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Found this clip while tooling around on Youtube, dealing with the Ramones' time with Phil Spector:



I think it gives an interesting perspective, given that the Spector case ended in a mistrial.

Also, it's been two weeks since 50 Cent said he'd retire if Kanye West outsold him - which has happened two weeks in a row - so now, I guess it's shut up time. Not that I'm a huge Kanye fan - his childish tyrades notwithstanding - but anything that even begins to promise the death of commercial "gangsta" rap can not come soon enough.

And as if he wasn't amazing enough, David Bowie recently donated $10,000 to the Jena Six defense team. 'nuff said.

The big surprise of last week wasn't the fact that Gerard Way, singer of My Chemical Romance has written a comic book called The Umbrella Academy, but that it turned out to be really entertaining. It's very tongue-in-cheek b-grade sci-fi stuff (think Hellboy or League of Extraordinary Gentlemen[the good comic, not the abominable movie]), and if this page doesn't sell you, nothing will. That's right, that's the Eiffel Tower he's punching out. In fact, only one thing would have made this book better: more monkeys.