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Photo via squidoo.com
Dating: Alexa Chung on Chelsea Lately
Alexa Chung was a recent guest on Chelsea Lately, promoting her new show ’24 hour Catwalk’. Ross Mathews, who is doing a great job of host-replacement btw, revealed that Alexa Chung is on the prowl. She jokingly admitted to accepting dates over Twitter. Oh boy.
The stylish Chung, and former MTV host (I liked ‘It’s On’, damn you MTV!) used to date Arctic Monkeys front man Alex Turner. But they broke up in July 2011. Whatevs, frontmen seem like a lot of work anyways. Divas!
This tweet, surely to be one of many, is a charming peek into the world of dating through the internet:
How wonderful! Dating rocks.
Chung’s new show, 24 Hour Catwalk, looks interesting. I don’t normally watch reality or competition shows, but I might actually give this one a try. The contestants have 24 hours to make weird shit look fashionable. It sounds exactly like poor, 20 somethings digging through years of fashion mistakes, trying to make something look chic.
Check out obsessive Alexa Chung fashion photos here.
Chelsea is on fire
By the by, Chelsea Handler is blowing the fuck up. Chelsea Lately and After Chelsea on E! are getting better and better. After Chelsea is getting some sick cameos like Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston and Jane Fonda. Plus her show on NBC ‘Are You There, Chelsea?‘ is doing okay I think. I haven’t checked it out yet.
AND Chelsea is in a new movie with Reese Witherspoon called “This Means War” that looks promising. Two hot spies are fighting over Reese Witherspoon, blowing shit up and lots of kissing. That’s like my dream. Jealz!
Activism: Anonymous
Anonymous is ominous. They are declaring a war between Anonymous, the people and the government over SOPA and PIPA type laws. They are planning to take down Facebook this Saturday, Jan 28. In their latest video, they warn:
Government of the United States, leaders of the new world order, you have been warned. Operation Global Blackout part 2, Facebook, engaged. We are Anonymous, we are legion. We do not forgive, we do not forget. They should have expected us.
It will be interesting to see if they succeed in taking down Facebook, or at least a portion of the 600,000+ servers. Plus, taking Facebook down on a Saturday when people have nothing to do will certainly make a statement. (and force people to do something else besides look at pictures of other people’s dogs and shit)
What do you think about Anonymous? Or the government trying to control the internet?
This is cool: Björk Gu∂mundsdóttir
Björk Gu∂mundsdóttir
“This is sex without touching.”
1995
Photo via facebook.com/bjorktimeline
Amazing: Bon Joviver
Oh my GOD. A-MA-ZINGLY funny, and surprisingly zen. If you’re into Bon Iver and/or Bon Jovi, you’ll love this video.
This is cool: Chloe “Barbeque”
Because you enjoy barbeque and exacerbated rattlesnake merguez with mung bean fricassee.
Video via combine13.
Music: Fiona Apple to release new MUSIC!!!!!
OMG. OH emm effff G.
2012 is shaping up to be a phenomenal year of music. LA Reid tweeted today that new music from FIONA APPLE can be expected this year. Oh please oh please oh please let it be true!!
The instant I saw his tweet, “Criminal” started playing in my head. It almost makes me want to get wine drunk and sing “Tidal” at the top of my lungs. But that would wake my parents up. I’m cool you guys.
Also, she’s just so fucking talented. For real. I know I love me some pop stars, but Fiona is the real shit. She takes time in between albums, for what I don’t know. Maybe she gardens! It makes sense though, that artistic fury takes a while to build up inside of a person. Right, JT?
Pop music has it’s place in our lives, when we wanna get drunk and dance like straight up hussies. But there’s a time and a place for that. Just like there’s almost another time and another place for us to fall in love with the next Fiona Apple album. FIONA!!!!
“What would an angel say, the devil wants to kno-ooooooooow.” DAMN that’s a good line. “Criminal” is so fucking epic.
Fashion: São Paulo Fashion Week
São Paulo Fashion Week is in full force. Check out some pics and updates from Brazilian blog Garotas Estúpidas!!!
As the seasons are inverted south of the equator, South American fashion shows, like SPFW, are previewing winter 2012 fashion lines now.
Photo: Garotas Estúpidas
Sneakers are very popular in many South American countries like Chile and Brazil. These hybrid sneakers from francesa Isabel Marant have wedge heels and are surely making waves in SA. How cool is that?!
Artiste: Cai Guo-Qiang
“Head On”
2006
Deusche Guggenheim
Berlin, Germany
Photo: Patron of the Arts
Cai Guo-Qiang
“Dream”
2002
Shanghai Art Musuem
Shanghai, China
Photo: Cai Guo-Qiang
Cai Guo-Qiang
“A Winning Gift: Heavy with Wounds”
2001
Palazzo delle Papesse
Siena, Italy
Photo: Cai Guo-Qiang
Music: 2Gether
Remember when boy bands were the absolute biggest stars in the world? Millions upon million of records sold, girls and women crying their souls out to touch them, see them, and possibly even trample them to death.
Well, one of our favorite mock boy bands, 2Gether, is poising for a comeback.
The parody band and television show had five members: Jerry O’Keefe , “The Heartthrob,” played by Evan Farmer, Chad Linus, “The Shy One,” played by Noah Bastian, Jason ‘Q.T.’ McKnight, “The Cute One,” played by Michael Cuccione, Doug Linus, “The Older Brother,” played by Kevin Farley (Chris Farley‘s brother), and Mickey Parke, “The Bad Boy,” played by Alex Solowitz.
They had a couple of hits that I remember singing in middle school with my friends nonstop: “U + Me = Us (Calculus)” and my personal fave “The Hardest Part of Breaking Up“. The songs were actually written by the same song writers and producers that who worked with N*SYNC and the Backstreet Boys. They even opened a couple shows for Britney Spears, which is really, really awesome.
If you think about the absolute sad people MTV has on the air these days- Jersey Shore, Teen Mom, Friendzone – the 2Gether reboot doesn’t sound like such a bad idea. Plus we are sorely lacking in the self-aware boy band department these days. This could be the genre to save us from recession! Ha.
Four of the five original members are taking over the show and band after getting permission from MTV to restart 2Gether. Michael Cuccione, who played Jason ‘Q.T.’ McKnight, sadly passed away after a long-term lung complications from battling Hodgkins lymphoma as a child.
The remaining members plan to donate large portions of profits to the Michael Cuccione Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research if the new projects are put on the air.
Let’s hope for the sake of nostalgia and programming on MTV that this reboot works out. Take a walk down memory lane and check out the video for “U + Me = Us (Calculus).”
2PF 
