Nickelodeon is creating a limited-edition series of celebrity-designed backpacks for auction this summer. With more participants to be announced shortly, VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist Slash and Shakira, along with Salma Hayek Pinault and John Leguizamo, will put their personal touches on special Dora-themed backpacks.
We’ve all heard that laughter is the best medicine, and the goal of a week-long symposium in Toronto is to show how a healthy dose of humour can heal.
Some 1,000 people are expected to attend the workshops and performances to learn how therapeutic clowns bring smiles to sad faces and cheer those who are ill.
POISON singer Bret Michaels has told UsMagazine.com that he has nothin’ to apologize for about “Nothin’ to Lose”, his new song featuring Miley Cyrus. In the country-rock ballad that went online Thursday (hear audio below), Cyrus, 17, harmonizes as Michaels, 46, croons about a bad romance: “We both know better than this/Still we can’t resist/Slowly get undressed.” In the sensual chorus, they sing together: “Won’t you fall down on me/So close I can feel you breathe.”
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“I tracked my drums Wednesday afternoon, JP tracked his guitar Wednesday night and John Myung and Jordan tracked their Bass and Keyboards on Thursday. Basically, the whole song was essentially written and recorded in only three days. On Friday myself, JP and Paul Northfield banged out the mix and VIOLA! Another Dream Theater instrumental is born.”
-Mike Portnoy (link)
(machos nachos to reader hgmonster for passing along this SPELLING FAIL!)
-taken from the Despised Icon Twitter account

“Here, half a country away from the Juggalo core, at least two-thirds of the crowd was wearing a Twiztid shirt or one from the group’s label, Psychopathic. Despite the photocopied “No Moshing” signs pasted up around the room, plenty tried. Face paint was abundant. Some went further, doing up their looks with mutant makeup that would have made Roger Corman proud.”
YES, THIS WAS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
