- Have you been looking for an album by a hunky vampire/teeny bopper icon to add to your iTunes collection? That hole could soon be filled by Twilight star Robert Pattinson, who has long been rumored to be working on material for his music career and spent time jamming with his Twilight co-stars in hotel rooms between filming sessions on the movie that so far stands as the only reason anyone knows who he is. A source close to Pattinson has claimed that the actor will begin working on the album within the next few weeks, once he is about to find space in his schedule. The course, speaking anonymously because the possibility of a Robert Pattinson album is the very thing that will revolutionize the music industry as we know it, said, “The album Rob will make will be guitar-based and drums, very organic-sounding, nothing pop. Like stripped-down Ray LaMontagne meets Van Morrison.” Umm…..let’s not compare some teen vampire/actor dreamboat with a great singer and songwriter like Ray LaMontagne, k? While this isn't Pattinson’s first foray into music, he certainly hasn’t accomplished anything worth a damn in the industry and there is no reason to believe he ever will. He did record two songs - 'Never Think' and 'Let Me Sign' - for the original Twilight soundtrack in 2008, but it seems safe to say that neither of the tracks were high on the list of reasons anyone (anyone being teenage girls) bought the soundtrack. Pattinson hinted at his return to music earlier this year, saying he wanted to re-start his singing career and play some live shows. He also suggested a possible deal with XL records, but the label wanted nothing to do with him and no similar rumors have surfaced since. As for the last installments in the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn: Part 1 is due for release in November and the second part will debut one year later. Might be wise for Pattinson to stick to that side of his career and leave the music to the professionals………….
- While it might be tough to explain the connection, there is no denying that NBA free agents who ended last season with the Denver Nuggets have shown a strong predilection for balling in China during the league’s three-month (and counting) lockout. J.R. Smith and Wilson Chandler have already inked deals to play in the Chinese Basketball Association this coming season and on Wednesday, forward Kenyon Martin joined them, Martin's agent, Andy Miller, confirmed the forward has agreed to a deal with the Xinjiang Flying Tigers. By signing the deal, Martin joins other NBA free agents who have signed with CBA teams in being committed to say with those teams through the end of their season without the possibility of leaving to return to the NBA if the lockout ends. The odds of that happening are somewhere south of zero percent, so Martin, Chandler and Smith should be fine and so should Martin’s Xinjiang teammate Quincy Douby, a former first-round draft pick by the Sacramento Kings. As for the Nuggets, they had better hope the season is canceled because if it isn't and they have to field a team, their options are going to be extremely limited. Martin, Smith and Chandler are all off the table, while current Nuggets Ty Lawson and Danilo Gallinari are playing in Europe and will be able to return as soon as the lockout ends. The CBA gamble is a big one for Martin, as he is 33 years old and on the tail end of his career. Potentially giving away an entire year of his career at this point would be a lot to surrender. Chandler seems to be adjusting to his new surroundings well and recently tweeted about his experience in China thus far, "just walked/climbed about 4 or 5 miles on the great wall of china..." NBA training camps are scheduled to open Oct. 3 with the regular season beginning in early November, but those are merely dates on a calendar now and no one involved with the process of observing it from the outside holds much hope that a season of any length will happen………….
- Say what you will about Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, just don’t call him a fan of fake racks. In a country that holds six Miss Universe titles and five Miss World titles - more than the United States’ 10 total crowns - and has its share of lovely ladies, breast implants are virtually ubiquitous. Women have little shame about showing off the silicone enhancements they have purchased for their physique and that was never a problem……until Chavez made a random address on state-run television earlier this year, excoriating doctors who accrue small fortunes from performing breast augmentations. Chavez said such doctors "convince some women that if they don't have some big bosoms they should feel bad." Chavez, who has glossed himself as a feminist, also ripped poor women who pay for these costly breast implant procedures that they couldn't afford, decrying it as "a monstrous thing." His words seemed directed toward physicians like Dr. Pete Romer, a plastic surgeon who has personally worked on thousands of Caracas women, including two of Venezuela's pageant queens. “We just polish the beauty," Romer said. "All those girls are gorgeous and have good material. The proportions of face and body are almost perfect. My work is just change a little things." Romer also said Chavez should not be telling Venezuelan women how to spend their money and aspiring beauty queens around the country has also taken umbrage with the address. Many of them point out that there are simply so many beautiful women with perfect proportions that anyone who doesn’t fit the mold must go under the knife just to keep pace. Being a beauty queen actually means something in Venezuela whether it should or not. The best comment on the issue came from a woman named Ester Gonzalez, who daughter Corina is a would-be beauty queen and went under the knife for bigger boobs before she even turned 23. "It's an investment because no matter what you do she is getting prepared for life for any kind of job," Ester said. "All the courses she does and the beauty stuff is directed to her own growth. It's an investment no matter where she will use it." An investment? For what, her future appearance in Venezuela’s version of Playboy? Oh, and that investment paid off with Corina Gonzalez now rocking a DD cup size. Some Venezuelans have supported their dictator’s opinion on the issue and a few of them may even have done so out of something other than fear for what would happen to them if they didn’t back Chavez. These Hugo supports have suggested that the immense cost of the procedure - implants can cost anywhere from $2,000 to $5,000 - is beyond the means of many Venezuelans and that taking out loans just to look like a real-life Barbie doll is a bad idea. Still, nearly 40,000 women in Venezuela undergo breast augmentation each year and that figure isn't likely to trend downward no matter what Chavez says………..
