So Fall Out Boy is taking a break. Or maybe they aren’t, and it’s really just a sugar-coated break-up? They’re denying it’s anything of the sort, so we’ll give them the benefit of the doubt, but in the meantime we have a few suggestions for how Pete, Patrick & Co. should invest their free time: MORE »
What the hell: “SINGED strands of Michael Jackson’s hair that were burned a Pepsi advert are coming up for sale…. The hair was preserved after the accident in 1984 by [the ad's executive producer Ralph] Cohen and the 12 strands are clearly singed.” Add these preseved tresses—expected to fetch about £1,000 at auction—to the locks from Elvis Presley and Pete Wentz that are up for sale, and you’ve officially got a trend. Although this entrant is more macabre than the other two. And it comes with its own account of how the hairs landed in the previous owner’s possession! MORE »
A “large quantity” of the late Elvis Presley’s hair—shown at left in all its tufted glory—is expected to fetch between $8,000 and $12,000 at an auction taking place this Sunday in Chicago. The hair supposedly came from Presley’s shaving of his head when he joined the Army in 1958—meaning that, yes, the locks up for bid are 50 years old. Mmm, crunchy! For those of you who want a lock of a famous musician’s hair but are on a bit of a budget—or are looking for tresses of a more recent vintage—$130 (and fleet fingers) can possibly net you among other things a lock of Pete Wentz’s hair, salvaged from Mark Hoppus shaving off Wentz’s “emo haircut” during Fall Out Boy’s show at Madison Square Garden last Sunday. [via Reuters / icecreamhdaches] MORE »
Fall Out Boy’s “Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet” now has a video, a clip that was apparently shot in the space of four hours and that fuses Weekend At Bernie’s with a rollercoaster-filled trip to the amusement park. (Yes, the brief Absolute Punk-referencing clip featuring Wentz’s body being discovered by Spencer Smith and Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco that leaked last week was a trailer for the video.) Clip after the jump. MORE »
The most notable thing about the trailer for P. Diddy’s StarMaker, a talent-and-drama show premiering on MTV later this month: The “I’m Not Here To Make Friends” Moment that’s required of every “x people picked to live in a house and annoy the crap out of each other” program these days, in which the friend-eschewing singer who’s hoping to ride Diddy’s coattails to fame says that she doesn’t want to make any “BFFFs.” What, pray tell, could that extra “f” mean? I shudder at the possibilities. [YouTube via Vicki] MORE »
Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz just hit the million-follower mark on the micronavelgazing service Twitter, and to celebrate he’s decided to rally his followers to each donate one dollar to Invisible Children, the nonprofit organization that’s working toward ending unrest in Uganda (Fall Out Boy has worked with Invisible Children in the past, most notably on the band’s 2007 video for “Me and You.”) Wentz’s blog post on the movement, which he’d been hinting at as his follower count climbed over the past week, is below: MORE »
Before we close out the weekend, a few links worthy of your clicking / browsing:
• Axe-slinging Idolator fave Mary Timony has a new band called Soft Power, which, based on the two songs that are streaming from its MySpace right now, sounds like what would happen if her solo efforts got Krautrock remixes. Needless to say, I love this. [MySpace via Jessica Hopper]
• Pete Wentz is imagineering a comic book around the Folie A Deux track “Tiffany Blews.” Also, it’s his 30th birthday today. Also, this Sunday’s episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent is called “Folie A Deux,” although I suspect that is just a coincidence. [Fall Out Toy Works / Buzznet]
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Congratulations to Andrea, who was the first person to find me in Union Square on Saturday and who, as a result, won a shiny little USB drive featuring exclusive Fall Out Boy/Blink 182 content. (She beat out a gaggle of other people, who I tried to console with candy. I hope it worked.) Unfortunately, because everything happened at the speed of Internet that afternoon, I didn’t get a photo–or even her last name–but I’m hoping that wherever she is, she’s enjoying the drive and the goodies within. [Previously / Pic via himynameismark] MORE »
Above, a clip of Pete Wentz and Ashlee… MORE »
Fall Out Boy are no strangers to the toy tie-in—after all, the band’s series of “action figures” sold out its run. Still, I’m a little mystified by the line of talking plush dolls the band has just released, although I’m sure an entirely new, and even more disturbing, sort of slash fiction will be inspired in the wake of them hitting stores. Beyond the cut, full-sized pics of the seemingly Mii-inspired dolls, as well as a video of two of them kissing (OMG!). MORE »
