Bree!

Well if it isn't the season to get knocked up! While Jamie Lynn Spears clearly stole any thunder Lily Allen might have expected to incite, it's all confirmed and stuff-- she's having a little Chemical kid. And by that I mean the babydaddy is Ed Simons from in The Chemical Brothers.

Whatever happened to people getting frisky in the spring?

Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter welcomed a baby girl into their world Saturday, December 15th. read more...

PANIC AT THE DISCO MUSIC VIDEO CASTING

Band: PANIC AT THE DISCO
Track: "NINE IN THE AFTERNOON" Read More...

She didn't show up for her court date.
She's been cast as the Virgin Mary.
We still have to decide who wins the Blackout contest.
The full video for 'Piece of Me' (one of my fav songs of '07) is coming out tomorrow! Read More...


Please VOTE HERE (by 12.19) and help choose the winner of the "Blackout with Britney" Contest!

Villain Of The Year:
1. Jared Leto - 30 Seconds to Mars
2. Pete Wentz - Fall Out Boy
3. Gerard Way - My Chemical Romance
4. Marilyn MAnson
5. Ian Watkins - Lostprophets

Best Unsigned Band:
1. Kids In Glass Houses
2. My Favourite Pornstar
3. Boys With Xray Eyes
4. Fei Comodo
5. None the Less

Best Thing About 2007:
1. Download Festival
2. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade Tour
3. The Black Crusade Tour
4. Dir en grey finally coming to the UK
5. Mega Lolz!!!! (Lostprophets T-shirt)

Best Music DVD:
1. AC/DC - Plug Me In
2. Avenged Sevenfold - All Excess
3. Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
4. Nightwish - End of An Era
5. Led Zepplin - The Song Remains the Same (Special Edition)

Best Book:
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
2. The Umbrella Academy Apocalypse Suite #1: The Day the Eiffel Tower Went Beserk - Gerard Way
3. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
4. Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult
5. The Heroin Diaries - Nikki Sixx

Best Band:
1. My Chemical Romance
2. Lostprophets
3. 30 Seconds to Mars
4. HIM
5. Fall Out Boy

Worst Band:
1. My Chemical Roamnce
2. Bring Me The Horizon
3. 30 Seconds To Mars
4. Linkin Park
5. Elliot Minor

Best Album:
1. HIM - Venus Doom
2. Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies
3. Machine Head - The Blackening
4. Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
5. Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High

Hero of The Year:
1. Ville Valo - HIM
2. Robb Flynn - Machine Head
3. Jared Leto - 30 Seconds to Mars
4. Ian Watkins - Lostprophets
5. Gerard Way - My Chemical Romance

Sexiest Male:
1. Ville Vallo - HIM
2. Ian Watkins - Lostprophets
3. Jared Leto - 30 Seconds to Mars
4. Ray Torro - My Chemical Romance
5. Frank Iero - My Chemical Romance

Best Video:
1. 30 Seconds to Mars- The Kill
2. My Chemical Romance - I Don't Love You
3. Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scene...
4. Foo Fighters - The Pretender
5. Paramore - Misery Business

Best Single:
1. 30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill
2. My Chemical Roamnce - Teenagers
3. Foo Fighters - The Pretender
4. Paramore - Crushcrushcrush
5. Enter Shikari - Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour

Best New Band:
1. Madina Lake
2. Elliot Minor
3. The Blackout
4. The Ghost Of A Thousand
5. The Sleeping

Worst Album:
1. Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High
2. Fightstar - One Day Son This Will All Be Yours
3. Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight
4. Angels and Airwaves - I-Empire
5. Paramore - RIOT!

