The 15 year wait is over.

Mariah Carey is set to release a new Christmas album.  Mark your calendar for November 2nd!!  The album is going to include 6 new songs, covers of classics and a brand new mix of “All I Want For Christmas Is You”!

All I Want For Christmas Is You

Every year I wait and wait to see which washed up songstress is going to roll out a Christmas album, but it looks like this year I’ll actually have one to buy.  Score!  Stay tuned for the album cover which will feature a “graffiti style” complete with tacky silver Christmas tree and fake reindeer.

Here’s to more from the woman that brought us the best new Christmas song since John Lennon’s “Happy Christmas (War Is Over).”

Happy Christmas

PS:  I’m now only saying “Happy Christmas” to you when I greet you.  “Merry” is SO over.

First of all, why is this guy so lame?

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Brett Favre is now “officially” retired.  What’s this guy’s deal?  He’s playing that game that some couples play where they break up, then get back together, then break up, then get back together…Seriously, the rest of the world just wants a final answer!!!  Most of them don’t care what it is, just make up your mind!

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I’m guessing this retirement means Favre will have a lot of time on his hands. Here’s how I imagine Brett Favre will spend his retirement:

- Forcing his grandson to listen about the good old days, like before he was a crybaby the first time he retired.

(PS I think Oprah took a page out of this book…look for her to show up in a season as a  NY Jet)

- Posing for Wranglers ads no one will ever see, just ’cause it makes him feel pretty

- Testing the full strength of Sensodyne toothpaste by setting the world record for most ice cream cones eaten in 1 hour.

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One last thing Favre…your name should be spelled FARVE.  There, I said it. It should be phonetic.  You’ve confused enough second graders and frat boys with this.  Time to take your misspelled name and ride off into the sunset.

Willie Nelson and Dave Matthews at FarmAid 2009

If we believe what Willie Nelson says, than yes.

On his radio show last night Willie accidentally said that Milwaukee will be the location for Farm Aid 25.

October 2 is the date, but the exact location and other details will be announced in a press conference Monday.

Pretty sweet.  FarmAid is co-founded with John Mellencamp and Neil Young, Farm Aid now counts Dave Matthews as a board member and annual performer. Other recent participants include Kenny Chesney, Jason Mraz, Wilco, Steve Earle and the Pretenders.

I’m just guessing that the Summerfest Fairgrounds would be a good location.  Sounds like a heck of a show!

If no one watches the Tony Awards, did they really happen?
The NBA Finals and True Blood premiere couldn’t keep tens of people from watching the Tony Awards on Sunday.  Host Sean Hayes kept a room full of heavy Hollywood hitters entertained.  Green Day decided to play a mini concert with their FOUR performances.  Two big time stars won awards: Denzel Washington for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play and Catherine Zeta-Jones for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical.

Showing he still flies high in some parts of the world.
If you were one of the half a billion people tuning into this weekend’s World Cup festivities, you were lucky enough to learn that R. Kelly is still performing.  Yes, it was halfway around the world, but that’s still a lot of eyes watching him.  Guess he gets the last laugh.  Drat!

She told us she’s no good.

In other non-so-surprising news, Amy Winehouse is headed back to rehab.  Apparently she’s got a guy that wants to clean her up.  Boyfriend Reg Traviss wants her to quit drinking for good.  Hope she avoids saying NO, NO, NO to the help again.

Remember in 2008 when she had to have a very special venue for her Grammy appearance?  Here’s the brilliant, sorta medicated performance:

Welcome to Splitsville, population you.

If Crystal Bowersox really wanted to lay blame for not winning “American Idol,” she could put it on her boyfriend. Bowersox said yesterday they broke up by mutual decision — and it was on Tuesday morning.  That was the day of Bowersox’s last chance to perform for votes on “Idol.”

She says “Big Tony” was a small-town guy and didn’t like the Hollywood lifestyle, while Bowersox is ready for a big career. Bowersox says the breakup “put that fire in my belly” for her performance. She says she’s not mad at her ex and they’ll be friends for a long time.

Boy is he’s gonna be pissed when she makes her first mil.

No worries Simon & Garfunkel fans. Paul & Art say they’re putting a short delay on the tour that’s coming through Madison, but that the show will still go on.  It’s been rescheduled for Wednesday, July 14th.

