Listen here, Air New Zealand, the idea of your newest video is to get passengers attention during the safety announcements on your plane. Check.

So someone came up with a seemingly great idea – have the flight attendants be nude but covered in body paint! So far so good. Then I watch the video (below) and WTF? What’s the point in painting these people up if you’re never gonna show a shot below the neck? Such a waste of my imagination and the artist’s time!

That’s 4 minutes of time i’m not getting back!

HAHAHAHA

Love him or hate him, President Obama is a cool dude. Check out his response to someone’s cell phone ring tone in the middle of his equal rights speech.

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Thanks to Christopher Frizzelle at The Stranger for finding this video!

To be a fly on the wall of the meeting that took place to get this web-site up and running…

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Hollywood Is Calling was created to make it possible for people all across the globe to be inspired and entertained by live phone calls from actual celebrities. As most modern day celebrities are unique in their ability to affect and enhance the lives of others we thought this service would be an extraordinary opportunity to make that possible on a global scale.

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It’s finally here!The first song from the new Alice in Chains record “Black Give Way to Blue” out September 29th

Hear “A Looking In View” here
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To download your own free copy click here

First Incubus debutted their cover of Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” on their new double album Monuments and Melodies and now other bands are jumping on the band wagon. I guess it’s either that or cover Michael Jackson!

SPIN magazine is doing a Prince tribute album called Purple Rain and Texas band Riverboat Gamblers shred throught their own version.

The Blink-182 guys just released this “behind-the-scenes” video from a mysterious video shoot over the weekend. No one really knows what the video is for, the band recently shot a clip in front of a green screen and says, “This performance is going to blow your mind”We’ll know more about the project next week

Blink will be headlining Endfest 18, Thursday September 10th at The White River Ampitheatre.  Tickets are on sale right here

Dear Spokane,

What the hell is going on in your city? It seems like a crazy place to live. First there was the approval or medical marijuana distributors. Next came the organized crime of meat thieves. Now, a couple in Spokane has purchased a month old giraffe as a pet! Come on!

These people have 13 acres and the giraffe, who couldn’t be reached for comment, shares the land with wallaroos and kangaroos. Later this fall, they plan to move the giraffe to a 12,000 acre ranch where he plans to learn the piano and kick footballs for a potential career in the CFL – come on, a giraffe in the NFL – let’s get serious.

Anyway, Spokane, you are nuts and very pretty:

:E GregR

The promotion for Sascha Baron Cohen movies are almost as fun as the movies themselves

Seeing him, in character, go to talk shows, award shows etc provides weeks of entertainment.

Everyone saw what he did with Eminem at the MTV Movie Awards, here he is on the Tonight Show with Conan O’brien

When MJ first died last week…one of the first things I thought about was, “What happens to the Beatles Catalog?”

In 1985. Michael Jackson outbid Paul McCartney for the rights to the Beatles song-copyright catalog.  He paid the relatively low amount of $47.5 million for more than 200 songs, including  “Yesterday” and “Let It Be.”

“The story goes that one day at Paul McCartney’s house they were having dinner and Paul casually mentioned that the way to make real money in the music business is through publishing,” New York Times music reporter Ben Sisario told ABC News. “Michael took that to heart.”

Those songs are now worth more than a billion dollars.”

Paul McCartney said in 2006 “You know what doesn’t feel very good,”  “going on tour and paying to sing all my songs. Every time I sing ‘Hey Jude,’ I’ve got to pay someone.”

When Michael died Thursday, McCartney (who hadn’t spoken to Jackson out of anger for years) said:

“I feel privileged to have hung out and worked with Michael. He was a massively talented boy man with a gentle soul.”

There have been a number of rumors that Jackson,  feeling badly about the broken relationship with McCartney, had plans to leave Sir Paul  the songs in his will.

You hope this is true, but as teams of lawyers and suits try to decide what happens with MJ’s money,  for now, it’s just rumors.