Get Your Singing Skillz Judged by GCH’s Travis McCoy
Another karaoke contest at Angels & Kings tonight (500 E. 11th Street at Avenue A). On the judging panel are MTV’s John Norris, Gym Class Heroes frontman Travis McCoy, esteemed photog Ben (brother of Naomi) Watts, Peter Gaston on SPIN.com, and Bob McLynn, who manages Fall Out Boy and owns the bar.
You can watch the competition, sign up and perform, or just drink until you can’t see straight.
Prizes will be awarded!
Pete Wentz’s AK-47, Already A Homing Device for Fangirls
Today I walked by the now-open Angels and Kings (aka — AK-47, aka — Pete Wentz’s new bar) and I was shocked (?) to actually see a herd of young female girls camped outside, sitting on the stoop in front of the bar decked out in fake BAPE hoodies and studded belts. The weird thing really was the presence of HUGEnormous black-suit bouncers and the presence of a red velvet rope. Whatever happened to it just being a place for all the freaks and geeks? Oh well, I’ll have to check it out later on in the week.
Listen to Music to Save a Kittie
Sarah aka “Ultragrrrl” is putting on a benefit show to support two really great causes that put abused and abandoned dogs and cats with foster families. The flyer pretty much says it all:
Permanent Me, Bright Light Fever, Monty Are I, Photo Atlas, and Ollie from the Oohlas will perform. The gig is on MONDAY at The Annex for 10 dollars.
Ollie from the Oohlas performing acoustic…. Here’s what to expect:
And here’s a video by the Photo Atlas you can watch here. (Windows media/ High)
Kinda Like “Sophie’s Choice”, and Just as Emo…and Partying with Pete on NYE
You know that pivotal scene in the movie Sophie’s Choice where Meryl Streep’s character (Sophie, obvs) has to decide which of her children she is going to save? She’s looking around all scared, terrified, and confused–her heart simply breaking at the prospect of sacrificing one child for the other?
That’s kinda how I feel about the Fall Out Boy vs Panic! at the Disco New Years Eve dilemma we’ve all be posed with this year. FOB will be on MTV’s “Stay Gold” show in their Times Square Studios and Panic! will be on Carson “Old Face” Daly’s NBC extravaganza. I can just see myself, remote in hand, flipping between the channels with a mild amount of fear in my heart, hoping I don’t miss either one.
Anyhoo, those staying in NYC will find this little post quite interesting… Numer One Socialite Tinsley Mortimer will host a NYE party at chic Manhattan restaurant Japonais with “special guests” Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy and Panic! at the Disco. For a mere 175-350 dollars, you too can ring in 2007 by watching Pete Wentz talk to someone else (not you) on his Sidekick. Sounds like fuuuuuuunnnn. Check out the “Killer” animated invitation. And buy tickets right here.
Also get your “untz-untz” on with Petey during his DJ set at Webster Hall on Saturday at Webster Hall. (Link from the FOB Boards)
I’m suddenly so relieved I’m leaving town this weekend. I dunno about you, but I don’t want to ring in 2007 by stalking Pete Wentz.
Happy Birthday, Jesse
May every day be a birthday turd cake day!
Oh and in totally unrealted news, a pretty cool photoshoot that Panic! at the Disco did where they were given a shutter release cord for the camera and allowed to take their own photos for a German magazine pictorial.
Pete Wentz, You Need a Shave
Mr. Peter Wentz showed up to the unveiling of the Volkswagen Concept Tiguan in Los Angeles, CA last night. He was looking…well…
Uh…
You can get a better look at that harrying day-old stubble (and a big ol’ Wentzface) on ONTD. Petey boy, get thee to an electric razor, STAT!
Pete Wentz’s Clandestine Industries Does Up NY Fashion Week
Hi guys. Just got back from the joint Clandestine Industries/ Yellow Fever fashion show at Capital here in NYC for Fashion Week. I’d never been to a fashion show before, so it was kinda exciting.
[WATCH THE VIDEO: Clandestine Industries fashion show highlights]
Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz showed wears from his Clandestine fashion label…
What I didn’t realize about fashion shows is that they are worse than concerts. They start NO WHERE on time. They started letting people in around 8pm, but they didn’t start the show until 10:30 or so. It might have had something to do with the fact that none of the models were there around 8:30. I wanted to kill myself a little. Things got so desperate that I even found myself drinking free Red Bull and vodka, which is the world’s most disgusting tasting drink.
