2Pac Is Alive?

Come on now!  We lived through that whole east coast-west coast rap feud and now it’s back to haunt us.

Here’s the story as written by the AP:

WASHINGTON – PBS officials say hackers have cracked the network’s website, posting a phony story claiming dead rapper Tupac Shakur was alive in New Zealand.

PBS confirmed Monday that the website had been hacked. The phony story had been taken down as of Monday morning. It had been posted on the site of the “PBS NewsHour” program.

I’d like to believe in the idea that Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Elvis are all alive, living on an island somewhere (maybe New Zealand,) but I’d don’t believe it’s true.

Stop messing around with stories like this and lets hear some California Love.

Maybe you’ve got Original Sin?  Maybe you’ve got the Devil Inside?  Maybe the pair will Never Tear Us Apart?

INXS fans will recognize the song titles and may even be excited to hear that the boys are going back on the road.  They announced  a 25 date North American tour, but they’re not really coming anywhere close to Madison.

The tour is in support of a re-recording of their greatest hits which they call Original Sin.

But you may ask…didn’t their lead singer die in 1997? Yes, Michael Hutchence is still in the great beyond.  Remember the TV show Rock Star: INXS from 2005?  The winner, JD Fortune is going to front the band.

Here’s what JD’s chops sound like on the tune “Mystify.”

Sure, it was probably meant to be a plug for Jack Black’s new movie, but without a doubt this was cool.

This makes me wonder what items at Paula Abdul’s house are NOT laced with drugs?

Former American Idol judge Kara Dio Guardi was on the George Lopez show last night and admitted that she accidentally ate pot brownies while at Paula’s home.

Kara says she got hungry and ate six  tiny brownies from the freezer, without realizing they were…special.

DioGuardi said she spent the following three days sick in bed, hallucinating, on an IV.   But before anyone jumps to conclusions, DioGuardi, who claims she drinks but doesn’t smoke marijuana, said the brownies weren’t Abdul’s — someone had left them in her freezer after a party.

Suuuuuuuuuuure they were.

Skip to the 4:14 minute mark…

There is no doubt in my mind that you’ll be having them after seeing these freaky images of American Idol winner Scotty McCreery.

Thanks to bestweekever.com, we’ve assembled a GIF wall of some of Scotty’s creepier dance moves and facial expressions.

Again, I’m sorry.

Here’s a good bet to make today.

Bet each and every co-worker of yours that you can correctly predict the very last line in the songs that the American Idol finalists sing tonight.

It’s easy. The very last line will also be the title of the song they’re singing.

Want to know how I know this? Check it out:

The queen of everything wraps up her TV show today.  I  I now know the truth.

(Don’t worry,  just because the talk show ends, she isn’t going away.  There’s the OWN TV network, O Magazine, Oprah .com and her satellite radio show.)

Apparently, this has been a grand plot between Ellen DeGeneres and David Letterman for years. Check out this video of from a few years back.

Bonus: According to CBS.com here’s some of Oprah’s Greatest Moments, in no particular order:

Oprah calls James Frey out for lying

James Frey wrote “A Million Little Pieces,” a memoir of addiction. Winfrey made it a Book Club selection in 2005, had Frey on the show and the book’s sales climbed into the millions.

In early 2006, Frey returned to address the claims that parts of his memoir were fabricated. He admitted to exaggerating parts of the book – Winfrey flat-out called it lying – and it looks, at times, as if she is barely controlling her anger.

In May 2011 Winfrey interviewed Frey again, this time apologizing for the way she treated him in the 2006 interview.

The wagon of fat

During an episode in 1988, Winfrey wheeled out a wagon loaded with 67 lbs. of fat to represent the 67 lbs. she’d lost on a liquid protein diet.  Winfrey, whose weight has fluctuated over the years, said she considers that episode her “biggest, fattest” mistake.

“You get a car!”

In 2004, “The Wildest Dreams Season” started big when Winfrey gave everyone in her audience a new Pontiac G6. After giving each member of the audience a box and telling all the people there only one box had a key to a new car, each person was surprised – shocked and ecstatic, really – to open the box and see a key to a car.

“You get a car!” shouted Winfrey. “You get a car!” over and over. Watch the video here.