Best Live Band:
1, Muse
2. My Chemical Romance
3. Machine Head
4. Lostprophets
5. Foo Fighters

Best Video Game:
1. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
2. Halo 3
3. Kingdom Hearts II
4. BioShock
5. Fifa '08

Best Film:
1. Transformers
2. 300
3. 30 Days of Night
4. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
5. Harry Potter And The Order Of The Pheonix

Best TV Show:
1. Heroes
2. Supernatural
3. Skins
4. The Mighty Boosh
5. Scrubs

Best Club:
1. Distortion - Nottingham Rock City
2. Sin City - Camaden Electric Ballroom, London
3. Subculture - Birmingham Academy
4. Jilly's Rockworld - Manchester
5. Generation - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall

Best Radio Show:
1. Evenings With Christian and Loz - Kerrang Radio
2. The Rock Show With Daniel P Carter - Radio 1
3. Rock 'N' Roll Years With Stuart Cable - Kerrang Radio
4. Zane Lowe - Radio 1
5. Morning After With Tim Shaw and Kate Lawler - Kerrang Radio

Sexiest Female:
1. Pandora
2. Amy Lee - Evenescence
3. Hayley Willaims - Paramore
4. Tarja Turunen
5. Lyn-Z - Mindless Self Indulgence

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Ahhh, love/hate relationships. They make me all warm and fuzzy inside.

Source: ONTD.

I just wanted to thank everyone for all your birthday wishes/notes/etc :)



I've been meaning to videoblog about it, but today I woke up with a cold and killllller sore throat.

I didn't want you to think they went unnoticed!

Method Man (from the Wu-Tang Clan) thinks that Britney Spears is a sign of the apocalypse.


... what? Is it the DayQuil I took this morning that's preventing me from seeing the connection here?

I mean, yes, I agree the music industry is twisted-- but what the hell does Britney's hair have to do with it? Did they take what he was saying out of context and like, splice two unrelated sentences together?

Anyone, anyone, Bueller?

There was a phase in my life when I was OBSESSED with the idea of becoming a music supervisor. A music supervisor, for those of you who don't know, basically chooses and clears music for tv & film. And I really really really wanted that gig. Why? Because I like power and influence.

I've liked almost every iPod song. I've been turned onto music through The O.C. and Grey's Anatomy. And right now I'm in love with the Juno Soundtrack.

I know, you're like, how often is Bree gonna pimp this movie? The answer is: every day until you see it.

Anyway.

Track Listing:

1. All I Want Is You - Barry Louis Polisar

2. Rollercoaster (instrumental) - Kimya Dawson

3. A Well Respected Man - The Kinks

4. Dearest - Buddy Holly

5. Up The Spout - Mateo Messina

6. Tire Swing - Kimya Dawson

7. Piazza, New York Catcher - Belle & Sebastian

8. Loose Lips - Kimya Dawson

9. Superstar - Sonic Youth

10. Sleep (instrumental) - Kimya Dawson

11. Expectations - Belle & Sebastian

12. All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople

13. So Nice So Smart - Kimya Dawson

14. Sea of Love - Cat Power

15. Tree Hugger - Antsy Pants

16. I'm Sticking With You - Velvet Underground

17. Anyone Else but You -The Moldy Peaches

18. Vampire - Antsy Pants

19. Anyone Else but You - Juno and Bleeker

I'm honestly not an indie girl-- you know this. If you aren't, either, I recommend you wait 'til AFTER you see the movie to check out the soundtrack. The movie is so effing endearing and the music fits SO perfectly that you'll associate the music with your movie experience. Does that make sense? Warm, fuzzy, happy, meaningful soundtrack.

Read Pitchfork's interview with Ellen Page about her involvement in compiling the soundtrack.

The top 20 earning young celebrities under the age of 25, according to Forbes magazine.

20. Frankie Muniz
19. Mandy Moore



18. Lindsay Lohan
17. Miley Cyrus
16. Rupert Grint
15. Emma Watson
14. Dakota Fanning
13. Mischa Barton
12. Scarlett Johansson



11. Carrie Underwood
10. Keira Knightley
9. Carmelo Anthony
8. Avril Lavigne



7. Hilary Duff
6. Daniel Radcliffe
5. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
4. Michelle Wie



3. Maria Sharapova
2. Reggie Bush
1. LeBron James

Today in WTF: Fay Weldon of The Daily Mail goes on a long rant about how the Spice clan are responsible for the decline of our culture.

Brilliant?! Look, I love me some Spice songs, but I have never heard anyone refer to them as 'Brilliant'. Suggestive? Are you kidding me? They have some of the most generic non-sensical lyrics ever. (Zig-a-zig-ah? Is THAT suggestive?) Addictive? Well, I'll give you that.

