Tagged: especiallyhorrifyingunpleasantries

Instead of bothering with Michael Damian's "Dream On," let's instead refer you to this sadly endearing long video of Corey Haim, still in his teens, clearly high and playing around with an artil... Continue reading "Corey Haim Has Been Dead For Less Than 12 Hours And His Bloody-Nosed Ghost Is Already Advertising a Dead Herring Show" >

Word around the Internet is that Guru, one half of Gang Starr, one of the best rap groups to ever do it, suffered a heart attack yesterday and is now in a coma, pending surgery. According to Al... Continue reading "Get Well, Guru" >

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal: "Autopsy results released this morning in the death of Memphis musician Jay Reatard reveal that he died from 'cocaine toxicity, and that alcohol was a contribut... Continue reading "Let's Get This Over With As Quickly As Possible: Here Are Jay Reatard's Autopsy Results" >

Chaos inside Brooklyn's Norwood Palace late Saturday night led to the fatal wounding of a club bouncer who'd previously worked as a bodyguard for Mariah Carey, Jay-Z, and P. Diddy. He either was o... Continue reading "Police Kill Former Jay-Z/Diddy Bodyguard; Thugs React" >

The special guest line-up for this past weekend's Big Apple Comic Con read a lot like a wish list for VH1's The Surreal Life: classic TV-show refugees (Different Strokes' Todd Bridges, Silver Sp... Continue reading "10 Profoundly Depressing "Celebrity" Sightings at This Year's Big Apple Comic Con" >

If only we were making this up. ("Pajamas are pussified"!?) Our sister blog Runnin Scared is tracking this story--us, we're too horrified to watch, even with the thing on the ground at this poin... Continue reading "The Balloon Boy Was In A Music Video Called "Pussification." Or "Not Pussified." Unclear." >

Now look here. It was a dick move by Kanye, no question -- the farcical situation and meaninglessness of the award itself notwithstanding, the look on Taylor Swift's face as he bratted out for t... Continue reading "Jay Leno Scolds Kanye West, Plays The "What Would Your Dead Mom Think" Card; An Appalled Nation Flocks To Letterman En Masse" >

The Los Angeles County coroner's office made if official today. According to a just released statement, Jackson's "manner of death has been ruled homicide. Cause of death was established as acute ... Continue reading ""Acute Propofol Intoxication" Killed Michael Jackson" >

When Brooklyn's the Antlers self-released their 10-song debut album Hospice this past spring, quick accolades from NPR and the usual Internet suspects prompted Frenchkiss to grab hold of it and... Continue reading "Interview: The Antlers' Peter Silberman on Their Strikingly Haunting Debut Hospice and Those Nagging Arcade Fire Comparisons" >

This photo is filed under "Internal Affairs, Technical Difficulties" on Cosloy's blog Our sincere condolences to Matador's Gerard Cosloy, whose motherfucking house burned down this morning in ... Continue reading "R.I.P. Gerard Cosloy's Lovely Austin Home" >

The clarinet tries to fuck this scene up and cannot. ... Continue reading "Knee-Jerk Reaction to John Hughes' Death II, Starring the Smiths, Sort Of" >

We told you to go outside, and you didn't, and now this happened. ... Continue reading "A Knee-Jerk Reaction to the Death of John Hughes, Starring Phoenix" >

Vibe magazine, 1993-2009. As with Blender's demise (just with more history), this puts a ton of talented folks either out of work (occasional Voice contributor Sean Fennessey springs immediately to m... Continue reading "Hug a Rock Critic II: Vibe Has Folded" >

At this point we're drowning in both Michael Jackson eulogies and carefully curated roundups of Michael Jackson eulogies, and while there's plenty of that to go around -- here are excellent dispatc... Continue reading "A Chat with Michael Jackson's Attorney, and a Beyond-Devastating Missive from Lisa Marie" >

Michael Jackson is dead, and I'm taken aback by how incredibly unpleasant a feeling it is, far beyond the usual celebrity-grieving response: This is devastating in an unexpected and overwhelmingly sur... Continue reading "Michael Jackson, 1958-2009" >

Well that's terrifying. First the Dirty Projectors were reported to have been in a "pretty bad" auto accident outside of Detroit yesterday. Early reports made it sound like one or more of them had b... Continue reading "Photo of Flipped Dirty Projectors Van Not Exactly An Advertisement for Driving, Detroit, Touring in General" >

Ah, poor Nick Thorburn. In an era when your own mom would just as soon leak your record for ten bucks and a free YouSendIt upgrade, the Islands frontman left an entire data CD of the band's new recor... Continue reading "If You Found a CD-R with Islands MP3s on the C Train Tuesday, Please Smash It With a Hammer Immediately" >

Now that the majority Sinhalese government has nearly finished off a long-running civil war, confining the Tamil Tiger opposition to an ever shrinking parcel of land rife with a citizen population who... Continue reading "The Sri Lankan Government's War with M.I.A. Continues" >

Last issue. Per Ad Age/Idolator, and just confirmed by a dude here about to head uptown for a Jadakiss listening session who's officially been called off, comes the epically terrible news that Blen... Continue reading "Hug a Rock Critic: Blender Has Folded" >

Screenshot via 2DopeBoyz, where they've posted the whole sorry tape, which is where we reluctantly draw the line Different sex tape entirely--didn't Cam look young in '02? So the above is nominally ... Continue reading "This Enormously Disturbing, Eyeball-Lacerating 50 Cent-Narrated Sex Tape Is, Sadly, Not the Only One of Its Kind" >