- Of life’s great constants, bitching and whining about Facebook changes - minor or major - are easily the most reliable. No matter what the changes, a certain segment of the Facebook population is bound to bash them and in the ultimate irony, use the very thing they are bashing to do their bashing. When the world's largest online social network rolled out significant changes to users’ Facebook home pages and news feeds earlier this week, it took less than a day for the Facebook world to explode with complaints. Users logged on Monday morning to find what Facebook calls "top stories" on the top of their pages, followed by "recent stories" listed in chronological order. On the right side of the page, there is now something called a "ticker," a live feed of all the ongoing activity that also appears in users' news feeds. The ticker seemed to draw the most vitriolic reaction, with most viewing it as a Facebook inside your Facebook. Many users began circulating a doctored image of rapper/TV personality Xzibit with the words, “Yo dawg, I heard you like Facebook. So we put a Facebook in the upper right of you Facebook so you can Facebook while you Facebook.” In short, the ticker is retardedly redundant. The changes became a trending topic on Twitter within hours and the jokes were flying fast and furious. Facebook, accustomed to defending unpopular changes to its site, has long maintained the position that it makes changes to keep users engaged, and that those alterations are often based on user requests. Of course, the changes typically seem like they have been made just for the sake of making them and to infuriate users. Facebook seems to do a terrible job of predicting what users will like and with even more changes expected in the wake of today’s f8 conference in San Francisco for developers who create games and other applications for its site, the rage is not likely to dissipate any time soon. The conspiracy theory when it comes to the changes comes from privacy advocates who argue that Facebook changes its site in order to get people to share as much as possible about their habits, hobbies and likes in order to provide that information to advertisers. Facebook vice president of engineering defended the changes by saying they are "tailored at making sure this news feed is what you want to see.” Not if you ask users, they’re not…………
- Maybe this is what the United States needs as so many Americans turn away from organized religion and make faith a smaller portion of their daily lives. If more churches were willing to do what pastor Peter Jackson and his small congregation in Anacortes, Wash. are doing, then more people would probably want to show up for worship services on Sunday or Wednesday. Jackson, like many across the state of Washington, is taking advantage of the state’s laws legalizing medical marijuana and he is subsequently growing a small stash out behind the church. He was proud enough of his crop to show it off to a local TV station, which showed up because the church just happens to be a few hundred feet from a local elementary school and last week, two students wandered over to the fence between the two properties, climbed over and discovered the pot plants. How two elementary school students recognized marijuana plants so readily is another issue entirely, but the two children found the plants and in a decidedly uncool move, ratted Jackson and his church out to their teachers. Seriously, someone needs to teach these kids common stoner courtesy, wherein one of the points is not ratting out those who grow or possess a stash of the hippie lettuce. But the kids went narc and their teachers alerted local law enforcement. Word quickly spread to parents, who pressured police to force Jackson to remove the garden. Unfortunately, a loophole in the town’s legal code means police have no right to do that and Jackson is well within his rights to grow the plants. His garden has 30 plants and when asked about his legal rights to grow them, he said, "We don't believe we need paperwork for how many plants we grow or how much weed we're allowed to smoke." All right, then. Not every church invites its members to bring their own bong or roll up a fattie for Jesus, but America is all about being different and unique, right? Now quiet down, go get the bag of Cheetos and pass the bong……….
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