoo, these guys don’t suck.

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So most of the time, I write for this website sitting at a large desk that has my laptop and my boyfriend’s desktop on it. In order for me not to drive him nuts with whatever music or video I’m listening to while I work on things, I wear headphones. He wears them, too, either so I can’t annoy him to death, OR so that I don’t have to hear the racket he’s making with a computer game.

He normally wears a cute little earbud deal, and I have like, these monster cans on my head. Seriously I look like a 2008-era Princess Leia with these things on my head. They’re ridiculously large, but they do the job. They block out the sounds of his computer game (Tribes, and I hate it with a passion): “Hurry up with that station! Target acquired! Return our flag to our base!”, etc and they stop him from having to listen to whatever music I have on at the moment that he can’t stand. Notably stuff like Bright Eyes, or maybe Aphex Twin, or even some crazy gypsy brass band. All of which are completely unbearable to him.

So it’s a pretty good deal.

Until you get a fucking cyst-like object near your ear that is either some sort of cancer, or caused by the wretched headphones of death. I’m really hoping for the latter…

I have this honker right near the top of my ear. So far, my quest to extract some sort of material from it has been less than satisfying, and has actually caused said object to swell to roughly the size of a Tic Tac. I’m pretty sure it’s not as tasty, though.

In order to combat this intruder, I have decided that warm compresses would help. Except I don’t really want to get the entire side of my head wet by holding a hot wash cloth on my ear. (I have naturally curly hair, and keeping it straight is a pain enough as it is, I don’t need any additional moisture to impede my work).

They say necessity is the mother of invention. So, my friends, I have invented an ear heater thing.

It’s not dissimilar to a tampon in the way it looks (no, it doesn’t go IN the ear). In fact, it’s just a wad of Kleenex with hot water on it, rung out, and then shaped to sit on my ear just so. I do believe the Tic Tac is shrinking.

Anyone ever had one of these suckers? If so, how the hell do you make it go back from whence it came? It’s driving me up a damn wall.

(Yes, I’m sorry, I know that was gross and you probably see me in a different way now, but I can live with that)

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Britney looks like she took a comb to her weave for the first time in ages. Oh happy day!!!

I realize she’s a long way from the Britney she once was…but she looks like she’s bathed recently, so that’s a start. Also, I do not see a frappucino in her hand, any discernible grease spots, or even a speck of Cheeto dust. I’d say for Britney, this is roughly the equivalent of splitting the atom, or possibly mapping the human genome.

Her dad should be made conservator from now til infinity (plus 1).

The picture was taken yesterday at Paramount Studios. Britney and Russell Brand (host of this years MTV Video Music Awards) shot a promo for the awards show together. Note the elephant in the room…clever touch.

MTV isn’t saying whether they’ll have Britney as a performer or a presenter, so I guess they all want us to wait with bated breath to see if there’ll be a repeat of this masterpiece:

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