Oh and she goes on. And on, and on, and onnnn. Includes some bits about sexual diseases and cotton mills.

I don't want at all to be forgiven for being blunt-- WHAT is Weldon SMOKING?

Reading this kind of makes me want to punch someone in the kneecaps, but the sickening sum of it is that she's giving the Spice Girls TOO much credit, and apparently giving NONE to the little girls of yesterday.

Copyright lawyers are trying to lay the smack down on third party sharing sites (SendSpace, MegaUpload, etc).



Le sigh. Look, not to be the pirate advocate here, but don't they understand there will ALWAYS be a way? I mean, I guess they have to fight every individual battle, but I would just have trouble in the job satisfaction department knowing that it would... well, never end.

Am I wrong?

Diablo Cody is a blogger. A blogger who was asked, "Have you ever thought of writing a screenplay?" She hadn't at the time. But she went for it. And damn, I'm so glad she did.


One of the most notable things about the movie Juno (came out in LA and NY yesterday!) is the language. Diablo said that she thinks that a lot of films about adolescents and teens dumb down the dialogue. While she says she didn't crib any specific terms, she's gotten good response so far.

"It was my first screenplay, I actually didn't know much about dialogue, that's why it's probably a little wacky. I really think it was more like a rookie mistake than a stylish decision."

See kids? Don't ever let anyone tell you blogging won't get you anywhere. And don't be afraid of rookie mistakes!

I'm STOKED that two albums I constantly listen to are leading the pack this year-- Kanye got 8 nods, Amy Winehouse got 6. They're both in the running for album of the year, along with the Foo's "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace."

Rihanna got nominated a bunch (of course), BUT so did Plain White T's and Paramore (even though the Associated Press spelled their band name wrong).

Promising, no?

More deets over herrrrre.

Paris is ready to bring on the Holiday cheer. With presents. From Kitson.

I didn't know much about 'Juno' before I was told I'd be covering it, but 'they' said it'd be PERFECT for me.

OMG THEY WERE RIGHT. It is now, without a doubt, one of my top 10 favorite movies of all time.


Quick version of the sitch: 16 year old Juno (Ellen Page) gets pregnant by Paul Bleeker (Michael Cera). Juno decides to give the baby up for adoption, and she finds the ideal couple (the Loring's, played by Jen Garner and Jason Bateman) in the pennysaver. If you need any other info, you can go on IMDB. Ha.


The movie is REALLY well written (Diablo Cody, ily!). Witty, intelligent, but NOT overdone (see: the last season of Gilmore Girls).


You know what the most amazing part is? I don't think I've ever seen a movie about teen pregnancy that didn't attempt to be preachy, that didn't try to shove a pro-choice or pro-life message down your throat.  In other movies that deal with this topic, the girl is always JUDGED-- she's careless, she's a slut, she's an at risk youth, etc etc. You always suffer through the movie going, "Man, I'm glad I'm not her." But in this movie, well, you'd LOVE to be Juno. At no point do you ever feel sorry for her, because she HANDLES things. She makes decisions. That's what I love about all the characters, really-- when life throws them curveballs they react, but they bounce back. They're empowered, resilient.


It's not predictable. You think you might know how her parents react when she tells them she's pregnant, or how the father of the baby will react-- or even how her best friend will react. But quite honestly, I don't think I've ever seen such believable (yet inspiring) relationships and interactions.


It was cast perfectly. The music is perfect. The dialogue is INCREDIBLE. The setting is perfect. The ending is perfect.

I laughed. I cried. OKAY-- I KNOW that's cliche, but I swear I DID! What weird is I wasn't crying because something was sad. I actually... HAPPY cried. Now, I'm not saying I have a black little heart, but I'm not easily moved. I think maybe the last time I cried was when I saw Meet Joe Black.  And the series finale of The O.C. Just kidding.


You HAVE to see it. That's my conclusion. On a scale of 1-5 stars, it gets five. I'm going to see it again. And you're coming with me.


Any questions?

I still owe you a blurb for: Fall Out Boy show, MxPx show, and a review of the movie JUNO (which, by the way, is now one of my fav movies ever).

Get ready for it.