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MOBY | Buy His Upstate New York House

With his career dwindling, Moby seems to be staking his fortune in real estate. He's just left his Lower East Side apartment for a high class Central Park West pad, and now comes the news that Moby is selling his super plush Upstate New York estate for a cool $3,500,000!!!

The place, known as Patridge Hill, happens to be absolutely fucking stunning. With a completely modern design, minimalist interior, an 8 person jacuzzi, sauna, fireplaces, a beautiful view, and tons of property. If these digs can't get you laid, then you must be a douchebag.

Here is Moby's puncuationally-challenged personal letter:

three years ago i bought a property named 'partridge hill' in kent cliffs, new york(1 hour from nyc, in putnam county).

after extensive renovations i've decided to sell the houses and property, as my work and travel schedule make it difficult for me to spend much time up there.

it's an amazing and special place, as some of you know, so before i put it on the public real-estate market i'm going to offer it to friends and family.

here's the web-site for partridge hill. http://partridgehillproperty.com

if you or anyone you know might be interested, please contact chris cruz at:
[email protected] or   [email protected]

also, there's a friends and family bonus of $10,000 for you if you arrange for
someone to buy the property.

thanks,
moby

TRICIA ROMANO | The Celebrity DJ Story

Tricia Romano's Village Voice cover story on the celebrity DJ fad is the most accidentally funny article I've read in a long time.

Members of local bands like the Rapture, Calla, Interpol, !!!, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have gotten behind the decks for several years, paving the way for Kelly Osbourne and members of the Killers and Franz Ferdinand.

Perhaps the original rock star DJ, Carlos D...

"I used to play Yeah Yeah Yeah songs and demos all the time in bars before we were signed, to see if anyone reacted or to get people to come to our shows," says Zinner. "Now I think it's totally gauche for people in bands to DJ their own music. It's worse than wearing your own band T-shirt on the L train." 

More than any party in New York, the MisShapes have capitalized on the fad of celebrity DJs...Greg K. makes no excuses about his party's focus on celeb DJs over skilled mixers. "It's not a DJ-focused party," he says.

Club kid Tric's last Fly Life piece on how Scenic is being closed on february 26th for renovations (read: investors upset at the gay atmosphere the club has attracted) was way more cover worthy than this totally unoriginal ass-kissing celebrity dj story........

VALENTINES DAY | A Bear Holding A Heart

Happy Valentines. Here's the perfect gift idea via Saturday Night Live.....

COOKIE MONSTER | More Heavy Metal Than You

Our amigo at the Kollege Daily has sent us a link to what has to be the oddest op-ed to ever run in the Wall Street Journal:

While the extreme branch of heavy-metal music known as death metal is defined in part by often-vile lyrics about violence, catastrophic destruction, nihilism, anarchy and paranoia, its singing style is associated with a beloved goggle-eyed, fuzzy blue puppet.

Death-metal vocalizing is also known as Cookie Monster singing, if not in tribute to, at least in acknowledgment of, the "Sesame Street" puppet that blurts in a guttural growl, his words discharged so rapidly that they tend to collide with each other.

To be a true Cookie Monster vocal, said Mr. Conner, who signed some of the subgenre's biggest bands, including Sepultura and Fear Factory, "it's got to be really, really guttural. It should sound like they're gargling glass."

Read the full op-ed piece here.......

ANDY ROONEY VS GARRISON KEILLOR

I can't decide whom I loathe more, 60 Minute's Andy Rooney or A Prairie Home Companion's Garrison Keillor? These have to be the two most annoying people ever to exist.

I cannot fathom why Andy Rooney still has his plush job on the most respected and newsworthy program on television. This old bastard sits at his desk every Sunday and goes off on stupid monologues about why computer are pointless, how inserts in newspapers are annoying, and things he found in his desk. I know 60 Minutes skews older in their viewing audience, but Rooney is just the epitome of dumb-ass old bastards who are scared of progress and intelligence. Not to mention he's a raving racist:

"I object every time I hear the word, words ‘African-American.’ You know? I don’t know why we have gotten caught with that. The word ‘Negro’ is a perfectly good word, it’s a strong word and a good word. I don’t see anything wrong with that."

My problem with Garrison Keillor has less to do with his viewpoints, opinions or his unlistenable monologues. My problem is his voice. It is so freaking grating. And God damn is A Prairie Home Companion just the most pointless program ever created for radio......

WINTER 2006 | Proof That Global Warming Is A Lie

I hate when it's super cold. I hate it's super rainy. I really hate when it's cold and it rains, but I love me some snow!!! How wonderful was Sunday.? Here's some pictures from Park Slope, Brooklyn......

PUPPY BOWL II | Better than Football!

The person at Animal Planet who thought up the Puppy Bowl deserves a raise! This is the absolutely best better alternative to the Super Bowl.

All day Super Bowl Sunday, Animal Planet will be airing the Puppy Bowl! For three straight hours, they put the most adorable puppies in a minature football field and let them run around, chase their tails, jump on each other, and act absolutely adorable. Watch out for the "bowl cam" and the kitty half-time show with adorable bundles of energy playing their hearts out! 

It's sooooooo cute. This years MVP had to be Barry......

IAM MCKAYE | NYU Lecture, February 15th

On Wednesday February 15th, Ian McKaye will hold a special question and answer session at NYU's Kimmel Center. This is supposed to be a student only event. Ticket will be made available starting on Wednesday, February 1st. Two ticket limit per person.

Ian MacKaye has one of the most impressive and d.i.y. resumes of all time. He is best known as the owner of Dischord Records, and his recording career with Fugazi, The Evens, Minor Threat, The Teen Idles and Embrace. If you didn't know that, you probably don't want to go to this event.

He recently held a similiar event at Yale University and the ivy leaguers loved it........

Q&A with Ian McKaye | February 15th | NYU's Kimmel Center (E&L Auditorium, 4th Floor)

ROLLING STONE | Jesus Is Kanye, Not Howard

Kanye West's current Rolling Stone magazine cover is getting a whole lot of attention.

It's interesting that Jann Wenner approved David LaChapelle's Kanye "Jesus Walks" West photograph, but rejected Mark Seliger's extremely similiar Jesus inspired photograph when Howard Stern was on their cover in 1997 for promote his Private Parts movie......

HOWARD STERN | Final Show, Yahoo Webcast

Friday marks the last show Howard Stern will tape for Infinity Broadcasting / Viacom, before heading off to Sirius Satellite Radio. For twenty years, Howard has refused to allow any station that syndicates his program to air their program via the web, but for his final show he has granted exclusive permission to Yahoo to broadcast the event.

His final show will outside K-Rocks offices, what is still called the Howard Stern Building, on 56th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues from 8am to 10am. It should be a madhouse.

Whether you like Howard or not, it would be hard to deny his influence on modern radio broadcasting. I personally could deal with less retards and strippers, but I always loved his celebrity interviews. Howard has done some of the best interviews I've ever heard with Paul McCartney, Ozzy Osbourne, Julia Roberts, Jerry Seinfeld, Noel Gallagher, Jon Stewart, a very drunk Julian Casablancas, and Courtney Love, among others.........