Guy Who Played Barney is Teaching Tantric Sex

For $350 you too can get a tantric sex session with David Joyner. The man who spent 10 years on TV in the Barney suit. Apparently Joyner has bee offering his services for a while. He even found some of his clients on Tinder.  Check out a lot more at Vice.

Also, you might want to get rid of tinder before you end up on a date with Bert and Ernie. They can get freaky.

Here’s a video on it from What’s Trending.

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No Phones at Jack White Shows

Shows on Jack White’s upcoming tour will be phone free. Jack’s hitting the road for his new album “Boarding House Reach.” The statement he released said “We think you’ll enjoy looking up from your gadgets for a little while and experience music and our shared love of it IN PERSON.” It shouldn’t really shock anyone that Jack is taking a stance on this. He’s been pretty outspoken at his shows if he sees someone with their phone out. How will they keep you from your phone during the performance? The Yondr pouch.

The statement said “Upon arrival at the venue, all phones and other photo or video-capturing gizmos will be secured in a Yondr pouch that will be unlocked at the end of the show. You keep your pouch-secured phone on you during the show and, if needed, can unlock your phone at any time in a designated Yondr Phone Zone located in the lobby or concourse. For those looking to do some social media postings, let us help you with that. Our official tour photographer will be posting photos and videos after the show at jackwhiteiii.com and the new Jack White Live Instagram account @officialjackwhitelive. Repost our photos & videos as much as you want and enjoy a phone-free, 100% human experience.”

There is no Chicago date on the tour just yet, but there is still plenty of time for him for figure out a way to make it though. His new album is out in March.

Check out more at NME.

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Jack Antonoff of Bleachers Ally Coalition

 Jack Antonoff of Bleachers started The Ally Coalition whose purpose is to take action for LGBTQ equality.
“Through tours, special events, and online campaigns, we highlight systemic inequality and organizations supporting LGBTQ youth, and opportunities for fans to engage with these issues.”
Tonight is the 4th Annual Ally Coalition Talent Show, which is not your ordinary talent show.  Hear him talk about it with Seth Myers last night:
Here is the full episode:

Travis Barker Doing a Doc with Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge

Travis Barker is working on a new documentary that will include Mark Hoppus and even Tom DeLonge. Tom split from Blink182 a few years ago to chase aliens. No, really. Some people think he has even found some legit proof of extraterrestrials…

But, as for Travis’ doc, he says it will be an extension of his book “Can I Say.” And since the book is about his life it makes sense that both Tom and Mark would be a part of it. So, while all this info may not answer your questions about life on another planet, or if Tom will ever return to Bilk, it does explain what Tom was talking about when he posted this on Instagram in December.

Check out more at Alt Press.

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AJR on Jimmy Kimmel

If you missed it, AJR performed on Jimmy Kimmel last night. They did their song “Weak.”

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RUB A DUB DUB: Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz Did a Q&A From a Bath Tub

Rub a dub dub, Pete Wentz was tweeting from a tub. The Fall Out Boy bassist took to social media yesterday to do a livestream Q&A with fans just days after band released their new album ‘M A N I A’ and announced a massive Wrigley Field show.

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Wentz did the internet hangout  to fulfill a 2011 bet he made when Fall Out Boy were in the middle of what ended up being a five year hiatus (before returning with ‘Save Rock and Roll’), the bass player tweeted: ‘If I ever hit 3 million [Twitter] followers I’m gonna livestream a bubble bath and answer questions. Well, Wentz’s Twitter followers grew to 6.8 million so this well overdue. You can watch the whole thing below with Wentz fielding questions about the upcoming ‘M A N I A’ tour, how the album’s monster mascots could play into the tour, avoiding dropping a phone in the tub, and his favorite Chicago things.

Also Wentz’s kids don’t care about FOB. It’s a fun watch for any fan of the band.

 

 

Complete list of 2018 Oscar Nominations

Remember this VERY awkward moment from last year? 

The nominations for this year’s Oscar awards were announced this morning. The annual award show spectacular will air once again on ABC on Sunday, March 4th with Jimmy Kimmel as host and hopefully the best picture is announced correctly this time. 

The biggest surprise on this list of nominees is glaring snub of ‘the Lego Batman Movie’ as Best Animated Feature. Lauren stated this on air today, and I support her. Sorry, Boss Baby!

