tickets are currently on sale for this night of nights. do yourself and your Boo a favor and buy a few tickets to the show. damn skippy! congrats to Todd, Lawyer Ned Friendship and Jason...you've earned it.

open up this week's Real Detroit and you'll see a huge color double truck for the Insane Clown Posse's latest album, due in stores on November 5. the Sixth Joker's Card will be dropped on an unsuspecting world, and the advance buzz has already begun. MTV.com jumps into the fray with this recent interview with Violent J and Shaggy, as they talk about the Juggalo Nation, ICP groupies, and the strategy behind the release of the last Joker's Card. it seems that the Clowns have finally resigned to the fact that most of the world thinks they're a joke, but they're obviously very proud of the half-million Juggalos who represent Faygo and ICP worldwide. this album has buzz and is sure to be one of the year's best...

--Last but not least, whatevs.org has added a new feature to the site. if you scroll down below the list of links, you can now search whatevs.org for any topic that your little heart desires. please note that the list is not complete yet, I'm still working on getting Google to "crawl" my site daily for more information. i will keep you posted, but i thought y'all would like the addition. peace!

"i like girls who charge pipe" - blue crush (2002)

i have to sign-off for the day. too much shit flying around at work. but before i leave, i just wanted to make sure that any interested FOWs knew about tonight's screening of "Blue Crush" at the Magic Bag in Fashionable Ferndale. props out to nummer for setting up this evening, hope to see y'all out and about this evening. i'll be hitting up the Magic Bag around 9pm, see you then...

London's Sun Newspaper is reporting that Robbie Williams has signed a 4-album record deal with EMI for somewhere in the vicinity of £80MM. Yes, that was in pounds. The equivalent in US dollars is approximately $125,664,000 (using the current exchange rate of one British pound equalling $1.5708)!!! This is believed to be the second largest record deal in history, trailing only the agreement that Michael Jackson inked with Sony back in 1991. congrats to Robbie Williams, though my prediction is that EMI is going to take a bigger bath on this contract than Virgin did with Mariah. i know that he's mega-popular in the UK, but he's never established any cred or proved that he can move units Stateside. frankly, a record deal this large can only be recouped on this side of the pond...

sorkin obviously jumped the shark when Sports Night got cancelled. he's easily the most overrated television "genius" since David E. Kelley. despite all the Emmy props (which don't really even count as "props" because Ray Romano wins every year), the proof is finally in the pudding... "Barenaked Ladies, Aimee Mann to rock tonight's The West Wing". spare me!

Ciao.
Aris

Variety broke the story this morning that Val Kilmer will play Late Porn King John Holmes in an upcoming movie adaptation of the infamous Wonderland murders. this has "boogie nights lite" written all over it. there will be cheesy disco music, lots of drugs and some horrendous performances (josh lucas, kate bosworth, christina applegate and lisa kudrow are in talks to co-star..ugh). when was the last time Val Kilmer had buzz? the grizz thought that "Salton Sea" was hittins, but the rest of the world has pretty much ignored Kilmer since "The Doors". i bet this will blow even harder than "blow". and when the writer explains that "there is also a unique love story, elevating this film above noir crime and making it universal", it does nothing other than make me want to go back to my apartment and throw on my Boogie Nights dvd. and in case you were wondering, the answer is "no, i never upgraded to the 2-DVD set". the original New Line Platinum Series release is fine by me!

this morning's edition of Salon.com features a mini write-up of Buzz Mistress Wendy Case and The Paybacks, complete with an MP3 of "Just You Wait".

then, from the pages of Wired Magazine comes a story which NO ONE SAW COMING -- "Porn Spam: It's Getting Raunchier". you have GOT to be shitting me, i never heard such crazy talk! those reporters on the coasts really have their nose to the grindstone, don't they?

here is the latest version of the most popular search strings that lead web surfers to whatevs.org (in ranked order): free porn pics of michelle branch and avril lavigne, whatevs, scarlett johannsen, boiler room quotes, carol vescey, download kari wuhrer's movies, getting to know your friends, ivana bozilovic dvd, ivana bozilovic van wilder, ryan slip and slide milf, van wilder wav, anup popat, britney flippin the bird, brotha lynch.com, clarky sonnenfeld, david gallagher shirtless gallery, does paulina rubio smoke cigarettes, evs show, flaming lips and desktops, and free copy of the last of the really great whangdoodles. what i want to know is who in the hell is David Gallagher and why does Google think i've got shirtless photos of him? and who knew that "anup popat" was a popular search string? best!

while we all wait for Spike Jonze's latest opus, "Adaptation", to hit theatres (currently scheduled to debut on December 6th in NY and LA), you can satisfy your craving for cutting-edge visuals in Spike's trademark style by surfing on over to www.unböring.com. this commercial for the stylish yet bland Euro-sleaze merchant IKEA is good enough to make you forget how shoddy their products are and actually want to shop there. it takes viewers on an emotional arc as we follow the adventures of a discarded desklamp (pictured at right), and it's probably the best TV commercial i've seen in a long time. It succeeds in simulataneously being visually stimulating AND selling customers on the merits of IKEA. in order to view the spot, roll your mouse over the television and click through. then you'll get to view the commercial in your preferred streaming standard, whether that is Quicktime or Windows Media Player. make sure you watch it with the sound turned up, otherwise it loses all of its appeal.

turns out that i wasn't the only one who was confused and disappointed with last night's episode of The Sopranos. continuing their weekly missives that recap each episode, a group of writers on Slate.com discuss last night's bland entry, one of the series' lowpoints thus far. even the greatest TV series have their forgettable weak links, so i'm confident that all will be forgiven as this season progresses.

can you say "movie star"? if you haven't already heard, "Sweet Home Alabama" grossed $37.5 million at the box office this weekend. this figure is absolutely, positively HUGE and goes down as the biggest September opening of all-time, besting the $33 mill opening gross of "Rush Hour" back in `98. this movie was advertised and sold to the public on the strength and appeal of Reese and Reese alone (like Patrick Dempsey or Josh Lucas can pull viewers) and she knocked it out of the park. as trumpted on whatevs.org on friday, reese has stolen the crown of America's Sweetheart™ and isn't looking to relinquish it anytime soon. if you take a look at reese's resume throughout the years, i will argue that no other actor of her generation (male or female) has a stronger and more varied record of critcal and commercial success. think of her strong supporting performances in films like "fear", "pleasantville", "best laid plans" and "cruel intentions". then look at the work she has done as the lead in some highly successful indies -- i'm talking her ruthless performance as the Trailer Trash Red Riding Hood in "freeway" and her universally praised work as tracey flick in "election". then came "legally blonde", a surprise smash in which she officially stole Drew Barrymore's place in Hollywood as the girl that everyone roots for. now with "sweet home alabama", reese has proved that she can open a film which had bad buzz after being dogged by critics and test audiences alike. we'll see how word-of-mouth carries this film, but regardless of where the B.O. ends up, reese is the hottest thing going in hollywood right now. when "Red, White & Blonde" opens up on the July 4th weekend next summer, an opening of $50 mills plus is a lock. let's hope that Reese learns from the mistakes that Drew Barrymore has made (working with Penny Marshall and McG) and decides to stretch herself and either take a chance with a great young director (Aronofsky, Wes Anderson, Baz Luhrmann?) or line up a project with an established master (Ridley Scott, Soderbergh, ???). from her past choices, we know she's got the heart to take chances and the acting chops to succeed with those gambles, let's just keep our collective fingers crossed that they don't end up in a choice like Julia Roberts made with "Mary Reilly".