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The Flaming Lips 2002 Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is inarguably one of their best works.  The album has now been made into a play allowing the main character to add one more thing to her resume along with working for the city, being a black belt in karate, and defeating evil machines.

Things just went from crazy-WTF-bizarre to just plain sad.  Jason Russell, the director of the viral "Kony 2012" video, went berserk yesterday, running through the streets of San Diego in his tighty whiteys, masturbating in public and banging the pavement while naked on a street corner.  Drugs were the obvious suspect behind his behavior, but now his family is stepping forward with another reason.

P Diddy and a number of fashion types were treated to Kenzo’s show today in Paris.  Taken over by designers and Opening Ceremony founders Humberto Leon  and Carol Lim just last year, the duo continues to breath new life into the 1970’s brand.  Models entered via escalator wearing deep colors, pretty flowing skirts, and geometric prints. Take a look at some of the best pieces from the new collection. 

After causing a mini riot amongst Community fans for leaving the show's fate up-in-the-air until announcing in Febraury it would be back, NBC is offering up a little gift before the show’s return on March 15. Starting on March 7, Hulu will have three animated clips. 

The Shins make the kind of music that you listen to over and over and over and yet it was easy to forget about them entirely since their last album, Wincing the Night Away, was released all the way back in 2007.  Needless to say, anticipation for James Mercer and crew’s Port of Morrow is high.  They’ve already released “Simple Song,” “September,” and “The Rifle’s Spiral,” and now comes yet another song.  Below, take a listen to “Bait and Switch.” Filmed in their studio, clapping butter is not included.

If you are going to straight-up steal someone’s music and you get caught, because there was no way you aren't the rip-off is so incredibly blatant, wouldn’t you at least be a bit respectful? After all, you clearly appreciate whomevers music you're taking. Not so with Frank Ocean.  The so-called mellow member of Odd Future used The Eagles “Hotel California” for his free mixtape nostalgia, released almost a year ago, and is now being as unapologetic and curse-wordy as it gets over the supposed lawsuit from The Eagles' Don Henley and Warner Music Group. 

A seriously star-studded cast took the stage for Dustin Lance Black’s play “8,” last night in Los Angeles.  Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Martin Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Matthew Morrison, Jane Lynch, John C. Reilly, Chris Colfer, Modern Family’s Jesse Tyler Ferguson and more took the stage to act out the legal fight to overturn Proposition 8.  You can take a look below. 

After a week of buildup Lindsay Lohan took the stage for SNL.  She did…ok.  Not great, but not terrible.  She had some trouble remembering her lines, but it was more the material she was given or rather not given to work with.  She seemed to have less lines than most hosts and the sketches just weren’t that funny, especially when given the endless well of things they could have chosen to make fun of.  There weren't any cocaine or party sketches, but there were a few winners and a great performance by Jack White.  

Yesterday was the 108^th anniversary of the birth of everyone’s favorite rhyming children’s book author, Dr. Seuss. Classes partook in celebration, conservatives continued to slam The Lorax for its supposed anti-capitalist agenda, and Dr. Seuss quotes clogged up Tumblr. Everyone knows the story of the Grinch and the Cat and the Hat.  Less known, is his adult book full of naked ladies.

Jimmy Fallon closed out his week of Bruce Springsteen by donning a cowboy hat and picking up a guitar for his impersonation of Neil Young.  The Boss himself, rocking a bandanna and shades, joined the late night host for a duet of LMFAO’s “Sexy and I Know It.” Wiggle. Wiggle. Wiggle. Wiggle.