The show was being held at Capital, which is this fancy former bank on the Bowery in NYC. There was a runway set up and about 4 rows of chairs on either side. When people were getting seated, I saw this blonde girl looked like she got Mary-Kate’s hand-me-downs by wearing an oversized white shirt that was belted (a look I rocked when I was 10 years old) and I asked Jeff “Who the hell is that?” He didn’t know at first and then he was like, “OH! That’s Heidi!” I was like, “Who’s Heidi?” Then Jeff proceeded to point out that “Laguna Beach” alumn LC (Lauren Conrad) was there and that blonde girl was Heidi, the sorta annoying roomate of LC from MTV’s “The Hills”.
Then I noticed that LC and Heidi had cute matching blue and white striped bags that looked like they were designed by 31 Corn Lane. (As you may remember, 31 Corn Lane did a colaboration with Clandestine for a cute bag that will be sold later this year.) Then I noticed that some dude wearing a black hat was sitting next to them. Then I realized that dude was former Ashlee Simpson boy toy, Ryan Cabrera.
Jeff was using my little point-and-shoot cam, and I just went through the photos now and found this gem: a hysterical picture of Ryan Cabrera glaring right into the camera making a big frowny face. He’s got red eye so he looks really evil. Hahah.
Other noteable folks in the audience included Russell Simmons, Petra Nemcova, Lydia Hearst, the fake Paris Hilton, Natalie Reed, and Tyson Ritter of All-American Rejects–who looked ridiculously HOT in the John Bartlett show the day before. Yowzah!
The Clandestine fashion show didn’t really show off any new designs. Most of the stuff I’d seen before, some of it is not even available anymore, like the infamous gray and purple hoodie. Some of the highlights of the show was when Gabe Saporta of Midtown/ Cobra Starship walked out during “Staying Alive” by the Bee-Gees wearing the “Stay Gold” hoodie, and then when Liam McMullan started busting out flips:
Um…why was this boy so ridiculously pretty? Like lady-pretty. Geez.
Taking a bow to a Cobra Starship song…
After the final walk of the Clandestine show, we ended up backstage and I took the above shot of Pete and this photo of Gabe still sportin’ the Clandestine gear:
During the Yellow Fever fashion show, the song “Mr. Brightside” by the Killers was playing. I started singing along to it, and looked to my right and low-and-behold, I spied Pete Wentz ALSO singing along to the song. Apparently the Killers vs. Fall Out Boy hatefest seems to really be over …for now.
The Yellow Fever show litterally ended with a bang–as yellow and pink confetti were shot out of cannons from all corners of the stage, models brandishing silver automatic weapons came out with Yellow Fever designer Jamison Ernest with a bag over his head and they proceeded pretended to shoot him down. It certainly got my attention, and it was kinda awesome. Bang bang!
More photos…
Tyson Ritter of the All-American Rejects sat in the front row and listened to “Move Along” being played during the show…
Uber-model (and possible James Blunt main squeeze) Petra Nemcova buddied up with Russell Simmons…
and Ryan Cabrera kicked back and enjoyed the show sitting next to Heidi and LC from MTV’s “The Hills”.
I also ran into Trent from Pink Is the New Blog…who mentioned that I should check out MisShapes because Kelis was making an apperance…which she did, but I got there a little too late to witness it. That’s what happens when you eat dinner at 1am. I did get to see her, after her two gigantic bodyguards allowed for some photos to be taken.
More peeps…
Josh Ingber from The Upwelling mentioned to me that the last time he was on one of my sites he was wearing a backpack. I would like us all to take a moment to remember that JOSH WORE A BACKPACK out to a nightclub. Thank you. Next time, fannypack.
Um, have you guys read the hilarious camp note that Midtown’s Rob Hitt wrote to his mom in 1993? If you haven’t, you must read it now.
You Name the Couple: Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson
Now listen here–just because two members of the opposite sex arrive together to a party doesn’t automatically mean they are doing it, now does it? If it did, that would mean that Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson were bumping uglies–and honestly, I don’t want to go there.
But it is true that Pete and Ash showed up to MisShapes this weekend, as seen by the photographic evidence below:
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Holla at my boys Geo and Greg–looking Goth-rific!
If I hadn’t been upstate in Cooperstown I would have witnessed it myself! Oh wellz… I got to see Bob Dylan instead!
Anyway, let’s have a little fun. If you had to create a celebrity couple name for Pete and Ashlee, what would it be? Petelee? Ashwentz? Ashlete? Hit me with your best shot!
Cobra Starship Controversy
Right now folks are fighting it out on my TMA post about the Cobra Starship show at Stolen Transmission on Thursday.
It being their first show ever, the performance wasn’t perfect, but some folks are being more dismissive than others, so it’s a battle between the lovers and the haters.
But I would much rather debate the following question: “Is there such a thing as your band wearing TOO MUCH snake-themed jewelery while you’re singing a song about snakes?”