Tom Cruise jumps on the sofa

On May 23, 2005, Tom Cruise was a guest on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” You know what happened: He jumped up and down on the sofa while professing his love for Katie Holmes.

Nearly three years later, Winfrey visited Cruise in his Colorado home. No jumping.

Oprah launches the Book Club

In 1996, Winfrey launched “Oprah’s Book Club.” The first book was “The Deep End of the Ocean” by Jacquelyn Mitchard. The last books, selected in 2010, are classics by Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities” and “Great Expectations.”

Frey’s “A Million Little Pieces” was one of Winfrey’s Book Club selections. She experienced a milder controversy in 2001 when Jonathan Franzen expressed ambivalence over his novel “The Corrections” being chosen for the Book Club. Winfrey also put Franzen’s next novel, “Freedom,” on her list.

Oprah reveals she was abused sexually when she was a child

In 1986, Winfrey told her audience that she was raped by a relative when she was 9.

Ellen DeGeneres talks openly about being gay

DeGeneres came out publicly in 1997 and talked about the controversy surrounding her decision with Winfrey. (In an April 1997 episode of DeGeneres’ sitcom, “Ellen,” her character came out. Winfrey played the therapist she comes out to on the show.)

It may seem like no big deal now, but in 1997 there was a lot of controversy surrounding DeGeneres’ decision to come out publicly and Winfrey’s decision to support her.

Mackenzie Phillips talks about her incestuous relationship with her father

In 2009, Phillips, daughter of The Mamas and the Papas’ John Phillips and star of the sitcom “One Day at a Time,” revealed her 10-year sexual relationship with him and talked about her years of drug and alcohol abuse.

“I was old enough to know better,” said an emotional Phillips. “I can’t explain this away. It happened.”

Oprah interviews Michael Jackson

Before all the allegations of child abuse, Winfrey interviewed Jackson in February 1993. It was Jackson’s first interview first interview in 14 years. Winfrey compared going to Neverland Ranch to approaching the wizard in “The Wizard of Oz.”

It kinda makes me sad that the importance of cover art on an album is a disappearing art.

Digital downloading has all but eliminated it, but at least we saw some cool designs in the past.

I’m not shocked that Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon was recently ranked the Greatest Album Cover Of All Time. According to a survey on MusicRadar.com, the 10 track album which is said to represent things that make men go crazy, came out as the number one pick.

The prism reflecting light is very iconic.  It’s simple. It’s symbolic.   It looks like something a stoned person would say “Woah! Dude!” to.  Those are the key ingredients to cool album art.

Here’s the rest of Music Radar’s Top 10 Album Covers:

#1 – Pink Floyd – Dark Side Of The Moon

#2 – Nirvana- Nevermind

#3 – The Beatles – Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

#4 – The Clash – London Calling

#5 – Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine

#6 – Iron Maiden – Number Of The Beast

#7 – The Beatles – The Beatles (White Album)

#8 – Joy Division – Unknown Pressure

#9 – King Crimson – In The Court Of The Crimson

#10 – Pink Floyd – Animals

Here’s the rest of the list.

I think a little part of our childhood died when it was announced that “Macho Man” Randy Savage died after having a heart attack behind the wheel on Friday.

Of course, being all depressed about it is not the way the Macho Man would have wanted us to be.  He would have preferred we “Snap Into A Slim Jim,” put on some big ass sunglasses and take a victory jump off the top rope.

In memoriam, the best Macho Man Slim Jim commercials we could find:
10. Library

9. Inkblot Test

8. Shakespeare

7. Handy

6. Pizza Boxes

5. The Rock

4. Snowboarding

3. Chips

2. Asylum

1. Lamp Store

BONUS: The Ultimate Warrior’s Slim Jim Ad

The Ultimate Warrior tries his hand at Jim-slinging, and it’s a total failure.

Thanks to Bestweekever.com

What the heck was Paul saying?

Now I know after I found this video that isolates Paul McCartney’s solo voice track, without instruments from the recording of Helter Skelter. Sounds like he was having a good time.

Also…stick around until 3:01 to hear Paul’s playful side.

I added the original of Helter Skelter for comparison sake and some other fun vocal isolation tracks below.