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.
Do yourself a favor and watch the entire video, John Stewart takes the piss out of a lot of people involved in the election as only he can.
Also, if you found yourself moved by Palin’s “stirring” speech last night (you know, the one in which she didn’t mention Afghanistan, healthcare, college tuition, unemployment, etc), you might like to know that her speech was riddled with half-truths, among them:
FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin “got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States.”
THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor’s election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.
Honestly, I only WISH I could say that I was shocked to hear that much of the speech was hot air.
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?
Written August 21st, 2008 at 10:35am in Music, Videos
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.