Here’s the full list of nominees:

BEST PICTURE

Call Me By Your Name

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

Get Out

Lady Bird

Phantom Thread

The Post

The Shape of Water

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

DIRECTING

Christopher Nolan — Dunkirk

Jordan Peele — Get Out

Greta Gerwig — Lady Bird

Paul Thomas Anderson — Phantom Thread

Guillermo del Toro — The Shape of Water

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Big Sick — Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani

Get Out — Jordan Peele

Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig

The Shape of Water — Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Martin McDonagh

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Call Me By Your Name — James Ivory

The Disaster Artist — Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber

Logan — Scott Frank, James Mangold, Michael Green

Molly’s Game — Aaron Sorkin

Mudbound — Virgil Williams, Dee Rees

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Timothée Chalamet — Call Me By Your Name

Daniel Day Lewis — Phantom Thread

Daniel Kaluuya — Get Out

Gary Oldman — Darkest Hour

Denzel Washington — Roman J. Israel, Esq.

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Sally Hawkins — The Shape of Water

Frances McDormand — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Margot Robbie — I, Tonya

Saoirse Ronan — Lady Bird

Meryl Streep — The Post

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Willem Dafoe — The Florida Project

Woody Harrelson — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Richard Jenkins — The Shape of Water

Christopher Plummer — All the Money in the World

Sam Rockwell — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Mary J. Blige — Mudbound

Allison Janney — I, Tonya

Lesley Manville — Phantom Thread

Laurie Metcalf — Lady Bird

Octavia Spencer — The Shape of Water

DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail — Steve James, Mark Mitten, Julie Goldman

Faces Places — Agnès Varda, JR and Rosalie Varda

Icarus — Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan

Last Men in Aleppo — Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed, Søren Steen Jespersen

Strong Island — Yance Ford, Joslyn Barnes

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)

Edith + Eddie — Laura Checkoway, Thomas Lee Wright

Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 — Frank Stiefel

Heroin(e) — Elaine McMilion Sheldon, Kerrin Sheldon

Knife Skills — Thomas Lennon

Traffic Stop — Kate Davis, David Heilbroner

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

DeKalb Elementary — Reed Van Dyk

The Eleven O’Clock — Derin Seale, Josh Lawson

My Nephew Emmett — Kevin Wilson Jr.

The Silent Child — Chris Overton, Rachel Shenton

Watu Wote / All of Us — Katja Benrath, Tobias Rosen

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

The Boss Baby — Tom McGrath, Ramsey Naito

The Breadwinner — Nora Twomey, Anthony Leo

Coco — Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson

Ferdinand — Carlos Saldanha

Loving Vincent — Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Ivan Mactaggart

ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Dear Basketball — Glen Keane, Kobe Bryant

Garden Party — Victor Claire, Gabriel Grapperon

Lou — Dave Mullins, Dana Murray

Negative Space — Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata

Revolting Rhymes — Jakob Schuh, Jan Lachauer

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

A Fantastic Woman — Sebastián Lelio, Chile

The Insult — Ziad Doueiri, Lebanon

Loveless — Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia

On Body and Soul — Ildikó Enyedi, Hungary

The Square — Ruben Östlund, Sweden

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Blade Runner 2049 — Roger A. Deakins

Darkest Hour — Bruno Delbonnel

Dunkirk — Hoyte van Hoytema

Mudbound — Rachel Morrison

The Shape of Water — Dan Laustsen

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Beauty and the Beast — Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer

Blade Runner 2049 — Dennis Gassner, Alessandra Querzola

Darkest Hour – Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer

Dunkirk — Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis

The Shape of Water — Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau, Jeff Melvin

VISUAL EFFECTS

Blade Runner 2049

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Kong: Skull Island

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

War for the Planet of the Apes

FILM EDITING

Baby Driver — Paul Machliss, Jonathan Amos

Dunkirk — Lee Smith

I, Tonya — Tatiana S. Riegel

The Shape of Water — Sidney Wolinsky

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Jon Gregory

COSTUME DESIGN

Beauty and the Beast — Jacqueline Durran

Darkest Hour — Jacqueline Durran

Phantom Thread — Mark Bridges

The Shape of Water — Luis Sequeira

Victoria & Abdul — Consolata Boyle

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

Darkest Hour — Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, Lucy Sibbick

Victoria & Abdul — Daniel Phillips, Lou Sheppard

Wonder — Arden Tuiten

ORIGINAL SCORE

Dunkirk — Hans Zimmer

Phantom Thread — Jonny Greenwood

The Shape of Water — Alexandre Desplat

Star Wars: The Last Jedi — John Williams

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Carter Burwell

ORIGINAL SONG

“Mighty River” — Mudbound, Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq, Taura Stinson

“Mystery of Love” — Call Me By Your Name, Sufjan Stevens

“Remember Me” — Coco, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez

“Stand Up for Something” — Marshall, Diane Warren, Lonnie R. Lynn

“This is Me” — The Greatest Showman, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul

SOUND EDITING

Baby Driver — Julian Slater

Blade Runner 2049 — Mark Mangini, Theo Green

Dunkirk — Richard King, Alex Gibson

The Shape of Water — Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira

Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Matthew Wood, Ren Klyce

SOUND MIXING

Baby Driver — Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin, Mary H. Ellis

Blade Runner 2049— Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, Mac Ruth

Dunkirk — Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo

The Shape of Water — Christian Cooke, Bran Zoern, Glen Gauthier

Star Wars: The Last Jedi — David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Stuart Wilson

Dashboard Confessional Release Another New Track

Dashboard Confessional released another track from their upcoming album, “Crooked Shadows.” The albums is out on February, 9th. This one is called “Heart Beat Here.” The song’s been a part of Dashboard’s live show for a while, so it may sound familiar if you’ve seen them recently.

The band has already given us “We Fight.”

And “Belong” off the album.

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56% of Us Will Still Stop to Pick Up a Penny

Pennies are basically useless at this point . . . if you have one in your house, it almost counts as “clutter” more than it counts as “money.”  But DAMN, we’ll still stop in our tracks if we see one.

According to a new survey, 56% of Americans say they’ll stop to pick up a penny if they see one on the street.

And it doesn’t even matter how much money you make.  People who make over $80,000-a-year are just a tiny bit less likely to stop for a penny than people who make less than $40,000.

Now . . . SOME of us have higher standards.

11% of people say they’ll only stop for a nickel . . . 6% for a dime . . . 14% for a quarter . . . and 6% won’t stop to pick up ANY coin in the street.

6% won’t stop to pick up ANY coin, not even a quarter.

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Do you keep this secret from your partner?

Millions of Americans keep their money a secret from their partner.  One in five people in a live-in relationship admit to “financial infidelity,” keeping a private bank account or credit card, according to a study.

The survey found 31 percent of millennials, 24 percent of people ages 38 to 53 and 17 percent of baby boomers have at some point had an account they keep secret from a partner.

On the other side of the coin (pun intended) 31 percent of those in a relationship think that keeping a credit card, checking account or savings account secret from a partner is worse than cheating physically.  More HERE

But what if they are buying you lots of cool stuff with the secret money, still a problem?

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D’Arcy Wretzky Will Not Be in the Smashing Pumpkins Reunion Tour

Watch BIlly Corgan talks up the Pumpkins accoustic tour on 101WKQX in Feb 2016 

For more than a year now, the rumors and rumblings of the original lineup of Chicago’s own Smashing Pumpkins reuniting have persisted, reaching another fan-fevered pitch last week when Billy Corgan posted this pic of James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin with in a recording studio.  So what is the role of bassist D’Arcy Wretzky in this OG Pumpkins good time get-back-together?

Issuing a statement via text to the music blog Blast Echo, the elusive Wretzky says  “My apologies to all of the Smashing Pumpkins fans out there who are excited about this oncoming reunion tour of the original members of the band. I know this is a huge disappointment for me, as well, but it’s not going to happen [with me] I only just found about yesterday that the band has decided to go with a different bass player.”

In the same article, Wretzky shared that the band is prepping for a summer tour in July with a different bassist featuring front-man Billy Corgan, guitarist James Iha, and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. This assemblage of Pumpkins has performed together sporadically over the last few years including a show in Los Angeles where Iha made a surprise cameo. None of this 2018 tour info has been confirmed by Corgan or anyone else associated with the band at this time.

Alternative Nation has reported that Corgan, Iha, and Chamberlin have been working towards a ‘very special occasion’ a few weeks ago in Los Angeles.

Corgan has been active recently with a Rick Rubin produced solo album ‘Ogilala’ and producing the oldest pro wrestling promotion in the world, National Wrestling Alliance. To be clear, Corgan has kept the Smashing Pumpkins alive with other talented musicians, and Chamberlin has been involved here and there since the 2005 reactivation. All four original members of the Pumpkins have not played together since 1999.

 

 

My Chemical Romance posted never-before-seen videos

 

Now we can all dream about those rumors of a My Chemical Romance reunion, but there is no serious signs just yet that it’s going to happen. The news we can confirm with MCR is they posted a new crop of never-before-seen outtakes on their Youtube in the last week. The videos are from some of their classic music videos plus the full 2008 concert movie The Black Parade Is Dead, which was recorded at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City in 2007 – the band’s final performance as The Black Parade.

You can see all of it below and pine for Gerard Way and company returning to the stage.