I know, it’s a big fat bummer Remy Ma got sentenced to 8 years in jail for assault, weapons possession and attempted coercion, and shooting Makeda Barnes-Joseph in the gut… That was practically a year ago! And she JUST got married! I mean really, can’t we let her have her honeymoon first? Since when does justice come before LOVE?

Speaking of love, be sure to check out her website, where she encourages fans to write “letters about how Remy and her music has positively affected you, influenced you, inspired you, etc… in hope that the judge will be lenient in Remy’s upcoming sentencing. Thank you for all your support. LETTERSFORREMY@GMAIL.COM”

Then click-on through to the actual content. First track that plays is “When I See Her” which goes a li’l somethin’ like this.

Nice of her to put the clean version up.

I hate to brag, but this is the perfect post to follow-up O’Reilly flip-out… Sue Simmons drops the f-bomb on WNBC-TV last evening leaving a very awkward 8 seconds of silence and then this apology to the thousands of watchers:

“I have to acknowledge an unfortunate incident … I used a word that many people find offensive. It was a mistake I made and I’m truly sorry.”

Hilarity ensues (HA, GET IT?!?!):

EVERYONE uses this word at some point and usually on a daily-fucking-basis, but for some reason it’s so much funnier when an anchorman (or anchorlady!) drops it.

“American Boy” featuring Kanye on Estelle’s Shine album is the summer kickoff song of 2008. Listen here!

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[The following column, printed in the Monday, May 5th edition of Synthesis Weekly, is an installment from our literature columnist, Emilie Clark.]

Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me
Edited by Ben Karlin
Grand Central Publishing

In an interesting turn on the book cover theme: Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me, an anthology of essays penned exclusively by men, has a very blue cover. I think it is cornflower blue, but not being an interior design major, I might be wrong about that. Anyway, it seems that sometimes men also get stereotyped and gendered through the use of infantilizing color schemes. But I will say that this blue is a much nicer color than the pink of last week, and I was not embarrassed at all to be seen reading this book. My manly boyfriend says the color wouldn’t embarrass him either. So there you have it.
The premise of this book is pretty obvious. A number of famous and semi-famous male authors and comedians tackle some break-ups and the lessons learned from them. Andy Richter talks about how hard it was for a teenager of his girth to find a girlfriend; Stephen Colbert writes about an old girlfriend, but lets his wife redact the naughty bits; and Neal Pollack tells an especially hilarious cautionary tale about midnight emissions and pets.
Most of the stories are pretty funny, some of the laugh out loud variety, and some of them even have a bit of heart. But I was surprisingly underwhelmed. As I read the list of contributors, my anticipation grew strong, but a lot of the big names seem to have just phoned it in. Standouts include “A Dog is No Reason to Say Together” by Damian Kulash Jr., singer of OK Go, who tells an intriguingly honest story about a relationship that could have been mine or anyone else I know. It’s about that kind of pre-marriage long-term relationship where the terms and contracts are really hard to define and you’re not sure how or when it should end. Another standout is Barbara Karlin’s forward, “I Think My Son is a Catch.” I’m sure you can guess what it’s about.
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Benjamin Franklin invented the glass armonica in 1761 after being profoundly moved by the sounds of the glass harp. Little did he know that his instrument WAS THE DEVIL:

German musicologist Friedrich Rochlitz stated “the armonica excessively stimulates the nerves, plunges the player into a nagging depression and hence into a dark and melancholy mood that is apt method for slow self-annihilation. If you are suffering from any nervous disorder, you should not play it; if you are not yet ill you should not play it; if you are feeling melancholy you should not play it.”

The glass armonica’s sound is perceived by human ears differently than other instruments because its range is between 1,000 and 4,000 hertz. When sounds are below 4,000 hertz, the human brain compares “phase differences” between the left and right ears to triangulate the origin of the sound rather than comparing volumes. This causes hearing disorientation and a “not quite sure” feeling about where the sound is coming from.

See for yourself, BUT BE WARNED! YOU COULD GO INSANE!!!

Here’s the new Interpol music video for “Rest My Chemistry”. It’s on some other shit. Just watching it made me high.

If you totally tripped out on it and want to read more about the concept so that perhaps you, too, can someday make someone high off your art, please do so after the jump. (more…)