For those of you playing Charlie’s Season Pass, the S&G tickets we’re giving away are good for the rescheduled show.

From Simon & Garfunkel.com

The Simon & Garfunkel tour originally scheduled for April – May is being postponed due to a vocal strain recently sustained by Art Garfunkel. In an effort to provide the highest quality performance for their audience, Paul & Art decided it would be best to move the scheduled concert dates. The dates have been rescheduled to allow for an adequate period of rest and rehabilitation, after which Art is expected to make a complete recovery.

Both Paul and Art regret any inconvenience this has caused their fans and are looking forward to seeing them at the rescheduled shows.

At times, links to ticket agencies will be posted here before the concerts are listed on the ticketing sites. Be assured that this page lists confirmed dates and that those ticket sites will be updated in advance of the time tickets go on sale.

This schedule subject to change.

This is pretty freaky. Did you know a migraine can break your brain?

A British woman woman who suffers chronic migraines says the latest one cause her to start speaking with a Chinese accent.

It’s a real thing. Doctors call it Foreign Accent Syndrome.

Holy Smokes! From now on,  I’m carrying that bottle of Excedrin with me at all times.  I wonder if I could request a James Bond accent?

I don’t know if you follow Jim Carrey on Twitter, but the guy loves the social networking tool.

Maybe a little too much.

He announced his breakup with Jenny McCarthy via Twitter a week or so ago, Not only did he stop following all his friends on Twitter (his daughter Jane’s band is the only person he follows now,) and now his Tweets are getting increasingly bizarre.

• “I have freed Truman at long last!,” Carrey wrote in an explosion of post-breakup Tweets.

• “I am grateful for my avatar’s many yrs of dedicated service, but no one has ever won the Tour De France while back peddling. … so I killed him,” he wrote late Sunday night. “I do not plan 2 bow to expectations or to be confined by the fear of losing altitude in the ’statusphere’! (my word).”

• He later added, “Some folks out there are worried that I stay up too late…This is no breakdown! It’s a breakthrough! And if you’ll just loosen these straps, I’ll show you the difference!”

Hmm…sounds like someone is either super bored at home or doesn’t know how to deal with time alone.

Crazy people go on reality TV shows, but does reality TV make people crazy? A producer from Survivor is suspected in his wife’s death in Mexico. Bruce Redman and his wife were vacationing in Cabo San Lucas when a security guard saw them arguing at the hotel and said that Bruce tried to hit his wife. His wife’s body was discovered yesterday in a sewer with signs of strangulation. When police were interrogating Bruce, they noticed scratches on his neck. The producer reported his wife missing on Tuesday, telling police and relatives that she never made it back to the hotel after a solo shopping excursion the day before. Bruce’s latest project was working on Sarah Palin’s new reality show. The couple and their 2 kids were supposed to fly home yesterday, but Bruce is being held in a Mexican jail without bond.
Rihanna admits to being off the market and she’s talking bachelorette parties?! Superstar Rihanna is admitting for the first time that she’s dating LA. Dodger outfielder Matt Kemp. She told Ryan Seacrest yesterday that he is her boyfriend but it’s new and fun. She says she doesn’t want anything that’s going to take up too much of her energy. But don’t worry it’s not HER bachelorette party. Despite her upscoming tour schedule with Kesha, Rihanna has been put in charge of planning Katy Perry’s bachelorette party. She says she has no idea what to do because Katy is getting married in India and she doesn’t know how to top that!

Jersey Shore headed back to…the Jersey Shore? The cast is in Miami right now filming for the second season, but producers have decided to head back to where it all started as soon as the weather heats up!
All 7 of your favorites will be returning but do they want more? MTV has put up a casting page looking for more guidos and guidettes. They are considering incorporating more cast members during the second season that will be around for a 3rd season.

You may have heard that Kidd Kraddick is giving away a trip to go see Glee live in concert.

Now you can actually try out for the show right here in Madison.

Just got the mention from our friends at Fox 47, they’re hosting a local casting call on Thursday, April 15th.

I’d tryout…but ya know….I wouldn’t want to impress, amaze, stun, shock, wow, make people cry in terror from my voice.

BTW...Glee returns to FOX next Tuesday, and you can catch the cast on Oprah today.