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I like to think that the idea of The Flaming Lips collaborating with Ke$ha drives people bonkers, if only for the fact that somehow The Flaming Lips' brand of nonsense fuckery is somehow better than Ke$ha's nonsense fuckery. You know, because Ke$ha is played on pop radio stations—horrors!—and The Flaming Lips are not. (For the record, I'm not much of a fan of either of them, but I did get down with that Bob Dylan cover Ke$ha recorded two years ago, if only because it proved that there's some talent beneath that glittery garbage she's usually covered in.) Yesterday, in a Reddit AMA, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne touched on his band's previous collaboration with the pop star and confirmed that they are working on an album together.

How many times have you heard some old person complain about what the kids are listening to these days? (Oh, yesterday, from me?) It's a certainty, like death and taxes, that popular music will only cause the furrowed brows of the cool kids of yesteryear to become more creased, their now wrinkled hands forming into limp fists raised slightly in the air as the loose skin on those arms shake with a ferocity only matched by the senility so depressingly spouting from their typing fingers. Do not dare hush them! They have opinions, and they are always correct! Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Musto has something to say about the current state of pop music! 

This makes a grand total of one thing I know about Ke$ha.

While you were sitting in your unfashionable apartment trying to watch a choppy stream of The Strokes' set at Coachella this weekend, Christopher Mintz-Plasse was busy at the actual Coachella, gladly assuming the role of McLovin' and getting mega-laid because of it. But he isn't the only human being who used their celebrity to have an above-average time in the desert. Here's a breathless roundup of the kooky shenanigans those crazy Hollywood kids got into at the annual music and arts festival.

● Netflix may be close to picking up their first original television series, David Fincher's House of Cards.[NYT] ● Rapper and hook-man Nate Dogg passed away in his sleep last night at the age of 41. As Snoop Dogg tweeted in tribute, "You put yo stamp on evrybdy u ever didit wit". His funk lives on. [Billboard] ● Charlie Sheen pornstar lady-friend Kasey Jordan tweeted through a bender of her own yesterday. "The 16 hours I spent with Charlie messed me up ... I can't get that image out of my head," she began, before admitting to downing pills and whiskey. Police, responding to an emergency call, intervened, taking the star to the hospital for psychiatric exams, where she tweeted, "I'm Sooo bored in this hospital bed! I want to have someone save me." [NYDN]

● This has to be the least interesting development so far, but: Charlie Sheen has been fired from Two and a Half Men for his engagement in "dangerously self-destructive conduct" and because he "appears to be very ill." Charlie's cool, though. "Now I can take all of their bazillions, never have to look at whatshiscock again and I never have to put on these silly shirts for as long as this warlock exists in the terrestrial dimension," he told TMZ. [TMZ/TMZ] ● Ke$ha has teamed up with LifeStyle to distribute condoms with her glow-painted face on the packaging at her concerts. Stay safe, even if you like to consummate with glitter. [E!] ● Jennifer Aniston and Smart Water set out to game the internet by employing all the trappings of a classic viral vid -- puppies, dirty-dancing babies, a double rainbow, a good kick in the crotch -- and then tagging it "Jen Aniston's Sex Tape." Well, you got us guys. Here it is: [YouTube]

Ke$ha is getting ahead of the game. Maybe by taking her manager's prediction seriously, the potty-mouth singer is making sure we all know how game she is when it comes to making fun of Ke$ha. Funny or Die has become career rehab center for celebrities past their expiration date or on the brink of extinction, a quick way to drum up some good will. So how does Ke$ha do it? Click the jump in and find out.

Last night, Angelenos got their first look at the new Rolling Stone restaurant and lounge (dubbed RS/LA) at a packed American Music Awards afterparty. Katy Perry, Ke$ha, Kid Rock and dozens of other big names mingled inside the 10,500-square foot space, which sits inside a mall (this is Hollywood, people). Rolling Stone ringleader Jann Wenner held court at what is the first in a planned chain that will see locations pop up in New York and Miami over the next few years. Think Planet Hollywood but for music. So think, er, the Hard Rock Café.

A lot of people say a lot of things about Ke$ha, pop music's current anti-princess. But one thing that's not up for dispute is that the "Tik Tok" singer loves to have a fun (sometimes too much fun). Her thirst for action was on full display last month in L.A., when she showed up to our shoot, ready to get very down and equally dirty. This girl's got an itch, and we just wanted to help her scratch it. Check out the good times behind the scenes, after the jump. Video and photography by Yu Tsai, and read our Kes$ha profile, here, and for the results of the shoot, head here.

"Let's just hang out and be funny. We'll bone and it'll be great."