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Holy crap!

We haven’t even aired Season 5 of Surreal Life yet (and yes, I can’t wait to see what kind of antics Janice Dickinson gets up to), but VH1 has already announced the cast of Season 6. Check it out:

C.C. Deville (Poison guitarist), Steve Harwell (Smashmouth singer), Tawny Kitaen (of Whitesnake video infamy), Alexis Arquette, Sherman Helmsley, Florence Henderson (another Brady!), Andrea Lowell (Playboy TV), and an as-yet unannounced hunk from a former reality show (my money’s on Colby from Survivor 2).

OK — are you guys reading this? C.C. Deville!!! If you’ve seen his appearances on Rock ‘N Roll Jeopardy you’ll know that this is going to be one hell of a season!

In anticipation of the season premiere of “Cycle 5″ of America’s Next Top Model tomorrow, some links to tide you over.

Janice Dickinson say she was fired from the show and slams Tyra and the other judges, saying she’d rather be “an honest b**ch than some ass-kissing, sugar-coating, namby-pamby, wiping-ass motherf**ker”. Whoa. More harsh words from the Ice Queen.

Cycle 4 winner Naima gets fugged at the Emmys.

And although I’d watch this show, about the romance that sparked between Cycle 1 winner Adrianne Curry and Brady brother Christopher Knight during the last season of The Surreal Life, I don’t think I’d ever want to watch this one.

And just like that, it’s 1991 all over again! For all of you Spin Doctors diehards you’ll be happy to know that they’re releasing their first studio album in 11 years. I think I’m gonna go home, watch So I Married an Axe Murderer and listen to Two Princes.

Apprently if you have digital cable with Rogers, their Rogers On Demand service just got a whole lot more useful.

If you flip to channel 100 and go to the “Indie Music” section in the free zone (usually a barren wasteland), you can check out full play videos by Canadian bands like Broken Social Scene, Feist, Metric, Stars and controller.controller. And as the overplayed ROD commercial states, “you can pause, fast forward, and even rewind!” I can’t wait to check this feature out when I get home!

The celebrity baby name book (come on, there must be one somewhere; we can’t credit celebs themselves with this level of creativity) is already a mind-boggling TOME of bizarre names.

Now in addition to the Phinnaeuses, Pirates, Apples, Sevens and Scouts, we have a Henry Guenther Ademola Dashtu Samuel, Heidi Klum’s new baby, named of course after his father Sealhenry Olusegun Olumide Samuel (aka Seal). Somebody STOP these people!

I fear for the announcement of Britney’s final baby name decision.

By now evvvvverybody has heard about Kanye West’s unscripted “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” statement during a benefit concert for Hurricane Katrina relief on NBC some weeks ago.

But what you may not yet have heard is the “Katrina” remix of Gold Digger, complete with rejigged lyrics and scathing social commentary. Quite addictive!

I never win anything, but that doesn’t stop me from entering oodles and oodles of contests. It can only increase my chances of winning, right?

RIGHT! DOSE mag contacted me to let me know that I won an invite to an exclusive private party with The Dandy Warhols on Sunday, when they’ll be playing some songs from their upcoming album Odditorium Or Warlords Of Mars, which comes out next Tuesday. I can’t wait to hang out with Courtney Taylor-Taylor and crew!

The first single by Mitch Benn & The Distractions, “Everything Sounds Like Coldplay Now” is a hilarious parody of (and homage to) Coldplay’s familiar and oft-copied sound. Mitch Benn slams the piano keys, walks backwards, and strolls along an isolated beach just like Chris Martin, and wails “This could be Embrace, Keane or Snow Patrol, or maybe this is actually Coldplay.”

You can watch the video on Maxim’s UK site.

So this weekend I finally scrambled together enough used CDs and was able to purchase a new stereo with the money I made from selling them. After testing out the CD player and tuner and iPod connection, we wanted to check if the cassette player worked. So I rummaged through some old boxes to find an old tape and the first one I grabbed was a real GEM. It was a mix tape from the summer of 1995…aka one of the worst summers ever for music, if this tape is at all representative of its hits. We sat around for hours listening to it and reminisced; what a blast from the past! A sample:

01. Macarena - Los Del Rio
02. The Key, The Secret - Urban Cookie Collective
03. Lick It - 20 Fingers
04. Mr. Personality - Gillette
05. Don’t Stop (Wiggle, Wiggle) - The Out Here Brothers
06. Run Away - Real McCoy
07. Rock My Heart - Haddaway
08. He’s On The Phone - Saint Etienne